{"id":197187,"date":"2019-10-31T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197187"},"modified":"2019-11-02T06:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:59:23","slug":"the-usas-history-of-controlling-the-opcw-to-promote-regime-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197187","title":{"rendered":"The USA\u2019s History Of Controlling The OPCW To Promote Regime Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com Oct 29, 2019<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Y<\/strong>ou wouldn\u2019t know it from today\u2019s news headlines, but there\u2019s a major scandal unfolding with potentially far-reaching consequences for the entire international community. The\u00a0political\/media class has been dead silent about the fact that there are now two<\/em> whistleblowers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> whose revelations have cast serious doubts on a chemical weapons watchdog group that is widely regarded as authoritative, despite the fact that this same political\/media class has been crowing all month<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about how important whistleblowers are and how they need to be protected ever since a\u00a0CIA spook<\/strong><\/span><\/a> exposed some dirt on the Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the\u00a0Courage Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published the findings of an interdisciplinary panel which received an extensive presentation from a whistleblower from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigation of an alleged 2018 chlorine gas attack in Douma, Syria, it was left unclear (perhaps intentionally) whether this was the same whistleblower who leaked a dissenting Engineering Assessment<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the\u00a0Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media this past May or a different one. Subsequent comments from British journalist Jonathan Steele<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>assert that there are indeed two separate whistleblowers from within the OPCW\u2019s Douma investigation, both of whom claim that their investigative findings differed widely from the final OPCW Douma report<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>and were suppressed from the public by the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

The official final report aligned with the mainstream narrative promulgated by America\u2019s political\/media class that the Syrian government killed dozens of civilians in Douma using cylinders of chlorine gas dropped from the air, while the two whistleblowers found that this is unlikely to have been the case. The official report did not explicitly assign blame to Assad, but it said its findings were in alignment with a chlorine gas attack and included a ballistics report which strongly implied an air strike (opposition fighters in Syria have no air force). The whistleblowers dispute both of these conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The drip-drip of revelations continues. Now a *second* whistleblower has come forward to say the OPCW concealed their findings clearing the Assad government of responsibility for an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma last year https:\/\/t.co\/HqnlvFYdBh<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) October 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n