In the long-running nightmare of the Syrian civil war, the attack at Douma was a déjà vu atrocity with big consequences in Washington. On April 7, 2018, a working class neighborhood in greater Damascus suffered a chemical attack that killed at least 43 people. Six days later, President Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on...
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Why Insiders Suspected a False Flag Operation in the Middle East
In POLITICO Magazine, two top former U.S. counterterrorism officials make a revealing confession about last month’s attacks on two tanker ships off the coast of Iran. Dan Benjamin and Steve Simon, senior policymakers for President Obama, can’t be mistaken for conspiracy theorists. Yet they wondered who was behind the attacks, which generated indelible images of...
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Navy Releases Video of Alleged Iranian Attack, Proving Nothing
As the Trump administration blamed Iran for two attacks on Persian Gulf oil tankers and Iran blamed a U.S. “false flag” operation, the U.S. Navy released this video that shows an alleged Iranian ship, allegedly removing an unexploded mine from the side of a tanker. The claims for the video are unverified. Given the Trump...
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False Flag Watch: Leaked OPCW Memo Questions Syria Chemical Attack
A leaked memo about a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria in April 2018 differs from the official finding of the UN chemical inspections watchdog that the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible. The sixteen-page document does not refute the official UN finding, published in March, that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe, that the...
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Why the Weaponization of #FalseFlag Conspiracy Theories Works
The spread of “false flag” conspiracy theories exemplifies how the mindset of secret intelligence agencies has spread to American political life. False flag operations–in which a heinous act is falsely blamed on an enemy–are a form of psychological warfare. And in the United States, the most sophisticated and potent psychological warfare operations have been developed...