SYRIA, LIES & VIDEOTAPE – EVA BARTLETT – 2018, Frome

 

Frome Stop War, Published on Mar 6, 2018

 

-(LINK TO THE Q&A SESSION)

 

“Internationally acclaimed journalist Eva Bartlett gave a hugely informative presentation for Frome Stop War entitled, ‘Syria, Lies and Videotape’. Syrian from Aleppo, Kevork Almassian was due to join her, was unable to attend but has added his endorsement of the event in a short video at the beginning of the event.

 

Eva has traveled to Syria seven times since the commencement of hostilities there, has fearlessly reported what corporate and establishment media would not, and has given voice to Syrians ignored by them. She’s undertaken interviews with Syrians who’ve told of their experiences. Their testimonies directly conflict with what we’ve been told by our media and politicians and she’s exposed specific instances of manipulations, deceptions and fakery which were contrived to promoted yet another regime change narrative. Her analysis, first hand evidence and testimonies from civilians in Syria is valuable and historic.”

 

Related: About Eva Bartlett

My Comments:

In Frome, Somerset, I spoke at length on Syria to an audience I suspect was already quite well-informed but hungry for on the ground details. The event was organized by Sheila Coombes of Frome Stop War, which in 2017 hosted Media On Trial, with speakers Robert Stuart (who with his”Fabrication in BBC Panorama ‘Saving Syria’s Children’” has in-depth investigated lies and manipulations of the BBC), Patrick Henningsen, Vanessa Beeley, Piers Robinson, and Peter Ford. See the Frome Stop War Youtube channel for all of the speeches.

On a personal note, I was delighted by the audience turn-out, some at the Frome event who had traveled great lengths to attend, and by the drop-in of colleague and friend Vanessa Beeley.

*Note: during end of Q & A I meant to say Ramouseh was closed and Castello had just been opened (re Aug 2016)

RELATED LINKS:

*On early “unarmed” protests & fomented regime-change:

-Prof Tim Anderson on Daraa, 2011: https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Syria-how-the-violence-be-by-Tim-Anderson-130513-875.html#_blank

–http://www.premshankarjha.com/2014/02/27/syria-who-fired-the-first-shot/

-“Syria: The Hidden Massacre” Sharmine Narwani investigated the early massacres of Syrian soldiers, noting that many of the murders occurred even after the Syrian government had abolished the state security courts, lifted the state of emergency, granted general amnesties, and recognized the right to peaceful protest.

–Nidal Jannoud murdered

–Stephen Gowans: “The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t”

–Syrians in Canada Comments on when the protests began

–Lilly Sahounie on LA Times false report on ‘violent’ protests in Latakia, April 1, 2011

–Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria

-May 2011 video footage of later-resigned Al Jazeera journalist Ali Hashem shows fighters entering Syria from Lebanon, carrying guns and RPGs (Hashem stated he’d likewise seen fighters entering in April). Al Jazeera refused to air the May footage, telling Hashem to ‘forget there are armed men. [See: Sharmine Narwani’s “Surprise Video Changes Syria “Timeline””]

–William Roebuck leaked 2006 cable

–2012 US DIA report on rise of Islamic State

–Washington Confesses to Backing “Questionable Actors” in Syria

–former Qatari PM admission to supplying terrorists

*On Support for the Syrian government:

-March 29, 2011: over 6 million people across Syria took to the streets in support of President al-Assad.

-June 2011: hundreds of thousands marched in Damascus in support of the president, with a 2.3 km long Syrian flag.

-November, 2011, masses again held demonstrations supporting President al-Assad, notably in Homs (the so-called “capital of the ‘revolution’”), Dara’a (the so-called “birthplace of the ‘revolution’”), Deir ez-Zour, Raqqa, Latakia, and Damascus.

-Mass demonstrations like this have occurred repeatedly since, including in March 2012, in May 2014 in the lead-up to Presidential elections, and in June 2015, to note just some of the larger rallies.

– https://dissidentvoice.org/2015/10/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/

*On Sanctions:

-Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Western media ignoring reality on the ground in Syria: terrorism and anti-Syria sanctions which help terrorists, Mar 3, 2016, Russia Today

*My Articles/Videos From Aleppo 2016

-On Aleppo’s over 4100 doctors and the Dabeet Maternity hospital: Western corporate media ‘disappears’ over 1.5 million Syrians and 4,000 doctors

–Dr. Nabil Antaki on terrorists’ attacks on Aleppo, and more (video)

–On terrorists targeting of civilians & humanitarian corridors

–MP Fares Shehabi schools Channel 4 war propagandist, Krishnan Guru Murthy (who refuses to “get into history”) (video)

–Leaving Aleppo in simple taxi while terrorists mortar the area (Aug 2016 video)

–Solitary Confinement FSA Underground Prison (Nov 2016 video)

–Dr Ibrahim Hadid, former director of Kindi Hospital (Nov 2016 video)

