Saudi Arabia’s Billion Dollar PR Campaign to Whitewash Genocide in Yemen

The Saudi regime is using powerful international PR and consultancy firms to quell international outrage over their bloody war in Yemen, including a recent ‘aid delivery’ replete with cherry-picked international press.

Dan Glazebrook
By Dan Glazebrook
Saudi airmen prepare an aid flight for Yemen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Feb. 1, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

The situation in Yemen – today, right now, to the population of the country, UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told Al Jazeera last month, “looks like the apocalypse.” 150,000 people are thought to have starved to death in Yemen last year, with one child dying of starvation or preventable diseases every ten minutes, and another falling into

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The Pentagon Paid A PR Firm $500 Million For Top Secret Iraq Propaganda

An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed that the Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq.

Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black
By Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black
Bell Pottinger was hired as a news editor by a British PR firm and quickly sent to Camp Victory in Iraq. It soon became apparent he would be doing much more than just editing news footage.

B ell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee. The agency’s staff worked alongside high-ranking US military officers in their Baghdad Camp Victory headquarters as the insurgency

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