{"id":21951,"date":"2016-10-08T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21951"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:32:26","slug":"the-war-in-syria-who-is-actually-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21951","title":{"rendered":"The War in Syria: Who Is Actually to Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The War in Syria: Who Is Actually to Blame?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0Depending on which news outlets you follow, your understanding of what is going on in Syria is likely coming from one of two main camps \u2014 Western media or Eastern media. Western media, in tandem with the Arab Gulf states, has almost completely pinned the\u00a0blame<\/a>\u00a0for the crisis in Syria on the current president, Bashar al-Assad. Any residual blame left for the taking is delivered to\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0and Iran.<\/div>\n
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Those of us who inform ourselves daily from an eclectic range of media sources tend to have a broader understanding of the conflict in Syria. The more critical one becomes of\u00a0both<\/i>\u00a0ends of the media spectrum, the more one can evaluate the veracity of the respective outlets (for example, the peddling of statistics from a\u00a0T-shirt shop in England<\/a>\u00a0versus\u00a0the use of satellite imagery<\/a>).<\/p>\n
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Analyzing all forms of media leads to only one conclusion regarding the current crisis in Syria: all of the parties involved have an overwhelming amount of blood on their hands and are playing a role in the ongoing war. However, the evidence suggests there is one group of nations, headed by the world\u2019s superpower, that has once again created a humanitarian catastrophe rivaling that of history\u2019s worst dictators.<\/p>\n

Although corporate media has portrayed the situation in Syria as being one of a popular uprising against a brutal and murderous dictator, the truth is far more complex.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0four-star General Wesley Clark<\/a>, Syria was one of seven countries the Pentagon targeted for regime change following the attacks of September 11, 2001. The others were Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, and Iran. This intention to take out Syria\u2019s leader prior to the start conflict in 2011 was confirmed by Wikileaks (you can access the relevant chapter in its entirety\u00a0here<\/a>). According to Julian Assange, Assad\u2019s\u00a0overthrow<\/a>\u00a0was planned as far back as 2006. As explained by\u00a0MintPress News<\/i>:<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The War in Syria: Who Is Actually to Blame? (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0Depending on which news outlets you follow, your understanding of what is going on in Syria is likely coming from one of two main camps \u2014 Western media or Eastern media. Western media, in tandem with the Arab Gulf states, has almost completely pinned the\u00a0blame\u00a0for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8803,3218,14444,7419,441,442,2001,3042,484,512,694,10231,2020,776,862],"class_list":["post-21951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antimedia","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-darius-shahtahmasebi","tag-general-wesley-clark","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-julian-assange","tag-lebanon","tag-libya","tag-media","tag-russia","tag-somalia","tag-sudan","tag-syria","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}