Pushback with Aaron Maté Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone takes apart the OPCW's excuses for refusing to address the organization's Syria cover-up scandal. OPCW inspectors found no evidence to support allegations of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma in April 2018. But their findings were suppressed, and the team was sidelined. The OPCW leadership now claims that "most of the analytical work took place" in the "last six months" of the Douma investigation, when the original team was out of the picture. Comparing the OPCW's own published reports, Maté shows why that is demonstrably false. The bulk of the work was in fact carried out by the original team in the first weeks of the probe, and the “analytical work” conducted after their censorship is minor in scale and riddled with deceptions and unsupported conclusions. Maté also addresses a new claim by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias that "I don't know why" the OPCW's final Douma report "was contested." This is another demonstrably false claim, as Arias' own prior statements show. Maté also asks the US and UK ambassadors if they will support a new proposal from distinguished signatories -- including five former OPCW officials — to let the OPCW's own Scientific Advisory Board assess the claims of the dissenting inspectors. The US and UK Ambassadors left the meeting -- it is unclear when -- and so did not respond. Video: Aaron Maté's presentation to an Arria-Formula Meeting of the United Nations Security Council, April 16 2021. Link: Berlin Group21 proposal to OPCW: https://www.berlingroup21.org/background The Grayzone's coverage of the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal: https://thegrayzone.com/category/opcw-douma/ ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone #TheGrayzone ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge4W9e6YeXQ

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed reveal the shameless corruption of the McCain Institute, which carries on the legacy of the late neocon senator by raking in funding from arms makers to push endless war in Ukraine and conflict with China. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone #TheGrayzone ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vknLi9RQdU4

Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone discuss the US abstaining on a ceasefire vote at the UN after sabotaging several previous attempts by the security council to end the slaughter in Gaza. How much did the US dilute the resolution, and does its insistence on its non-binding nature mean the end of the post-WWII international legal order? ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone #TheGrayzone ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvuTyGROBZQ

Pushback with Aaron Maté Comedian Lee Camp joins Pushback to discuss US elite panic over Bernie Sanders; corporate media censorship of dissenting voices; how the Russiagate era has hurt mainstream political comedy; and the urgency of defending Julian Assange from US government persecution. Guest: Lee Camp, comedian, host of the RT comedy news show Redacted Tonight, and author of the new book "Bullet Points & Punch Lines." https://leecamp.com/ Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSaEc58uUc