–Defiance: Aleppo Woman Refuses to be Terrorized Out of her City (Nov 2016 video)

–Woman from the Aleppo Chamber of Industry Speaks on Resilience (Nov 2016 video)

–Medic Speaks of his wish for a return to peace in Syria (Nov 2016 video)

*My Articles/Videos From Aleppo June 2017

–Al-Nusra & Co Occupied Eye & Children’s Hospital Complex, Aleppo (video)

–Liwa Tawhid Headquarters in Eye Hospital Complex, eastern Aleppo (video)

–Solitary Confinement Cells, Eye Hospital Complex, Aleppo (video)

–Shop owner speaks improved life post-liberation,and of his losses under terrorists’ assault (video)

–Interview with Bab al-Hadid resident

–Meeting Omran and his father (article)

–The father of Omran Daqneesh, on his 11 year old, Mohammad Ali (video)

–Omran Daqneesh father supports Syrian army (video)

–Father of Omran Daqneesh speaks to me about son’s mild injuries (video)

–The ‘other’ Omran: Aleppo civilians expose MSM lies & child exploitation (by Vanessa Beeley)

*My Articles/Videos From Madaya & al-Waer June 2017 (and related)

–Order Returns To Western Cities (Madaya and al-Waer), Civilians Recount Horrors Of ‘Rebel’ Rule, (blog version with more photos)

–Men from Madaya speak on terrorists hoarding food, starving civilians (video)

–Madaya prison and torture room (video)

–Madaya Bomb Factory (video)

–Wounded Buqayn employee, Madaya (video)

*On terrorism that is whitewashed in corporate media:

• Aleppo: How US & Saudi-Backed Rebels Target ‘Every Syrian’
• The Terrorism We Support in Syria: A First-hand Account of the Use of Mortars against Civilians
• University Hospital, Damascus: Meeting Victims of Western-backed Mortar and Rocket Terrorism
• Where is the West’s compassion & condemnation following terror attacks in Middle East?
• Media Black-Out on Arab Journalists and Civilians Beheaded in Syria by Western-Backed Mercenaries
• Jooneed Khan Speaks on Extreme Censorship by Agnes Gruda, La Presse (video)

*Rebuttals to MSM claims and smears:

• Those Who Transmit Syrian Voices Are Russian Propagandists? Monitors of ‘Fake News’ Negate Syrian Suffering
• A Personal Reply to the Fact-Challenged Smears of Terrorist-Whitewashing Channel 4, Snopes and La Presse
• How the Mainstream Media Whitewashed Al-Qaeda and the White Helmets in Syria
• Corbett Report’s “An Open Letter to Olivia Solon”
• Corbett Report: Episode 330 – The White Helmets Are A Propaganda Construct
• Imperialism on Trial: writers and activists convene in Derry, Ireland

*On War Propagandizing Human Rights groups:

• Human Rights front groups (“Humanitarian Interventionists”) warring on Syria
• Conversation With Professor of International Law, Dr. Francis Boyle (video)
• Amnesty International: Imperialist Tool (by Prof. Francis Boyle)
• Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda (by Tony Cartalucci)
• Amnesty’s Shilling for US Wars (by Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley)
• Seven Steps of Highly Effective Manipulators White Helmets, Avaaz, Nicholas Kristof and Syria No Fly Zone  (by Cory Morningstar)
• HRW’s Kenneth Roth Continues Unfounded Accusations With Another False Picture (by Moon of Alabama)
• “Doctors” Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims are Aiding Terrorists (by Tony Cartalucci): “Doctors Without Borders is fully funded by the very same corporate financier interests behind Wall Street and London’s collective foreign policy, including regime change in Syria and neighboring Iran….”
• “The Syria Campaign”: Seven Steps of Highly Effective Manipulators White Helmets, Avaaz, Nicholas Kristof and Syria No Fly Zone (by Rick Sterling)

*Democracy Now & Counter Punch Shills For War:

• “Democracy Now” and the “Progressive” Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War (by Finian Cunningham)
• The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t (by Stephen Gowans)
• Check links in this interview

*On Foua and Kafraya, besieged by terrorists, starving and bombarded:

• The Children of Kafarya and Foua are Crying in the Dark
• Untold Suffering in Foua and Kafarya: Two Northwestern Syrian Villages Under Siege and Assault by NATO’s Terrorists
• Untold Suffering in Foua and Kafarya, Part Two 

*UN War Propagandizing:

• UN Feigns Outrage Over Ghouta While Terrorist Rockets Rain Down on Damascus
• Scoundrels & gangsters at UN: Silencing the Syrian narrative
• Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Ja’afari on Sovereignty, Terrorism, and the Failure of the UN
• UN covers up war crimes in Syria, citing U.S. backed Al-Qaeda propagandists
• Not-Tweetworthy: UN Selectively Tweeting Syrian Villages, Ignores Foua, Kafarya, Nubl, Zahara Besieged by US Sponsored Terrorists