Remember when @MaxBlumenthal's @TheGrayzoneNews scoop about collaboration between UK gov't, Reuters, & NATO troll farm Bellingcat got slapped with a Twitter "hacking" warning? I'm glad that hackers give info to journalists. Just interesting what gets a warning and what doesn't:
The indictment of Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann offers new evidence that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory was the product of fabrications involving Clinton's 2016 campaign: the Clinton-funded Steele dossier, and now the Clinton-funded Alfa Bank scam. mate.substack.com/p/with-clinton…
Overlooked so far is that the Alfa Bank fraudsters gave a fake cover story to the journalists, Franklin Foer and Dexter Filkins, who promoted their scam: after alleged Russian hack of DNC, they claimed, they were just scouring web traffic to "protect" Republicans from hacks too.
Pre-dirty war, Syria had "universal, free health care for all its citizens," and "enjoyed some of the highest levels of care in the region." But war "overwhelmed the system, and created extraordinarily high levels of need."
(UN expert on sanctions, 2018) ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
Pre-dirty war, "the Syrian economy was one of the best performing in the region." Under state control of agriculture, "Syria was the only country in the Middle East region to be self-sufficient in food production." This led to a "thriving agricultural sector"...
The US regime should be held accountable for falsely accusing the Assad regime and concealing intelligence that pointed to the culpability of foreign-backed jihadi death squads in Syria. Ample reporting and open source-evidence backs this up. #noimpunity
Sy Hersh reported in LRB that US intel knew that Syrian insurgents acquired sarin from Turkey; UK tests found Syrian gov't stockpile didn't match the sarin used in Ghouta; Al Qaeda had a sarin production cell. (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…) (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…)
The expert sources I speak to are confident that we will not see *any* debunk efforts, just whining on social media. They're confident in the professionalism & accuracy of your study, which makes me confident too.
Happy to be proven wrong. Study is here: rootclaim-media.s3.amazonaws.com/syria2013evide…
As predicted, there will only be whining on social media. To illustrate, this THREAD from regime change troll @im_PULSE cites three old articles -- all written by himself (😂). None address or refute this study and the reporting that bolsters it.
This thread does however continue one of my favorite media sub-genres: people with zero journalism accomplishments thinking that they have grounds to scold and dismiss the reporting of Seymour Hersh.
New @PushbackShow: A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013 -- not the Syrian government, as the US and other Western sources publicly alleged.
Based on their trajectories, the study traces all 7 missile impact locations back to the most likely launch spot where they all intersected: a small area within insurgent-controlled territory. A video of insurgents firing Volcano rockets matches several features of that field.
The study finds major errors in reports from the UN, Human Rights Watch and the NATO troll farm Bellingcat that were used to pin the blame on the Syrian government. Most importantly, it provides new evidence that the US gov't put out false or unsupported claims to blame Syria.
.@martinchulov's new Guardian article promoting more NATO-led sadism against Syria is titled "Syrian economy lies in ruins and China sniffs opportunity."
"China sniffs opportunity"? Who comes up with this sick stuff?
The article consists of cowardly, petulant "diplomats" hiding behind anonymity & state-funded "experts" trying to discourage China from helping Syria rebuild from the Dirty War. These sadists are livid that Syria could possibly try to rebuild what the US & friends destroyed.
"Syria is a poor investment for them."
"rebuilding infrastructure is not profitable at all."
"this regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to convince the entire world that Syria is just a terrible business proposition."
No mention that US sanctions target reconstruction.