The rebel-held town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, has faced some of the biggest death tolls of the civil war in recent weeks, with 110 killed and 300 wounded last weekend in attacks centering on the town’s marketplace.
This weekend saw more of the same, with heavy shelling and missile fired on both Saturday and Sunday leaving at least 86 confirmed killed and an untold number of others wounded. The toll in the new attacks could rise, as locals say they believe there are more bodies in the rubble.
Saturday saw missile and artillery strikes, and later airstrikes in the town, with at least 52 killed. Another round of shellings on Sunday killed another 34 people. Scores more were wounded on both days, some gravely, and locals say they are not expected to survive.
Douma is one of several towns and suburbs around Damascus which have been under rebel control for quite some time, and while Syria never makes serious efforts to militarily retake it, they have often used it as a whipping boy, pounding it during times when the war elsewhere is turning sour, to prove that they still have some momentum.
Keyboard journalist and Antiwar "Bagdad Bob" of ISIS, Al Nusra & Co, Jason Ditz, safe and sound in his computer room, proves again that he has absolutely no idea what´s going on in Syria, or rather that he prefers to look the other way when his beloved "freedom fighters" aren´t doing so well.
As if we couldn´t read the war party "news" sites ourselves, Ditz gladly provide us any of their desperate little stories of late, that the US/israeli/Saudi proxies somehow are gaining momentum, which, as always in war, means that it is the other way around. That SAA has started an offensive, successful so far, up in the north to stop Turkey´s Mullah Erdogan´s latest recruitment´s of head chopping freaks and stop him from erecting a "buffert zone" is something you wont learn from Antiwar and of course not anything about the other offensives by SAA/Hezbolla and NDF´s together elsewhere. Of course, you can verbally hold on to a piece of life-less desert and call it "caliphate" or "Disneyland" or whatever because it makes absolutely no sense for the army to waste resources and "re-take" it (from whom?) but in this way Ditz & Co can paint a great deal of Syria, black. It is in the cities however that their oh, so "civilized" and certainly non-Syrian wahhabi freaks are getting whipped, hence the attempt to boast up the morale and encourage anyone stupid enough to go there and fight for the US-Qatar pipeline trough Syria, which all this killings, terrorizing and two US attempts to invade so far, is all about.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?
CBS 60Minutes regurgitated the false claim that Assad was responsible for the gas attack at Ghouta Sunday night. As Robert Parry and Glen Greenwald among others reported at the time the Ghouta gas attack was a false flag operation run by the rebels with assistance from the CIA. The goal was to create an excuse for a massive U.S. bombing campaign against Assad. Only huge public opposition in Europe and the U.S. prevented the U.S. from launching yet another major U.S. war in the Middle East.
Dietz has all the curent propaganda of Wikipedia and multiple US propaganda outlets for his background and sad to say it is but with little more than that and social networking and plagerism via internet that is all one needs in order to make a living in journalism.
The Lack of any real depth behind the reporting is patently obvious to those who have lived longer than just the last 20 years.
Still, it is about like old days when one first opened the papers to the Funny’s and sports Pages, where one got a blast of fantacy to break the monotony of a hum drum life before one went to front or editorials written by town or villge idiots.
You knew stories were hype but one pretends and intellectualizes the bull**** and call it news
What other choice do we have; we take what is presented, disect its contents, and by other references, our past researched knowledge and others present, so that Hopefully we come away less confused than before we read the article.
The saying used to be "those who can't do, teach."
That may not have been the best possible outcome, but it was at least marginally better than "those who can't do, pseudonymously heckle."