The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/29/the-western-media-is-key-to-syria-deceptions/
Date Written:  2019-05-29
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23694

An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.

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By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province -- their final holdout in Syria -- should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism....

These latest claims arrive just as we have learnt that the last supposed major chemical attack -- which took place in April 2018 and was, as ever, blamed by all western sources on Syria's president, Bashar Assad -- was very possibly staged, a false-flag operation by those very al-Qaeda groups now claiming the Syrian government has attacked them once again....

We now know both that the US attacked Syria on entirely bogus grounds, and that the OPCW -- one of the international community's most respected and authoritative bodies -- has been caught redhanded in an outrageous deception with grave geopolitical implications.