A fake-news story about large-scale clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Iranian factions in Syria is making jitters in English- and Russian-language mainstream media outlets. According to these reports citing anonymous sources and each other, “the pro-Russian Tiger Forces and 5th Assault Corps” clashed with “the pro-Iranian 4th Division” near the villages of “Shahta, Bredidg, Innab and Haydariye” in northern Hama.
Most of the reports claimed that there were casualties among the sides providing “precise” numbers varying from a dozen to 200 fighters from the both sides. No source was able to provide details into how clashes had started but the versions are varying from “some differences” to “a campaign to limit Iranian influence”.
Most of the media outlets presented these reports as some kind of breaking news. However, in fact, this is a week-old story. First such reports appeared in several pro-militant social media accounts and a local media outlet, al Modon Online. Later this rumor was reposted by anti-Assad, anti-Iranian and anti-Russian bloggers also citing anonymous sources to show the story look more reliable. By January 29, this rumor has reached large mainstream media outlets, but no evidence has appeared to confirm this kind of developments. However, the lack of factual data was ignored because this story is contributing to the US-Israeli-backed media efforts designed to undermine cooperation between Iran and Russia or at least to show that there are significant tensions between the sides.
The similar situation was observed in 2018 when various mainstream media outlets and even top US leadership like President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo were claiming that “hundreds” of “Russian fighters” were killed by the US-led coalition in the province of Deir Ezzor. Both of these stories demonstrate how media forgery could reach the wide international audience and start being repeated as facts despite zero evidence supporting them.
On January 27, Russian forces launched at least three surface-to-air missiles at unidentified aerial objects near the Hmeimim airbase. According to local sources, at least 3 UAVs apparently launched from the Idlib de-escalation zone were intercepted.
The Syrian Arab Army deployed reinforcements at frontlines near the Idlib de-escalation zone and carried out a series of artillery strikes on militant positions in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib on January 28 and 29.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces continue to claim dozens of casualties among ISIS members in the Euphrates Valley. However, a few remaining ISIS positions remaining there are still not captured.
This story proves that America is still great, by golly. Nobody tells lies better, nobody murders civilians better, and nobody steals resources (human, natural, gold/cash) better than America. America is still great! And being an American, this is a huge and grievous embarrassment to me. I pray for an end to this “great” country every single day.
I used to think – as a youth and young adult – that America was the world’s policeman (that’s the official story), but I opened my eyes, started thinking, and realized that America is the world’s terrorist.
It makes me very very sad.
Most people will hang on to their illusions until their death. The USA – the greatest nation on Earth. Our freedom (to be enslaved?) and exceptional place in history. The Christian Religion – the one true faith. Our wealth (or rather, the wealth of a few among us – forget those sleeping in the streets, hungry, or in prison, or used as cannon fodder, then thrown away). Our glorious constitution and system of justice – totally crooked. Our murder of millions around the world for profit – they probably deserved it, we did it to them so they could share our wonderful way of life. Our wonderful political system – totally corrupt and owned by the uber wealthy.
I could go on, but why bother – those who love the koolaid dished out by the US propaganda organs will continue to drink it, in spite of the ugly facts staring them in the face. The participation of victims in their own victimization is a story as old as history, as is the intentional use of the highest ideals to hide and justify the most evil crimes….. Our Rulers use our high ideals as an ugly trick to con us and control us, and render us easier to enslave. Wake Up America! (Sorry, but most of us prefer to continue sleeping…..)
America is the World’s Bad Cop.
Fascist Tyranny trying to be the Global Hegemon.
This is why the USA wins the World Cop every four years. America needs to quit its day job.
