Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………’

Afgelopen zaterdag werd een konvooi met bussen middels een autobom aangevallen. Met dit konvooi werden sjiieten uit twee belegerde steden in Idlib, Foua en Kefraya, geëvacueerd. In de buurt van Aleppo, nog in ‘rebellen’ (lees psychopathische moordenaars) gebied, werd het konvooi getroffen door een autobom. Hierbij werden 126 mensen, waaronder vrouwen en kinderen, vermoord……

Zo hoog als de hysterie opliep bij o.a. de reguliere westerse (massa-) media over de niet door het Syrische leger begane gifgasaanval op Khan Sheikhoun, was hier over het algemeen alleen plaats voor een belachelijke vorm van onverschilligheid, immers Al Qaida (al-Nusra) bestrijdt ook het Syrische leger……. CNN ging het verst in haar smerige commentaar. Zo zou het hier om een ‘hiccup’ (hik, of een oprisping) gaan, waarbij men de vluchtelingen ook nog eens afschilderde als aanhangers van Assad (iets dat een aantal andere mediaorganen, zoals de BBC, ook wisten te melden…..)…..

Opvallend, in het volgende artikel van Anti-Media, wordt gerept over massamedia, die al vanaf het begin beweren, dat Assad religieuze terreur losliet op een groot deel van het volk…… Iets dat men tot op de dag van vandaag volhoudt…… Terwijl juist onder Assad alle religies en takken van religies vreedzaam in één land leefden. Daar heeft de door de VS coalitie opgezette opstand voor een fiks deel een eind aan gemaakt. Opvallend, daar men in ons land, naar mijn weten, Assad nooit heeft beschuldigt van sektarisch geweld.

Vanaf 2006 heeft de VS het voortouw genomen, om de regering van Assad omver te werpen, daar deze pijpleidingen uit o.a. de Golfstaten weigerde over het Syrische grondgebied, pijpleidingen voor gas en olie, richting Turkije en uiteindelijk de EU…… Gezien het voorgaande zal het u niet verbazen, dat ook Turkije, Saoedi-Arabië*, Qatar en Groot-Brittannië deel uitmaakten (en deel uitmaken van de VS coalitie, die illegaal in Syrië opereert) van de club die Assad weg wilde en wil hebben…….

Hier het verslag van Anti-Media:

CNN
Covers Up Genocidal Crimes of U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels

CNN Covers Up Genocidal Crimes of U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels

April
19, 2017 at 4:58 pm

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

Through
selective reporting, the omission of facts and reliance on dubious
sources of information, media outlets have sought to twist the facts
and whitewash crimes committed by the rebels.

(MPN) Damascus
— 
This
week, Syria saw one of its most deadly attacks against civilians
fleeing al-Qaeda-held areas in Al-Fu’ah and Kafrayah through a
government-rebel civilian swap. Rebels targeted and killed 126
people, including dozens of women and children, after a blast hit a
convoy of evacuee buses Saturday.

Moment after Syrian bus convoy hit by blast captured on video (GRAPHIC)

The
evacuees, all of whom were Muslim Shiites, were scheduled to be
bussed from the al-Nusra-Front-dominated Idlib Province as part of an
evacuation deal between the rebels and the government of President
Bashar al-Assad.

Strangely,
the fact that the victims targeted in the blast were all Muslim
Shiites was either outright ignored by the media or construed as
proof that they were “pro-Assad,” a term that much of the
mainstream media uses as a pejorative (>> kleinering, Ap.).

The
rebels in Idlib, where the bombing took place, have been proven to
be 
aligned
entirely with the al-

Nusra
Front
 –
otherwise known as al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch. This group and their
associates have a specific interest in carrying out attacks against
Muslim Shiites, whom they consider to be heretics along with Syria’s
Christian minority and the Druze.

This
genocidal ideology, which has manifested itself repeatedly through
the actions of terrorist groups and rebels active in the Syrian
opposition, owes to the extreme Wahhabi leanings of these groups,
which seek to unite Syria under their particular brand of extreme
political ideology. Said differently, many of these extremist
rebels 
seek
to create a politically-motivated theocracy
 that
parallels that of the Saudi Arabian government. This would only
include Wahhabis and extremist Sunnis who share their ideology –
supplanting Syria’s secular government, which has allowed a
multiplicity of faiths to flourish without fear of state persecution.

Despite
their supposed commitment to “democracy” and self-determination
in Syria, the media outlets that support the regime-change narrative
promoted by foreign governments have conveniently omitted these facts
from their coverage. For instance, Al Jazeera,
 funded
by the Daesh (ISIS) and rebel-supporting Qatari government
refused
to even mention
 the
fact that the victims were Muslim Shiites, as well as omitting the
fact that the attack occurred in al-Qaeda territory – even going so
far as to imply that the attack was perpetrated by the Syrian
government.

They were fleeing violence and they got bombed. More than 100 Syrians were killed while being evacuated.

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(voor de video in bovenstaande Twitter, zie de link onder het Anti-Media artikel**)


Al
Jazeera was by no means alone in twisting the facts. The BBC, funded
by the pro-Syrian opposition British government, also insinuated that
Assad’s forces 
were
to blame
 for
the attack, even claiming that the attack “would not be in the
rebels’ interest” despite the fact that extremist Syrian rebels
have been 
calling
for the massacre of all Muslim Shiites
 in
Syria for years and that even the U.S. government has admitted that
anti-Assad groups, particularly Daesh,
 are
committing acts of genocide
 against
those of different faiths.

In
addition, most mainstream media coverage – from 
CNN to the
Huffington Post
 –
has concluded that there was “no evidence” that rebels were
involved in the attack or that no one could be blamed as “no group
had claimed responsibility.”

CNN
went on to dehumanize the Syrian victims fleeing al-Qaeda as
 Assad
supporters
 just
because they were Muslim Shiites, and described the attack as a
“hiccup.”

Rebel suicide attack kills over 100 civilians in Syria.
CNN reports “dozens of supporters of Assad” killed in a “hiccup”.

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(voor de video in de bovenstaande Twitter, zie de link onder het Anti-Media artikel**)


One
BBC correspondent completely dismissed al-Qaeda and described the bus
attack as a false flag attack perpetrated by Assad’s government.

BBC correspondent blames yesterday’s slaughter of Shia on Assad false flag, says Al Qaeda wouldn’t do such a thing

BBC blames Assad for the Rashidin bomb attack

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These
news outlets failed to mention that al-Nusra Front rebels have been
caught before
 burning
civilian evacuation buses
 while
also casting doubt on the accounts of Syrian government sources that
blamed a suicide car bomber for the most recent attack. However,
these same outlets had no problem condemning Assad for the early
April chemical gas attack that occurred in the same province, despite
the fact that Assad’s government never claimed responsibility and
that evidence has emerged calling the details of the attack into
question.

Also
dubious is the mainstream media’s continual reliance on only two
sources of information from inside Syria – the White Helmets and
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). As 
MintPress
News has reported
 in
the past, the White Helmets are a mercenary-founded and Western
government-funded group that collaborates with the al-Nusra Front on
a regular basis and has even facilitated street executions of
civilians despite their “humanitarian” image.

SOHR,
in contrast, 
consists
of just one man
:
the vehemently anti-Assad Rami Abdul-Rahman, who lives in the United
Kingdom. Abdul-Rahman’s “sources” in Syria, from which he
receives his information regarding the war, are anonymous and never
recorded – thus making them completely unverifiable.

A
manufactured sectarian war

Since
the Syrian conflict began over six years ago, most media coverage of
the war – particularly that of news organizations from Western and
pro-regime change nations – has been noticeably slanted in favor of
rebel groups funded and armed by proxy nations with the interest of
ousting the Assad government.

Through
selective reporting, the omission of key facts and reliance on
dubious sources of information, including Western NGOs and rebel
groups operating alongside the Al-Nusra Front, these media
outlets 
have
sought to twist the facts
 and
whitewash crimes committed by the rebels while ignoring their agenda
of ethnically cleansing Syria of anyone who refuses to follow their
extremist Wahhabi political ideology. In the process, the media has
colored the Syrian crises through a false narrative of Sunni survival
against a power-hungry Alawite Syrian government and expanding Shiite
Iran – a narrative that was manufactured by the rebels and their
proxy nations to justify their insurgency.

Through
this sectarian lens, rebels are using a “divide and conquer agenda”
supported by the proxy nations that are arming them to target Muslim
Shiites, Muslim Sunnis, Arab Christians, Druze, Zoroastrians and
other minorities in their fight to destabilize Syria, spread
sectarianism and drive the nation into a civil war in order to weaken
and eventually oust the Assad government.

The
media has worked to flip the narrative to glorify the rebels and
frame any atrocities committed by them as having been perpetrated by
the Syrian government. The BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN are the most
prominent examples.

Such
disparities have been commonplace over the past several years. The
last month alone has been particularly telling of the mainstream
media’s refusal to value the lives of innocent civilians equally,
instead only choosing to cover the deaths of civilians in Syria when
it supports the long-standing regime change agenda targeting Assad.

Arguably
the most dramatic geopolitical event of the year took place earlier
this month, when U.S. President Donald Trump 
chose
to bomb Syrian government forces
,
an act of alleged retaliation for a still-unconfirmed chemical gas
attack in al-Qaeda-held Idlib. The attack killed an estimated 58
civilians, including nearly a dozen children. The gas attack received
non-stop media coverage, largely because it served as a convenient
pretext to further vilify Assad and justify U.S.-led unilateral
military action within Syria.

However,
higher civilian death counts that resulted from U.S.-led coalition
airstrikes went largely uncovered and failed to generate the same
level of outrage among these same media outlets, even though they
took place just weeks prior.

Considering
this, it is no small wonder that viewership and popularity of the
mainstream media have 
reached
a historic low
,
given their propensity to overlook journalistic standards and even
manipulating tragedies to sell a particular narrative – whether
true or false – to their audiences.

By Whitney
Webb
 /
Republished with permission / 
MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

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* Saoedi-Arabië, dat bovendien elk bewind waar sjiieten niet worden vervolgd, wil bestrijden en dit ook daadwerkelijk doet, hetzij door het steunen van terreur tegen zo’n bewind, zoals in Syrië, dan wel middels illegale oorlogsvoering zoals in Jemen)

** Bij de eerste twee ‘Twitters’ hoort een video, deze kreeg ik niet gekopieerd, hier de link naar het originele artikel.

Zie ook: ‘Jemen: het westen ‘is blind’ voor de terreur die Saoedi-Arabië met steun van de VS en GB uitoefent in dat land…..       

       en: ‘Ploumen acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!       

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’ wapenleveranties………      

       en: ‘Witte Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens oorlogsmisdaden  

        en: (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling): ‘U.S. and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians 

        en: ‘VS heeft reden gefabriceerd om de Houthi rebellen in Jemen te bombarderen…….‘    

        en:  ‘Jemen en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het goede doel……….’

        en: ‘Jemen 300.000 cholera patiënten en de valse berichtgeving door de westerse reguliere media……. 

       en: ‘Trump steunt Saoedi-Arabië verder in haar barbaarse terreur tegen het verhongerende Jemenitische volk, o.a. met een enorme wapendeal……

      en: ‘BBC leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van Jemen……

       en: ‘Genocide op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten………….

       en: ‘Ali Al Shihabi: Saoedi-Arabie begaat geen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ 


       en: ‘Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

       en: ‘Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

       en: ‘Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

       en: ‘Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

       en: ‘Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

       en: ‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

       en: ‘Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

       en: ‘Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

       en: ‘VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

       en: ‘Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

       en: ‘Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

VS aanval op Syrische basis, zoals gewoonlijk uitermate voorbarig en bijzonder gevaarlijk!!

Van Anti-Media kreeg ik afgelopen woensdag een artikel over de ‘gifgasaanval van Syrië’, op de stad Kahn Sheikhoun in de provincie Idlib. In het artikel worden een aantal zaken opgenoemd, die op z’n zachtst gezegd grote vraagtekens zetten bij deze gifgasaanval en de reactie in het westen.

