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Media Watch • 6 years ago

Excellent article - the ITN forgery shows explicitly how the media acts as the propaganda arm of the state. The playbook of the war party is now well established and honed through years of practice. Inflame a troubled spot by funneling arms until it bursts into violent conflict. This is immediately followed by a propaganda tsunami that puts black hats on one side and white hats on the other. Use plenty of fake stories and take real violent episodes out of context whilst dehumanizing the bad guys as evil monsters.

That this has been happening in Syria is obvious for anyone willing to be objective and look at the facts. When Aleppo was being recovered by the SAA the propagandists were hard at work using words like "regime" (for the security forces) and "Aleppo fallen". Compare that to Mosul where the Iraqi army was described by the nicely legitimizing term "security forces" and the terrorists actually described as terrorists, or Islamic State. When whole blocks in Mosul were flattened together with their civilian occupants, this was completely ignored by the propaganda outlets, whereas, ficticious incidents in Aleppo were fabricated by actors and portrayed as atrocities.

Rollo10 • 6 years ago

But no western media have entered Syria. They rely on Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in a flat in Coventry, for their information and wont use Vanessa Bealey or Eva Bartlett, who are 'on-site' and reporting facts! https://sputniknews.com/mid...

Media Watch • 6 years ago

Good point. The Western media aren't even witnesses. Vanessa and Eva are true journalists of great character.

Win • 6 years ago

They also rely heavily on staged propaganda from the White Helmets. News reports to New Zealand show the obvious staging - Once you know how the WHs stage these scenes. But not many people know about this so they get away with literally murder. Disgusting. Ashamed to be from a Western country.

mark • 6 years ago

This character in Coventry makes detailed pronouncements on casualties and events supplied by his terrorist buddies in Syria. He hasn't been in Syria himself for 20 years. His little one man band was set up by MI6. Britain has subsidised terror groups like ISIS and Al Qaida to the tune of £2,500 million of British taxpayers money, making Britain one of the leading state sponsors of terror in the world, after the JEWSA and Israel. The "White Helmets", the White Hats, were set up by a British Blackwater-style mercenary leader.

Media Watch • 6 years ago

There is a good article by Moon of Alabama:

https://www.sott.net/articl...

In his view East Ghouta is being geared up by the western media to be the new Aleppo in terms of propaganda. The actual assault hasn't even begun yet, but the media are already in action, as well as Nato trolls lamenting about "atrocities".

East Ghouta has 3 Takfiri terrorist groups acting within it, including Al Nusra, who have been shelling and killing civilians. The UNSC resolutions 2249 and 2254 demand that Al Queda related terrorist pockets be removed. So far, the Syrian government has set up way points for the civilians to leave the area and leafleted them with details of these routes. Probably half of the 400,000 residents have already left. At some point the assault will begin in earnest. Expect to see massive front page propaganda blitzes, and calls for Nato intervention. Expect to see waves of white helmets "rescuing" the same individuals numerous times. Expect to see a new "East Ghouta" boy.

Guest • 6 years ago
tomo stojanovic • 6 years ago

I agree with the article - I lived in London during the war and they managed to fool me too (as Serb who left 3 years before the war). Such is a power of BBC and other CIA- owned Mockingbird media. Only years later, one by one the stories from investigative journalists came out - and I realized my intuition was right. Although I believed BBC and other fraud - what I read seemed very un-intuitive - it made no sense and was out of context and the nature of Yugoslavians I remembered growing up there.
I remember once in Toronto I read about 10 years after Srebrenica (and I believed that fake story too) - there was an article from the former commander of NATO in Bosnia - he wrote how it was not at all a genocide and for the first time I read what really happened - Bosnian muslims were leaving Dutch protected territory at night to burn Serbian villages - after many such adventures Serbs retaliated - I was made to believe by BBC etc that Serbs just went there for no reason and killed everyone (the NATO commander said Serbs only killed men of fighting age - so no genocide)
Interestingly I think Syria/Assad were defending NATO and Muslims - as far as i remember they were very much against Serbs - interesting how they find themselves in the same situation (i.e like Serbs - and not like Al-Qauda - assisted Bosnian muslims they supported so much)

Guest • 6 years ago
hope springs eternal. • 6 years ago

The Clintons again! I understand from these sites, that Hillary was the one needling Bill to break up Yugoslavia. For what heaven knows. They (NATO) destroyed a perfectly fine country..and then repeat with Iraq, Libya, and now Syria. Have no words to describe these blood thirsty devils.

io • 6 years ago

Seems to me from what I can figure is that clinton & co, among other nefarious deeds, wanted to put a military base there which is close to the middle east and Russia for their intended attacks, destruction, "regime" change plans and ongoing global conquest.?

