THAT'S RICH. When they're not bombarding western viewers with contrived photo-ops of camera-facing toddlers, victimized by Asad's bombs never ours, the neoliberal propagandists are fishing for left-leaning sympathies with "Freedom Fighters" who Americans could not should not leave behind. Meet the West's own Femen ForWar, Kurdish anarchist insurgents, one even dubbed "Angelina Jolie", who are photographed in action, with wide smiles in sniper's nests, looking like they're otherwise hanging in homeroom detention. I'm surprised we never see the lighting crews or makeup artists reflected in the shattered glass, but what we don't see in plain sight are HELMETS. Apparently only real soldiers need those. There's even a Chicks-with-Guns meme gone viral of a bareheaded Freedom Fighter breaking into a huge grin after narrowly escaping a sniper's bullet. One man's insurgent is another man's freedom fighter. Western media's freedom fighters are your Freedom Fries.
Tag: Syria
US taunts Syria with chemical weapons game: stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!
How does America know that Bashar Assad is planning a chemical attack against his own people? The same way we knew last time, because 'twas America who done it. And it's the same refrain the US has used everytime. Saddam launched a chemical attack against his own people. We're worried that Saddam will resort to a chemical attack against his own people. Though of course, no trace of chemical weapons was found. Surprising that, because America HAD SOLD HIM chemical weapons. Same in Assad's case. This time they're already in our possession. We have our covert proxies use them on absolutely whoever (Assad's own people) and blame it on Assad.
Passing Syrian gas attack story by Occam’s Razor: who smelt it, dealt it.
When you're looking for who perpetrated the latest "gas attack" in Syria, you might first ask, who has stockpiles of the stuff? Bashar al-Assad has suspected quantities of chemical weapons, but the US has known riches of the banned material. The same people who keep pointing the finger at Assad are the same cretins who've been trying to ignite a covert war in Syria for decades, who've been unmasked hiring fake lesbian or small-child bloggers to spread propaganda in the Baghdad Blogger mold, long before their phony Arab Spring roll-out, the same agency that spawned al-Qaeda now Isis, the same agents who coordinate arms trades to all parties, the same meatheads who urge a renewed cold war with Russia because Putin nearly brought the Syria conflict to a dead calm, and the same warmongers who've now succeeded with a full-on US deployment! We're supposed to trust the US intelligence crime family about who is using gas against Syrian civilians? Next they'll try to pin US drone victims on Assad. Those numbers are much higher, concealed no doubt in Bashar Assad's stockpiles of budgeted tolerance levels of collateral damage. The complicit war media is now decreeing unanimous outrage, Russia's attempts to shift blame (how's that for loading the question) rejected (by accusers), this atrocity demands a US response! Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia. Like a bunch of kids declaring candy to be universally healthy! Doctors' lies rejected (by children), checkout counter impulse buy must not be thwarted by parent.
Yeah, so if Aleppo is Syria’s Stalingrad, which are the Nazis beating a retreat?
The West's covert proxy insurgency against Syria has suffered a major defeat in Aleppo. Social media is deluged now with cries for help, "this may be the last you hear from me" being the latest meme to drum up popular support for increased military intervention. Aleppo is being compared to Stalingrad. Funny, because the Nazis famously lost their attempt to take that from Russia. What a delicious bit of irony that. Cities ravaged by bitter urban warfare have plenty of antecedents. I suspect corporate journalists suppose their readers are as historically illiterate as they. Stalingrad was a reversal or fortune and that's what the US war machine hopes to make of Aleppo. Our human shields are crying their hearts out online, stuck where we put them, on our firing line. As refugees, we don't want them. The humanitarian disaster is our creation. US covert ops out of Syria! US covert bloggers out of Syria! You want to help the children of Aleppo? Adopt them. It's the least you should do after getting their parents and siblings killed as your human shields.
