Onbegrijpelijk dat men in de reguliere westerse media geen aandacht schenkt aan het feit dat Iran, zwaar getroffen door het Coronavirus, een groot gebrek heeft aan medische middelen om deze crisis te bestrijden, dit door de illegale sancties van de VS…….
De gezondheidszorg in Iran lag grotendeels al op haar gat door diezelfde sancties, ver voor de uitbraak van het Coronavirus……
De westerse reguliere media maken Iran nu nog meer zwart en stellen dat men de uitbraak zou hebben verzwegen, beetje erg vreemd als je ziet dat ook islamitische geestelijken zijn overleden aan het virus (althans aan de gevolgen van het virus)…… Ook vraagt men zich af waar de demonstranten zijn, alsof dat er nu nog toe doet, als je nagaat dat intussen al 6.566 Iraniërs zijn besmet, dit betekent dat 1 op elke 12.000 inwoners van dat land het Coronavirus heeft opgelopen en er intussen minstens 237 zijn overleden*, let wel ‘oude cijfers’ van een paar dagen geleden…..
Door de VS sancties is er bijvoorbeeld ook een tekort aan medicijnen voor de chronische patiënten ten gevolge van de oorlog tussen Irak en Iran in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, mensen die medicijnen nodig hebben voor bijvoorbeeld hun door gifgas aangetaste ogen….. Hierbij moet nog vermeld worden dat de VS en Nederland de hoofdverantwoordelijken zijn voor het gifgasgebruik door Irak tijdens die oorlog, de oorzaak voor o.a. die oogklachten……**
De VS moet onmiddellijk stoppen met de sancties tegen Iran en andere landen, zoals Venezuela, niet alleen in het belang van de mensen in Iran (of die andere landen), maar ook als preventie voor verdere verspreiding buiten dat land, al hebben een aantal landen hun grenzen al gesloten wat betreft mensen en transport vanuit Iran……(vergelijk dat eens met de hysterie en boosheid in de EU over het sluiten van het VS luchtruim voor vluchten uit Europa, vanaf morgennacht 0.00 u……)
Overigens doet de aanpak van het Coranavirus, in combinatie met Iran en China, me denken aan een bericht over het Coronavirus, waarin wordt gesteld dat dit virus uit een VS laboratorium komt…..*** Zeker als je bedenkt dat Iran en China als eerste het hardst werden getroffen, immers als je kwade bedoelingen hebt en je weet dat de gezondheidszorg in een land als Iran zo slecht is, door de sancties die je zelf hebt opgelegd, is het zeker dat het aantal te overlijden slachtoffers tot gigantische proporties zal oplopen……… In feite zijn deze illegale VS sancties dan ook niets anders dan een enorme massamoord op de bevolking van Iran…..
CodePink is een petitie begonnen met de eis dat de sancties tegen Iran onmiddellijk worden gestopt. Gelukkig kunnen wij ook meedoen aan die petitie, lees en teken deze ajb en laat de wereld zien dat er nog steeds een grote groep echte humane mensen over is op de wereld, mensen die het niet pikken als burgers op een dergelijke walgelijke en illegale manier om het leven worden gebracht, want daar komen zoals gezegd de illegale sancties van de VS op neer….. Vergeet niet dat de VS dit al veel vaker heeft gedaan….. Zo zijn de illegale sancties van de VS tegen Venezuela verantwoordelijk voor meer dan 45.000 dode Venezolanen (in feite vermoord door de VS….)…… Ook in Venezuela al langere tijd grote tekorten aan medicijnen e.d., terwijl de VS een paar miljard dollar aan Venezolaanse tegoeden voor o.a. de aankoop in de VS van medicijnen en medische hulpmiddelen heeft geblokkeerd…….
Kortom: nogmaals laat de VS zien de grootste terreurentiteit op onze kleine planeet te zijn…….
Did you know this about Iran and the coronavirus?
Leila & Medea, CODEPINK
After China and South Korea, Iran has the largest number of coronavirus cases per population and it isn’t by coincidence. U.S. sanctions on Iran have devastated the country’s healthcare industry and contributed to its inability to respond to the crisis. Add your name now to the Treasury Department letter demanding that they immediately lift the sanctions on Iran. We also have an avenue for you to donate medical supplies to reach Iran quickly.
This is bad. Since February 19, when the first coronavirus cases were identified in Iran, at least 6,566 people—about one in every 12,000 Iranians—have been infected. At least 237 people have died. Iran is third, behind China and South Korea, in cases of coronavirus per population. Due to U.S. sanctions, Iran is suffering from a shortage of the medical supplies, products, and equipment required for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of the coronavirus.
We at CODEPINK have been working to get the medical-related sanctions on Iran lifted since an October 2019 Human Rights Watch report was released outlining how the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign is preventing life-saving medicines from entering the country. Finally, last week, with the coronavirus outbreak, the Treasury Department announced that it would waive certain sanctions for humanitarian supplies to go through Iran’s central bank. But it is far too little, too late, as the financial risks and reputational costs for companies to engage in even lawful humanitarian trade with Iran are severe.
Even before the worldwide coronavirus epidemic began, U.S. sanctions on Iran have been wreaking havoc on the Iranian economy. The price of housing, food, and transportation soared. Iranian patients had a difficult time accessing life-saving medicines for cancer, epilepsy, and chronic eye injuries from chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. Decades of U.S. interventions in the Middle East have left the area war-ravaged and in disarray, ripe for the coronavirus tornado that is picking up wind right now in Iran.
In addition to demanding that the Treasury Department lift the sanctions on Iran, we are also taking immediate action to get medical supplies into Iran. The National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) has identified two organizations—Relief International and Moms Against Poverty (MAP)—that have licenses to conduct relief work in Iran. Relief International is supplying face masks, sanitizers, test kits and treatment to affected individuals and Moms Against Poverty is supplying masks, surgical gloves, disinfectant wipes, alcohol wipes, and hand sanitizers to medical clinics and hospitals that serve vulnerable communities, as well as food and other basic necessities to families affected. Donate now to support the efforts of these two organizations addressing the coronavirus epidemic in Iran.
Make no mistake about it, the suffering that the Trump administration is inflicting upon the Iranian people is intentional. In February 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bragged to CBS News that “things are much worse for the Iranian people [with the U.S. sanctions].”
With the coronavirus whipping across Iran like a tsunami, it is only a matter of time before Trump’s maximum pressure campaign is stigmatized across the world as the dangerous, cruel, and vile act of war that it is. How many Iranian lives has it already taken and for how long will we allow this to continue? Add your name to the letter now!
=========================== * Men is in een aantal landen heel wat verstandiger dan Nederland, waar amper grote samenkomsten door organisaties worden afgelast, laat staan dat deze van overheidswege worden verboden, terwijl men elders voor een groot deel openbare evenementen heeft afgelast dan wel verboden, vanwege besmettingsgevaar……. Hetzelfde geldt voor scholen en universiteiten, voorts geen advies over het openbaar vervoer, waarover de overheid durft te stellen dat dit vervoer veilig is (wellicht later vandaag nog een bericht over de Nederlandse ‘aanpak’, onder de ‘geweldige en deels geheime regie’ van VVD leugenaar Rutte, godbetert premier van ons land)…… ** VVD opperschoft Bolkestein gaf destijds als minister, tegen negatief advies van deskundigen in, meermaals exportvergunningen af voor de grondstoffen waarmee Irak haar chemische wapens fabriceerde…. Niet hij, maar van Anraat, de exporteur, werd strafrechtelijk vervolgd… Ofwel ook Bolkestein is een massamoordenaar die daarvoor niet werd vervolgd!!
*** Zie: ‘A Most Convenient Virus‘ (een ICH artikel, waarin de stelling is dat dit virus uit een VS laboratorium komt, onder dat artikel vind je een mogelijkheid voor een vertaling [Dutch], dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag)
Gisteren was het weer zover, tot 11.00u. ‘s morgens waren de giftige dampen van de petrochemische industrie in Pernis te ruiken tot in het centrum van Den Haag……. (en ja, daar moesten de kinderen ook doorheen toen ze naar school gingen…) Je beklag doen heeft totaal geen zin, je krijgt niet eens een fatsoenlijk antwoord van Milieudienst Rijnmond….. Tot een paar decennia geleden gaf dit orgaan via radio en tv door wanneer er weer eens veel te veel giftige dampen werden geloosd door de petrochemische industrie en hoorde je in de nieuwsberichten hoeveel mensen er hadden geklaagd, echter daar heeft men een eind aan gemaakt….. ‘Logisch toch’, immers de verschillende overheden die hier verantwoordelijk voor zijn (alle 3, dus lokaal, regionaal en landelijk) werken vooral voor de belangen van het grote bedrijfsleven en daar is de petrochemische industrie een ‘mooi voorbeeld van…..’ Hoe bedoel je, de politieke bestuurders zijn onderdeel van een volksvertegenwoordiging? Oh, dat is de leugen die men het volk vertelt, zodat het niet door heeft belazerd te worden door het zittende kabinet dat de volksgezondheid als één van de belangrijkste zaken op de agenda zou moeten hebben staan…… ‘Volksvertegenwoordiging?’ Volksverlakkerij zal je bedoelen!! Schande!!!! Beste bezoeker, bij plaatsing vergeten: uiteraard is deze petrochemische stank een verschrikking voor mensen met long- en/of luchtwegklachten, ofwel: de overheid zou deze mensen moeten waarschuwen niet naar buiten te gaan, maar dat doet onze overheid niet graag….. Zie ook de zomers als er in België een smogalarm wordt afgegeven, gebeurt dit niet, of pas één of twee dagen later ook in Nederland…… De patiënten die hier last van hebben kunnen barsten, dit terwijl wij al het land zijn dat tot de EU landen behoort met de slechtste luchtkwaliteit…… (geplaatst op 21 januari 2020 rond 16.20 u.)
