White Helmets

The Guardian, White Helmets, and Silenced Comment

The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been ‘propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government’. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.

WHITE HELMETS: The Guardian Protects UK FCO Destabilisation Project in Syria

By John Schoneboom | 21st Century Wire | December 20, 2017 Today in Too Long Don’t Read : It’s hard to tell what’s going on in the world, isn’t it? Whom do you believe when there are competing, totally irreconcilable narratives out there? Are the White Helmets heroes or villains? The mainstream narrative has them […]

Deconstructing Olivia Solon’s Dim Conspiracy Theory of ‘Russia-backed Bloggers’ Undermining UK FCO White Helmets

This week, a Guardian journalist named Olivia Solon, based in San Francisco, was tasked with the job of attacking and slandering any independent journalists who have dared to challenge the Guardian’s own establishment party line on a UK government-funded ‘Syrian NGO’ run out of Turkey and erroneously

What Is The Guardian Afraid Of When Attacking Honest Syria Reporters?

By Adam GARRIE | ORIENTAL REVIEW | December 20, 2017 The recent Guardian hit-piece against journalists Vanessa Beeley, Professor Tim Anderson and Eva Bartlett is something far more sinister than most people have yet to realise. The piece which can be read here is a very crude attempt to discredit the efforts of independent journalists […]

Understanding The Guardian’s Latest ‘Russia-White Helmets’ Conspiracy Theory

Following the Guardian newspaper’s hit-piece attacking 21st Century Wire this week, a number of sober analysts have stepped forward to explain how The Guardian is acting as gatekeeper in a vain attempt to steer public opinion on the UK government’s biggest ‘civil society’ project in Syria. According to The Guardian, everything is a “Russian-backed conspiracy” if it doesn’t fit the official government narrative.