Media Complicit in the Madness Over Syrian Chemical Attack

Sky News cuts off top British general after he asks

‘Why would Syria launch a gas attack now?’

It's not bad enough that very few news media are questioning the sanity of attacking Syria over the Douma chemical attack, but from this video it would appear they are not only silent but, in fact, force silence upon anyone who questions the madness. In the video below, the presenter cuts-off Major-General Jonathan Shaw, formerly one of the British Army’s most senior officers, in mid-sentence when he dared to question Syria's motive for launching a chemical attack now.

Tucker Carlson, who's show I don't watch, and who's network I don't watch seems to be the only American journalist who is sensible enough to wonder why Syria keeps shooting themselves in the foot in a determined effort to sabotage their own victory. 

Piers Morgan may be asking similar questions in the UK, but this girl, Samantha Washington, on Sky News is not only not asking questions, she's determined not to allow anyone else to.

Watch this hardly believable bit of anti-journalism:

There's no excuse for stopping an interview cold like that. They certainly wouldn't have begun an interview on a complex topic like that when there was a hard commercial scheduled just one-minute later. That's ridiculous! The video is just one minute and 7 seconds! I'm quite sure General Shaw was not aware he had less than a minute to respond.

It's very disturbing how willing the media is to jump behind what is unquestionably an illegal action without any proof of the accusations. All proofs attaching blame to Assad are presumptuous at best and often fall back on statements like - he's a monster who keeps doing this to his own people. That he's a monster, I have little doubt, but there is still no proof that he was responsible for the Khan Sheikoun episode last year - at least according to General Mattis. 

In 2014, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported on opposition forces' ability to use chemical weapons. In an article for the "London Review of Books," Hersh obtained documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's own spy organization. They suggested that the Nusra Front, a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda, had access to the sarin nerve agent. A chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in August 2013, which was blamed on Assad, was carried out by rebels, according to Hersh's article. They wanted Washington to presume Assad had crossed Obama's "red line" and draw the US into a war.

Nevertheless, Assad is blamed for all three chemical attacks with each accusation building on the other. Here's the thing: Assad's enemies are the only ones to gain from the use of chemical weapons. It is clear that they have gained in each of the first two mentioned above and stand to gain greatly from Douma.

It's hard to believe that the governments of 3 major democratic countries, and 99% of the media in those countries are too stupid to see that. It's one thing to want to get rid of Assad; it's a whole 'nuther thing to want the war in Syria to continue into the unforseeable future. That is what will happen if the west seriously weakens Assad; the war will drag on for years more where it could potentially be over by summer. 

Furthermore, if Assad is weakened, Iran and Russia will increase their presence. If Assad is taken out - nothing good can come out of it. Look at the messes we've created in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. 

I believe there are many Syrians living in Europe right now who would love to go home. This insane, knee-jerk reaction will rule out that possibility for many years to come.

So, again I ask, are our governments really that stupid, or is there something else at play? Are there people who are determined not to allow peace to break out in Syria? Nothing is as it seems in global politics and when countries join together to insist that everything is as it seems - well, that's when we really need to start worrying.

What is Really Going on in Aleppo? It is Tragic and Infuriating!

Western powers, ie USA, Britain, France, Germany, etc., are supporting a rag-tag ensemble of rebels in an attempt to get them all on the same page in order to overthrow Assad. There are 22 different groups fighting in East Aleppo, all of whom are involved in the bombing and murdering of civilians including children in West Aleppo as they try to expand their territory westward. 

These are the people the west wants to win! These are the people the west wants to govern Syria. At the very least they are no better than Assad and because they are so fragmented, each with their own motivations and ambitions, they can never form a stable government and could easily end up a far worse regime than Assad's. They could also end up being a far bigger threat to Israel. 

The main force in this 'coalition' is the Al-Nusra Front which is associated with al Queda. Western powers are supplying them with weapons, finances, and propaganda facilities. According to the two very knowledgeable women interviewed below the apparently heroic 'white helmets' are trained mercenaries and murderers who are well armed and whose real purpose is to help resupply the rebels.

One point made several times is that western media are deliberately propagandizing western efforts overthrow Assad. Such a scheme is really only going to keep the war going ad infinitum until Syria is a complete wasteland, but it is really good for arms merchants to keep the inventory moving. It's hard to understand why left-leaning western media are playing into the hands of the military industrial establishment, but they are.

The narrative written below is a poor excerpt from the video. Please watch and listen especially to the reporter who is also interviewed.

West, Arab States ‘Protecting Terrorists’ Who Will Never Win in Syria – Mother Agnes

 
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The West and the Arab states keep sponsoring and defending militants in Syria, despite the fact that they will never prevail against the government, Christian nun and Syrian peace campaigner Mother Agnes-Mariam told RT.

“It’s a tragedy for the civilians and for any person that’s living in Syria because there’s no security. And the security doesn’t exist because the international community is still financing and protecting the terrorists,” she said. 

The mother superior of the monastery of St James the Mutilated in Syria’s Homs province said that she couldn’t understand why the foreign powers are “gambling with the names” of terror groups.

Al-Qaeda’s offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra “changes its name and it becomes a moderate rebel [group]. And all this is threatening the lives of millions of people,” she stressed.

“Western and Arab powers are helping Jabhat al-Nusra as being the sole rebel power to be strong enough to stand facing the Syrian Arab Army,” Mother Agnes-Mariam said.

However, she said that this support will only add to the suffering of the population, but won’t bring the results desired by the militants’ sponsors.

“I don’t think that the opposition will end up in power because they’re… totally divided among them,” the Melite nun explained.

Mother Agnes-Mariam expressed regret that her humanitarian work in Aleppo has been distorted and even “demonized” by the Western media.

“The main stream media don’t care about what’s really happening on the ground. What they care about is to produce things that are more in harmony with their policies. It’s brainwashing. They can orient the public opinion towards what they would like the people to believe,” she said.

According to the nun, her group provides help to all the side of the conflicts, including the militants and their families.

“The rebels from the Free Syrian Army, they have esteem for what I might give them security, counseling and also humanitarian help,” she said.

“But the mainstream media and those who are standing behind them, they don’t care about any good we’re doing. They always try to translate what we’re doing into politics...  And it’s a real scandal,” Mother Agnes-Mariam added.