Translated “Avante!” article by Jorge Cadima, member of the International Department of PCP
The Syrian child’s photo, who allegedly survived, upon a governmental forces bombardment, took over all headlines. Exploiting feelings, that naturally, the photo rises, the media campaign nurtured the field for more imperialist powers’ interventions, responsible for the war in Syria. But, on the other hand, and amid an almost complete silence, another revolting child’s story, in Syria, was almost silenced, beheaded and decapitated by “moderate rebels”, financed and armed by the imperialist powers. The executioners proudly registered a video (English version). The video contains images of the imperialist “fighters for freedom” mocking the child’s disease, and when the unlucky child begs to be killed with a shot and not beheaded, they declare to be “worse than the ISIL” and proceed with the decapitation. The BBC mentioned the case (2016.07.21), but entitled: “ Syria conflict: decapitated by rebels “was a fighter”, and therefore, one ought to agree, it mostly seems an attempt to justify the barbaria. The two children’s stories even have a common direct liaison. The outstanding photo’s author also holds jolly selfies with the boy’s executioners, a story that was not highlighted by the regime media ( off-guardian.org, 2016.08.23). At the beginning of this year, Moshe Ya’alon , the then Israel minister of Defence, explained this attitude before the barbaria: “ In Syria, if the choice is between the Islamic State [ISIL] and Iran, I choose the Islamic State” (in Times of Israel, 2016.01.19). A few days ago, a university teacher, in Israel, wrote “ IS[IL] ‘s existence carries on to serve a strategic objective. Why help the Assad’s brutal regime to win the civil war in Syria?” (besacenter.org, 2016.08.02). “Western values” cope well children’s decapitation.
The bellicose propaganda is made of well publicized lies. Many ought to recall the 2014 campaign on the alleged Swedish territorial waters violation by a “Russian submarine”. Few are those who know, that at the beginning of this Summer, the Swedish minister of Defence confessed “ the sign of alert, the Swedish soldiers considered to be the crucial sign of a foreign submarine presence, near Stockholm, during the 2014 searches, was instead from “a Swedish object /device” (RT, 2016.06.12). Nevertheless, the campaign was used to “ justify a many million dollars increase, in military expenses” and to promote Sweden’s membership to NATO. The British ministry of Defence recognized, after all, ( in answer to the House of Commons, HCWS177, 2015.09.07) that the damages of a fishing boat in the Irish Sea, in April 2015, had not been caused by a Russian submarine , but instead by a “Great Britain submarine”, as the media had repeatedly declared, at that time. But, as the Milosevic recent declaration of innocence, the regime media does not hold space to deny false information in their headlines.
Most probably and in result of the TIIP negotiations’ contradictions, the German magazine, Der Spiegel (2016.07.28) also complains on the war lies. It accuses “ a Western agitators’ underground network, round a NATO military leader [General Breedlove], of having developed the Ukraine conflict”, through “ doubtful sources” that “exaggerate on the Russian activities”. And, as the proverb says, “when gossipers are infuriated, the truth comes to surface”. In the end, the article mentions that ” General Breedlove, on stepping down from his NATO post did not bring about any peace[…]. [Obama’s] probable successor, democrat Hillary Clinton, is taken as the hard line towards Russia. And more: [Victoria] Nuland, a diplomat that shares many of Breedlove’s points of view, ought to occupy a more important post, upon November elections [as] mister of Foreign Affairs”. War is inseparable from imperialism. And lies are inseparable from war propaganda.