An example of the many doctored, fake, and recycled photos that are being disseminted online claiming to be from Aleppo, Syria. (Photo: Twitter @Partisangirl)
MINNEAPOLIS — Propaganda about conditions in Aleppo, including photos recycled from other incidents in other places, is spreading online amid efforts to justify war on the Syrian government.
Al-Manar – December 20, 2016 Egypt’s police detained a man for making staged “wounded children” photos, which he was planning to use to misrepresent on social media as photos of destruction and injured people in Syria’s Aleppo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Monday. “The shooting team, which included photographer’s assistants and parents of the […]
The mainstream U.S. news has supplied a consistent narrative regarding Syria that treats the “rebels” as the good guys and the “regime forces” as the bad guys, but it has never been that clear-cut, as Dennis J Bernstein reports. By…Read more →
Breaking News Syria Names Foreign Secret Agents Trapped in Aleppo named in the UN Security Council Dec 19, 2016 US, Isreali, Turkish, Qatari and Saudi secret service officers are trapped
21st Century Wire says…
An incredible and dramatic scene unfolded today in Turkey’s capital city.
An AP photographer was in the audience during the attack on Russia's ambassador to Turkey – the latest here: https://t.co/QNlIA8e2Eu pic.twitter.com/EBPa5izHsi
— AP Images (@AP_Images) December 19, 2016
Journeyman Pictures | December 12, 2016 Winner of the European Short Film Award at the European Film Awards. In August 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma awoke to the dawn of the rebel uprising in the city of Aleppo. He spent the next nine days holed up in his apartment, filming the emerging civil war outside. […]
Official Washington’s dominant neocons have pushed emotional propaganda about Syria as a way to justify a “regime change” project there and are now furious with its apparent failure, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. By Paul R. Pillar Among…Read more →
RT | December 19, 2016 The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution requiring the monitoring of evacuations from Aleppo. The resolution, initially drafted by France, was originally called a “disaster” by Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin. However, Moscow and Paris came to an agreement on the text after more than three hours of […]
A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his weapon as he prepares himself for advance, close to a military base, near Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
