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A shame Sarandon wasn't given the same treatment years ago when she claimed chemical weapons attacks in Syria had been faked & presented Assad as the victim of Western regime change policies, rather than the 21st Century's most notorious war criminal.
Take a look at these articles, it does present a different view on the events, listed some newest to oldest (some dates 3/27/2023 thru 5/19/2019:
Aaron Maté
Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone. In 2019, Maté was awarded the Izzy Award (named after I.F. Stone) for outstanding achievement in independent media for his coverage of Russiagate in The Nation magazine. Previously, he was a host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!.
Burying key evidence, new OPCW report covers up Douma’s unsolved deaths
Aaron Mate at UN: OPCW cover-up denies justice to Syria victims
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/24/aaron-mate-un-opcw-justice-syria/
In Douma cover-up, OPCW’s new smoking gun backfires
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/03/opcw-smoking-gun-backfires/
Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/09/09/syrian-white-helmets-opcw/
Corrupting science: In Syria probe, OPCW erased experts’ inconvenient findings
Syrian insurgents guilty of ‘red line’ 2013 sarin chemical attack, study finds
At UN, Aaron Maté debunks OPCW’s Syria lies and confronts US, UK on cover-up
Leaked OPCW report suggests Syria gas attack was ‘staged,’ MIT scientist says
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/25/opcw-syria-gas-attack-staged-theodore-postol/
Also the actual OPCW report.
Edit: Holy shit, OP just posted like 10 links from a site that is full of pro-Putin, pro-Hezbollah, Oct. 7 conspiracy content. Who is this?