(ben overigens benieuwd wat een dergelijk enorme stankoverlast doet met het klimaat. Reken maar dat deze ook de klimaatverandering verder opjaagt, terwijl Nederland al een onevenredig grote aanjager is van de klimaatverandering, dit door de enorme uitstoot van methaangas door de gigantische veestapel van 500 miljoen dieren die jaarlijks in ons land worden vermoord……)
Tulsi Gabbard is één van de Democratische presidentskandidaten, zij is vanwege fikse kritiek op o.a. de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Syrië uit het debat-circuit gegooid, zodat ze het een stuk moeilijker zal krijgen om gekozen te worden….. Voor degenen die de echte oorlogsverslaggevers volgen op de sociale media is e.e.a. bepaald geen nieuws. Daar wordt al jaren zware kritiek geleverd op het uiterst agressieve buitenlandbeleid van de VS….. Echter als een belangrijk politicus (laat dat politica maar zitten) als Gabbard gedemoniseerd wordt door de politiek en de massamedia in de VS en zij kan wel degelijk haar gelijk aantonen, heeft dat wel degelijk gevolgen, ook al zullen diezelfde media niet staan te springen om Gabbard haar gelijk te geven…….
Reguliere westerse media hebben de illegale oorlogen van de VS van A tot Z verdedigd (ronduit propaganda), ook al weet men daar dat de oorlogen die de VS begint zijn gebaseerd op zware leugens van o.a. de geheime diensten als de CIA….. Hoe is het bijvoorbeeld mogelijk dat deze media (en het grootste deel van de westerse politici) nog steeds de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak verdedigen, terwijl algemeen bekend is dat ook die oorlog is gebaseerd op zware leugens en dat deze oorlog aan rond de 2 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost……. Hetzelfde geldt voor de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Libië en Syrië….. Zo meldt Wikileaks dat 20 inspecteurs van de OPCW het niet eens zijn met het uiteindelijke rapport van de OPCW over Douma*, daarin zijn feiten op zodanige wijze gemanipuleerd dat het reguliere Syrische leger een gifgasaanval zou hebben uitgevoerd op Douma, volkomen tegen de bevindingen in, waarin wordt gesteld dat deze aanval werd geënsceneerd door zogenaamde rebellen (lees: psychopathisch moordend, verkrachtend en martelend geteisem, dat zelfs werd gesteund door Nederland…)……
Zie de video van Brasscheck TV en verbaas je met Jimmy Dore over de intelligentie en oprechtheid van Tulsi Gabbard:
“Everything we said was true”
Tulsi Gabbard on Jimmy Dore
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“Everything we said was true”
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Voor wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens voorzag, neem de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi…..):
De regelmatige lezer van dit blog weet dat ik uit en te na over de zogenaamde gifgasaanval van het Syrische leger op Douma heb geschreven. Vandaar ook dat ik aanvankelijk het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Caitlin Johnstone (door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media) heb laten liggen, totdat ik besloot het toch nog eens geheel door te lezen en ik moet zeggen dat er ook voor mij nog een paar zaken niet bekend waren en dat ik een paar van die zaken niet met elkaar had verbonden.
Voorts spreekt Johnstone over de kooien die terreurgroep Jaysh al-Islam op de daken van een aantal huizen in Douma hadden geplaatst, met daarin duidelijk zichtbare burgers, dit om bombardementen tegen te gaan…… Over een ‘menselijk schild gesproken….’ Dit feit was geen reden voor de reguliere westerse media en politiek om eens even op de rem te gaan staan wat betreft hun ongefundeerde beschuldigingen aan het adres van de Syrische overheid en de Russen, sterker nog dit feit werd niet eens genoemd in die media en door die politiek……
Lees het uitstekende en uitgebreide artikel van Johnstone en zegt het voort, ook de reguliere media in Nederland houden vol dat Assad de burgers van Douma heeft vergast…… (letterlijk niet 1 gifgasaanval kan aan het Syrische leger worden verbonden, zo gaf ook Obama toe dat één van de zogenaamde gifgasaanvallen door het Syrische leger, niet werden uitgevoerd door dat leger, dit gaf hij toe tijdens zijn presidentschap (‘in office’)….
The 12 Strongest Arguments That Douma Was a False Flag
(CJ Opinion) — There have been many US military interventions that were based on lies. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is not some kooky blogger’s opinion. It is an extensively documented and indisputable fact.
Nothing has ever been done to address this extensively documented and indisputable fact. No laws were ever changed. No war crimes tribunals were ever held. No policies or procedures were ever revised. No one was ever even fired. No changes were implemented to prevent the Iraq deception from happening again, and, when it happened again, no changes were implemented to prevent the Libya deception from happening again. When you make a mistake, you take measures afterward to ensure that you never make the same mistake again. When you do something on purpose, and you intend on doing it again, you do not take any such measures.
I don’t claim to know exactly who would have been involved in such a staging and to what extent. It is technically possible, as the UK’s Admiral Lord West speculated at the time, that it was perpetrated independently by the viciousal-Qaeda-linked Jaysh al-Islam forces who’d been occupying Douma, a last-ditch attempt to provoke a western military response that might save them from the brink of defeat at the hands of the surging Syrian Arab Army. Jaysh al-Islam has an established record of deliberately massacring civilians, and of using civilians as military leverage by locking them in cages on rooftops in strategic Douma locations to prevent airstrikes. The narrative management operation known as the White Helmets would also have been involved to some extent, and it’s very possible that Saudi Arabia, who backs Jaysh al-Islam, was involved as well.
Any number of other allied intelligence agencies could have also been involved to some degree (perhaps with the more expanded goal of ensuring continued US military commitment in Syria during an administration that is vocally opposed to it), and it’s unknown if anyone involved would have had direct contact with any part of any US government agency regarding any of this. All we know for sure is that there’s a growing mountain of evidence that the Syrian government was not involved, and that this raises extremely important questions about (A) who really killed those civilians in Douma and (B) how seriously any future demands for military action should be taken from the US power alliance.
That mountain of evidence includes the following 12 items. Taken individually they are reason enough to be skeptical of the narratives that are being promoted by a government with a known history of using lies, propaganda and false flags to advance preexisting military agendas. Taken together, and looked at with intellectual honesty, they are enough to obliterate anyone’s trust in what we’ve been told about Douma.
1. A leaked OPCW Engineering Assessment concluded that the gas cylinders on the scene were manually placed there.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a purportedly neutral and international watchdog group dedicated to eliminating the use of chemical weapons around the world. In May of this year, a leaked internal OPCW document labeled “Engineering Assessment of Two Cylinders Observed at the Douma Incident” was published by the Working Group (WG) on Syria, Propaganda and Media. The Engineering Assessment was signed by a South African ballistics expert named Ian Henderson, whose name is seen listed in expert leadership positions on OPCW documents from as far back as 1998 and as recently as 2018, and its authenticity was quickly confirmed by the OPCW in a statement sent to multiplejournalists that it was “conducting an internal investigation about the unauthorised release of the document in question.”
Henderson ran some experiments and found no scientifically grounded theory for how the cylinders could possibly have been dropped vertically from the air while being found in the condition and locations that they were found in, concluding instead that they were manually placed on the scene. This is a huge difference, since the Assad coalition was the only side with aircraft and Jaysh al-Islam were the only forces on the ground.
“The dimensions, characteristics and appearance of the cylinders, and the surrounding scene of the incidents, were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder being delivered from an aircraft,” Henderson wrote. “In each case the alternative hypothesis produced the only plausible explanation for observations at the scene.”
“In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft,” Henderson concludes.
This is unsurprising, since the hypothetical physics of the empire’s airdrop narrative make no sense to anyone with any understanding of how material objects move. To get a simple explanation of this, watch the breakdown in this three-minute animation. For a more in-depth look, check out this long Twitter thread by Climate Audit’s Stephen McIntyre.
