{"id":43907,"date":"2019-02-20T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43907"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:23:59","slug":"staged-chemical-attack-videos-and-other-trends-in-modern-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43907","title":{"rendered":"Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/staged-chemical-attack-videos-and-other-trends-in-modern-propaganda\/\">STAGED CHEMICAL ATTACK VIDEOS AND OTHER TRENDS IN MODERN PROPAGANDA<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 13, BBC Syria\u2019s producer Riam Dalati came out with a statement that \u201cAfter almost 6 months of investigations\u201d he \u201ccan prove without a doubt that the Douma Hospital scene was staged\u201d and \u201cno fatalities had occurred in the hospital.\u201d Dalati added that he believes that \u201cthe attack did happen\u201d but no Sarin was used and \u201ceverything else around the attack was manufactured for maximum effect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can tell you that Jaysh al-Islam ruled Douma with an iron fist. They coopted activists, doctors and humanitarians with fear and intimidation. In fact, one of the 3 or 4 people filming the scene was Dr. Abu Bakr Hanan, a \u201cbrute and shifty\u201d doctor affiliated with Jaysh Al-Islam. The narrative was that \u201cthere weren\u2019t enough drs [doctors]\u201d but here is one filming and not taking part of the rescue efforts. Will keep the rest for later,\u201d he wrote in a tweet chain on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interesting fact that despite the confidence that the attack did take place and no Sarin was used, Dalati was not able to name the chemical substance used and said that it is up to the OPCW to make conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even this halfway contradiction to the \u201cAssad did it\u201d version caused a wide attention because BBC was among the mainstream media organizations fueling anti-Assad hysteria when the video first appeared in April 2018. This joint propaganda effort became a formal justification of the US-led cruise missile attack on Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAGED CHEMICAL ATTACK VIDEOS AND OTHER TRENDS IN MODERN PROPAGANDA The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level. On February 13, BBC Syria\u2019s producer Riam Dalati came out [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[10180,19772,2779,655,776],"class_list":["post-43907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-chemical-attack","tag-douma","tag-fake-news","tag-propaganda","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43907","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=43907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43909,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43907\/revisions\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}