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The World: What is Really Happening

Craig Murray — Sun, 26 May 2019 13:52:47 +0000

If you want to understand what is really happening in the world today, a mid-ranking official named Ian Henderson is vastly more important to you than Theresa May. You will not, however, find anything about Henderson in the vast majority of corporate and state media outlets.

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How We Were Misled About Syria: George Monbiot of The Guardian

Professor Tim Hayward — Sat, 25 May 2019 19:17:19 +0000

George Monbiot is an influential journalist, and his words on Syria over the past seven years will have carried weight in shaping public opinion. Some critical readers, however, have been concerned.

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The authoritarians who silence Syria questions

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:47:57 +0000

Long before the current fighting, western governments and Israel expressed a strong interest in overthrowing the government of Bashar Assad. In fact, their desire to be rid of Assad dates to at least the start of the “war on terror” they launched after 9/11, as I documented in my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations.

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WHITE HELMETS: The Guardian Protects UK FCO Destabilisation Project in Syria

John Schoneboom — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:26:00 +0000

Are the White Helmets heroes or villains? The mainstream narrative has them as a neutral, unarmed, grassroots (and Oscar-winning) humanitarian group with no political affiliations, nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Independent journalists, notably Vanessa Beeley, Eva Karene Bartlett, Patrick Henningsen, and Khaled Iskef, among a few others, suggest a radically different picture, in which the White Helmets are nothing more than a propaganda front for terrorist groups like the Al Nusra Front.

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Monbiot is not only a hypocrite, but a bully too

Jonathan Cook — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:12:42 +0000

It is time for George Monbiot’s legion of supporters to call him out. Not only is he a hypocrite, but he is becoming an increasingly dangerous one.

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The Guardian, White Helmets, and Silenced Comment

Professor Tim Hayward — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:08:18 +0000

The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been ‘propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government’. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.

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Untouchable – The Uses And Misuses Of ‘Genocide Denial’

David Edwards — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:54:47 +0000

One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts.

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Monbiot still burying his head in sands of Syria

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:42:39 +0000

In what has become an ugly habit with Monbiot, and one I have noted before, he has enthusiastically adopted the role of Witchfinder General. Any questioning of evidence, scepticism or simply signs of open-mindedness are enough apparently to justify accusations that one is an Assadist or conspiracy theorist.

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Monbiot, Syria and Universalism

Philip Roddis — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:41:05 +0000

I’m worried about George. An admirer of many years standing of his excellent columns charting what John Smith’s even more excellent Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century refers to as “capitalism’s destruction of nature”, I’m dismayed both by his stance on Syria and manner of defending it. His latest Guardian piece, yesterday – A lesson from Syria: it’s crucial not to fuel far-right conspiracy […]

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A Response To George Monbiot’s ‘Disavowal’

Media Lens — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:00:01 +0000

Our point is that if journalists like Monbiot are serious about establishing the truth, they will test the French government and other claims against the arguments and evidence offered by dissidents. They will consider the different claims, and come to some kind of informed conclusion. What is not acceptable is that journalists should simply accept as Truth arguments made by Western governments openly seeking regime change in Syria and that have a spectacular track record of lying about claims supposedly justifying war.

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