The existence of Henderson’s report was kept secret from the public by the OPCW, which might make more sense after we get through #2 on this list.
Voor de rest van de 12 punten die Johnstone noemt in haar artikel (met veel video) klik op deze link.
Voor wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens voorzag, neem de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi…..):
Ongelofelijk maar waar: na dat het schandaal bekend werd dat de OPCW de rapportage over de ‘gifgasaanval van het Syrische bewind op Douma’ dusdanig heeft aangepast dat inderdaad het Syrische leger als schuldig werd aangewezen voor de gifgasaanval op Douma*, wordt er door de reguliere westerse media gesteld dat Rusland en de Syrische regering achter de lekken zit, waarmee ze proberen te ontkennen dat er een gifgasaanval plaatsvond…….. Ofwel de westerse massamedia houden gewoon vol dat ‘nog steeds vaststaat dat Syrië verantwoordelijk is voor de gifgasaanval op Douma’, terwijl al lang bekend is dat dit een smerige leugen is, een feit dat middels het lek binnen de OPCW op straat kwam te liggen, inclusief de documenten en mails die e.e.a. bewijzen……. Let wel: het gaat hier om dezelfde massamedia die de vuilbek vol hebben over ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), andere desinformatie en manipulaties op de sociale media…….
De gevonden hoeveelheden chlorine kan je overal vinden waar chloor als schoonmaakmiddel wordt gebruikt, of waar chloor wordt gefabriceerd, dan wel in zwembaden (of in de directe nabijheid van zwembaden of chloorfabrieken…….)
Ach, het is de zoveelste gifgasaanval die in de schoenen van Assad werd geschoven, terwijl achteraf bij echte gifgasaanvallen keer op keer bleek dat terreurgroepen gifgas hebben ingezet als wapen….. (zelfs Obama heeft dat een keer toegegeven) Men zat en zit er in de westerse politiek en media zelfs niet mee dat terreurgroepen als Al Qaida (in Syrië: al-Nusra) en anderen de beschikking hadden (en sommige nog hebben) over chlorine en zelfs sarin……..
Lees het volgende deel in de soap: ‘Douma en de geregisseerde gifgasaanval’, dit keer (weer) geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone:
So, you might want to sit down for this, but believe it or not the mainstream media is behaving in a way that seems somewhat untruthful.
I know! I know. I’m just as astonished as you are.
So you know that Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) scandal we’ve been talking a lot about lately? The one where evidence keeps piling up that the US, UK and France launched airstrikes against the Syrian government last year in retaliation for a poison gas attack which never took place, and then manipulated an ostensibly independent and international chemical weapons watchdog organization into covering it up?
Well, it turns out that bigtime news media outlets haven’t been all that interested for some strange and mysterious reason. But just today they broke the silence with a new report that mentioned the scandal, and they’ve totally spun it in a way that makes the US and its allies look good! Can you believe that?
And you’ll never guess what excuse they’re using to spin it. Never in a million, billion years.
Put a pillow down on the floor, because your jaw’s about to drop like James Le Mesurier: believe it or not, they’re blaming it on Russian disinformation.
AFP, which just as an aside is one of only three gigantic news agencies that are responsible for most of the stories you see in the mass media, has put out an article that has been picked up by multiple mainstream media outlets titled “Showdown looms over Syria chemical weapons probe”.
The article deliberately frames the issue as one which has been “highlighted” by “Moscow”, and publishes a claim sourced to unnamed western officials that “the Russians and Syrians are trying to muddy the waters”.
“Moscow has consistently raised doubts over chemical attacks in Syria or insisted they were staged, and has recently highlighted a leaked report raising questions about a deadly chlorine attack in the Syrian town of Douma in April 2018,” AFP reports. “Western diplomats however say the Russians and Syrians are trying to muddy the waters about alleged attacks by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.”
Never mind that the leaks themselves are intrinsically important and completely authentic, regardless of who’s “highlighting” them. Never mind that the leaks have been “highlighted” by many non-Russian outlets, ranging from small alternative platforms like my own here in Melbourne all the way up to as mainstream as the UK’s Daily Mail. All it takes is one Russian to talk about any issue of any kind and it can magically be spun as a talking point of Moscow, no matter how many westerners who have nothing to do with Russia are also talking about it.
The report’s author, Danny Kemp, has been spending time narrative managing about the OPCW scandal on Twitter as well. Kemp argues that WikiLeaks, who published a leaked internal email from the organisation on Sunday which challenges the establishment Douma narrative, doesn’t have trustworthy publications because WikiLeaks is associated with (you guessed it) Russia.
AFP’s Hague reporter downplays *leaks* from *whistleblowers* that likely clear Syria of a chemical attack & undermine rationale for US-UK-France strikes. Why? Because Russia. This was a goal of Russiagate: to smear any dissent from “Western” party line, & enlist journos to do so: https://twitter.com/dannyctkemp/status/1198633795844485122 …
“Western source notes Russians are particularly sensitive re Douma because happened close to where their own troops were operating,” Kemp tweeted. “Also worth noting Mueller highlighted WikiLeaks role in publishing Russian-hacked DNC documents. Plus Russia was accused of hacking OPCW last year.”
Kemp’s baseless Russia smear is invalidated by the fact that multiple other outlets have also published the email, including the Daily Mail, and by the fact that Reuters has independently verified the email’s authenticity with a source in the OPCW.
The OPCW’s Director General Fernando Arias said during a convention at The Hague today that he fully supports the conclusions that were published in the OPCW’s final report on the Douma incident this past March, which asserted, contrary to everything the OPCW whistleblowers claim, that there was enough evidence to believe that a chemical weapon was used.
“On the first of March, 2019, the Fact Finding Mission issued its final report on the incident of alleged use of toxic chemical weapons in Douma on the seventh of April, 2018,” Arias said. “The evaluation and analysis of all the information gathered by the Fact Finding Mission provide reasonable grounds that the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon had taken place.”
“It is in the nature of any thorough inquiry for individuals in a team to express subjective views,” Arias added. “The overall conclusions of the inquiry, however, must be based on the preponderance of objective facts.”
“While some of these diverging views continue to circulate in certain public discussion forums, I would like to reiterate that I stand by the independent, professional conclusions reached by the Fact Finding Mission,” Arias said.
Again, everything Arias said is contradicted by what the whistleblowers from inside the aforementioned Fact Finding Mission have been saying:
The leaked email says chlorinated organic chemicals on the scene were as low as one or two parts per billion, meaning they were trace background levels you’d find in any industrialized area, and that the symptoms of the victims were inconsistent with chlorine gas poisoning.
The leaked Engineering Assessment signed by ballistics expert Ian Henderson states that the alleged chlorine cylinders were much more likely to have been manually placed on the ground than dropped from the air, meaning the incident would have been staged by the Jaysh al-Islam fighters occupying Douma and not the Syrian air force.
The information given to journalist Jonathan Steele by the whistleblower “Alex” lists even more inconsistencies with the OPCW report, claims that dissent from the final drafts of the OPCW’s Douma reports was a majority opinion within the team, and says investigators felt pressured both by OPCW management and an uncomfortable intercession by US government officials to come to a specific conclusion.
Given all this, there is no reason for anyone to feel at all confident that “the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon had taken place” in Douma.
In the hours since Arias finally gave them a denial of the OPCW scandal that they can use in their reporting, the mass media have suddenly broken their deafening silence on this important story.
Reports have come out on Arias’ defense of the official Douma reports from Reuters, AP and CBS explaining to readers that the OPCW’s head honcho says all the naughty people sharing unauthorized narratives about Douma are wrong. In a story about Syria and The Hague, the CBS article mentions the words “Russia” or “Russian” no fewer than twelve times, spinning the entire affair as nothing more than a Moscow-orchestrated conspiracy theory.
Here’s an excerpt from the CBS article, just to give you a taste of the conspiratorial-lunatic spin job they’re doing on something that amounts simply to authentic leaked information:
Russia and Syria have alleged that the incident was staged since soon after it took place. Russia even attempted to bolster its case by bringing individuals who it identified as Syrians seen in “staged” videos after the attack to testify to the OPCW at The Hague.
European OPCW members rejected the Russian-Syrian claims outright, and refused to attend the session at OPCW headquarters.
“This obscene masquerade does not come as a surprise from the Syrian government, which has massacred and gassed its own people for the last seven years,” France’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Philippe Lalliot, said in response.
I guess it’s nice to have some company on this important story after months and months of near-total silence, but man the spin’s making me dizzy.
Of course it’s not the mass media’s job to objectively report facts, it’s the mass media’s job to manufacture consent for the status quo upon which the media-owning plutocratic class is built. This status quo naturally includes the globe-spanning US-centralized empire and the endless war which glues the whole thing together. The narrative that this oligarchic power alliance has once again deceived the world about yet another military intervention in yet another Middle Eastern nation would do serious damage to people’s trust in the imperial propaganda machine, so the story will be ignored for as long as possible and then attacked with extreme aggression when that fails.
