Update: Interfax reports that the Russian military has discovered a rebel-owned chemical weapons lab in Douma.
The Russian Defense Ministry says that components for Mustard Gas production were discovered along with cylinders of chlorine at a alb belonging to militants in Douma.
Additionally, Moscow has said it is stunned by a French statement that Russia is obstructing OPCW experts from entering Syria's Douma (echoing Ambassador Ward's). the Russian foreign ministry confirms OPCW expoerts are already in Douma.
* * *
And on the game goes...
While Russia's foreign ministry warns that Western powers are interfering with OPCW's work in Syria (noting that the chemical weapons experts' access to Douma is being hampered by remaining militants, supported by Washington), as Caitlin Johnstone details, we are now being told by US officials (and I assure you I am not making this up) that if the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons doesn’t find evidence that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapons attack in Douma last week, it’s because Russia hid the evidence.
“It is our understanding the Russians may have visited the attack site,” reports U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Ward.
“It is our concern that they may have tampered with it with the intent of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission to conduct an effective investigation.”
I guess the idea is that this international top-level investigative team on which tremendous credibility has been placed by the western world can be thwarted by Russians showing up with a Hoover and spraying some Febreze in the air like a teenage stoner when mom comes home? I’m not sure, but given the immense dearth of evidence we’ve been seeing in support of the establishment Douma narrative and the mounting pile of evidence contradicting it, it sure does sound fishy.
Now that the jihadist-occupied suburb of Douma has been retaken by the Syrian government, western journalists have been allowed in to poke around and start asking questions, and so far it isn’t looking great for the propaganda machine.
The Independent‘s Robert Fisk has published a report which affirms the storyso many westerners have been dismissing as Kremlin propaganda for days now after interviewing a doctor from the hospital of the area where the Douma attack was supposed to have occurred. Dr Assim Rahaibani told Fisk that what was in actuality an outbreak of respiratory distress among occupants of a dusty oxygen-deprived tunnel was made to look like the aftereffects of a chemical weapons attack when a member of the White Helmets started shouting about a gas attack in front of a bunch of video cameras. Everyone panicked and started hosing themselves down, but in the video, according to Rahaibani, “what you see are people suffering from hypoxia — not gas poisoning.”
This report was independently backed up by a reporter from One America News Network named Pearson Sharp, who gave a detailed account of his interviews with officials, doctors, as well as many civilians on the street Sharp says he deliberately selected at random in order to avoid accusations of bias. Many people hadn’t even heard that a chemical weapons attack had taken place, and the ones who had said it was staged by Jaysh al-Islam. The staff at the hospital, including a medic-in-training who was an eyewitness to the incident, gave the same story as the account in Fisk’s report.
The increasing confidence with which these unapproved narratives are being voiced and the increasing discomfort being exhibited by empire loyalists like Ambassador Ward indicate a weakening narrative in the greater propaganda campaign against the Assad government and its allies, but don’t hold your breath for the part where Fox News and the BBC turn around and start asking critical questions of the governments that they are meant to be holding to account.
The journalists who have been advancing the establishment narrative on Syria aren’t about to start reporting that they’ve gotten the entire Syria story assballs backward and have been promoting a version of events manufactured for the benefit of CIA-MI6-Mossad agendas. You’re not about to see CNN, who last year staged a fake scripted interview with a seven year-old Syrian girl to manufacture support for escalations against Assad, suddenly turn around and start asking if we’re being told the full story about what’s happening Syria.
Watch them closely. Watch how they steadfastly ignore the growing mountain of evidence and keep promoting the Syrian regime change agenda that the western empire has been working toward for decades. Watch them dismiss all evidence they can’t ignore as Kremlin propaganda and shift the narrative whenever things start to look bad for them. Those riding the crest of the wave of establishment media are too far gone into the blob to ever admit error and change. The least among us aren’t about to stop constructing a public reality tunnel which depicts them as heroes of truth, tear it all down, and start advancing a narrative which makes them look like fools at best and villains at worst. It will not happen.
Luckily for us, it doesn’t need to. Internet censorship is still far from closing the door on our ability to network and share information, and we’ve been very effective at sowing skepticism among the masses. The war propagandists are not nearly as good at their jobs as they want to believe, and we can beat them.
They work so hard to manufacture support for war because they require that consent. If the oligarchs try to launch a war against a disobedient nation amidst very clear opposition from the public, they will shatter the illusion of freedom and democracy that their entire empire is built upon, and then they’re exposed. Corporatist oligarchy has succeeded in weaving its web of dominance because its oppression has thus far remained hidden and its depravity disguised as humanitarianism. They cannot expose themselves by transgressing a loud NO from the public or else the masses will realize that everything they used to believe about their country, their government and their world is a lie.