Guest • 6 years ago
hope springs eternal. • 6 years ago

The public has realised the corruption...the dashed swamp is so deep. It seems like eternity to get them to justice!

John C Carleton • 6 years ago

They would just make up crap anyway.
But i agree, why let their presence there buttress their lies in the mind of the sheep.

mark • 6 years ago

All of the western Lugenpresse should be kicked out of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela. Treat them like the lying rats they are.

tomo stojanovic • 6 years ago

and South America too - I noticed in Argentina CNN is the only 'free' English speaking channel.
Predatory brainwashing as a prelude for more Friedman-like rape of Latin America?

mark • 6 years ago

I think RT has been banned in Argentina since the latest US satrap took over.

tomo stojanovic • 6 years ago

and I was telling all my friends in Argentina to not watch CNN but to go for RT instead - and nobody I know there heard of RT

Petar Petrovic • 6 years ago

In Sarajevo, today's capital of Bosnia till 1991 there was over 180.000 strong Serb population( the rest was over 200.000 muslims, 80.000 Croats and others).Today there are only 10.000 Serbs living in Sarajevo as second class citizens Today Sarajevo rather resembles Tehran than an European christian city...and that is all thanks to "greatest" christian nation on the earth..namely USA.
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Paw • 6 years ago

Watch. Syria and Yugoslavia and Lybia will spread into whole world...because of Globalization ideology must rule everywhere...
With help of the Police,terrorists , Pentagon, Nato etc.

mark • 6 years ago

What happened in Bosnia was that 500 Muslims were killed by Serbian paramilitaries.
This was later inflated to 8,000 by the sewer hacks of the MSM, like the Zionist Guardian..
This was an (unjustified) retaliation to the murder of 2,000 Serbian civilians by Bosnian Muslim paramilitaries.
But none of this will ever appear in the MSM.
If we have been lied to in this case, and over Iraq/ Syria/ Libya/ Ukraine/ Gulf of Tonkin/ Gladio, it makes you wonder what the truth is about 9/11, the "Holocaust", and so much else. I think we all now Know the answer to that.

Paw • 6 years ago

Islamists and armed,in service of Globalist fascists from the whole world were sent to former Yugoslavia to destroy it.

dan kopfz • 6 years ago

Reality is this: East Ghouta is full of hundreds of NATO forces that are there training and giving logistical support to Al-Qaeda. It's Syria's Debaltseve.

This is why the Western hysteria and urgency about this particular region of Syria.

dan kopfz • 6 years ago

Syria should parade the foreigners they find in this pocket before the cameras, then sentence them to life in the deepest darkest prison they can build.

I remember a press conference by the Syrian UN ambassador after the SAA liberated Aleppo. He said they had found 14 foreign military/inteligence agents hiding there, among them an American and an Israeli. He gave their names, and promised to parade them before the press, but that didn't happen, I guess they reached some agreement with their governments.

bluewater • 6 years ago

These air views of that horrible destruction are heartwrenching! But reconstruction has already begun, and I hope the war will be over soon. I believe the Turkish invasion will secure the borders so no new terrorists can enter the Afrin area, and then they and the Kurds will surrender the territory to the Syrian government.

Veraminow • 6 years ago

"Some claim the entire thing ( the official Srebrenica Massacre narrative ) was a “political fraud“.

Because it is.

The figures, the forensic methodology, the credibility of key witnesses, and the ICTY's ad hoc rules of procedure would not stand up to scrutiny in any normal court of law.

The so called “Srebrenica Massacre” of 1995 is the cornerstone of the official MSM narrative of events of the Balkan Wars of the 1990’s and the most often cited reason for US ( and NATO ) intervention in the wars of the former Yugoslavia.
This is AFTER the US had sabotaged several attempts at reaching a peace, including the Lisbon Agreement of 1992, and thereby prolonged the war for another three more bloody years.
The indispensable nation then declared Europe as incapable of providing for her own security.

The Srebrenica hoax has served as a justification for ‘humanitarian’ military interventions ever since.

