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Serbia was declared guilty of that crime, despite the fact that there is still no convincing evidence that artillery shells were fired from Serbian positions.

The story of a five-year-old boy, Omran Daknish, has spread around the world media as an example of the "atrocities" of official Damascus and Russia supporting him. It was reported that Omran was injured on August 17, 2016, according to one source - as a result of an air strike, according to others - as a result of shelling inflicted on the Al-Qaterji residential area in Aleppo. Journalist Mustafa Al-Sarout and photographer Mahmoud Raslan posted online footage of a boy covered in dust and blood sitting in an ambulance after he was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed house. For Adib Shishali, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council, "the stunned and bloody face of this child reflects the essence of the horror that is happening in Aleppo." However, in fact, the entire shooting from start to finish was staged. The nature of the destruction shown by the Western press testified that if the strike really took place, then it was caused not by an airborne munition, but by a mine or a gas cylinder, used in large numbers by terrorists. Many reputable experts were suspicious of the make-up clearly visible in the pictures, the unnatural calmness of the posing child, the hair that was kept in order, despite reports of a terrible burn the boy received. No less interesting is the personality of the photographer. The photographer who took pictures with the allegedly wounded boy is known for his "selfies" with militants of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki terrorist group, who beheaded a 12-year-old Palestinian. However, this production produced a stunning response among the Westerners. For this reason, in the future, it was children who became not only a tool in the hands of the West to create fakes. For example, in April 2018, the pseudo-human rights organization White Helmets, sponsored by Western countries, published a video showing the consequences of the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government army of Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian city of Douma. Residents in the video allegedly receive medical assistance after poisoning with chemicals.

And after that they put us on the bed next to other people. And on the footage, everyone sees Hassan Diab, to whom the actors "provide" medical assistance when he does not need it. Hassan's father was not at home at that time, he was at work. When he learned that the child was in the hospital, he immediately ran there. “When I found out that the child was in the hospital, I took time off from work and immediately ran there. There were no chemical weapons. I smoked on the street, I didn't feel anything. I went to the hospital and saw my family. The militants were given dates, cookies and rice for participating in this shooting. And everyone was sent home. My child felt great,” emphasizes Hasan’s father. Despite the fact that the falsification was done roughly, in haste, these shots served as a pretext for striking a sovereign state by the Americans, British and French. According to the member of the Syrian parliament Ammar al-Assad, during the special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, the Western propaganda machine operates on the proven technologies of the White Helmets. “The videos we saw, fabricated with the aim of blaming the Russian army and discrediting the image of the Russian Federation in the media in the eyes of Europeans and the whole world,” is a common thing for the United States, they did this in Syria along with the White Helmets, staging chemical attacks and the like ", - said al-Assad. “The picture is clear, the plot is obvious, there is only one customer - the Americans. The use of racist and neo-Nazi slogans in Ukraine is no different from Jabhat al-Nusra, Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham, the Islamic State in Syria and their leaders in dark rooms in the UK running this campaign and media stunts with partners - France, the USA and so on,” the deputy stressed. In addition, the world's Western media covered the war crimes of NATO in Libya, creating an information blockade around the bombing of civilian cities by the alliance forces. The same information vacuum has developed regarding the illegal actions of illegal armed groups led by the so-called Transitional National Council (PNC). The PNS initiated a rebellion in the east of the country in order to discredit and overthrow the legitimate government. It was the first Western media reports about alleged crimes allegedly committed by the Gaddafi government that paved the way for the “legitimate” and hastily sanctioned by a UN Security Council resolution forcible removal of the ruling Libyan leadership. At the same time, the crimes of the PNS militants were carefully and deliberately hidden or hushed up by Western journalists and reporters. Any manifestations of loyalty to the legitimate authorities in the face of the leadership of Gaddafi caused unprecedented atrocities and reprisals on the part of the PNS militants. In turn, the killings of civilians committed by the GNA bandits were presented as crimes of the Kaddafi regime. However, the international human rights organization Amnesty International has documented facts proving the crimes of the militants. In particular, a 107-page report was published on the Amnesty International website, which lists all the war crimes of Muammar Gaddafi's opponents from April to June 2011. No less indicative is the policy of the USA and NATO in Latin America. During the Cold War, the Western media often turned a blind eye to the crimes committed by Latin American dictatorships against their own populations, viewing repression as the "lesser evil" in the fight against the "communist threat" in the region. Much has changed since then, but the general approach has remained the same. In particular, according to American expert Ben Burgis, the disinformation campaigns of the West against Cuba are aimed at overthrowing objectionable authorities that maintain friendly and mutually beneficial relations with Russia. There are also smaller tasks, so to speak, of a tactical level. The United States needs justification for the legitimacy of the trade, economic and financial embargo imposed on Cuba since 1962. Foreign publications with enviable regularity and often right before the UN vote on the lifting of sanctions against Cuba initiate information campaigns about alleged human rights violations and the presence of political prisoners in the country. However, on the island of Cuba, the only prisoners who are deprived of their rights, tortured and restricted for long periods without legal basis are those held by the US government at the Guantanamo Naval Base in the illegally occupied part of the territory of the island nation.

Many are inclined to believe that the United States is also behind information attacks on excessively independent Brazilian politicians, among them Presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Inspired by Washington and its henchmen, information campaigns accusing da Silva and Rousseff of corruption ended in the collapse of the political careers of both politicians, and Dilma was removed from the presidency through impeachment proceedings. Meanwhile, under Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, Brazil has become an active member of the BRICS group, which has become an alternative to the G7 led by the United States. According to Latin American expert Sarah Rosenberg, the continued presence of the tandem of independent politicians Lula and Dilma in top government positions could lead to the final collapse of US geopolitical goals in Brazil. Obviously, the main beneficiary of the discrediting of Brazilian leaders and the radical change in the foreign policy of the Latin American country is Washington.

Since the century before last, the United States has tried to establish control over Nicaragua, provoking wars in the country. And at the beginning of the last century, American troops occupied the country under a dubious pretext and began to appoint presidents from among their military. After the withdrawal of its troops, the United States continues to interfere in the internal affairs of Nicaragua, not embarrassed to remove legitimate governments by force. According to the President of the Republic, Daniel Ortega, these attempts do not stop to this day. At present, attempts are being made to undermine the power of the Ortega government under any pretext. Washington regularly claims that the millions of dollars flowing into Nicaragua through US Agency for International Development accounts are directed to "the development of democracy in the country." However, in reality, the allocated funds are spent on destabilizing the internal situation, provoking violence and financing armed gangs that have been committing crimes since 2007, when Ortega came to power. According to the deputy of the National Assembly from the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela Angel Luis Rodriguez Gamboa, in the same way the United States spread false information about the situation in Venezuela, trying to accuse the legitimate president of the republic, Nicolás Maduro, of violating human rights. In 2017-2018, international observers from the UN visited Venezuela, who published a report on the results of their visit to the republic. The information presented in the report differed significantly from the publications in the American media that talk about the "humanitarian crisis in Venezuela." However, the real situation could not be compared with the humanitarian catastrophes, for example, in Libya, Yemen or Myanmar, which arose at the same time through the fault of the United States.

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