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Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Facing new outcry over the Syria cover-up scandal, OPCW chief Fernando Arias has been caught lying, while the US-UK-France are desperately trying to change the subject. Aaron Maté recaps recent meetings at the European Parliament and United Nations where the growing Douma controversy was center stage. The US-UK-France bombed Syria in April 2018 after accusing it of a chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma. Leaks later revealed that OPCW inspectors found no evidence of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack. But their findings were suppressed, their original report was censored, and the team was sidelined. Rather than having their concerns addressed, the inspectors have since faced a concerted smear campaign. On April 15, OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias faced questions about the Douma cover-up from Mick Wallace and Clare Daley of the European Parliament. Both Wallace and Daley asked Arias why he has refused to address the Douma cover-up and meet with the dissenting inspectors. The meeting chair, former French cabinet minister Nathalie Loiseau, tried to cut-off the questions and even apologized to Arias for them being posed. Arias then made a series of excuses and even false claims. The following day, the Douma scandal was discussed at an Arria Formula Meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The ambassadors of the nations that bombed Syria in April 2018 -- the US, UK, and France -- tried to dismiss the Douma cover-up scandal as Russian propaganda and refused to offer any substantive comments on the issue. The invited briefers at the meeting included Hans von Sponeck and Lawrence Wilkerson, two veteran diplomats who have signed a Statement of Concern about the Douma scandal, alongside other notable voices including five former OPCW officials. In his comments, von Sponeck revealed that Arias, the OPCW chief, refused to read the statement and returned it to sender. Audio: Aaron Maté recaps the European Parliament meeting on April 15 and UN Security Council Arria Formula meeting on April 16. Featuring: Mick Wallace and Clare Daley, Members of the European Parliament; Fernando Arias, OPCW Director-General; Hans von Sponeck, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq; Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary State Colin Powell; Richard Mills, Deputy US Ambassador to the UN; Nicolas de Reviere, France’s Ambassador to the UN; Jonathan Allen, UK Ambassador to the UN; Jose Bustani, former OPCW Director-General; and Aaron Maté of The Grayzone. Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

In a Grayzone exclusive, José Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, speaks out in support of two veteran OPCW inspectors who challenged a US-backed cover-up of their investigation in Syria. Bustani also reacts to the recent US-UK-France-led effort to prevent his testimony at the UN Security Council about the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal. And Bustani reveals new details of how he was targeted in the lead-up to the Iraq war, when the Bush administration engineered his ouster for impeding its plans to invade. Bustani discloses for the first time that his office was bugged – and that the OPCW's then-head of security, a U.S. citizen, vanished right after this was discovered. It's a case of history repeating itself, with the world's top superpower once again trying to silence a veteran diplomat from the Global South, whose courage and principle challenges a pro-war deception. Guest: José Bustani, veteran Brazilian diplomat and the first Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Ian Henderson, a veteran OPCW inspector who challenged a cover-up of his organization's investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, recently testified before the United Nations Security Council. At the meeting, Henderson was both attacked and ignored by U.S., UK, and French diplomats whose governments bombed Syria over allegations that Henderson's censored investigation undermined. At another UNSC gathering one week later, the U.S. and its allies continued their censorship campaign by voting to block the testimony of the OPCW's former chief, José Bustani, who had come to speak out in support of the whistleblowers. Pushback host Aaron Maté recaps the extraordinary events with excerpts of Henderson and Bustani's comments, as well as those of the Western ambassadors who tried to silence them. Read/watch José Bustani's full statement for the UN Security Council: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/05/ex-opcw-chief-jose-bustani-reads-syria-testimony-that-us-uk-blocked-at-un/ Aaron Maté's UNSC remarks: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/29/grayzones-aaron-mate-testifies-at-un-on-opcw-syria-cover-up/

Host: Chaoting Cheng, founder, DCF Institute, now living in Berlin, Germany Guests: Bradley Lowen, Research Coordinator at the University of Louisville in the USA Sijia Dai, Master student at London School of Economics, who is now living in London, UK Jian Sun, PhD student in Paris, France Rex Wang, PhD student at National University of Public Service of Hungary, who is now living in Budapest, Hungary

Three capitals, three countries, three tales of Jews maligned. At the same time. Mania for 'anti-anti-semitism' hit all-time highs in the US recently thanks to uproar over comments made by freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggesting that pro-Israel lobby groups exert undue influence on American politics. Whether contrived or spontaneous, public debate led to a concerted effort - for now canned - to legally conflate anti-semitism with criticism of Israel. It's remarkable enough that...