Als eerste noemt de schrijver Shahtahmasebi de eerdere vermeende grote gifgasaanval in Syrië uit 2013, waar men net als nu, onmiddellijk de schuld bij het Syrische bewind durfde te leggen…… Deze bewering wordt tot op de dag van vandaag volgehouden, terwijl de VN commissie van onderzoek, o.l.v. Carla Del Ponte na uitgebreid onderzoek, als schuldige de ‘gematigde rebellen’ aanwees…… Dit was de aanval waarbij Obama’s ‘rode streep’ zou zijn overschreden………

De totaal afhankelijke Radio1 presentator Kockelman stelde vanmorgen in de aankondiging van Standpunt NL, dat de gifgasaanval uit 2013 aan Assad wordt toegeschreven, ‘hoewel daar twijfels over zijn…..’ Geen moment om te lachen, maar gezien het voorgaande, is dit wel een uiterst belachelijke uitspraak en een eufemisme van reuzenformaat…… Het komt er zoals gewoonlijk op neer, dat de VS tegen vastgelegd bewijs in, zaken vol blijft houden en deze achterlijke houding wordt door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en het overgrote deel van de westerse politici, als de waarheid omarmt……. Ach en maakt ‘t uit, als de VS daarop actie zou ondernemen, waarbij mensen omkomen…….

De VS zette in 2006 al de eerste stappen tot het afzetten van Assad (WikiLeaks) en daarvoor is alles geoorloofd, zoals leugens in de wereld brengen, waarop men vervolgens actie kan ondernemen, een tactiek die al zo oud als de weg naar Rome is, en door de VS veelvuldig gebruikt….. Neem het Tonkin-incident, dat tot volledige deelname van de VS in de oorlog van Vietnam leidde, een oorlog waarbij de VS alleen in Vietnam al verantwoordelijk was (‘is’ zou meer gepast zijn) voor 2,5 miljoen Vietnamese doden…….

Daarnaast vermoordde de VS tijdens die oorlog een enorm aantal mensen in o.a. Cambodja en Laos…… Overigens gebruikte de VS in de Vietnamoorlog veelvuldig chemische wapens, waardoor ook nu nog steeds slachtoffers overlijden, o.a. mensen die hun leven lang al ziek zijn geweest door dat smerige gif (als Agent Orange, waarvan destijds in het Rotterdamse havencomplex een grote voorraad was opgeslagen….)………

Nu heeft de VS totaal voorbarig 59 kruisraketten afgeschoten op een Syrische luchtmachtbasis, één van de zetten, om het bewind van Assad omver te werpen…… De reguliere westerse media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici, waaronder PvdA opperflapdrol Koenders, hebben hun steun voor deze actie uitgesproken…….. Deze oorlogshitsers vinden het waarschijnlijk wel tof, als deze terreuraanval van de VS tot WOIII zal leiden…….

Lees en oordeel zelf:

What
the Media Isn’t Telling You About Yesterday’s Chemical Attack in
Syria


What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Yesterday’s Chemical Attack in Syria

April
5, 2017 at 11:00 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) On
Tuesday, yet another chemical weapons
 attack
occurred in Syria
.
This particular attack took place in the Idlib province, and dozens
have reportedly died as a result.


Syria
is no stranger to chemical weapons attacks. In 2013, there were two
notably devastating attacks, both of which the Obama administration
used to try to justify a 
direct
strike on the Assad government
.


The
U.N. thoroughly investigated the first 2013 attack. The U.N
Commission of Inquiry’s Carla Del Ponte ultimately 
said the
evidence indicated the attack was carried out by the Syrian rebels —
not the Syrian government. Despite this, support for the Syrian
rebels from the U.S. and its allies 
only
increased
,
raising serious questions about Obama’s sincerity when condemning
chemical attacks.


Pulitzer-Prize
winning journalist Seymour Hersh found the second major attack was
committed in a 
similar
manner
.
Hersh found that the U.S. quite deliberately attempted to frame the
evidence to justify a strike on Assad without even considering
al-Nusra, a terror group with access to nerve agents that should have
been a prime suspect.


In
2016, the U.N.
 concluded that
the Syrian government had, indeed, used chemical weapons during the
years-long conflict, but that ISIS had, too. This is in light of the
fact that in 2013, the U.N. also 
declared that
the regime no longer possessed chemical weapons.


These
facts are largely missing from any serious commentary on the most
recent attack in Syria. Despite these reports being accessible and
available, the world has instead decided to blatantly ignore them and
rush to blame Assad once again. It is also worth noting that one of
the sources blaming Syria and/or Russia for this attack is the
so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an
organization
 run
by a single anti-Assad dissident in Coventry, England
.
Having these claims bolstered by the White Helmets does nothing to
aid its credibility given the group’s leadership is reportedly
driven by a “
pro-interventionist
agenda conceived by the Western governments and public relations
groups that back them
,” according to Alternet.


Yet
without directly confirming any of the intelligence, the media and
politicians are out in full force condemning the Assad government. As
of this article’s publication, the 
Guardian has
three top headlines: one reporting on the attack and the next two
condemning Assad directly (see
 here and here).


Even
a New Zealand newspaper, the 
New
Zealand Herald
,
ran an ambitious
 article entitled
“Donald Trump is the only leader who can stop Syrian atrocities.”
No – it is not 
The Onion.

In
the article, the writer ignores all of the aforementioned reports
regarding attacks in 2013, claiming that in that year, “the Syrian
regime used sarin.” She also claims “Obama did nothing” in
response.


The
claim that Obama “did nothing”
 makes
no sense
.
In 2016 alone, Obama
 dropped
over 26,000 bombs
 —
almost half of which landed in Syria. These bombs also rained on
Syrian troops in direct violation of international law.
 As
president, Obama also oversaw the CIA’s expenditures of about $1
billion a year training Syrian rebels
.


As
fears of “fake news” perpetuated by both the mainstream media and
the president threaten our democratic institutions, how else can we
describe these biased reports on Syria, if not “fake news?” News
should be based on evidence, not molded around a foreign policy
agenda of regime change.


Perhaps
the Syrian government did use chemical weapons in a stupid move that
would immediately attract international condemnation and calls for
war
 just
days after the U.S. openly acknowledged they would consider leaving
Assad alone
.
But what if the Syrian government wasn’t responsible, and the
attack was, once again, committed by the Syrian rebels? Will the
world unite and join
 Congresswoman
Tulsi Gabbard in her calls to stop arming terror groups in Syria
?


Or
is it that we only care about chemical weapons attacks if there is an
indication that the Syrian government was behind it?


One
should bear in mind that if the rebels did commit the attack, the
U.S. could actually do something about it considering America and its
allies actively support them. Withdrawing support for groups that
resort to these tactics would contribute to Syria’s safety and
security. This is not a concern, however, because it appears the
media’s ultimate focus on this story is to garner support for
further war and bloodshed in the Middle East — not less of it.

Creative
Commons
 Anti-Media Report
a typo

========================

Zie ook: ‘Koenders en SOHR melden gifgas aanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

       en ‘De raketaanval van de VS op Syrische basis en de waarschuwingen van de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding……

       en: ‘Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

       en: ‘Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

      en: ‘Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

      en: ‘Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

      en: ‘Sophie in ‘t Veld (D66): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

     en: ‘VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

      en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??’

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Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Gistermorgen 11.00 u. meldde het NOS Radio1 nieuws, dat het SOHR berichtte over een gifgasaanval op de burgerbevolking in Noordwest-Syrië (de stad Khan Sheikhoun in de provincie Idlib) ……. De conclusie van het SOHR dat ofwel het Syrische leger, of de Russen achter deze gifgas aanval zouden zitten, werd direct overgenomen……..

De redacties van de diverse landelijke radionieuwszenders (in de EU) nemen niet eens de moeite het SOHR eens even onder de loep te nemen, anders wisten ze, dat dit SOHR een enorm aantal leugens van de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters) heeft verspreid, berichten die keer op keer niet bleken te kloppen…

Het SOHR (Syrian Obeservatory for Human Rights), bestaat uit één man, een misdadiger die Syrië is ontvlucht en vanuit Engeland (Coventry) bericht over de illegale oorlog tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Assad…….. Een oorlog waartoe de eerste aanzet door de VS al in 2006 werd genomen……..

De redactie van het NOS nieuws had het gore lef te zeggen, dat het SOHR een netwerk van informanten heeft in Syrië….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja, een netwerk van ‘gematigde rebellen’, ofwel psychopathische moordenaars die er alle belang bij hebben, het Syrische bewind en Rusland in een kwaad daglicht te stellen……….

Sander van Hoorn, de Midden-Oosten correspondent van de NOS kwam nog even in het geluidsfragment voor en hij stelde zelf op dikke afstand, dat ook de White Helmets* een gifgas aanval meldden en dat plaatselijke bewoners dit bevestigden…….. Niet dat hij die gesproken had, maar via horen zeggen, van anti-Assad media……. Voorts meldde van Hoorn, dat de VN Syrië nog onlangs heeft veroordeeld voor 3 gifgasaanvallen…… Uiteraard zonder de vermelding, dat deskundigen deze veroordeling van de VN volkomen belachelijk vinden……

Maar ja, waarom zou je de VN niet geloven? Daar werken allemaal ‘zeer begane mensen’, zoals de voorzitter van de UNHRC, de mensenrechtenorganisatie van de VN, een figuur uit Saoedi-Arabië…… S-A, u weet wel het land dat schijt heeft aan mensenrechten en dat een hongersnood heeft veroorzaakt in buurland Jemen, een verantwoordelijkheid waarover de media hier liever zwijgen……..

‘Ons’ PvdA keffertje en jaknikker Koenders, moest ook nog even voor BNR (rond 17.08 u.) zeggen, dat hij zeer geschokt was door de beelden over de gifgasaanval. Hoewel hij tot een paar keer toe zei: “Als dit waar is”, gaf hij Assad voluit de schuld; bewijs daarvoor volgens Koenders, o.a. de eerder genoemde rammelende VN onderzoeken………

Uiteraard hoor je Koenders en de reguliere media niet over die hongersnood in Jemen, veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië**, met mededaders en coalitiepartners in terreur: de VS en Groot-Brittannië…….. Commentaar leveren op het buitenlandbeleid van de VS en Groot-Brittannië, zal Koenders nooit doen, tenzij het over de Brexit gaat…… Tja, daarnaast denkt Koenders natuurlijk aan de centen die we verdienen aan S-A en die gaan nu eenmaal voor alles, zeg nu zelf!!

Nu ik het toch over massamoord heb, waarbij de VS betrokken is: ook over de enorme slachting in Mosul hoor je Koenders en de reguliere media niet, logisch daar de VS en de rest van de ‘Irak-coalitie’ een vrijbrief hebben om te moorden met luchtbombardementen in dichtbevolkt gebieden, of zoals in dit geval steden……..

U weet het: alles wat de VS doet, moet wel goed zijn!! Bewijzen te over, neem de VS terreur tegen: Indonesië (coup tegen Soekarno en massamoord op ‘communisten’ >> CIA), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodja, Chili (Coup tegen Allende >> CIA), Panama, Nicaragua (de VS werd destijds zelfs veroordeeld wegens terrorisme, door de VN!), Afghanistan, Irak, Libie en nu weer Syrië…… Mensen, dan heb ik er nog een tiental niet genoemd……. De VS heeft vanaf WOII tot het jaar 2000 wereldwijd meer dan 20 miljoen mensen vermoord…….. Zie; ‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

“Terug naar Syrië en de ‘gifgas aanval’: het BNR nieuws van deze morgen 9.00 u. meldde dat het gebruikte gifgas eerder door de ‘rebellen’ werd gebruikt…….. Weet u nog? ‘De gematigde rebellen’, ofwel psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters, die de westerse media normaal zouden aanduiden als terroristen, maar het feit dat ze tegen Assad vechten, maakt hen nu: ‘gematigde rebellen’ en ja, die kunnen ‘wel eens’ gifgas gebruiken, daar moeten we ons vooral niet druk om maken…….

Intussen blijkt dat de Syrische luchtmacht een depot met chemische wapens, van een terreurgroep (Al Qaida) hebben geraakt. Daar maakt BNR ‘een mooie draai’ in de berichtgeving: Syrië heeft expres een gifgas laboratorium gebombardeerd……. Tja, Barbertje moet hangen……..

