An image of a wounded boy is being promoted in the discredited
mainstream media together with a tragic story from "activists" in a
neighborhood in al-Qaeda occupied east-Aleppo.
According
to the state sponsored media, "Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes" are
to blame for this act of brutality against an innocent child.
A
shell-shocked boy seemingly wounded, sits quietly in a pristine
ambulance. At one point he touches a wound on his head. He does not
react to that touch.
.
The two-minute video from
which the still picture is taken, shows the boy being handed from the
dark above to an "official" person and carried into the ambulance.
There he mutely sits as the camera rolls in this photo-psy-op.
The mainstream narrative is as follows:
Mahmoud
Raslan, a photojournalist who captured the image, told the Associated
Press that emergency workers and journalists tried to help the child,
identified as 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, along with his parents and his
three siblings, who are 1, 6 and 11 years old.
"We were
passing them from one balcony to the other," Raslan said, adding: "We
sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the
11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued. Her ankle was
pinned beneath the rubble."
An internet search for "Mahmoud
Raslan", the claimed "photojournalist", finds no other pictures or
videos attributed to that person.
There are currently fifty wars waging across the bloody planet Earth. Children become casualties of war every hour of every day.
Ask yourself why you never see the child victims of U. S. airstrikes, or the bombings of our allies.
When they feature a dead or wounded kid in heavy rotation, there is an agenda.
Usually, the aim is to stir up the emotions required to manufacture your consent to a new war.
The
parts of yourself that you despise are projected onto a target as your
private demons become public enemies and the state can kill with
impunity, transforming murder into patriotism.
There
probably is no image more effective at tapping into our tribal psyche
than a hurt or dying child. How can we help this poor kid? The state has
a ready-made answer.
Hundreds of thousands of
kids have been killed or wounded by US bombings in this century alone.
How many have you seen on the "news"?
Have you
seen one photo of the kids killed by US aggression in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, or Somalia appearing in a war-justifying,
mainstream newspaper?
In 1972, a
shocking photo of a girl who was a victim of a napalm bombing raid on
Trang Bang, Vietnam, appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
The
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Kim Phuc by AP photographer Nick
Ut proved to be very effective in exposing the true horror and
immorality of the Vietnam War and helped turn public sentiment against
US aggression in the country.
Would such a picture make its way to this powerful platform in today's landscape of state and corporate sponsored media?
(Remember, The New York Times helped promote the lies that took us to war in Iraq.)
Publishing
such emotionally charged, shocking images can be used to help end a
war, but much more frequently, they are used to demonize an enemy and
provide pretexts for a new war on "humanitarian" grounds.
We
never see the results of US-inflicted carnage, because a major function
of the war-promoting media is to remove all guilt and moral
responsibility for our country's actions and affix blame and evil
elsewhere.
The excuse for putting these visual
documents of war into memory holes is often that the images are "too
provocative," yet the same media outlets enthusiastically promotes clips
of evil-doers doing evil things when it suits their agenda.
When you see dead or wounded kid on the enemy media,
watch out!
Anthony Freda
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