Yesterday the comedian @jimmy_dore became the latest @TheGrayzoneNews collaborator to brief the #UNSC at 🇷🇺’s request - joining @MaxBlumenthal @raymcgovern @BowesChay

A short 🧵 comparing the rhetoric of these briefers and that of Oswald Mosley and British Union of Fascists 1/9 In 1939 few doubted what the Nazis were capable of: the Sudetenland had been annexed, the violence of Kristallnacht taken place and Hitler’s genocidal ambitions were increasingly understood - in January that year he spoke of “the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe” 2/9

@aaronjmate Oh gosh @aaronjmate, like your entire briefing, this is incredibly weak. I’ll respond clearly for you with a series of tweets… @aaronjmate 1) You claimed the IIT “just simply overlooked” the issue of foaming at the mouth. I pointed out this was untrue and provided you with the page number and section of the report. By reading it out said section you proved yourself you had lied in your original intervention

#RussianDisinformation at the #UN and #UNSC is not a new development, but #PutinsWar in #Ukraine has brought it into sharp focus. A 🧵 based on my experience leading a team @UKUN_NewYork covering Syria, Ukraine and other issues 1/11 #Disinformation and #Propaganda has been a significant feature of #Kremlin policy since Putin’s controversial ‘re-election’ in 2012. The 🎯 audience is primarily the Russian public but in the #UN context it is also UN member states 2/11

Responding to #UNSC questions, DG @OPCW confirms Inspector A was not part of FFM that deployed to #Douma. He was a liaison officer based in Damascus providing support to a number of different mission in #Syria 1/4

https://twitter.com/thomasphipps/status/1400464312867512322

Inspector B confirmed in writing to @OPCW that he agreed with the findings of the FFM interim report. Both individuals had left prior to the bulk of analysis of hundreds of samples by independent labs that identified presence of reactive chlorine 2/4