lia Skripal in Salisbury in 2018, Prof Miller insisted it was wrong to conclude that Putin was behind the attack, calling it “an extraordinary case study in the continuing relevance of understanding state propaganda in 21stcentury Britain. To support their lies, the British government employs thousands of people directly in propaganda and related activities,” he wrote in an essay on the Open Democracy website.
One of the SPM’s main targets is the White Helmets, a civilian search-and-rescue service launched by former British Army captain James Le Mesurier.
Vanessa Beeley, a prominent SMP member who branded the Charlie Hebdo attacks a “false flag”, labelled the White Helmets an “al Qaeda auxiliary” group. If the claims were true, she said, the humanitarian workers were a “legit target” for Assad’s butchers.
The blogger — who counts a meeting with the Syrian dictator as her “proudest moment” and has shared a platform with a convicted Holocaust denier — spends much time in Damascus, where she drives a pink Volkswagen Beetle with an image of the Syrian dictator on the rear window.
When questioned by the JC, Ms Beeley, who has been praised by Prof Miller, said she was victim of a “smear”. “It is frankly unimaginative and barely worth a response,” she said. “You will do what you are instructed to do regardless of my response.”
Instructed to do by who, exactly? Well, I think we know the answer to that one.
Here's an article from 2017 which documents how the whole smearing of the humanitarian White Helmets group as an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organisation was promoted for the benefit of Assad and his thugs by the Russians, using useful idiots like Beeley – and, it seems, Miller – to help push their claims.
Vanessa Beeley at Wikipedia – "known for sharing conspiracy theories and disinformation about the Syrian civil war and about the Syrian volunteer organisation the White Helmets."
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