Truth is never told

The truth is never told, I try to collect from different new sources, which reflects that the situation in Syria is not a real fight for freedom, but an artificial crisis developed by some of the world's ugliest power for few benefits 

1. To Destroy the economy of middle east and keep survive their financial hegemony 
2. To keep running their weapon factories 
3. A desperate attempt to place a puppet in Syria 
4. Aggressive is the best defense. If the Arabs are busy fighting their brothers in their city, they will forget the Palestinian cause and Israel can continue occupying Arab lands

Syria is a small and poor Arab country with few friends around the world. But in the strategic and geopolitical context, small and poor is irrelevant. It is “location, location” as the real estate agents would tell you. Still in doubt? Then think of it “as the rock of Gibraltar!” It’s a miniature piece of Spain’s land. But he British still occupy it because it is the gate to the Mediterranean sea. Syria is in the cross-roads of the most contested real estate on the Earth, which is also the birthplace of 3 major religions that are on the throats of each other, and where most of the world’s black gold is buried! Worse yet, after WWII, the winning superpowers cultivated friendly regimes or monarchs, armed and trained their armies, and overthrew unfriendly or hostile ones whenever possible. The superpowers still drain the oil, enrich and protect militarily their autocrats, while the inhabitants are left to survive on a medieval lifestyle of camels caravans, goats and sheep, and scrape a living on bazaar trades. Fast forward to 2011, when an anti-despotic uprising in Tunisia against its brutish president Ben Ali became a brushfire that spread to other Arab states, the so-called “Arab Spring.” Ali fled to Saudi Arabia; Egypt’s Mubarak was arrested and has been on trial; Muammar Gadhafi was killed, Morroco’s king Mohammad and king Abdullah of Jordan made various concessions to maintain their rule, and Yemeni president Abdullah Saleh was ousted. The Bahrainian “Arab Spring” against its King Khalifa, however, was badly bloodied by his security forces, and Saudi Arabia invaded Bahrain to save King Khalifa, its ally. Bahrainian security forces shot and killed demonstrators, beat savagely others, and sentenced doctors who treated them in hospitals to 15 years in prison! All of that happened with the tacit approval of the U.S. which has its naval base in the Persian Gulf in Bahrain, and which in return guarantee to king Khalifa his maintenance in power – no matter what the people of Bahrain want. Now the Arab Spring has spread to Syria, and Bashar Assad chops his opponents brutally as king Khalifa did in Bahrain! But this time the U.S. doesn’t look the other way as it did in Bahrain, and the Saudis won’t send their army in Syria to save Assad. Assad is not a U.S. and Saudi ally, as king Khalifa is. He is a Russian and Iranian ally, the nemesis of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia! And with the Syrian opposition seemingly floundering, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia see only a Nicaraguan “Contras” model of warfare that ousted the Leftits Sandinistas in the mid-1980’s as the only hope to oust Assad! This is definitely a U.S.-Saudi desperate effort because Russia and China have erected a diplomatic “Berlin Wall” around Assad at the U.N. Security Council. But this mission is not about giving Syrians a stake at democracy. The U.S. has historically fought hard to overthrow the S.O.B’s of Russia’s and China’s and install its own whenever possible in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Now its chance arrived to install its own SOB in Syria, someone like Tunisia’s Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak or Yemen’s Abdullah Saleh, who, in return, will serve the U.S., Israeli, and Saudi interests in Middle East. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia, therefore, are just arming their Syrian opposition cowboys to help them stampede the rest of Syrians like cattle into their own in corral, and then become their shepherds! The Cold War is not over as many people have come to believe. It still continues, but now it is fought under the pretext of building democracy only in their brutish foes backyard, not on their brutish allies domain. The undiplomatic motto is: “Your S.O.B. ally is a bloody dictator and must go; My S.O.B. bloody allies are just breaking skulls and kill protesters to maintain law and order. There is nothing wrong with that!” Wars are about interests, and who gets what and how. And outsiders come in only to exploit, not to bring in democracy! Nikos Retsos, retired professor 

an article from Telegraph

An interview with an ex-Aljazeera (Beirut Studio) journalist covering stories from Syria