{"id":178597,"date":"2015-09-05T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=178597"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:30:14","slug":"abusing-dead-syrian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/abusing-dead-syrian-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Abusing Dead Syrian Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Images are a powerful tool in the hands of propagandists. A picture is worth<br \/>\na thousand words, as the saying goes. If a powerful image can be manipulated<br \/>\nto tell a tale even if false, it can persuade more viscerally than can a thousand<br \/>\nreasoned arguments.<\/p>\n<p>So it is with the tragic photograph making the mainstream media rounds yesterday<br \/>\nof a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/02\/shocking-image-of-drowned-syrian-boy-shows-tragic-plight-of-refugees#img-2\">lone Syrian child<\/a> drowned on a Turkish shore. Reams of articles can be written<br \/>\nabout the current refugee crisis but particularly in the US they will go relatively<br \/>\nunnoticed by those not directly affected. There may be some video clips on the<br \/>\nnightly news but overall the story \u2014 and particularly the context \u2014 will go<br \/>\nunexplained.<br \/>\nBut the powerful image of a dead child, abandoned by the world on the capricious<br \/>\nsway of the tide, is putty in the hands of propagandists.<br \/>\nAnd proponents of the four-year US policy of Syrian destabilization and regime<br \/>\nchange are lining up to make their case that the current refuge crisis \u2014 now<br \/>\nswamping Europe with Syrians desperate for something approaching a normal life<br \/>\n\u2014 is one hundred percent the fault of both Syrian president Assad and the western<br \/>\nnon-interventionists who objected to plans in 2013 for the US and UK to begin<br \/>\nbombing Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/daniel-mcadams\/2015\/09\/03\/abusing-dead-syrian-children\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images are a powerful tool in the hands of propagandists. A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. If a powerful image can be manipulated to tell a tale even if false, it can persuade more viscerally than can a thousand reasoned arguments. So it is with the tragic photograph making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}