Saturday, September 19, 2015

U.S. vs. Syria War Propaganda Alert



I noticed this article in the L.A. Times:

Al Qaeda fighters execute 56 Syrian soldiers, activists say

So I brought up the article and much to my surprise:

"Al Qaeda-affiliated militants summarily executed 56 Syrian government soldiers days after wresting control of a strategic airbase in the northwestern part of the country, a monitoring group said Saturday.

 Jihadists with the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, as well as the Turkistan Islamic Party, another militant group,  executed 56 troops taken prisoner last week as rebels overran the Abu Duhur air base in Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition watchdog group based in Britain."

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syrian-army-prisoners-20150919-story.html

The propaganda key here is in bold, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, SOHR for short is a western ruling class propaganda outlet.  The ruling class media uses the SOHR for the majority of it's propaganda about what's happening in Syria and always says something like "activists say" and "pro-opposition", trying to perpetuate the false narrative that the war in Syria is a "civil war". 

Who knows about the L.A. Times article, it could be true, it could be false propaganda.  That's the nature of propaganda, the only way to fight it is to become knowledgeable enough about the issue to connect your own dots. 

Here's a refresher on the single person that runs SOHR with a little help from his MI6 friends.

The Syria War, Propaganda and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

http://caucus99percent.com/content/syria-war-propaganda-and-syrian-observatory-human-rights

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