Kafarya

21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.

GUIDE: Top 10 Western Lies About the Syrian Conflict

An interview I did with Brendan Stone yesterday on his program, Unusual Sources. Their introduction:
“Guest: Eva Bartlett, Canadian journalist, who has visited Syria 4 times in the past three years.
Mainstream media reporting and NGO social-media posts about starvation in the Syrian village of Madaya are designed to elicit an emotional response and build support for military intervention in Syria. Reality on the ground there, and elsewhere in Syria is ignored.

I live in Tayr Filsey, not Madaya, and I am fine.
— Marianna Mazeh: “Starving Syria child” revealed as south Lebanon girl

*Ahmed Tabara, who Twitter feed “Kafarya Alfoua” reports was killed by NATO-backed terrorists in their assault on Kafarya and Foua in northern Syria

Mariam Mohammad (a Beirut-based justice activist with contacts in the villages) updated:
[Saturday 29 august 2015]

From “A Mortar’s Diary” FB page, burning car after two mortars on Baghdad Street, Damascus today.

Aug, 20, 2015, Counter Punch
-by Eva Bartlett

Rimas Al-Nayef, killed by terrorist shelling of Foua village on August 10, 2015
Aug 18, 2015, Counter Punch
-by Eva Bartlett
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