Originally the opposition demonstrators were strictly non-violent. The US media has determined not to ask, let alone investigate, who are the countries supplying the arms to the assorted rebels.
Posted by tomcarberry
Feb 8 2012 - 2:58pm
Thanks CD for posting Pepe Escobar twice in a week's time. We need a lot more of people like him, rather than cheerleaders for Obama. Russia and China saw the disaster Obama made out of Libya and won't allow it in Syria. We veto every resolution against Israel's decades of atrocities against the Palestinians, but when Russia and China do it civilization comes to an end.
Posted by WaldenPond
Feb 8 2012 - 5:34pm
I agree, Tomcarberry. Reporters like Pepe Escobar need to have voice in America. Also, the dripping hypocracy of our UN and State Department. At the very moment that we are killing civilians in Pakistan by drones, we are all self-righteous about people being killed in Syria. We are the last nation on the planet to say that we are concerned about stopping killing. Bahrain and Yemen are in exactly the same situation as Syria, but those dictators we own. Assad we do not. This will not end well.
Posted by Lucitanian
Feb 8 2012 - 6:07pm
You are right... and irrespective of this immediate Syrian situation what this show has made clear is that the UN as an organ for peace and mediation is now as dead as a door nail, it has been killed by Americas misuse of the veto in the Security Council, and misrepresentation of the UN's mission and Charter.
Perhaps that was the original idea after all, but unfortunately we, the world, have no other organization to fill the gap. This is the really serious loss. Having been made into a whore for the State Department, the SC is now useless to the world for anything for approaching or achieving peace.
Posted by rwsterling1
Feb 8 2012 - 5:44pm
Good piece. Thanks CD. We need much more reporting like this.
Posted by Jim Glover
Feb 8 2012 - 6:18pm
This has been a shooting cival war for months while Russia and China do not want another War, while Obama and Hillary love it but get angry when the world does not obey.
Full Spectrum Domination of the Earth And Space (official US defense policy) is becoming one nightmare after another as any rational thinking person could predict.
Posted by Douglas Jack
Feb 9 2012 - 12:12am
The NATO, US, Canadian & France & Britain corporate agenda is to create instability in all Islamist countries. The goal is resource acquisition and unfettered Israeli expansion with weakened and distracted national governments. The NATO funded Facebook and other social-media mediated organization of unrest, direct arming of militants from long ago and suffering and death in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen is part of a New World Order world-view which has no compassion for real people. Western media-military-industrial complex is raising 'hates' (George Orwell '1984') wherever their reach can penetrate. The 'hates' are normal for such as ambassador Rice because all her life she has been brought up in a spirit of entitlement to resources, xenophobia for visions which differ from her USA indoctrination and the "disgust" she has for others but none of for USA's regime change aggression in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Cuba, Guatemala, and the above countries to name a short list. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/1-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue The only way out of this mess is to stop buying consumer products and energy uses except for essentials. Join our resources together and create abundant biosphere mediated life in the tradition of our indigenous ancestry.
Posted by lakeqi
Feb 10 2012 - 12:54am
Susan Rice is insane. If this woman is a success then success in this country has no meaning. I would rather live in my mothers basement than be Susan Rice.
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Show AllOriginally the opposition demonstrators were strictly non-violent. The US media has determined not to ask, let alone investigate, who are the countries supplying the arms to the assorted rebels.
Thanks CD for posting Pepe Escobar twice in a week's time. We need a lot more of people like him, rather than cheerleaders for Obama. Russia and China saw the disaster Obama made out of Libya and won't allow it in Syria. We veto every resolution against Israel's decades of atrocities against the Palestinians, but when Russia and China do it civilization comes to an end.
I agree, Tomcarberry. Reporters like Pepe Escobar need to have voice in America. Also, the dripping hypocracy of our UN and State Department. At the very moment that we are killing civilians in Pakistan by drones, we are all self-righteous about people being killed in Syria. We are the last nation on the planet to say that we are concerned about stopping killing. Bahrain and Yemen are in exactly the same situation as Syria, but those dictators we own. Assad we do not. This will not end well.
You are right... and irrespective of this immediate Syrian situation what this show has made clear is that the UN as an organ for peace and mediation is now as dead as a door nail, it has been killed by Americas misuse of the veto in the Security Council, and misrepresentation of the UN's mission and Charter.
Perhaps that was the original idea after all, but unfortunately we, the world, have no other organization to fill the gap. This is the really serious loss. Having been made into a whore for the State Department, the SC is now useless to the world for anything for approaching or achieving peace.
Good piece. Thanks CD. We need much more reporting like this.
This has been a shooting cival war for months while Russia and China do not want another War, while Obama and Hillary love it but get angry when the world does not obey.
Full Spectrum Domination of the Earth And Space (official US defense policy) is becoming one nightmare after another as any rational thinking person could predict.
The NATO, US, Canadian & France & Britain corporate agenda is to create instability in all Islamist countries. The goal is resource acquisition and unfettered Israeli expansion with weakened and distracted national governments. The NATO funded Facebook and other social-media mediated organization of unrest, direct arming of militants from long ago and suffering and death in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen is part of a New World Order world-view which has no compassion for real people. Western media-military-industrial complex is raising 'hates' (George Orwell '1984') wherever their reach can penetrate. The 'hates' are normal for such as ambassador Rice because all her life she has been brought up in a spirit of entitlement to resources, xenophobia for visions which differ from her USA indoctrination and the "disgust" she has for others but none of for USA's regime change aggression in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Cuba, Guatemala, and the above countries to name a short list. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/1-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue The only way out of this mess is to stop buying consumer products and energy uses except for essentials. Join our resources together and create abundant biosphere mediated life in the tradition of our indigenous ancestry.
Susan Rice is insane. If this woman is a success then success in this country has no meaning. I would rather live in my mothers basement than be Susan Rice.