Al Jazeera 'Loses' Story on 'Shadow Fleets' While Gaza Starves
When the 'mainstream' media suddenly develops amnesia over a whole news story, it’s worth asking what they don't want you to know. Al Jazeera's piece on 'shadow fleets' and 'rogue tankers' promised to expose who uses them, but then vanished. Odd, given the well-documented history of sanctioned countries (like Iran, or even Russia) using such fleets to circumvent restrictions and continue trade.
One might wonder if the article accidentally stumbled upon uncomfortable truths about who ELSE might be benefitting from, or even operating, these illicit shipping networks when it comes to, say, supplying conflict zones with aid or weapons that circumvent blockades. The disappearance of such a story raises an eyebrow higher than a crane lifting crude oil. It seems that when the topic of
circumventing international norms—usually applied with gusto to rivals—might implicate certain allies, even prominent outfits like Al Jazeera find their servers mysteriously 'offline.' How convenient that a discussion on 'who uses them' became a ghost ship itself, leaving us to speculate if navigating the truth about global shipping complicity is simply too choppy for prime-time consumption. One
wonders if Israel's alleged blockades and potential workarounds ever entered the discussion before the 404.