In another sign of exceptionalism, nay desperation, a TV station in France broadcasted a ridiculous “US airstrikes against ISIS” story supported with actual Russian airstrike footage against ISIS in Syria.
What’s appalling about all of these is that, the mainstream media were accusing the Russians of incompetence for allegedly hitting civilian targets while praising US airstrikes as far more accurate, i.e. using Russian videos.
Below is the original video of an airstrike on a training base of the Jabhat al-Nusra militants (Aleppo province):
This is not the first time that the entire NATO propaganda, i.e. mainstream media, plagiarized evidence of Russian accomplishments in Syria. It should not be a surprise to anyone when the war in Syria is finally over, that NATO would declare its victory against terror around the world. After all, they need to provide a good ending to their own hallucinations.
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“The French state television France 2 has shown a news report criticizing Moscow’s anti-terror campaign in Syria, but used images of Russian airstrikes not to talk about Moscow’s efforts, but to illustrate achievements of the US-led coalition instead.
According to RT in French, the report showing the videos released by Russian Defense Ministry, while the French reporter was talking about US airstrikes, was aired on February 4.
The French report on anti-terrorist operations in Syria and its Aleppo province first featured a short story strongly criticizing airstrikes carried out by the Russian Air Force in the region. The journalist then proceeded to tell the audience about the objectives of the “minimum civilian casualties” western operation, led by the United States.
“The planes of the US coalition have a hard time finding targets to destroy,” the reporter was saying, while images of the Russian airstrikes were broadcast.
Having just praised the accuracy of US airstrikes, the reporter pointed to the video on screen, which showed the footage of Moscow’s anti-terror op, released by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Commenting how “targets are very difficult to find” and telling the audience how the US and its allies have been destroying terrorist training camps, command centers, ammunition depots and oil facilities, the French channel kept showing Russian footage of its efforts in Syria.
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This is not the first time videos from Russia’s anti-terror campaign in the Middle East have been used by western media to depict airstrikes by the US-led coalition.
https://www.rt.com/news/331929-russian-video-french-report/
If this report is true then I will cease watching France 2 TV. I will only continue my regular routine of France 2 if the French take clear Diplomatic and Governmental actions to go forward and erase all impacts of the TV item given RT has, as I believe they have, accurately reported on France 2’s actions in airing a defamatory item.
I meant Covert Geopolitics not RT.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-demand-conviction-usa-president-barack-obama-and-trial-international-criminal-court-hague
We demand conviction of a war criminal Barack Obama and trial in the International Criminal Court in Hague. He is guilty of crimes not only against the USA citizens, but against the whole world.
One of the most dreadful prisons in history – Guantanamo – continues to function. Libya was destroyed as a result of Obama’s aggression. In Syria, Obama’s agents train, fund and organize terrorist groups, deceitfully naming them “moderate opposition”, who, among other things, bear a relation to Al-Qaeda, implicated in crimes against the American people. Secret services collect the Americans’ personal data information on a 24 hour basis under the canopy battling terrorism, using electronic surveillance tools on political undesirables, effectively stomping on the Americans’ right for privacy.
Published Date: Feb 08, 2016
Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties, Foreign Policy, Human Rights
Hello Folks
It is a well known truism that “TRUTH” is the first casualty of war. Not our truth or their truth, but truth itself. Supposedly this war we are witnessing began on 9-11. As I see it, the truth is that this war is a continuation of an earlier war that began in the wake of the assassination of the Duke of Austria, back in the year 1914.
In truth European monarchies and by extension their Nation States, are ECONOMICALLY still at war with each other. The European theatres of war (1914-1945) specifically the first and second world wars… continue to by other means, namely by way of internal economies.
Many an investment expert, banker, world economist will point out the that it is Gold that is the true value underpinning prosperity. Whereas the federal reserve issued (fiat currencies) notes and coins are a drain on the true value of wealth, that is to say Wealth measured in the weight of gold at hand; safely tucked away in places such as Fort Knocks.
In truth, at least in so far as I see it, the real wealth of an economy, the real wealth producer operating within an economy, is the means of war.
Dissent and the fermenting of dissent is the real producer of wealth.
Metaphorically speaking, Dragons abound on all sides of humanity, north, south, east and west. No one side is good or bad, virtuous or evil. It is we, common humanity, who willingly give over our being to falsehood and war.
Shame on us.
Anthony P Healy