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Fabricated atrocity stories serve the same purpose as Orwell’s “Two Minutes of Hate” in his novel, 1984. These carefully crafted theatrics engineer an artificial “consent” amongst credulous audiences for real atrocities committed by their governments and its agencies against prey countries and their citizens.
Saddam Hussein’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” never materialized, but Washington’s sanctions certainly did. In fact, Washington’s sanctions intentionally killed about 600,000 Iraqi children under five(1) through willful destruction of water supplies. (Tragically, Western-supported Zionists are using the same siege tactics against Palestinians now.) Remember Madeline Albright’s confession?
Similarly, al Qaeda’s White Helmets(2) fabricated “consent” for Western war crimes against Syria and Syrians with their chemical weapons false flags, falsely attributed to the Assad government.
Meanwhile, according to UNICEF, close to 13,000 children have been killed or injured in the Syrian conflict.
But there is more:
“More than 609,000 children under the age of five are stunted from chronic undernutrition; 12 million Syrians do not have enough food to meet daily dietary needs; 6.9 million people are internally displaced, and 90% of Syrians are estimated to be living in poverty.
The Report continues:
- All data quoted in this press release pre-dates the February 2023 earthquakes.
- In 2022, the number of children with moderate acute malnutrition increased by 55 per cent.
- Maternal malnutrition ranges from 11 per cent in northwest Syria and parts of Damascus to 25 per cent in northeast Syria.
- Before the earthquakes, nearly two-thirds of water treatment plants, half of pumping stations and one-third of water towers across Syria were damaged due to conflict.
- Nearly half the population rely on alternative and often unsafe water sources to meet or complement their water needs.
- At least 70 per cent of the discharged sewage is untreated.
- More than 84,600 suspected cholera cases have been reported since a cholera outbreak was declared in Syria in September 2022. Malnourished children with weakened immune systems are more likely to acquire cholera.
- More than 39,000 new suspected cholera cases are expected within the next six months in 2023, placing at least 3 million people at risk and in need of lifesaving prevention interventions.”(3)
On a more broad-based level, recall that 9/11 launched the so-called Global War On Terror (and domestic police-state legislation) which amounted to carte blanche for imperialism in the name of going after the very same jihadi terrorists that the West has supported for decades, and continues to support, to destabilize and destroy prey countries, and to collectively punish and kill innocent civilians.
“The U.S.”, affirms Jeffrey Sachs, “has been running jihadis for over forty years.”
On August 12, 2012, the U.S. DIA(4) explicitly stated what everyone should know:
And now the West is overtly supporting Nazism in Ukraine with its public declaration that it will be arming the Azov Battalion, which the U.S Congress recognized as Nazi in 2015.(5)
It is the Nazi elements, closely welded to Ukraine’s Banderite “nationalists”, that the West and its agencies have supported since the end of the Second World War.
In an interview with Patrick Henningsen, human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik,(6) explains that the West “absorbed” Nazis after the war, giving the examples of NATO and Operation Paperclip.
When Trudeau (who at a recent conference shouted out the fascist Slava Ukraini greeting) or any other Western leader lambasts Russia about orphans or humanitarian concerns with a view to escalating NATO involvement in the war, it should be laughable.
Per Prof Chossudovsky,
“Civilian population (children) and civilian objects (schools, hospitals, residential areas) were the deliberate object of UAF and Azov Battalion attacks in blatant violation of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).
In accordance with the LOAC, Moscow took the decision starting in February 2014 to come to the rescue of Donbass civilians including children.” (7)
Russian UN Envoy Vassily Nebenzia further clarified that,
“since the beginning of the special military operation, Russia had welcomed over 730,000 child refugees from Ukraine — most of them with their parents and just 2,000 from orphanages of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. A total of around five million Ukrainians and Donbass residents have sought refuge in Russia over the past 21 months.” (8)
Westerners should understand that whenever their governments, in unison with other governments, loudly proclaim that a target country is committing atrocities, they are often projecting their own criminality onto the prey country with a view to fabricating unreasonable hatred and pretexts for an escalation of warfare.
The aforementioned historical literacy may well prevent the unthinkable.
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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. He writes on his website where this article was originally published.
Notes
(1) Graeme MacQueen, Thomas Nagy, Joanna Santa Barbara, and Claudia Raichle, “War, Water, and Ethics: Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities.” Peace Magazine, 10 October, 2004. (https://peacemagazine.org/archive/v20n4p16.htm#:~:text=%2A%20The%20study%20concludes%20that%20Iraq%27s%20water%20treatment,June%201991%29%20before%20the%20system%20is%20fully%20degraded.%27) Accessed 29 June, 2024.
see also: Mark Taliano, Voices From Syria, Global Research, 2017. (page 15)
(2) Video: “White Helmets Admit Staging Fake Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria — OANN.
(White Helmets Admit Staging Fake Chemical Attacks in Syria – OANN – video Dailymotion) Accessed 30 June, 2024.
(3) “UNICEF warns of looming child nutrition crisis in Syria amid 12 years of conflict and deadly earthquakes.” 15 March, 2023. (https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/unicef-warns-looming-child-nutrition-crisis-syria-amid-12-years-conflict-and-deadly-earthquakes#:~:text=DAMASCUS%2FAMMAN%2015%20March%202023%20%E2%80%93%20Twelve%20years%20of,parts%20of%20the%20country%2C%20particularly%20in%20the%20northwest ) Accessed 28 June 2024.
See also:
Jeremy Kuzmarov, “Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government To Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis.” Covert Action Magazine, 30 June, 2023. (http://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/06/30/mainstream-media-colludes-with-u-s-government-to-conceal-source-of-syrias-heartbreaking-humanitarian-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2UbK1Trf2KnDXhAdEwpQAC01GbZAS57GqjrT_DGGb1frkri_2aP-TG5Hk) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
(4) Washington’s Blog, “Newly-Declassified U.S. Government Documents: The West Supported the Creation of ISIS.” 18 April, 2024. (https://washingtonsblog.com/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis/#google_vignette) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
(5) “In 2015 the US Congress recognized the Azov Battalion as Nazi.” The International Affairs, 19 May, 2022. (https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/in-2015-the-us-congress-recognized-the-azov-battalion-as-nazi/) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
(6) “INTERVIEW: Dan Kovalik – U.S. Plays Dangerous Game In Ukraine.” 21st Century Wire, 19 June, 2024. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c–pr90Qdq4) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
(7) Prof Michel Chossudovsky, “ICC Arrest Warrant for Vladimir Putin for ‘Kidnapping Ukrainian Children’, Russia Accused of “Genocide-like Deportation” at the Switzerland Peace Conference.” Global Research, 21 June, 2024. (https://www.globalresearch.ca/i-c-c-arrest-warrant-for-vladimir-putin-for-kidnapping-ukrainian-children-borders-on-ridicule/5812752) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
(8)”Epstein, Clintons & Cash: Why Zelenska Foundation is Vehicle to Divert Aid to Corrupt Ends” SPUTNIK International, 01 June, 2024. (https://sputnikglobe.com/20240106/epstein-clintons–cash-why-zelenska-foundation-is-vehicle-to-divert-aid-to-corrupt-ends-1116016558.html) Accessed 28 June, 2024.
Featured image: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson holding Azov neo-Nazi banner (Wolfsangel) associated with Third Reich’s SS Panzer Division Das Reich. (Source: Mark Taliano)
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