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UPDATES: More thoughts on the /"anti-imperialist"/ claim that the Douma
attack was /"a Fabricated Pretext for Intervention."/
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/counterpunch-delivers-another-low-blow.html>*
/I've just finish watch the CBS Evening News and there was no mention
of Douma. Why not? I've heard nothing about Douma for days from the
corporate media. The Assad regime made another attack on Douma on
Sunday, killing 35 <http://www.mojahedin.org/newsen/37028>. It doesn't
really matter if it was real or fabricated. If they were looking for a
/"Pretext for Intervention,"/ I would expect them to jump all over it.
On the other hand, its hard to imagine they would go to all the
trouble of fabricating an attack, creating videos for YouTube and all,
however they would do that, and then not use it as a casus belli. In
fact, there have been attacks on Douma almost every day since the one
that created all the fuss on 16 August and there has been almost no
news about any of them.
Now, why is that?
In point of fact. There have been many, many good reasons for
intervention, not just the 21 August 2013 sarin attack or this recent
16 August Douma air strike. There have been daily outrages from the
Assad regime, generally with supporting video and there have also been
mass demonstrations all over Syria demanding military intervention,
again with supporting video. If the US imperialists have been looking
for a /"pretext for intervention,"/ if they want to build support for
a war in Syria, why is all this video so unfamiliar to the American
public?
Now, finally, we are able to turn the counterpunch logic on its head
and see that the reason the very real war crimes of the Assad regime
receive such little publicity in the United States is that the
bourgeoisie does not want to intervene in Syria, nor are they willing
to so tarnish Bashar al-Assad's image that the people will find him
unacceptable in a deal later on. One need only compare this to the
media campaign used to justify military operations against ISIS and
know that Assad still kills far more people than ISIS, that Assad was
using rape as a weapon and burning people alive long before ISIS,
etcetera, to see that /"a Fabricated Pretext for Intervention."/ is an
/"anti-imperialist"/ and pro-Assad fantasy.
We can also see how counterpunch and others on the /"Left"/ have
played a supporting role to the bourgeoisie by helping to suppress any
consciousness of what is happening in Syria, notice the cooperation of
Democracy Now and other /"Left"/ news outlets in keeping the Syria
story quiet or focused on ISIS, and by accusing them of supporting the
struggle to overthrow Assad, which is the fabrication they want people
to believe.
/
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In this very important piece
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/syria-etc-121579.html#ixzz3jmtfo2Ju>
from Politico Magazine, Lina Sergie Attar gives us a very human view
of this catastrophe:
*/More...
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/counterpunch-delivers-another-low-blow.html>
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*UPDATE:*
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/is-assad-creating-first-holocaust-of.html>
According to this new *IHS Jane's* report
<http://www.janes.com/article/53771/syrian-government-no-longer-controls-83-of-the-country>,
the Assad regime no longer controls 83% of the country.
However, he can still bomb 100% of it. When will this end?
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