February 11, 2018, 21st Century Wire
“This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE as host Patrick Henningsen discusses this week’s top stories from the US, Europe and beyond. In the first hour we’ll cover the this week’s frightening trifecta: the the downing of an Israeli jet by Syria Army, the US airstrike in Syria which killed roughly 100 Syrian coalition forces, and the shoot-down a Russian fighter jet by terrorists in Idlib, Syria. We’ll also cast a protruding eyeball on Adam Schiff’s struggling ‘Russian Collusion‘ investigation in Washington and flesh out the latest.
Later in the first hour we will be joined by special guest, independent journalist Eva Bartlett, to discuss her recent UK tour, as well as breaking events in Syria, the sate of the western mainstream media and its role in fomenting conflict…”
Listen to “Episode #221 – ‘Trouble Over There’ with host Patrick Henningsen & guest Eva Bartlett” on Spreaker
RELATED LINKS:
–Imperialism on Trial: writers and activists convene in Derry, Ireland (Jan 2018)
–Related to what I said about encountering Syrians in govt-secured areas, including some of the around 7 million internally displaced being given shelter and life basics by government: Updates From on the Ground in Syria: June to August 11
–Homs: “We wanted to protect our house” (June 2014)
–“freedom”: Homs resident speaks of the early days of the “crisis” (June 2014)
–Liberated Homs Residents Challenge Notion of “Revolution”
– Regarding Syrian voting in Lebanon 2014: Syrians Flock to Vote in Lebanon, May 2014
-Mass Starvation & other propaganda:
–Liberated Homs Residents Challenge Notion of “Revolution” (June 2014)
–Syria War Diary: What Life Is Like Under ‘Moderate’ Rebel Rule
–Syria War Diary: Order Returns To Western Cities, Civilians Recount Horrors Of Rebel Rule (from on the ground in Madaya and al-Waer, Homs)
-Related to eastern Ghouta: My interview with veteran journalist Elijah Magnier on latest developments in Syria–first segment focuses on developments around Ghouta.
-Western corporate media ‘disappears’ over 1.5 million Syrians and 4,000 doctors, Aug 14, 2016, SOTT.net
–On Madaya and al-Waer: Syria War Diary: Order Returns To Western Cities, Civilians Recount Horrors Of “Rebel” Rule, September 26th, 2017, Mint Press News
–On eastern Aleppo: Syria War Diary: What Life Is Like Under ‘Moderate Rebel’ Rule, Aug 23, 2017, Mint Press News, (translated into Italian)
-The Bana al-Abed Hoax:
–Exploitation of Bana al-Abed: Parents use child to whitewash terrorists in Aleppo
–Absurdities of Syrian war propaganda
-Omran Daqneesh (the Boy in the Ambulance):
–MintPress Meets The Father Of Iconic Aleppo Boy, Who Says Media Lied About His Son
–The ‘other’ Omran: Aleppo civilians expose MSM lies & child exploitation
–Meet Aylan & Omran: Child victims used for Syrian war propaganda
-White Helmets (al-Qaeda’s rescuers):
–Tipperary’s White Helmets Peace Prize: A Judas Kiss to the Antiwar Movement and Syria
–The REAL Syria Civil Defence, Saving Real Syrians, NOT Oscar Winning White Helmets, Saving Al Qaeda
–Sectarian Language and Ideology From Outside Syria:
–The Children of Kafarya and Foua are Crying in the Dark, Sep 6, 2016, 21st Century Wire
–Where is the West’s compassion & condemnation following terror attacks in Middle East?, Jan 30, 2016, Russia Today ( Global Research, 21st Century Wire, Sott.net, In Gaza)
-Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria, Oct 10, 2015, Dissident Voice: Excerpts:
The Sectarian Card: Slogans and Massacres
What sectarianism we see in Syria today was delivered primarily by the Wahabi and Muslim Brotherhood (MB) regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar and by Turkey, with NATO’s blessing and backing. The cross-sect make-up of both the Syrian State and the Syrian army alone speaks of Syria’s intentional secularism, as well as the prevalent refusal of average Syrians to self-identify along sectarian lines.
On the other hand, from the beginning, the West’s “nonviolent protesters” were chanting sectarian slogans, notably, “Christians to Beirut, Alawis to the grave.” Other popular chants included: calling for the extermination of all Alawis; pledging allegiance to Saudi-based extremist Syrian Sheikh Adnan Arour and to extremist MB supporting Egyptian Sheikh, Yusuf al-Qardawi.
Qatar-based Qaradawi advocates killing Syrian civilians: “It is OK to kill one third of the Syrian population if it leads to the toppling of the heretical regime.” The inflammatory Arour said about Syria’s Alawis: “By Allah we shall mince them in meat grinders and feed their flesh to the dogs.”
The NATO alliance’s terrorists have committed numerous massacres of Syrian civilians and soldiers, many of which were intended to sow sectarianism, including:
- The June 2011 Jisr al Shugour, Idlib, massacre of up to 120 people (soldiers and civilians) by between 500-600 so-called FSA terrorists; blamed on the SAA as having killed “military deserters”. [see Prem Shankar Jha’s article “Syria – Who fired the first shot?”]
- The Houla massacre of over 100 civilians on May 25, 2012, which only 2 days later the UN claimed—without an investigation— had been committed by the Syrian Army. [See Tim Anderson’s detailed rebuttal, “The Houla MassacreRevisited: “Official Truth” in the Dirty War on Syria” In the same article, Anderson also looked at the August 2012 Daraya massacre of 245 people and the December 2012 Aqrab massacre of up to 150 villagers.
- The August 2013 massacre of at least 220 civilians (including a fetus, many children, women, elderly) and kidnapping of at least 100 (mostly women and children) in villages in the Latakia countryside.
- The December 2013 massacre of at least 80 residents (many “slaughtered like sheep”, decapitated, burned in bakery ovens) in Adra industrial village.
- The continued terrorist-mortaring of civilian areas and schools; the repeated terrorist-car-bombing of civilian areas and schools. [see: “The Terrorism We Support in Syria: A First-hand Account of the Use of Mortars against Civilians”]
Yet, in spite of outside forces attempts to sow sectarianism in Syria, the vast majority of Syrian people refuse it. Re-visiting Syria in July 2015, Professor Tim Anderson recounted that Latakia alone “has grown from 1.3 million to around 3 million people – they come from all parts, not just Aleppo, also Hama, Deir eZorr, and other areas.” He also visited Sweida, a mainly Druze region, which has accommodated “135,000 families, mainly from Daraa – others from other parts”. Mainly Sunni families.
RELATED TO THE DPRK/NORTH KOREA:
–Interview With Christine Hong: What’s Happening on the Korean Peninsula, Feb 2018
–Gregory Elich On The DPRK
–“Eva Bartlett in North Korea – Going Behind the Media Iron Curtain”–The Taylor Report & 21st Century Wire
Interview With The Makers of “The Haircut (2017) A North Korean Adventure”
–What We Saw in North Korea Goes against Everything Western Media Wants Us to Believe
–Photo-Report: The North Korea Neither Trump Nor Western Media Wants The World To See, October 20th, 2017, Mint Press News