Patrick; I identify with your feelings. There is however a verifiable way to alleviate a lot of your distress about America. It is not really America that is doing these things at all. It is just that it obviously appears so. That is because from the outset the alien capitalist empire had determined to reconquer America. It cunningly took possession over time, in a planned step by step campaign, to completely retake over America. It did this through its time tested technique of controlling banking and mass media. Now America is completely subjugated by the empire against which is originally rebelled and created itself. Now to do this the alien attack on America had to take possession of America’s own discussion of what “America” really is. This has been successful to the point that America is self defining as capitalist imperialism. However in that process all real and meaningful discussion about the true meaning of “America” had to be subverted and buried. It is a case of the real living spirit of America being forced down into the underground by capitalist imperialist cultural aggression. Which is why America’s poets must call for the spiritual discovery of America. That is what it will take to recover the real America from the alien empire that masquerades as America. it is but an Anglo-Zionist masquerade. When you stop and really think about it how could “America” in truth be identical with the evil empire against which it defined itself by revolution? In its historical struggle to find and define themselves the American people made the mistake of radically underestimating the perfidy and intellectual cunning of the English empire. They own and control America and they know it. The point is at this time America has no legitimate capacity for autonomous agency. It is but a robotic slave to alien powers. Now it enters a great crisis which demands it must rediscover its true self.
The near success of the revolt of the 1960’s scared the elites. During the 1950’s, we saw the rise of the military and intel deep state, along with Cold War 1.0 and McCarthyism 1.0. Americans rebelled against this in the 1960’s, and came close to carrying the day. Enough that the elites were forced to back up a step or two.
But with Reagan in the White House, the Counter-Revolution begun, and has been successful since in reestablishing military, police and spy power in America with the corporate media providing key support. Then the Clintons, the Gores and the DLC took over the Democratic Party. This led to the end of a real opposition politics in America, and this has now led to Cold War 2.0 and McCarthyism 2.0 and the current destruction of the American constitution and the subjugation of the American people. America has reached the point where the Soviet Union once was, where any who dissent are deemed to be insane, or least Pawns of Putin which of course must be crushed by the Knights and Bishops of the Military-Police-Spy-Prison-Media-Complex because there are fortunes to be made.
well for true the sixties happened: Malcolm, Martin, true and real white revolutionaries..all for real. then there was Henry Ford..a rich man but a positive man in all he did.
american experience is indeed studded with the real progressives of people and movements. and I do think I detect sincerity in these voices here, lamenting the american grotesque masquerading as a nation. but its going to taking..or is it taking already far more than lament to get past it
might I suggest the spontaneous of movement to be key..the less organization the more certain of protection from infiltration, misleading and betrayal. personal responsibility for consciousness, awareness, that prepares for quick coalescence when essential, to create the popular utterly democratic administration essential, that at once shuts out minority control, renders it impotent and finished..a popular democracy at once creative and totally participatory and nothing else..participatory and diffused, yet of the same mind nationally, connected and cannot be derailed
only that will work against infiltration and sabotage..along with immediate justice to the guilty, permanent justice that diffuses all potential violent elitist reprisal
the people have responsibility for themselves. they have been made conscious by experience of exploitation. they must be aware by now that they and they alone are responsible for their indefinite well-being and social survival. there is no other option. none! only they can create such well being and it can only be so achieved at the expense of the exploiters. the two options cannot coexist. there can be no capitalism and the well-being of the people at the same. it is one or the other. that is the clear, unavoidable truth.
there can be no compromise, there is no middle ground. it is time for the people to confront reality accept and embrace truth of existence. they know even if instinctively, not yet able to put words to it. they know..and now is the time to get up and move. it is now..or Huxley and Orwell will turn out to have been prescient indeed
I would like to take this seriously and rummage through looking for its legit. but when american created itself as an independent nation it brought with it the baggage of slavery and genocide and all manner of horrific impunity.
I am looking for an american nation 200 plus years ago that corresponds to what Snow Leopard seems to be describing and I cant find it. I hope its there and its my own poor eyesight and inability that prevents me from discovering it
ben The place I look is in the European enlightenment, which can be seen to have had a powerful inspirational effect on the American revolution. The whole revolutionary ideal of what America is supposed to be all about is a translation of Christianity, via the enlightenment, into a vision of democratic political liberty. It is eschatological, in effect drawing upon the long heritage of quest for that religion’s fulfillment. So it became an “enterprise” in the search for liberty. That makes the real America mythic. At root America is a Christian drama in real time. America is really an encultured ongoing “quest” for America. A road trip west to California anyone? And what is this about Patrick Stewart, the Enterprise’s most loved and respected captain, coming back to make more Star Trek after being out for over 20 years. And who invented the mythology of “the Force”?