Three capitals, three countries, three tales of Jews maligned. At the same time. Mania for 'anti-anti-semitism' hit all-time highs in the US recently thanks to uproar over comments made by freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggesting that pro-Israel lobby groups exert undue influence on American politics. Whether contrived or spontaneous, public debate led to a concerted effort - for now canned - to legally conflate anti-semitism with criticism of Israel. It's remarkable enough that...

Three capitals, three countries, three tales of Jews maligned. At the same time. Mania for 'anti-anti-semitism' hit all-time highs in the US recently thanks to uproar over comments made by freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggesting that pro-Israel lobby groups exert undue influence on American politics. Whether contrived or spontaneous, public debate led to a concerted effort - for now canned - to legally conflate anti-semitism with criticism of Israel. It's remarkable enough that...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/saudi-arabian-energy-minister-al-falih-set-to-cancel-davos-tripIs Davos Dead?Saudis and Russians won’t be able to sit down and have a formal face to face meeting. Should we read trouble into the Russia-Saudi relationship or is this a reflection of the US-UK-France pull outs from the conference.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-oil-japan/japanese-refiners-load-first-iran-oil-cargo-since-us-sanctions-idUSKCN1PF0EHhttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-oil-sales/update-1-iran-fails-to-find-any-buyers-for-crude-offered-on-exchange-idUSL8N1ZL50FJapan may not import anymore oil from Iran because the Japanese government backed tanker insurance expires in March.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/elon-musk-tesla-email-to-employees-about-job-cuts.htmlHonest Elon - 4% profit in Q3 2018, first meaningful profit in 15 years. But going to cut 7% people and only retain most critical temps and contractors.Podcast on IMO 2020 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/opis-crash-course/id1385636661?mt=2&i=1000425087909API December Monthly Statistical Report - Interview with API Chief Economic Dr. Dean Foremanhttps://www.api.org/products-and-services/statistics/apis-economic-industry-outlook- 6 records set in December! But some questions - price changes and economic issues are coming through.- How do we reconcile serious highs and serious lows in different aspects of the energy market? Heating fuel and foil oil are highly seasonal. Gasoline, jet fuel, diesel is a pulse of how confident people are to travel, spend. Also tells us about the global economy.- Still a strong story for energy and for the US to grow its economy in some areas.- Refinery capacity utilization at 95% in December - is this just a reflection of crude oil availability and gasoline demand or has America's refining situation improved since 2015? Or are refineries running themselves to the brink? Should we prepare for a significant maintenance season that could impact crude oil draws and stocks? - Companies have been investing in refineries. They are responding to demand for product and investments have enabled production at record levels.- Distillate Economic and Financial Indicator (DEFI) - New feature in 2019. How can our listeners use this data? Highly predictive of industrial output. This should outperform other indicators of where industrial output should go. It’s not predictive of oil prices.- Mexico - What effect is their fuel crisis having on our gasoline numbers for December, and how do you see this changing in January? Short term impact from Mexico. Desire on behalf of Mexico to build refineries will take billions and billions of dollars and time to execute. - Everyone's talking about an economic slowdown in China, yet some oil executives are saying that they don't foresee this impacting oil demand. What does this possible industrial slowdown in China mean for U.S. oil exports and oil prices? China is the indicator for all of emerging Asia. But remember that China doesn’t use the same measurements at the rest of the developed world. They look at an industrial production base methodology. Basically excessive smoothly. Highs aren’t as high, lows aren’t low. Demand grows as half the rate of the global economy. So this isn’t a tectonic change but small changes in demand have a big effect.- No detailed trade data from after October right now because of the government shut down. China is getting the crude oil it needs by going to Iran and others. Could effect the natural gas or LNG.