Though the Assad regime announced a “general amnesty” on state television for all “misled” rebels and has promised to follow through with the reforms mandated in an Arab League deal signed earlier this week, violence continued to escalate nationwide.
This was particularly true in the city of Homs, where doctors reported that they’ve amassed more than 100 corpses in the last 48 hours and tanks continue to shell residential neighborhoods.
The violence is largely centered around Baba Amr District, and human rights groups report that troops have sprayed the neighborhoods with “heavy machinegun fire” today, killing a large number of people.
Exactly what the Assad regime is thinking with the latest offensive is unclear, as they still insist they intend to follow through with the Arab League deal, which the Arab League says needs to be done within 15 days. It seems the reconciliation talks they were hoping for are unlikely to be productive, however, if the regime is seen massacring as many protesters as possible in the lead-up to the deadline.
It seems to me that The Randolph Bourne Institute (RBI), that actually or alegedly seeks to honor Bourne's memory by promoting a noninterventionist foreign policy for the United States as the best way of fostering a peaceful, more prosperous world" has been turned in its opposite. Anybody knows the manyfold systematic war mongering reporting of BBC since decades – be it the lies about Yugoslavia or Iraq "reasons" for war or recently the lies about Gaddafi/Libya. Why nobody askes if the "protestors" are armed? They just speak of "protestors" and shelling residential neighborhoods that of course sounds terrible, but does not answer why an army shells its own peaceful people? Shelling and bombing residential neighborhoods is the regular parctice of NATO and its rebels in Libya, but there it is not called "residential neighborhoods", but "Gaddafi strongholds".
Also letting the NATO rebels (like KLA or NTC in Libya) break ceasefire and than blaiming the government to break the ceasd´fire is and alsways was the typical case and type of reproting about it.
Just to repeat such lies in my view is also lying. When I selectively and one-sided take "news" of interested warmongering military parties and never report what the other side says, it is nothing elese than warmongering, preparation of "justified", allegedly "humanitarian wars" and a crime. To see this here at antiwar shows me how advanced propaganda in USA works. Any target group is led to war – even for the antiwar movement, they have a special website like this. There is even a link to sana, the Syrian news agency, the not to the article that would be of relevance for this article:
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/04/379925.htm
Why should Syria sign the arab peaceplan, when they do not want it? In my view it is the opposite – the Al Qaeda, sent in by the US to overtake the country, does not want peace and elections – similar to Libya or Gaddafi which also offered ceasefire, UN -supervised elections, but it was ignored, since they did know, that 80 percent of the Libyans stand behind Gaddafi and the current type of democracy.
Syria even wanted independent observers.
some suggestions:
old US government plan to make war with 7 arab countries incl.Syria watch?v=5-TZxI8m8ss
Tarpley on Syria: Beware of fraud and fabrications!
This video – very subjective I admit – gave me the last turn, to know whom I do believe: Syria's first lady on Gaza by CNN
http://www.sana.sy/index_eng.html Reality of events http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/index.htm http://www.syrianfreepress.net/
and finally, I subsume that even the title is a lie: A massacre" means per definition an intentional murder of unarmed, peaceful people, but nowhere in the article it was stated that they were umarmed. And this having at the same time a proud headline of an Syrian rebel army of 15000. http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/04/syrian-rebel-a…
Why BBC or ANTIWAR does not report this:
Syrian authorities say U.S. funds terrorism
DAMASCUS, November 5 (RIA Novosti) Syrian authorities accused the United States on Saturday of financing terrorist groups in Syria and interfering with the country’s domestic affairs, diplomats said. http://en.rian.ru/world/20111105/168437593.html
Why the extremely large Pro- Assad- protests in Syria are NEVER shown in media of NATO countries?
Massacre? Says who? More war propaganda from Jason Ditz. Even the tone is blatantly propagandistic and misleading.
Is there no editorial control at antiwar.com?
Who are the "rebels"? An "army" of mercenaries, unknown quantity and quality, unknown to anyone — not represented by those that desribe themselves as oppostion. This is starting to look like Libya, execept in Libya at least it was clear that the armed groups were loyal to the tribes around Benghazi, amd most of them loyal to the former king, ousted by Ghadafi. In Syria, there is no internal group that is armed and with the support of population. Considerning what just happened to Libya, you would THINK that the press would be just a BIT more cautious? I think it is a POOR reporting to call something a massacre, as if unarmed civilians were killed. This is Kosovo RACAK — all over again. There, KLA fighters that died battling army, were pulled all in one spot, and an "expert" was called, remember the one that set up many a massacres in Central America, to declare that a massacre of — civilians. As somebody put it then, the Death Star became operational. This is a SLAP IN THE FACE to Arab League — they are not that dumb.
Some Antiwar site! AGAINST ALL WARS WE ARE ALREADY IN, BUT ALWAYS AGITATING FOR NEW ONES!
Right on Edgar…
The Syria propaganda…er, reporting…here on antiwar has been despicable…
Today we have two articles by the same antiwar staffer…in one he decries the Assad regime’s “massacre” of “protesters,” yet in the very next piece he reports of a 15,000 strong rebel army that has the support of a foreign power, Turkey…
So which is it antiwar…an armed insurrection…?…or tanks shelling civilians…?…
It can’t be both now can it…?
This is why antiwar.com will never rise above mediocrity…the website purports to be against war…yet is often participating (willingly or not) in laying the propaganda foundation for US and Nato aggression…
There is no excuse for ignorance…there are lots of independent reports out of Syria…Israel Shamir’s newsgroup on Yahoo has run many firsthand reports by Western and other observers in-country who accurately report that the so-called protest movement has been a bloody armed insurrection from the start…with foreign support…an act of war under international law…
More and more I find this website to be not even worth my time…too bad really…
Can anybody tell me the websites of the REAL US antiwar movement?
I am German, and know they exist, but do not know where.
I only know these fraud would-be websites trying to appear as antiwars or pro democracy, brainwash the hard-to-wash brains. Also "Democracy now" also was working hard to make war propaganda for the war against the people of Libya.
The "system" did outsmart us – they are providing the well-organized revolutions 1) and are conducting antiwar movements.
1)
OTPOR, The Revolutionmaking Business http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=lpXbA6yZY-87