A PBS Frontline special is the latest vehicle in a PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS, and market its leader Mohammad Jolani as a competent American “asset.” March 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the Western regime-change war on Syria. And after a decade of grueling conflict, Washington is still maneuvering to extend its longstanding relationship with the […]
As legacy media again bleat the unsubstantiated “Syria is bombing hospitals” chorus of its war propaganda songbook, let’s pause to review the relatively unknown (but verifiable) reality of terrorists bombing hospitals in Syria. Following recent allegations of a hospital being targeted Al Atarib, western Aleppo, the US State Department repeated the claim, in spite of any clear evidence to back it up. […]
(All photo credits: Janice Kortkamp) Syria is not a “shit hole” country. I hate that term. To me it represents both extreme ignorance and arrogance. In my life and travels I’ve seen how there is good and bad, beauty and ugliness everywhere. Introduction and overview There is not one single American I’ve ever met (other than people of Middle East […]
You’re a conspiracy theorist!!” I always hear that from folks, but in my brain I have my accusers sounding like Elmer Fudd to Bugs Bunny: “You cwazy conspiwacy theowist!!” This post is the introduction to a series of referenced articles I’ll be dedicating myself to writing over 2021 busting the primary narratives surrounding the war in Syria, including the following […]
Kevork Almassian discusses with Dr Jamal Wakim, Professor of history and international relations the insistence of the US on “constitutional reforms” in Syria, which include federalism. (Video below) In addition to the following question: 1- What is federalism? 2- why some Kurdish groups are calling for federalism in Syria and who are these groups? 3- these Kurdish groups say federalism […]
The BBC producer, Chloe Hadjimatheou, of the latest in a long line of White Helmet cover-ups, the Mayday Intrigue series, first contacted me on my Vanessa Beeley journalist page on Facebook, on message: 16th May 2020 Chloe: Hi Vanessa, I’m a journalist at the BBC and I would like to talk to you about something I’m currently researching for BBC R4. […]
Paul McKeigue, of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media. has published his email correspondence with BBC producer/reporter, Chloe Hadjimatheou, who also sent emails to Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett, containing threats of possible legal action. Vanessa responded here This blatant propaganda exercise on the part of the BBC to whitewash the White Helmets despite there being, thanks to […]
BSNews editors note: we have already published information on this blatant propaganda exercise by the BBC to whitewash the terrorist White Helmets and will be publishing more. This shameful episode, in a long and shameful record of BBC propaganda, is a new low which should be challenged forcefully. Video and transcript of the reply by the Embassy of the Russian […]
“Vanessa Beeley joins the program to discuss the BBC’s forthcoming hit piece on journalists like herself who dare call out the White Helmets as a foreign-founded, foreign-funded, terrorist-embedded propaganda construct. We discuss Beeley’s reporting on Syria that clearly gives the lie to the White Helmets’ humanitarian cover and the clear signs that the BBC is set to launch a new […]
Note from BSNews editors: the BBC producer who has been effectively threatening Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and others committed to telling the truth about the Syrian conflict is Chloe Hadjimatheou. We will publish more on her as well as email correspondences with her in later posts. Vanessa Beeley writes: The BBC is preparing an attack against journalists, former diplomats, academics and […]
The war in Syria is unique in the history of the world – and lessons learned from it can be applied to understanding all current conflicts. This doesn’t mean that all conflicts are exactly the same, not at all, but that Syria has revealed the workings, motivations, hypocrisy, and deceits of the US/West war mongers and their allies which are […]
Exclusive: former OPCW chief José Bustani defends the whistleblowers who challenged a cover-up of their Syria probe; reacts to the US and allies recently blocking his UN testimony; and reveals he was spied on before the Bush administration ousted him over the Iraq war. In a Grayzone exclusive, José Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of […]
