Forget Oscar: Give The White Helmets the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Best War Propaganda Film
The fact that a documentary about The White Helmets received an Oscar Award simply confirms what a glorious bubble the entertainment industry resides in. This is not a conventional documentary film. Normally we think of documentaries as films that are supposed to speak truth to power, but this film does the opposite. It reinforces an Anglo-American establishment power structure responsible for one of the most violent, dirty wars in modern history. The footage was provided by a terrorist-affiliated NGO based in Turkey, operating in Syria, and primarily funded by the US State Dept, the British Foreign Office, the Netherlands, and other NATO member and Gulf states to the tune of over $150 million, and whose chief remit is producing US-led Coalition propaganda images for mass media consumption.
