{"id":49976,"date":"2019-12-06T07:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49976"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:33:58","slug":"fake-news-by-omission%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8athe-mass-medias-cowardly-distortion-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49976","title":{"rendered":"Fake News By Omission\u200a: \u200aThe Mass Media\u2019s Cowardly Distortion Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/12\/06\/fake-news-by-omission%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Athe-mass-medias-cowardly-distortion-tool\/\">Fake News By Omission\u200a: \u200aThe Mass Media\u2019s Cowardly Distortion Tool<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/medium-2.jpg?fit=800%2C599&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western mass media have continued their conspiracy of silence on the OPCW scandal, making no significant mention yet this month of the leaks which have been emerging from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons indicating that the US, France and UK bombed Syria last year in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack which probably never occurred, and that OPCW leadership helped cover it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you haven\u2019t been following the still-unfolding OPCW scandal, you can catch up quickly by watching\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\/status\/1199860236946935808?s=20\">this seven-minute video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1196816317615091713\/4rqnp1Do_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\/status\/1199860236946935808\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A leaked email accuses the OPCW of doctoring a report to suit the US government\u2019s justification for its illegal bombing of Syria in April 2018. I explain the scandal mainstream media is trying to supress: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass media\u2019s silence on this hugely important story&nbsp;is noteworthy not just because it has far-reaching consequences for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2019\/11\/opcw-manufactured-a-pretext-for-war-by-suppressing-its-own-scientists-research.html#more\">future of the Syrian regime change agenda<\/a>&nbsp;and for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hugely-important-opcw-scandal-keeps-unfolding-heres-why-no-ones-talking-about-it\">public trust in US-led war narratives<\/a>, not just because the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/05\/17\/confirmed-chemical-weapons-assessment-contradicting-official-syria-narrative-is-authentic\/\">leaks<\/a>&nbsp;have already been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1198979417613070337\">independently authenticated<\/a>&nbsp;by the mainstream press, and not just because scandalous revelations about powerful entities are normally the sort of incendiary click fodder that makes a mainstream news editor hasten behind his desk to hide his arousal. It is also noteworthy because we\u2019re being told by people in the know that even more leaks are coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMuch more to come about the censoring of the facts on Douma at the Poison Gas Watchdog OPCW,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarkeMicah\/status\/1202579719989927937\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;journalist Peter Hitchens earlier today. \u201cIt really is time that the Grand Unpopular Press and the BBC, realised this is a major story. Are they too proud to admit they might have been wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News By Omission\u200a: \u200aThe Mass Media\u2019s Cowardly Distortion Tool Western mass media have continued their conspiracy of silence on the OPCW scandal, making no significant mention yet this month of the leaks which have been emerging from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons indicating that the US, France and UK bombed Syria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,2928,2779,19939,19511,28606],"class_list":["post-49976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-fake-news","tag-omission","tag-opcw","tag-the-organisation-for-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49977,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49976\/revisions\/49977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}