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The Corbett Report Podcast

Episode 330 – The White Helmets Are A Propaganda Construct

The Corbett Report Podcast

The Corbett Report

Politics, News

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Contrary to what its multi-million dollar international PR campaign would have you believe, the White Helmets are not a group of volunteer search-and-rescue workers that sprang spontaneously out of the Syrian soil. When you peel back the layers of foreign financing and reveal the foreign intelligence operatives and murky lobbying groups at the heart of the organization, what you find is that the White Helmets are, in fact, a propaganda construct.

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In November 2017,

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2017, journalist Vanessa Beale gave a groundbreaking presentation to the Swiss Press Club in Geneva on the so-called Syria Civil Defense, better known as the White Helmets, which bills itself as an impartial group of volunteer search and rescue workers,

0:16.0

working to save lives and strengthen communities in Syria.

0:20.0

In her presentation, Beale demonstrated the connections between this supposedly neutral organization,

0:27.0

recognized terrorist groups operating in Syria, and the UK government.

0:32.0

During my time working in East... UK government.

0:38.2

During my time working in Easter Leper, it was clear that the councils were working hand in hand with Nusra Front. Their centres in each district were always next door to Nusra Front Headquarters and White

0:44.2

Helmut Centers. i.e. they always formed an integrated complex.

0:50.3

Less than three weeks later, the Guardian released a report painting all skeptics of the white helmets, including Beelie and other anti-Imperialist activists, as proponents of a Russian propaganda campaign directed by the Kremlin.

1:06.0

This is no coincidence.

1:08.0

The White Helmets are in fact part of a coordinated propaganda campaign,

1:12.0

but that campaign is not being directed by the Kremlin. of a coordinated propaganda campaign.

1:12.7

But that campaign is not being directed by the Kremlin,

1:15.7

but the Western governments which have been responsible for the founding

1:18.9

and funding of the White Helmets.

1:21.7

And the

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ones promoting that propaganda are not independent journalists like Beelie,

1:26.0

but establishment mouthpieces like The Guardian.

1:31.0

In Syria, they know how to intervene. They know how to manipulate the media.

1:37.0

We had the white helmets, a complete propaganda construct in Syria.

1:43.5

They end up getting an Academy Award.

1:46.0

They know how to intervene in public discourse every day

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