Voor wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens voorzag, zie de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi, voor berichten over die moord, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht..):
Door recente droogte is Mosul weer onder de aandacht gekomen van de internationale media, daar die droogte ervoor zorgde dat een oude ruïne bloot kwam te liggen van een 3.400 jaar oud paleis.
De aandacht van de reguliere westerse media voor Mosul was tijdens ‘de bevrijding’ van die stad vooral wat het VS leger en het Iraakse bewind daarover te zeggen hadden. Zo was Hans Jaap Melissen* één van de ‘journalisten’ die embedded waren bij de VS/Irak coalitie en die verboden werd de stad in te gaan…… Deze zogenaamde oorlogscorrespondenten lepelden braaf op wat hen was voorgekauwd door de propaganda machine van die coalitie……
Met name ‘de bevrijding’ van West-Mosul heeft een enorm aantal doden gekost en waarbij de historische binnenstad werd vernietigd door bombardementen van de VS…… Diverse mensenrechtenorganisaties en zelfs de VN hebben de VS destijds gesmeekt te stoppen met die bombardementen, daar de bewoners van de oude stad zo hutjemutje op elkaar woonden….. (de VS trok zich daar niets van aan….) Dit was dan ook de oorzaak voor het enorme aantal omgekomen burgers bij die bombardementen…….
Na ‘de bevrijding’ van Mosul heeft het Iraakse leger niet gepoogd slachtoffers te bergen, nee men koos ervoor de ruïnes te bulldozeren, met de slachtoffers nog onder het puin. Er moeten tienduizenden burgers zijn omgekomen (men houdt het officieel op het ongeloofwaardig aantal van 10.000; zie de links onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel), echter door het bulldozeren van de ruïnes zullen we nooit weten hoeveel slachtoffers terreurentiteit VS heeft gemaakt met haar terreurbombardementen…..
Intussen leven de teruggekeerde inwoners nog steeds tussen ruïnes en is er een gebrek aan zaken als sanitaire voorzieningen waardoor ziekten de kop opsteken, die de zo geplaagde bevolking nog verder in de ellende storten……
In het hieronder opgenomen artikel gaat de schrijver, T.J. Coles dieper in op deze zaak, o.a. met het noemen van het enorme aantal bommen dat de VS op Irak en Syrië heeft doen neerkomen, waarvan een aanzienlijk deel op Mosul (en later op Raqqa in Syrië), voorts stelt hij nogmaals dat de VS de hoofdverantwoordelijke is voor het ontstaan van IS, de terreurgroep aan wie de VS zelf meermaals wapens en ander militair tuig heeft geleverd…. (zie ook daarvoor weer de links onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel) Het artikel van Coles werd gisteren gepubliceerd op CounterPunch:
Photograph Source: Mstyslav Chernov – CC BY-SA 4.0
Recent news of drought has brought Mosul, Iraq, to the attention of Western media; for the drought has led to the discovery of ancient ruins of archaeological significance. But let’s not forget the other news: the UN report on returnees. The refugees are returning to the carnage wrought upon the city by the US and its allies under the pretext of “liberating” it from Daesh: carnage that transformed much of the city to modern ruins.
ANCIENT RUINS DISCOVERED
Mosul is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan with a population of 1.3 million; 60% of whom are Sunni Arabs, around 25% of whom are Kurds. Ongoing drought has brought Mosul to the attention of Western media, as receding water levels at Kemune reservoir reveals the ruin of a 3,400 year-old palace. Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization reckon that the palace was part of the Mittani Empire (circa 1450-1350 BCE). According to onearchaeological history, “[Mittani’s] end as independent realm can be dated to the time of Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I in the middle of the 14th century BC.”
Echoes of the conquests and rivalry of the ancient past haunt both recent history and the present. The so-called Mosul Question was a territorial dispute in the early-20th century between the British and Ottoman empires, with both parties wanting a share of the region’s oil. In the latter-part of the 20th century, Iraq’s one-time US-British-backed dictator Saddam Hussein launched the Anfal genocide against Kurds who have historic and ongoing links to the region. A couple of years ago, the US-approved leaders of the central Iraqi government and the regional Kurdish authorities squabbled over control of Mosul, anticipating that Daesh would be defeated.
But the discovery of ancient Mittani ruins coincides with darker news. A recent report by the UN International Organization for Migration documents the effects of the US-led coalition bombardment of the city. It begins: “Entire neighborhoods have not yet been rebuilt, basic services are insufficient in some areas, and poor sanitation is contributing to serious public health problems and the spread of diseases. Furthermore,” the report continues, “reports of harassment and violence against civilians by state as well as non-state actors are undermining efforts to build trust in state institutions and authorities.” Western-led humanitarian intervention is the price that Iraqis pay for being an oil-rich, militarily vulnerable nation.
MAKING ENEMIES
Daesh (a.k.a., Islamic State) was largely the by-product of US-British savagery in Iraq. Having left the nation politically and infrastructurally decimated by decades of unprecedented sanctions, military occupation, and divide-and-conquer strategizing, the more extreme Islamic elements in Iraq—backed by foreign powers for their own geostrategic interests—sprouted from fertile ground. The US Army’s Strategic Studies Institute launched an unusually scathing attack on the Bush II administration’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and how it and the succeeding Obama administration handled the occupation. Ignoring moral questions and focusing solely on tactics, as well as blaming the US-backed politician Ahmed Chalabi, the report (worth quoting at length) says that the growth of the Islamic State Organization (ISO):
“did not occur in a vacuum … The ISO would not exist, or at this level of severity at least, had the ruling Shia elements in Iraq following the USG [US Government] occupation made the essential, painful choices required to pursue a new social compact with the nation’s Sunni population. Or, had the USG not operationalized Ahmad Chalabi’s long-dreamt of goal of imposing a punitive de-Ba’athification,”
meaning the dismantling of Iraq’s political, military, and policing infrastructure. It goes on:
“Or, had the USG not imposed the disastrous policy of dissolving the Iraqi armed forces and security forces, numbering in the hundreds of thousands; or had been prepared for a Sunni insurgency; or had developed a realistic post-occupation, longer-term stabilization policy based in a keen and learned awareness that the USG’s decapitation, occupation, and empowerment of Iraq’s Shia would profoundly destabilize an existing equilibrium in Iraq; or understood that the decapitation of the Iraqi regime would profoundly alter the terms of the broader Sunni-Shia rivalry inaugurated by the emergence of a Shia revolutionary State in 1979, and thereby further energizing proponents and antagonists who view this schism as a difference so wide as that between God and the Devil; or, finally, had the USG not first gone into Iraq the wrong way, and later repeated the error by disengaging from Iraq the wrong way.”
Even though US-British violence created Daesh, the US-British answer to defeating Daesh was more violence.
AIR AND GROUND WAR
In June 2014, Daesh took Mosul, triggering a refugee flight of half a million. According to the timeline, by September ten Arab majority states announced their participation in the US-led anti-Daesh coalition. Britain started bombing Iraq, again, on September 30th with Paveway IV and Brimstone missiles. As well as using Reaper drones in its anti-Daesh operations, the UK supplied 275 ground troops. By the end of the destruction of Mosul, the UK had 600 personnel on the ground in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones boasted that “the UK was the second biggest contributor from a military perspective in the campaign.” According to Forces.Net, the British Army trained 75,000 Iraqi military personnel at Camp Taji and other bases. Many of those who fought in Mosul committed war crimes, including torturing and murdering alleged Daesh members. In particular, the US-trained 16th Division executed suspects, including children.
These atrocities pale in comparison to the devastation of the aerial bombardments.
In 2016, the US-led coalition dropped 30,743 bombs on Iraq and Syria. In 2017, it dropped 39,577. In 2018, the coalition dropped over 6,800 bombs. In February 2018, Pehr Lodhammar of the UN Mine Action Service reported that the “liberation” of Mosul had left 11 million tonnes of debris, burying two-thirds of the unexploded bombs (UXB). The anti-mine, anti-UXB operations will take the UN a decade to complete; assuming that their budget isn’t reduced. It took the agency 12 months to remove 25,000 explosive remnants in Mosul alone. The BBC reported that UK Ministry of Defence bombs “malfunctioned and strayed off target” sometimes by “hundreds of metres,” adding to the civilian death toll which reached up to 10,000; 11,000, according to the same Forces.Net source noted above. Mosul resident and civilian, Abdel Rahman Ali, lost five children to the blitz. “Nobody destroyed us except the coalition,” he told the BBC.
