The oligarchs behind the “humanitarian” regime change network now exploiting Jo Cox’s death to push for UK Labour split
Only
by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo
Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans
and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals
been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the
right thing to do.”
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
4 - Skoll Foundation and Forum
When we
start to look more closely at the “storytelling” partners of the
Skoll Foundation, we draw even closer to the White Helmet PR
industry. Skoll partners with the Sundance Institute, the BBC, NPR
and Doc Society–Flex Fund, among others.
The
Sundance Institute, the BBC and Doc Society are central to the
production and promotion of the White Helmet movie campaigns,
including the Netflix White Helmet documentary that won the Oscar in
2016 and then Last Men in Aleppo that was nominated for the Oscar in
2017.
These
organizations are literally the architects of “humanitarian war”
and the White Helmets are their centerpiece, the ultimate “story”
that, if told well, will draw Western nations deeper into the
quagmire of a failed regime-change war in Syria.
As
Vanessa Beeley wrote in Architects of Humanitarian War: “I
believe it’s safe to conclude that there is a vast, well-financed
PR machine operating behind the scenes of the White Helmet
organisation, whitewashing their discredited image and mapping out
their political, media and Hollywood trajectory – in lock-step with
the PR campaign is a media defence force headed up by Channel 4, The
BBC and The Guardian. The hub of the film and PR sector is Doc
Society.”
Listed
among the Skoll Foundation “awardees” are Crisis Action and
Global Witness — again linking to the White Helmet PR apparatus.
Crisis Action brings together Brendan Cox, Gemma Mortensen and Tim
Dixon of the Jo Cox Four. Crisis Action’s role in the White Helmet
marketing complex was explored in detail in Part 2 of this series.
Global Witness connects back to Mabel Van Oranje, who is on the
advisory board with Alexander Soros.
The
annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is organized by
the Skoll Foundation in partnership with the Said Foundation, or more
precisely the Said Business School. The Forum convenes 800 social
entrepreneurs, influencers, policy makers, philanthropists and
students to “learn, problem solve and build community.”
The Said Foundation is “partnered” by Ayman Asfari, previously
mentioned in connection with the White Helmet marketing team, headed
up by the Syria Campaign.
The
Skoll World Forum (SWF) was established in 2004. One of the sessions
in the 2018 Forum was on “The Art of Co-creation: a Storytelling
Model for Impact and Engagement.” As we have mentioned previously,
almost the entire White Helmet PR team and White Helmet leadership
have been listed as contributors to the SWF. These include James Le
Mesurier, former British MI6 agent who established the White Helmets
in Turkey and Jordan while employed by ARK Group; Raed Saleh, former
mobile-phone salesman, now leader of the White Helmets; Tim Dixon MD,
of Purpose; Farouq Habib, project manager at Mayday Rescue; and
Brendan Cox, Mabel Van Oranje, Gemma Mortensen, and Nick Grono. CEO
and president of the UN Foundation Kathy Calvin is also a contributor
alongside the White Helmet team, and her role in promoting the
billionaire-supported “humanitarian” group is further
investigated later in this article.
In 2017,
the SWF brought together Brendan Cox, Tim Dixon and Gemma Mortensen
in a session entitled “Mobilizing a Movement: More in Common,”
which focused on the Jo Cox-inspired movement to enable more
“inclusive societies that look past our differences and embrace
our common humanity.”
During
this talk Dixon alludes to the iconic image of Alan Kurdi washed up
on a beach in Turkey, which launched the refugee “crisis” in
September 2015. The timing of this campaign, so rapidly adopted by
the Jo Cox four and their associated PR agencies and billionaire
network, was curiously in lock-step with the timing of the Russian
intervention in Syria at the behest of the elected Syrian government.
During
the televised talk, Dixon describes the image of Kurdi’s body as “a
defining moment for the More in Common impetus.” Dixon’s
cynical exploitation of Kurdi’s death to promote the causes of the
Jo Cox Four, including the White Helmets, was exposed by a statement
given by Kurdi’s aunt, Tima Kurdi, in February 2017, in Canada:
“Regime-change policy has destroyed my country and forced
my people to flee. [U.S. Congresswoman] Tulsi [Gabbard]’s message
was exactly what I have been trying to say for years, but no one
wants to listen. [..] If the West keeps funding the rebels, we will
see more people flee, more bloodshed, and more suffering. My people
have suffered for at least six years.”
Tima
Kurdi established very quickly that the furor over the refugee
crisis, generated by the shocking images of her drowned nephew, was
nothing more than a marketing campaign designed to facilitate a
reaction and military push-back against the Russian intervention that
threatened to derail the U.S. Coalition plans to topple the Syrian
government.
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