Re: [Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Will Get Fooled Again - Seymour Hersh, Welt, and the Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack - bellingcat

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Hm, I wonder if the LRB actually decided against it after reading
Hersh's source,
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905618/We-got-a-fuckin-problem.html
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Will Get Fooled Again - Seymour Hersh, Welt, and the Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack - bellingcat

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Hersh had also offered the article to the London Review of Books. The 
editors accepted it, paid for it, and prepared a fact checked article 
for publication, but decided against doing so, as they told Hersh, 
because of concerns that the magazine would vulnerable to criticism for 
seeming to take the view of the Syrian and Russian governments when it 
came to the April 4th bombing in Khan Sheikhoun.


https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165906452/The-Fog-of-War.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Will Get Fooled Again - Seymour Hersh, Welt, and the Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack - bellingcat

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On June 25th 2017 the German newspaper, Welt, published the latest piece 
by Seymour Hersh, countering the “mainstream” narrative around the April 
4th 2017 Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack in Syria. The attack, where 
Sarin was allegedly used against the local population, dropped in a bomb 
by the Syrian Air Force, resulted in President Trump taking the decision 
to launch cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase.


As with his other recent articles, Hersh presented another version of 
events, claiming the established narrative was wrong. And, as with those 
other recent articles, Hersh based his case on a tiny number of 
anonymous sources, presented no other evidence to support his case, and 
ignored or dismissed evidence that countered the alternative narrative 
he was trying to build.


This isn’t the first chemical attack in Syria which Hersh has presented 
a counter-narrative for, based on a handful of anonymous sources. In his 
lengthy articles for the London Review of Books, “Whose sarin?” and “The 
Red Line and the Rat Line”, Hersh made the case that the August 21st 
2013 Sarin attack in Damascus was in fact a false flag attack intended 
to draw the US into the conflict with Syria. This claim fell apart under 
real scrutiny, and relied heavily on ignoring much of the evidence 
around the attacks, an ignorance of the complexities of producing and 
transporting Sarin, and a lack of understanding about facts firmly 
established about the attacks.


full: 
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/06/25/will-get-fooled-seymour-hersh-welt-khan-sheikhoun-chemical-attack/

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