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For London,
Propaganda is an Art
By Thierry
Meyssan
August 26,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Voltaire"
- Just as in all wars, the war against Syria
has triggered an avalanche of propaganda. And the
use of children is always a winning strategy.
So, at the
beginning of the war, Qatar wanted to demonstrate
that the Republic, far from serving the general
interest, actually despised the People. The
petro-dictatorship then broadcast, on its TV channel
Al-Jazeera, the legend of the children of Deraa,
supposedly tortured by the police. To illustrate the
cruelty of its adversary, Qatar specified that their
fingernails had been torn out. Of course, despite
research, no journalist could find any trace of
these children. The BBC broadcast an interview with
two of them, but their nails were still intact.
Since the
myth could not be proved, Qatar then launched a new
story – that of a child, Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb (13
years old), who had allegedly been tortured and
castrated by the «regime’s» police. This time, they
provided a convincing image. Everyone could see that
the body had no sex. However, the autopsy showed
that the body had been poorly preserved, and that it
had fermented and swollen. The stomach hid the
child’s sex, which was still present.
At the end
of 2013, the British took over the task of war
propaganda. They had a long experience in that
sector, and are considered to have
 invented
modern propaganda during the first World War, with
the Office of War Propaganda. One of the
characteristics of their method is to rely on
artists, because aesthetics tend to neutralise
critical thinking. In 1914, they recruited the great
authors of the time – like Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.
Wells and Rudyard Kipling – to publish texts which
attributed imaginary crimes to their German enemy.
Then they recruited the heads of their major
newspapers to publish the imaginary information
invented by the authors.
When the
United States adopted the British method, in 1917,
with the Committee on Public Information,
they made a more precise study of the mechanisms of
persuasion, with the help of star journalist Walter
Lippmann and the inventor of modern publicity,
Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew). But,
persuaded of the power of science, they forgot about
aesthetics.
At the
beginning of 2014, the British MI6 created the
company Innovative Communications & Strategies
(InCoStrat) to whom we owe, for example, the
magnificent logos of the armed groups, from the most
«moderate» to the most «extremist». This company,
which has offices in Washington and Istanbul,
organised the campaign to convince the Europeans to
offer sanctuary to 1 million refugees. It was this
company that photographed young Aylan Kurdi, drowned
on a Turkish beach, and managed, in two days, to
have it published on the front page of the main
Atlantist newspapers in all NATO countries as well
as those of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Every
year, before the war, a hundred people died from
drowning on Turkish beaches, and no-one
mentioned it. And above all, only the tabloids
showed photographs of the corpses. But this
photo was so well composed…
Since I
noted that a body can not be washed up
perpendicular to the waves, the photographer
explained later that he had moved the corpse for
the needs of the photo.
 The
photo of young Omran Daqneesh (5 years old), in
an ambulance in West Aleppo, is thus accompanied
by a video. The two supports enable the
information to be exploited by both the written
Press and the television. The scene is so
dramatic that a news-reader from CNN could not
stop herself from crying when she saw it. Of
course, when we think about it, we notice that
the child was not attended to by the medical
personnel who gave him first aid, but by a group
of extras, (the «White Helmets»), who placed him
facing the cameras.
The
British film directors care nothing about the
child, whose only interest for them is as a
feature in their images. According to Associated
Press, the photograph was taken by Mahmoud
Raslan, whom we can see in the video. According
to his Facebook account, this man is a member of
Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki (supported by the
CIA, who supplied the group with BGM-71 TOW
anti-tank missiles). Still according to his
Facebook account, and as confirmed by another
video, it was Raslan who, on the 19 July 2016,
personally cut the throat of a young Palestinian
child, Abdullah Tayseer Al Issa (12 years old).
European laws lay down strict guidelines for the
use of children in publicity. Clearly, these
laws do not apply to war propaganda.
Translation -
Pete Kimberley |
