Journalism is Dying

Ed.'s note: Are you a dissenter? The second linked article from The Unz Review may be beneficial to your circumstances before you become any more isolated than you already are as we move into a techno dark age. As we move into this techno dark age journalism is dying. And as journalism is on its death bed, there will probably be an increase in dissenters looking for authentic journalism and news to help them walk through this mine field of completely controlled information. Then there is this new phenomenon that has occurred where if you have an alternative news website you could be delivered a law suit by these new "social media activists" that have appeared on the internet to shut down your voice. How odd that we find ourselves on the big tech giant Goggle blogger platform feebly attempting to extend the reach of the alternative news sites we provide. How far is this going to go? Journalists now being labeled as "terrorists?"

Cloudflare Claims Our Journalism is Terrorism. We're Not Backing Down

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Source: The Saker

Further Proof: U.S., UK, & France Committed War-Crime on 14 April 2018

by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog | December 29, 2019

U.S., UK, and French 'news'-media hide the fact, but it is now incontestably a fact, that they committed an international war-crime on 14 April 2018. The OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) does everything they can to hide this fact. Therefore, starting with the latest, and then proceeding in chronological order, with the earliest and then the subsequent ones that had been issued prior to that latest one, here are the real and verified news-reports which have been published (none in the mainstream press), proving both this international war-crime, and the OPCW's hiding of it:

https://www.rt.com/news/476965-opcw-wikileaks-leak-douma/

"Senior OPCW official ordered deletion of 'all traces' of dissenting report on 'Douma chemical attack' – WikiLeaks' new leak"

F. 27 December 2019

The leadership of the chemical weapons watchdog [OPCW] took efforts to remove the paper trail of a dissenting report from Douma, Syria which pointed to a possible false flag operation there, leaked documents indicate.

In an internal email published by the transparency website WikiLeaks on Friday [see it here], a senior official [Chief of Cabinet] from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ordered that the document be removed from the organization's Documents Registry Archive and to "remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever."

WikiLeaks✔@wikileaks

Email from the Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, demanding deletion of dissenting engineering assessment: "Please get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]… And please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA "https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/#OPCW-DOUMA%20-%20Release%20Part%204 … 9:30 AM – Dec 27, 2019

The document in question [here ordered deleted] is a technical assessment written by [the chief] inspector Ian Henderson after a fact-finding mission [by Henderson] to Douma, a suburb of Damascus, in the wake of an alleged chlorine gas attack. Western politicians and media said at the time that the government forces had dropped two gas cylinders [on Douma] as part of an offensive against jihadist forces, killing scores of civilians.

The OPCW inspector [Henderson] said evidence on the ground contradicted the airdropping scenario [which had falsely implicated Syria’s Government as having dropped both from a plane] and that the cylinders could [and this was actually the only alternative scenario proposed] have been placed [there] by hand. Considering that the area was under the control of anti-government forces, the memo lands [RT meant "lends"] credence to the theory that the jihadists had staged the scene [in order] to prompt Western nations to attack their [the jihadists'] opponents [Syria's Government forces, which the U.S., UK, and France, missile-attacked on 14 April 2018, in alleged retaliation for the alleged Syrian Government gas-attack].

The final report of the watchdog [the OPCW] all but confirmed that Damascus was behind the incident, but in the past months an increasing amount of leaked documents and whistleblower testimonies have emerged, pointing to [the alleged chemical-weapon event's having been] a possible fabrication. The OPCW leadership stands accused [now is actually proven in this leaked document from the OPCW’s Chief of Cabinet] of withholding opinions [by the OPCW's on-the-ground expert investigators] contravening the West-favored [actually its only] narrative and using misleading language to report what the inspectors [had] found on the ground.

ALSO ON RT.COM

New leaks provide further evidence that OPCW suppressed & altered findings on Douma 'chemical attack'

https://www.rt.com/news/475926-opcw-leaks-report-syria-chemical/

15 December 2019

"A new cache of internal documents [from Wikileaks] reveal that members of the OPCW team tasked with probing the Douma "chemical attack" protested the organization's final report on the incident, which they said misrepresented their conclusions. In a memo addressed to OPCW Director General Fernando Arias, one scientist who participated in the OPCW's fact finding mission (FFM) wrote that there are "about 20 inspectors who have expressed concern" over how the OPCW presented its findings on the alleged Syrian chemical attack. According to the memorandum, the organization’s final report does not reflect the FFM's findings, presented in their interim report, which is also part of the new document dump."

