“We’ve Got to DO Something About Syria!” Uh, No You Don’t. Please Don’t.

“We’ve Got to DO Something About Syria!” Uh, No You Don’t. Please Don’t.

“Kindly let me help you or you will drown,” said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree. ~ Alan Watts “We’ve got to do something about Syria!” goes the common western refrain. Actually, no you don’t. “What? You’re saying we should just do nothing??” goes the common response. Yes. Yeah that’d be great….

US State Dept Implores ‘Mockingbird’ Media to Promote White Helmets

US State Dept Implores ‘Mockingbird’ Media to Promote White Helmets

The information war is perhaps the most fiercely fought in the West to gain influence over the Syria narrative, and recently the US/UK coalition media proxies have been failing miserably. Western public consensus on Syria appears to have shifted dramatically since Aleppo’s liberation in December 2016, which drove a stake through the heart of corporate…

Trapped in Eastern Ghouta: How Both Sides Stop People from Escaping

Trapped in Eastern Ghouta: How Both Sides Stop People from Escaping

Syrian rebels and government forces are both preventing civilians fleeing the bombardment of Eastern Ghouta, according to a teacher who has been trying to get his family out. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Ghafour, 43, a teacher of Arabic, spoke of their abortive attempt to escape. “I live in Douma [in the north…

Here’s How Syrian “Rebels” Manipulate Information from East Ghouta

Here’s How Syrian “Rebels” Manipulate Information from East Ghouta

In the Eastern Ghouta in Syria, a war is fought every day without the exclusion of blows: it is the war of information and propaganda, which is consumed by tweets and photographic material on social networks. Objective: to bring public opinion to its own side, at any cost and by any means. The sources that…