- Inventories are near the top of the 5 year average - this is exactly the metric OPEC has been targeting. OPEC wants to see global inventories below the 5 year average, but meanwhile US inventories are back up there. Is OPEC a failure and this whole oil production cut a failed experiment. - This deal is the pivotal thing, especially with Russian participation, which hasn’t really been evident yet in the data. U.S. rigs declined but DUCs are even higher. US can still bring a lot of supply this year.- Has FED’s commentary and interest rates impact oil markets?- Optimism on trade deal plus FED’s softening on raising interest rates means people are optimistic but what really matters is if it follows through, especially when it comes to corporate profit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/saudi-arabian-energy-minister-al-falih-set-to-cancel-davos-tripIs Davos Dead?Saudis and Russians won’t be able to sit down and have a formal face to face meeting. Should we read trouble into the Russia-Saudi relationship or is this a reflection of the US-UK-France pull outs from the conference.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-oil-japan/japanese-refiners-load-first-iran-oil-cargo-since-us-sanctions-idUSKCN1PF0EHhttps://www.reuters.com/article/iran-oil-sales/update-1-iran-fails-to-find-any-buyers-for-crude-offered-on-exchange-idUSL8N1ZL50FJapan may not import anymore oil from Iran because the Japanese government backed tanker insurance expires in March.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/elon-musk-tesla-email-to-employees-about-job-cuts.htmlHonest Elon - 4% profit in Q3 2018, first meaningful profit in 15 years. But going to cut 7% people and only retain most critical temps and contractors.Podcast on IMO 2020 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/opis-crash-course/id1385636661?mt=2&i=1000425087909API December Monthly Statistical Report - Interview with API Chief Economic Dr. Dean Foremanhttps://www.api.org/products-and-services/statistics/apis-economic-industry-outlook- 6 records set in December! But some questions - price changes and economic issues are coming through.- How do we reconcile serious highs and serious lows in different aspects of the energy market? Heating fuel and foil oil are highly seasonal. Gasoline, jet fuel, diesel is a pulse of how confident people are to travel, spend. Also tells us about the global economy.- Still a strong story for energy and for the US to grow its economy in some areas.- Refinery capacity utilization at 95% in December - is this just a reflection of crude oil availability and gasoline demand or has America's refining situation improved since 2015? Or are refineries running themselves to the brink? Should we prepare for a significant maintenance season that could impact crude oil draws and stocks? - Companies have been investing in refineries. They are responding to demand for product and investments have enabled production at record levels.- Distillate Economic and Financial Indicator (DEFI) - New feature in 2019. How can our listeners use this data? Highly predictive of industrial output. This should outperform other indicators of where industrial output should go. It’s not predictive of oil prices.- Mexico - What effect is their fuel crisis having on our gasoline numbers for December, and how do you see this changing in January? Short term impact from Mexico. Desire on behalf of Mexico to build refineries will take billions and billions of dollars and time to execute. - Everyone's talking about an economic slowdown in China, yet some oil executives are saying that they don't foresee this impacting oil demand. What does this possible industrial slowdown in China mean for U.S. oil exports and oil prices? China is the indicator for all of emerging Asia. But remember that China doesn’t use the same measurements at the rest of the developed world. They look at an industrial production base methodology. Basically excessive smoothly. Highs aren’t as high, lows aren’t low. Demand grows as half the rate of the global economy. So this isn’t a tectonic change but small changes in demand have a big effect.- No detailed trade data from after October right now because of the government shut down. China is getting the crude oil it needs by going to Iran and others. Could effect the natural gas or LNG.- Inventories are near the top of the 5 year average - this is exactly the metric OPEC has been targeting. OPEC wants to see global inventories below the 5 year average, but meanwhile US inventories are back up there. Is OPEC a failure and this whole oil production cut a failed experiment. - This deal is the pivotal thing, especially with Russian participation, which hasn’t really been evident yet in the data. U.S. rigs declined but DUCs are even higher. US can still bring a lot of supply this year.- Has FED’s commentary and interest rates impact oil markets?- Optimism on trade deal plus FED’s softening on raising interest rates means people are optimistic but what really matters is if it follows through, especially when it comes to corporate profit.

