Can we all thank @I_Katchanovski for calling attention to Canada’s NaziGate scandal, an outgrowth of his brave scholarship on Ukraine’s neo-Nazi contingent. Establishment actors have maligned and marginalized Ivan’s work due to its interference with the proxy war narrative.
Thank you Ivan for honoring the memory of Nazi victims and exposing those who betray them.
NaziGate may not have been exposed if not for Ivan.
Another Ukrainian voice worth acknowledging is Lev Golinkin, who also called attention to NaziGate after years of brave reporting on Ukraine’s far-right — never refuted, but often smeared.
The dirty war on Syria decimated its infrastructure. US sanctions are designed to prevent reconstruction. When I was in Syria in June 2021, there was a lot of hope that China would stand up to US sanctions and help. Hasn't happened yet, as far I can tell. Will that change?
The US policy of blocking Syria's reconstruction is bipartisan, with no visible dissent.
In 2019, current senior Pentagon official @dstroul bragged that most of Syria is "rubble" and that the US can "hold the line on preventing reconstruction."
@dstroul In 2020, Congress overwhelmingly passed crippling sanctions under the Caesar Act, which aims "to deter foreign persons" -- i.e. anyone in the world -- "from entering into contracts related to reconstruction" in the areas under Syrian government control -- where most Syrians live.
When US accused Syria of the August 2013 sarin attack in Ghouta, it concealed what US intel said: that Al Qaeda's Syria wing, al-Nusra, had an "advanced" sarin production cell.
In this June 2013 assessment, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reports that al-Nusra -- al Qaeda's wing in Syria -- has a "sarin production cell" that marks AQ's "most advanced sarin plot since
al-Qaida's pre-9/11 effort."
Today is 10th anniversary of the Ghouta chemical massacre in Syria. US blamed Syrian gov't, but all evidence points to sectarian death squad rebels. That's why Obama didn't bomb.
There are Western officials who know more about Ghouta than has been publicly disclosed. Just as the OPCW leaks exposed the Douma deception, perhaps they will find a way to tell the truth about Ghouta.
A now widely accepted study found that the range of the Ghouta rockets was outside of Syrian gov't-controlled territory – making a launch from that area impossible. The evidence was so convincing that the NYT was forced to publish this rare corrective: ()nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wor…
"Fearless and adversarial" @TheIntercept is now complaining that Facebook is not enforcing its "pledge to combat foreign influence campaigns," because it hasn't censored French posts that "promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine" to Africans.
Can someone call Zuck? 🚨
@theintercept Article is based entirely on "the tech watchdog group Reset."
Intercept oddly omits that "Reset" is funded by its billionaire spook-adjacent funder Pierre Omidyar. This isn't just a conflict of interest, but evidence that this article is part of an influence campaign.
@theintercept When we last heard from Omidyar-funded "Reset", they were informing us (via stenographers at the Associated Press), that Russia was manipulating social media response to the East Palestine train disaster.
It's a rare occasion in an establishment publication where my actual views, not just McCarthyite smears, actually get a hearing. Yet it also resorts to innuendo. Using the passive voice, it calls @TheGrayzoneNews "a far-left website that has acquired a reputation for publishing… https://t.co/x0NNDNcq5ptwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@TheGrayzoneNews My "reports deny the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria."
I do personally reject those CW allegations against Syria. But what do my reports do? They report on a Syria cover-up at the OPCW, based on OPCW leaks -- which you are not allowed to even acknowledge in… https://t.co/nx5IZWfzyGtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…