In early summer, NATO had attempted to overwhelm Damascus and Aleppo
with a torrent of psychological operations, communication disruptions,
foreign terrorists crossing Syria’s borders, and a devastating
assassination of top Syrian officials in the heart of Damascus. The idea
was to cause panic, division, mass defections and fold the Syrian state
when in reality, it was more than able to fight on. Syria called the
bluff and here it still stands.
With the Israel-Gaza charade concluded, it was reported that NATO
would pivot back toward Syria – and it has. It has
handpicked a new proxy-regime
to act as the face of the terrorists battling Syrian civilians and
soldiers alike within the country, while it has been conducting a
concerted and refocused propaganda campaign to paint the Syrian
government as once again, “imminently about to fall.”
Reports are now trickling in
that communications are failing across the country and another attempt
at a Libyan-style “Mermaid Dawn” is being made by NATO and its terrorist
proxies inside Syria. The hope is, that after several months more of
terrorism, threats, sanctions, and
pressure put on the border by both Israel on the Golan Heights, and Turkey along Syria’s north, that this time the trick might work.
If operations are not already in progress, they will be soon, and
one must recall historical instances when this tactic has been used
before so as to recognize it when it is tried again. Reposted below, is Thierry Meyssan’s June 2012 warning regarding
NATO psychological operations – and the information is as relevant now
as ever. Inside Syria,
unity and resilience is more important now than ever.
In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the
Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them
replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot
images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government,
people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts,
President Al-Assad fleeing, the rebels gathering in the big city
centers, and a new government installing itself in the presidential
palace.
This operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by
Ben Rhodes, the US deputy national security adviser for strategic
communication, aims at demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way
for a coup d’etat. NATO, discontent about the double veto of Russia and
China, will thus succeed in conquering Syria without attacking the
country illegally. Whichever judgment you might have formed on the
actual events in Syria, a coup d’etat will end all hopes of
democratization.
The Arab League has officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat
and Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private
(Syria TV, Al-Ekbariya, Ad-Dounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already
exists because the Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order
to keep the leaders of the Jamahiriya from communicating with their
people. There is no Hertz network in Syria, where TV works exclusively
with satellites. The cut, however, will not leave the screens black.
Actually, this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg.
According to our information several international meetings were
organized during the past week to coordinate the disinformation
campaign. The first two were technical meetings, held in Doha (Qatar);
the third was a political meeting and took place in Riyad (Saudi
Arabia).
The first meeting assembled PSYOP officers,
embedded in the satellite TV channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC,
CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is known that since 1998, the
officers of the US Army Psychological Operations Unit (PSYOP) have been
incorporated in CNN. Since then this practice has been extended by NATO
to other strategic media as well.
They fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a
“story-telling” script devised by Ben Rhodes’s team at the White House. A
procedure of reciprocal validation was installed, with each media
quoting the lies of the other media to render them plausible for TV
spectators. The participants also decided not only to requisition the TV
channels of the CIA for Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV,
Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria Alghad) but also about 40 religious
Wahhabi TV channels to call for confessional massacres to the cry of “
Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into the grave!.”
The second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to
fabricate fictitious images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the
other part with computer generated images. During the past weeks,
studios in Saudi Arabia have been set up to build replicas of the two
presidential palaces in Syria and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo
and Homs. Studios of this type already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they
are not sufficient.
The third meeting was held by General James B.
Smith, the US ambassador, a representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin
Sultan (whom former U.S. president George Bush named his adopted son so
that the U.S. press called him “
Bandar Bush”). In this meeting
the media actions were coordinated with those of the Free “Syrian” Army,
in which prince Bandar’s mercenaries play a decisive role.
The operation had been in the making for several months, but the
U.S. National Security Council decided to accelerate the action after
the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, notified the White House that he
would oppose by all means, even by force, any illegal NATO military
intervention in Syria. The operation has a double intent: the first
is to spread false information, the second aims at censuring all
possible responses.
The hampering of TV satellites for military purposes is not new.
Under pressure from Israel, the USA and the EU blocked Lebanese,
Palestinian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian TV channels, one after the other.
However, no satellite channels from other parts of the world were
censured. The broadcast of false news is also not new, but four
significant steps have been taken in the art of propaganda during the
last decade.
• In 1994, a pop music station named “Free Radio of the Thousand
Hills” (RTML) gave the signal for genocide in Rwanda with the cry, “
Kill the cockroaches!”
• In 2001, NATO used the media to impose an interpretation of the 9/11
attacks and to justify its own aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq.
At that time already, it was Ben Rhodes who had been commissioned by
the Bush administration to concoct the Kean/Hamilton Commission report
on the attacks.
• In 2002, the CIA used five TV channels (Televen,
Globovision, ValeTV and CMT) to make the public in Venezuela believe
that phantom demonstrators had captured the elected president, Hugo
Chávez, forcing him to resign. In reality he was the victim of a
military coup d’etat.
• In 2011, France 24 served as information
ministry for the Libyan CNT, according to a signed contract. During the
battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio films, then transmitted
them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom images of Libyan
rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in reality they
were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli were
persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance.
Nowadays the media do not only support a war, they produce it themselves. This procedure violates the principles of International Law, first of all
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the fact of
receiving and imparting information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Above all, the procedure violates the United Nations General Assembly
resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to prevent further
wars. Resolutions
110,
381 and
819 forbid “
to set obstacles to free exchange of information and ideas” (like cutting off Syrian TV channels) and “
all propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace, breaking peace, and all acts of aggression”. By law, war propaganda is a crime against peace, the worst of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and genocide.
(Tony Cartalussi - InfoWars)
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