In its written evidence to the British government, Amnesty International says: “Our field research constitutes prima facieevidence that Coalition strikes, which killed and injured civilians in Syria and Iraq, violated International Humanitarian Law (IHL).” Criticizing what it calls a “crisis in accountability,” Save the Children’s written evidence notes that $700 million-worth of damage was wrought on each of Mosul’s 54 residential districts. Save the Children concludes: “In Mosul, the UN Security Council also found that at least 4200 civilians were killed by EWIPA [explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas] between October 2016 and July 2017. Research undertaken by the UN suggests that in such settings, over 90 percent of the casualties are civilians.”
IN CONCLUSION
Instead of being decapitated and immolated by Daesh, thousands of inhabitants of Mosul were blown to pieces and incinerated by US-British bombs. UN International Organization for Migration’s recent report notes that, at its peak, nearly one million residents fled the city. By now, 350,000 or so remain “internally displaced persons” (IDPs). “Many IDPs are unable to return because their houses have been destroyed, either by [Daesh] or during the battle, and renting or buying new property is prohibitively expensive.” They are some of the millions of refugees generated by the US-British imperial war machine. Mosul is a small part of a much larger tragedy: one of US global hegemony in the age of Full Spectrum Dominance.
==================================== Nog even over de gifgasaanvallen in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw door Saddam Hoessein: zakenman van Anraat werd veroordeeld voor het leveren van grondstoffen voor dat gifgas, echter zijne VVD kwaadaardigheid Bolkestein, die destijds tegen advies van deskundigen in, toestemming gaf voor de export van die grondstoffen, een oorlogsmisdaad van formaat, waarvoor deze VVD ploert nooit werd vervolgd……
* Melissen blaast nu weer regelmatig op Radio1 over zijn bezoeken aan Syrië, waar deze plork eerder embedded was bij een terreurorganisatie, die hij loofde als gematigde oppositie, maar die later door de mand vielen als een afschuwelijke terreurorganisatie……. Onbegrijpelijk dat er nog iemand is die deze zakkenwasser serieus neemt….. (voor meer berichten met Melissen, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht)
De show van Stephen Colbert is een propaganda orgaan voor de rechtse democraten en is dat in feite al heel lang. Daarmee staat Colbert ook achter de illegale oorlogen die onder de democratische ‘vredesduif’ Obama werden aangegaan, dit onder regie van zijn rechterhand destijds Hillary Clinton (minister van BuZa), een oorlogsmisdadiger van formaat…..
Colbert had onlangs de democraat Tulsi Gabbard in zijn show en in tegenstelling tot de omgang met andere politici van de Democratische Partij, was dit geen gesprek met opgeklopte ‘humor’.
Colbert probeerde Gabbard zelfs in het kamp te duwen van fascist David Duke (voormalig Ku Klux Klan top), en dat van rechtse rotzakken als Steve Bannon en Matt Gaetz……
Wat betreft de illegale oorlogen van de VS, liet Colbert ten overvloede in zijn gesprek met Gabbard blijken dat hij die volledig steunt, ondanks het enorme aantal doden en landen die in puin achterblijven als de VS klaar is met haar grootschalige terreur tegen in feite de bevolking van de landen die het illegaal aanvalt…..
Ook de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen het bewind van Assad kwam ter sprake, waar Gabbard Colbert fijntjes liet weten dat de CIA in 2011 de ‘opstand’ tegen Assad heeft georganiseerd en geregisseerd en dat de oorlog van de VS in dat land niet gericht was tegen IS, maar tegen het bewind van Assad, waar ze ook de wapenleveringen aan terreurgroepen als IS en militaire training door de VS aan die terreurgroepen noemde…..
Jammer dat ze Assad wel een dictator noemt, terwijl hij met grote meerderheid democratisch tot president werd verkozen in 2014, een verkiezing die door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk en goed werd beoordeeld……
Vergeet voorts niet dat onder Assad alle geloven hand in hand naast elkaar leefden, een zaak die door handelingen van de VS bijna de nek werd omgedraaid…. Gelukkig leven de teruggekeerde vluchtelingen, in de gebieden die door het reguliere Syrische leger worden gecontroleerd, weer vreedzaam naast elkaar, ongeacht het geloof dat men aanhangt……
Helaas voor Colbert, maar hij is geen partij voor Gabbard die hem flink bij de lurven had >> lezen en zien mensen!!
Hawaii Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where instead of the light, jokey banter about politics and who she is as a person that Democratic presidential candidates normally encounter on late night comedy programs, the show’s host solemnly ran down a list of textbook beltway smears against Gabbard and made her defend them in front of his audience.
Normally when a Democratic Party-aligned politician appears on such a show, you can expect jokes about how stupid Trump is and how badly they’re going to beat the Republicans, how they’re going to help ordinary Americans, and maybe some friendly back-and-forth about where they grew up or something. Colbert had no time to waste on such things, however, because this was not an interview with a normal Democratic Party-aligned politician: this was a politician who has been loudly and consistently criticizing US foreign policy.
After briefly asking his guest who she is and why she’s running for president, Colbert jumped right into it by immediately bringing up Syria and Assad, the primary line of attack employed against Gabbard by establishment propagandists in American mainstream media.
Colbert: Do you think the Iraq war was worth it?
Gabbard: No.
Colbert: Do you think that our involvement in Syria has been worth it?
Gabbard: No.
Colbert: Do you think that ISIS could have been defeated without our involvement and without our support of the local troops there?
Gabbard: There are two things we need to address in Syria. One is a regime change war that was first launched by the United States in 2011, covertly, led by the CIA. That is a regime change war that has continued over the years, that has increased the suffering of the Syrian people, and strengthened groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, because the CIA was using American taxpayer dollars to provide arms and training and equipment to these terrorist groups to get them to overthrow the government. So that is a regime change war that we should not have been engaging.
Colbert: So, but if it is someone like Bashar al-Assad, who gasses his own people, or who engages in war crimes against his own people, should the United States not be involved?
Gabbard: The United States should not be intervening to overthrow these dictators and these regimes that we don’t like, like Assad, like Saddam Hussein, like Gaddafi, and like Kim Jong Un. There are bad people in the world, but history has shown us that every time the United States goes in and topples these dictators we don’t like, trying to end up like the world’s police, we end up increasing the suffering of the people in these countries. We end up increasing the loss of life, but American lives and the lives of people in these countries. We end up undermining our own security, what to speak of the trillions of dollars of taxpayer money that’s spent on these wars that we need to be using right here at home.
Like I said, this is not a normal presidential candidate. How often do you see a guest appear on a network late night talk show and talk about the CIA arming terrorists in Syria and the fact that US military interventionism is completely disastrous? It just doesn’t happen. You can understand, then, why empire propagandist Stephen Colbert spent the rest of the interview informing his TV audience that Tulsi Gabbard is dangerous and poisonous.
This was unwatchable. Colbert just went down the list of scripted Gabbard smears (Assad, David Duke) then sermonized about how US military intervention is a force for good in this world. All without telling a single joke. Late night “comedy” shows are propaganda for livestock.
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳added,
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Colbert twice interjected the State Dept.’s line about the alleged Assad chemical attack on his own people; Tulsi then corrected him saying several of the groups, including al Qaeda & ISIS, had been trained by the US and had been reported as being a part of those alleged chemical https://twitter.com/DraftTulsi/status/1105323025489121280…
3:33 PM – 12 Mar 2019
Colbert: You got some heat for meeting with Bashar al-Assad. Do you not consider him a war criminal? Why did you meet with that man?
Gabbard: In the pursuit of peace and security. If we are not willing to meet with adversaries, potential adversaries, in the pursuit of peace and security, the only alternative is more war. That’s why I took that meeting with Assad. In pursuit of peace and security.
Colbert: Do you believe he is a war criminal? Do you believe he gassed his own people or committed atrocities against his own people?
Gabbard: Yes. Reports have shown that that’s a fact.
Colbert: So you believe the intelligence agencies on that. Because I head that you did not necessarily believe those reports.
The reason I call Colbert a propagandist and not simply a liberal empire loyalist who happens to have been elevated by billionaire media is because these are carefully constructed narratives that he is reciting, and they weren’t constructed by him.
Trying to make it look to the audience as though Gabbard is in some way loyal to Assad has been a high-priority agenda of the mainstream media ever since she announced her presidential candidacy.
We saw it in her recent appearance on The View, where John McCain’s sociopathic daughter called her an “Assad apologist” and demanded that Gabbard call Assad an enemy of the United States. We saw it in her recent CNN town hall, where a consultant who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign was presented as an ordinary audience member to help CNN’s Dana Bash paint Gabbard’s skepticism of intelligence reports about an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government as something that is weird and suspicious, instead of the only sane position in a post-Iraq invasion world. We saw it in her appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last month, where the entire panel piled on her in outrage that she wouldn’t call Assad an enemy of the United States. It’s such a common propaganda talking point that the New York Times‘ Bari Weiss famously made a laughingstock of herself by repeating it as self-evident truth on The Joe Rogan Experience without having the faintest clue what specific facts it was meant to refer to, just because she’d heard establishment pundits saying it so much.