BBC World Service radio, had vanmorgen naast een aantal claims, dat Assad verantwoordelijk is voor de aanval met een chemische wapen, ook een deskundige die een heel andere draai aan het verhaal gaf. Ene Gary Smith, die in 2014 betrokken was bij het verwijderen van gifgas uit Syrië, sprak over e.e.a. Volgens hem hebben de teams die de gifgasaanvallen hebben onderzocht, nooit de beschuldiging uitgesproken dat het Syrische leger verantwoordelijk zou zijn voor gifgasaanvallen. Volgens Smith beschikt het reguliere Syrische leger niet over voorraden gifgas, hooguit wat resten zou tot de mogelijkheid kunnen behoren. (groepen als Al Qaida zouden wel gifgasvoorraden hebben en laboratoria waar men e.e.a. fabriceert, Ap). Voorts stelde hij, dat Israël en Egypte, beiden gifgas produceren en grote voorraden hebben, deze landen hebben het verdrag tegen gifgaswapens niet getekend….. Toevallig zijn beide landen grote vijanden van Assad en heeft Israël in het recente verleden o.a. IS terroristen opgelapt, zodat ze weer aan de strijd in Syrië konden deelnemen……… (de laatste toevoeging en de voorgaande over Al Qaida, zijn voor mijn rekening)

*  White Helmets: een verlengstuk van Al Qaida dat er net zo makkelijk op los moordt, als dat het voor de camera ‘reddingspogingen’ onderneemt….. Deze White Helmets zijn al lang door de mand gevallen met beelden en al, maar de reguliere westerse media en politici blijven dit orgaan betrouwbaar noemen…….

** Zie: ‘Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine

Zie ook: ‘VS aanval op Syrische basis, zoals gewoonlijk uitermate voorbarig en bijzonder gevaarlijk!!

       en ‘De raketaanval van de VS op Syrische basis en de waarschuwingen van de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding……

       en: ‘Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

       en: ‘Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

       en: ‘Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

       en: ‘Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of  volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………

       en: ‘VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

       en: ‘Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

       en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??’

   

       en: ‘Jemen: hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………‘ (deze link, daar vooral kinderen, ouderen en zieken overlijden in een door mensenhanden veroorzaakte hongersnood)

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt (nog) niet voor het label ‘G. Smith’.

Nieuwsuur (NOS en NPO) over nepnieuws (‘fake news’) en onderwijs

Keek gisteravond rond 19.30 u. even op de webpagina van de NOS om te zien, of er nog wat domme dan wel schunnige uitspraken te lezen waren over politici. Immers de zaterdag en de zondag zijn dagen dat megalomane idioten als van Haersma Buma, Asscher, Rutte, Pechtold e.a. de meest waanzinnige uitspraken doen in programma’s als TROS Kamerbreed en Buitenhof.

Bij de regeringsgetrouwe en afhankelijke NOS weet men dit waarschijnlijk ook, vandaar dat er niet één uitlating van een politicus was te vinden op de webpagina van deze ‘onafhankelijke’ zendgemachtigde. Eén zaak kwam nog in de buurt van de politiek, een bewijs van het hiervoor gestelde en stond zelfs op nummer één: hier de kop:



‘Het is cruciaal dat kinderen met nieuws leren omgaan….’

ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De hier direct boven geplaatste titel stond boven een stuk dat Nieuwsuur gisteravond heeft gebracht, schrijver is Christel Voorn…. (een bakvis, zeg maar). ‘Het is cruciaal dat kinderen met nieuws leren omgaan’ Uiteraard is het geen probleem dat kinderen vooral het nepnieuws van bijvoorbeeld Nieuwsuur geloven, zoals de rechtvaardiging van de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, of de leugens van SOHR (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights), die schaamteloos werden overgenomen door de reguliere Nederlandse media………

Daarover gesproken: Syrië >> de White Helmets is ook zo’n geval, volkomen de hemel in geprezen door de Nederlandse media, terwijl ze een verlengstuk zijn van Al Qaida en bewezen hebben geholpen bij het vermoorden van burgers in Oost-Aleppo……..

De berichtgeving (ook door Nieuwsuur) voorafgaand en tijdens de al genoemde illegale oorlog tegen Irak was tenenkrommend. De VS durfde de uiterst gewelddadige aanval in 2003 in te zetten en met grote stelligheid beweerden de NOS, Nieuwsuur, de Volkskrant, de NRC, de Telegraaf en ga nog maar even door, dat Saddam Hoessein inderdaad massavernietigingswapens had…….* Te vergelijken met de hysterie van nu over de zogenaamde Russische hacks en manipulaties van verkiezingen.

Geen nanometer bewijs, en toch nemen ook de voornoemde mediaorganen het gelul van de geheime diensten in de VS over. Sterker nog: als je stelt dat e.e.a. gelul is waarvoor geen bewijs bestaat, wordt je weggezet als brenger van ‘nepnieuws’ (of ‘fake news’, wat u wilt)……. Wikileaks maakte afgelopen zaterdag bekend, dat de CIA politici en bedrijven hackt en dan vervolgens via een smerige truc de schuld in de schoenen van China en/of Rusland schuift………

Verder met het stuk op de NOS webpagina:

“Leerlingen
zitten vol met complottheorieën en geloven de media en de overheid
niet meer! Dit is heel zorgelijk. Ik ben zeker één op de drie
lessen bij maatschappijleer of geschiedenis bezig met het ontkrachten
hiervan
.”

Dit is
een van de reacties die Nieuwsuur kreeg op een rondvraag onder 190
docenten maatschappijleer. Tachtig procent van hen zegt het soms
of regelmatig oneens te zijn met leerlingen over feiten. Zo zegt een
andere docent van school in Rotterdam: “Eigenlijk moet ik
constateren dat veel leerlingen de gevestigde media niet veel meer
gebruiken. De tijd gaat vooral op naar sociale media en Netflix.”


Nieuwsonderwijs
is geen verplicht onderdeel in het onderwijs. En in tijden van
nepnieuws en een online overvloed aan mediaanbod, is het er niet
gemakkelijker op ge
worden. Docenten worstelen hiermee en zoeken naar
manieren om leerlingen op weg te helpen. 

Ongelofelijk!! Logisch dat kinderen de reguliere media en de overheid niet meer vertrouwen, immers veel van die kinderen zijn niet dom en zien, dat ze keer op keer worden voorgelogen over zaken, waarvoor het tegendeel bij wijze van spreken metersdik op straat ligt……

Het is wel bijzonder triest dat er veel docenten maatschappijleer zijn, die werkelijk denken dat de reguliere media de waarheid spreken, waar z.a. gezegd de echte waarheid is, dat de media de burgers voor een groot deel bewust voorliegen……. Voorliegen om de bevolking in onwetendheid te houden en de huidige neoliberale en neokoloniale status quo te bewaren…

Uiteraard heeft de politiek geen belang bij echt ‘nieuwsonderwijs’, waarbij de scholieren wordt geleerd hoe het nieuws te lezen en vooral de reguliere media niet klakkeloos te geloven, daar het bewijs van het doelbewust liegen en manipuleren van het nieuws en daarmee van de burgers, er te dik bovenop ligt……. Nogmaals, neem alleen al de hiervoor genoemde voorbeelden!!

Met andere woorden: docenten zijn  al zo gehersenspoeld, dat ze de leugens van de reguliere media voor waar aannemen. Je zou toch m.n van docenten maatschappijleer en geschiedenis mogen verwachten, dat ze ‘iets verder’ kijken, dan hun neus lang is. In feite grossiert het overgrote deel van deze docenten in nepnieuws………

Op de NPO Radio1 webpagina valt te lezen: ‘Nieuwsuur is een onafhankelijke, onpartijdige en ongebonden actualiteitenrubriek van de taakomroepen NTR en NOS…….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

* Hetzelfde werd in de reguliere media nog eens herhaald in 2011, toen de VS en een aantal andere NAVO landen (o.l.v.) de VS, Libië van het rijkste Afrikaanse land, terugbombardeerden tot het bijna armste land van dat continent…….

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht aantreft, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Voorn’.

PS: nee, ik heb gisteravond de uitzending van Nieuwsuur niet gevolgd, dat is wat mij betreft een verspilling van kostbare tijd.

Mosul gruwelen op video, volgens BBC nog net niet nep…………..

Hoorde gisteravond op BBC World Service radio (rond 18.20 u. CET) nog net een staart van een bericht over een video uit West-Mosul, die wereldwijd veel beroering teweeg heeft gebracht, althans volgens een BBC verslaggever. Het gaat over beelden van op straat en een op een markt liggende lijken van mannen, vrouwen en kinderen, plus de gebombardeerde gebouwen waarin zich ten tijde van het bombardement veel burgers bevonden

Kon uit het gesprek niet opmaken of het hier ging om een video die door IS werd gemaakt, maar gezien het commentaar van de verslaggever, zou dit wel het geval moeten zijn. Zocht een uur later op de webpagina van BBC World Service, maar kont niets over dit onderwerp vinden, althans niet van diezelfde dag.

Volgens de BBC verslaggever is er heel veel leed van de bewoners te zien op de video. Voorts zou volgens de video het doelwit van de VS luchtmacht, vooral de burgerbevolking zijn en niet de militaire versterkingen van IS.

De verslaggever stelde dat deze video waarschijnlijk werd gemaakt, om de bombardementen van de VS te doen stoppen……. Met andere woorden, anti-VS propaganda, om de westerse opinie te beïnvloeden……

Dit terwijl de VS heeft toegegeven dat er mogelijk een groot aantal burgerslachtoffers te betreuren zijn, door VS bombardementen, maarrrrr….. dat is de schuld van IS, die burgers als schild gebruiken……

Wat een verschil met Aleppo beste lezer, toen werd elke bom die viel, vertaald als een directe heftige oorlogsmisdaad van de Russen en het Syrische leger……. Dit terwijl deze partijen de luchtbombardementen op Oost-Aleppo al in oktober 2016 stopten, waar de stad pas in december volledig werd bevrijd van het psychopathische moordend en verkrachtend tuig…….* Met andere woorden: de VS (coalitie) had allang moeten stoppen met het bombarderen van het dicht bevolkte Oost-Mosul, dat voor een groot deel bestaat uit dicht op elkaar gepakte huizen……..

Nog steeds is de hysterie groot over de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo, terwijl men niets van de vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden kan bewijzen met duidelijk beeldmateriaal en/of betrouwbare getuigen. Sterker nog een organisatie als het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR), wordt door de reguliere westerse media nog steeds als betrouwbare bron geciteerd. Terwijl deze organisatie uit Coventry (Engeland) bestaat uit 1 man, een gewezen Syrische misdadiger, die bewezen een enorm aantal nep berichten de wereld in heeft geholpen…… Als bron gebruikt deze figuur dan ook de gesproken getuigenissen van de eerder genoemde ‘gematigde rebellen’ en de intussen als Al Qaida aanhang ontmaskerde ‘White Helmets…’

Het maakt eens te meer duidelijk, dat de reguliere westerse media en politiek aan de leiband van de VS lopen en een in feite veel ernstiger zaak (in vergelijking met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo) afdoen als niet te voorkomen bijkomende schade…………

Gisteren ontving ik het volgende artikel van Anti-Media, zo te zien gaat dit over dezelfde video:

Pentagon
Has Video Proving Mosul Buildings Were Full of Civilians


Pentagon Has Video Proving Mosul Buildings Were Full of Civilians

March
31, 2017 at 9:44 am

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

(ANTIWARFacing
growing criticism over an attack earlier this month that killed
hundreds of civilians in Mosul, the Pentagon today confirmed that it
has video footage of ISIS forcing hundreds of civilians into the
destroyed buildings, which they 
presented
as “provoking the attack
.”

While
this is designed to shift some of the blame away from the Pentagon
for bombing buildings full of civilians, it appears to actually do
the exact opposite:
 it
confirms that the Pentagon knew before the attacks that those
buildings were full of civilians, and attacked them anyhow
.

ISIS
has long been criticized for pushing civilians around and forcing
them into various areas, but the fact that civilians were being
forced into buildings does not prove that the buildings were of any
specific value as a target in the first place, and the Pentagon’s
assertion appears to be that putting civilians in there amounted to
making the buildings a more tempting target in and of itself.

A member of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) walks at the site after an air strike attack against Islamic State triggered a massive explosion in Mosul, Iraq March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

The
huge civilian death toll of the US strikes has been condemned by
several human rights groups, unsurprisingly, but the Pentagon’s
narrative has rapidly changed from denial, to sheepish admission of
“probable” guilt, and now to outright defiance over the fact that
they killed so many people.

By Jason
Ditz
 /
Republished with permission / 
AntiWar.com / Report
a typo

============================

Hier nog een link naar videomateriaal uit Mosul, bron Al Jazeera.

