As The
OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting U.S.
Propaganda Jumps To Its Help
By Moon Of
Alabama
December 02, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- An international organization published two
false reports and got caught in the act. But as
the false reports are in the U.S. interests a
U.S. sponsored propaganda organization is send
out to muddle the issue. As that effort comes
under fire the New York Times jumps in
to give the cover-up effort some extra help.
The
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW)
manufactured a pretext for war by suppressing
its own scientists' research:
OPCW
emails and
documents
were leaked and whistleblowers
came forward
to speak with journalists and
international lawyers.
Veteran journalist Jonathan Steele, who has
spoken with the whistleblowers, wrote an
excellent piece
on the issues. In the Mail on Sunday
columnist Peter Hitchens
picked up the issue
and moved it forward.
Under
U.S. pressure the OPCW management modified or
suppressed the findings of its own scientists to
make it look as if the Syrian government had
been responsible for the alleged chemical
incident in April 2018 in Douma.
The
public attention to the OPCW's fakery lead to
the questioning of
other assertions
the OPCW had previously made. With the OPCW
under fire someone had come to its help.
To save
the propaganda value of the OPCW reports the
U.S. financed Bellingcat propaganda
organization
jumped in to save the OPCW's bacon.
Bellingcat founder "suck
my balls"
Elliot Higgins claimed that the OPCW reports
satisfied the concerns the OPCW scientist had
voiced.
That
assertion is now further propagated by a New
York Times piece which, under the pretense
of reporting about open source analysis,
boosts Bellingcat and its defense of
the OPCW:
The
blogger Eliot Higgins made waves early in
the decade by covering the war in Syria from
a laptop in his apartment in Leicester,
England, while caring for his infant
daughter. In 2014, he founded Bellingcat, an
open-source news outlet that has grown to
include roughly a dozen staff members, with
an office in The Hague. Mr. Higgins
attributed his skill not to any
special knowledge of international conflicts
or digital data, but to the hours he
had spent playing video games,
which, he said, gave him the idea that any
mystery can be cracked.
...
Bellingcat journalists have spread the word
about their techniques in seminars attended
by journalists and law-enforcement
officials. Along with grants from groups
like the Open Society Foundations, founded
by George Soros, the seminars are a
significant source of revenue for
Bellingcat, a nonprofit organization.
It
seems that the New York Times forgot to
mention an important monetary source for
Bellingcat. Here is a current screenshot of
Bellingcat's
About page:
bigger
Porticus, Adessium, Pax for Peace and the
Postcode Lottery are all Dutch organizations.
Then there is the notorious Soros organization
the New York Times mentioned. But why
did the NYT forgot to tell its readers
that Bellingcat is financed by the
National Endowment for Democracy which itself is
to nearly 100% funded by the U.S. government?
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Could
that be because the NED, which spends
U.S.government money on
more than 1.600
U.S. government paid Non-Government
Organizations,
is a Trojan horse,
a cover for the CIA?
Spurred by Watergate – the Church committee
of the Senate, the Pike committee of the
House, and the Rockefeller Commission,
created by the president, were all busy
investigating the CIA. Seemingly every other
day there was a new headline about the
discovery of some awful thing, even criminal
conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for
years.
...
What was done was to shift many of these
awful things to a new organization, with a
nice sounding name – The National Endowment
for Democracy. The idea was that the NED
would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had
been doing covertly for decades, and thus,
hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated
with CIA covert activities.
...
“We should not have to do this kind of work
covertly,” said Carl Gershman in 1986, while
he was president of the Endowment. “It would
be terrible for democratic groups around the
world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A.
We saw that in the 60’s, and that’s why it
has been discontinued. We have not had the
capability of doing this, and that’s why the
endowment was created.”
And
Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the
legislation establishing NED, declared in
1991: “A lot of what we do today was done
covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”
In
effect, the CIA has been laundering money
through NED.
