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Liberty Report talks to Vanessa Beeley: ‘Everything the US media says about Aleppo is wrong’
21st
Century Wire says…
Why
are western media lying and producing a fictional narrative regarding
the situation unfolding in Aleppo, Syria?
Ron
Paul Liberty Report co-host Daniel
McAdams talks
with 21WIRE special contributorVanessa
Beeley about
what is really happening in Aleppo right now. Beeley also reveals new
information about the western covert creation, a pseudo ‘NGO’
called the White
Helmets in
Syria.
What’s
really going on in Aleppo? Are Assad and Putin exterminating the
population for sport? Is it a war against US-backed “moderates”?
That is what the mainstream media would have us believe. Watch:
Syria’s White Helmets: War by Way of Deception – Part I
23
Octobher, 2015
“The
Ivy League bourgeoisie who
sit at the helm of the non-profit industrial complex will one day be
known simply as charismatic architects of death. Funded by the ruling
class oligarchy, the role they serve for their funders is not unlike
that of corporate media. Yet, it appears that global society is
paralyzed in a collective hypnosis – rejecting universal social
interests, thus rejecting reason, to instead fall in line with the
position of the powerful minority that has seized control, a minority
that systematically favours corporate interests.” ~ Cory
Morningstar
In
his recent
speech Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Nasrallah, alluded to a
multi-phase “soft war” which relies upon the mass media complex
to disseminate propaganda and bias, propelling the Middle East into,
primarily, a sectarian crisis before descending even further into
regionalism and finally a devastating individualism.
Cory
Morningstar’s body of work does more than any other to
expose the bare bones of the non-profit propaganda industry that
governs both our reactions – and inactions, through a network of
multi-layered and multi-faceted media manipulation campaigns, of
which the end result is mass thought control. She explains:
“The
21st century
NGO is becoming, more and more, a key tool serving the imperialist
quest of absolute global dominance and exploitation. Global society
has been, and continues to be, manipulated to believe that NGOs are
representative of “civil society” (a concept promoted by
corporations in the first place). This misplaced trust has allowed
the “humanitarian industrial complex” to ascend to the highest
position: the missionaries of deity – the deity of the empire.”
In
a paper entitled, Foreign
Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent, written
just prior to NATO intervention in Libya, Prof.
Sarah Blodgett Bormeo describes the “democratization”
process for target nations. Unwittingly or wittingly, Bormeo
perfectly outlines the role played by NGOs in this process. Bormeo
even goes so far as to pinpoint the lack of impartiality rife among
NGOs large and small, the majority of whom, receive their funding
directly from western government and major corporation sources –
all of whom have a vested interest
in the outcome of their NGO’s
activities and ‘intervention’ in a particular location. Bormeo
emphasises the importance of “picking winners” in this scenario,
as opposed to respecting and supporting the will of the people in any
sovereign nation.
“Thus,
it is possible that aid donors, in an effort to avoid further
entrenching an “authoritarian” [my edit: this status is decided
by donor] regime and perhaps increase the likelihood of
democratization, channel funds through NGOs and civil society
organizationsin authoritarian states.”
In
this short video below, we are introduced to the US military’s
symbiotic relationship with NGOs in countries [in this instance,
Iraq] where the policy is to Induce Pacification & Advance
Western Ideologies. NGOs are cynically used to “soften” cultures
and render entire communities dependent upon foreign aid in order to
facilitate “Democratization”.
In
this role, and dependent upon their donor support, NGOs cease to be
the neutral, unbiased ‘humanitarian’ organisations they
publically purport to be, and instead become actual covert tools for
foreign intervention and regime
change. By default, they are assimilated into the
Westernmodus vivendi of
“waging war by way of deception” and their purpose is to alter
public perception of a conflict via a multitude of media and
“marketing” channels.
Following
this formula, let’s examine, once more, the role of the Syria
Civil Defence aka,’The
White Helmets’ currently
operating in Syria and take a closer look at their financial sources
and mainstream media partners in order to better determine if they
are indeed “neutral” as media moguls proclaim these
“humanitarians” to be.
