We Bombed Syria For It

The alleged chemical weapons attack took place on April 7, 2018. Exactly one week later, the United States, France, and the UK carried out numerous bombings on multiple government sites in Syria as indication that chemical weapons attacks are unacceptable.

Bashar Al Assad

Do you know what’s at least as unacceptable as using chemical weapons on your own civilians? Bombing a country for a fabricated chemical weapons attack.

According to Wikipedia, 40 to 50 people died due to the alleged chemical weapons attack, and injuries to “possibly many more than 1 hundred.” I cannot find information regarding the casualties caused by the not-alleged but credibly-reported NATO counterstrike, as brown lives inherently matter less when they’re being taken by white people.

The Media Remains Silent

Try to find an article from CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian, Fox, or any other establishment media outlet affirming the leaks. When you find it, come back, and then tell me where you got your unicorn.

Why does this happen? Simply put, the establishment media does not work to inform the public. The establishment media works to keep the public in the dark, and prevent them from realizing the despotism they exist under.

Are there journalists reporting on this story in a legitimate way? Well, yes, but…

The Journalists Covering It Are Being Unduly Harassed

This week, I saw a petition going around Twitter to get the Useful Idiots podcast removed from Rolling Stone’s repertoire. It doesn’t have many signatures, but the sentiment is there. The document stresses the importance of Rolling Stones’ commitment to truth, but a it spends virtually no time discussing falsehoods shared on Useful Idiots. Rather, the document reads like a smear of Max Blumenthal, a guest that was featured on Useful Idiots to discuss his arrest.

Max Blumenthal, being arrested

Who’s Max Blumenthal? Well, he’s the founder and editor of the Grayzone, an alternative media outlet. He’s also someone that spent time on the ground in Syria investigating the charges of a chemical weapons attack, which he found to be bunk before the OPCW whistleblowers came out.

His arrest was “unrelated” to this; He was accused of assaulting someone at the Venezuelan embassy in the midst of the coup to oust Maduro and implement Juan Guaido, a stooge of imperialism that, while Venezuelan, received his education in the United States. The charges of assault have been dropped, but the charges of being an agent of misinformation remain.

If you want to see the extent to which journalists covering this situation are being smeared, look at the replies to their tweets. Literally any of them. Raina Khalek, Caitlin Johnstone, and Vanessa Beeley are a few. It’s horrible.