tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post1888127390299261036..comments2022-08-31T13:21:11.928+02:00Comments on webdiary_<i>libre</i>: who can we trust - to tell us the truth? (AusBC vs. Syria/Assad)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-22907557426163013522012-03-13T10:47:15.543+01:002012-03-13T10:47:15.543+01:00'Snip' + references from:
Middle East
Mar...'Snip' + references from:<br /><br />Middle East<br />Mar 9, 2012<br />Syria: Straining credulity?<br />By Alastair Crooke<br /><br />The UN Secretary General was reported on March 3 saying that he had received "grisly reports" that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in Homs after retaking control of the Baba Amr district from insurgents. Did he really believe this; or was he just "saying it"?<br /><br />[me: Almost all 'reports' we are getting are from *non-independent* sources, namely 'activists' and their ilk. No 'lie-filter' is ever applied?]<br /><br /> <br />"One of the defining bifurcations of the future will be the conflict between information masters and information victims" the US officer assigned to the Deputy Chief of Staff (Intelligence), charged with defining the future of warfare, wrote in the US Army War College Quarterly in 1997. <br /><br />...<br /><br /><br />But does anyone really believe American and European objectives in Syria were ever purely humanitarian? Is it not the case - given that the turnout of events in the Middle East are taking such an ominous and dangerous turn - that it has now becoming somewhat awkward openly to admit that their info-war was never primarily about reforming Syria, but about "regime change", and that it was that even from before the first protest erupted in Dera'a?<br /><br />[me: well spotted]<br /><br /><br />In his recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, [5] given in advance of President Obama's American Israel Public Affairs Committee speech, the president, inter alia, was questioned about Syria. His response was very clear:<br /><br /><br />GOLDBERG: Can you just talk about Syria as a strategic issue? Talk about it as a humanitarian issue, as well; but it would seem to me that one way to weaken and further isolate Iran is to remove or help remove Iran's only Arab ally. <br /><br />PRESIDENT OBAMA: Absolutely.<br /><br /><br />Do these Western interventionist proselytizers really believe that the onslaught on Syria is only about democracy and reform? Obama said it plainly. It was always about Iran. And, as Europe and America increasingly become bystanders to a Qatari and Saudi frenzy to overthrow a fellow Arab leader by any means it takes, do these "apostles" truly think that these absolute Arab monarchies simply share the Guardian's or Channel Four's nice humanitarian aspirations for Syria's future? Do these reporters really believe that the armed insurgents that Gulf states are financing and arming are nothing more than well-intentioned reformists, who have simply been driven to violence through Assad's incalcitrance? Some perhaps do, but others perhaps are simply "saying these things" to prepare the battlefield? <br /><br />Notes:<br />1. Constant Conflict, Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14.<br />[http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/Articles/97summer/peters.htm]<br /><br />2. The United Nations Accuses Syria of "Crimes against Humanity"<br />[http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30714.htm]<br /><br />3. The danger of reporters becoming 'crusaders', spiked-online.com, Feb 27, 2012.<br />[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/printable/12159/]<br />{Me: See also: [http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3850566.html]}<br /><br />4. See 'How Avaaz Is Sponsoring Fake War Propaganda From Syria', March 3, 2012.<br />[http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/03/avaaz-sponsoring-fake-reporting-from-syria.html]<br /><br />5. Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'<br />[http://www.theatlantic.com/international/print/2012/03/obama-to-iran-and-israel-as-president-of-the-united-states-i-dont-bluff/253875/]<br /><br /><br />Alastair Crooke is founder and director of Conflicts Forum and is a former adviser to the former EU Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, from 1997-2003.<br /><br />http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/nc09ak03.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-6834517288273529382012-03-12T11:01:51.437+01:002012-03-12T11:01:51.437+01:00The AusBC continues catapulting the propaganda:
&...The AusBC continues catapulting the propaganda:<br /><br /><i>"47 bodies found after 'massacre' in Homs"</i><br /><br />From their report: <i>"... the opposition and activists said on Monday."</i><br /><br />Q: How does the AusBC contact 'opposition and activists,' and why are such reports so heavily biased in favour of these 'opposition and activists?'<br /><br />Q: Who is more likely to rape and bash then slaughter innocent and presumed unarmed women and children?<br /><br />A1: Domestic defenders, or<br /><br />A2: Invading aliens?<br /><br />Here:<br /><br /><i>"New Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed three Palestinians on Sunday, raising the death toll in a latest round of violence to 18 ..."</i><br /><br />Here:<br /><br /><i>"Residents of three villages in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province described a terrifying string of attacks in which the soldier, who had walked more than a mile from his base, tried door after door, eventually breaking in to kill within three separate houses. The man gathered 11 bodies, including those of 4 girls younger than 6, and set fire to them, villagers said."</i><br /><br />Try this:<br /><br /><i>"Syrians involved in a popular uprising against Mr Assad say there can be no meaningful dialogue with a leader who has inflicted such violence and suffering on his own people."</i><br /><br />Q1: What <i>"popular uprising?"</i> The Syrian people just voted - in very large majority - in a referendum. Q: Were they forced to the polls at gunpoint? If so, where is the *proof*?<br /><br />Q2: Why <i>"no meaningful dialogue?"</i>- recall ditto in Libya, also an armed alien invasion (Al Qaeda and other mercenaries - then US-cruise missiles followed by ~26000 F+UK/NATO 'sorties' = smashed infrastructure and many civilian deaths, damage largely unknown to us because no credible reports = corrupt&venal MSM + AusBC.)<br /><br />Q3: Where do the opposition and activists' guns come from, the ones turned *against* the legitimate defenders of Syria = the Syrian army, and the innocent populace both?<br /><br /><i>"This sovereign right [that of the legitimate defenders of Syria] is all the more founded given burgeoning evidence that the subversion is being fomented and furnished by foreign governments and their special forces. Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia have emerged as key backers of the self-styled armed opposition, the so-called Syrian Free Army. Most of the weaponry supplied to the oppositionists is reportedly emanating from Israel."</i><br /><br />You decide - balance of probabilities, past form; Afghanistan (invaded, still occupied), Iraq (invaded, smashed, still occupied - Oh, but 'only' by world's biggest embassy = occupied public-administration (incl. oil ministry)), Libya, (invaded, smashed), Syria 'on the boil' and Iran to be next?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com