US Global War On Terror finally drops pretense of not being war on Islam
We're AT WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC STATE! ISIS being not merely al-Qaeda in Iraq or Mesopotamia or the Levant, depending on who's spinning your translation, but terrorists bent on establishing an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria! Someone is going to get an advertising award for the ISIS brand, though it sounds like an episode of Ad Men pitching a concept for Get Smart. What exactly is the West's objection to an Islamic Califate? We already support the Jewish califate of Israel which has a regular record of far greater atrocities. If Americans are upset by the beheading videos attributed to ISIS it's because ally Saudi Arabia doesn't allow its frequent and similarly executed spectacles to be broadcast publically. Well, at least President Obama has abandoned the irrationality of a Global War on Terror, in favor of calling what critics have always known it to be, a War on Islam. When we're finally candid we can admit we are defending Western imperialism from the forces who oppose usury, exploitation and slavery.
UN disinviting Iran confirms Syria talks aren’t about peace but Western victory
So it turns out the "Syrian Peace Talks" were of the Mideast Peace variety: terminal consessions to an aggressor's demands, as per usual Zionist. The US has successfully pressured the UN to rescind the invitation for Iran to join the Syrian peace conference, apparently because Iran doesn't agree that a peaceful outcome must include President Assad's abdication. Does regime change sound like a fair and impartial solution for Syria, or does it resemble the goal of the Western nations who continue to back the instability? As usual, instead of pursuing peace, the US is talking extortion. NOW THIS: US expresses horror [that someone is vying to beat US record] of torture and execution --is what the headline should read. Can the US "express horror" at torture and execution, alleged no less?!
If Syria could defend itself I bet you’d see American colors run like mad crap!
So there's a little good news as the ambush of Syria gains momentum. It's unlikely to be true, but let's indulge ourselves for a mo. It's being reported that Russia will jump to Syria's defense by attacking the Saudis, and that Iran would retaliate against Israel. Both developments deserved and overdue, but who's going to take the primary culprits, the Western colonial powers, to task? If anyone should bear the "consequences" of an illegal bombardment of Syria, the US surely has it coming. Would the US strike Syria if the Syrians could hit back? How our colors would run if, for once --it hasn't happened since 1812-- the warmaking reached our shores. Our patriot palor would blanche to ashen, I'm guessing into a full streak of yellow in no time. Must it take a Hannibal to march on the "Home Front" before Americans care enough to curb their dogs of war? Imagine it, the cretinous feudal House of Saud decapitated. They oversee Mecca, impose a repressive Islamic code on their populace, while engorging their family wealth and flesh like medieval popes. And Israel, that last colony of white settlers bulldozing over Palestinian land and lives, dismissing them like Native Americans falling before their Euro Middleast Manifest Destiny. Could a Syrian debacle spell the end for the feral Arab warlordships and for Palestine's Jewish exceptionalist Apartheid? It might be worth it. Especially as we won't be paying for it with OUR lives. "International consequences." I like the sound of that precedent.
No! No War On Syria! Bad Dog of War! Bad Dog! Off my leg you ill-mannered Yankee cur!
The carnage in Syria should "shock our conscience" really? It's fraternity hazing compared to US collateral atrocities. And how simply grotesque for an American statesman to accuse anyone of "moral obscenity". Is the USG so sure another Maning or Snowden isn't going to unveil the real agents behind the "chemical attack" and the unidentified snipers firing on UN inspectors? And using Kosovo as a precedent for an air war to depose Bashar Assad, we've seen it before, and it was illegal then.
UN inspectors find discarded Kuwaiti incubator babies, blame Bashar Assad
IF the bodies in Syrian videos purporting to document a chemical attack aren't littering hospital floors like so many fictional Kuwaiti incubator babies, we are compelled to ask who unleashed the chemicals? Bashir Assad? The rebels? Our "rebels"? The odds favor us and even our western media agrees, refusing to remove the quotes everytime they refer to the "chemicals". If covert western forces struck a Dow Chemical plant effecting a Bophal-like result to resemble a "chemical attack", neither our soldiers nor the chemical agent supplier are going to confess. Dow still won't apologize for the original Bophal.
Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be accorded the right to defend itself
It's the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syria a right to defend her lands and people against this unprovoked attack? Is Israel so cynical to pretend it doesn't have to declare war on its neighbors because it shares "most belligerent status" with all of them? --even, let's add, with half its citizens. Of course the US stands with Israel, they share a foreign policy of illegal, preemptive, and/or covert war. No doubt Israel has already calculated that Syria is in no position to retaliate. All Western powers knwo enough to only strike the defenseless. Apparently Israel has grown impatient with the Western-backed attempted overthrow of strongman Assad and fears the astroturf public support will wane before regime change is achieved. Assassination, covert coups, wars of aggression, used to be illegal.
