Vanessa Beeley

Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East - on the ground in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering the conflict in Yemen since 2015. In 2017 Vanessa was a finalist for the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism which was won by the much-acclaimed Robert Parry that year. In 2018 Vanessa was named one of the 238 most respected journalists in the UK by the British National Council for the Training of Journalists. In 2019, Vanessa was among recipients of the Serena Shim Award for uncompromised integrity in journalism. Vanessa contributes regularly to Mint Press News, Russia Today, UK Column, The Last American Vagabond, Sputnik radio, 21st Century Wire and many other independent media outlets. Please support her work at her https://www.patreon.com/vanessabeeley Patreon Page.

Los incendios forestales se desatan en Siria a raíz del aumento de la guerra económica liderada por Estados Unidos

La combinación de una guerra militar de diez años, sanciones económicas de máxima presión, la destrucción deliberada de la infraestructura civil esencial y las flagrantes políticas de tierra arrasada de los gerentes de política exterior neocolonialistas estadounidenses están diseñadas para reducir a Siria a otro estado fallido siguiendo el plan de Libia de la OTAN.

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People fleeing Latakia

For nearly two weeks, Syria has been battling a new wave of fires that have engulfed much of the agricultural and forest-rich mountainous areas of western Syria. Thanks to a corporate media blackout, very few in the West are aware of the devastation that is affecting the Syrian people already crippled by U.S.-led economic sanctions, recently

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Mientras Siria lucha bajo el bloqueo de COVID-19, la política de tierra quemada de Estados Unidos garantiza la inseguridad alimentaria

Enfurecido por una campaña militar fallida para eliminar el liderazgo de Siria, Estados Unidos ahora está volviendo loco a una nación que ha sufrido una brutal guerra de desgaste de 10 años librada por mercenarios extremistas.

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Por Vanessa Beeley
Virus Outbreak Syria

In a world dominated by American exceptionalism and neo-colonialism, hunger has become a weapon of war. “The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited” under international humanitarian law yet the U.S. regularly reduces entire nations to dangerous levels of food insecurity in order to subjugate them. Food,

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Cómo las víctimas de la campaña de "presión máxima" de los Estados Unidos están lidiando con el coronavirus

A pesar de las paralizantes sanciones, años de guerra, intervención militar y una campaña de "máxima presión" que solo ha aumentado desde que comenzó el coronavirus, las víctimas de la política exterior dura de Estados Unidos están a la altura del desafío.

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Por Vanessa Beeley
US Sanctions Coronavirus Feature photo

As Western nations descend into a panic over the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are getting a taste of what it’s like for the millions who have been living under U.S. sanctions and warfare. Iran has been hit hard by the pandemic with 850 confirmed deaths to date. It’s Rial lost 80 percent of its value and food costs have nearly doubled. With

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After His Mysterious Death, the Media Scrambles to Get its Story Straight About White Helmets Founder James Le Mesurier

Almost immediately after Le Mesurier’s alleged plunge to his death, reports began to emerge of tampering and the removal of details about the controversial “private security” operative’s career.

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Por Vanessa Beeley
James Le Mesurier Feature photo

On November 11, 2019, the British founder of the notorious White Helmets, James Le Mesurier, died in Istanbul, Turkey. The circumstances surrounding his death immediately elicited a flurry of Turkish and corporate media reports, many of them contradictory, as the details of his final hours came to light.  Mark Urban, the diplomatic editor at BBC

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Los cautivos de ISIS ofrecen un peón conveniente en el juego de ajedrez de Siria en Turquía

ISIS es el último hombre del saco en una cartera mundial de terror que sirve a una agenda neoconservadora en el Medio Oriente, y Turquía ha sido su comadrona y curadora.

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Por Vanessa Beeley
Turkey Syria ISIS Feature photo

Turkey recently threatened to send 1,200 ISIS terrorists back to their countries of origin in the EU, the U.S., and the UK. Turkey’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Solyu, claimed that extradition would begin on Monday, November 11, ironically on Armistice Day. Ankara claimed it would even send back those whose citizenships have been revoked. How

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The White Helmets, Hala Systems and the Grotesque Militarization of “Humanitarianism” in Syria

Vanessa Beeley looks at how the now-infamous White Helmets partnered with Chicago-based Hala Systems to militarize so-called humanitarian efforts in Syria.

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Hala White Helmets Feature photo

Syria, August 2019 - reports came in that Russian warplanes had destroyed two terrorist-manned early warning radar posts in the Northern Hama countryside, known as the 20th post and the Eagle post. According to an article published by South Front, these early warning posts are “tasked with monitoring flights of Russian and Syrian warplanes” and

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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda

Cotler’s campaigns for foreign regime change or intervention almost always march in lock-step with neoconservative U.S. foreign policy. His “humanitarian” branding is but a thin veneer of hypocrisy to conceal his establishment policies — policies that almost always serve the interests of Israel.

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Por Vanessa Beeley
Irwin Cotler Feature photo

On July 22, 2018, Israel organized and facilitated an exceptional evacuation of White Helmet operatives from southern Syria, claiming the operatives were at risk from an advancing Syrian Arab Army. A number of NATO member states backed the move, calling on Israel to bring their intelligence assets to safety.  The White Helmets have been

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