As mainstream journalists acknowledge Douma attacks were “staged,” the “humanitarian” Syria regime-change network tries to save a sinking ship
There
is increasing desperation on the part of the “humanitarian”
regime-change network to protect its influence and the power of its
narratives, not just in Syria but in future conflicts.
by
Whitney Webb and Vanessa Beeley
Part
2 - Who is Tobias Schneider?
According
to his bio at the GPPI website, Tobias Schneider is a research fellow
at GPPI who focuses on “insurgency and counterinsurgency in the
contemporary Middle East,” among other related issues. Prior to
working with GPPI, Schneider worked as a consultant on Syria and
Yemen for the World Bank, an influential financial institution that a
WikiLeaks document recently confirmed; is used as a “financial
weapon” by the United States military.
He has
also worked at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA),
a pro-NATO think tank located in Washington. CEPA’s stated mission
is “to promote an economically vibrant, strategically secure,
and politically free Europe with close and enduring ties to the
United States.”
Its
international advisory board includes former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, who once stated that the death of half a million
Iraqi children from U.S. sanctions was “worth it;” and
Brian Hook, current Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State
Department and Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo. Zbigniew Brzeziński — former National Security Adviser in
the Carter administration who is best known for his role in arming
and creating the terror group Al Qaeda — was also a board member up
until his death in 2017.
Currently,
however, Schneider — in addition to serving as a GPPI research
fellow — is an expert for the Atlantic Council’s
“Rebuilding Syria” initiative. The Atlantic Council is a
Washington-based think tank with strong ties to the U.S. military and
NATO, and receives significant amounts of funding from American arms
manufacturers, U.S. intelligence agencies, and foreign governments.
This
think tank, and its “Rebuilding Syria” initiative in particular
have been particularly zealous in promoting regime change in Syria
and in marketing hybrid groups like the White Helmets. This is hardly
surprising given that the U.S. and U.K. governments have given
millions of dollars to both groups and were instrumental in the
creation of the White Helmets as a refined “propaganda
construct”, their description by journalist, John Pilger.
Schneider
also has made appearances at events hosted by “Friends of
Syria”APPG (All Party Parliamentary Groups) the U.K. group that
includes several MPs — including Jo Cox prior to her death — and
has extensively promoted U.K. military intervention in Syria, with a
particular emphasis on emotional appeals largely based on White
Helmet testimony and footage.
Chair of
Schneider’s panel was Andrew Mitchell, Conservative MP, former UK
secretary of state for international development 2010-2012 and
alongside Jo Cox, a fervent supporter of regime change in Syria and
an unquestioning White Helmet acolyte.
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