UN military units ready to take over for the US and Israel in Syria
Obama pulls Dubya’s lying routine of needing to stop WMDs to justify an open and overt war against Syria
It is amazing how much Obama and the Democrats use straight from the Republican Party playbook! This time they are using the ol' WOMD routine to whip up American war fever once again. If they want to 'destroy' WOMD, then they should start in Pueblo, Colorado first. And then come back and dismantle NORAD right here in Colorado Springs.
US backed terrorists continue attacks on Syrian government supporters
‘Two car bombs exploded minutes apart in a suburban residential area of Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people and injuring 120, Syrian media reported. The blasts targeted an area called Jaramana populated by Christians and Druze, minority groups that have mostly supported the Syrian regime. Although no group claimed responsibility for the blasts, it had the trademarks of al Qaeda-affiliated organizations.’ See the latest news from Syria
The US government’s desire to overthrow the government of Iran has turned Syria into yet another bloody US-made war zone
The Syrian government with Assad at its head is Iran's most important regional ally and therefore Washington D.C., Israel, and the Pentagon all want regime change there. In order to make that happen they have regionalized a conflict where Lebanon is once again being thrown into disintegration, Israel is once again attacking Syria, Nato via Turkey is threatening to enter into the fight in gargantuan manner, Iraq continues to be turned into a complete carnage machine for its own people, and Syria itself is being turned from having been a former refuge for Iraqis fleeing US created mayhem into a place of utter death and misery. Amazingly, too!... many Leftists and liberal types in the US, divorced from all reality, are cheering all this along! We live in a bizarro world.
The US Left doesn’t understand much about the current state of the Pentagon and the US military
Much of the US population has been told by US Left liberals that the US 'lost' the Vietnam War and that the US military is some sort of paper tiger, when in reality the US military continues to be a very capable US ruling class killing machine that has killed millions around the globe since post WW2. Here following, I will list 2 recent examples of how the liberals and Left mislabel the US military this way by claiming that it is weak, and some few of the many reasons why they often do such. First is this example in an article in the newspaper 'Socialist Worker' of the International Socialist Organization, the larger of the US trotskyist leftover groups. Here they argue that the Syrian groups being used by the Pentagon in its efforts to overthrow the Assad government of Syria are not really aligned with US government efforts to fight the anti-Israel/ anti US forces in the Middle East, most especially those of Syria and Iran. It is a ridiculous argument, but here it goes... 'The U.S. is in a period of deep structural economic crisis, Kailah wrote, which has led to a "significant decrease in the Department of Defense budget, and in the number of American forces, including the Marines." The U.S. "can only wage one war (and it is now stuck in Afghanistan)." Therefore, Washington will not intervene militarily at this moment (in Syria) because it is not prepared to deal with a potential regional war.' and ...'The scale of foreign intervention currently in Syria is in the other direction--heavily weighed towards Russian and Iranian military and logistical support for the Assad regime. The problem of foreign intervention in Syria is not due to Syrian revolutionary fighters who accept weapons from the outside in order to protect themselves and engage the regime's forces.' Almost all the author says is a complete and total misassessment of current US government and US military intentions and current US military strength. See Syria's revolutionary resilience Yusef Khalil examines the latest developments for the Syrian revolution. Instead of warning the American people that the US government plans more war in the Middle East and elsewhere worldwide and is ALREADY actually engaged in multiple wars right now, the Marxist author actually attempts to convince us that the Pentagon and US politicians are incapable of doing so! Talk about doctrinaire idiocy! It shows the author's total noninvolvement in any antiwar activity, too. This guy, PLUS the organization International Socialist Organization, are both living in dream worlds. The second example of this sort of lazy, aberrant, and misleading underassessment of the US military can be found today at Counterpunch and is written by their frequent commentator, Mike Whitney where the argues that the US has lost the Afghanistan War! Really, he does! See Cut-and-Run Time Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat Here is the concluding summary of his opinion that the Pentagon is a paper tiger... 'But the
Nato and the US government continue their not so covert war against Syria
NATO says plans in place to defend Turkey from Syrian attacks so goes the corporate reporting of the US instigated war on the Syrian government. The phrasing of this report is all bullshit because Syria is not attacking Turkey but rather defending itself from attacks launched against itself from Turkish territory with the full complicity and aid of the US, Nato, and Turkey itself. But the US press knows that is readers are none too bright, so away flies the insipidly stupid formulation of this pro- more war for all of us, propaganda.
