Praise be to God for the downfall of that wicked man, Bashar al-Assad! Those receding parts of Syria not swallowed by Israel, Turkiye and the US are now under the control of Al Qaeda/ISIS cut-out, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Now rebranded … Read More »
In a footnote to the previous post I wrote: More on Sykes-Picot here. For why I doubt that a third way, neither empire nor Ba’athism, was ever on the cards, see Syria – how Trotskyism got it so wrong. As … Read More »
My December 14 post, On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole, generated this three-way exchange below the line. I’m dressed in a rather fetching red: You really think [Assad] a good man? A kind leader? At least read Syrian Gulag … Read More »
Nine days ago, in Syria glimpsed through the fog of war, I spoke of: … the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, [who] celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western … Read More »
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 »