They won’t risk that. We can force them into retreating from open war by circulating facts and information and keeping a healthy level of skepticism circulating among the public. Watch them squirm, move goalposts and shift narratives, and point and yell about it whenever it happens. We can win the media war against the propagandists. We have truth on our side.
* * *
Internet censorship is getting pretty bad, so best way to keep seeing my daily articles is to get on the mailing list for my website, so you’ll get an email notification for everything I publish. My articles and podcasts are entirely reader and listener-funded, so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, liking me on Facebook, following my antics on Twitter, checking out my podcast, throwing some money into my hat on Patreon or Paypal, or buying my new bookWoke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers.
Comments
The length these assholes will go to cover up their lies is astonishing.
Attention, (((shills and trolls))),
Before you pile into this thread, let me once again point something out. We see you for what you are. We recognize what you're doing. We know we're taking flak because we're over the target. Eat shit and die, motherfuckers. Your days are numbered, and that number is heading into the final countdown.
Sincerely,
Real People
In reply to The length these assholes… by farflungstar
Sure hope they can continue 'hacking' our elections. Thanks Vlad, we appreciate your service.
In reply to Attention, (((shills and… by HopefulCynical
You won't read this in the Amazon Post because "Plutocracy Thrives on Ignorance."
In reply to Sure hope they can continue'… by SethPoor
But...but...but...the Army of Islam is just a moderate group that loves to help others and is working hard in pure, glowing, white helmets - a reflection of their character and devotion to peace - to make Syria safe for Sharia...sorry, democracy. Thank you Jihad John McCain!
In reply to You won't read this in the… by ???ö?
Time to make them all pay....incoming.
In reply to But..but...but...the Army of… by UndergroundPost
Trumptard Alex Jones back on the short bus blaming the deep state for everything - Trump is the greatest thing since swiss cheese... The old Alex Jones used to see through these political pricks...
What's the world coming to ???
In reply to Time to make them all pay… by Mr. Universe
Waiting for the next BIG lie by the CIA/US/UK.
In reply to Trumptard Alex Jones back on… by Yellow_Snow
more he said, she said crapola.
guess who's the he that said and who's the bitch.
In reply to Waiting for the next BIG… by BennyBoy
US / UK / France prolly bombed their own chemical weapons labs.
In reply to more he said, she said… by bigdumbnugly
There's all the proof in the world now to cover this and Skripals cases.
Since time is of the essence, we should now concentrate on the next psyop the cornered rabid Americano Zionist dog is about to unveil.
In the meantime Macron does something really pathetic: stripping Assad from his légion d'honneur:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/seven-years-after-war-broke-out-franc…
Assad should send it back by FedEx.
Every new deception is going to be exponentially less effective. The more they lie, the more people will take notice.
Their desperate efforts are just aimed at introducing plausible future evidence for the future history books... That is if they win the next war.
Remember ww2.
----
It's okay not to be a Jew.
In reply to US / UK ? France prolly… by y3maxx
At this point, the Russians could find and videotape the ussa and the ussb with trump and may setting the shit off and the dumb ass world we live in would accuse the Russians of setting it off - sanction them, and be cheered on while doing so.
In reply to Y by Adolph.H.
The FAKE Hebrews created a FAKE gas attack (like the Fake gas chambers in WW2),
disseminated it in their FAKE News, and
got a FAKE nationalist POTUS to attack Syria.
Priceless.
In reply to At this point, the Russians… by bigkahuna
The only allie the rebels have in the region are the Turks; they cooperated with the Turks to take Afrin. This and the other chemical attacks were staged by Erdogan initially fooling both Russia and the West. He wants to destabilize the entire region so to invade many nations to restart the Ottoman Empire and to become with Iran the backbone for the Muslim Brotherhood army of 5.5 million strong...
In reply to US / UK ? France prolly… by y3maxx
"It is our concern that they may have tampered with it with the intent of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission to conduct an effective investigation.”
So how does one square the US attacking Syria first, ahead of actual fact finding?
Answer? They can't. These lies are so embarrassingly bad. Thanks, neocunts.
In reply to more he said, she said… by bigdumbnugly
What the USSA really meant to say is that it added 103 instances of "kinetic energy" before the fact, to aid the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission after the fact "for the children".
In reply to "It is our concern that they… by Ignatius
"Waiting for the next BIG lie by the CIA/US/UK."
