“The following report contains disturbing images” This is how the BBC website introduces a report by its BBC Panorama’s Syria correspondents Ian Pannell and Darren Conway on August the 30th, 2013. The story contained a video, ostensibly shot near Aleppo, Northern Syria, by an anonymous school headmaster, and documenting the aftermath of a napalm attack on his school, supposedly perpetrated … Continue reading
The regime change the US and its allies were looking forward to carrying out in Syria, under the guise of protecting the Syrian people, is not happening. Ever since the painful defeat of the Western-armed anti-Assad forces in Qusayr by the hands of the Syrian army in June, it has become clear that Syria’s destabilisation plan hatched and initiated by … Continue reading
Much has been said about the impact that social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have had on the uprisings in the Middle Eastern and North African region, the so-called Arab Springs, to the point that the marketing department in charge of selling these uprisings to the West have dubbed them “the Twitter Revolution”, an expression immediately adopted by compliant … Continue reading
On May 15th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing violence in Syria. The Resolution was voted on one day after High Commissioner for Human Rights Navy Pillay had publicly denounced the latest horrific act committed by anti-government rebel forces in Syria: a video had appeared on the internet, showing a rebel leader cutting out and … Continue reading