Quote:

"Its significance cannot be overstated: the massacre triggered a NATO bombing campaign that is widely credited with ending the Bosnian War and giving NATO a new lease on life after the fall of the Soviet Union. Ever since, the Srebrenica precedent has been invoked to justify military interventions around the globe.

In 2005, Christopher Hitchens defended the US decision to invade Iraq with an article entitled “From Srebrenica to Baghdad.” In 2011, when Guardian columnist Peter Preston advocated military intervention in Libya, his article began with the words: “Remember Srebrenica?”
In 2012, a call in CNN for Western intervention in Syria appeared under the title “Syria, Sarajevo, and Srebrenica.” And a 2014 article on ISIS advances in Syria warned of a possible “New Srebrenica,” with the implication that Western military action was needed to prevent this calamity.

When supporters of military intervention cite Srebrenica, it’s often to insist on the need to dispense with diplomacy and use decisive military force in response to humanitarian emergencies. As a 2006 New Republic editorial succinctly argued, “In the response to most foreign policy crises, the use of military force is properly viewed as a last resort. In the response to genocide, the use of military force is properly viewed as a first resort.” Given the broad way that genocide is now defined, this is a call for interventions without limit.”

The Srebrenica Precedent - David N. Gibbs

Amigos de la Tierra. • 6 years ago

We are moving toward a global war that will become
nuclear if an international anti-war movement doesn’t quickly arise to
stop it.Most people bemoan
the thought of such a war to end all wars, but refuse to analyze the
factors leading to it.It happens step-by-step, and many steps have
already been taken with more coming soon.It’s so obvious that most can’t see it, or don’t want to.The
corporate mainstream media are enemies of the truth; are clearly part
of the continuation of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, and those who
still rely on them for the truth are beyond reach. Douglas Valentine, in The CIA as Organized Crime,
says the CIA has long aimed to use and co-opt the “Compatible Left,
which in America translates into liberals and pseudo-intellectual status
seekers who are easily influenced.”
http://www.greanvillepost.c...

mark • 6 years ago

There won't be an anti war movement, certainly not until war has already started and millions of people in western countries are suffering as a result.
But it doesn't make any difference if there is.
In 2003, 30 million people took part in demonstrations against Iraq, 2 million in Britain and 3 million in Italy.
It didn't make a scrap of difference - they just went ahead and did it anyway.

Promitheas Apollonious • 6 years ago

Sometimes war is the only answer to stop what already destroy everything, that has to do with principle and family value. If none oppose them then, they win and you become a slave. And words will not make the change so maybe is time all who want peace, to prepare for the final war.

bup • 6 years ago

As a plan "A" NATO wanted ex Yugoslavia as a whole into this notorious North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

The events led to the plan "B" bringing parts of ex Yugoslavia into NATO.

By now the four parts of ex Yugoslavia are in NATO.
Slovenia and Croatia Roman Catholic , Montenegro Orthodox, Kosovo Muslim.

Two parts are out, for now, Serbia and Bosnia.

Macedonia is is a half member of NATO and has not become the full member only because Greece has objection.

Many EU countries have become members of NATO ( like Portugal ) because they fear more the US than Russia.

Lars • 6 years ago

True, but look up the James Harff interview - who lies first, wins. No amount of money spent on demonstrating truth or inconsistencies can alter the PR impression once established. Furthermore, the state department barred the Serbian government from hiring PR agencies (to at least lessen the 50:1 ratio of anti-Serb stories to neutral). The war was planned long before the first bullet.
The mass casualty events, (such as vase miskin massacre - a klaymore mine, not a mortar shell ) were immediately followed by CNN/MSM hatchet jobs, followed by UN sanctions, threats - within hours. This is the western 2 step. Fortunately, in Syria the RF has intervened, and is challenging the 2 step. Yet, familiar faces are present such as James Le Mesurier (Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Syria).

