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'Aleppo boy' versus 'Mosul girl': How the Western MSM manipulates news coverage to fit NATO's agenda

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:36 UTC
Zašto mediji ne spominju izbjeglice i civilne žrtve u Mosulu, iz Aleppa se izvještavalo svakodnevno
© Ari Jalal / Reuters
The world recently got a crude lesson as to how the Western media machine manipulates its news coverage to fit NATO's regime- change agenda.

During two parallel global events - the Russian-backed liberation of Aleppo and the US-backed liberation of Mosul - viewers witnessed the tragic circumstances of two children, with two radically different media spins.

By now, many people are familiar with the story of Omran Daqneesh. He is the Syrian boy from Aleppo who - seated alone in the back of an ambulance, covered in dust, blood and the flood of flashbulbs - became the Western media's stock image whenever it wished to portray the "Russian-backed Syrian regime" and its effort to free the city of Aleppo from the yoke of terrorism.

Omran's "haunting" photograph, splashed across every front page of every Western newspaper on August 18, 2016, accompanied a self-righteous Western jeremiad against "Russia and the Syrian regime," as opposed to the bloodthirsty terrorists who held the residents of this northern Syrian city hostage to their insane ideology for years.

Would the Western media really stoop so low as to use the image of an injured child as a propaganda device to damage Russia's efforts in defeating such deranged characters?

Unfortunately, that appears to have been the case.


Comment: The boy in the ambulance: US State Dept-funded groups behind latest 'iconic image' designed to demonize Russia and encourage further bloodshed in Syria


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Health

UN program for reconstructing Gaza is not only ineffective, it's escalating crisis


TeleSUR
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:34 UTC
Palestinian boy water
© ReutersA Palestinian boy drinks water next to a cart loaded with containers filled with water from public taps in the northern Gaza Strip, June 20, 2013.
Under the plan, Israel continues to tightly control the materials that are being used to build vital infrastructure in Gaza.

The United Nations-backed strategy for the reconstruction of Gaza following the 2014 offensive by Israel has been dubbed a failure by the international charity Oxfam. An investigation released Wednesday revealed that the strategy "is failing to meet the needs of 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza" and instead is worsening Gaza's already dire water and sanitation crisis.

The Oxfam report, titled "Treading Water" and released on World Water Day, analyzed the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism or GRM, which was designed to help with urgent reconstruction of areas devastated by the 2014 war by allowing the entry of building materials into the strip.

Under the GRM, almost 3,000 items needed to build infrastructure for water and sanitation in Gaza are still awaiting approval. Only 16 percent of items that have been submitted for GRM approval for water and sanitation projects have made it past the Israeli-imposed blockade.
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Bullseye

Best of the Web: The 'Peaceful Revolution' narrative in Syria by the West was a lie from the beginning

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:35 UTC
mccain
This week is the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian conflict. Despite the mounting evidence and the collapse of Washington and London's failed project, many liberal 'humanitarian interventionists' in the West are still clinging to the imaginary storyline of 'freedom fighters' in Syria battling against an evil authoritarian tyrant in their fragile bid to preserve their dream of a progressive liberal democratic future in the Middle East. A fairy tale for the ages...

From the beginning of hostilities in 2011, the US, UK, France, the EU, Turkey, Jordan, Israel and the Gulf monarchies, led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar - have all been pumping the fraudulent narrative of a 'Syrian Revolution', which was meant to be the latest peaceful installment of the fabled 'Arab Spring.' This ornate lie has been refined and recycled across all US mainstream, European and Gulf media outlets for the last 6 years, custom designed to give the false impression that "Assad is a brutal dictator" - and justifying the Western and Gulf-backing of religious extremist militants, followed by a protracted US-led 'Coalition' bombing campaign in Syria (all of which have been illegal under international law, and, US law for that matter).

In truth, US-led plans to overthrown the Syrian government and reshape the country along sectarian lines goes way back...
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Map

Sangin: Afghan district where over 100 British soldiers lost their lives retaken by Taliban


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:36 UTC
british soldiers
© Steve Lewis / Reuters
The deadliest district of Helmand Province in terms of UK military losses has fallen to the Taliban, according to local officials.

While the symbolism of the area's capture is strong given the loss of 106 British soldiers, Sangin has been under severe threat from the Taliban since 2015.

A local police commander named Mohammad Rasoul reported that Taliban fighters had overrun Sangin district center early Thursday.
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Apple Red

Russia blasts Turkey over massive agriculture tariffs


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:27 UTC
farm tractor wheat
© Jim Young / Reuters
Russian Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Tkachev has criticized Ankara for imposing a 130 percent tariff on Russian wheat and corn. The measure could halt Russian agricultural exports to Turkey.