Fortunately you wait is over. Israel says Iran is about to strike so the preemptive strike is on very shortly, I think.
In reply to Waiting for the next BIG… by BennyBoy
I sure wish that Russia would secretly install S400s in Iran and give the Heebs a rude surprise when they fly in uninvited.
In reply to "Waiting for the next BIG… by BlindMonkey
Look at this article regarding one of the bombed facilities.
http://govtslaves.info/2018/04/what-the-hell-is-this-syrian-chemical-we…
In reply to Waiting for the next BIG… by BennyBoy
That's some funny shit!
In reply to Time to make them all pay… by Mr. Universe
The western countries, headed by the US and UK, along with their sycophant MSM outlets are beginning to behave like a hopeless gambling addict . . . lose $10,000 at craps? Double down. Down $20,000 now? Double down again. And keep doing that until security comes and throws you out of the casino.
In reply to But..but...but...the Army of… by UndergroundPost
"The western countries, headed by the US and UK"
The western countries, headed by the synagogue of satan
fify
In reply to The western countries,… by Dickweed Wang
Ah, vs what? That economic powerhouse, Russia? And its equally loser boon companions, Iranimullistan, Syria( parts ), Venezula( zoo animal protein excepted), Castro Dump Island.
China? Good luck with them.
In reply to The western countries,… by Dickweed Wang
Ah, vs what?
Vs Reality. While you and your friends peddle delusion, fear, hate and propaganda, thinking your so clever and all the other humans on this planet are stupid sheeple.
We are in an information war and You've lost. People can actually think for themselves. It must come as a shock to you, but it's true.
In reply to Ah, vs what? That economic… by Offthebeach
That fact-finding body (OPCW) could change the whole paradigm IF it finds conclusive evidence this was a false flag event, and IF they trumpet their findings to the world, and IF people get all the real ramifications of such a potential finding/announcement.
This said, I fully expect their “findings” to be a masterpiece of ambiguous language and weaslespeak.
This body after all is a creation of politicians and bureaucrats answering to many governments. They, almost certainly, will “punt.”
... But if by some miracle they don’t ...
In reply to The western countries,… by Dickweed Wang
@Give Me Some Truth,
The OPCW had better release their findings if they contradict the "official" narrative before they fly out from Douma as they could well end up like the passengers on MH17.
That in itself will be another problem because the "good guys" will know within minutes that Russia did it.
In reply to That fact-finding body (OPCW… by Give Me Some Truth
"No conlusive evidence was found" will be the finding which either side can spin to their desire.
Russia - there is no evidence so there was no attack
US - the evidence was no conclusive but only because enough time has passed that it degraded to the point where a good sample could not be located.....and Russia kept the inspectors from the site in order for this to happen.
No minds will be changed.
In reply to That fact-finding body (OPCW… by Give Me Some Truth
“No conclusive evidence was found”
Yep, that’s what I am expecting too.
BTW, did the NYT and WaPo and WSJ and NBC Nightly News send a team of reporters to Dourma? If not, why not?
In reply to "No conlusive evidence was… by BarkingCat
PM’s husband’s Capital Group is largest shareholder in BAE, shares soar since Syrian airstrikes
https://www.rt.com/uk/424392-may-husbands-capital-group/
Philip May, husband of the UK prime minister, works for a company that is the largest shareholder in arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, whose share price has soared since the recent airstrikes in Syria.
The company, Capital Group, is also the second-largest shareholder in Lockheed Martin – a US military arms firm that supplies weapons systems, aircraft and logistical support. Its shares have also rocketed since the missile strikes last week.
In reply to You won't read this in the… by ???ö?
Capital Group is American mutual funds and they are the largest owner of many, many stocks.
In reply to https://www.rt.com/uk/424392… by Lumberjack
http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-philip-may-theresa-may-husband-closest-advisor-capital-group-paradise-papers-2017-11
In reply to Capital Group is American… by slightlyskeptical
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/
In reply to http://www.businessinsider… by Lumberjack
This is from about a month ago.
Funny how all this Russia crap happened to conveniently distract from Trump and May’s scandals. Note the BZ incident was on April,7.
MARCH 27, 2018
British inquiry promises ‘no stone left unturned’ as it tackles tax avoidance and evasion
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/british-inquiry-promises-no-stone-left-unturned-tackles-tax-avoidance-evasion/
In reply to https://www.icij.org… by Lumberjack
Also the French scandals. Macron was dealing with the labor strikes and environmental activists, and France was looking particularly bad because corrupt Sarkozy pushed to get Gaddafi killed so he wouldn't have to pay back the money he received from Libya for his campaign.
