While the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western backed terrorists risibly referred to as “rebels”, this post offers the views of three men … Read More »
The unipolar moment is no more and Western powers now rely on certified terrorists to help them achieve short-term Pyrrhic victories. Even as the loud cheers still echo, there’s no reason to believe the misadventure in Syria will be worth … Read More »
When I say I was wrong about Syria, I don’t mean I’ve at last acknowledged Bashar al-Assad to be the monster depicted by an empire-serving propaganda blitz for which ‘universalists’ Owen Jones and George Monbiot gave left-liberal cover. While I’ve … Read More »
As the blame game continues for those who, whatever our other faults, are not too deluded to see in Syria’s fate a far-reaching disaster, one valiant attempt to peer below the mire of claim and counter-claim is given here by … Read More »
Of many truth inversions by our lovely corporate media on matters Syria, one is that journalists who do the job they claim to be doing, and report from the land they play so pivotal a role in depicting, are reviled … Read More »
Podcasting a few hours after I’d posted on the fall of Assad, Brian Berletic moved from an incisive thirty-five minute exposition on what happened, to a more general observation: Although the multipolar world grows economically, even militarily; surpassing the US … Read More »
What to say other than that I read Syria wrong or, worse – though it’s too early to call – read the Axis of Resistance wrong. In my last post but one I acknowledged the terrible danger for that long … Read More »
It’s easy to lose touch – amid the cerebral thrill of the chase attendant on applying our powers of reason to uncover the drivers and drift of this sorry planet as a dying hence triply dangerous US empire thrashes out … Read More »
The Telegraph, December 3 2024 There’s truth to the above but that doesn’t mean the efforts are genuine. [HTS leader] Joulani has the backing of powerful interests to depose Assad and become Emir of Syria, but one able to be … Read More »
Jihadists about to enter Aleppo, November 29 The above shows Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – a rebranding of al-Qaeda cut-out, Jabhat al-Nusra – on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, five days ago. That’s almost twelve years to the day … Read More »