An
exclusive Grayzone investigative documentary rips the cover off of
the most sophisticated and expensive campaign of humanitarian
interventionist propaganda in modern history
by
Dan Cohen
For
decades, Western governments, corporate media and Hollywood have
engaged in a project of mass deception to manufacture consent for
military interventions. Waged in the name of lofty ideals like
freedom, human rights and democracy, US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Libya wound up bringing death, destruction and even the return of
slavery to the African continent.
As the
wounds from those catastrophes festered, Washington embarked on its
most ambitious project yet, marketing another war of regime change,
this time in Syria.
This
investigative mini-doc exposes the cynical deceptions and faux
humanitarianism behind the campaign to sell the dirty war on Syria.
It will also demonstrate the lengths that the US and its allies have
gone to develop new ploys to tug at Western heartstrings and convince
even liberal minded skeptics of war that a US intervention was
necessary — even if it meant empowering Al Qaeda’s largest
franchise since 9/11 and its theocratic allies among the insurgency.
Big lies and little children have formed the heart of what is perhaps
the most expensive, sophisticated, and shameless propaganda blitz
ever conducted. Welcome to the Syria Deception.
Hollywood’s
role in promoting war is nothing new. The American film industry has
collaborated over the years with the State Department, the Pentagon,
and the intelligence services to produce an array of films burnishing
the military’s image, revising controversial US actions, and
propagating official accounts of critical events through action
blockbusters.
As the
American role in destabilizing Syria expanded, so too did the number
of high budget documentaries produced on the crisis. This film will
examine what is perhaps the most ambitious perception management
documentary project of them all: Cries From Syria.
Produced
by HBO, debuted at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, and now
available on Netflix, Cries from Syria was widely promoted in
mainstream Western media outlets and was even screened in the
International Court of Justice. The feature length documentary has
been also promoted by public figures from the neoconservative Nikki
Haley, who as us ambassador to the united nations has agitated for
regime change from Syria to Iran, to recently-deceased rock musician
Chris Cornell, who included footage from the film in his final music
video before he committed suicide. pop diva Cher even composed an
original song for the film.
Watch as
I attended a screening of the film on Capitol Hill in May 2017 that
brought together some of the key lawmakers, pseudo-experts, corporate
media pundits, and professional regime change lobbyists behind the
Syria deception.
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