* Het gaat hier om hetzelfde tuig, dat door het grootste deel van de westerse politici en de ‘onafhankelijke’ westerse reguliere media wordt aangeduid als ‘gematigde rebellen……’

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

VN rapport over beschieting hulpkonvooi voor Oost-Aleppo totaal onder de maat, of wel ‘fake news’ met VN stempels……

Afgelopen maandag ontving ik van Information Clearing House o.a. een artikel, waarin het VN onderzoek naar het beschieten van een konvooi met hulpgoederen voor Oost-Aleppo (september vorig jaar), terecht als een waardeloos onderzoek de grond in wordt geschreven.

Zo heeft de VN getuigenissen van de White Helmets gebruikt, terwijl ieder mens met een gezond verstand kan weten, dat de White Helmets een verlengstuk zijn van terreurgroepen in Syrië (vooral functionerend onder Al Qaida/al-Nusra terreurbewind..)……

Fotomateriaal, zoals van satellieten (die ter beschikking stonden van de VN onderzoekscommissie), of zelfs van de White Helmets werden niet aan het rapport toegevoegd, logisch wat betreft de laatste foto’s, daar de foto’s van raketten die de White Helmets toevoegden, niet van Russische of Syrische gevechtsvliegtuigen kwamen, maar van raketten zijn, die vanaf de grond worden afgevuurd, zoals de White Helmets zelf hebben toegegeven……. De White Helmets, u weet wel het geteisem dat hier op handen wordt gedragen, niet alleen door politici, maar ook door de reguliere (afhankelijke) massamedia……..

Hier het artikel (u kunt onder dit artikel klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’):

A
Flawed UN Investigation on Syria

U.N.
investigators increasingly make their conclusions fall in line with
Western propaganda, especially on the war in Syria, as occurred in a
distorted report about last year’s attack on an aid convoy,
explains Gareth Porter.
By
Gareth Porter



March
13, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” –  The March 1 
report
by the United Nations’ “Independent International Commission of
Inquiry

asserted that the bloody attack on a humanitarian aid convoy west of
Aleppo City on Sept. 19, 2016, was an airstrike by Syrian government
planes. But an analysis of the U.N. panel’s report shows that it
was based on an account of the attack from the pro-rebel Syrian
“White Helmets” civil defense organization that was full of
internal contradictions.

The
UN account also was not supported by either the photographic evidence
that the White Helmets provided or by satellite imagery that was
available to the commission, according to independent experts.
Further undermining the UN report’s credibility, the White Helmets
now acknowledge that rockets they photographed were not fired from
Russian or Syrian planes but from the ground.

Like
last December’s summary of the UN’s 
Headquarters
Board of Inquiry report
 on
the same incident, the Commission’s report described the attack as
having begun with “barrel bombs” dropped by Syrian helicopters,
followed by further bombing by fixed-wing planes and, finally,
strafing by machine guns from the air.

The
March 1 report did not identify any specific source for its
narrative, citing only “[c]ommunications from governments and
non-government organizations.” But in fact the UN investigators
accepted the version of events provided by the White Helmets chief in
Aleppo province as well as specific evidence that the White Helmets
had made public.

The
White Helmets, which are heavily funded by Western governments and
operate only in rebel-controlled areas, are famous for using social
media to upload videos purporting to show injured children and other
civilian victims of the war.

Last
year, a well-organized campaign pushed the group’s nomination for a
Nobel Peace Prize and 
a
Netflix film about the group won an Oscar
 last
month. The United Nations and the mainstream Western news media have
frequently relied on White Helmet
s accounts
from war zones that are not accessible to outsiders. But the White
Helmets’ officials have pursued an obvious political agenda in
support of opposition forces in Al Qaeda-dominated zones in Aleppo
and Idlib where they have operated.

On
Sept. 19, immediately after the attack on the aid convoy, the chief
of the White Helmets organization in the Aleppo governorate, Ammar
al-Selmo, presented a dramatic narrative of a Russian-Syrian air
attack, but it was marked by obvious internal contradictions.

At
first, Selmo 
claimed
in an interview
 that
he had been more than a kilometer away from the warehouses where the
attack occurred and had seen Syrian helicopters dropping “barrel
bombs” on the site. But his eyewitness account would have been
impossible because it was already dark by the time he said the attack
began at about 7:15 p.m. He 
changed
his story
 in
a later interview, claiming that he had been right across the street
at the moment of the attack and had heard the “barrel bombs”
being dropped rather than seeing them.

Selmo
insisted in a video filmed that night that the attack began with
Syrian helicopters dropping 
eight
“barrel bombs,”
which
are described as large, crudely constructed bombs weighing from 250
kg to 500 kg or even more. Citing a box-shaped indentation in the
rubble, Selmo said the video is showing “the box of the barrel
bomb,” but the indentation is far too small to be a crater from
such a bomb.

Selmo
continued the account, “Then the regime also target this place with
cluster bombs two times, and also the aircraft of the Russians target
this place with C-5 and with bullets,” apparently referring to
Soviet-era S-5 rockets. The White Helmets photographed two such
rockets and sent it to media outlets, including the Washington Post,
which 
published
the picture
 in
the Post story with credit to the White Helmets.

Story
Contradictions

But
Hussein Badawi, apparently the White Helmet official in charge of the
Urum al Kubrah area, 
contradicted
Selmo’s story
.
In a separate interview, Badawi said the attack had begun not with
“barrel bombs” but with “four consecutive rockets” that he
said had been launched by government forces from their defense plant
in Aleppo province – meaning that it was a ground-launched attack
rather than an air attack.

In
an email response to a query from me, Selmo retracted his own
original claim about the S-5 rockets. “[B]efore aircraft’s attack
on the area,” he wrote, “many land to land missiles attacked the
place coming from the defense factories which [are] located in
eastern Aleppo [east of] the city, regime controlled area. [T]hen
aircraft came and attacked the place.”

But
such a rocket attack from that “regime controlled area” would not
have been technically possible. The Syrian government defense plant
is located in Safira, 
25
kilometers southeast
 of
Aleppo City and even farther from Urum al-Kubrah, whereas the S-5
rockets that the White Helmets photographed have a 
range
of only three or four kilometers.

Moreover,
the Russians and Syrian government forces were not the only warring
parties to have S-5s in their arsenal. According to a 
study
of the S-5 rocket by Armament Research Services
 consultancy,
Syrian armed opposition forces had been using S-5 rockets as well.
They had gotten them from the CIA’s covert program of moving
weapons from Libyan government stockpiles to be distributed to Syrian
rebels beginning in late 2011 or early 2012. Syrian rebels had used
improvised launch systems to fire them, as the ARS study documented
with a picture.

Significantly,
too, the explicit claim by Selmo that Russian planes were involved in
the attack, which was immediately echoed by the Pentagon, was
summarily dismissed by the UN panel report, which stated flatly,
without further explanation, that “no Russian strike aircraft were
nearby during the attack.”

Misplaced
Evidence

Yet,
despite the multiple discrepancies in the White Helmets’ story, the
UN investigators said they corroborated the account of the air attack
“by a site assessment, including analysis of remnants of aerial
bombs and rockets documented at the site, as well as satellite
imagery showing impact consistent with the use of air-delivered
munitions.”

The
UN Commission’s report cited a photograph of the crumpled tailfin
of a Russian OFAB-250 bomb found under some boxes in a warehouse as
evidence that it had been used in the attack. The White Helmets took
the photograph and circulated it to the news media, 
including
to the Washington Post
 and to
the Bellingcat website
,
which specializes in countering Russia’s claims about its
operations in Syria.

But
that bomb could not have exploded in that spot because it would have
made a crater many times larger than the small indentation in the
floor in the White Helmet photo – as 
shown
in this video
 of
a man standing in the crater of a similar bomb in Palmyra.

Something
other than an OFAB-250 bomb – such as an S-5 rocket – had caused
the fine shrapnel tears in the boxes shown in the photo, as a 
detail
from the larger scene
 reveals.
So the OFAB bomb tailfin must have been placed at the scene after the
attack.

Both
UN imagery analysts and independent experts who examined the
satellite images found that the impact craters could not have come
from the “aerial bombs” cited by the Commission.

The
analysis of the satellite images by United Nations specialists at
UNITAR-UNOSAT 
made
public
 by
the UN Office of Humanitarian Coordination on March 1 further
contradicts the White Helmet account, reflecting the absence of any
evidence of either “barrel bombs” or OFAB-250 bombs dropped on
the site.

The
UN analysts identified four spots in the images on pages five and six
of their report as “possible impact craters.” But a UN source
familiar with their analysis of the images told me that it had ruled
out the possibility that those impact points could have been caused
by either “barrel bombs” or Russian OFAB-250 bombs.

The
reason, the UN source said, was that such bombs would have left much
larger craters than those found in the images. Those possible impact
points could have been either from much smaller air-launched
munitions or from ground-based artillery or mortar fire, but not from
either of those weapons, according to the UN source.

Expert
Challenges

A
former U.S. intelligence official with long experience in analysis of
aerial photos and Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon analyst, both of
whom reviewed the satellite images, agreed that the spots identified
by UNOSAT could not have been from either “barrel bombs” or
OFAB-250 bombs.

The
former intelligence official, who demanded anonymity because he still
deals with government officials, said the small impact points
identified by the UN team reminded him of impacts from “a multiple
rocket launcher or possibly a mortar.”

Sprey
agreed that all of those impact points could have been from artillery
or mortar fire but also noted that photographs of the trucks and
other damaged vehicles show no evidence that they were hit by an
airstrike. The photos show only extensive fire damage and, in the
case of one car, holes of irregular size and shape, he said,
suggesting flying debris rather than bomb shrapnel.

Sprey
further pointed to photographic evidence indicating that an explosion
that the UN Commission blamed on a Syrian airstrike came from within
the building itself, not from an external blast. The building across
the street from some of the trucks destroyed by an explosion
(in 
Figure
9
 of
a series of 
photos
on the Bellngcat website
)
clearly shows that the front wall of the building was blown outward
toward the road
whereas
the rear wall and the roof were still intact.

The
photograph (in Figure 10) taken from inside the remains of that same
building shows the debris from the blast was blown all the way across
the street to the damaged truck. Sprey said those pictures strongly
suggest that an IED (improvised explosive device) had been set in the
house to explode toward the trucks.

In
embracing the Syrian-air-strike narrative – although it falls apart
on closer examination – the UN“Commission of Inquiry” thus fell
into line with the dominant Western political bias in favor of the
armed opposition to the Syrian government, a prejudice that has been
applied to the Syrian conflict by UN organs since the beginning of
the war in 2011.

But
never has the evidence so clearly contradicted that line as it has in
this case – even though you will not learn that by reading or
watching the West’s commercial news media.

Gareth
Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of
the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly
published 
Manufactured
Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
.

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Bijna nog sterker: gisteren maakte een VN commissie openbaar, dat het Syrische leger met opzet de watervoorziening van Damascus zou hebben gebombardeerd; dat zou in december vorig jaar zijn gebeurd*. Daardoor zouden meer dan 5 miljoen mensen verstoken zijn geweest van drinkwater in en rond Damascus….. Een ernstige oorlogsmisdaad aldus de onderzoekers……. Helaas, waarom zou het Syrische leger de eigen watervoorziening bombarderen, immers dat gebied was toen in handen van het reguliere Syrische leger..?? Bron voor deze toevoeging o.a.: BBC World Service 14 maart jl.    

* In een reactie van mij, gisteren gedaan onder dit artikel, geplaatst door Stan van Houcke op zijn blog, meende ik, dat dit september vorig jaar plaatsvond. Deze reactie ziet u direct voorafgaand aan: ‘Bron voor deze enz….’, al is het hier met een aangepast tijdspanne.

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt (nog) niet voor de labels: al-Selmo, H, Badawi, Sprey en UNOSAT.

White Helmets oorlogsporno geweerd van Oscarceremonie

Het volgende bericht over de ‘White Helmets’ vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke. Zoals hier al vaker betoogd: deze ‘White Helmets’ is een organisatie, die de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen) steunt en een uitermate smerig propagandaspel speelt.

Dit geteisem wordt in woord gesteund door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en politici, waarbij de laatsten de ‘White Helmets’ ook financieel steunen…….. Zo steunen o.a. Nederland, Denemarken, de VS en Groot-Brittannië deze terroristische organisatie, die werd opgezet door een Britse ex-legerofficier……….

