Robert Fisk’s anti-Syria propaganda
[propaganda alert]
compiled by Cem Ertür
29 April 2011
Out of Syria’s darkness come tales of terror
Witnesses who fled across the Lebanon border tell Robert Fisk what they saw.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 29 April 2011
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Could Assad’s regime be on the road to civil war?
If the dead soldiers are victims of revenge killings, the opposition is prepared to use force.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 27 April 2011
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Shifting blame to Lebanon may be the method in Assad’s madness
Many Arabs were appalled that Mr Obama would apparently try to make cheap propaganda over the tragedy
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 25 April 2011
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Every concession makes the President more vulnerable
Every dictator knows that, when he starts making concessions, he is at his most vulnerable.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 23 April 2011
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But what if the spirit of rebellion spread to Iran?
A new paperback thumped out of my mail package from London this week.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 23 April 2011
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Can Assad do what it takes to cleanse his regime?
There are those in Syria who say it is over, there is nothing the President can do.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 20 April 2011
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The Arab awakening
It began not in Tunisia this year, but in Lebanon in 2005.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 15 April 2011
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Assad: The Arab Spring stops here
While Syria’s protesters demand freedom, the President has a stark message for his people.
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, 31 March 2011
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related articles:
Libyan scenario for Syria: Towards a US-NATO "humanitarian intervention" directed against Syria?
by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, 30 April 2011
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Media disinformation and the Syrian protest movement
by Voltaire Network, Global Research, 27 April 2011
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Britain, the traitor nation: Media disinformation and crimes against humanity in Libya
by Dr. David Halpin, Global Research, 24 April 2011
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Al Jazeera's war on Gaddafi
by Stephen Lendman, 23 April 2011
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Media disinformation: The protest movement in Syria Western media coverage of the events in Daraa
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 28 March 2011
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from the archives:
Color revolutions, old and new
by Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 1 July 2009
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Attack of the cruise missile liberals
30.04.2011 15:01
Editorial comment:
Americans are warlike – as long as they think they can be victorious. These nominal Democrats and Republicans “differ only on who they want to see doing the dominating.” Today, a Black Democrat is the head killer in charge, allowing the likes of Ed Schultz, Bill Maher and Juan Cole to endorse the criminal assault on Libya. When the chips are down, fraudulent anti-war liberals show their true racist, Manifest Destiny-loving colors. “The true anti-war movement must reawaken itself and hit the streets in the hundreds of thousands.”
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Liberals love war
by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, 30 March 2011
“The desire for America to dominate the rest of the world is prevalent among most of its citizens, regardless of party affiliation.”
Peace loving Americans are few and far between. The vast majority of our citizens see nothing wrong with their government killing masses of people as long as the rationale sounds high minded and noble.
The love of bloodshed is generally connected with the right wing in this country, but nothing could be further from the truth. The desire for America to dominate the rest of the world is prevalent among most of its citizens, regardless of party affiliation. Those citizens differ only on who they want to see doing the dominating. Republicans are ecstatic when a Republican president drops bombs, sends drones on killing missions or occupies other nations. Democrats are equally enthusiastic when one of their own does the same.
Democratic party reaction to President Obama’s military intervention in Libya is but the latest example of the American propensity to exult over government sponsored violence. Obama, like George W. Bush before him, claims that his intervention, no-fly zone, peace mission (take your pick) is being conducted only for the most humanitarian of purposes. The dead bodies belie the claims of dogooderism but those words have a distinct power for people in this country and will always be used as a pretext for someone dying somewhere on the planet.
“The belief in white American superiority effects and infects every policy discussion in this nation.”
The legacy of Manifest Destiny and the belief in white American superiority effects and infects every policy discussion in this nation. The equation of goodness and rightness with white America holds sway very strongly and sadly not just for white people either. The willingness to see white behavior as normative means that foreign policy decisions get a pass precisely at the moment when resistance and skepticism are needed.
No, Barack Obama isn’t white, but he may as well be. He is president precisely because he assured voters that he would not change the complexion of their belief systems. If he didn’t fulfill the deeply ingrained belief that might makes right as long as America, a country thought of as white, is in charge of world affairs, he would never have become the president.
The United States attack on Libya has brought out the worst in this phenomenon. Liberals are gleeful that conservative icon Newt Gingrich backtracked on supporting intervention until the Democratic president actually intervened, but Gingrich is no different than they are.
We now have MSNBC television host Ed Schultz proclaiming “Support for Obama’s Invasion of Libya.” Never mind that Obama has taken great pains to claim that the bombing will be of limited duration and that ground troops will not have a presence there. Schultz seems to be ahead of the president on this one, but his show of support is telling in revealing the true support for American motivations in its interventions abroad. Likewise Juan Cole in an “Open Letter to the Left on Libya” dismisses criticism of the intervention thusly. “I would like to urge the Left to learn to chew gum and walk at the same time,” and adds, “We should avoid making ‘foreign intervention’ an absolute taboo . . .”
“Barack Obama isn’t white, but he may as well be.”
Foreign interventions conducted by the United States should be taboo. Our system is not designed to be in any way humanitarian. Its motives are to say the least suspect and no matter how evil its enemies are made out to be, the evidence of past history should make us suspicious of the arguments in favor of war.
The liberal hawks, like Obama, have no concern for Libyan civilians who are enduring bombing, and exposure to depleted uranium shells which create cancers and birth defects for years to come. This is not conjecture, but has been seen in Iraq and ought to be a reason for anyone who claims to be on the “left” to oppose the actions which bring it to pass.
The true anti-war activist, not just anti-Republican activist, has to raise its voice. The true anti-war movement must reawaken itself and hit the streets in the hundreds of thousands, just as they did in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq. That moment can be recreated, and in a deeper, more honest way, now that a Democrat is the head killer in charge.
* Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well as at
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Delete please
30.04.2011 16:12
Against all states