American fairy dust

Typical of the way we do things here in our fake democracy, even as officials talk about US military involvement in Syria, we’ve long been involved. Syria claims it is not fighting internal rebellion, but rather a military operation financed and armed by western powers. If the Syrian government is anything like the American government, only one thing three things can be safely said: They lie, they lie, they lie.

The American news media is highly unreliable in matters of US military operations, along with just about everything else except celebrity culture. Syrian media is also suspect. Al Jazeera might be a useful source, but has drawn complaints of complicity with western forces. Has it too been compromised?

There are other ways to get information, but evaluation requires a cogent world view and some ability to rely on outside information. That leaves most of us in the lurch. There are only a few things that can be known for sure:

1) At the end of the initial shock/awe campaign against Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld very pointedly rattled sabers at Syria in a “you’re next” manner. He did not know what lay ahead, so that he was not able to follow through.

2) The US, this country that dispatched over a million Iraqis to their false God these past ten years (and hundreds of thousands more during the Clinton years) could care less about loss of life or of democratic freedoms. Anyone who seriously entertains such nonsense ought to enlist.

3) The western powers are concerned about the Arab Spring, and have brutally suppressed it in Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and are hard at work overcoming gains made in Egypt. They jiu-jitsued it to their advantage in Libya, and that country is now being torn apart. The idea that a Syrian uprising, taking on a government that the US pointedly wanted to overthrow in 2003, is a natural event, is absurd.

4) Western media coverage of Syrian violence, even as Western media ignores all other violence, is telling.

My only reliable source at this time is RT.com. I say “reliable” not because its mission cannot be compromised. For instance, RT’s coverage of Putin’s recent reelection has to be taken with a grain – just as the US media was complicit when George W. Bush stole the presidency in 2000 and 2004, so too would Russian-based media look the other ways should such a thing happen there. But Russian interests in Syria are at odds with American interests, and for that reason, out of that conflict, some useful information might emerge.

All that in mind, check this out.
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PS: I forgot to mention Wesley Clark’s disclosure that the Bush Administration intended to take out seven countries in five years, Syria among them. Since the Obama Administration is a mere continuation of the Bush foreign policy (which merely amplified public awareness of Clinton foreign policy, which was a continuation of Bush I foreign policy which was a continuation of Reagan foreign policy (are you getting it that presidents don’t make foreign policy?) … toppling the Syrian regime has been on the radar for a good long time.