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color: rgb(37, 133, 178); display: block; margin-right: 10px;" class=""><img border="0" alt="" src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/12152988a68a6d4dae7506812444c18f?s=50&d=monsterid&r=G" class="avatar avatar-50" height="50" width="50"></a></td><td class=""><h2 class="post-title" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 0px; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/08/journalist-newsweek-suppressed-opcw-scandal-and-threatened-me-with-legal-action/" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important;" class="">Caitlin Johnstone</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="post-content" style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">A<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/authors/tareq-haddad?page=1" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><em class="">Newsweek</em> journalist</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has resigned after the publication reportedly suppressed his story about the ever-growing OPCW scandal, the revelation of <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hugely-important-opcw-scandal-keeps-unfolding-heres-why-no-ones-talking-about-it" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">immensely significant</a> plot holes in the establishment Syria narrative that you can update yourself on by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1199860236946935808?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">watching this short seven-minute video</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/70OQBZcEnTA" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">this more detailed video here</a>.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">"Yesterday I resigned from Newsweek after my attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about the leaked OPCW letter were refused for no valid reason," journalist Tareq Haddad reported today<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Tareq_Haddad/status/1203274308811993088?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">via Twitter</a>.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">"I have collected evidence of how they suppressed the story in addition to evidence from another case where info inconvenient to US government was removed, though it was factually correct," Haddad said. "I plan on publishing these details in full shortly. However, after asking my editors for comment, as is journalistic practice, I received an email reminding me of confidentiality clauses in my contract. I.e. I was threatened with legal action."</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="420" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Yesterday I resigned from Newsweek after my attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about the leaked OPCW letter were refused for no valid reason.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Tareq Haddad (@Tareq_Haddad)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Tareq_Haddad/status/1203274308811993088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">December 7, 2019</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Haddad<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Tareq_Haddad/status/1203278342688038912?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">added</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that he is now seeking legal advice and looking into the possibility of whistleblower protections for himself, and said at the very least he will publish the information he has while omitting anything that could subject him to legal retaliation from his former employer.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">"I could have kept silent and kept my job, but I would not have been able to continue with a clean conscience," Haddad<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Tareq_Haddad/status/1203296443378929664?s=20" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">said</a>. "I will have some instability now but the truth is more important."</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">This is the first direct insider report we're getting on the mass media's conspiracy of silence on the OPCW scandal that I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fake-news-omission-mass-medias-cowardly-distortion-tool" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">wrote about just the other day</a>. In how many other newsrooms is this exact same sort of suppression happening, including threats of legal action, to journalists who<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">don't</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have the courage or ability to leave and speak out? There is no logical reason to assume that Haddad is the only one encountering such roadblocks from mass media editors; he's just the only one going public about it.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><em class="">Newsweek</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has long been a reliable guard dog and attack dog for the US-centralized empire, with examples of stories that its editors<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">did</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>permit to go to print including <a href="http://archive.is/ym3mU" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">an article</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/newsweek-employed-spy-explains-to-us-why-assange-should-be-prosecuted-4cb319533633" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">actual, current military intelligence officer</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>explaining why US prosecution of Julian Assange is a good thing, fawning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://newsweekme.com/white-helmets/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">puff pieces on the White Helmets</a>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/why-do-steve-bannon-and-david-duke-democrat-tulsi-gabbard-so-much-stephen-1359488" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">despicable smear jobs on Tulsi Gabbard</a>. The outlet will occasionally print oppositional-looking articles like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/now-mattis-admits-there-was-no-evidence-assad-using-poison-gas-his-people-801542" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">this one by Ian Wilkie questioning the establishment Syria narrative</a>, but not without immediately turning around and publishing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/what-truth-about-chemical-attacks-syrian-civilians-805264" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">an attack on Wilkie's piece</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by Eliot Higgins, a former<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222070801/http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/eliot-higgins" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Atlantic Council Senior Fellow</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who is the cofounder of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/27/narrative-managers-faceplant-in-opcw-scandal-spin-job/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">NED-funded imperial narrative management firm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bellingcat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Newsweek</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>also recently<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-claims-theres-no-evidence-assad-was-behind-deadly-chemical-attack-syria-that-it-1474278" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">published an article</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>attacking Tucker Carlson for publicizing the OPCW scandal, basing its criticisms on a bogus Bellingcat article I <a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/narrative-managers-faceplant-in-hilarious-opcw-scandal-spin-job-6710730cda01?postPublishedType=repub" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">debunked shortly after its publication</a>.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="420" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Mainstream media doesn’t think the leaks are newsworthy indicating that the US, France and UK bombed Syria last year in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack which according to the official scientists who invested it maybe never occurred.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/CRnL9Ejatw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/CRnL9Ejatw</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1202970291217014792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">December 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The ubiquitous propagandistic tactic of fake news by omission distorts the public's worldview just as much as it would if mass media outlets were publishing bogus stories whole cloth every day, only if they were doing that it would be much easier to pin them down on their lies, hold them accountable, and discredit them.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">A<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://fair.org/home/with-people-in-the-streets-worldwide-media-focus-uniquely-on-hong-kong/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">recent FAIR article</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by Alan MacLeod documents how the Hong Kong demonstrations are pushed front and center in mainstream consciousness despite the fact that to this day not one protester has been killed by security forces, while far more deadly violence is being directed at huge protests in empire-aligned nations like Haiti, Chile and Ecuador which have been almost completely ignored by these same outlets. This deliberate omission causes a distorted worldview in casual and mainstream news media consumers in which protests are only happening in nations that are outside the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-foreign-policy-is-a-war-on-disobedience-ae4e7e75ce02" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">US-centralized power alliance</a>. We see the same kind of deliberate distortion-by-omission with the way mass media continually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pushes</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1202824504982028289" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">narrative</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that Donald Trump is "soft on Russia", while remaining completely silent on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/19/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">overwhelming mountain of evidence to the contrary</a>.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The time is now for everyone with a platform to start banging the drum about the OPCW scandal, because we're seeing more and more signs that the deluge of leaks hemorrhaging from that organisation is only going to increase. 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