The alleged [here RT.com is insinuating that Wikileaks could be releasing here a faked] email was written by Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW. Its authenticity is yet to be confirmed, but the organization never said any of the previously leaked documents were not real. [RT.com is here alleging that Wikileaks's publication of a document does not, in itself, constitute an official allegation by Wikileaks that the document is, in Wikileaks's opinion, authentic — a bizarre and undocumented allegation by RT.com, asserting that Wikilweaks is untrustworthy. If RT considers Wikileaks untrustworthy, then isn’t RT obliged to provide some evidence of that?]

Another document published on Friday outlines a meeting with several toxicology experts and their opinions on whether symptoms shown and reported in alleged victims of the attack were consistent with a chlorine gas poisoning. "The experts were conclusive in their statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure," the document said, adding that the chief expert suggested that the event could have been "a propaganda exercise." [The OPCW's official published conclusion was that this event definitely wasn't a sarin-gas attack but might possibly have been a chlorine gas attack. But now, Wikileaks has revealed that the OPCW's technical experts, who had actually performed the investigation, said that it also wasn't a chlorine gas attack, if there was, indeed, even any chemical-weapons attack there at all.]

The Douma incident in April 2018 spurred Western governments into action, with the US, the UK and France delivering a barrage of [105] missiles at what was dubbed chemical weapons sites in Syria days after [on April 14th]. This didn't prevent the government from seizing control over the neighborhood, but put the reputations of the three governments [U.S., UK, and France] at stake. The OPCW report [now discredited by the OPCW’s own technical experts] gave credence to [i.e., alleged to have been possibly a reaction to an actual war-crime by Syria's Government] the Western show of force. [In other words: RT here is trying to assert that the "credence to" those three Governments' 14 April 2018 missile-attacks against Syria is in doubt — instead of having been disproven — because the OPCW's management had trashed and rewritten their technical investigators' reports about the on-site findings, which were that there was no evidence whatsoever that any gas-attack at all had occurred in Douma on 7 April 2018, and that if one had been done, then it hadn't been done by Syria's Government (i.e., by air-drop).]

ALSO ON RT.COM

'Journalism is dying': US govt 'has its tentacles' in every part of media, reporter who quit over 'suppressed' OPCW story warns

https://www.rt.com/news/475940-media-controlled-us-govt-newsweek/

15 December 2019

"Tareq Haddad announced his resignation from Newsweek last week, claiming that his editors had shot down his attempt to report on a leaked email which casts doubt on the OPCW's findings regarding an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, in April 2018. … 'The US government, in an ugly alliance with those [that] profit the most from war, has its tentacles in every part of the media — imposters, with ties to the US State Department, sit in newsrooms all over the world. … Inconvenient stories are completely blocked. As a result, journalism is quickly dying. America is regressing because it lacks the truth.'"

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https://theduran.com/suppressed-opcw-finding-war-crime-likely-perpetrated-by-u-s-against-syria-on-14-april-2018/

"SUPPRESSED OPCW FINDING: War-Crime Likely Perpetrated by U.S. Against Syria on 14 April 2018"

Eric Zuesse, 19 May 2019

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UPDATE: On 4 June 2019, WashingtonsBlog headlined at Zero Hedge "Eminent American Scientist: Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Was STAGED" and Dr. Postol presented there a detailed analysis of who and how and why at the OPCW the report from their engineering team had been hidden from the public (prior to that team's report having become leaked to the public on 13 May 2019 — and yet still suppressed by the press, just as Dr. Postol's June 3rd report likely also will be).

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On May 13th, Tim Hayward of the Working Group on Syria made public on his website an utterly damning document that had been suspiciously excluded from the final investigative report by the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the U.S.-and-allied allegation that on 7 April 2018 the Syrian Government had sarin-attacked residents in its town of Douma and had killed a large number of non-combatants. Seven days after that alleged incident, the U.S. and two of its allies, UK and France, massively missile-invaded Syria on April 14th, in alleged international 'response' to that alleged national war-crime on the part of Syria's Government. It now turns out that that alleged national war-crime was totally staged by America's own proxy-soldiers, Islamic terrorists who were trying to overthrow Syria’s Government, and so the attack against Syria on 14 April 2018 by U.S., UK and France, constitutes an international war-crime, an unequivocal violation of the U.N.'s Charter.

Please go to The Saker to read the entire article.
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