Kids in Hanano, East Aleppo, 24 hours after liberation from Nusra Front-led occupation, by the SAA and allies. December 2016 ( Photo: Vanessa Beeley) What follows is a speech I gave at the UPR [Union Populaire Republicaine] Conference/Election Campaign launch/10 years anniversary, on Saturday the 25th March in Paris, in front of 6,500 people. Francois…
“We were liberating one section of East Aleppo..and it was door to door combat..room to room..we cleared the first four buildings..we got into the fifth building which was their second defence line. One soldier with me saw a baby, in the middle of the room. so he went to lift the baby up and the…
Fake news is many things. It can be lies, half-truths, deceptions and perhaps most sinister of all, stylised deceptions.
But what many do not pay close attention to is fake news by omission. When there are important global stories that are being ignored or supressed, this is as bad or worse than the more traditional style of fake news.
With this in mind, here are five stories that the mainstream media has ignored in recent days.
1. The Meaning of Mosul
One man’s incredible story, defending the people of Aleppo…
Two days ago The Duran wrote about a US air strike on the city of Mosul that killed approximately 200 civilians.
The massive death toll forced Iraqi military leaders to pause in their push to recapture west Mosul from ISIS. International outrage mounted over the airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in one district of the embattled city alone.
The mainstream media completely ignored Mosul’s death toll…
The Iraqi military and its US led coalitions backers have announced what might as well be called a ‘humanitarian pause’ in the battle against ISIS in Mosul.
This came after confirmation that a US air strike on the city on 17th March 2017 killed 150 civilians. This is how the Guardian reports details of the strike and the pause
By Jan Oberg
Lund, Sweden – March 24, 2017
Can the almost total destruction of Eastern Aleppo be used constructively?
Only if we are willing to ask and dialogue about this:
Why does the world go on investing US$ 2000 billion annually in warfare and US$ 30 in all the UN does – only to create destruction of people, places, past and future?
21st Century Wire says…
Earlier this week, 21WIRE outlined how the current Turkey government is about to bring an abrupt end to country’s secular democratic government in favor of political Islam and one-party rule.
Turkey is about to pass over a very dangerous threshold…
View from inside the ancient Citadel, East Aleppo, Old City, 24 hours after liberation from US funded terrorist occupation. December 2016 (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Sarah Abed
21st Century Wire