Een documentaire over de White Helmets is genomineerd voor een Oscar, echter door de wil van ‘Het Beest’ (Trump) is het onzeker of de maker van de documentaire en de leider van de ‘White Helmets’ aanwezig kunnen zijn, bij de uitreiking van de Oscars.

Een verslag van Vanessa Beeley:

White
Helmet ‘War Porn’ Stars Banned from Oscars Ceremony


war-porn-22

FEBRUARY
3, 2017 BY 
VANESSA
BEELEY
 2
COMMENTS

21st
Century Wire
 says…

An
unexpected silver lining to the cloud of Trump’s visa ban, came to
light a few days ago when it was announced that the White Helmet
representatives would not be permitted entry into the US, under
the new legislation that will be enforced for the next ninety days.
The multi million dollar, NATO and Gulf state funded, pseudo
humanitarian, Nusra Front aka Al Qaeda “civil defence” group,
has, yet again, been thwarted, in its quest for red carpet honour
and recognition.

The
following is a report from 
RT:

Two
members of the controversial White Helmets organization that operates
in Syria have been barred from attending the Academy Awards, the
producer of a documentary featuring the NGO said. The film has been
nominated for an Oscar.

White
Helmets leader Raed Saleh and cinematographer Khaled Khateeb, both
Syrian, were invited to the 2017 Academy Awards by Joanna Natasegara,
the producer of a short documentary about the organization available
on Netflix. The documentary film ‘The White Helmets’ has
been 
nominated for
an Oscar, along with four other contestants.

Natasegara
expressed her outrage over the new development in a statement:

They’ve
been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize,” she said. “These people
are the bravest humanitarians on the planet, and the idea that they
could not be able to come with us and enjoy that success is just
abhorrent.”

The
travel ban for seven predominantly Muslim countries imposed by US
President Donald Trump last week also affected acclaimed Iranian
filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is nominated in the
Foreign Language category, and Syrian woman Hala Kamil, the subject
of Watani: My Homeland, another nomination for the short documentary
award.

This
is not the first time Saleh has been banned from entering the United
States. In April 2016, he had to return to Istanbul after discovering
that his visa had been cancelled by the US. This prevented him from
receiving an award in Washington at a gala party supported by White
Helmets sponsor USAID.

The
White Helmets, who also call themselves the Syrian Civil Defense,
have been touted as a non-political aid organization focused on
saving lives in war-torn Syria. The Oscar-nominated documentary
depicts them in line with that narrative.

Critics
say it is a foreign-funded propaganda vehicle closely aligned with
Islamist militant groups opposing the Syrian government. Members of
the group have been accused of stealing vehicles, rescue equipment,
and its very name from the government-run Syrian Civil Defense, an
organization with a decades-long record of rescue operations in
Syria.

The
following is a film produced by 
Steve
Ezzedine
 of Hands
Off Syria
,
Sydney exposing the Netflix documentary as a propaganda vehicle for
this Al Qaeda support group:

SEE: http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/02/03/white-helmet-war-porn-stars-banned-from-oscars-ceremony/

***

LINKS
& MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WHITE HELMETS:

Original
investigative report: 
The
REAL Syria Civil Defence Exposes Fake White Helmets as
Terrorist-Linked Imposters

White
Helmets: ‘A Pseudo NGO’
CrossTalk:
‘White Helmets, Really?’ with Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett &
Patrick Henningsen

Report
by Patrick Henningsen
AN
INTRODUCTION: Smart Power & The Human Rights Industrial Complex

Open
Letter by Vanessa Beeley
White
Helmets Campaign for War NOT Peace – Retract RLA & Nobel Peace
Prize Nominations

Staged Rescue
Videos
(VIDEO)
White Helmets: Miraculous ‘Rag Doll Rescue’

Mainstream
Media: Fake News
CNN’s
Claim That ‘White Helmets Center in Damascus’ Was Hit by a Barrel
Bomb

White
Helmets and Mayday Rescue:
The
Syrian Civil Defence: Wikipedia

21st
Century Wire compilation of key information on the White
Helmets:
Who
are the Syria White Helmets?

21st
Century Wire article on the White Helmets:  
Syria’s
White Helmets: War by Way of Deception ~ the “Moderate”
Executioners

Cory
Morningstar report:
Investigation
into the funding sources of the White Helmets, Avaaz, Purpose, The
Syria Campaign

Report
by Scott Ritter:
The
‘White Helmets’ and the Inherent Contradiction of America’s
Syria Policy

Open
letter to Canada’s NDP Leader on Nobel Prize:
Letter
to NDP from Prof. John Ryan protesting White Helmet nomination for
RLA and Nobel Peace Prize

White
Helmets: Bogus Claims:
‘We
Saved 60,000’ – Bogus Claim by Syria’s White Helmets Raises
Even More Questions

READ
MORE SYRIA NEWS AT:
 21st
Century Wire Syria Files

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Zie ook: ‘White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere ‘White Helmets links’ in dat bericht)

        en: ‘Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..

        en: ‘White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland…………

        en: ‘Aleppo, getuigenissen uit het bevrijde oostelijk deel van die stad

        en: ‘Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!‘ (zie en klik ook op de links, in dat bericht!)

        en: ‘Oost-Aleppo: de leugens van de reguliere media, Rutte 2, de Tweede Kamer en ‘deskundigen’ doorgeprikt middels een VN missie!!

        en: ‘Palmyra (Syrië) heroverd door IS troepen uit Irak >> verzwegen smeerlapperij……..

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Ezzedine, Khateeb, Natasgara, Oscarceremonie en R. Saleh.

Aleppo, de wraak van de VS: oorlog aan de alternatieve media, leve de staatspropaganda….!!

Nadat de Obama regering Rusland heeft beschuldigd van het hacken van de verkiezingen, waar het overigens geen nanometer bewijs voor heeft, is het nu de beurt aan de alternatieve media…… De VS zag met lede ogen de val van Aleppo (wat betreft het verslaan van de door deze terreurentiteit gesteunde ‘gematigde’ terroristen) en geeft daarvoor nu ook de schuld aan de alternatieve media…….

De alternatieve media die niet braaf de door de VS aangeleverde leugenpropaganda herhaalden, maar met feiten aantoonden, dat de VS keer op keer heeft gelogen inzake Syrië!! Sterker nog, dat de VS de aanstichter is van de oorlog in Syrië, die intussen aan meer dan 700.000 mensen het leven heeft gekost…….

Het beschuldigen van de media, is een herhaling van zetten: toen het duidelijk werd, dat de VS de oorlog in Vietnam had verloren, waren het vooral de media ‘die voor het verlies hadden gezorgd……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Hier het artikel over de oorlog tegen de alternatieve media, zoals gisteren door Information Clearing House gebracht (u kan onder dit artikel klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The
War Against Alternative Information

By
Rick Sterling

The
U.S. government is creating a new $160 million bureaucracy to shut
down information that doesn’t conform to U.S. propaganda
narratives, building on the strategy that sold the bloody Syrian
“regime change”

January
02, 2017 “
Information
Clearing House

– “
Consortium
News

– The U.S. establishment is not content simply to have domination
over the media narratives on critical foreign policy issues, such as
Syria, Ukraine and Russia. It wants total domination. Thus we now
have the “Countering
Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act
” that President Obama
signed into law on Dec. 23 as part of theNational
Defense Authorization Act for 2017
 (NDAA), setting aside $160 million to
combat any “propaganda” that challenges Official Washington’s
version of reality.

The
new law mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the
Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence and other
federal agencies to create a Global Engagement Center “to lead,
synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to
recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and
non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining
United States national security interests.” The law directs the
Center to be formed in 180 days and to share expertise among agencies
and to “coordinate with allied nations.”

The
legislation was initiated in March 2016, as the demonization of
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia was already underway and
was enacted amid the allegations of “Russian hacking” around the
U.S. presidential election and the mainstream media’s furor over
supposedly “fake news.” Defeated Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton voiced strong support for the bill: “It’s
imperative that leaders in both the private sector and the public
sector step up to protect our democracy, and innocent lives.”

The
new law is remarkable for a number of reasons, not the least because
it merges 
a
new McCarthyism
 about purported dissemination of Russian
“propaganda” on the Internet with 
a
new Orwellianism
 by creating a kind of Ministry of Truth –
or Global Engagement Center – to protect the American people from
“foreign propaganda and disinformation.”

As
part of the effort to detect and defeat these unwanted narratives,
the law authorizes the Center to: “Facilitate the use of a wide
range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among
Federal departments and agencies, seeking expertise from external
sources, and implementing best practices.” (This section is an
apparent reference to proposals that Google, Facebook and other
technology companies find ways to block or brand certain Internet
sites as 
purveyors
of “Russian propaganda” or “fake news.”
)

Justifying
this new bureaucracy, the bill’s sponsors argued that the existing
agencies for “
strategic
communications
” and “public
diplomacy
” were not enough, that the information threat
required “a whole-of-government approach leveraging all elements of
national power.”

The
law also is rife with irony since the U.S. government and related
agencies are among the world’s biggest purveyors of propaganda and
disinformation – or what you might call evidence-free claims, such
as the recent accusations of Russia hacking into Democratic emails to
“influence” the U.S. election.

Despite
these accusations — leaked by the Obama administration and embraced
as true by the mainstream U.S. news media — there is 
little
or no public evidence
 to support the charges. There is also
a contradictory 
analysis by
veteran U.S. intelligence professionals as well as statements
by 
Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange
 and an associate, former
British Ambassador Craig Murray
, that the Russians were not the
source of the leaks. Yet, the mainstream U.S. media has virtually
ignored this counter-evidence, appearing eager to collaborate with
the new “Global Engagement Center” even before it is
officially formed.

Of
course, there is a long history of U.S. disinformation and
propaganda. Former CIA agents Philip Agee and John Stockwell
documented how it was done decades ago, secretly planting “black
propaganda” and covertly funding media outlets to influence events
around the world, with much of the fake news blowing back into the
American media.

In
more recent decades, the U.S. government has adopted an Internet-era
version of that formula with an emphasis on having the State
Department or the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy
supply, train and pay “activists” and “citizen journalists”
to create and distribute propaganda and false stories via “social
media” and via contacts with the mainstream media. The U.S.
government’s strategy also seeks to undermine and discredit
journalists who challenge this orthodoxy. The new legislation
escalates this information war by tossing another $160 million into
the pot.

Propaganda
and Disinformation on Syria

Syria
is a good case study in the modern application of information
warfare. In her memoir 
Hard
Choices
,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote that the U.S.
provided “support for (Syrian) civilian opposition groups,
including satellite-linked computers, telephones, cameras, and
training for more than a thousand activists, students and independent
journalists.”

Indeed,
a huge amount of money has gone to “activists” and “civil
society” groups in Syria and other countries that have been
targeted for “regime change.” A lot of the money also goes to
parent organizations that are based in the United States and Europe,
so these efforts do not only support on-the-ground efforts to
undermine the targeted countries, but perhaps even more importantly,
the money influences and manipulates public opinion in the West.

In
North America, representatives from the Syrian 
“Local
Coordination Committees”
(LCC) were frequent guests on popular
media programs such as “DemocracyNow.” The message was clear:
there is a “revolution” in Syria against a “brutal regime”
personified in Bashar al-Assad. It was not mentioned that the “Local
Coordination Committees” have been primarily funded by the West,
specifically the Office for Syrian Opposition Support, which was
founded by the U.S. State Department and the U.K. Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.

More
recently, news and analysis about Syria has been conveyed through the
filter of the White Helmets, also known as Syrian Civil Defense. In
the Western news media, the White Helmets are described as neutral,
non-partisan, civilian volunteers courageously carrying out rescue
work in the war zone. In fact, the group is 
none
of the above.
 It was initiated by the U.S. and U.K. using a
British military contractor and Brooklyn-based marketing company.

While
they may have performed some genuine rescue operations, the White
Helmets are primarily a media organization with a political goal: to
promote NATO intervention in Syria. (The manipulation of public
opinion using the White Helmets and promoted by the New York Times
and Avaaz petition for a “No Fly Zone” in Syria is
documented
here.)

The
White Helmets hoax continues to be widely believed and receives
uncritical promotion though it has increasingly been exposed at
alternative media outlets as the creation of a 
“shady
PR firm
.” During critical times in the conflict in Aleppo,
White Helmet individuals have been used as the source for important
news stories despite a track record of 
deception.

Recent
Propaganda: Blatant Lies?

