Why the White Helmets are untouchable

Trudeau's foreign policy is really Uncle Sam's foreign policy writ small. We've known that for some time. In fact, there are exactly zero examples of the folks in Ottawa diverging from US foreign policy in the PM Fluffy era.

America's little brother is tasked with doing stuff that Trump himself is loathe to do.

Like rolling out the red carpet for those bold humanitarians, the White Helmets. As you may recall, those are the folks in Syria who worked exclusively in the areas controlled by the radical Islamist head-choppers, who provided Western media with a steady stream of evidence of Assad's war crimes.

There's a reason Western media had to rely on the White Helmets for news about Syria. Sending their own reporters into combat zones meant certain death. Not at the hand of the Assad regime, but at the hands of the "freedom fighters."

It's instructive that while Israel, Jordan, and the US declined the opportunity to give sanctuary to any of these folks, Chrystia Freeland welcomed them to Canada.

The latest controversy around the White Helmets has sprouted up around the OPCW scandal. This hails back to the alleged Douma gas attack. There were a handful of MSM journos who pegged that as bullshit from the get-go. Robert Fisk of The Independent comes to mind.

If the Douma gas attack was indeed faked, as more and more mainstream journalists are saying, we are left with an awkward question.

The White Helmets showed us video of over forty dead victims of that alleged gas attack. If the gas attack was faked, where did those dead folks come from?


There's a reason the Globe and Mail and the CBC haven't said a word about the OPCW scandal. To acknowledge that would be to acknowledge that our Foreign Minister allowed dozens, if not hundreds, of hard-core Islamic terrorists into the country.

Chrystia Freeland welcomed ISIS terrorists into Canada

When reports of the "missing" pages of the OPCW report on the Douma gas attack first began to circulate a couple of weeks ago, I didn't want to jump the gun and give them too much credence. After all, this story seemed largely confined to RT, Sputnik, and assorted non MSM sources. It increasingly seems that in this case, RT got the story right. The New York Times and the rest of the Western mainstream media got it wrong.

By now, a number of Western journalists I respect, including Robert Fisk, Jonathan Cook, and Peter Hitchens, have seemingly corroborated the RT version.

No hint yet from the Globe and Mail, the CBC, or any other Canadian media outlets that they acknowledge being conned by the White Helmets.

And it wasn't just our media outlets who were conned. Apparently our PM and our Foreign Minister were too...

Unless they were in on the scam from the beginning.


Foreign Minister Freeland gets honorary White Helmet

I'm looking forward to an explanation from our Foreign Minister.

True fakery, fake truthiness, fake news, true fake news, and fake news that might be true...

I see where the White Helmets are in the news again. Well, obliquely, anyway.

As regular readers will know, I'm more than a little skeptical of the official story. You know, those plucky volunteers who work exclusively in areas of Syria held by the "rebels," meaning ISIS/al Qaeda, and their affiliates.

Ya, I'm fully aware Assad is a bad dude and all that, but...

That plucky band of Syrian volunteers was originally organized by James Le Mesurier, a non-Syrian, non-Arab, non-Muslim white guy with deep connections to the UK military. And, for "volunteers," they've managed to hoover up an incredible amount of money from the same constellation of foreign state actors who have been behind the Syrian "civil war" from even before the get-go.

So here's the latest story.  Some version of it has been on virtually every "fake" news channel on the internet (although I believe it's absent from Glenn Greenwald's "The Intercept"). This of course is where things get dodgy. How do we know what's fake news on the internet? That original Propornot disinformation piece at the WaPo, advising us what was fake and what was not, turned out to be more fake than true itself.

Our official media, on the other hand, has not even acknowledged the existence of this story.

Anyway, this alleged report from the OPCW (the folks who are charged with investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks) was allegedly deep-sixed by the OPCW itself. If that is the case, and if that allegedly quashed report is indeed the real deal, then the entire "White Helmets are heroes" narrative goes down the shitter, as does the credibility of the OPCW itself.

That would be a huge story.

The allegedly quashed OPCW report was leaked to an outfit called the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, a bunch of mainly Brit academics who you'd think would know enough to put a comma after Propaganda. I'm not sure what their fakery rating might be, but they've done some yeoman work on the faker-than-fake Integrity Initiative (lots of initiative, a little light on integrity).

So, who/what to believe? Let me know if you figure it out.