White
Helmets: Follow the Money
The
White Helmets were established in March 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey,
and is headed by James
Le Mesurier,
a British “security” specialist and ‘ex’ British military
intelligence officer with an impressive track record in some of the
most dubious NATO intervention theatres including Bosnia and Kosovo,
as well as Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. Le Mesurier is a product of
Britain’s elite Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and has also
been placed in a series of high-profile pasts at the United Nations,
European Union, and U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The
origins of The White Helmet’s initial $300k seed funding is a
little hazy, reports are contradictory but subsequent information
leads us to conclude that the UK, US and the ‘Syrian Opposition’
[or Syrian National Council, parallel government backed an funded by
the US, UK and allies] are connected. Logistical support has been
provided and given by Turkish elite natural disaster response team,
AKUT.
A
further $13 million was poured into the White Helmet coffers during
2013 and this is where it gets interesting. Early reports suggest
that these “donations” came from the US, UK and SNC with the
previously explored connections
to George Soros in the US.
However,
subsequent investigations reveal that USAID has been a major
shareholder in the White Helmet organisation.
The
website for the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) claims that “our work supports long-term
and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy
objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade;
global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian
assistance.”
In
a USAID
report update in July 2015 it is clearly stated that they
have supplied over $ 16m in assistance to the White Helmets.
The USAID track record as a primary US Government/CIA regime change facilitator is extensively documented. From South America to the Ukraine and in the Middle East, USAID serve a malevolent and ultimately destructive role in the dismantling of sovereign nations and their reduction to Western hegemony vassal states, as always, all in the name of freedom anddemocracy.
“The
United States does not lack institutions that continue to conspire,
and that’s why I am using this gathering to announce that we have
decided to expel USAID from Bolivia” ~Bolivian
President Evo Morales
“USAID
and NED are in the business of “Democracy Promotion” which
uses public money (from U.S. taxpayers) for secretive operations with
the intention to support pro-U.S. governments with the help of
political and social movements abroad. The goal is regime
change.” ~ Timothy
Alexander Guzman
With
recent developments in Syria and as a consequence of the Syrian
Government requested Russian intervention, we have seen a scramble to
justify the shambolic US foreign policy and its clandestine terror
operations in Syria. We have previously established the White
Helmet connections to this US regime change operation and their
undisputed exclusive integration into the Al Nusra and Free Syrian
Army [Muslim Brotherhood] and even ISIS networks and strongholds.
After RT and Sott.net among
others, exposed the gaping holes in White Helmet propaganda whereby
the group recycled
older photographs on Twitter in an effort to blame Russia for
‘civilian deaths’ – even before the alleged Russian bombing had
occurred. Since then, the propaganda “war” has only ramped up.
The Russian involvement in Syria, did not only betray the US military
deception, it also brought some heavyweight media giants of its own
into the fray who set about de-constructing the Western media and NGO
indoctrination that had, for so long, been largely unchallenged.
PHOTO: ISIS mercenary photographed outside White Helmet depot, in ISIS held area south of Yarmouk Camp.
At
this point the London
Telegraph went into damage limitation mode. It
published an article expounding the White Helmet humanitarian role in
Syria but with admissions of UK Government “majority” funding and
that the White Helmets are embedded with ISIS (“in at least one
ISIL held area”), claims previously vehemently denied but rendered
indisputable after discovery of the photo showing an ISIS mercenary
posing directly in front of a White Helmets depot located deep in
ISIS held territory south of Yarmouk.
“The
Foreign Office is currently the
largest single source of funding. It is an irony that if Britain
does effectively become an ally of Assad, and starts raids against
Isil in Syria, it will be bombing from the air and paying for the
bodies to be dug out on the ground. The White Helmets are also
operating in at least one Isil-held area.”
