Eva
Bartlett breaks down the dizzying array of information surrounding
the mounting humanitarian crisis in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. With
accusations abound, parsing the reality on the ground is becoming
more challenging by the day.
by
Eva Bartlett
Part
4 - Why the UNICEF bias?
According
to UNICEF, the current executive director, Henrietta H. Fore, was
formerly Administrator of USAID, Chief Operating Officer for the U.S.
Department of State, and Director of the United States Mint in the
U.S. Department of Treasury.
The
prior UNICEF executive director, Anthony Lake, was national security
advisor to President Clinton, and was nominated to be the director of
the CIA.
According
to Telesur, Lake played a significant role in mass starvation in
Somalia in 2010-2012, under-budgeting food aid, budgeting “10
cents a day per person to feed a million internally displaced
persons.” Telesur reported that Lake also “admitted
publicly that he knew about and did nothing to prevent the genocide
in Rwanda, something he ‘regretted.’”
In
Yemen, the UN is suspected of having smuggled in two CIA agents, as
reported in 2015 by journalist Nizar Abboud, and surprisingly in 2017
by The New York Times.
UNICEF
executive directors who formerly worked for USAID, the U.S. State
Department, even Director of the United States Mint in the U.S.
Department of Treasury: it seems that UNICEF’s role is less about
humanitarian aid and more about being the humanitarian propaganda arm
of Washington.
We
should, indeed, feel sorrow for any civilian casualties in the
U.S./U.K. and allies’ war on Syria. However, after years of the
most egregious war propaganda on Syria, we should also exercise
caution about the latest stories, be they from unsourced SOHR reports
or the UN itself.
Remember,
Omran Daqneesh was once depicted widely as the face of Syrian
suffering. As it turned out, the entire story Western media and
agencies told was false, based on unreliable sources.
Recall
that the humanitarian agency MSF once insisted that Syrian or
Russian airstrikes had destroyed — reduced “to rubble” — a
hospital that MSF supported. This turned out to be utterly false.
Unlike
MSF, unlike the most of journalists who reported lies around Omran
Daqneesh, I did go to see the intact Quds hospital, and met Omran
and his father, who told me everything the media had reported on his
son was false; the media had exploited his boy. Both MSF and
corporate media lied about these stories, and their lies were used to
call for further Western intervention in Syria.
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