One thing missing from discussion of Baa’thist Syria’s record on human rights, which I’ve long insisted was (a) distorted and (b) nothing but a pretext for removing another insufficiently Washington compliant government – where (a) follows (b) as night on … Read More »
https://youtu.be/w8DJJDCGQ9g Meanwhile, here’s a leaked recording of what Secretary of State John Kerry said – and the New York Times obligingly omitted in its coverage of a meeting with a small group of Syrians at the UN General Assembly … Read More »
In an interview with French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to … Read More »
Many people buy the line on White Helmets as heroes doing Good Works to alleviate a Syrian nightmare caused by Assad’s “bloody crackdown on Arab Spring protests” at Daara in 2011, and refusal since then to ‘step down’ as western … Read More »
In spite of that, it was the Syrian government and Army – those who, according to our media, only “kill their own” – plus the Russians and the Red Crescent who helped people who came out of Eastern Aleppo at its … Read More »
Just five minutes thirty two seconds. What else were you figuring on doing with that time? https://www.facebook.com/IssamBayanOfficial/videos/682855851805542/
December 9, UN Syria Mission Press Conference: coolly and armed with the facts, Canadian Eva Bartlett puts a smug Christopher Rothenberg straight on what is, and what is not, going down in Syria. Three minutes twenty. https://youtu.be/AisvBNXPdG8 The above clip … Read More »
The best thing – which given the two appalling candidates means the least worst thing – about Clinton’s defeat on November 8 is the receding threat of her No Fly Zone for Syria. Let’s spell this out. In its self … Read More »
Today’s editorial, verbatim, from Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz … Only Solution to Palestinian Terrorism is the End of the Occupation In the wake of the deadly Tel Aviv attack, ministers voice empty bravado and call for collective punishment, thereby just … Read More »
This post also features on offGuardian – a much needed antidote to ‘liberal’ media. It’s also been translated into French so je vous remercie, mes amis inconnus. (Retrospective, January 2019. I rarely re-read old posts but was curious here. I know … Read More »