The Church Politics Podcast is hosted by former Obama White House staffer Michael Wear and AND Campaign co-founder Justin Giboney. These two seasoned politicos will analyze political events and policy based on their Christian values and their experience in the civic arena. The podcast will provide guidance to Christians seeking to transcend partisanship and political ideology and find discipleship in the public square. It will also include interviews with a diverse group of public figures, music and more. On this episode, Justin and Michael discuss current events, including the FBI raid of Michael Cohen's home, office and hotel room; Paul Ryan's decision to retire; and the US/UK/France military strike on Syrian chemical weapons facilities. Justin also shares about his time at the MLK50 conference.

The Church Politics Podcast is hosted by former Obama White House staffer Michael Wear and AND Campaign co-founder Justin Giboney. These two seasoned politicos will analyze political events and policy based on their Christian values and their experience in the civic arena. The podcast will provide guidance to Christians seeking to transcend partisanship and political ideology and find discipleship in the public square. It will also include interviews with a diverse group of public figures, music and more. On this episode, Justin and Michael discuss current events, including the FBI raid of Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room; Paul Ryan’s decision to retire; and the US/UK/France military strike on Syrian chemical weapons facilities. Justin also shares about his time at the MLK50 conference.

On this week's episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast. sponsored by Bell, we discuss the joint US-UK-France strikes in Syria aimed at destroying the government's chemical weapons stores and capabilities, US-Russia sanctions, House Speaker Paul Ryan's decision not to seek re-election and more. This week's guests include Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Christopher P. Cavas, naval analyst and commentator with Round Tower Productions, Ron Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale (who now advises Booz Allen Hamilton -- his comments are his own) and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

In our 212th episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Brian Egan, Maury Shenk, Peter Jeydel, David Kris, and Nate Jones discuss: The US-UK-France air strikes on Syria, and rumors of “cyber-retaliation against the UK”; The Michael Cohen raid has added new vocabulary to the national lexicon that has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels: the “taint team.” What is a taint team, and how will it work here?; This FBI raid is a big deal; The trouble with taint teams – can the government be an honest broker?; Developments in the Schrems litigation in Europe;On the China front, the Administration continues to churn on additional restrictions on Chinese investments; The encryption wars continue in the US; The lower courts continue to wrestle with a number of knotty issues related to encryption.

In this podcast I question the legitimacy the UK government's decision to join with France and the USA in attacking Syria with missiles without Parliamentary debate and without clear evidence of the presence of the chemical warefare agents that were the alleged target. I draw attention to the fact that the UK state is complicit in supplying arms to dictators, which though 'legal', cause horrible human suffering just as efficiently as chemical warefare agents. [Free. 38 minutes.]

Airstrike carried out by US, UK, and France ordered in reprisal for chemical weapons violation per international law. Russia warned in advance moments before.

This week on Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan try to do an all lightning round show, but fail spectacularly. Their first segment is... movies!! Both Sam and Ivan talk about their thoughts on some movies they have seen recently. Then they do a segment on the Cohen raid and all the implications that arise from that. Then a mini-segment on Syria... recorded before the US/UK/France airstrikes... then FINALLY they do an actual lightning round to finish things up, including brief discussions on Scooter Libby, Zuckerberg's testimony, international corruption, an update on tariffs, and much much more! Show Details: Recorded 2018-04-13 Length this week - 1:43:26 (0:01:05-0:26:11) Movies Ivan: Darkest Hour (2017) Ivan: Burn After Reading (2008) Sam: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Sam: Coco (2017) Sam: Black Panther (2018) Sam: The Luck of the Irish (2001) (0:27:32-0:52:17) Cohen Raid The raid itself Repercussions and reactions Clarifications on predictions Love child payoff Lordy there are tapes! Firings coming? (0:53:59-1:02:33) Syria Chemical Weapons What good will a strike do? Americans killing Russians (1:04:33-1:43:06) Lightning Round Ivan: Scooter Libby Sam: Changing approach to Russia? Ivan: Trump/Panama thing Sam: UK/Russian spy recovering Ivan: Zuckerberg testimony Sam: Corruption around the world Ivan: Paul Ryan decision Sam: Boehner and marijuana Ivan: CBO deficit estimates Sam: Did China blink on tariffs? The Curmudgeon's Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch. Our intro is "The Oh of Pleasure" (Amazon MP3 link) Our outro is "Celestial Soda Pop" (Amazon MP3 link) Both are from the album "Deep Breakfast" (iTunes link) Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe.

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