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Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by William Van Wagenen | Aug 3, 2022

In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the Syrian government, or Assad regime, allegedly represented only a small number of loyalists, in particular from President Assad’s minority Alawite community. Such a view undergirded demands by Western and Gulf-funded think tank scholars, who claimed that the Syrian people wished for FSA groups to be armed, and even for Western military intervention on behalf of the FSA, whose fighters they sympathetically described as rebels.

Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?

Venezuela opposition leader Guaido in “informal” meetings with Colombia’s govt

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CARACAS – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has held “informal meetings” with members of newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s government, he said on Friday.

Venezuela opposition leader Guaido in “informal” meetings with Colombia’s govt

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“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military

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Photo presented during the trial of Tornado members shows a torture victim whose arm was etched with the shape of male genitals (translation via Yandex)

by Esha Krishnaswamy, The Grayzone, Jul 30 2022

Once condemned by Ukrainian officials and imprisoned for sadistic torture and the rape of minors, leaders of the notorious Tornado Battalion are free under Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders.

“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military

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Did the jihadist who was killed near Aleppo serve in the Ukrainian police?

Daniil Lyashuk in uniform of Ukrainian police
Daniil Lyashuk was awarded the Ukrainian Medal “For Military Service.”
Daniil Lyashuk poses with ISIS flag
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls For a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO

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In interview with a British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls For a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO

Israel accused of torture, murder and concealment of Egyptian POW bodies in 1967

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Israel accused of torture, murder and concealment of Egyptian POW bodies in 1967

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Dozens of Egyptian soldiers buried in mass grave underneath ‘Mini Israel’ parking lot

In the mid-90s, a mass grave was discovered in the Sinai Peninsula, with the bodies of hundreds of Egyptian soldiers who were executed by Israel without trial during their occupation of the region.

Another mass grave, in the Red Sea town of Ras Sedr, was discovered in the year 2000. It held the remains of 52 Egyptian prisoners executed by Israeli paratroopers during the Six-Day War.