Turks protest against war fever of their government and NATO
Many in the US government and European governments would like for Turkey to go and duke it out in Syria, but ordinary Turkish citizens are not in support of this war fever. See Protesters March Against War in Istanbul as Tension With Syria Escalates ... The Obama regime has done little in its four years in office to diffuse the Pentagon sponsored war making in the Middle East and Asia. In fact, the Obama Administration seems to be using Syria as a stepping stone for a coming attack against Iran.
Syrian US-backed ‘rebels’ tape selves cheering executions of their POWs, another in their long list of war crimes
Some on the Left call these guys revolutionaries even! Especially those at the Louis Proyect sponsored website- North Star. The corporate Pentagon war pushing media positively gushes over the anti Syrian government forces as well, however the actual picture of these criminal thugs is quite different from the one the Leftist humanitarian imperialists want us to know about. See Syria rebels execute soldiers in battleground Aleppo Gosh this North Star website sponsored by Louis Proyect is completely weirdo! They pretend to be about the Occupy Movement while talking about the Stalinist led Comintern of decades long past, and pretend to be open to all opinions, while quickly kicking those with different opinions offline from their heavily censored website same as Louis Proyect does, too, on HIS 'marxism list'. Who is being fooled much by Poryect's shenanigans at North Star though? Few, one hopes.
Sad Sack gang of aged, confused and politically lost ‘marxists’ are now supporting US-EU imperialist-made regime change for Syria
'Understanding the Syrian revolution as one of the deepest movements for human freedom in this period of human history is a challenge for the left.' --says the so-called 'unrepentant marxist' Louis Proyect, on his blog, HIS well censored and controlled discussion list, 'the marxism list', plus at his newly set up blog, 'North Star' that feigns connection with The Occupy Movement. And unfortunately way too many marxist and socialist groups in the English speaking world have become so absent from building any antiwar movement to oppose Washington D.C., that they are just tagging along ofter this guy's so-called 'socialist' approval FOR Pentagon made regime change in Syria. No antiwar movement, no strong political alternative to the Democrats and Republicans in the national elections, and US based socialists who cheerlead 'rebels' backed by the Pentagon... What a mess we have in US 'Left' politics today. None personally represent the degeneration of old orthodox marxist types more than humanitarian imperialist Lefty, Louis Proyect! Shame, too, on all you 'comrades' who help back this guy up in his multiple endeavors.
US, Britain, France, and Germany versus Russia and China- Battle Zone Syria
Those Americans who tend to see the Syria battle out of its geo-politcal context are playing stupid and mainly fooling only themselves. Here from a news report... 'Another item which the two leaders will most likely discuss is how Russia and China may protect themselves from a network of air defense facilities, which the US is now unveiling in Asia. China’s authorities are very concerned about the fact that the US is deploying missiles and air defense systems in Japan and on the Philippines, because this is obviously done as a reaction to China’s program of developing nuclear missiles.' (from What Russian, Chinese leaders may discuss during APEC summit) All this takes place in the context that the US, Britain, France and Germany may ignore the Russian and Chinese objections to their plans to use their militaries anyway to force regime change on the Syrians, while ignoring the vetoes against this at the United Nations. There is no 'revolution' in Syria freely made by Syrians themselves. The war in Syria was MADE IN USA.
