{"id":8538,"date":"2021-05-16T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2021-05-16T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:19:48","slug":"insider-der-bush-ovcw-vertuschung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/insider-der-bush-ovcw-vertuschung\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL PICK: At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out &#8216;egregious&#8217; OPCW Syria cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>EDITORIAL PICK: At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out &#8216;egregious&#8217; OPCW Syria cover-up<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this week\u2019s editorial pick, we select a video from <\/span><span>The Grayzone Project<\/span><span> in which former <\/span><span>Chief of Staff to Secretary State Colin Powell<\/span><span>, Lawrence Wilkerson, examines the <\/span><span>OPCW<\/span><span> cover-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Description from the <\/span><span>The Grayzone Project: <\/span><span>Years after renouncing his role in helping to make the phony case for the Iraq war, Lawrence Wilkerson returns to the United Nations Security Council to challenge a new pro-war deception: the <\/span><span>OPCW&#8217;s<\/span><span> Syria cover-up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired Army Colonel who served as Chief of Staff to Secretary State Colin Powell. In 2003, Wilkerson helped prepare Powell&#8217;s infamous speech to the United Nations making the phony case for invading Iraq. Wilkerson has since renounced those Iraq war fabrications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This <\/span><span>OPCW<\/span><span> business really needs to get settled,&#8221; Wilkerson says. &#8220;Here we have an egregious situation that from everything I can see, really calls on people of concern to straighten it out.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wilkerson is among the signatories of a Statement of Concern about the <\/span><span>OPCW<\/span><span> scandal, joined by notable global voices including five former <\/span><span>OPCW<\/span><span> officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this interview, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/At-UN-ex-Colin-Powell-aide-calls-out-egregious-OVCW-Syria-cover-up.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out &#8216;egregious&#8217; OVCW Syria cover-up<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out &#8216;egregious&#8217; OPCW Syria cover-up<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out &#039;egregious&#039; OPCW Syria cover-up\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-U8VdAdo8Sw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>About our import program: In this program, we publish content from external authors and journalists. This includes both international and local content that, in our editorial opinion, is not sufficiently covered in the media landscape. The content does not necessarily reflect acTVism Munich&#8217;s own editorial stance.<\/p>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT LARRY WILKERSON<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lawrence-wilkerson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lawrence-wilkerson-e1504696597569-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Wilkerson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy\u00a0<strong>Lawrence Wilkerson<\/strong>\u2019s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department\u2019s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02). Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired from active service in 1997 as a colonel, and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs in the Honors Program at the George Washington University. He is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s editorial pick, we select a video from The Grayzone Project in which former Chief of Staff to Secretary State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson, examines the OPCW cover-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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