Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate. Today we're going to recap two really important meetings

that happened at the UN Security Council about an issue that we've covered extensively at the

gray zone and that I think is one of the most overlooked stories of this century.

And that is the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal,

where investigators who went to Syria to a town called Duma in April 2018

to investigate allegations of a chemical weapons attack against the Syrian government,

claim that their investigation was censored under U.S. pressure, that they found evidence that this alleged chemical incident in Duma was staged by militants on the ground,

but that the evidence that they collected was suppressed

and kept from the public. And the consequence of the censorship was to help justify

air strikes on Syria by the US, Britain and France that same month in April 2018, because they bombed Syria based on this allegation

that a chemical attack had occurred in Duma.

So we've covered this extensively.

The Western media across the spectrum has mostly ignored it with only a few exceptions.

And the OPCW and the U., Britain, and France have done everything they can

to silence these whistleblowers, these veteran OPCW inspectors who went to Syria, conducted

the investigation, wrote up a report, and had their evidence suppressed. So the latest phase of this was two meetings

of the UN Security Council,

where the Syria chemical weapons issue was on the agenda.

And we had one meeting where Russia and China

summoned several witnesses, including myself, because I've covered this extensively,

but also Ian Henderson, who was one of the veteran OPCW inspectors whose testimony was

silenced. A week later, there was another UN Security Council meeting with Russia presiding in

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