You remember the Douma chemical weapons attack back in 2018? Just a day before actually taking back the area the Assad government apparently used sarin and chlorine based weapons to attack a suburb it was on the verge of taking anyway, but by using chemical weapons it risked military intervention by the US/UK & France? The attack that made no strategic sense at all? And after the claimed attack the FUKUS coalition launched an attack on Syria without even waiting for OPCW inspectors to clarify the claimed attack? That one yes. OPCW went in afterwards and published a report that stated that chemical weapons - but only chlorine not sarin - was possibly used. Blame was not attributed, because that was not the mission of the OPCW. Nevertheless, the report was used to post facto legitimize the FUKUS strikes against Syria.
However, in the last few weeks different OPCW whistleblowers have leaked stuff to Wikileaks that the final report was heavily redacted in favour of suggesting a chemical weapons strike indeed took place and that the cilinders containing it were dropped from the air - heavily implicating Assad of course, because he is the only one with an air force. Apparently now up to 20 OPCW inspectors have serious qualms about the final report, which was apparently altered under covert pressure from US officials. Read all about it here:
Journalist/columnist Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, reported on it:
Fresh evidence that UN watchdog suppressed report casting doubt on Assad gas attack
hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk
Hitchens further debunking of Bellingcat's usual attempt to spin away the criticisms of the OPCW report, further revealing them to be the slimy propaganda agitprop organization (funded by Atlantic Council no less):
Bellingcat or Guard Dog for the Establishment?
hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk
Furthermore, another journalist Tareq Haddad, working for Newsweek, took leave of his position after he was blocked from reporting on the Douma/OPCW doctored report scandal by his own editors. Full scoop here:
A mafia runs editors. Freedom of the press is dead. Journalists and ordinary people must stand up.
tareqhaddad.com
This shows you how deep the rot is in our mainstream media establishment, all clamoring for war against Syria on trumped up charges. Just follow Haddad & Hitchens and others who have taken up the OPCW scandal story on twitter, and see how relentlessly they are smeared online as "Genocide deniers", "Assadists", "Russian agents", "chemical attack deniers", all for simply factually reporting what has happened. Fortunately, pro-regime change provocateur Oz Katerji has been fired from his job for smearing Peter Hitchens, but the rot is still deep in the system. Bellingcat/White helmets/Idrees Ahmad/Scott Lucas/Chris York of the Huffington Post et al, are all implicated in smear campaigns and attempts to spin the narrative away from the scandal. Their usual tactics are smearing, ad hominem attacks, fisking, deliberately misrepresenting arguments ad nauseam. This is very similar to what happened on the syria thread at mp.net, themess, and to some extent here. Any critical note towards the establishment narrative on Syria will immediately and irrevocably get you the label "Assadist" or my personal favorite, "Assadist cult member", "Truther", etc. All ad hominems and all besides the point. It is clear that it is part of a larger strategy to massively smear anyone who does not support the campaign to wage war on Syria, a war which could potentially lead to a direct confrontation with Russia and a nuclear exchange. But who cares eh?