Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 21 December 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 20 Dec 2015 08:24 AM PST

Bashar al-Assad, the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country, has been labeled as a “dictator” and “tyrant” by the West; however, the Western media-narrative falls apart at the seams as Bashar al-Assad continues to enjoy overwhelming support in Syria, geopolitical analyst Steven MacMillan notes.
Paradoxically, while the Western media keeps branding Bashar al-Assad as a violent oppressor of the Syrian nation, the Syrian President continue to enjoy public support; so what’s the trick?
There is no trick, Scottish geopolitical analyst Steven MacMillan notes: the truth of the matter is that Bashar al-Assad, largely stigmatized by the Western press, is a democratically elected leader of a sovereign Syrian nation.
“‘Butcher’; ‘thug’; ‘dictator’; ‘murderer’; ‘savage’; ‘tyrant’; ‘oppressor’; ‘despot’. These are just some of the words that many in the Western world associate with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, after four years of incessant and hypnotic war propaganda… The 2014 election in Syria is an event that the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in the West desperately wants to be memory-holed, as it runs in stark contrast to the narrative they are still trying to inculcate in the minds of the public,” MacMillan writes in his recent article for New Eastern Outlook.
In June 2014 Bashar al-Assad won the Syrian Presidential election with 88.7 percent of the vote. It was the country’s first multi-candidate election in almost 50 years.
Just imagine, in a country of 17,064,854 people over 10 million voted for Bashar al-Assad, MacMillan stresses.
“A group of international observers emphasized that the election was a valid and democratic expression of the views of the Syrian people,” he notes.
Predictably though, Western nations denounced the elections labeling them as “fraud.” So far, the West has deeply insulted the people of Syria. John Kerry even went so far as to brand the Syrian election as “farce” months prior to the vote.
Unfortunately for Western leaders, the Syrian people turned a deaf ear to the blatant propaganda campaign aimed at delegitimizing the Syrian presidential election.
“The Western narrative — which claims that Assad is an insane dictator who butchers his own people — is illogical, as if this was true, Assad would have been ousted years ago,” the Scottish analyst points out.
MacMillan quotes the interview al-Assad had given to RT in 2012:
“The problem is not between me and the people; I don’t have a problem with the people. The United States is against me, the West is against me, many Arab countries including Turkey — which is not Arab of course — [are] against me, and if the Syrian people are against me, how can I be here?” Bashar al-Assad asked.
According to the geopolitical analyst, the Syrians understand that if Assad is toppled and government is destroyed, Syria will lose its sovereignty and will be partitioned by its rivals.
Instead of pointing the finger of blame at Assad, the Western leaders should have looked at the mirror first.
“Comparative to the plethora of imperial butchers in the Western world, who still manage to escape prosecution for their crimes, the Syrian President really is an angel,” MacMillan emphasizes.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2015 08:05 AM PST


Even though the EU tries to control the situation with refugees from the Middle East, the police and the Europeans themselves have to admit: a wave of robberies and rapes has swept across Europe. At the same time, journalists, police officers and even European female residents are shocked that their male friends, lovers and even husbands are afraid to protect them from rapists and thieves.
The police of Finland is investigating ten cases of rape, in which migrants appear as suspects. Refugees assault and even rape European women “in public,” although law-enforcement authorities have to conceal the nationality of criminals “to avoid mass riots” and not to fuel anti-migrant sentiments.
Official representatives of European law-enforcement authorities acknowledge that refugees attack and rape European citizens on a regular basis.
“I was walking with two friends of mine, one of them does weightlifting and the other one was carrying a heavy set of tools. They were waiting for me at the store, but then teenage migrants attacked me and snatched my purse out of my hands and ripped earrings from my ears. I was screaming, but my friends were standing there doing nothing,” a French woman named only as Marie said. The attack was captured on surveillance cameras, but the police simply advised the woman should be more cautious in problematic neighborhoods and said that it would be impossible to find the perpetrators, because migrants look very much alike.
Here is another story told by German woman named as Heidi. The woman and her husband were shopping at a local supermarket. “I went to open the vehicle to unload the shopping cart, when I was attacked by three men in their thirties. Another man was standing with a knife in his hand between me and my husband. They ripped my clothes, I was struggling and screaming, but my husband simply pulled out a cell phone and said that he would call the police. I was being raped in front of his very eyes, but he was just crying hysterically, calling the police and trying to run round the guy with a knife, making him laugh,” the woman wrote on her page.
Migrants follow and bother European women in places where police are not present. European young men do not interfere and pretend that they do not notice what is happening a few meters from them. The “descendants of great nations of warriors” pretend that they are hurrying home, to work, to school and anywhere else not to be beaten or stabbed by asylum seekers.
“There is no work, there is nothing to do here, it’s very boring and cold. I guess that local women have many sexual fantasies, because they are attracted to southern men. Local men are weak and sick, they can not do anything. They do not even fight if you push them in the street, even if there are several of them walking,” Iraqi citizen Abdul Sahut said on camera.
“We came to escape, we want to settle down and earn something here. Not everyone can get work, and there are not many women. Local women are teasing us, and I am not surprised when brothers take them by force,” a Kurd national said.
According to Der Paritatischer, Pro Familia, LandesFrauenRat, asylum seekers see Arab migrant women as their “trophy.” For many male migrants, European women is a trophy as well. They do not even hesitate to share their concerns with European TV channels.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2015 07:52 AM PST

