In Episode Seven of the CounterVortex podcast [10], Bill Weinberg rants against the sinister development of pro-war propaganda masked as "anti-war" propaganda [14]. The overwhelming response of the "anti-war" left to the Douma chemical attack [15] and Trump's retaliatory air-strikes is to baselessly deny that Bashar Assad was behind the attack, to portray the victims as CIA-jihadists, and to change the subject ("What about Gaza, Yemen, etc?") These are all propaganda tactics lifted directly from the Assad regime's playbook. While some now openly support Assad [16], other "anti-war" hypocrites protest that they do not support Assad, they just oppose US air-strikes. But when you echo the Assad regime's propaganda and rush to exculpate it of every atrocity, you objectively do support Assad. You are actively abetting his war of extermination [17] and campaigns of ethnic cleansing [18] against the Syrian people. Any legitimate anti-war position must begin with opposition to the genocidal regime [19] of Bashar Assad and his foreign backers in Moscow and Tehran, and with solidarity for the Syrian Revolution. Listen on SoundCloud [11], and support our podcast via Patreon [20].
Music: Syrian oud master Huosain Sabsaby [21]
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