Syria
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Max Kantar: A Case Study Of Power And Media: The Washington Post
31 October, 2008 Last week’s unilateral attack on Syria and the subsequent coverage of the events by the mainstream US media give us an impeccable illustration of the prevailing ideologies that dictate how news is received, composed, and understood by respectable journalists and reporters. In fact, considering all of the variables surrounding the recent US… Continue reading
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Ali Gharib: Syria Raid: The Question is – Why?
The attack is especially curious one. The cross-border raid – the first of its kind involving a helicopter attack and U.S. boots on the ground that far into Syrian territory – left eight dead, according to Syrian press reports. WASHINGTON – A cross-border raid into Syria by U.S. forces in Iraq, and a subsequent stonewalling… Continue reading
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Reassessing the Hariri assassination in the light of recent events
The Hariri assassination, immediately blamed on Syria (with no evidence other than the lies promoted by Mehlis), led directly to Syria being forced to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. It is obvious that that step was a necessary precondition of Israeli involvement in Lebanon. Continue reading
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Syria: Old whine, new bottle By William Bowles
The UN ‘report’ on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese PM, bears all the hallmarks of yet another set-up, no doubt ‘inspired’ by US pressure as part of the build-up to yet another Middle Eastern ‘adventure’. Even less remarkable is the uncritical, indeed blind acceptance by the Western media of the Report’s conclusions… Continue reading
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First stop Damascus – next stop Tehran? al-Hariri assassination followed by character assassination
Recent utterances by the Bush administration about Syria have a predictably ominous ring to them that when coupled to the massive car bomb that killed the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, fit a pattern that prepares the ground for more aggressive actions, more than likely to be carried out by its proxy in the… Continue reading
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Israel’s Proxy War By William Bowles
Israel’s attack on Syria this past weekend revives an aspect of the Cold War period that most thought a thing of the past, namely utilising a third party to do your fighting for you – war by proxy – a tactic used so effectively by the US in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 