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| Worldly U.S. children or pr props? |
Finian Cunningham
The Western governments' and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it is the Western powers and their Israeli and Arab henchmen who are fuelling a humanitarian crisis and creating the conditions for all-out war. All of which, it should be said, constitutes criminality comparable to Nazi Germany’s wars of aggression.
The latest crack in the Western façade over Syria comes in the form of leaked correspondence from Western private intelligence firm Stratfor, which reports that US-led NATO special forces have been operating inside Syria alongside armed opposition groups. Stratfor is closely aligned with Pentagon planners; indeed can be viewed as a private wing of the Pentagon. The document, disclosed by Wikileaks, cites US military sources discussing a campaign of destabilisation against the Syrian government of Bashir Al Assad, involving training opposition groups and deploying guerilla tactics, including assassinations. In other words, discussing a scenario that approximates to what is actually happening in Syria.
Given Straftor’s credentials as a reliable think-tank for the US military-industrial complex, the disclosure can be seen as a damning indictment of NATO criminality and Western mainstream media complicity.
Since political turmoil erupted in Syria a year ago, the monotonous “big lie” narrative from Western governments and the corporate-controlled news media has been one of “brutal state repression against a civilian population” committed by the Assad government.
This portrayal has, predictably, led to strident condemnation of the Syrian government by Western leaders and calls for “humanitarian intervention” by NATO powers and Western-backed Gulf Arab states – in a tested formula prescribed for Libya.
The Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been most prominent in doing the bidding of the Western powers in labelling the Syrian government as an international pariah – just as these Western client monarchies had done with regard to demonizing Libya. The ridiculous irony of unelected Gulf Arab despots, who have been brutally suppressing their own populations, denouncing anyone seems wholly lost on the mainstream media.
Ominously, the 22-member Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in a repeat of a similar sanction against Libya before the latter was subjected to a seven-month aerial blitzkrieg by NATO powers and eventual regime change, culminating in the roadside execution of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
No doubt the Syrian government has a case to answer, not only over recent human rights violations but also for decades of resistance to political reforms.

