OPCW chief Arias has made false statements about the inspectors who challenged his org's Syria cover-up. He's also given fake excuses to avoid addressing the scientific fraud involved.
(thegrayzone.com/2021/07/02/pre…)
(thegrayzone.com/2021/07/11/why…)
Contrast the new term for Arias to how the OPCW treated the last Director General who actually challenged a US-led deception: when Jose Bustani stood up to the Bush admin on Iraq, they threatened him, bugged his office, & engineered his ouster:
Nearly 20 years after his ouster, Bustani tried to speak at the UN in defense of the OPCW whistleblowers. The US and allies responded by blocking his testimony: thegrayzone.com/2020/10/05/ex-…
What makes Bustani's ouster all the more disgraceful is that it came shortly after he was elected for a second term. US threatened OPCW's budget, forcing member states into the humiliation of reversing their own unanimous decision.
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Happy Anniversary to @lukeharding1968, @KathViner, and the Guardian. The day you decided to confirm to the world that you have zero journalism standards.
To save face as Steele implodes, @lukeharding1968 now claims that Mueller "noted that there were multiple contacts in 2016 between Russian spies and Trump aides."
In July, Luke claimed to have obtained “secret Kremlin papers” showing Putin personally authorizing a campaign to install Trump. It was such a transparent scam — likely tracing back to Christopher Steele — that even MSNBC ignored it. mate.substack.com/p/luke-harding…
New: The US media's Russiagate reckoning goes far beyond the Steele dossier. Here's a list of five Pulitzer winners from the New York Times & Washington Post that also relied on dubious sources and falsehoods to push the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative: realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…
1) A Feb. 9, 2017 Washington Post article claimed that Michael Flynn had held "explicit" discussions with Russia's UN Ambassador about US sanctions.
Transcripts of the calls, released in May 2020, showed this was false. Sanctions were in fact only mentioned once, in passing.
The Flynn transcripts did show that there was a more extensive discussion about a separate action, *expulsions*.
But the Post's sources said the references to sanctions were "explicit", and that Flynn even made a "potentially illegal signal" of a future "reprieve."
A new example of how clueless NATO troll farm Bellingcat is: they don't even understand their own claims (probably because they don't write them, as I've exposed before: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…)
I said that no recognized CW experts have stated "that the Douma victims' rapid, and in some reported cases immediate onset, of *profuse frothing* is consistent with chlorine gas."
Blanc doesn't challenge that re: frothing. He invokes a straw man: onset of pulmonary edema.
Blanc, I'm sure, understands the difference between pulmonary edema (a condition) and profuse, immediate frothing (a symptom seen in the Douma victims, staged by their sectarian death squad killers). So he's just being disingenuous. @N_Waters89 I'd bet, just doesn't understand.
New: Early in the OPCW’s Douma probe, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the victims' cause of death. Leaks expose how OPCW officials censored this explosive finding — and then targeted the inspector who raised the alarm. thegrayzone.com/2021/11/22/cor… via @TheGrayzoneNews
Early in the OPCW's probe of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death. Instead of publishing this finding, OPCW officials concealed it, and then investigated a veteran inspector who questioned the censorship.
The suppression of toxicology is among a series of deceptions by the OPCW brass to corrupt the Douma probe's scientific process, as detailed in this new multi-part investigation by @TheGrayzoneNews. More than 3 years later, the high-level censorship has mired the OPCW in scandal.
Biden ordering a review of US military exercises in Europe, amid fears US moves "risk crossing the line into provoking Russia." Study finds that NATO-Russia incidents spiked post-2016 -- when Russiagate cultists wailed that US was led by "Putin's Puppet." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Despite Trump’s perceived affinity for Russia, he surrounded himself with hard-liners... who stepped up military activities designed to send a message to Moscow. At times, the result has been envelope-pushing missions."
Like w/ Steele, reality is finally sinking in.
"A study cataloguing nearly 3,000 incidents between NATO and Russian forces from 2013 to 2020... found significantly increased activity after 2016."
Wait, why didn't Putin just use the pee tape or his financial blackmail over Trump to get him to stand down?
.@BGrueskin chides US media for embracing the Steele dossier, but in the process he does what he's criticizing: accepting partisan-tied, evidence-free Russiagate claims as fact. nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opi…
The claim of Russian "hacking into Democrats' emails" is full of evidentiary holes, heavily caveated in Mueller's report, & was generated by another Clinton contractor, Crowdstrike, which later admitted that it had no evidence.
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…)
The claim that a Russian troll farm used "Facebook and other social media companies to foment dissent and unrest" is a joke. The posts were juvenile, barely seen, barely about the election, and mostly came *after* the election.
(thenation.com/article/archiv…)
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…)