By Fred M.
There should be an encyclopedia on the subject of how American ignorance, negligence and prejudice have been manufactured.  If there was, this low-key article could serve as an excellent introduction.
I’m with the prophet Micah…
Other keepers from the past couple of weeks.
Every allegation of Assad’s use of sarin gas has a MASS of evidence showing it was done by the head-choppers whom WE supported in their destruction of Syria.   Will all the organizations who were fooled ever admit it and apologize?
David Stockman wrestles with the ladies on Fox.   This would be funny if media-enforced-stupidity hasn’t destroyed so many countries.

This is us!   Well, maybe Applejacks or Grape Nuts instead of Fruit Loops….   (What if they gave the rodents little cups of coffee and cell phones along with their cars?)

Why did the USA support armies of genuine terrorists in Syria?  Because this gang runs US foreign policy:
If the world were fair, and if the USA honored our treaty obligations, we’d need to put OUR war-criminals on trial and then pay reparations and punative damages.
This article is worth taking the time to read:
Excerpts from above story:
OPCW story excerpt: I’ll get to the panel and its findings in a moment, but first I should provide some historical background so that readers who aren’t intimately familiar with this ongoing scandal can fully appreciate the significance of this new development.
In late March of last year, President Trump publicly stated that the US military would soon be withdrawing troops from Syria, causing some with an ear to the ground like independent US congressional candidate Steve Cox to predict that there would shortly be a false flag chemical weapons attack in that nation. This was because the public had already been shown that highly suspicious chemical attacks tended to happen when the Trump administration begins pushing for a reversal of standing US Syria policy, as I noted in April 2017 immediately following the alleged attack in Khan Shaykhun.
“I was able to predict Douma in 2018 because it happened already almost exactly 1 year prior, at Khan Shaykhun, April 4, 2017,” Cox told me on Twitter earlier today. “Khan Shaykhun also occurred within days of the Trump Admin saying we’re leaving Syria.”
And, like clockwork, on April 7 2018 dozens of civilians in Douma were killed in an incident which was quickly reported as a Syrian government chemical attack by all the usual establishment narrative managers on Syria, with everyone from the White Helmets to Charles Lister to Eliot Higgins to Julian Röpcke loudly flagging it on social media to draw the attention of mainstream news outlets who were slower to pick up the story.
Those groups, unlike the Assad government, most certainly would stand everything to gain by staging a chemical attack in the desperate hope that it would draw NATO powers into attacking the Syrian government and perhaps saving their necks.
In May of this year, a leaked internal document from the OPCW investigation was published by the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media which completely contradicts the findings of the official report published in March. The leaked Engineering Assessment said that “observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest there is a higher probability both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft,” which would implicate the forces on the ground in the incident rather than the Assad government.
The OPCW indirectly confirmed the document’s authenticity by telling the press that its release had been “unauthorised”. Climate Audit’s Stephen McIntyre published an excellent thread breaking down how the document invalidates the OPCW’s claims which you can read by clicking here. Establishment narrative managers had a very difficult time spinning the fact that the OPCW had taken it upon itself to hide findings from the public which dissented from its official report on an incident which preceded an international act of war upon a sovereign nation, and all the implications that necessarily has for the legitimacy of the organization’s other work.
Throughout this time, critical thinkers like myself have been aggressively smeared as deranged conspiracy theorists, war crimes deniers and genocide deniers for expressing skepticism of the establishment-authorized narrative on Douma. Which takes us to today.
The Courage Foundation panel who met with the OPCW whistleblower consists of former OPCW Director General José Bustani (whose highly successful peacemongering once saw the lives of his children threatened by John Bolton during the lead-up to the Iraq invasion in an attempt to remove him from his position.
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Trump says he’s pulling our troops out of Syria then, within a few days, were staying to control oil fields AND were building and supplying new bases near Qamishli. What’s going on?  I think it is another case of Israel countermanding the US President, like this case.