{"id":18999,"date":"2016-03-18T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18999"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:19:40","slug":"how-propaganda-feeds-war-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18999","title":{"rendered":"How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n
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There has been a pattern of sensational but untrue reports that lead to public acceptance of U.S. and Western military intervention in countries around the world.<\/p>\n

For instance, in Gulf War 1 (1990-91), there were\u00a0reports of Iraqi troops stealing incubators<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from Kuwait, leaving babies to die on the cold floor. Relying on the testimony of a Red Crescent doctor,\u00a0Amnesty Interenational \u2018verified\u2019<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the false claims.<\/p>\n

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A scene of destruction after an aerial bombing in Azaz, Syria, Aug. 16, 2012. (U.S. government photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ten years later, there were\u00a0reports of yellow cake uranium<\/u><\/a>\u00a0going to Iraq for development of weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

One decade later, there were\u00a0reports of Libyan soldiers<\/u><\/a>\u00a0drugged on viagra and raping women as they advanced.<\/p>\n

In 2012, NBC broadcaster Richard Engel was\u00a0supposedly kidnapped<\/u><\/a>\u00a0by a pro-Assad Syrian militia but luckily freed by Syrian opposition fighters, the \u201cFree Syrian Army.\u201d<\/p>\n

All these reports were later confirmed to be fabrications and lies. They all had the goal of manipulating public opinion and they all succeeded in one way or another. Despite the consequences, which were often disastrous, none of the perpetrators were punished or paid any price.<\/p>\n

It has been famously said, \u201cThose who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.\u201d This report is a critical review of the so-called \u201cCaesar Torture Photos\u201d story. As will be shown, there is strong evidence the accusations are entirely or substantially false.<\/p>\n

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How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria Western propaganda against countries targeted for \u201cregime change\u201d can be especially insidious because\u00a0mainstream journalists abandon skepticism and go with the flow, such as the case of Syrian \u201ctorture\u201d photos, writes Rick Sterling. There has been a pattern of sensational but untrue reports that lead to public acceptance of U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,655,776],"class_list":["post-18999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-propaganda","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions\/19000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}