#assad
Syrien vor dem Krieg: Ausstellung "Gegen das Vergessen" in Köln | DW | 14.06.2022
Die Schau im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum zeigt Syrien jenseits von Bomben und Zerstörung. Sie erinnert, dass Kulturvernichtung nicht nur in der Ukraine droht - und zeigt die Schönheit und Vielfalt des Landes.#Syrien #Ausstellung #Köln #Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum #Krieg #Assad
Syrien vor dem Krieg: Ausstellung "Gegen das Vergessen" in Köln | DW | 14.06.2022
Syrien: Ausstellung zeigt das Land vor dem Krieg | DW | 14.06.2022
Die Schau "Syrien - Gegen das Vergessen" im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum zeigt das Land vor dem Krieg. Sie erinnert Geflüchtete an die alte Heimat und uns alle daran, was durch die Schrecken in der Ukraine verdrängt wurde.#Syrien #Ausstellung #Köln #Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum #Krieg #Assad
Syrien: Ausstellung zeigt das Land vor dem Krieg | DW | 14.06.2022
Interview: Russlands Taktik in Syrien und der Ukraine ist gleich | DW | 18.04.2022
Die Militärtaktik der Russen in Syrien und jetzt in der Ukraine weist frappierende Parallelen auf, sagt Hanna Notte vom Vienna Center for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (VCDNP). Sie auszuwerten sei jetzt nützlich.#Ukraine #Syrien #Assad #Chemiewaffen #Putin #Damaskus #Kiew #Taktik #Militärtaktik #Krieg #Nahost
Interview: Russlands Taktik in Syrien und der Ukraine ist gleich | DW | 18.04.2022
Russia Continues to Attack Syrians in Syria to Prop Up Assad Regime
This has been happening since 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and the Violations Documentation Centre (VDC) put the number higher, at over 2,000; SNHR's report stated that Russian attacks have killed more civilians than either the Islamic State or the Syrian Army. Weapons used included unguided bombs, cluster bombs, incendiaries similar to white phosphorus and thermobaric weapons. By the end of September 2017, the SOHR stated that Russian airstrikes killed around 5,703 civilians, about a quarter of them children, along with 4,258 ISIL fighters and 3,893 militants from the al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces.
Russia isn't trying to defeat IS. It's trying to prop up the Assad regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#International_support
Assad's support from the right-wing has mostly been from the far-right, both before and during the Syrian Civil War. David Duke hosted a televised speech on Syrian national television in 2005. Georgy Shchokin was invited to Syria in 2006 by the Syrian foreign minister and awarded a medal by the Ba'ath party, while Shchokin's institution the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management awarded Assad an honorary doctorate. In 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center claimed that Bashar al-Assad had sheltered Alois Brunner in Syria, and alleged that Brunner advised the Assad government on purging Syria's Jewish community.\
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The National Rally in France has been a prominent supporter of Assad since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, as has the former leader of the Third Way. In Italy, the parties New Front and CasaPound have both been supportive of Assad, with the New Front putting up pro-Assad posters and the party's leader praising Assad's commitment to the ideology of Arab nationalism in 2013, while CasaPound has also issued statements of support for Assad. Syrian Social Nationalist Party representative Ouday Ramadan has worked in Italy to organize support movements for Assad. Other political parties expressing support for Assad include the National Democratic Party of Germany, the National Revival of Poland, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Bulgarian Ataka party, the Hungarian Jobbik party, the Serbian Radical Party, the Portuguese National Renovator Party, as well as the Spanish Falange Española de las JONS and Authentic Falange parties. The Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn has spoken out in favour of Assad, and the Strasserist group Black Lily has claimed to have sent mercenaries to Syria to fight alongside the Syrian army.\
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Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British National Party, was chosen by the Assad government to represent the UK as an ambassador and at government-held conferences; Griffin has been an official guest of the Syrian government three times since the beginning of the Civil War. The European Solidarity Front for Syria, representing several far-right political groups from across Europe, has had their delegations received by the Syrian national parliament, with one delegation being met by Syrian Head of Parliament Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi and Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad. In March 2015, Assad met with Filip Dewinter of the Belgian party Vlaams Belang. In 2016, Assad met with a French delegation, which included former leader of the youth movement of the National Front Julien Rochedy.\
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has expressed confidence that Syria will eliminate the current crisis and continue under the leadership of President al-Assad "the fight against terrorism and foreign interference in its internal affairs".