The
fact that the NED is doing the CIA's work is
likely the reason why the NYT puff
piece about Bellingcat forgets to
mention its payments and also why
it jumps
to Bellingcat's and the OPCW's help:
Some
journalists and activists hostile to what
they characterize as Bellingcat’s
pro-Western narratives have criticized some
of its coverage of the war in Syria.
At
issue is an April 7, 2018, attack on Douma,
Syria. Bellingcat reported, based on an
analysis of six open-source videos, that it
was “highly likely” that Douma civilians had
died because of chemical weapons. In March,
the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons reported that there were
“reasonable grounds” to say that chemical
weapons had been used in the attack.
Critics of Bellingcat have pointed to an
email from an investigator with the
organization, saying that it raised
questions about the findings. WikiLeaks
published the email on Nov. 23. In a
response, Bellingcat defended its
reporting, saying the final report on Douma
from the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons reflected the concerns of
the investigator whose email was published
by WikiLeaks.
By
playing video games Elliot Higgins learned to
identify chemical attacks in dubious video
sequences published by terrorist affiliates. If
true it is an admirable capability. Still his
assertion that the OPCW report "reflected the
concerns of the investigator" who criticized it
is, a as Caitlin Johnstone
demonstrates,
utterly false:
Bellingcat simply ignores this absolutely
central aspect of the email, as well as the
whistleblower’s point about the symptoms of
victims not matching chlorine gas poisoning.
“In
this case the confidence in the identity of
chlorine or any choking agent is drawn into
question precisely because of the
inconsistency with the reported and observed
symptoms,” the whistleblower writes in the
email. “The inconsistency was not only noted
by the [Fact Finding Mission] team but
strongly noted by three toxicologists with
expertise in exposure to [Chemical Weapons]
agents.”
Bellingcat says nothing about
these revelations in the email, and says
nothing about the fact that the OPCW
excluded them from both its Interim Report
in July 2018 and its Final Report in March
2019, the latter of which actually asserted
the exact opposite
saying
there was “reasonable grounds that the use
of a toxic chemical as a weapon took place.
This toxic chemical contained reactive
chlorine. The toxic chemical was likely
molecular chlorine.”
Bellingcat completely ignores all of these
points, ...
In its
defense of the OPCW report Bellingcat
wrote:
[A]
comparison of the points raised in the
letter against the final Douma report makes
it amply clear that the OPCW not only
addressed these points, but even changed the
conclusion of an earlier report to reflect
the concerns of said employee.
Mail on Sunday
columnist Peter Hitchens
did not concur
with that paragraph:
Apart
from the words ‘a’, and ‘the’, everything in
the above paragraph is, to put it politely,
mistaken. Bellingcat have been so anxious to
trash the leak from the OPCW that they have
(as many did when the attack was first
released) rushed to judgment without waiting
for the facts. More is known by the
whistleblowers of the OPCW than has yet been
released ...
Caitlin
and Peter should play more video games. I have
read in the NYT that they are the true
path to learning and to the factual assessment
of alleged chemical attacks.
On
April 7 2018 terrorists of the Jaish al Islam
group ruled in Douma. They killed 40 civilians.
The bodies were shown in videos along with
chlorine gas canisters to pretend that the
Syrian government had killed those people. The
OPCW's fact finding team analyzed the evidence
and found that the canisters had not been
dropped from the air but where manually placed.
The symptoms the victims showed were
inconsistent with a chlorine attack and
chlorinated substances were only found in
extremely low concentrations. There were
absolutely no "reasonable grounds" to say that
chemical weapons had been used in the attack.
But the
OPCW management, under U.S. pressure and despite
the protests by its own scientists, put out a
report that said the opposite. As the
manipulation came to light the U.S. funded
Bellingcat made a perfunctory attempt to
muddle the issue. Thus another propaganda
organization, the New York Times, had
to jump in to save Bellingcat and the
false OPCW claims.
It is
not going to help. There will soon be more
evidence that the OPCW management published two
false reports on Douma, and likely even more on
other issue. There will be a public recognition
that the OPCW failed.
This article was originally published by "Moon
Of Alabama"
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