President Barack Obama appears to have finally abandoned the Assad must go stance and agreed that the Syrians are the ones who can and will decide the future of their country – something Russia has long advocated, investigative journalist Robert Parry asserted.
Although this is a positive development for Syria, US hardliners and their Middle Eastern allies, who tried to push through a “regime change” scenario in Syria, are not happy about it.
“Obama finally ceded to the more democratically defensible position that the Syrian people should pick their own leaders. After all, if Obama is right about how much the Syrian people hate Assad, elections would empower them to implement their own ‘regime change’ through the ballot box,” the analyst observed. “But that uncertain outcome is not what the [neocons] want. They want a predetermined result – Assad’s ouster – regardless of the Syrian people’s wishes.”
Parry’s opinion piece came in response to a Washington Post editorial, chastising the Obama administration for what they see as an about-face following four years of a (failed) “Assad-must-go” strategy.
“The more immediate issue is the Post’s fury over the prospect that the Syrian people would be allowed to vote on Assad’s future rather than have it dictated by neocon think tanks, Islamic jihadist rebels and their Turkish-Saudi-Qatari-Israeli-CIA backers,” the journalist noted.
For the Washington Post, democratic elections in Syria are “a likely recipe for an impasse.” The United Nations Security Council does not see it this way.
On Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution designed to create a roadmap towards peace in the war-torn country. The agreement sets a timeframe for a ceasefire followed by the UN supervised “free and fair” elections in Syria.
The document does not say whether Assad can or cannot take part in the election, but Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other Sunni states will make every effort to prevent him from running.
Assad “is an Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam. Further condemning Assad in their eyes, he seeks to maintain a secular government that protects Christians, Alawites, Shiites and other minorities,” Parry explained.
Middle Eastern powers, who want to see Assad gone, share this sentiment with Israel and Official Washington’s alliance of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists, as the journalist describes them.
The latter “have made Assad’s ouster a cause célèbre despite the disastrous experiences overthrowing other secular regimes in Iraq and Libya,” Parry observed.
In the past, the US president, according to the investigative journalist, “has been highly sensitive” to what this group thinks. But recent developments suggest that Obama might have opted for pragmatism instead of “neocon/liberal-hawk ideological desires.”
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Posted: 20 Dec 2015 07:41 AM PST

On Friday afternoon former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura contacted Alex Jones to provide him with some informative news.
Ventura had recently traveled to Russia to take part in several panels that consisted of former CIA officials and other prominent figures.
During his visit, Ventura also attended a press dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. While at the reception, Ventura, who had never been to the country previously, says he was shocked at how much the nation was progressing towards freedom, not just in the free market but in basic human rights, and how the United States has been heading in the wrong direction.
The former governor told Jones that he was excited about the visit and hoped to break down the experience to listeners of the Alex Jones Show.
“I always love having Jessie on to talk about world events, the 2016 election and more,” Jones said.
After asking if he had the chance to talk with President Putin, Jones learned that the President did indeed stop Ventura to shake his hand and state, “Thank you governor for all you’ve done.”
Ventura declined to reveal further details of the meeting, saying he would instead tell Alex and his listeners Monday on the Alex Jones Show.
Putin’s comments on other political figures, such as presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, have made headlines recently as well.
“He says that he wants to move to another, closer level of relations. Can we really not welcome that? Of course we welcome that,” the Russian president said regarding Trump, referring to the business mogul as “bright and talented.”
Trump, who called the remarks a “great honor,” responded by calling Putin a “strong” and “powerful leader.”
Tune in to the Alex Jones Show on Monday, December 21, from 11am to 3pm CST to hear about Ventura’s full experience while in Russia.
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Posted: 20 Dec 2015 07:28 AM PST

A Christmas choir had a surprise visitor overnight after Bashar Assad made an appearance at a church in the Syrian capital of Damascus where rehearsals were taking place.
The Syrian president and his wife, Asma, visited the Notre Dame de Damas Church, an ancient cathedral located just 2 kilometers from the rebel-held neighborhood of Jobar in the eastern suburb of Ghouta in Damascus.
Assad and his wife chatted with the men and women of the “Joy Choir,” who were practicing ahead of a performance on Christmas Eve, state media said Saturday.
The couple were seen smiling and posing for pictures with the group and also listened to the recital of Christmas poems at the church, which was hit by mortar fire on Friday.
The visit coincided with the adoption of Friday’s UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire and political settlement in Syria, which was unanimously adopted. The resolution refrained from mentioning the Syrian leader.
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 11:37