The Syrian
military is helping hundreds of thousands of civilians evacuate areas
in eastern Aleppo which are currently controlled by rebel and
extremist groups.
While
millions of Syrians have suffered since the current civil war evolved
from the Arab Spring protests of 2011, it’s become all but
impossible to separate real news from pro-war propaganda paid for by
the United States and its allies. As dubious claims of genocide,
often based on fake photos, flood social media and mainstream media
alike, people are faced with the complex task of separating real
reporting from U.S.-government backed “fake news.”
Efforts to
lure the West into a supposedly “humanitarian” military
intervention with Syria have been almost continuous throughout
President Barack Obama’s eight years in office. WikiLeaks’
archive of U.S. diplomatic cables reveals that the United States,
Israel and Saudi Arabia have been planning to overthrow Syrian leader
Bashar Assad since at least 2006. Although the Obama administration
never openly declared war on Syria, the United States has repeatedly
offered training and materiel to so-called “moderate” rebels,
even though these groups have repeatedly been linked to war crimes
and atrocities and have ties to terrorist groups like al-Qaida.
In all, the
State Department has spent hundreds of millions of dollars arming and
training terrorists, even after some officials admitted that these
“moderate” rebels were anything but moderate.
Currently,
the besieged region of eastern Aleppo is controlled by two major
extremist groups, Jabhat al Nusra, a group with ties to al-Qaida also
known as the Nusra Front, and Jaysh al Sham, another terrorist group
receiving U.S. backing despite being designated a terrorist
organization. As a result, almost no information escapes the city
without their approval and involvement. With the stranglehold
limiting the reporting coming from the rebel-held areas, some of the
most popular journalists and activists sharing “news” from Aleppo
are actually working with the backing of the rebels and, in many
cases, the direct support of Western governments.
Here are
five of the most well-known Syrian “experts” and social media
figures:
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