{"id":106286,"date":"2018-02-19T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=106286"},"modified":"2018-02-10T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:09:27","slug":"syrias-white-helmets-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/02\/syrias-white-helmets-go-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s White Helmets Go Global"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria\u2019s White Helmets have been boosted by the West as a trusted humanitarian organization, but their origins and motives remain murky. Now, the White Helmets effort appears to be spreading to other countries.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The \u201cWhite Helmets\u201d symbol, expropriating the name of \u201cSyria Civil Defense.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

8 Feb 2018 – <\/em>I sat down with my coffee this beautiful Australian morning to watch two of my favorite independent media figures jam together in a\u00a0Corbett Report interview<\/a>\u00a0of renowned independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley. About two-thirds of the way through, I nearly fell out of my chair.<\/p>\n

At\u00a024:30 of the clip<\/a>, the following bone-chilling conversation takes place about the nature of the establishment media\u2019s aggressive protection of the highly publicized \u201cSyrian Civil Defense,\u201d also known as the White Helmets.<\/p>\n

Beeley: But I think what is interesting, why is this organization being protected to such an extent? I think it\u2019s because the imperialist apparatus is defending the concept. We\u2019ve already seen [White Helmets founder] James Le Mesurier recruiting in Brazil. We know that the White Helmets have appeared in Malaysia and in Venezuela, and in the Philippines. So you know, because this went through my head so many times, these are only 3,000 criminals and thugs that have emerged from the terrorist ranks or the \u201cFree Syrian Army\u201d [air quotes] moderate extremist ranks to become the White Helmets in order to continue to get paid doing the same job but under a different auspice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why are they being so heavily protected? But I think it\u2019s more to do with the concept. It\u2019s more to do with the importance of this concept going forward. As James Le Mesurier said very recently, who would you trust more than the fire brigade or a first response NGO? There you have it. That\u2019s the key to why this group is so important.<\/em><\/p>\n

James Corbett:\u00a0It is the perfect cover. And it certainly is a template that I\u2019m sure will be used over and over in these types of situations if they can get away with it. So, extremely important.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Extremely important indeed. The White Helmets are a\u00a0war propaganda firm<\/a> with\u00a0extensive ties to both lucrative western financial backing and known terrorist factions<\/a>, and the notion of this organization branching out into other potential targets of the U.S.-centralized war machine is absolutely horrifying.<\/p>\n

We already see the White Helmets cited constantly by Western mass media in every allegation against the government of Bashar al- Assad, as in\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>using the \u201cSyrian Civil Defense\u201d as their source for a report on an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province, referring to them in the header as \u201cSyrian activists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mainstream media promotes everything this organization says as fact and does everything they can to protect and promote the White Helmets\u2019 reputation, meaning that if they spread throughout the world, war propaganda can be manufactured from the inside against any government the empire wishes to target with its armies of extremist \u201cfreedom fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to this jarring new information I reached out to Vanessa Beeley to make sure I was understanding this properly, and she provided the following statement:<\/p>\n

The White Helmets franchise is a terrifying extension of soft power infiltration deep inside target nations, exploiting trust, vulnerability and poverty with the \u201cFirst Responder\u201d construct that \u201ceveryone trusts\u201d as James Le Mesurier so clearly stated in a recent interview in Brazil. This pseudo Humanitarian, NATO state-sanctioned fist will be used to crush many more nations in the future if it is not stopped in Syria. Just as Syria has contained the terrorist fire within its borders, so has it exposed the White Helmets as the terrorist alter ego, but for how long will both be contained? Terrorism is fanning out into Europe via the EU funded Turkish exit routes, the White Helmets are also establishing themselves further afield, in Venezuela, Malaysia, the Philippines to name a few. Terrorism and the White Helmets march in lock-step and can only be stopped by confronting the cancerous cultures in which they are cultivated?\u2014?US Necolonialism, British Imperialism, EU Globalism, Gulf State Extremism & Israeli Parasitism.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch. Okay. I was really hoping I\u2019d misunderstood.<\/p>\n

I cannot overemphasize how dangerous this is. The West is already saturated in deceitful war propaganda about Syria, as shown irrefutably in cases like\u00a0the Bana Alabed CNN interview and the BBC\u2019s\u00a0Saving Syria\u2019s Children\u00a0footage<\/a>, and this has largely been made possible by the mass media\u2019s collaboration with the White Helmets.<\/p>\n

Putting them in places like Venezuela, a\u00a0regular target of imperialist manipulations<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0the largest oil reserves in in the world<\/a>, or the Philippines, a major longtime U.S. military asset where a Duterte pivot away from Washington toward Beijing\u00a0could get very ugly<\/a>, would give the US war machine the ability to legitimize any allegation against those governments if it decides it\u2019s time for aggressive regime change. The organization\u2019s\u00a0own website<\/a>\u00a0(archived\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0in case they change it) asserts that it is \u201ccurrently assessing opportunities for implementation of Civil Defence-based stabilisation programmes in other countries in the Middle East, including Yemen and Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>, which has surely become the overall most aggressive promoter of Western war propaganda on the planet,\u00a0ran an article<\/a>\u00a0titled (I swear I am not making this up) \u201c\u2018Russia wants to hack the Oscars\u2019: smear campaign targets Syrian nominee.\u201d It was authored by Olivia Solon, the same\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0writer who, without ever having been to Syria or having any Middle East reporting experience whatsoever, wrote an\u00a0extremely deceptive smear piece<\/a>\u00a0on Beeley and other reporters who\u2019ve been contradicting the establishment narrative about the White Helmets. The new article alleges that Russia is running a conspiratorial campaign to prevent\u00a0yet another pro-White Helmets documentary<\/a>\u00a0from receiving yet another Academy Award.<\/p>\n

Beeley picks apart this new film\u00a0\u201cThe Last Men In Aleppo\u201d\u00a0and the ongoing trend of establishment media elevating such documentaries\u00a0in this excellent article here<\/a>, so there\u2019s no need for me to get into why Olivia Solon\u2019s latest war propaganda piece is just as ridiculous as her first, but it\u2019s important to note how ferociously these establishment outlets are protecting the White Helmets. How weird is that? Where else do you see war zone search and rescue teams being made into glamorous media superstars with cute matching uniforms? Who are aggressively protected from counter-narratives by stalwart establishment outlets?<\/p>\n

James Le Mesurier is a\u00a0British private security specialist and a former British military intelligence officer<\/a>. He knows how to construct a psy-op. He\u2019s trying to franchise his war propaganda firm worldwide, where it will be used to manufacture pro-regime change narratives and will be aggressively defended and promoted by the establishment media, and its allegations against disobedient governments and factions will be reported as fact by western newscasters and pundits.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a brilliant scheme, and it may become the future of war propaganda if we can\u2019t shed enough light on it in time.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly<\/em>\u00a0at Medium<\/a>. Follow her work on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, or her\u00a0website.<\/a>\u00a0She has a\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0and a new book\u00a0<\/em>Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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