By Mark Taliano
How long did it take for “alternate” or legacy media journalists to finally acknowledge that there are no “moderate rebels” in Syria and that the West and its agencies support al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria and beyond?
How long did it take for Westerners to realize that the current Zionist genocide against Palestinians was planned in advance and is currently being realized, that it was never about Hamas?
How long did it take for Westerners to realize that Nazism and genocidal ethnic nationalism drive the anti-Russian hatreds and military policies in post-coup Kiev?
In each case it took far too long, and the War Lies still persist. Why? One reason is that journalists seeking employment enter the Ring of Mainstream Lies, play the military-intelligence game, and empower Confusion Inc., all hallmarks of colonial war propaganda.
The notion embraced by some that there are “two truths” about Syria, or Gaza, or Ukraine is nonsense. It is Orwellan “doublethink.”
There is evidence-based truth and there is legacy/mainstream/colonial media masquerading as truth.
Suggesting there is equivalency between the Truth and the Lie ultimately empowers the Lie.
Unfortunately, the task of displacing the truth, of making it invisible, is easier when the messengers themselves are obliterated.
Syrian Basma Qaddour, co-author of Voices from Syria, Second Edition, details Western/Zionist-supported terrorist assassinations of Syrian journalists and media personnel:
On August 11, 2011, terrorists killed the journalist Ali Abbas, who was the head of news department at the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), through opening fire on him at his house in “Jdaydet Artoz” area in Damascus countryside.
In December 4, 2012, an armed terrorist group killed a 60-year-old journalist Naji As’ad, who was working for the state-run Tishreen Newspaper, near his house after he returned from his work.
On March 26, 2013, a rocket fired by terrorist groups, who had occupied the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus for 7 years, hit the headquarters of SANA, killing 4 workers there.
In May, 27, 2013, terrorist groups killed the reporter of the Syrian Al-ikhbaria TV Channel near Al-Qusair town in Homs countryside.
On October 2018, explains Qaddour, the Syrian Journalists Union presented a list including the names and photos of 46 Syrian journalists, who were killed by terrorist groups in Syria:
Al Jazeera reporter Hind Khoudary reports similar crimes occurring right now in Gaza, claiming that (Western-supported) Zionists have murdered about 142 (1) reporters since October 7.
According to the “Government Media Office” the number of “journalist martyrs” has now risen to 151 “martyrs”.
The story in Ukraine is hauntingly similar, a CIA/NATO hit list, Myrotvorets, includes such notables as Eva Bartlett, Scott Ritter, Roger Waters, Diane Sare, Geoff Young, John Mearsheimer, Senator Ron Paul, former Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, and many others. The Western-supported nazi junta accuses them of being “traitors” and “Russian propagandists”
At a September 7 press conference, Ritter lamented that US tax dollars subsidizing Ukraine are “being used to target and intimidate American citizens voicing their constitutional rights to freedom of speech.” (2)
Meanwhile, assassination, torture, kidnapping and arrest of those opposing Nazism, parallel fascism and Washington’s destruction of Ukraine have been commonplace. (3)
When the Truth is obliterated, and the Lie becomes the “Truth”, Hate is so much easier to fabricate. And Hate is a prerequisite for more war and misery.
Mark Taliano is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and the author of Voices from Syria, Global Research Publishers, 2017.
17 June 2024
Source: globalresearch.ca