Meet Aylan & Omran: Child Victims Used for Syrian War Propaganda

Meet Aylan & Omran: Child Victims Used for Syrian War Propaganda

In September 2015, a young boy was found washed up on a beach in Turkey. Photos of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body were quickly splashed across mass media, much the same way that Omran Daqneesh’s photo inside an ambulance would also be disseminated. Accusations of responsibility were hurled at the Syrian government, and leaders from Western…

Mosul’s “Liberation”: Another Fallujah, Dresden or Hiroshima?

Mosul’s “Liberation”: Another Fallujah, Dresden or Hiroshima?

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 When the US, UK and their fellow destroyers of nations embarked in October last year on erasing Iraq’s ancient Mosul in order to save it, did they reflect on the enormity of the…