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The fog of war

Last Tuesday the UN issued a report stating that children in Syria were being tortured in detention and slaughtered in massacres, and this was being done almost entirely by members of the Syrian army (you can find the report here … Continue reading

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The germs of Syria congratulate the rats of Libya

And so do I: God bless Libya and the Libyans! It ain’t quite over yet, and it’s easy to be cynical. In fact, I’m too tired to counter the usual stuff in any detail, so here’s a quickie… The West’s … Continue reading

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Let’s assume Reem Haddad is lying

Ha, here’s a funny one: a western news anchor finally giving Reem Haddad a hard time… To be fair to Reem Haddad, the Syrian authorities might be holding her nearest and dearest, and she’s forced to be a spokesperson. However, … Continue reading

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The Hama massacre

The reason that there’s so much media attention at the moment on the uprising in Syria is mostly because of the Hama massacre, which occured in 1982, when the Syrian president Hafez al-Assad (father of the present Syrian president) ordered … Continue reading

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Tokyo Rose strikes again

Following a rollocking by Michael Weiss in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week (see The BBC swallows Assad-controlled Syria media rubbish whole. Then reports it as news), the BBC have now started to take a harder line with their coverage … Continue reading

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Bahrain and Syria

Here’s the Bahrain Tourist Board’s present slogan… Welcome to Bahrain Bahrain: small is precious Bahrain: small is beautiful And here’s what’s going on in Bahrain right at this moment (warning: contains graphic scenes)… All that rubbish about ‘moderate Gulf states’ … Continue reading

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Vile regimes and the face they show to the rest of the world

Do the people who speak for scumbag regimes actually believe what they tell the outside world? Methinks not. The following Al Jazeera piece shows Reem Haddad, a spokeswoman for the Syrian Information Ministry, defending the fact that Syrian police shot … Continue reading

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