Interestingly,
the Telegraph stated
clearly that the UK Foreign Office is the “largest single source of
funding” for the White Helmets which may be perceived as an attempt
to draw fire away from the USAID funding which still outstrips
official figures released by the British Gov’t who “gifted” £
3.5 million in equipment to “civil defence teams” in Syria
[Report
March 2015]. However, the British Government also committed to an
additional £ 10m to “increase
coordination between the Syrian Interim Government and civil defence
teams” to
be funded by: UK Government’s Conflict, Security and Stability Fund
(CSSF).
If
an organisation is funded by foreign governments who are directly
involved in trying over-throw Syria’s government, how can they be
rightly called an ‘independent relief organisation’?
It
should be noted here also that although cries of ‘regime change!’
from both Washington and London have been muted since Russia entered
the Syria conflict, both Washington and London have been supporting
their own parallel, hand-picked ‘interim government’ for Syria
since at least 2012.
So,
with millions in hard cash and equipment being invested into the
White Helmets by US & UK donors who have a very clear regime
change objective in Syria, it becomes increasingly difficult to
perceive their role as anything other than donor-biased propaganda
merchants and a ‘humanitarian’ extension of a clandestine terror
operation allied to the NATO proxy armies in the region.
White
Helmet Leadership
James
Le Mesurier has
been portrayed as a Humanitarian maverick hero, miraculously in the
right place (Istanbul) at the right time, just as the need arose for
the formation of a Syria Civil Defence team, perhaps coincidentally,
only a few months prior to the now infamous and universally (except
for a few diehard propagandists) discredited Ghouta ‘chemical
weapon’ attack in August 2013, an event which has already
been proven beyond a doubt to be a false flag attack, as well as
subsequent accusations levied at the Syrian Government which narrowly
failed to precipitate the NATO desired ‘No Fly Zone’.
However,
when we delve deeper into the life and times of Le Mesurier we see
that it was no happy accident that he was in Istanbul at this
juncture. As Sandhurst Military Academy’s top student and
recipient of the Queen’s Medal, his chequered career took him from
OHR [Office of High Representative] in Bosnia to intelligence
co-ordinator in NATO’s newly won prize, Kosovo. We’re told that
Le
Mesurier left the British Army in 2000 and joined the UN serving
as deputy head of the Advisory Unit on ‘Security and Justice’,
and Special Representative of the Secretary General’s security
policy body within the UN mission in Kosovo. His career then took him
to Jerusalem where he worked on implementing the Ramallah Agreement,
then to Baghdad as a special advisor to Iraqi Minister of Interior,
and to the UAE to train their gas field protection force, and later
to Lebanon during the 2006 war. In 2005 he was made Vice
President for Special Projects at private mercenary firm Olive
Group, and in January 2008 he was appointed as Principal for Good
Harbour International, both based in Dubai.
Le
Mesurier is also the founder of Mayday
Rescue, a “non profit” organisation providing SAR [search &
rescue] training to civilians enduring conflict. According to
Mesurier’s own biography on the website, Mayday Rescue was founded
in 2014, after he had established Syria Civil Defence/White Helmets.
A quick flick through the other Mayday team members reveals some very interesting connections…
Mosab
Obeidat, previous Assistant Chief of Mission with the Qatar Red
Crescent, one of whose officials, Khaled Diab was accused of
supplying $ 2.2 m to secure arms for the terrorist groups in Syria.
Details of this transaction and its exposure can be found in this Al
Akhbar article from June 2013.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/16160
At
least three other
members of the team were a part of the Syrian “revolution”
including Farouq
al Habib,
one of the 3 most prominent White Helmet leaders who was also a
leader of the Homs uprising against the Syrian government and
according to his testimony, was tortured by the Syrian “regime”
security forces in 2012 for smuggling a journalist into Syria to
“cover” the “peaceful protests”. Habib was a founder member
of the “Homs Revolutionary Counci” (note that the CIA
have been linked to nearly all ‘Revolutionary Councils’
in Syria) before fleeing to Turkey in 2013 (A more in-depth analysis
of his anti-Syrian government testimony will be presented in Part II
of this article).
