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How we know what we know about Syria

Jul 30

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Obama administration support for Syrian rebels is based on a United Nations authorized report from November 2011. In that document, Syria is accused of committing “crimes against humanity.” The report’s co-author is a board member at a Washington, D.C. based think tank that just happens to have the former chairman of ExxonMobil, a consultant for the Saudi Binladin Group, and a former CIA executive on its board of directors.

Much of the U.S. and European press on the so-called civil war originates from a tiny organization in the United Kingdom called the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (the Observatory). The one man operation is run by a longtime opponent of Syrian Bashar Hafez al-Assad.

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No more wars – Obama, NATO and the oil dictators need to get real on Syria

Apr 12

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Middle East, War (endless) | Comments off

Two sides of the same event, one promoting a war friendly narrative based on some human rights group, the other from Pepe Escobar in the Asia Times.

“Syrian forces fired across the border into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding five people, authorities said. The soldiers were firing at rebels who tried to escape after ambushing a military checkpoint, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [SOHR]. On the border with Lebanon, a cameraman for Lebanon’s Al Jadeed TV station was killed by shots fired from Syria, the station said.

“Turkey shelters thousands of refugees fleeing Assad’s military, which has killed 9,000 people since March 2011 in an attempt to put down an uprising, according to the United Nations.” USA Today, April 9

What is the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? “SOHR is run out of a two-bedroom terraced home in Coventry by one man using the name Rami Abdulrahman (or Rami Abdul Rahman, or Rami Abdelrahman). He also runs a clothes shop.” Wikipedia  This source is a new low, even for McPaper, USA Today.

Here’s what Pepe Escobar says about the same situation.

“Turkey is sheltering the FSA right on the border, only a few meters – and not kilometers – away from Syrian territory. Way beyond hosting a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command and control center in Iskenderun for months now – a fact already reported by Asia Times Online – Turkey has now advanced right to the border, enabling a back-and-forth by heavily weaponized guerrillas/mercenaries to attack a sovereign state.

“Imagine a similar scenario happening, say, at a Mexican-US border in Arizona or Texas.”
.Pepe Escobar – What’s goin’ on at the Turkish-Syrian border? April 11

Where did USA Today get the 9,000 figure, the guy in Coventry?  The Turks are certainly smart enough to move refugees away from the border and stop military incursions from occurring proximate to the refugees.  This is all war promotion.

An overwhelming majority of citizens who have the correct position on this – stay out!  But those who profit from war and their minions in the corporate media continue their relentless and endless death march.  For what?

And week end and week out we have to endure the arrogant, pathetically reasoned, myopic judgements out of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on this or that nation’s progress toward democracy.  She as become simply unbearable.  How did democracy work out in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya?

 

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Media Porn Hides Real Threats to Children

Jul 7

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money | 5 Comments

 

By Michael Collins

Who knows if Casey Anthony is guilty or innocent?  Even Casey might not know at this point.  We do know one thing, without any doubt.  As our economy and nation crumble around us, we’re being amused to death by the corporate media.  They’ve got good reason to keep the headlines on Casey.  Absent a major distraction, there might be a focused look at the misrule and looting of this country for the past decades that has created the real threats to the health of children.

“Infant mortality is an important indicator of the health of a nation, and the recent stagnation (since 2000) in the U.S. infant mortality rate has generated concern among researchers and policy makers.”  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC, November 2009

The run rate for deaths for children less than one year of age, infants, is around 30,000 per year.  Have we heard that figure from corporate media lately?  Our international ranking fell for infant mortality from 12th in 1960 to 23d in 1990 and to 29th in 2004.  The US is currently ranked at number 46 in the world in preserving the lives of its infants.

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A Weiner in Hand

Jun 10

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money | Comments off

Michael Collins

If you’re in the retail business, it’s all about packaging.  If you’re in wholesale, it’s about volume.  If you’re Congressman Anthony Weiner, it’s about the double game of liberal packaging without the throw weight to justify the image.

I managed to get through the last few days without much information on Weiner’s Tweets. etc.  As I exited the corporate media’s fantasy land a few days ago, I saw a clip ofWeiner with a shit eating grin on his face.  He was trying to act like an “adult” (i.e., a pol like Cheney who lies without blinking).

Weiner asked that people not make more out if his situation than was actually there.  I thought he’s lying as I left the virtual world for some pressing business.  Upon my return, I saw just enough to let me know that the congressman was the subject of the much discussed underwear shot heard round the world.
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