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- The CIJA Sting from the Perspective of International Justice April 1, 2021
- Can Privateers Bring Justice for War Crimes in Syria? A response to Michelle Burgis-Kasthala on CIJA (the Commission for International Justice and Accountability) March 24, 2021
- Diagnosing Disinformation: a reply to Wilson and Starbird December 2, 2020
- How We’re Misled About Syria: UK Propaganda and the BBC November 9, 2020
- Free Intelligence: notes for a manifesto July 8, 2020
- The Unfolding Revelations Concerning the OPCW – by Piers Robinson May 12, 2020
- Peer Review Vs Trial By Twitter March 8, 2020
- House of Commons Presentation: OPCW Leaks Reveal International Community Was Misled About Alleged Douma Chemical Incident in 2018 February 1, 2020
- The Douma incident of 7 April 2018: how did the intelligence services get it wrong? January 31, 2020
- Wikileaks Reveals Further Evidence of “Sexed-Up Dossier”: OPCW faces growing call for answers November 24, 2019
- OPCW Must Come Clean: Open Letter To States’ Representatives November 18, 2019
- “Major Revelation” from OPCW whistleblower: Jonathan Steele speaking to the BBC October 27, 2019
- Media Coverage of OPCW Whistleblower Revelations October 24, 2019
- “Unacceptable Practices at OPCW” – by José Bustani and international panel October 23, 2019
- Flawed OPCW Douma Report: key criticisms October 23, 2019
- OPCW: A Site of Struggle for Impartiality, Independence and International Legitimacy in War Crimes Investigations October 5, 2019
- A Syrian Student Writes… September 8, 2019
- Global Justice and Finance: an introduction to critical questions August 1, 2019
- Should Universities Care About The Truth? July 10, 2019
- Has OPCW whistleblower helped prevent war with Iran? July 8, 2019
- The need for radically reformed governance at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) June 26, 2019
- On the OPCW response to the leaked engineers’ assessment May 28, 2019
- Douma chemical deaths: research and reports May 28, 2019
- PRESS RELEASE: Leaked report says the “chemical attack” in Syria in April 2018 was staged. May 20, 2019
- “Truth Vanishes in a Cloud of Poison Gas” May 19, 2019
- Evidence that Douma ‘chemical attack’ was staged: OPCW’s unpublished engineers’ report May 13, 2019
- Trees don’t grow on money – or why you don’t get to rebel against extinction April 29, 2019
- Conspiracy Theories and Epistemic Fluency: understanding the challenge April 19, 2019
- The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): critical questions April 12, 2019
- ‘Caesar’ evidence for atrocities in Syria: what does justice require? April 4, 2019
- Where do the interests of democracy lie? Working Group responds to UK minister’s attack on critics of the “Integrity Initiative” March 19, 2019
- US Withdrawal from Syria: Postponing the Inevitable, By Peter Ford January 7, 2019
- Briefing Note on the Integrity Initiative: comments and discussion December 21, 2018
- Integrity: Grasping The Initiative December 15, 2018
- Chemical Weapons In Syria? BBC Panorama Relies On Questionable Research October 16, 2018
- Idlib: Lull before the hurricane – by Peter Ford September 17, 2018
- Statement on impending US, UK and French military intervention in Syria August 31, 2018
- Alleged Chlorine Attacks in Syria 2014-18 August 20, 2018
- Cynthia McKinney: To my new friends in the UK May 16, 2018
- Briefing Note: Update on the Salisbury poisonings May 10, 2018
- How The Media Reveal Inconvenient Truth About Syria April 23, 2018
- A Staged Chemical Attack In Douma? A note on the evidence so far April 21, 2018
- Academic Freedom And Setting An Example April 20, 2018
- Attacked By The Times April 14, 2018
- Monbiot On Syria (the shorter read) April 11, 2018
- How We Were Misled About Syria: George Monbiot of The Guardian April 11, 2018
- Chemical Attack in Douma: a false pretext for escalating war against Syria? April 8, 2018
- Update to briefing note ‘Doubts about Novichoks’ April 1, 2018
- Edinburgh Conversations With Russians March 30, 2018
- Doubts about “Novichoks” March 14, 2018
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Category Archives: Amnesty International
Deceptive Documentaries
When we watch a documentary film I imagine most of us suppose it to be portraying factual information, not fiction. That, after all, is what would differentiate a documentary from other genres like drama or entertainment. With this assumption in … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, BBC, bullshit, Channel 4, disinformation, film, journalism, media, propaganda, Syria, Uncategorized, war, White Helmets
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Rejoinder to George Monbiot on Syria
In my previous post I urged George Monbiot to check the basis of his assumptions about the narrative he accepts regarding Syria. In a tweeted response, he repeated his opinion that people like me, who question it, are denying a … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, disinformation, journalism, media, propaganda, Syria, Uncategorized, war
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George Monbiot, about Syria…
I write this open letter, George, because you have been using your public platform to defend claims about Syria that I fear may be damaging for its people. Most recently, you blogged a note about the 4th April chemical incident … Continue reading
Who to believe about Syria?
I’m no expert about Syria, so why these blogposts? The initial stimulus was realising that people of good will and similar ethics can have some markedly contrasting views of the situation in Syria. This was a puzzle to me. And given … Continue reading
Green Party On Syria
I have supported the Green Party for as long as it has existed within the UK. I think its speakers often make more sense than most other politicians. However, the statement on Syria, by co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, BBC, Channel 4, environment, environmental ethics, global justice, journalism, media, MSF, propaganda, Syria, Uncategorized, war
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A Theory of Bullshit II: Serious Stuff
Serious Bullshit, I suggested previously,[1] was exemplified in the justification offered for the US-led destruction of Iraq. The specific lie deployed initiating it – concerning alleged WMD – has long since been exposed. But a particular lie may be merely … Continue reading
NGOs Fabricating Evidence Against Syria
Last week, Amnesty International published a report that was severely criticised for literally fabricating evidence to support implausible accusations against the Syrian government.[1] The report included a project of ‘Forensic Architecture’ that served in guiding the imagination as to the … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, MSF, Syria, Uncategorized, war
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Amnesty International on Syria – at it again!
Writing recently about how we were misled by Amnesty International’s reports on Syria, I was criticised – for using the past tense. This week Amnesty International has published a ‘new’ report – Syria: The Human Slaughterhouse – that presents no … Continue reading
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How We Were Misled About Syria: Amnesty International
Most of us living outside Syria know very little of the country or its recent history. What we think we know comes via the media. Information that comes with the endorsement of an organisation like Amnesty International we may tend … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, disinformation, Syria, Uncategorized
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Amnesty International: is it true to its mission?
Amnesty International has a moral mission: ‘to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of human rights’. Could that be an impossible mission for an organisation that calls for military intervention on human rights grounds? This question … Continue reading