In this photo taken by a mobile phone on Wednesday Sept. 24, 2014, Read Saleh left, the head of the civil defense units in the northern city of Idlib, and Farouk al-Habib, right, a media campaigner for the rescuers known as the White Helmets, sit on a panel to draw attention to their work in Syria as world leaders come together for the annual UN general assembly meetings, in midtown New York. ZEINA KARAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Le
Mesurier is
heavily involved in several organisations not mentioned in this
article, but for the purposes of demonstrating that the White
Helmets should
not be
considered impartial or neutral as they claim, we will focus on those
that best substantiate that argument.
Both
Olive Group and Good Harbour International are experts in private
“security”. Taken fromSourcewatch on
Olive Group:
“Olive
Security was founded in 2001 by Harry Legge Burke. Olive
lends their quick success to strong relations in the government and
military industry. Harry Legge-Burke is an ex-Welsh Guard, and a
former aid to chief of defence staff Sir [Charles Guthrie]. He can
claim Prince William as a skiing partner and his sister was a nanny
to the royal children.
Iraq:
Olive were on the ground since the invasion began in 2003, and
were able to deploy 38 former SAS employees within two days of the
invasion’s completion in 2004
Jonathan
Allum, Olive’s former director and co-owner, is also the son
of Tony
Allum, who is the chairman of the engineering company Halcrow and
also the head of the UK government’s Iraq Industry Working Group.
It was in the latter position that Tony Allum went to Washington to
meet with Bechtel leaders, where he suggested, among other UK
companies, Halcrow and Olive as companies worth considering for
subcontracted work, all stemming from Bechtel’s $680 million
contract with USAID. They were considered and contracts followed,
though both Legge-Burke and Allum deny one had anything to do with
the other.”
In
May 2015, Olive Group merged with Constellis Holdings, in whose
portfolio we can also find Academi, previously the
notorious Blackwater
Group (Nisour
Square massacre, Iraq 2007). Taken from The
Atlantic July 2012: Post 9/11, Bush enabled the CIA to
subcontract assassinations allegedly targeting Al Qaeda operatives.
Blackwater was awarded this contract.
“Running
operations through Blackwater gave the CIA the power to have people
abducted, or killed, with no one in the government being exactly
responsible.”
The
CIA can no longer hide its Blackwater/Academi connections, especially
after this week’s Wikileaks data dump of CIA
director John Brennan’s emails, whose contact list included now
spy chief Robert
Richer at his Blackwater contact address.
The
outsourcing of intelligence operations was in full-swing. What
Bush initiated, Obama ran with, awarding Blackwater/Academi a $ 250m
contract in 2010 to offer “unspecified” services to the CIA, thus
maintaining the apparatus for “unaccountable” covert
assassinations.
It
is true that James Le Mesurier only joined Olive Group in 2005 and
left them in 2008, but his involvement with them and their subsequent
merger with Constellis and by default, Blackwater/Academi, gives a
degree of valuable insight into the elite intelligence and Pentagon
circles that Le Mesurier moved in prior to working for Good Harbour
International and creating Syria Civil Defence (not forgetting the
USAID funding & influence that underpins both Olive and SCD/White
Helmets).
In
2008, Le Mesurier joined Good Harbour International, another private
“security” expert organisation, whose CEO is none other than
former terror advisor to the Bush administration, the Terror Czar
himself, Richard
A. Clarke.
The jury is still out on whether Clarke was indeed the “whistleblower” he fashioned himself as, post 9/11, or a merely a high-level gatekeeper who aided in preventing a full and detailed investigation into Bush and Rumsfeld’s roles in 9/11.