Veritas Vincit • 6 years ago

- "In 2002, an official Dutch inquiry revealed that the intelligence agencies of Iran, Turkey and the US organized a vast arms smuggling operation into Bosnia, with financial backing of Saudi Arabia, to deliver the arms to radical Islamist groups. The Pentagon was intimately involved in this operation..... in 1998, the US State Department removed the KLA from its list of terrorist organizations. Before and after 1998, the KLA [affiliated with al-Qaeda] was receiving arms, training and support from the US and NATO, and Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, was close with KLA leader Hashim Thaci.... Both the CIA and German intelligence, the BND, supported the KLA terrorists in Yugoslavia prior to and after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.... Others that engaged in arming and training the KLA included the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), British Secret Service (MI6), the British Special Forces (SAS), and three British and American private security companies... the war in Yugoslavia was waged in order to enlarge NATO" (Breaking Yugoslavia, Jul 21, 2008)

- "Kosovo is home to one of America's largest military bases, Camp Bondsteel. Bondsteel was built on contract to the Pentagon by Halliburton, through its engineering subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR).... The US and NATO had advanced plans to bomb Yugoslavia before 1999, and many European political leaders now believe that the US deliberately used the bombing of Yugoslavia to establish camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. According to Colonel Robert L. McCure, “Engineering planning for operations in Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped.”

- "One of the objectives underlying Camp Bondsteel was to protect the Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian Oil (AMBO) pipeline project..... two years prior to the invasion, in 1997, a senior executive of `Brown & Root Energy, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Edward L. (Ted) Ferguson had been appointed to head AMBO." (The Criminalization of the State: "Independent Kosovo", a Territory under US-NATO Military Rule, February 4, 2008), etc.....

- "Just as the Bosnian conflict was part of an effort to secure the Balkan states for an oil and gas pipeline to the European energy market, so the US is seeking secure passage for a pipeline through Afghanistan [TAPI] to feed the Asian energy markets and the US itself." (The Bush Administration's Afghan Carpet, Players on a rigged grand chessboard: Bridas, Unocal and the Afghanistan pipeline, Online Journal, 10 March 2002) [reports reveal U.S. efforts to secure Rare Earth Element (REE) resources in Afghanistan and an intention to maintain permanent military bases in the region]

The notion that the U.S. is fighting terrorism is incompatible with its ongoing support of terrorist affiliated/command linked groups as part of proxy warfare operations. Indeed, various U.S. analysts have openly stated the U.S. objective is to facilitate the ongoing destabilisation of Syria through ongoing proxy warfare operations, not allowing any side to comprehensively win, while securing Syrian resources through proxies. Such operations (including proxy warfare) are not only in violation of international law but conform to war crimes and the support of terrorist operations.

Western media have long abandoned actual journalism in preference to propaganda (with such propaganda aligned with and often in coordination with terrorist affiliated groups [including the 'White Helmets'] both seeking regime change through mechanisms that violate International law).

Veritas Vincit • 6 years ago

p2.
The escalating situation in Syria is merely an aspect of a broader context. Indeed, in addition to evidence of further false flag operations to facilitate plans for the escalation of military operations, the foundations for more profound conflicts are in place. These include: escalating actions against the DPRK (economic strangulation/pre-war mobilisation of forces); the U.S. progressively acting towards the partition of Taiwan (which would result in war); polarisation of S China Sea claims (to engineer anti-China military alliances); U.S.-NATO-Ukrainian pre-offensive build-up concurrent with 're-integration' laws defining a state of war against the Russian Federation (accusation of 'Russian aggression' as Ukraine and its partners abandon any pretence of Minsk agreement compliance openly declaring the preference for a military solution against ethnic Russian populations); U.S. moves to sabotage the JCPOA (to escalate hostile actions against Iran); intensification of proxy warfare/partition operations against Syria; etc........

As such, the current situation is likely a relative calm preceding more profound levels of conflict. Unfortunately many do not understand the horror of war they advocate (as Western mainstream media does) and inflict on others until they experience it themselves. In time they shall likely understand.

Note: If an event of nuclear warfare in time occurs, it does not translate to human extinction. It would however eclipse all previous wars. It is reasonable to expect a time of retribution would follow and it is self evident many survivors affiliated with the U.S.-NATO-allied bloc would be held responsible for involvement in the application of war policies and war propaganda. Many nations would be largely destroyed and the U.S. would no longer be there to offer immunity from accountability. Indeed, it should be self evident those affiliated with U.S.-NATO-allied bloc policies, actions and war propaganda, which would include government, intelligence, military, strategic policy architects, media, legal functionaries/facilitators, etc.] would only survive the initial horror to envy the dead.

Time will reveal if I am correct or not. I hope that I am wrong but I am comfortable and confident I am not.

John C Carleton • 6 years ago

Good read on this.