As
the armed groups in east Aleppo recently lost ground and then
collapsed, Western governments and allied media went into a frenzy of
accusations against Syria and Russia based on reports from sources
connected with the armed opposition. CNN host Wolf Blitzer described
Aleppo as “falling” in a “slaughter of these women and
children” while CNN host Jake Tapper referred to “genocide by
another name.”

The
Daily Beast published the claims of the Aleppo Siege Media Center
under the title
“Doomsday
is held in Aleppo” 
and amid accusations that the Syrian
army was executing civilians, burning them alive and “20 women
committed suicide in order not to be raped.” These sensational
claims were widely broadcast without verification. However, this
“news” on CNN and throughout Western media came from highly
biased sources and many of the claims – lacking anything
approaching independent corroboration – could be accurately
described as propaganda and disinformation.

Ironically,
some of the supposedly “Russian propaganda” sites, such as RT,
have provided first-hand on-the-ground reporting from the war zones
with verifiable information that contradicts the Western narrative
and thus has received almost no attention in the U.S. news media. For
instance, some of these non-Western outlets have shown videos of
popular celebrations over the “liberation of Aleppo.”

There
has been further corroboration of these realities from peace
activists, such as Jan Oberg of Transnational Foundation for Peace
and Future Research who published a
photo
essay 
of his eyewitness observations in Aleppo including the
happiness of civilians from east Aleppo reaching the
government-controlled areas of west Aleppo, finally freed from areas
that had been controlled by Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate and its
jihadist allies in Ahrar al-Sham.

Dr.
Nabil Antaki, a medical doctor from Aleppo, described the liberation
of Aleppo in an interview titled 
“Aleppo
is Celebrating, Free from Terrorists, the Western Media
Misinformed.”
 The first Christmas celebrations in Aleppo
in four years are shown 
here,replete
with marching band members in Santa Claus outfits. Journalist Vanessa
Beeley has published 
testimonies of
civilians from east Aleppo. The happiness of civilians at their
liberation is clear.

Whether
or not you wish to accept these depictions of the reality in Aleppo,
at a minimum, they reflect another side of the story that you have
been denied while being persistently force-fed the version favored by
the U.S. State Department. The goal of the new Global Engagement
Center to counter “foreign propaganda” is to ensure that you
never get to hear this alternative narrative to the Western
propaganda line.

Even
much earlier, contrary to the Western mythology of rebel “liberated
zones,” there was strong evidence that the armed groups were never
popular in Aleppo. American journalist James Foley described the
situation in 2012 like
 this:

Aleppo,
a city of about 3 million people, was once the financial heart of
Syria. As it continues to deteriorate, many civilians here are losing
patience with the increasingly violent and unrecognizable opposition
— one that is hampered by infighting and a lack of structure, and
deeply infiltrated by both foreign fighters and terrorist groups. The
rebels in Aleppo are predominantly from the countryside, further
alienating them from the urban crowd that once lived here peacefully,
in relative economic comfort and with little interference from the
authoritarian government of President Bashar al-Assad.”

On
Nov. 22, 2012, Foley was kidnapped in northwestern Syria and held by
Islamic State terrorists before his beheading in August 2014.



The
Overall Narrative on Syria

Analysis
of the Syrian conflict boils down to two competing narratives. One
narrative is that the conflict is a fight for freedom and democracy
against a brutal regime, a storyline promoted in the West and the
Gulf states, which have been 
fueling
the conflict from the start
. This narrative is also favored by
some self-styled “anti-imperialists” who want a “Syrian
revolution.”

The
other narrative is that the conflict is essentially a war of
aggression against a sovereign state, with the aggressors including
NATO countries, Gulf monarchies, Israel and Jordan. Domination of the
Western media by these powerful interests is so thorough that one
almost never gets access to this second narrative, which is
essentially banned from not only the mainstream but also much of the
liberal and progressive media.

For
example, listeners and viewers of the generally progressive TV and
radio program “DemocracyNow” have rarely if ever heard the second
narrative described in any detail. Instead, the program frequently
broadcasts the statements of Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Samantha Power and others associated with the U.S.
position. Rarely do you hear the viewpoint of the Syrian Ambassador
to the United Nations, the Syrian Foreign Minister or analysts inside
Syria and around the world who have written about and follow events
there closely.

DemocracyNow”
also has done repeated interviews with proponents of the “Syrian
revolution” while ignoring analysts who call the conflict a war of
aggression sponsored by the West and the Gulf monarchies. This
blackout of the second narrative continues despite the fact that many
prominent international figures see it as such. For example, the
former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua and former President of the UN
General Assembly, Father Miguel D’Escoto, has said, “What the
U.S. government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of
aggression, which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst
possible crime a State can commit against another State.”

In
many areas of politics, “DemocracyNow” is excellent and
challenges mainstream media. However in this area, coverage of the
Syrian conflict, the broadcast is biased, one-sided and echoes the
news and analysis of mainstream Western corporate media, showing the
extent of control over foreign policy news that already exists in the
United States and Europe.



Suppressing
and Censoring Challenges

Despite
the widespread censorship of alternative analyses on Syria and other
foreign hotspots that already exists in the West, the U.S.
government’s new “Global Engagement Center” will seek to ensure
that the censorship is even more complete with its goal to “counter
foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation.” We can
expect even more aggressive and better-financed assaults on the few
voices daring to challenge the West’s “group thinks” – smear
campaigns that are already quite extensive.

In
an article titled 
“Controlling
the Narrative on Syria”
, Louis Allday describes the criticisms
and attacks on journalists Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal for
straying from the “approved” Western narrative on Syria. Some of
the bullying and abuse has come from precisely those people, such as
Robin Yassin-Kassab, who have been frequent guests in liberal Western
media.

Reporters
who have returned from Syria with accounts that challenge the
propaganda themes that have permeated the Western media also have
come under attack. For instance, Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett
recently returned to North America after being in Syria and Aleppo,
conveying a very different image and critical of the West’s biased
media coverage. Bartlett appeared at a United Nations 
press
conference
 and then did numerous interviews across the
country during a speaking tour. During the course of her talks and
presentation, Bartlett criticized the White Helmets and questioned
whether it was true that Al Quds Hospital in opposition-held East
Aleppo was attacked and destroyed as claimed.

Bartlett’s
recounting of this information made her a target of Snopes, which has
been a mostly useful website exposing urban legends and false rumors
but has come under criticism itself for some internal 
challenges and
has been inconsistent in its investigations. In one report entitled
White
Helmet Hearsay,”
 Snopes’ writer Bethania Palmer says
claims the White Helmets are “linked to terrorists” is
“unproven,” but she overlooks numerous 
videos,
photos, and other reports showing White Helmet members celebrating a
Nusra/Al Qaeda battle victory, picking up the bodies of civilians
executed by a Nusra executioner, and having a member who
alternatively appears as a rebel/terrorist fighter with a weapon and
later wearing a White Helmet uniform. The “fact check” barely
scrapes the surface of public evidence.

The
same writer did another shallow “investigation” titled “victim
blaming”
 regarding Bartlett’s critique of White Helmet
videos and what happened at the Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo. Bartlett
suggests that some White Helmet videos may be fabricated and may
feature the same child at different times, i.e., photographs that
appear to show the same girl being rescued by White Helmet workers at
different places and times. While it is uncertain whether this
is the same girl, the similarity is clear.
 

The
Snopes writer goes on to criticize Bartlett for her comments about
the reported bombing of Al Quds Hospital in east Aleppo in April
2016. A statement at the 
websiteof
Doctors Without Borders says the building was “destroyed and
reduced to rubble,” but this was clearly false since photos show
the building with unclear damage. Five months later, the September
2016 
report by
Doctors Without Borders says the top two floors of the building were
destroyed and the ground floor Emergency Room damaged yet they
re-opened in two weeks.

The
many inconsistencies and contradictions in the statements of Doctors
Without Borders resulted in an 
open
letter
 to them. In their last report, Doctors Without
Borders (known by its French initials, MSF) acknowledges that “MSF
staff did not directly witness the attack and has not visited Al Quds
Hospital since 2014.”

Bartlett
referenced satellite images taken before and after the reported
attack on the hospital. The images do not show severe damage and it
is unclear whether or not there is any damage to the roof, the basis
for Bartlett’s statement. In the past week, independent journalists
have visited the scene of Al Quds Hospital and report that that the
top floors of the building are still there and damage is unclear.

The
Snopes’ investigation criticizing Bartlett was superficial and
ignored the broader issues of accuracy and integrity in the Western
media’s depiction of the Syrian conflict. Instead the article
appeared to be an effort to discredit the eyewitness observations and
analysis of a journalist who dared challenge the mainstream
narrative.

U.S.
propaganda and disinformation on Syria has been extremely effective
in misleading much of the American population. Thus, most Americans
are unaware how many billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on
yet another “regime change” project. The propaganda campaign –
having learned from the successful demonizations of Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and other targeted leaders – has
been so masterful regarding

Syria
that many liberal and progressive news outlets were pulled in. It has
been left to RT and some Internet outlets to challenge the U.S.
government and the mainstream media.

But
the U.S. government’s near total control of the message doesn’t
appear to be enough. Apparently even a few voices of dissent are a
few voices too many.

The
enactment of HR5181, “Countering Foreign Propaganda and
Disinformation,” suggests that the ruling powers seek to escalate
suppression of news and analyses that run counter to the official
narrative. Backed by a new infusion of $160 million, the plan is to
further squelch skeptical voices with operation for “countering”
and “refuting” what the U.S. government deems to be propaganda
and disinformation.

As
part of the $160 million package, funds can be used to hire or reward
“civil society groups, media content providers, nongovernmental
organizations, federally funded research and development centers,
private companies, or academic institutions.”

Among
the tasks that these private entities can be hired to perform is to
identify and investigate both print and online sources of news that
are deemed to be distributing “disinformation, misinformation, and
propaganda directed at the United States and its allies and
partners.”

In
other words, we are about to see an escalation of the information
war.

Rick
Sterling is an independent investigative journalist. He lives in the
San Francisco Bay Area and can be reached at rsterling1@gmail.com

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Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Agee, M. Blumenthal en Kassab,

White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland…………

De anti-Russische / Assad propaganda i.z. Syrië en Aleppo in het bijzonder, kent intussen geen grenzen meer, een zaak waar ik al veel over heb geschreven en waarover ik berichten overnam. De ‘White Helmets’ duiken telkens weer op in voornoemde propaganda als de grote helden en bron van betrouwbare informatie.

De volgende berichtgeving, o.a. van Counterpunch, gaat uitvoerig in op deze organisatie en na het lezen van nog veel meer stukken, kan ik echt geen andere conclusie trekken, dan dat deze organisatie in feite een terreurorganisatie is. Een organisatie die werd opgezet door een ex-officier van het Britse leger en o.a. betaald door de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Nederland en Denemarken…….. Overigens moet ik hier wel bij vermelden, dat ik door eerdere berichtgeving die ik tegenkwam, al tot dezelfde conclusie was gekomen, vandaar de woorden: ‘echt geen andere conclusie’.

Vanessa Beeley (journalist en mensenrechtenactivist) over de Witte Helmen:

The
White Helmets is not a charity, and neither are they ‘the good
guys’ despite their white helmets. The White Helmets is the
military propaganda arm of the Allies attempt at regime change by
destabilising Syria – and this is exactly what is causing the
refugee component of Europe’s migrant crisis in the first place.


The White Helmets was formed by a British military veteran, not Syrians, o
ne James Le Mesurie. Vanessa Beeley describes as:

A
British “security” specialist and ex-British military
intelligence officer, with an impressive track record in some of the
most dubious NATO intervention theatres including Bosnia and Kosovo,
as well as Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Vanessa Beeley
identifies Farouq Al Habib as one of them:

At
least three other members of the team were a part of the Syrian
“revolution” including Farouq al Habib, one of the 3 most
prominent White Helmet leaders who was also a leader of the Homs
uprising against the Syrian government and according to his
testimony, was tortured by the Syrian “regime” security forces in
2012 for smuggling a journalist into Syria to “cover” the
“peaceful protests”. Habib was a founder member of the ‘Homs
Revolutionary Council’ (the CIA have been linked to nearly all
‘Revolutionary Councils in Syria) before fleeing to Turkey in 2013


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Hier een artikel dat op 4 november jl. werd geplaatst op Counterpunch, het is geschreven door JAN
OBERG
:


Just
How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?

