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Seems that we have learned nothing from the War On Iraq, or rather, we have not wanted to learn anything from that particular fiasco.

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Once again we see that international specialist, peaceful institutions have been hijacked and diverted by the warmongers.

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Masterful research, Aaron!

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"The IIT states that the sample was “collected by a third party” on April 8th 2018, days before the OPCW inspectors even arrived in Syria."

Where would be be without valued third party contractors.. after all it was Crowdstrike that gave us the Russian hacking evidence.. cost plus cowboys even more valuable than lobbyists!

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Please share and talk about this issue. False flags are right out of the US interventionism playbook. Proof that the US MIC will stop at nothing and hold nothing sacred to get what they want.

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Masterful research, Aaron!

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I prefer to remain brainwashed because it is a condition which been programmed into my subconscious by my western country’s government and it’s complicit imperialism adjacent corporate media allies, ranging from an entire lifetime of Saturday morning cartoons to public school curriculum to the evening “news”over the span of an entire lifetime that I have inexplicably become to be most comfortable with, despite the ongoing daily struggle with the predicable discomfort brought about by cognitive dissonance resulting from the distinct contrast between ludicrously distorted,

official narratives and the attendant, abundantly obvious realities to the contrary.

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Great coverage of the Douma incident by Aaron as always. Well done.

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Truly mind-blowing.

The west have destroyed itself all the trust we could have on our values. There are no more values. They have all been tainted with so many lies.

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The hawks get what they want via Deep State (Intelligence, Military, false NGO, etc) regardless of what foreign policy may be stated. It doesn't seem to matter which party is in office. It's above and beyond politics until someone takes serious measures against it. Sadly, it may take a World War to come to that stage. Which, from all appearances, is the goal of the hawks to begin with. Catch-22.

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brilliant reporting, thank you, aaron.

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OPCW, IMF, World Bank, UN, OAS, EU, NATO -- all answer to the once-mighty USA and in doing so have smeared crap all over themselves. When i hear one of these organizations trumpeting "findings" that support whatever crime the US is committing that day, I just tune them out. They have nothing to say to educate me except on the tragedy of careerism.

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Aaron. I know that you and Peter Hitchens and Fisk have worked on getting this story ou. If I recall, it was Hitchens who, narrated by Hitchens in an article I cannot locate at the moment, leaked this, in the mode: he was led through a nocturnal invitation the the OPCW-leaker to obtain the revealing documents. I only have this link that appears to point toward this. It is here. It have taken my memory of his article at its memory’s word.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/in-praise-of-telling-the-truth

I am not seeking attention. I only want to say that – of all things – these matters can be expressed in poetry, as I did some days-weeks ago. For you poetic journalism as (not novel, as in the triarchy of Mailer-Capote-Vidal, plus Dreiser), I allow for that bit of stuff here: Enjoy, and don’t diss me, I’m expressing that poetry, like literary journalism, can work its gnawing at geopolitical matters as well. Didn’t Pushkin and Heine (trying to mediate the Franco-German tug of war, by simply and with great candid simplicity, as “Rhineland’s true son”) do this? I know Heine did.

From the poem:

“Arabia

Then from Schiphol to Warsaw

and from there to Gdansk then deep”

“. . . Both as a study and a sticker-studier as Lytton, Peter the misunderstood hated soul-brother

With his Union Card never yet inactive:

An alternative view, uncovering still in his later

Years – he was the only man the OPCW whistle-

Blower trusted to meet in the dark night in a

Dark building navigated blind-walk-into

To leak the OPCW coverups for the Douma

Red-flag shell plants not coming by any possibility

From the air: a surplus red option and pretext to Bomb Syria and black-mark the Russians..”

https://open.substack.com/pub/cordua/p/arabia-then-from-schiphol-to-warsaw?r=1otqak&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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At the embedded Twitter link to the revelation about the obviously faked Douma hospital scene , a random Twit argued that that any criticism of the purported AQ links to the white Helmets is tantamount to smearing “someone with an academy award”

Lima Oscar Lima …you mean like the smearing of the confirmed pedophile, sexual predator Woody Allen, winner of 4 Academy Awards, 10 BAFTAs and two Golden Globes?

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Agree, Aaron gets it. I trust the Russians on this. Surprised the US didn’t blame Pres. Assad personally. White Helmets or the “Syrian Observatory”--one guy in London.

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Magic bullets. Magic marker. Blame *Syria*?

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