#russia #putin #syria #syrian-civil-war #war #civilians #civilian-deaths #assad #assad-regime
Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens
(...) Every time US-UK-NATO launches a war of aggression on Iraq, Libya, Syria – whoever, wherever – our TV screens and front pages fill with ‘beautiful pictures’ of missiles blazing in pure white light from ships. This is ‘Shock And Awe’ – we even imagine our victims ‘awed’ by our power. (...)
By contrast, the morning after Russia launched its war of aggression on Ukraine, front pages were covered, not in tech, but in the blood of wounded civilians and the rubble of wrecked civilian buildings. (...)
Political analyst Ben Norton commented:
‘Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has gotten much more coverage, and condemnation, in just 24 hours than the US-Saudi war on Yemen has gotten since it started nearly 7 years ago… US-backed Saudi bombing now is the worst since 2018’
This is no small matter. Norton added:
‘An estimated 377,000 Yemenis have died in the US-Saudi war on their country, and roughly 70% of deaths were children under age 5’
Some 15.6 million Yemenis live in extreme poverty, and 8.6 million suffer from under-nutrition. A recent United Nations report warned:
‘If war in Yemen continues through 2030, we estimate that 1.3 million people will die as a result.’ (...)
We can be sure that Instagram, YouTube and Tik Tok will never be awash with the sentiment: ‘I stand with Yemen!’
As if the whole world belongs to ‘us’, our righteous rage on Ukraine is such that we apparently forget that we are not actually under attack, not being bombed; our soldiers and civilians are not being killed. Nevertheless, RT (formerly Russia Today), Going Underground and Sputnik have been shut down on YouTube and Google as though the US and UK were under direct attack, facing an existential threat. (...)
So how did we get here? State-corporate news coverage has some glaring omissions. (...)
In a rare example of dissent in the Guardian, Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow for defence and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, wrote this week:
‘The Obama administration’s shockingly arrogant meddling in Ukraine’s internal political affairs in 2013 and 2014 to help demonstrators overthrow Ukraine’s elected, pro‐Russia president was the single most brazen provocation, and it caused tensions to spike. Moscow immediately responded by seizing and annexing Crimea, and a new cold war was underway with a vengeance…’
Carpenter concluded:
‘Washington’s attempt to make Ukraine a Nato political and military pawn (even absent the country’s formal membership in the alliance) may end up costing the Ukrainian people dearly.
‘History will show that Washington’s treatment of Russia in the decades following the demise of the Soviet Union was a policy blunder of epic proportions. It was entirely predictable that Nato expansion would ultimately lead to a tragic, perhaps violent, breach of relations with Moscow. Perceptive analysts warned of the likely consequences, but those warnings went unheeded. We are now paying the price for the US foreign policy establishment’s myopia and arrogance.’ (...)
The New Yorker magazine describes political scientist John Mearsheimer as ‘one of the most famous critics of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War’:
‘For years, Mearsheimer has argued that the U.S., in pushing to expand NATO eastward and establishing friendly relations with Ukraine, has increased the likelihood of war between nuclear-armed powers and laid the groundwork for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive position toward Ukraine. Indeed, in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Mearsheimer wrote that “the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for this crisis.”’ (...)
In 2014, then US Secretary of State John Kerry had the gall to proclaim of Russia’s takeover of Crimea:
‘You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext.’
Senior BBC correspondents somehow managed to report such remarks from Kerry and others, without making any reference to the West’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. (...)
Noam Chomsky highlights one obvious omission in Western media coverage of Ukraine, or any other crisis involving NATO:
‘The question we ought to be asking ourselves is why did NATO even exist after 1990? If NATO was to stop Communism, why is it now expanding to Russia?’ (...)
