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text: the article explains a lot of the background to the white helmets and asks some important questions about the relations between government and ngos or as the author terms them neargovernment organisations the author should also be commended for the extensive bibliography
  the author suggests that the truth about the white helmets may lie somewhere in the middle that the white helmets is a dualpurpose organisation with both humanitarian and propaganda functions
  the author offers no evaluation of the video evidence provided by the white helmets which to a number of people seems incontrovertably fake and staged if this video evidence is indeed faked then it invites the question why is this necessary where are all the real casualties hasnt the russian bombing killed any civilians at all
  the scd or white helmets counts nearly  rescue workers this claim comes only from the white helmets it could well be that the foreign office is paying for  salaries but whether those drawing
  them are occupied in fulltime humanitarian work is another matter
  after watching carefully the dubious video footage of rescue scenes and the far more convincing footage of white helmets participating in torture and abuse of prisoners it is difficult to see how the white
  helmets are anything more than a set of expensive props and uniforms provided to extremist groups in aleppo and idlib and donned for propaganda purposes or when other uniforms are in the wash
  furthermore given that the white helmets are funded by the governments and organisations who are totally unmoved by the plight of civilians in the greater part of syria the idea that these bodies would pay for humanitarian duties on the part of the white helmets seems somewhat optimistic
  if the white helmets are have a dualpurpose function it is not propagandisthumanitarian but propagandistterrorist
  i would also take issue with the statement the sad thing is that avaaz has learned nothing from its own campaign for a nofly zone in libya this view like the idea that the us etc keep making mistakes is following a mistaken policy presupposes that avaaz is wellintentioned that it opposes the destruction of iraq libya syria iran russia