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Everything They’re Telling Us About Syria….is False?
By Russ Baker
Friday, we read in the New York Times and elsewhere about one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most important supporters and allies having defected. The impression one gets is that Assad’s government is in a state of collapse— and this gives credibility to those pushing for Assad to turn over power.
But what the media are not mentioning is that Brigadier General Manaf Tlass did not defect directly from the Assad inner circle. He had already fallen into disfavor early in the uprising and lost his command in May 2011—14 months ago. If you had that additional piece of information, you would interpret the news reports in a totally different way.
When a piece of evidence that contradicts the overall impression is absent from the reportage, the reportage itself is almost worthless.
As are reports of horrific events without adequate fact-checking and follow-up. Remember the Houla massacre? Who carried that out?
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I am disgusted with Western global fascists, the degeneration of the corporate media, both liberal and conservative into FASCIST IDEOLOGICAL THUGS. SMACK THESE NAZIS, LIARS, CORRUPT CORPORATE TOTALITARIANS with 0, ZERO CREDIBILITY, and join the GLOBAL REVOLT bya ll social classes to KICK OUT FASCIST AUSTERITY CLASS POLITICIANS, FASCIST NATO CLASS POLITICIANS, FASCIST CORPORATE NAZI THUGS until their parasitic, corrupt totalitarian power is RIPPED OFF, by global social parties, with social agendas that make their goal social control over civil society, ENDING THE FASCISM, TOTLITARIANISM OF THE WEST AND ITS FAILED ENLIGHTENMENT. HILLARY AND OBAMA ARE FASCISTS, IDEOLOGICAL THUGS, LIARS, SCAM ARTISTS LIKE THE CORPORATE MEDIA....BOYCOTT ALL CLASS PARTIES, ALL CORPORATE NEWS AND SMACK THESE NAZIS......AND THEIR FASCIST PROPAGANDA~!!!!!!
When Democracy Now and Amy Goodman confronted the lies of Syrian opposition, like the Houla Massacre, that worthless, Western Empire funded Western propagandist for the Syrian Fascist, Sunni, Al Quadia alliance IGNORED THE EVIDENCE THAT AMY GOODMAN CONFRONTED HER WITH.
Amy Goodman should have brought in more social power, independent journalists to confront the FASCIST WESTERN PROPAGANDA.....SHE DROPPED THE BALL ON THIS ONE:
Syrian Opposition Spokesperson: Any Transition Deal Should Entail Assad’s Prosecution for War Crimes (video)
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/9/syrian_opposition_spokesperson_any_transition_deal
BOTH ASSAD AND WESTERN FASCISTS SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR THEIR WAR CRIMES!!!!
THE SUNNI/ALQUAIDA/AMERIKAN/WESTERN ALLIANCES FALSELY BLAMES THE HOULA MASSACRE ON ASSAD, WHEN IT WAS THE SAUDI FINANCED FASCISTS WHO CARRIED OUT THE CRIME.