Conclusion – ‘Whataboutism’ Or ‘Wearenobetterism’?
Regardless of the history and context of what came before, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major international crime and the consequences are hugely serious.
Our essential point for over 20 years has been that the public is bombarded with the crimes of Official Enemies by ‘mainstream’ media, while ‘our’ crimes are ignored, or downplayed, or ‘justified’. A genuinely free and independent media would be exactly as tough and challenging on US-UK-NATO actions and policies as they are on Russian actions and policies.
To point out this glaring double standard is not to ‘carry water for Putin’; any more than pointing out state-corporate deceptions over Iraq, Libya and Syria meant we held any kind of candle for Saddam, Gaddafi or Assad. (...)
The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gulf War was waged over there.’ (Howard Zinn, ‘Power, History and Warfare’, Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, No. 8, 1991, p.12)
Tags: #russia #putin #ukraine #zelenskiy #freedom #war #war_propaganda #fake_news #disinformation #propaganda #john_pilger #stop_the_war_coalition #nato #syria #assad #chemical_weapons #imperialism #anti-imperialism #democracy #dictatorship #international_law #iraq #media #news #journalism #journalist #coporate_media #mainstream_media #RT #Russia_Today #Going_Underground #Sputnik #censorship #freedom-of_the_press #afghanistan #libya
Staatsfolter in Syrien: Der Al-Khatib-Prozess | DW | 11.01.2022
In Koblenz wird am Donnerstag das Urteil gegen Anwar R. gesprochen, im ersten Prozess weltweit gegen Angehörige des syrischen Foltersystems. Die Fakten.#Al-Khatib #Folter #VerbrechengegendieMenschlichkeit #Syrien #Assad #AnwarR #OberlandesgerichtKoblenz #Weltrechtsprinzip #Völkerstrafrecht
Staatsfolter in Syrien: Der Al-Khatib-Prozess | DW | 11.01.2022
Der ehemalige #DeutscheWelle -Redakteur Peter Finkelgruen sagt über die Fülle von antisemitischen Äußerungen von #DW -Redakteuren, die in den letzten Tagen bekannt geworden sind: „Ich bin nicht überrascht.“
(...) Knapp ein halbes Jahrhundert ist dies her, nun erleben wir Historisches: Nachdem Journalisten von der Süddeutschen Zeitung, #Vice, Die #Welt und #Bild seit Ende November immer neue Belege für den #Antisemitismus von Mitarbeitern der Deutschen Welle publik gemacht haben, sieht sich die Führung des Staatssenders nach anfänglichem Leugnen und Verharmlosen des Problems erstmals gezwungen, zumindest so zu tun, als wolle sie dagegen etwas unternehmen und hat einige der schlimmsten Judenhasser unter den Redakteuren und Journalistenausbildern „freigestellt“.
Zudem wurden die Antisemitismusbeauftragte des Landes #Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, und der Psychologe Ahmad Mansour mit der Untersuchung der Vorfälle beauftragt. Sie haben viel zu tun.
https://www.mena-watch.com/deutsche-welle-antisemitismus-im-programm/ #medien #brd #kultur #israel #terror #bds #plo #hisbollah #detjen #ssnp #syrien #assad #atwan
Iran is trying to position itself as a fuel supplier to #Lebanon to empower its Lebanese proxy. The goal is to force Lebanon to become dependent on Iran and then all the gas and #fuel going to Lebanon will come through #Hezbollah, so Hezbollah can provide it to allies and friends. Overall, Iran’s goal is to impoverish Lebanon, destroy its middle and upper class, encourage its #Sunni and #Christian #community to emigrate, so that Hezbollah will grow in power and that all that will remain is a hollowed-out Lebanese state that is a province within a larger Hezbollahstan that is more powerful than Lebanon.
