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
4 - Our narrative and we’re sticking with it
As the
Syria conflict appears to be winding down with the regime-change
effort having failed in its effort to overturn Syria’s current
government, perhaps more critical attention by those in mainstream
and independent media has come to focus on the manufactured
narratives used by powerful interests and governments to make a case
for military intervention to the public.
With
these efforts having failed, we have perhaps begun to see several
mainstream journalists break from the pack, perhaps as these
individual journalists have little personal investment in backing the
push for regime change in Syria. However, those journalists and
“experts” who have staked their professional reputations on these
narratives — such as the ubiquitous chemical weapon attacks blamed
on the Syrian government — and who systematically protect the White
Helmets as serial “do-gooders” — are scrambling to keep those
narratives together lest they be revealed for the hollow manipulation
of cherry-picked facts, images and videos that they are.
Schneider’s
report is unlikely to impress the far more independent and qualified
experts and journalists who have consistently questioned the Syria
“chemical weapons” narrative — which has taken on the mantle of
“weapons of mass destruction,” a previously debunked government
and media canard that took us to war in Iraq. Schneider’s GPPI
initiative, however, may just be a stitch in time to suture the leaks
that are now emanating from the mainstream media and in particular
from the BBC, a traditional bastion of protection for U.K. government
foreign policy directives on Syria.
Dalati
may genuinely be a rogue maverick, sickened by what he has seen. He
may also be working at the behest of the BBC directors — to limit
the damage to the BBC’s reputation were the OPCW to release its
final report any time soon. Imagine that the OPCW final report errs
toward a conclusion that no chemical attack took place in Douma:
where would that leave the BBC and colonial media establishment? The
trust gap would widen exponentially. Time will tell, but one thing is
for sure, Schneider’s report is indicative of the distress signals
being emitted by the “humanitarian” regime-change network
floundering on the rocks of its own failed campaign to destabilize
Syria and overthrow the majority-elected Syrian government.
When
Professor Piers Robinson of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda
and Media (WGSPM) heard of Schneider’s intention to produce the
report, he told MintPress News: “It is extraordinary
that, on the one hand, careful analysis of evidence in the case of
Douma is being trivialized as ‘madness,’ while on the other,
Schneider is suggesting that his think tank is about to publish
careful and rigorous analysis regarding alleged chemical weapon
attacks. He seems to be saying, in effect, that careful and detailed
analysis and discussion regarding individual attacks is irrelevant to
knowledge and understanding. This reflects very poorly both on him as
a researcher and on the think tank that he works for.”
In his
tweets, Schneider did indeed appear to trivialize serious research
into the alleged Douma chemical attacks. This is extraordinary when
one considers that the rush to judgment of corporate media,
NATO-aligned think tanks and FUKUS government spokespersons led to
the unlawful bombing of Syria only one week after the staged hospital
scenes had appeared. Russia was accused of producing an “obscene
masquerade” by bringing actual Syrian civilians to the OPCW
headquarters in the Hague — to testify that no chemical weapons
attack had taken place. The “obscene masquerade” had already
taken place in Douma and had been marketed as truth by the media
outlets invested in their governments’ destructive Syria campaign.
Schneider
is very probably just another in a long line of willing instruments
of the billionaire industrial complex, deployed to extinguish the
failing “chemical weapons” narrative fire that threatens to
consume their credibility for years to come. Douma and the exposure
of all those who built and financed the edifice of lies surrounding
this event may just be what brings the entire war machine grinding to
a halt in Syria and beyond.
As much
as Schneider and his backers continue to protect the propaganda
producers — the White Helmets — the evidence building against
this multi-million funded construct is overwhelming. The White Helmet
concept will surely go down in history as one of the most elaborate
propaganda heists that failed, thanks to the concerted efforts of
very few to expose the true agenda of the group — an agenda which
is driven by the same government agencies and predatory capitalists
that have sponsored Schneider’s report.
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