In reply to https://www.icij.org… by Lumberjack
And if you have the money to park, near anyone in the world can invest. Heck, it could be Assad's money manager parks Assads "savings" there, such that Assad made money misslling Syria. ( Not that he would take a profit. Him being all sacrifice for the people, ect..)
In reply to Capital Group is American… by slightlyskeptical
Shouldn't this alone not give the British parliament and people enough grounds to sack the bitch for her cabinet decision?
Is there no concept of conflict of interests. Ah, on one hand truth, reality, and the interests of the British people the PM is supposed to represent Vs. on the other hand her hubbies career, corporate interests, and possibly stock options.
Easy decision! Risk WWIII on the back of a pack of compounded lies, and say you do it for humanitarian reasons.....
In reply to https://www.rt.com/uk/424392… by Lumberjack
This is so silly. They didn't fool us beforehand and they sure aren't going to do it now.
If they have to tell so many lies they need some good ones... this is just making them look foolish.
People stopped trusting TPTB when we were lied to over Iraq - we remember it but they pretend it didn't happen.
In reply to Sure hope they can continue'… by SethPoor
"it’s because Russia hid the evidence."
..and I'm sure the OPCW will be not be able to discover that fact...yeah, right...
After the OPCW fails to find the "evidence Russia has hidden", lets send them to the "factories and storage facilities" that were FULL of chemical weapons and see what they find...or has Russia cleaned that up to...
PS> MAYBE if you hadn't rushed in to bomb...the OPCW could have gotten in there and found the evidence before Russia had time to hide it? Nice work...your bombing aided Russia in the cover-up and now we just have to "trust you"...LOL!
PSS> What about the dead bodies...don't tell me...let me guess...Russia cremated the remains...yeah, right...
PSSS> What about that un-exploded bomb sitting on that bed? Talk about evidence! Russia took that one too I suppose? Actually, I hope Russia did take it, to keep it safe, and will now present it to the OPCW for inspection.
In reply to This is so silly by EuroPox
Never mind the lack of evidence claims. Look at their behavior. They purposely bombed the site the day BEFORE inspections were to take place. What does that tell you oh people with IQs over 80? How do we know they’re lying? Because they run from their accusers’ facts. How did we know O.J. Simpson was guilty? Because he ran away from his accusers. People with truth on their side do not shy away from any kind of scrutiny. Logic is so easy if one puts aside their emotions and simply THINKS!
In reply to "it’s because Russia hid the… by FireBrander
Putin stole Kim Kardashians & Usher's jewelry!
They need to up their game if they want to fold in ALL the idiots...
In reply to Never mind the lack of… by J S Bach
Surely OPCW will visit the sites that allegedly had all these chemical weapons, and tell us if they did or did not. Hell, per RT, they just inspected one of the places a few months ago (and found jack), a nugget of info the MSM refuses to report.
In reply to "it’s because Russia hid the… by FireBrander
They're going to need a false flag sex scandal to divert the public's attention away from this!
Oh, wait...
In reply to This is so silly by EuroPox
Better yet, a video of Huma and Hillary off Weiner's laptop. I tried this link 'jjuzq63antwyiidwpbwzgii.onion' ... but it was dead. #FRAZZLEDRIP
In reply to They're going to need a… by Agent P
Let me get this straight...you voluntarily clicked on a link you believed contained a video of Hilary and Huma? Dude...
In reply to Better yet, a video of Huma… by EuroPox
lol! That is supposed to be the Hilary/Huma/child murder video, that has been on the Darknet for the last few days. I didn't actually want to watch the vid but I was interested to see if it was real, 'cos if it is... it's happening!
In reply to Let me get this straight… by Agent P
Everytime they try to tag Trump as a sex pervert, his approval ratings go up. Esp. with white males.
In reply to They're going to need a… by Agent P
You forgot the precursor of all 9-11. How did they give you and so many amnesia?
In reply to This is so silly by EuroPox
Let me hear the magical words, Trump... "They have WMDs, we need to stop them."
The U.S. could tell the world Syria has Jesus in a cage and they are torturing him and they would say "OMG, we have to save Jesus!"
In reply to Attention, (((shills and… by HopefulCynical
lmfao
In reply to Let me hear the magical… by Bud Dry
..if Jesus ever comes back...and continues with his anti/corrupt government/religion rhetoric...they same people that nailed him up the first time will do it again..
The money-changers killed the son of God; and have been richly rewarded for it over these last 2018 years...
In reply to Let me hear the magical… by Bud Dry
Pagination