SYRIA: SWEDHR Denounce OPCW Report as ‘Warmongering’ Based Upon Flawed Investigation
Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli
The Indicter
Bellingcat
Facing Backlash, YouTube Reverses Censorship Of Syrian War Videos
YouTube has apologized after “mistakenly” removing videos portraying war crimes and other facets of the Syrian civil war by activists and opposition groups.
Last week, a number of organizations – including Middle East Eye, open source investigations site Bellingcat, and monitoring group Airwars – said that a number of their videos had been removed by YouTube for violating the platform’s “community guidelines.”
YouTube Under Fire After Mass Deleting Videos Deemed ‘Extremist Material’
The removals began days after Google, which owns YouTube, trumpeted the arrival of an artificial intelligence program that it said could spot and flag “extremist” videos without human involvement.
YouTube is facing criticism after a new artificial intelligence program monitoring “extremist” content began flagging and removing masses of videos and blocking channels that document war crimes in the Middle East.
Pursuing Hard Truths in Syria
A U.N. agency says it found sarin in victims of an April 4 attack in Syria, but lack of a plausible weapon and unreliability of pro-rebel witnesses make the pursuit of truth difficult, says WMD expert Scott Ritter at The…Read more →
SYRIA: Sarin Attack Narrative Destroyed by MIT National Security Expert
US Air Force personnel testing chemical weapons (Photo: Robin Cresswell. Source: Wikicommons)
NYT’s New Syria-Sarin Report Challenged
Special Report: An MIT national security scientist says the New York Times pushed a “fraudulent” analysis of last April’s “sarin” incident in Syria, part of a troubling pattern of “groupthink” and “confirmation bias,” writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry For…Read more →
NYT Cheers the Rise of Censorship Algorithms
Exclusive: The New York Times is cheering on the Orwellian future for Western “democracy” in which algorithms quickly hunt down and eliminate information that the Times and other mainstream outlets don’t like, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Just days…Read more →
Investigators Claim U.S. Failed To Prevent Civilian Casualties In Airstrike On Syrian Mosque
Volunteers dig through the rubble of a mosque following a reported airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jineh in Aleppo province late on March 16, 2017.
DAMASCUS – On March 16, U.S. military aircraft bombed a location southwest of al-Jinah, a small village in Syria’s city of Aleppo. The U.S. military has maintained that it was targeting a meeting of al-Qaeda members in a partially-built community hall.
Postol : “Bellingcat a refusé de publier toute information en contradiction avec sa version des faits.”
Nous vous proposons aujourd’hui en exclusivité une interview du mois dernier de Theodore A. Postol, Professeur émérite en science, technologie et en politique de sécurité nationale et ancien conseiller scientifique auprès du chef des opérations navales de l’armée américaine. Il donne sa vision sur l’attaque de 2013, sur BellingCat (avec qui il a un peu travaillé), sur le journalisme et le risque nucléaire militaire. Il parle ici sans langue de bois ; ses propos – que nous ne partageons pas forcement toujours entièrement – n’engagent évidemment que lui.
[Bellingcat 5] Eliot Higgins : Le Chevalier blanc … de Google, par Edouard Vuiart
OB : quand Google, BellingCat et des étudiants vont “dire le vrai” et surveiller nos élections…
Mais bon, l’avenir est à la collaboration qu’ils disent…
Dossier Eliot Higgins / Bellingcat par Édouard Vuiart