The
Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and
‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and
their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is
largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda
dictated by the State Department.
This
article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s
journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the
United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf
states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream
narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by
NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic
city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not
the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training
from Western governments and their allies.
Aleppo
has become synonymous with destruction and “Syrian state-generated”
violence among those whose perception of the situation in the
war-torn nation is contained within the prism of mainstream media
narratives.
The
NATO-aligned media maintains a tight grip on information coming out
of this beleaguered city, ensuring that whatever comes out is
tailored to meet State Department requirements and advocacy for
regime change. The propaganda mill churns out familiar tales of
chemical weapons, siege, starvation and bombs targeting civilians–all
of which are attributed to the Syrian government and military, with
little variation on this theme.
The
purpose of this photo essay and my journey to Aleppo on Aug. 14 was
to discover for myself as a Western journalist the truth behind the
major storylines in the U.S. and NATO narrative on Syria.
Moderate
rebels
Western
media delights in perpetuating the narrative of the “brave
opposition forces” being “pounded” by Syrian and Russian air
raids. What they fail to mention is that the identified 22 brigades
that operate in and around Aleppo are made up of U.S. State
Department-funded terrorist fighters.
Harakat
al-Nour al-Zenki is among these brigades. Video recently surfaced of
its members abusing and beheading a child, Abdullah Issa, from a
Palestinian refugee camp in northern Aleppo.
There are
also various offshoots of the Free Syrian Army, the U.S.-armed and
-funded “moderate” opposition group that was trained by the CIA,
which now relies upon the Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra), al-Qaida’s
arm in Syria, to bolster its arms and logistics capabilities.
The Nusra
Front makes up 80 percent of the terrorists on the ground in eastern
Aleppo. (The group recently announced a rebranding campaign in which
it changed its name to the Front for the Conquest of Sham, or Jabhat
Fatah al-Sham, and has made outward attempts to distance itself from
al-Qaida. It has, however, made no changes to its leadership or
extremist, elitist ideology; thus, this article will continue to
refer to the group as the Nusra Front.)
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