When Miss Daisy is not pushing more bloodshed on Syria she likes to drink tea down on the Malawi tobacco plantations
Hillary is just too much for me! Her efforts to promote herself off to the American public constantly as being the supposed grand international womens' advocate while simultaneousy advocating FOR more and more Pentagon wars is just even sicker than swallowing any 3 cups of poisoned koolaid laced cyanide tea might ever be! Accepting her US government pr imagery at face value will poison your mind, no matter how much sugar is put in the cup! Isn't that right, Greg Mortenson (infamous author of Three Cups of Tea)? Pentagon Hillary is Greg Mortenson is Pentagon Hillary is who can really tell anymore here? They are both Pentagon's drag queens, Greg and Hillary... Uggalug! ... But does the American public have to force fed this display by Hillary almost every other day? Get me Mitt Romney on the phone, PLEASE! I'd do almost anything to keep form seeing anymore of the Hillary Show! It's just too damn nauseating! See Hillary in Malawi... Clinton meets Malawi's Banda. And Malawi has a problem with witchcraft already. Malawi govt says witchcraft based violence a concern ....Yeah, well.... Then don't bring Hillary into town if your trying to protect people from witchcraft violence, Malawi! Trust us about this, Malawi. Hillary Clinton is a bad witch!
Obama’s lying about US intervention in Syria now partially exposed to light
Last week, Reuters reported that, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey had established a secret base near the Syrian border to help direct vital military and communications support to Mr. al-Assad’s opponents. This “nerve center” is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey about 100 km from the Syrian border, which is also home to Incirlik, a U.S. air base where U.S. military and intelligence agencies maintain a substantial presence.' Obama authorizes secret CIA support for Syrian rebels. That Starbucks in the picture is located at the US Incirlik Air Base an hour or so from Syria ... Between holding babies and drinking cups of Java, the US soldiers have been apparently also engaging in providing support services for the Pentagon's covert war against the Assad government in Syria. Obama has repeatedly told reporters that the US military was playing no role in the war against the Syrian government.
You say that there is a civil war in what country right now?
When the Pentagon-fed media goes after a country they spread the lies nonstop. So you say that there is a civil war in what country right now? Slaughter In Iraq As 145 Are Killed And 379 More Are Wounded Monday: 145 Killed, 379 Wounded
Syrian Situation Worsens coverage
Press Tv has an excellent discussion that can't be found elsewhere about the main issues in regards to what's being done to Syria by the US government. Check it out. Press TV- Syrian Situation worsens
US govmnt-created Syrian National Council continues its war against Syria
The reactionary character of the Syrian National Council is pretty open and blatant, as is its Pentagon backing. Take a look at their spokewoman, Bassma Kodmani, who is posturing herself off all over the media today just like a little Hillary Clinton clone should do. Her message to the Syrian government? ...'we gonna send in guns that are big big big, and never mind what the UN is doing.' She is telling us all that the US government and its allies are her sponsors and her BIG guns, if you only read through the lines of her press conferences some. Putin is able to do that. Are you? And here following is an excerpt from the wikipedia info about who she is and her background in being a counter-revolutionary in the pay and sponsorship of the US government... 'The Arab Reform Initiative In 2005, Bassma Kodmani established the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), a consortium of independent Arab research and policy institutes, with partners from the United States and Europe. The Arab Reform Initiative had been established by the Council on Foreign Relations, a highly influential think tank and lobbying group in the United States, that promotes market liberalization and global governance.[8] Through policy recommendations and research, the ARI has the stated aim of promoting reform and democratization in the Arab world. It hopes to initiate a dialogue between policy institutes in the Arab world in order to "advance the understanding of western different groups on issues of reform in the Arab world." In addition, the Arab Reform Initiative "aims to raise awareness in the Arab world about successful transitions to democracy in other parts of the world, and of the mechanisms and compromises which made such successful transitions possible."[10] The initiative is based on three main principles: "1- The Arab world needs to develop its own conception of reform, based on its present realities and rooted in its history. While there are basic universal criteria that apply to a process of democratic reform in any given society, the initiative seeks to generate knowledge by those who are the prime targets of reform. 2- Reform is a comprehensive process which can only succeed if the interaction between the political, economic, societal and cultural spheres is fully recognized. In the quest to build free, just and democratic societies, the initiative privileges issues of democratization and good governance, socio-economic and cultural transformations, and social justice. 3- The network’s conception of reform fully recognizes that Arab countries present very diverse situations and that this diversity is likely to become more salient as societies engage in a path of liberalization. Thanks to its composition, with member institutes and scholars from all countries of the region, the initiative is well positioned to produce analyses and recommend diverse solutions relevant to the specificities of each society." [10] The ARI network includes the following members: the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the European Institute for Research on Euro-Arab Cooperation (MEDEA), the European