From
the Kosovo Protection Corps in the Balkans to the White Helmets of
Syria, a group of well-connected people with the fundings of
governments and elite billionaires have sought to wage a war on
public opinion and have recently exploited Jo Cox’s death to do so.
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
9 - Conclusion
From the
Kosovo Protection Corps in the Balkans to the White Helmets of Syria,
a group of well- connected people with the fundings of governments
and elite billionaires have sought to wage a war on public opinion
and to maintain a monopoly on the prevailing narrative.
By using
time-tested strategies to mobilize public outrage within the very
countries whose governments fund and promote these emissaries of
false “humanitarian” narratives, these individuals and those
behind them seek to pull at our heart strings in order to manufacture
public consent for destructive regime-change operations that leave a
trail of bloodshed and failed states in their wake.
This
model, perfected in the Balkans, has been used to great effect in
Syria with the help of many of the same individuals who have worked
to disguise a regime-change operation originally planned by powerful,
corrupt interests.
The
favored Empire narrative producer this time is a “ragtag,
grass-roots band of ordinary altruists from all walks of life,”
more commonly known as the White Helmets. However, even a rudimentary
examination of the White Helmets funding and their extensive PR
network, as well as the true nature of the group, negates any notion
of “humanitarian” motivation guiding the group itself or its
Western and Gulf State masters.
This
callous, calculating manipulation of humanitarianism for the profit
and expansion of Western empire is made all too clear in the
destruction that these narratives and their principal actors have
wrought upon Syria — helping to prolong the conflict and, as a
consequence, increase the horrifying toll on Syria’s beleaguered
population.
The
Syrian people are faced with widespread destruction of
infrastructure, displacement and long term trauma from the effects of
this predatory campaign waged by the West against a sovereign nation.
As we
will see in Part 3 of this series, the web of the main actors driving
this manipulation of narratives and public opinion shares innumerable
connections to prestigious “charitable” organizations as well as
to each other.
Notably,
the founders of the Jo Cox Fund — Tim Dixon, Nick Grono, Mabel van
Oranje, Gemma Mortensen, and Brendan Cox — have not only been at
the forefront of such efforts in Syria, but they have all spent the
majority of their careers engaged in similar efforts to whitewash
imperial military adventurism on behalf of powerful political and
philanthrocapitalist interests.
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