Syria-The Two East-Ghouta Campaigns-One is for Liberation-The Other to Save Terrorist-Moon of Alabama
http://www.moonofalabama.or...

'Russia Blamed for the Eastern Ghouta Crisis: the West's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds'-Strategic Culture
https://www.strategic-cultu...

Veritas Vincit • 6 years ago

The criminality of Western governments is well established.

- "Diplomatic sources [disclosed] the U.S. "bought weapons from the stockpiles of [Libya]...... The man who organized that shipment, Tripoli Military Council head Abdelhakim Belhadj [commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), designated a terrorist entity for its association with al-Qaeda], worked directly with [U.S. Ambassador Chris] Stevens during the Libyan revolution.... The Wall Street Journal reported that the State Department presence in Benghazi "provided diplomatic cover" for the now-exposed CIA annex." (REPORT: The US Is Openly Sending Heavy Weapons From Libya To Syrian Rebels, Business Insider, Dec. 9, 2012)

- "A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdogan administrations. It pertained to the rat line.... the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities...... The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director....." (The Red Line and the Rat Line, Seymour M Hersh) [To Western MSM: The support of terrorist affiliated/command linked groups and proxy warfare operations are in violation of International law]

Western mainstream media that seek to conceal cooperation between Western diplomatic services/intelligence agencies and terrorist affiliated/command linked groups display complicity/approval in these crimes.

Of course it is understood no serious investigation or prosecution against those involved in such activities will occur (speaking volumes about the integrity of law enforcement agencies and judicial bodies. It also makes a mockery of those who claim to represent a "rules based international order").

Note: While the Western MSM again engages in atrocity propaganda/war propaganda [distortions and false accusations], ignoring crimes committed by allied parties (such as wars of aggression against successive strategic opponents, constituting war crimes) while misrepresenting situations involving strategic adversaries in efforts to demonise, exposing the crimes of Western governments (facilitated in coordination with Western media sources) is an easy and effective response.

alexwest11 • 6 years ago

NEW RUSSIANS SU 57 MAKE SURE

NOT A SINGLE TERRORIST WILL SURVIVE!!!!!!!

AHAHAHAH!!!!!!

daveycrockett • 6 years ago

What a cock up! Yugoslavia 2.0 has a couple of flies in the ointment for the globalists. Russia and the internet!

Bill Spence • 6 years ago

the Russian and Assad have been dilly dallying for too long.

alexwest11 • 6 years ago

who reads mass media junk ??????

morons!!!!!!

its just a slow dying hobby.

most old papers are dead, low circulation, and/ or on oligarch's payroll !!!!!

bup • 6 years ago

I will add some more - for those who did not follow the war in Yugoslavia.

As a plan "A" NATO wanted ex Yugoslavia as a whole into this notorious North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

Plan "AA" was to take all parts of Yugoslavia into NATO.
It means all six republics and one province of Serbia ( Kosovo ) into NATO under condition that all players accept the borders created during Tito in Federal Republic Yugoslavia.

The problem arose when the Serbian leadership did not want to accept those borders.

P.S.
Regarding the status Kosovo the thing is a little bit more complicated and I did not the best and fully explain because of limited time.

Mia Williams • 6 years ago

"400,000 People ... Live In Hell On Earth': Bombing Of Syrian Suburbs Kills Hundreds"
https://www.npr.org/section...

Xe • 6 years ago

M O D E R A TO R
Please, could you be kind and ban this Troll?
No respecting newspapers would allow this behaviour of ideologically sick people.

Seán Murphy • 6 years ago

That's Russ Russell posting under a different name, as he's already been banned. Keep reporting him, until he gets banned under this name, too.

Media Watch • 6 years ago

Here is an article by Moon of Alabama explaining how the Western media is spreading fake news and propaganda (just like you, actually).

https://www.sott.net/

He explains how the civilians are being helped by the government to leave, through waypoints. Read it, if you care so much!

Mike • 6 years ago

Still at it little russ? You will not sell your propaganda in here little man...you can try but you will fail!

mark • 6 years ago

He's getting his shekel a line for this. Keeps him out of the dole queue.

mark • 6 years ago

Your Neocohen buddies and paymasters have slaughtered millions and are planning to slaughter millions more.
But don't worry your little head about that.

Promitheas Apollonious • 6 years ago

Dont miss the change to join them. They need paying whores as yourself so go and join your kind.