This is an organized smear by the mass media attempting to marry Gabbard in the eyes of the public to a Middle Eastern leader whom the propagandists have already sold as a child-murdering monster, and Colbert is participating in it here just as much as the serious news media talking heads are. It’s been frustrating to watch Gabbard fold to this smear campaign by acting like it’s an established fact that Assad “gases his own people” and not the hotly contested empire-serving narrative she knows it is.
Gabbard is being targeted by this smear because she challenges US political orthodoxy on military violence (the glue which holds the empire together), so no amount of capitulation will keep them from trying to prevent the public from trusting her words.
(de video in het volgende Twitterbericht kan ik niet overnemen, zie hiervoor het origineel)
The journalist interrogating Tulsi seems to believe that US forces in Syria are fighting Assad. Tulsi corrects her, says those troops were deployed there to fight ISIS. These people don’t even know what’s happening in the places they want the US to occupy
“I don’t know whether America should be the policemen of the world,” Colbert said after Gabard defended her position.
“It is my opinion that we should not be,” Gabbard replied, causing Colbert to launch into a stuffy, embarrassing sermon on the virtues of interventionism and US hegemony that would make Bill Kristol blush.
“If we are not, though, nature abhors a vacuum, and if we are not involved in international conflicts, or trying to quell international conflicts, certainly the Russians and the Chinese will fill that vacuum. And we will step away from the world stage in a significant way that might destabilize the world, because the United States, however flawed, is a force for good in the world in my opinion. Would you agree with that?”
Again, this is a comedy show.
Gabbard explained that in order to be a force for good in the world the United States has to actually do good, which means not raining fire upon every nation it dislikes all the time. Colbert responded by reading off his blue index card to repeat yet another tired anti-Gabbard smear.
“You’ve gotten some fans in the Trump supporter world: David Duke, Steve Bannon, and, uh, Matt, uh, Gaetz, is that his name? Matt Gaetz? What do you make of how much they like you?”
This one is particularly vile, partly because Gabbard has repeatedly and unequivocally denounced David Duke, who has a long-established and well-known history of injecting himself into the drama of high-profile conversations in order to maintain the illusion of relevance, and partly because it’s a completely irrelevant point that is brought up solely for the purpose of marrying Tulsi Gabbard’s name to a former Ku Klux Klan leader. Colbert only brought this up (and made Newsweek totally squee) because he wanted to assist in that marrying. The fact that there are distasteful ideologies which also happen to oppose US interventionism for their own reasons does not change the undeniable fact that US military interventionism is consistently disastrous and never helpful and robs the US public of resources that are rightfully theirs.
This interview was easily Colbert’s most blatant establishment rim job I’ve ever seen, surpassing even the time he corrected his own audience when they cheered at James Comey’s firing to explain to them that Comey is a good guy now and they’re meant to like him. Colbert’s show is blatant propaganda for human livestock, and the fact that this is what American “comedy” shows look like now is nauseating.
When Tulsi Gabbard first announced her candidacy I predicted that she’d have the narrative control engineers scrambling all over themselves to kill her message, and it’s been even more spectacular than I imagined. I don’t agree with everything she says and does, but by damn this woman is shaking up the establishment narrative matrix more than anybody else right now. She’s certainly keeping it interesting.
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De republikeinse senator Richard (‘Dick’) Black heeft op het arabisch tv station Al Mayadeen gemeld dat MI6 bezig is met de voorbereiding van een chemische aanval in Idlib. Black zei verder dat e.e.a. al een maand bekend is….. Volgens Black kan het gaan om een echte aanval met gifgas, of een gespeelde, ofwel een ‘false flag’ operatie, waar de schuld in beide gevallen bij Assad zal worden gelegd…. Black beweert dat er al met ‘acteurs’ wordt geoefend hoe ze slachtoffer moeten spelen en wordt met hen getraind op de symptomen van een gifgasaanval (die ze moeten tonen)……
Daarover gesproken: volgens Black zijn meerdere gifgasaanvallen, die de laatste jaren werden gepleegd, ‘false flag’ operaties, deze werden met hulp van de White Helmets uitgevoerd…. Dit was overigens al bekend*, zoals ook bekend is dat men bezig is een gifgasaanval voor te bereiden in Idlib, dit door de herhaaldelijke waarschuwingen aan het adres van Assad geen gifgasaanval uit te voeren, waarschuwingen van psychopaten als Bolton….**
Dergelijke waarschuwingen van de VS werden eerder gedaan in aanloop van gifgasaanvallen, aanvallen waar het Syrische leger niets mee te winnen had, alleen al door het simpele feit dat dit leger aan de winnende hand was (zonder gifgas gebruik)…….
Het volgende bericht komt van de Independant en werd door mij overgenomen van 9 for News:
MI6 plant chemische nepaanval in Syrië. Amerikaanse senator doet opvallende uitspraken op tv
De Amerikaanse staatssenator Richard Black heeft opvallende uitspraken gedaan op de Arabisch tv over een nauwe bondgenoot van de Verenigde Staten. Black zei dat MI6, de Britse inlichtingendienst, een chemische aanval voorbereidt op Syrische burgers die vervolgens in de schoenen van Assad zal worden geschoven.
“Vier weken geleden wisten we al dat het Britse inlichtingenapparaat toewerkte naar een chemische aanval waar de Syrische overheid vervolgens de schuld van zou krijgen,” zei Black op de Arabische nieuwszender Al Mayadeen.
Acteurs
Hij zei later dat de Britten de aanval niet zelf zullen uitvoeren, maar dat laten doen door rebellen.
Een andere mogelijkheid is dat ze de aanval in scène zetten en acteurs gebruiken, aldus Black.
Hij zei ook dat eerdere gifgasaanvallen in Syrië nep waren. Die waren volgens hem uitgevoerd door Groot-Brittannië, met hulp van de Syrische Witte Helmen.
Nepaanval
“Ze bereiden een nepaanval voor, geen echte,” zei hij. “Ze hebben mensen getraind om te doen alsof ze slachtoffer van een gasaanval zijn.”
“Het plan is om de Witte Helmen, die steeds betrokken zijn geweest bij deze misleidingen, de aanval te laten uitvoeren,” vervolgde hij.
Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken noemde de beschuldigingen van Black ‘schandalig’.
Buffer
Hij had onlangs voor de tweede keer een ontmoeting met de Syrische president Bashar al-Assad.
Black, een Vietnamveteraan en voormalige Pentagon-advocaat, zegt hem te zien als beschermer van Syrische christenen en buffer tegen islamitisch extremisme.
Vandaag of morgen zal er gegarandeerd een gifgasaanval plaatsvinden in Idlib, daar heeft de VS bij wijze al om gesmeekt bij deze terreurgroepen (die zoals gezegd beschikken over gifgas, met medeweten van de westerse regeringen)…….. Deze gifgasaanval zou wel eens het begin van een oorlog tussen de VS en Rusland kunnen inluiden, daar Putin al te vaak over z’n hart heeft gestreken, zelfs bij de moedwillige moord op zo’n 100 Russische vrijwilligers door terreurentiteit VS, of het neerhalen van een Russische jager door terreurstaat Turkije…… (ofwel als Putin niet volledig zijn gezicht wil verliezen zal Rusland moeten ingrijpen als de VS weer onterecht Syrische bases aanvalt, na de zoveelste false flag gifgasaanval…….)
Eric Zuesse heeft een artikel geplaatst op de Strategic Culture Foundation, waarin hij ten overvloede (maar volkomen terecht) stelt dat de VS, met hulp van NAVO lidstaten Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk, dood en verderf zaait in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…… (landen in het Midden-Oosten, waar ik in dit geval ook Libië en Afghanistan toe reken) Door deze grootschalige terreur zijn enorme stromen vluchtelingen op gang gekomen, vluchtelingen die hun heil zoeken in Europa en dan m.n. in de EU, niet alleen omdat dit de meest dichtstbijzijnde plek is waar men de oorlog definitief achter zich kan laten, maar ook omdat de VS botweg weigert vluchtelingen uit het Midden-Oosten op te nemen….. Dit was overigens in iets mindere mate al zo onder de Obama regering…..
Zuesse wijst op de leugens die het westerse publiek (inclusief het Nederlandse) dagelijks op haar bord geserveerd krijgt, zoals de leugens dat landen als Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, een gevaar vormen voor hun veiligheid…… Een leugen zo doortrapt, dat ze zelfs een volkomen omdraaiing van feiten is, immers de grootschalige westerse terreur in het Midden-Oosten zorgt juist voor terreur op de straten van vooral de EU…….