Patrick
Henningsen, a political analyst and writer for 21st Century
Wire believes
the latter is more likely:
“On
first glance, one might buy into the mainstream media’s
characterization of him, but it’s more likely that Richard Clarke
is not a whistleblower at all. While
appearing to oppose the Bush administration from a safe enough
distance, I believe his role was inserted into the mix in the period
of 2004-2005 in order to VALIDATE the bin Laden mythology and
help to portray al Qaeda as an organic, independently run
terror organization. He also claimed that Bush and Rumsfeld
committed war crimes, but this means nothing because everyone knows
that no US official will ever face ‘war crimes’ charges in any
court of law anywhere on the planet. It’s effectively a straw man
narrative that distracts from the real scandal in the US which is
that the entire premise of the war on terror is completely
contrived. Clarke’s ‘whistleblower’ status gives him
brilliant cover from too much public scrutiny. I remain skeptical of
his whole public narrative. He was, is, and always will be an
insider.”
What
is perhaps even more telling, is Clarke’s reported close ties with
Israeli-US operative Rita
Katz of
the SITE Intelligence
Group, another
supposedly independent, albeit ‘private’ intelligence firm
located in Bethesda, Maryland, a stone’s throw away from CIA
headquarters. SITE are said to be responsible for the media release
of the harrowing ISIS execution videos, al Qaeda videos, andtheir
credibility has been extensively questioned.
Katz’s
long term working relationship with Clarke began before 9/11
when she and her research associate Steve Emerson were commissioned
by Clarke to identify ‘Islamic radicals’ inside the Unites
States. Over time, Katz’s relationship with Clarke blossomed into a
much more extensive one that included regular briefings at both the
Clinton and Bush White Houses.
“One
of SITE’s founders, Rita Katz, is a government insider with close
connections to former terrorism czar Richard Clarke and his staff in
the White House, as well as investigators in the Department of
Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland
Security, according to SourceWatch. Her father was executed
in Iraq as an Israel spy, a fact that suggests a connection to
Israeli intelligence.”
~ Mark Taliano
~ Mark Taliano
Wheels
Within Wheels
This
background on Le Mesurier should at least make us question the media
portrayal of an affable, debonair and philanthropic leader of a
civilian humanitarian mission. His military & intelligence
roots, the fact that despite working for OHR in Bosnia, no visible
record of his employment can be found there, his private
security-centric career path, his appearance in Istanbul at just the
right moment to partner USAID, the UK government & Syrian
opposition in creating just the sort of “democratization”
enabling NGO as described in our introduction, MUST at least cause us
to doubt the transparency and neutrality of the White Helmets in
Syria.
In
addition, the White Helmet leadership consisting of known Syrian
opposition protagonists such as Raed Saleh and Farouq al Habib must
make us more cynical about the claims of impartiality and lack of
bias and for those who will defend the “peaceful” revolution
narrative upheld by Habib and Saleh, please take the time to read
Professor Tim Anderson’s in
depth analysis of events in Syria pre NATO intervention.
“I
have seen from the beginning armed protesters in those demonstrations
… they were the first to fire on the police. Very often the
violence of the security forces comes in response to the brutal
violence of the armed insurgents” – Jesuit priest Father
Frans Van der Lugt, January 2012, Homs Syria
“The
claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently
is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians,
often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually
since the beginning.” – Professor Jeremy Salt, October 2011,
Ankara Turkey
Our
presentation of the White Helmets as regime change propagandists &
terrorist allies in this article will be further explored and
verified in Part II.
“Existing
soft power initiatives and agencies, particularly those engaged in
development and strategic communications, must be reinvigorated
through increased funding, human resources and prioritization.
Concurrently, the U.S. government must establish goals, objectives
and metrics for soft power initiatives. Furthermore, the U.S.
government can better maximize the effectiveness of soft power
instruments and efforts through increased partnerships with NGOs. By
providing humanitarian and development assistance in areas typically
inaccessible to government agencies, NGOs are often able to access
potential extremist areas before the government can establish or
strengthen diplomatic, developmental or military presence, including
intelligence.” — Joseph S. Nye, former US assistant secretary of
defence, June 2004
END OF PART ONE
END OF PART ONE
Syria’s White Helmets: War by Way of Deception – Part 2
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