Vanessa Beeley

• Articles at 21st Century Wire (https://21stcenturywire.com/category/vanessa-beeley/)

• Articles at Mint Press News (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/vanessa-beeley/)

Items mentioned in / related to the interview

• Centre for Counter-Hegemonic Studies (videos from the Media on Trial event in Leeds 2018) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeU88kUHzna_mZBd94J-HWg)

• Harold Beeley (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Beeley)

• Roland Dumas on British preparations for interference in Syria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeyRwFHR8WY)

• "Syria in Bush's Cross Hairs", Time (19 December 2006)

• Syriana Analysis YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClvD6c1VI75QZWJjA_yiWhg)

• Amnesty International (https://www.amnesty.org/en/)

• Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/)

• "Caesar Report" via Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/16/syria-stories-behind-photos-killed-detainees)

• Rick Sterling on the "Caesar Report" (https://dissidentvoice.org/2016/03/the-caesar-photo-fraud-that-undermined-syrian-negotiations/)

• No Chemical Weapons Destroyed In Lab (CBS / BBC)

• Bellingcat (https://www.bellingcat.com/)

  • Eliot Higgins, Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Future Europe Initiative [Update 2019: Higgins, for whatever reason, no longer enjoys this position, but evidence that he did so enjoy when this interview was conducted may be found here (https://web.archive.org/web/20190127102347/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/eliot-higgins) [JC: Just another "citizen journalist and blogger"?]

• "The Killing of Serena Shim...", Sott.net (20 October 2015)

• Conflict, Stability & Security Vs Human Rights (Mark Curtis)

• Ahrar al-Sham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrar_al-Sham)

• Vanessa Beeley, "Investigation: White Helmets Committing Acts Of Terror Across Syria", Mint Press News (06 September 2017) [JC: Highly-recommended study, but please be aware that the article contains embedded videos of an upsetting nature.]

• FOI Request re. White Helmets to the UK FCO by Rori Donaghy (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/funding_given_to_white_helmets_i)

• Mayday Rescue (http://www.maydayrescue.org/)

• Syria Campaign (https://thesyriacampaign.org/)

• Scott Ritter talkes to Ron Paul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHYlzduqcI)

• White Helmets'"mannequin challenge" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8bIupYSZeU) [JC: As I said in the conversation, the only thing this demonstrates is that it's not difficult to fake a rescue video.]

• John Pilger on the White Helmets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27B0yuazGo)

• Olivia Solon, "How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine", The Guardian (18 December 2017)

  • James Corbett's open letter to Olivia Solon (https://www.corbettreport.com/an-open-letter-to-olivia-solon/)

• Chris York, "Whitewashing War Crimes : How UK Academics Promote Pro-Assad Conspiracy Theories About Syria", Huffington Post UK (24 April 2018)

• Whitney Webb, "Russian-Syria Warnings of a Coming False-Flag Chemical Attack Have Ring of Truth", Mint Press News (15 June 2018)

• Kevork Almassian - Syriana Analysis (https://www.patreon.com/SyrianaAnalysis/posts)

• Eva Bartlett (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/)

• Stephen Gowans (https://gowans.wordpress.com/)

• Sharmine Narwani (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/203907-palestine-syria-shelling-clashes-conflict/)

• UK Column (https://www.ukcolumn.org/)
  

• 21st Century Wire (https://21stcenturywire.com/)
  

• Professor Piers Robinson, former Professor of Politics, Society and Political Journalism in the University of Sheffield (https://piersrobinson.wordpress.com/)
  

  • Co-Director: Organisation for Propaganda Studies, OPS (http://www.propagandastudies.ac.uk)

  • Co-convenor: Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda (http://syriapropagandamedia.org)

 Recent Books  

• Tim Anderson, The Dirty War on Syria, Global Research (2016)

• Stephen Gowans, Washington's Long War on Syria, Baraka Books (2017)

• Tim Ripley, Operation Aleppo : Russia's War in Syria, Telic-Herrick Publications (2018)
  

• Piers Robinson, Phil Seib & Romy  Fröhlich, eds., Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security, Routledge (2016)

 Acknowledgements

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