"Turkey's actions cast doubt on the sincerity of intentions to build a lasting relationship. We do not accept attempts to exert pressure on Russia to force it to open access to banned Turkish agricultural products to the Russian market," said Tkachev.

At present, Russia bans imports of Turkish frozen meat and poultry as well as tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, apples, pears, strawberries and other fruit and vegetables.
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Eye 2

School shelter in Syria bombed by US forces kills 33 civilians


teleSUR
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:09 UTC
mosque bombing aleppo
© AFPAftermath of a U.S. bombing of a Mosque in Aleppo Province, Syria which killed 40 civilians. March 16, 2017
Reports emerged Wednesday that U.S. planes bombed a school sheltering displaced civilians just west of the Syrian town of Raqqa, killing an estimated 33 civilians.

According to a local group called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, the school was sheltering around 50 families fleeing violence in the face of mounting U.S. backed coalition attacks on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, reported The Independent.

"There were only two survivors from this," said one witness, according to The Guardian. "And they have still been buried. Most of these people, maybe all of them, had taken shelter in this building from the fighting and the planes. They were hiding for their lives."
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Light Saber

Russian senate speaker blames West for current European security crisis


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:15 UTC
Valentina Matviyenko
© Aleksey Nikolskyi / SputnikValentina Matviyenko
The politics conducted by Western countries after the collapse of the USSR has laid the foundations for the current security crisis in Europe, Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko told an OSCE conference.

Speaking at the conference - dedicated to women's views on the security policies implemented by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - Matviyenko stated that positive shifts were possible even in the most difficult conditions and reminded other participants that the OSCE itself was created in mid-1970s, at the peak of the Cold War.

"However, today the situation in Europe is different. There is a deficit of trust between nations, political tensions, freezing or severing of economic ties, use of sanctions and sharply increased military activities of NATO," she said.

How many terrorist attacks you need to understand that all nations must unite their efforts in fighting this global evil? Russia is constantly calling for this and it is ready for cooperation," Matviyenko said. She also proposed to set up an international committee for countering terrorism on the basis of OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly.
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Treasure Chest

Apple paid no tax in New Zealand over past decade, NZ newspaper reports


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:09 UTC
Apple logo
© Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
An investigation by the New Zealand Herald newspaper found electronics giant Apple has sold $2.96 billion (NZ$4.2 billion) worth of products since 2007 in the country but has not paid any local tax.

Company tax of $26 million had been reportedly paid to the Australian tax office as the two countries have a treaty where tax is only paid in one jurisdiction.

According to the newspaper, if Apple had "reported the same healthy profit margin in New Zealand as it did for its operations globally," it would have paid $250.7 million in taxes.
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Light Saber

Iraqi popular military warns US: Will target your forces if you don't leave after anti-ISIL operations


FARS News Agency
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:27 UTC
US forces
Spokesman and a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini warned that the group will target the US forces if they don't leave the Iraqi territories after annihilation of the ISIL terrorists.

"If the US forces refrain from leaving the Iraqi territories after annihilation of the ISIL terrorist group, the Islamic resistance of Iraq will target them," al-Hosseini told the Islamic republic news agency on Tuesday.

Noting that the US forces are protecting rather than fighting against the ISIL terrorists in Iraq, he said that the Americans have increased their activities in Iraq in recent days through their military advisors the number of their flights and want to open some space for themselves in the anti-ISIL campaign to be able to render more support to the terrorist group.

Comment: The Iraqis have had enough. Syria has had enough. And half the world has had enough. But will the US and allied imperial powers listen to the cries and warnings of justified and righteous revolt against their crimes and destruction? Doubtful.

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Propaganda

Scott Adams exposes: "Fake news about me from Bloomberg that highlights MSM tactics for manipulating a story"

Scott Adams
Scott Adams' Blog
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:29 UTC
Dilbert creator Scott Adams
Dilbert creator Scott Adams
Last autumn, before the election, a writer for Bloomberg asked to spend a day with me to interview me for a feature piece about my blogging on Trump, and my life in general. I could tell from the initial conversation that it was going to be a hostile article. The reporter was open about being deeply frightened of Trump, believing him to be a racist, sexist, homophobic monster. So you can imagine how she felt about me for writing flattering blog posts about his persuasion talents.

I quickly determined that agreeing to the interview would be foolhardy. Obviously it was going to be a hit piece. The writer weakly tried to conceal that fact, but failed miserably.

If I agreed to the interview, I knew I would be making myself the target of ridicule and shame, baring my flaws to the world - both the real ones and the fake news ones. No rational person would agree to such an interview. It was a suicide mission.

So I agreed to the interview.
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