While
thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are
struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the
public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western
governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a
surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political
elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.

Their
name of course makes you think of the UN’s Blue Helmet and white is
the colour of those who should be protected in harm’s way – and
the colour of innocence. However, for many years there has been an
Argentinian relief organisation with the same name.

The
SCD or White Helmets counts nearly 3.000 rescue workers who operate
in very dangerous areas in rebel-held territories in Syria and claims
that it has, in three years, rescued about 70.000 lives according to
its Twitter account (or 65 per day).

Contrary
to what you might think, it isn’t a Syrian organisation because
Syria has its own organisation, incidentally also called Syria Civil
Defence, which was established in 1953 and is registered with ICDO,
the 
International
Civil Defence Organisation
,
since 1972.

The
White Helmets seems to have an annual budget of US$ 30 million and
has raised a total support of well over US$ 100 million. And it seems
that they operate exclusively in war zones in which the fighting
against the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab Army takes place,
i.e. in ‘liberated’ areas where hundreds of groups and some 80
countries, mainly NATO members, Gulf states and Saudi-Arabia,
operate.

On
the White Helmets’
 briefing
page
 it
is stated that “funding for their humanitarian relief work is
received from the aid budgets of Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom and the United States.”

Here
is how the 
Foreign
Ministry in Copenhagen explains
 the
roughly US$ 9 million to the White helmets from Denmark, a country
that bombs in both Iraq and Syria.

Other
civil society and humanitarian organisations inside Syria have not
been so fortunate. You’ve probably not heard that much about
the 
Syrian
Arab Red Crescent and its work
?
How much/little support have they received from Western
humanitarian-concerned governments? And in general, civil society
organisations in Syria – women, peace, human rights, culture, etc.
– have received nothing like US$ 100 million in a few years and no
one has such a flashy media appearance as the White Helmets.

The
White Helmets was started in 2013 by 
James
Le Mesurier
 who
seems to have tried a little of everything everywhere, including the
grey zones of special forces and intelligence in virtually all NATO
wars, Yugoslavia in particular. He later set up a foundation in
Holland to gather the funds. Here is 
a
recent account by Scott Ritter
,
former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and weapons inspector in
Iraq with tremendous knowledge of things Middle East:

The
organizational underpinnings of the White Helmets can be sourced to a
March 2013 meeting in Istanbul between a retired British military
officer, James Le Mesurier—who had experience in the murky world of
private security companies and the shadowy confluence between
national security and intelligence operations and international
organizations—and representatives of the Syrian National Council
(SNC) and the Qatari Red Crescent Society. Earlier that month, the
SNC was given Syria’s seat in the Arab League at a meeting of the
league held in Qatar.

At
that meeting, the SNC assumed Syria’s seat, and the Arab League
authorized member states to actively provide support, including arms
and ammunition, to the Syrian rebels. The Qataris, working through
the SNC, helped assemble for Le Mesurier $300,000 in seed money from
Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom for a seven-day
course designed to train and equip a 25-person rescue team, recruited
by the SNC, for duty in so-called “liberated areas” of Syria. The
SNC made available a pair of Syrian activists—Raed Saleh and Farouq
Habib—to assist Le Mesurier in this work.

The
group is – as will be seen below – treated as uncontroversial in
virtually all Western mainstream media. However, there is enough
material with documentation to merit caution.

If
you read media reports about the White Helmets and do not see the
author mention that this group’s real identity is disputed and
functions controversial you can be sure that you are wasting your
time with somebody who is politically incredibly naive, or gullible;
someone who has not done his or her research or is knowingly part of
a deceptive effort serving a one-sided political agenda.

The
White Helmets definitely is an controversial NGO – at the same time
as it is (made) difficult to understand clearly what it really is.

And
until the whole picture has been developed, anyone ought to be
cautious with taking information about them at face value. So much
must be clear given the links below.

Dual
purpose?

That
said, this author has not been on the ground but has studied both the
pro- et contra links provided below.

Some
observers draw the conclusion that the White Helmets – Syrian Civil
Defence – is purely good guys rescuing lots of people, children in
particular. The opposite advocacy claims that, all told, they are
part of the terrorist groups, serve Western governments with
intelligence and that their backers run political propaganda in their
name and that they are simply executioners – murderers with a human
face.

But
does it have to be either/or?

An
alternative hypothesis could be that the White Helmets is a
dual-purpose organisation. They claim to be ordinary Syrian
volunteers who came together around the idea of saving lives and are
truly altruistic “bakers, tailors, engineers, pharmacists,
painters, carpenters, students and many more, the White Helmets are
volunteers from all walks of life.” It could well be that some of
them actually are, even a majority.

That
doesn’t preclude that other elements – not the least those
operating outside Syria such as foundations, PR and marketing firms,
change organisations, NATO government and NGOs are in it with less
noble, war-promoting purposes.

Link
collection pro et contra

Find
below a link collection – long but fascinating in its wealth of
information. We bring it as a help to those seriously interested in
Syria’s fate and in studying how opinions are being built by means
of connected actors in a rather opaque networking structure, in how
NGOs have increasingly become Near-governmental organisations and for
those who do not want to sound foolish when they discuss these
matters.

First
some links to how the the White Helmets presents themselves. Second,
some mainstream media articles in their favour of and praising it –
including some that argue that the White Helmets ought to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize (which happens to be nonsense, since they don’t
even remotely qualify according to the criteria in Alfred Nobel’s
very clear will and the prize is not a general do-good-prize. In
addition, it must be doubted that the Nobel Committee will get more
persuaded by the White Helmets’ – quite immodest – campaign in
favour of their own candidacy).

Third
some links to the comprehensive network of organisations, including
governments, that the White Helmets seem to be part of – and it is
quite a confusing lot with absolutely no transparency – but quite a
few investigations have been carried out.

And
fourth and final – the main links to investigative reports and
other stuff that are sceptical in various degrees to the first three.

The
White Helmets present themselves:

The
Syrian Civil Defence – The White Helmets

The
White Helmet Homepage

On
the front page you are asked to sign an appeal for establishing a
No-Fly Zone (which would be a violation of international law).

Wikipedia’s
entry about the White Helmets

The
White Helmets’ media FAQs

Syria
Civil Defence on Facebook

The
White Helmets on Twitter

Netflix

Official
Trailer about White Helmets

The
Atlantic

The
makers of the Netflix movie give their background

Mayday
Rescue

Dutch
foundation supporting the White Helmets

According
to its website it channels government funds to the White Helmets:
“Syria Civil Defence receives funding (through Mayday Rescue and
Chemonics) from the governments of the UK, Holland, Denmark, Germany,
Japan, and the USA.”

Chemonics

A
US global development corporation through which government funds for
the White Helmets are channelled (according to Mayday Rescue).

White
Helmets themselves campaigning for the 2016 or 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

Sources
that promote the White Helmets without questioning

Time

How
the White Helmets are being hunted in a devastated Aleppo

Time

The
White Helmets of Syria

The
Economist

The
rise of Syria’s White Helmets

Syria’s
White Helmets

A
film by Danish journalist Nagieb Khaja shown on Al-Jazeera (30 secs
into the film one learns that they have saved more than 56.000 lives
“since the war began in 2011″ although the White Helmets were
formed in 2013).

Nominated
for an Oscar

The
Nobel Peace Prize must go to the White Helmets

The
Guardian view on the Nobel peace prize: give it to Syria’s White
Helmets – Editorial

Syria’s
White Helmets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The
White Helmets get the Right Livelihood Award

The
Right Livelihood’s motivation – almost a copy of the White
Helmets’ own story

Organisations
in the network around the White Helmets

Purpose

A
social movement creation and PR company that allegedly wants to
change the world, co-founded by Jeremy Heimans – whose mainstream,
politically correct background you see 
here.
Jeremy – of course – began his career with the strategy
consultants McKinsey & Company. He also happens to be a
co-founder of

Avaaz

Avaaz
means voice or song in several languages and the organisation is
known by millions as a petition platform for many good/progressive
causes. Avaaz has some 43 million members around the world and is
thus easily the largest NGO in the world.

Avaaz
has also created Purpose.com. Here Jeremy Heimans, co-founder of
Avaaz too, speaks to 
Forbes about
his background and what the two companies do.

Avaaz
is very active in promoting a No-Fly Zone in Syria
 which
it explains in a petition text with these words: “Let’s build a
resounding global call to Obama and other leaders to stand up to
Putin and Assad’s terror. This might be our last, best chance to
help end this mass murder of defenceless children. Add your name.”

The
sad thing is that it has learnt nothing from its own campaign for a
No-Fly Zone in Libya. John Hanrahan is a former executive director of
The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for The Washington
Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organisations has
made 
this
extremely interesting analysis
 about
how odd it is that Avaaz maintains an interventionist war-agenda in
spite of earlier experiences and resistance even by high-ranking
militaries.

Hanrahan
quotes Avaaz’s campaign director, former State Department official
John Tye, “that Avaaz shows 54,000 members in Syria in a population
of 23 million – which means that even if every Avaaz member
supported a no-fly zone, this would still mean that only one of every
426 Syrians had “voted” for one.

Avaaz
spearheads – at least in this matter – an extreme militarist
policy while “Avaaz is a global web movement to bring
people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere”. Which
people want a No-Fly Zone in Syria? Do they know it’s a violation
of a sovereign state’s airspace, of international law? That it
would embolden every terrorist on Syrian soil because they would get
rid of the Syrian Airforce as their enemy? That it continued into
regime change in both Iraq and Libya?

Many
questions unanswered by this peculiar “people power”
organisation, more militarist than governments!

But
back to Purpose.com and one of its important clients: 
The
Syria Campaign – home

They
maintain on 
their
website
 that
“The Syria Campaign is fiercely independent and has accepted no
money from governments, corporations or anyone directly involved in
the Syrian conflict. This allows us full autonomy to advocate for
whatever is needed to save lives.” But they also say that they have
accepted funds from the Asfari Foundation and the Rockefeller
Brothers Foundation and other anonymous donors.

The
Syria Campaign also states that it is only pro-human rights and
pro-freedom and takes no side. But they explain the conflict in these
words:

The
regime of Bashar al-Assad is responsible for crushing a peaceful
uprising that has led to the deaths of over 450,000 people, the
displacement of over 12 million – half the country – and the
emergence of violent, extremist groups like Isis.

Today
the fighting in Syria has given way to a world war with more than
eighty countries involved on all sides.

The
majority of Syrians want neither Assad nor Isis. They want an end to
the violence and a democratic Syria.

What
is happening in Syria could be happening to any of us. No one is free
until we’re all free.”

I
would characterise such a presentation as side-taking wrapped in
substance-free marketing jargon; a very politicised statement wearing
only black-and-white.

About
the Syria Campaign

What
the Syria Campaign is proud of: Impact page

The
Syria Campaign seeks all-stars senior campaigner and “You don’t
need to know anything about Syria”

The
Syria Campaign on Facebook

The
Syria Campaign on Twitter

Analysis,
Research and Knowledge (Ark)

A
private company, headquartered in Dubai, that describes itself as “a
research, conflict transformation and stabilisation consultancy”.

In
Syria “Ark has been at the forefront of the response to the
conflict … for the past five years”. 
One
of its two team members, Alistair Harris is described here
 advocating
two years ago that “moderates” should be armed to fight ISIS and
not only in Iraq but also in Syria.

The
British-based 
Asfari
Foundation
 for
change

White
Helmets, according to their website, received seed funding came from
the Asfari Foundation – 
trustees
of which
 are
heavily related to the oil industry and corporate finance. The Asfari
Foundation’s bonds with the Syria Campaign is dealt with 
here.

Sources
raising investigation-based questions about the White Helmets

Vanessa
Beeley

Syria’s
White Helmets: War by Way of Deception – Part I

Scott
Ritter at TruthDig

The
‘White Helmets’ and the Inherent Contradiction of America’s
Syria Policy

Hands
off Syria

The
White Helmets – al-Qaeda with a facelift (video)

Rick
Sterling

The
“White Helmets” Controversy

Vanessa
Beeley

Who
are Syria’s White Helmets?

Vanessa
Beeley

The
real Syrian Civil Defence

Christina
Lin, Asia Times

White
Helmets: Instrument of regime change in Syria?

