by Susan Dirgham, published on Pearls and Irritations, August 11, 2023 For Syrians, hope lies in the fact that – given time and effort – people outside their country will learn of the deleterious effect of sanctions, will question the justifications given for imposing them, and will see them as …
Read More »Free Press, Propaganda and Censorship
The lies around Syria and the Syrian war have comprised a landslide of confusion and misinformation in the public. The mainstream media has turned the truth about events in Syria over and over again. by Paul Larudee, first published on Dissident Voice, July 21, 2023 In war, truth is the …
Read More »‘Sarin Doesn’t Slice Throats’: The 2013 Ghouta Massacre Revisited
by William Van Wagenen, published on The Libertarian Institute, June 14, 2022 “Germ and chemical weapons may often be weak in their battlefield applications but they are always strong in their emotiveness. Accusations of association with them have for centuries, even millennia, been used by well-intentioned as well as unscrupulous …
Read More »Creative Chaos: How U.S. Planners Sparked the Anti-Government Protests of the So-Called Arab Spring in Syria
by William Van Wagenen, published by The Libertarian Institute, January 31, 2022 “I have been a refugee for 37 years due to my political engagement against the ruling Baath party. I cannot go back to Syria without being punished. But I see what the western countries, Turkey, and the Gulf …
Read More »How ‘Virtual Crime Scenes’ Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
The following article, by Rick Sterling and John Perry, is republished from the Antiwar.com blog: by John Perry and Rick Sterling Posted on May 26, 2022 This article shows how media uses computer modeling and “virtual crime scenes” to assign blame for some extremely important international events. In these examples from …
Read More »NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News The New York Times has, kind of, admitted that it messed up its big front-page story that used a “vector analysis” to pin the blame for the Aug. 21 Sarin attack on the Syrian government, an assertion that was treated by Official Washington as the slam-dunk …
Read More »Religious leader speaks about US media’s misrepresentation of country’s issues
Nov 18, 2013, The Daily Nebraskan Mainstream media has depicted the crisis in Syria as a black and white cinema. At a talk in downtown Lincoln Monday morning, Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross said that isn’t the case. Mother Agnes is Mother Superior of the monastery of St. James the …
Read More »Tariq Ali asks did USA rely on tainted Israeli evidence to justify Damascus Missile Strikes
Nov 16, 2013 British-Pakistani historian, activist and editor of the New Left Review, Tariq Ali, says that without publicly available evidence, Barack Obama’s claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians and rebels is “totally unconvincing.” During a (Aug 29, 2013) debate http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/29… on “Democracy Now!” on …
Read More »Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda
Nov 3, 2013, Global Research In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”. Black doesn’t offer the …
Read More »Friends of Syria or Friends of Imperialism?
Oct 23, 2013, Stephen Gowans The Friends of Syria—an 11 country coalition ranged against the Syrian government—favors what it calls a “democratic” transition in Damascus. There are multiple problems with this. The coalition says that the current president, Bashar al-Assad, must have “no role in Syria.” How odd that an …
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