Interesting how Assad apologists endlessly question mainstream media reports then, when an unnamed doctor tells Robert Fisk there was no chemical attack they accept it without question.
Lots of revolutionary talk coming out of Egypt under these two hashtags. There's a feeling that something is afoot, but nobody quite sure what.
#نازلين_بعد_الماتش
#ميدان_التحرير
شعبنا اليوم يؤكد التفافه حول قيادته السياسية المجلس الانتقالي بقيادة سيدي الرئيس عيدروس الزبيدي القائد العام للقوات الجنوبية مفوض شعب الجنوب في الرابع من مايو 2017م لقيادة الجنوب.
من كان جنوبيا ومشروعه الاستقلال فمكانه هنا، وأي جنوبي مشروعه غير ذلك فليحترم إرادة الغالبية العظمى.
THREAD (1/6): A peer-reviewed study from Harvard researchers looks at the disinformation campaign against the White Helmets organisation and the role of
@VanessaBeeley
.
"Call me old fashioned, but I’d rather Boris Johnson wasn’t prime minister when Russia invaded Ukraine. Serious times call for serious leaders and Johnson is a profoundly unserious person."
Assad defender Vanessa Beeley showed this slide during a talk at Uppsala University in Sweden, according to students who were present. Disgusting if true.
Why do people who espouse one fringe belief often end up espousing others? In this article for
@newlinesmag
I've been looking into some seemingly unlikely connections between anti-vax campaigners, 9/11 truthers and defenders of Syria's Assad regime.
More than 20 ex-Muslim organisations from around the world have joined forces to mark today (August 22) as the first annual International Apostasy Day.
#ApostasyDay
Just because false WMD claims were used to engineer war with Iraq in 2003, it doesn't logically follow that all claims relating to WMD in Syria today are false. You have to look at the evidence. Some people find this hard to grasp.
The conspiracy theorists who were spreading disinformation about Syria have now mostly turned their attention to Covid. But the disinformation techniques that they use haven't changed.
Worth watching again: a discussion between Jamal Khashoggi (six months before his murder) and Ali Shihabi of the Arabia Foundation (which closed down suddenly yesterday).
Noam Chomsky "views the Syrian struggle – as with every other struggle – solely through the frame of American imperialism. He is thus blind to the specificities of Syria’s politics, society, economy and history".
Exclusive:
@newlinesmag
’s
@michaeldweiss
obtained documents showing $1 billion in Russian loans issued to the Assad regime, which will largely benefit Gennady Timchenko and Yevgeny Prigozhin, two sanctioned oligarchs.
“For the Conservative party’s Manchester conference, the slogan was 'Get Brexit done'. Yet again, Boris Johnson swears blind he’s going to withdraw on schedule. A promise an unspecified number of single mothers have heard before.”
1) My latest article for
@newlinesmag
discusses a recent
@OPCW
report about the chemical weapons attack on Douma, near Damascus, in 2018. The report blames Syrian government forces and also resoundingly demolishes claims the attack was faked by rebels.
A British academic whose Twitter account is tagged as "Iran state-affiliated media" was the main author of a report on Islamophobia published last week with funding from the EU's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.
@ChrisDYork
Don't forget Professor Paul McKeigue who falsely claimed Syrian rebels were using gas chambers and passed information to someone who he mistakenly believed to be working for Russian intelligence.
A French-Syrian man has been detained by French police on suspicion of supplying components for the manufacture of chemical weapons in Syria through his shipping company, sources briefed on the case told AFP Sunday. via
@FRANCE24
Today is the 82nd birthday of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of Algeria since 1999, who is seeking a fifth term to take him up to 2024. Algerians are not wishing him a happy birthday.
Syrian media report that Shaam al-Assad, the president's niece, not only came first in the national equestrian championship, but in second place too. Here she is, straddling two steps on the winners' rostrum ...
An amazing presentation by Aaron Maté at the UN Security Council on the fraudulent reporting that lead to the bombing of Syria. The US and UK Ambassador got the hell out of dodge before being able to answer this question.
The BBC has obtained recordings of what are said to be phone calls made by Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali as he fled the country during the 2011 revolution.
#Tunisie
Recently-leaked documents disprove claims by a whistleblower that the OPCW doctored a draft report of its investigation into a suspected chemical attack in Syria.
re. No 2 Nato event / Sat 25 Feb
We have reviewed this booking *which was a third-party hire of our venue and not part of our programme* and informed the organisers that it will no longer be taking place at Conway Hall.
1/2
Serious question for
@aaronjmate
You talk a lot about Douma, but is it your view that NONE of the chemical attacks reported in Syria were carried out by the Syrian government?
This highly critical article about Robert Fisk, by Syrian journalist Asser Khattab, was published in Arabic after Fisk's death last year and has now been translated into English ...
Letters between Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev shed new light on how the son of a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer built such a close relationship with Britain’s prime minister.
The issue with Vanessa Beeley and the
@merthyrrising
festival is not free speech. It's about someone who defends a repressive regime (in Syria) having been invited to take part in an event that celebrates resistance to oppression.