De hiervoor genoemde landen, vier landen kunnen zelfs amper worden gezien als een gevaar voor de hen omringende landen, waar alleen Irak als agressor kan worden aangewezen, dan wijs ik vooral op de oorlog van Irak tegen Iran in de 80er jaren, waar deze vooral de VS goed uitkwam, sterker nog: de VS heeft destijds Saddam Hoessein opgejut Iran aan te vallen….. Nederland onderhield ook goede banden met Saddam Hoessein, zo kon VVD plork Bolkestein een exportvergunning afgeven voor de levering van onderdelen tot het bereiden van gifgas, iets waarvoor hij destijds uit en te na werd gewaarschuwd door deskundigen, daarmee is deze Bolkestein een enorme oorlogsmisdadiger!
Lees dit uitstekende artikel waarin Zuesse gedetailleerd uitlegt hoe VS bemoeienissen hebben geleid tot de dood van alleen deze eeuw al ruim meer dan 2 miljoen slachtoffers, die in feite werden vermoord door de VS, met hulp van een aantal NAVO landen, waaronder Nederland….. (waar niet vergeten dient te worden dat de NAVO een speeltje is van de VS, zo liet het beest Trump de afgelopen dagen nog eens fijntjes zien tijdens de NAVO top in Brussel…..)
America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil
The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations. America’s corporations remain blithely unscathed by not only the refugees that are breaking up the EU, but also by the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other allies of governments that the US regime is trying to overthrow in its constant invasions and coups. The US Government makes proclamations such as “Assad must go!” — but by what right is the US Government involved, at all, in determining whom the leaders in Syria will be? Syria never invaded the US In fact, Syria never invaded anywhere (except, maybe, Israel, in order to respond against Israel’s invasions). Furthermore, all polling, even by Western pollsters, shows that Bashar al-Assad would easily win any free and fair election in Syria. The US Government claims to support democracy, but it does the exact opposite whenever they want to get rid of a Government that is determined to protect that nation’s sovereignty over its own national territory, instead of to yield it to the US regime, or to any other foreigners. The US regime has virtually destroyed the United Nations.
The US regime, and its allies, have used the Muslim Brotherhood, in order to recruit into Syria the 100,000+ jihadists from around the world to fight to overthrow Syria’s secular Government. Even the BBC’s 13 December 2013 detailed report, “Guide to the Syrian rebels”, made clear that the “Syrian Rebels” were, in fact, overwhelmingly jihadist and largely recruited from abroad. These were hardly democrats. Even a Tony-Blair-founded anti-Assad NGO’s study concluded that “Sixty per cent of major Syrian rebel groups are Islamist extremists” (not just “Islamists” but “Islamist extremists”) and yet the Blair outfit still supported the overthrow of the committed secularist Assad (just as Blair had earlier participated himself in the US regime’s destruction of Iraq).
America is no actual ally of Europe. The Marshall Plan is long-since finished, and America has been taken over by psychopaths who are Europe’s main enemies, not Europe’s friends, at all. (They’re friends of some European aristocracies, but not of any European public, not of even merely one public.)
Iran and Russia should be Europe’s allies — they didn’t cause any of Europe’s problems. America did. America’s intelligence agencies tapped (and probably still tap) the phones of Germany’s Chancellor and practically everybody else, and yet the US regime has the gall to blame Russia for interfering in the political affairs of European countries. If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle ‘black’, then what is? If anything, the EU’s sanctions should be against doing business with American firms — not against doing business with Russian firms, or with Iranian firms. European politicians who support the US support Europe’s top enemy.
Russia is, itself, a European country, which additionally traverses much of Asia, but America is no European country, at all, and yet now is so brazen as to demand that Europe must do America’s bidding — not only against Russia, but also against the Sauds’ main target, which is Iran (the same main target as Israel’s).
Why are Europeans not asking themselves: Who is Europe’s enemy in all of this — what causes this refugee-crisis? The refugees certainly didn’t.
It’s not Russia, and it’s not Iran, and it’s not China; it is America — which is the true enemy of them all, and of us all — including even of the American people ourselves, because the US Government no longer actually represents the American people. These invasions, and military occupations, and coups, do not serve America’s public; they serve America’s aristocracy. The US is no longer (if it ever was) a democracy. The US Government now is the US aristocracy — not the US public. It’s a dictatorship. And, it has the type of ‘news’media that any dictatorship has.
On June 30th, the US aristocracy’s New York Times headlined “Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry”, and reported “the new angry center of Europe, the latest battleground for populists eager to bring down both Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and the idea of a liberal Europe itself.” Their elitist (pro-US-aristocracy) ‘reporter’ (actually propagandist) interviewed ‘experts’ who condemn Europe’s politicians that are trying to assuage their own public’s anger against the EU’s open-door policy regarding this flood of refugees from what is actually, for the most part, the US regime’s (and its allies’) bombings — air-support of the boots-on-the-ground jihadist mercenaries. The combination of this air-support, and of the jihadists, has been the backbone of the US-Saudi-Israeli effort to overthrow and replace Syria’s Government.
Libya was a similar case, but was only friendly toward Russia, not allied with Russia, as both Syria and Iran are.
So: the Times was secretly (and they didn’t include any links to help online readers know who was actually funding their ‘experts’, at all) pumping NATO propaganda, as if it were authentic and neutral news-reporting, instead of craven service to the US aristocracy that controls the US Government and its NATO military alliance. This is the New York Times, itself, that is “rewriting recent history.” That’s how they do it — constantly (as ‘news’).
And here is some of that “recent history” the Times is “rewriting” (by simply omitting to so much as even just suggest, but which is essential backgound in order to understand the real history behind this important matter):
House of Commons, Research Paper 01/50, 2 May 2001
“European Security and Defence Policy: Nice and Beyond”
pp. 47-48:
On 7 February 2001 the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, emphasised the ESDP’s [European Security and Defence Policy’s] tie to NATO during a press interview, following his meeting in Washington with US National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice. He said:
I have stressed that the European Security Initiative will strengthen the capacity of Europe to contribute to crisis management and therefore is welcome to a Washington that is interested in fairer burden sharing, and that Washington can be confident that Britain will insist that the European Security Initiative is firmly anchored on NATO. We are both determined to see that happen, we are both determined to make sure that the European Security Initiative carries out its promise to strengthen the North Atlantic Alliance.119
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Though the Sauds, and also Israel’s aristocracy, are mainly anti-Iran, the US aristocracy are obsessed with their goal of conquering Russia. Since Iran, and Syria, are both allied with Russia, the US regime is trying to overthrow those Russia-allied Governments, before going in for the kill, against Russia itself. That’s what all of these economic sanctions, and the bombings and the backing of Al Qaeda for overthrowing Syria’s Government, are really all about.
Is this what today’s Europeans want their Governments to be doing — and doing it for that reason, the US aristocracy’s reason? Despite the huge harms it is certainly causing to Europeans?
As the world’s greatest blogger, the former UK Ambassador (but too honest to stay in that business) Craig Murray, recently said under the headline, “No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO”: “The destruction of Libya’s government and infrastructure directly caused the Mediterranean boat migrant crisis, which has poisoned the politics of much of the European Union.” But, of course, the US regime and its allies have also destroyed other countries than that — and thus caused refugees to Europe from many nations. And, finally, even the US Government (though as quietly as possible) acknowledges that it has destroyed Afghanistan. Ironically, that’s the very nation where America and the Sauds, in 1979, had started their war against all Governments that won’t buckle to them.
Furthermore, the US regime intends to keep it up. In case a reader might happen to think that, surely, the US regime and its allies are going to quit this rousing of hornets’ nests; Sharmine Narwani, who is one of the very few non-“embedded” journalists who reports in The West about — and (which the mainstream ones don’t) from — the war in Syria, headlined, on June 25th, “Are al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside US Rebels in Syria’s South?” and she found that the answer to this question is a resounding yes:
Despite its US and UN designation as a terrorist organization, Nusra [Al Qaeda’s main name in Syria] has been openly fighting alongside the “Southern Front,” a group of 54 opposition militias funded and commanded by a US-led war room based in Amman, Jordan called the Military Operations Center (MOC). …
Sources inside Syria — both opposition fighters and Syrian military brass (past and present) — suggest the command center consists of the US, UK, France, Jordan, Israel, and some Persian Gulf states. … In practice, the US doesn’t appear to mind the Nusra affiliation — regardless of the fact that the group is a terror organization — as long as the job gets done.
These wars, which pour Middle Eastern (and also Ukrainian*) refugees into the EU, are inter-aristocratic conflicts reflecting inter-aristocratic competitions; and the publics everywhere suffer enormously from them. The gainers from it are very few but very rich (and they hire very powerful agents in Europe and elsewhere). Those billionaire gainers, and their agents, should be Europe’s targets — not Russia and Iran. NATO must end now. Europe needs to be freed, at last, from America’s permanent-war-for permanent-‘peace’ grip. For Europeans, who are the indirect victims, to be blaming the refugees, who are the direct victims, won’t solve anything, but will simply please the victimizers, as is the public’s ancient habit (to please the powerful). A break must be made, away from that ugly past. European publics must lead the way, or no one will.
