{"id":87774,"date":"2017-03-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=87774"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:49:21","slug":"white-helmets-pawns-for-u-s-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/white-helmets-pawns-for-u-s-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White Helmets\u2019 \u2014 Pawns for U.S. Militarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1 Mar 2017 – <\/em>No Surprise! The White Helmets won an Oscar Award for best documentary short feature. This war propaganda film is promoted through Netflix. Here is link and a few quotes from an article I wrote in September, 2016: http:\/\/www.workers.org\/2016\/09\/21\/white-helmets-pawns-for-u-s-militarism\/#.WLTmlxiZM3h<\/a><\/p>\n

The much-hyped White Helmets is not a Syrian organization, nor was it created by Syrians, nor is it educational. It is a U.S.-British creation. Former British Army officer James Le Mesurier, self-described as a British \u201csecurity\u201d specialist, founded it. He previously worked for Blackwater, the mercenary organization universally condemned for its murderous brutality in Iraq.<\/p>\n

The White Helmets\u2019 website declares the group is \u201cunfunded, independent and neutral.\u201d\u2026. the organization has received $23 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n

The White Helmets has never functioned as a neutral force. While attacking the Syrian government and calling for more U.S., British and NATO bombing, the group functions exclusively in Syrian areas held by the Nusra Front, a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida. This well-funded group operates on the ground with U.S.-, British-, Israeli- and Saudi-funded militias committed to destroying Syria\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

The White Helmets is the latest of a series of front groups, designed to give a \u201chumanitarian\u201d gloss to Washington\u2019s latest war of regime change in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White Helmets \u2014 al Qaeda with a Facelift\u201d is a 4-minute video on Youtube which reveals the truth about the grouping.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8aAaReVn2I4<\/p>\n

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Sara Flounders is an American political writer who has been active in ‘progressive’ and anti-war organizing since the 1960s. She is a member of the Secretariat of Workers World Party, as well as a principal leader of the International Action Center. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Mar 2017 – No Surprise! The White Helmets won an Oscar Award for best documentary short feature. The much-hyped White Helmets is not a Syrian organization, nor was it created by Syrians, nor is it educational. It is a U.S.-British creation. Former British Army officer James Le Mesurier, self-described as a British \u201csecurity\u201d specialist, founded it. He previously worked for Blackwater, the mercenary organization universally condemned for its murderous brutality in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}