Jonathan
Gornell

Newsmaker:
The White Helmets

Syria
Solidarity Movement

Its
list of humanitarian/human rights organisation that are pushing for
war on Syria and its government

Open
Letter from The Hamilton Coalition To Stop War

White
Helmets should NOT be Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Max
Blumenthal

Inside
the shadowy public relation firm that is lobbying for regime change
in Syria (I)

Max
Blumenthal

How
the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S.
Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria (II)

Rick
Sterling

Seven
steps of highly effective manipulators

21st
Century Wire

CrossTalk:
‘White Helmets, Really?’ with Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett &
Patrick Henningsen (video)

Russia
Today

Multi-million
funded – can’t be independent

General
reasons for concern about the real identity of the White Helmets

Here
are some of the reasons – numbers not indicative of priority:

+
Huge funding by NATO/EU countries which are militarily involved.

+ A
degree of political lobbying – a very specific explanation of the
conflict and how it started which points to a no-fly zone,
weaponization of human rights issues and speaks strongly against the
Syrian government and Russia and very critically of the UN – that
is extremely unusual for a purely humanitarian organisation.

+
Incredibly advanced public relation in terms of very professional
websites, videos and PR strategy dropping the right stories and
images at the right time – quite unique for a group of “bakers,
tailors and students” etc..

+
Too professional wordings and images, too much playing to
(exploitation of) emotions, too catchy smart formulations again and
again; in short, lacking every sense of genuine local quality. Too
many children – and 
cats –
in the images speaking to an audience with little politically
consciousness but surely a good heart. In short, populist marketing
also in the sense of conveying the message: Look how good we are and
how evil everybody else are.

+
Guilt by association: If the White Helmets is a 100% humanitarian
first responder organisation it must be extremely naive in ignoring
that its integrity, credibility and noble purposes is put at risk
with the specific network of organisations and governments that it
has chosen to seek support from.

+
Substance versus public relation: how does a humanitarian
organisation justify that millions of dollars are spent on
self-promoting public relation rather than on saving more lives in
such a horrific war? And taking so many photos and shoot films of its
own work in the midst of massacres and bombing raids?

+
It’s very difficult to discern who actually manages the White
Helmets in general and in terms of day-to-day operations. One looks
in vain for something like an organisational chart secretary-general,
board, executive director (although one is mentioned, Raed Saleh,
whom the US has on one occasion actually denied entry into the US).

+
How come that such an innovative organisation seems to have been
started in circles that have to do with oil interests, British
intelligence, mercenary/military operations and
interventionist/bombing countries?

+
How come it works only in rebel/terrorist/liberated areas? Could it
do that without co-operation or co-ordination with some of these
groups? It has been stated – naively – by the Right Livelihood
Award Foundation that their vision is to operate also on
government-controlled territory and later be a leader in re-building
a new democratic post-war Syria. However, why should the sovereign
state of Syria’s legitimate government accept a foreign-based and
-financed civil defence territory there when it has had its own since
1953?

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor white helmets with guns

Perhaps
we should not be that surprised?

Should
we be surprised that humanitarian workers are involved in “something
else” and are not exclusively devoted to doing no harm and doing
good for humanity?

Not
really. I’ve met that sort of people and organisations during the
dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, among other places at the US
Embassy in Zagreb where the humanitarian section people, most likely
CIA operatives, after some talk with me about helping the people
switched to talk about how good it would be if president Milosevic
was killed.

Are
humanitarian organisations – like most other NGOs today – highly
or completely dependent on governments? Yes, most are. And they
should therefore always be checked for possible moral corruption and
co-optation. Many are no longer Non- but Near-governmental and
behave, at minimum, politically correct or serve/promote the
interests of their governments one way or the other.

Wasn’t Doctors
Without Borders
 started
by Bernard Kouchner who advocated military humanitarian intervention
as an idea, did the dirty job for NATO in Kosovo and
morally 
advocated the
bombing of Libya as a “peace guarantee”? Here an
interesting 
video
debate
 with
him at Oxford by Mehdi Hasan.

Should
it be so surprising that – even liberal, democratic – governments
propagandise, construct concrete stories to appeal to the human heart
in us all (for a good cause) and that they regularly lie, do
fear-mongering, use stereotyping and demonisation, present
black-and-white narratives – all of which serve their elites’
interests and may not always be that noble in reality?

Think
of the 
ugly
shadow world of the global arms trade
 in
which virtually all governments take part in?

Of
course not. No wars would be possible without one of more of these
ingredients.

Think
of the – invented – story about the Iraqi soldiers who kicked out
babies of incubators in Kuwait city – 
all
invented as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations
campaign which was run by American Hill & Knowlton for the
Kuwaiti government.

Or,
remember 
James
Harf of the US public relations firm, Ruder and Finn
,
who in 1991 was hired by the Croatian and Bosnian governments as well
as by the Kosovo-Albanians to create and promote an anti-Serb
attitude in the Western media?

Says
Harf “We were able to equate Serbs to Nazis in public opinion…”
Some kind of balance or truth didn’t interest him: “We are
professionals. We have got a job to do and we do it.”

If
there is anything new in this field since the early 1990s it is the
spectrum, the depth, the money and the intensity with which public
opinion is being deceived about war and peace – that war today is
peace and peace is preserved by violence. And the de facto
replacement of knowledge and texts by purpose-driven, mediatized and
emotionalised “narratives” and images and films – right down on
you phone and into your mind.

In
summary: Illusions about our goodness that feed social narcissism and
the MIMAC

I
do not believe that I know exactly what the whole story and the truth
is about the White Helmets. But I know that quite a few things don’t
feel right.

As
a sociologist and peace researcher with four decades of academic and
practical experience of global affairs and work in conflict zones,
the word spoken by the guard Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at
Kronborg Castle in my native Denmark come to mind: “There is
something rotten in the state…” not only in the bombing state of
Denmark (that supports the White Helmets) but also in the state of
the – free – media coverage of conflicts and wars.

If,
thus, you are generally sceptical of Western media coverage of wars
fought by the West and specifically of the story of the White Helmets
as a purely brave humanitarian organisation – are you then
automatically pro-Assad, pro-Russia or pro-bombing? If you are
critical to A, must you automatically endorse everything B or C does?

Given
the “Zeitgeist” of these times, my hunch is that the
anti-intellectual’s, the propagandist’s and the blamegamer’s
answer is a roaring “Yes!” Personally, I couldn’t care less but
there is reason to worry about the fact that our media are not free
to take up the issues dealt with here.

Pulitzer
prize winner, Chris Hedges, talks about 
“the
incessant manufacturing of illusions that feed social
narcissism.”
 The
– unwinnable – wars the West fights with the illusory ideology of
spreading goodness, democracy, freedom and peace as well as the
alleged good role of the White Helmets in it is little else but an
expression of such an incessant manufacturing of illusions that feed
social narcissism of the many while filling the pockets of the few in
the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC).

It’s
time to give reality show politics and media a reality check. But who
can and who will? And who dares now everything will get worse after
November 8?

Join
the debate on Facebook

Jan
Oberg 
is
director of the 
Transnational
Foundation for Peace & Future Research
 in
Lund, Sweden.

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Hier een ‘reclame Tweet’ van de Witte Helmen:

Al-Nusra en White Helmets werken samen: Muawiya Hassan Agha, die bovenop een Al Nusra tank staat met een wapen in z’n hand:

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Rick Sterling, a member of the steering committee of the Syrian Solidarity Movement, posted in 2015 five articles to CounterPunch on the White Helmets.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/31/humanitarians-for-war-on-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/03/about-those-chlorine-gas-attacks-in-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/20/biased-reporting-on-syria-in-the-service-of-war/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/14/eight-problems-with-amnestys-report-on-aleppo-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/what-has-changed-since-aylan-kurdis-death/

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Eén van de manieren waarop u wordt besodemieterd over de situatie in Aleppo, kwam ik vandaag tegen op Information Clearing House: 5 Arrested After Egyptian Police Bust Staged Photo Shoot Of “Wounded Aleppo Children”: Police arrested five people for making staged “wounded children” photos, which they were planning to use to misrepresent on social media as photos of destruction and injured people in Syria’s Aleppo >> lees verder

Zie ook: White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie

        en: Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

        en: ‘VS vermoordt 40 burgers in de Syrische provincie Deir ez-Zor

        en: ‘White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto’s van de W.H. leden

        en: ‘White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere links over de White Helmets in dat bericht)

        en: ‘White Helmets oorlogsporno geweerd van Oscarceremonie

        en:  ‘Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..

        en: Extracting
Aleppo from the Propaganda:
Interviewwith Eva Bartlett, an independent western journalists covering thehorrific conflict in Syria‘. (van Information Clearing House, met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)


        en: ‘Russische troepen hebben massagraven in Oost-Aleppo gevonden………

        en: ‘Oost-Aleppo: de leugens van de reguliere media, Rutte 2, de Tweede Kamer en ‘deskundigen’ doorgeprikt middels een VN missie!!


       en: ‘Ruslandfobie: anti-Russische propaganda, waarvoor Goebbels zich niet zou hebben geschaamd!


       en: Nep-nieuws de norm bij NOS en Volkskrant

       en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!

       en:  ‘Russophobia: War Party Propaganda

       en: ‘Helga Salemon mag volk opzetten tegen Rusland bij ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS….. Liegen dat het gedrukt staat!!

       en: ‘Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!

       en: ‘Fallujah en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media………

       en: ‘Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson

       en: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2

       en: ‘‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……

      en: ‘White Helmets nogmaals ontmaskert als terreurorganisatie: de oprichter is een Britse ex-huurling…….

       en: ‘Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Voor (nog meer) berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

Oost-Aleppo: de leugens van de reguliere media, Rutte 2, de Tweede Kamer en ‘deskundigen’ doorgeprikt middels een VN missie!!

De Canadese journalist Eva Bartlett, die deelnam aan VN missie voor Aleppo, vertelde over wat er echt gebeurde en gebeurt in Oost-Aleppo. Bovendien gaf ze ‘de waarde’ van bronnen weer, waarop Syrië en Rusland werden en worden veroordeeld in de reguliere westerse pers en door de westerse politiek….. Een video van 3 minuten:

The
Agenda of Corporate Media Is Regime Change’ in Syria

Independent
journalist Eva Bartlett sets a smug reporter straight during a UN
Syria Mission press conference.

December
11, 2016

The Guardian geeft het nog niet keihard toe, maar tussen de regels door lees je over de terreur die de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars…) loslieten en laten op de bevolking van Oost-Aleppo…… >> ‘Aleppo’s terrified residents flee rebel districts, death and hunger

Zie ook: ‘Aleppo: Sander van Hoorn met ongezouten anti-Russische propaganda, gebaseerd op ‘van horen en zeggen…….’

       en: ‘Aleppo: burgers dolblij met bevrijding door reguliere Syrische leger!!

       en: ‘Aleppo, getuigenissen uit het bevrijde oostelijk deel van die stad

       en: ‘Russische troepen hebben massagraven in Oost-Aleppo gevonden………

       en: ‘Palmyra (Syrië) heroverd door IS troepen uit Irak >> verzwegen smeerlapperij……..

       en: ‘Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..‘ Middels subsidie aan de Witte Helmen, plus een analyse van deze terreurgroep.

       en: ‘Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!

       en: ‘Aleppo: ‘gematigde rebellen’ gebruiken gifgas en witte fosfor om bevrijd gebied te bestoken………

       en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!

       en:  ‘Russophobia: War Party Propaganda

       en: ‘BBC World Service met onversneden anti-Russische propaganda i.z. Syrië……..

       en: ‘‘BBC Propaganda’ ‘Ken Loach just proved beyond doubt that the BBC is brainwashing the British public’‘ [VIDEO] 

       en: ‘Russian, Syrian Jets Did Not Conduct Airstrikes on UN Convoy in Aleppo – MoD

       en: ‘Helga Salemon mag volk opzetten tegen Rusland bij ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS….. Liegen dat het gedrukt staat!!

       en: ‘Fallujah en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media………

       en: ‘Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson

       en: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2

       en: ‘‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘Bartlett’. Het label SOHR, staat voor Syrian Observatory for Human Richts, een anti-Assad organisatie gehuisvest in Coventry, Engeland….. Deze ‘organisatie’ bestaat uit één man, een gewezen Syrische crimineel, o.a. vaak geciteerd door de BBC, maar ook de NOS gebruikt deze oplichter als bron voor berichten, zoals vanmorgen in het Radio1 nieuws van 11.00 u……..

Hier de langere versie van de hiervoor geplaatste video, met een duur van 18 minuten, zien mensen!