PS: Since this article asserts such a large number of things that contradict what the US Government and its agents assert, I have sought out and here linked to the highest-quality, least-contested and most highly authenticated, sources and also to sources that link to such sources; all of which, taken together, constitute a book-length proof of the title-case here, that “America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil.” Furthermore, this online virtual “book” is tracking back to the most unimpeachable documents, all of them available merely by means of clicking, and thus without the reader’s needing to visit a huge scholarly library (which might be quite distant); so, the reader can here easily branch out to this entire, and otherwise largely hidden, world of reliable sources, which the US regime wants the public not to know, and certainly not to understand. It’s no longer necessary to be an intelligence-professional in order to come to understand what the regime wants the public not to understand.
* Kleine vergissing: de Oekraïners die Oost-Oekraïne ontvluchten vanwege de bombardementen van het Oekraïense leger (voor het grootste deel bevolkt met neonazi’s), vluchten niet naar de EU, maar naar Rusland. (ze zouden al worden vermoord, voordat ze de westgrens van Oekraïne bereikten…..)
Nu de aandacht voor Trump en Kim wegebt en men er algemeen vanuit gaat dat Assad niet zal aftreden als president, sterker nog: dat hij bij nu te houden verkiezingen zelfs met nog meer stemmen verkozen zal worden, is de kans levensgroot dat er weer een gebeurtenis staat te wachten, die in het westen tot hysterische reacties zal leiden……
Volgens het Russische ministerie van defensie, in de persoon van Lavrov’s (minister van defensie) woordvoerder en officier Igor Konashenkov, staat de ‘gematigde rebellen’ groep het vrije Syrische leger (psychopathische moordenaars) op het punt een voor de wereld in elkaar gedraaid scenario uit voeren, waar (alweer) een gifgasaanval aan het reguliere Syrische leger (‘en dus’ Assad..) zal worden toegeschreven…… Een dergelijke gang van zaken noemt men een ‘false flag’ operatie, operaties die vooral goed door de VS worden beheerst. Men kan het eenvoudigweg niet verkroppen dat Assad in feite de oorlog in Syrië voor zijn volk heeft gewonnen dat was immers niet de opzet van de o.a. door de VS georganiseerde opstand in Syrië (de eerste voorbereidingen daartoe werden al in 2006 onder Bush genomen)…..
De grote westerse radiostations (inclusief Radio1, al is dat niet groot, en de ‘onafhankelijke’ zendgemachtigden op die zender) citeren 9 van de 10 keer als het over Syrië gaat, het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR), een vertegenwoordiger van de terreurgroepen in Syrië, die zoals gezegd door het westen worden aangeduid als gematigde rebellen……. Het SOHR wordt geleid door een gewezen Syrische misdadiger die o.a. bekend staat als Osama Suleiman (tot voor kort was hij ook het enige personeelslid), die terechte gevangenisstraf in Syrië jammer genoeg heeft weten te voorkomen door te vluchten en zich bij de Britten te melden als ‘politiek vluchteling…’ Deze SOHR is er elke keer als de kippen bij om een gifgasaanval aan Assad toe te schrijven, zelfs als andere nieuwsmedia (wat SOHR niet is) nog bezig zijn berichten te controleren (als deze reguliere media dat al doen….), weet SOHR te melden dat het bij wijze van spreken Assad zelf was…….. Het SOHR is dan ook niets anders dan een verlengstuk van een aantal terreurgroepen in Syrië….
Gezien het verleden valt het me nog mee dat er niet al eerder een gifgasaanval werd uitgevoerd (na Douma, maar nu echt met gifgas dat deze terreurgroepen met toestemming van het westen in bezit mogen houden…)……
Waarschijnlijk was men te verbaasd dat de zogenaamde gifgasanval op Douma zo makkelijk als waar werd geslikt door de een groot deel van de wereld……. De OPCW, een organisatie die nauw samenwerkt met de VN (een organisatie voor het verbod op kernwapens), heeft zonder opdracht onderzoek uitgevoerd in Douma* en vond net als eerdere deskundigen geen sporen van gifgas, sporen die na een echte aanval zeker zouden zijn achtergebleven…… In het hoofdkwartier van de OPCW te Den Haag hebben getuigen van deze zogenaamde gifgasaanval verklaringen afgegeven waarin wordt gesteld dat er geen sprake was van een gifgasaanval in Douma…….
Kijk ‘die fout’ maken de terreurgroepen in Syrië niet nog een keer >> de volgende keer zal er een groot aantal doden te betreuren zijn, deze zogenaamde gematigde rebellen hebben schijt aan mensenlevens, precies als de White Helmets, een steungroep van deze rebellen die de handen zelf ook vuilmaken aan oorlogsmisdaden……. (het beest Trump heeft de White Helmets een subsidie van 6 miljoen dollar toegekend, zo werd vanmorgen bekend gemaakt……)
Russia Warns of Impending Staged Chemical Attack in Syria
(ZHE Op-ed) — As the world’s attention was focused on Singapore and the historic Trump-Kim summit this week, and with broad media acknowledgement that Assad has won the war for Syria, the time could be ripe for some kind of major event to jolt the globe’s focus back to the war, now in its seventh year, which could be slowly winding down.
It seems to occur every time the Syrian Army is on a trajectory of overwhelming victory: an ill-timed and strategically nonsensical mass chemical attack on civilians supposedly ordered by Assad — inevitably giving the West an open door for military intervention, new rounds of crippling sanctions, and yet more international media condemnation heaped on Damascus.
And this week the Russian Defense Ministry has warned of just such a scenario. Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said early in the week that US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces are planning a “serious provocation” aimed at justifying a new round of Western coalition missile attacks against Syrian government bases and facilities.
Image circulating in the aftermath the claimed chemical attack in Douma. Image source: Baladi News Network, screenshot via Middle East Eye
Konashenkov, in a statement carried by Russian state-run TASS and subsequently featured in a One America News report, said “According to the information confirmed through three independent channels in Syria, the command of the so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’ aided by the forces of the US special ops units are preparing a serious provocation involving chemical warfare agents in the Deir ez-Zor province.”
According to Konashenkov, FSA militants have delivered chlorine cylinders to the Syrian Deir ez-Zor province to simulate another “chemical attack against civilians.”
“After being published in western media a staged video is set to initiate a missile strike on Syria’s state facilities by the US-led coalition and justify an offensive operation by militants against Syrian governmental forces on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River,”he said, adding that Russia’s Defense Ministry warns that the use of such provocations for destabilization of the environment on the Syrian territory is unacceptable.
Though there’s currently no way to verify if such claims are true, and no “staged video” has yet to surface on the internet, the Russian Defense Ministry appears to be painting a potential future scenario much like last April’s chemical attack incident: it was video of mass civilian deathwhich directly led to Western airstrikes on Syria.
A new One America News report features the Russian Defense Ministry claims:
After the Saudi-backed jihadist group Jaish al-Islam, working in tandem with the US/UK sponsored White Helmets, claimed a Syrian Army chemical attack against civilians in Douma on April 7, the US-led coalition launched over a hundred missiles on government facilities primarily in and around Damascus. This was done even as the UN and global chemical watchdog organization, the OPCW, said there were no independent observers on the ground to confirm whether or not a chemical attack even took place, much less who was to blame.
Some among the first group of journalists to gain entry inside Douma, located just outside Damascus, such as the UK Independent’s Robert Fisk and One America News Network’s Pearson Sharp,found no evidence that a chemical attack took place in Douma, contrary to what was widely reported in international media. A formal OPCW investigation is still ongoing.
Russia further hosted a press briefing at OPCW headquarters in The Hague where witnesses came forward to say there was no chemical attack, but that respiratory problems from conventional weapons bombarding the town were made to look like chemical symptoms once Jaish al Islam and the White Helmets took over a local hospital and began filming.
The testimony was consistent with well-known Syrian opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which initially reported based on its own pro-rebel sourcing that heavy government bombardment of Douma city resulted in the collapse of homes and underground shelters, causing civilians in hiding to suffocate.
According to SOHR, which has long been a key go-to source for mainstream media over the course of the war, “70 of them [women and children] have suffered suffocation as a result of the demolition of home basements over them due to the heavy and intense shelling.”
Recently, the WashingtonPostissued a surprising admission, reluctantly declaring that that —“The writing is now indisputably on the wall: The Syrianregime is going nowhere,”according to widely circulated op-ed.
But if recent history provides a pattern for the future, once the media establishment and political leaders in the West begin acknowledging “Assad is here to stay,” this portends that a major regime change precipitating event is just around the corner.
======================================= * Het westen was tegen een onderzoek door de OPCW, terwijl Rusland juist om een echt onafhankelijk onderzoek, zoals door de OPCW had gevraagd…….
Tom Elliott