#Iran has been doing this for decades, slowly helping Hezbollah swallow Lebanon and create a parallel state and economy. Hezbollah has its own extra-judicial armed forces, a massive illegal armed #militia with 150,000 missiles. Hezbollah sends fighters to #Syria and conducts Lebanon’s foreign policy. Hezbollah has its own telecommunications #network. It is able to #control voting for the presidency and prime ministership. It also has a parallel construction, banking, and even supermarket network. Now it will be the supplier of fuel, Iran says.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iranian-fuel-hezbollah-savior-of-lebanon-and-irans-goal-for-chinese-investment-678899
#usa #nasrallah #saudiarabia #israel #assad #afghanistan #oil #russia #china #war
In Wahrheit hat der #Westen den #Taliban wenig anzubieten, ist im Gegenzug aber in großem Maße erpressbar. Jederzeit kann ein Anruf in #Berlin oder #Paris ankommen: „Hallo hier sprechen die Taliban. Entweder ihr zahlt diesen oder jenen Betrag, oder wir jagen eine Million Afghanen über die Grenzen. Viel Spaß dann mit der nächsten #Flüchtlingskrise. Was Bashar al #Assad 2015 konnte, können wir schon lange!“
Und dann? Werden die Europäer dann dem iranischen Regime #Geld für einen Grenzzaun nach türkischem Vorbild zahlen, damit ja keine Afghaninnen und Afghanen mehr das Land verlassen können? Die Europäer beginnen erst langsam zu verstehen, wozu ihre #Politik, basierend auf Expertenstudien über #Migration|sabwehr, Push- und Pull Faktoren oder wie es sonst noch alles heißt, geführt hat: Dazu, dass zwei der wichtigsten Herkunftsländer aller Flüchtlinge – #Syrien und Afghanistan – inzwischen solche Höllenlöcher geworden sind, dass nicht einmal mehr Straftäter dorthin abgeschoben werden können. (Aller populistischen Rhetorik zum Trotz, die gerade von manchen österreichischen Politikern noch immer zu hören ist.)
https://jungle.world/artikel/2021/32/afghanistan-und-die-jahrestage-der-niederlage #russland #iran #usa #qatar #krise #krieg #trump #drogen #pakistan
Mohamed Al Neser (النسر) auf Twitter: "I wounder how to run a machine with dozens of unlabeled buttons and what industry line uses a TV-screen with windows and Mozilla/Chrome in the industry panel! 📷 #Assad visit today to a "factory"! #Syria #SyriaHighlights https://t.co/UNjnVOOu57" / Twitter
haha!
da war wohl der #Zensor pinkeln.. zumindest ist #derstandard bisher das einzige #Medium, dass darüber berichtet :
https://derstandard.at/2000087157333/Syrische-Christen-melden-Islamisten-Angriff-in-Maharda
#Maharda #Idlib #Syrien #Krieg #Syria #Islamisten #Terror #War #MI6 #Medien #Islamismus #Russland #Assad
Syrien #Kriegseinsatz - Debatte im US-Kongress
John #McCain ist gelangweilt und spielt Poker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwFWvsIx_U8
#Friedensnobelpreisträger #Krieg #Syrien #Obama #Russland #USA #Hagel #Kerry #Frieden #Syrienkonflikt #Nahost #Diktator #Assad #Giftgas #Islam #Islamismus #Rebellen #labour-partei #Labour #Cameron #Militäreinsatz #Armee #MilitärischindustriellerKomplex #Völkerrechtsbruch #Völkerrecht #Militärschlag #Propaganda #UK #England #Lybien #Irak #Afghanistan #NATO #Österreich #UN #VereinteNationen #Chemie #Chemieeinsatz #Massenvernichtungswaffen #FalseFlage #UnterFalscherFlagge #FalscheFlagge #USKongress #Konkress #Demokratie #Parlament #JohnMcCain
#Donald #Rumsfeld #Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NptUMuDAljA
#Syria #obama #lies #Iraq #Libya #www3 #Congress #USA #UnitedStates #Republicans #Democrats #Constitution #Constitutional #Obama #Syria #Libya #Bush #Iraq #Clinton #Sudan #Yugoslavia #War #Warmonger #Presidents #Power #Lies #Truth #Politics #Government #AntiWar #Peace #DonaldRumsfeld #Toxic #Gas #WMD #Rebels #Rebel #Assad #Islam