All of the real value of this for American culture has been carefully disconnected as a consequence of the Anglo-Zionist conquest of the American mind. How could a bourgeois capitalist empire do anything but distort and bury with extreme prejudice America’s quest to fulfill its real cultural purpose. Another way of saying it is that American culture is self organized around the ongoing quest for greater and more inclusive liberty. Hence Lincoln as an iconic figure. Either this is true in that it speaks of a movement within the nation’s soul, or we are speaking of a people that can feel little to no intrinsic cultural identity. But capitalists rule the mass mind so they can be relied upon to confuse the shit out of a people who self identify with any ongoing revolution into greater people’s liberty. Nevertheless it all came crashing back to life in the 1960’s.
The really important piece here was how crafty the Brits were in step by step, sneaking their capitalism into America’s understanding of itself. Poisoned by an alien parasite. Talk about a brilliant take over! It is all locatable in the history of the relationship between the United States and England. All we have to do is stop and ask this question. What might the English ruling class really wanted to do to the Americans? Dimitry Orlov actually turned me on to their formula for the reconquest of America, so I have him to thank for being able to tie all of this together. Which means as far as I can see that the American quest for liberty is now driven into the underground, from which it must re-emerge.
For which it will turn into a wack a mole and create the first political civil war.
I believe you refer to the plans, manipulations, and success of the Cecil Rhodes-Lord Milner round table group before the first world war. They had determined to ignite that war to keep Germany and Russia from aligning. At the same time, they wanted to bring America back under the umbrella of the British empire. To do this they would have to get them into the war they were about to create. They succeeded on all counts. Edward Mandel House was their representative in America who suddenly met and became best pals with Woodrow Wilson.
Most people have little to no idea what has actually shaped history, that secret groups work from the shadows to manipulate events.
Still, we ought to have some sense of right and wrong. Yet the never say die Trumpsters applaud their golden hero and never raise a fuss about the ongoing slaughter in one country after another, with more to come. Apparently, it is ok for such deaths to happen mostly to young children, women and old men as long as it is over there and not us. Where is the moral sense?
Craig; Yes I have also read about Rhodes/Milner. I agree with you. However according to Orlov the reconquest op started even before then. Orlov says an Anti America was set up by the empire from the very outset. It was a sort of automatic response from imperialism immediately after 1781. There are, according to Orlov, two main thrusts of the imperial anti America. The South and soft culture. From the very beginning the English encouraged the South in their war against America. Also steady influence of English capitalism in the build up of Wall St. Between Wall Street and the South the Empire was able to (after the assignation of Lincoln) sufficiently control America to be able to set up a supposedly American version of the English capitalist empire. By 1890 or so they had it in the bag. Then in 1913 the bankers of Wall St, controlled by European money, took actual possession of the republic and kept it all under wraps through their ownership of the Media. So America suffers from a profound loss of self. This contributes mightily to the moral collapse. More I think a case of mass demoralization. How can America mean anything at all if there is no daylight between it and England of all places? Here we have a nation in massive cognitive and psychological self contradiction regarding its own identity. It goes so deep people can’t cope. So they withdraw into their private lives.
oh, but it IS “America”. It always has been America.
Zionists didn’t have much power 100-200 years ago when the white settlers were exterminating native Americans with gusto using every means under their disposal including eliminating the Naive American’s food supply, biological warfare and outright killings.
The Zionists only came into power after WWII, and long before that the Americans were using slaves and wiping out the natives in America. To claim it isn’t America is to close eyes to the well documented AND disputable 500 years history of imperialism around the world.
You are not alone. Many of us have a similar story to tell.
P
“This story proves that America is still great, by golly. Nobody tells lies better”
Actually, the liars are mostly israel loyals, at least the ones running the show and their more effective wonks.
not only a terrorist but, above all, a terrorist manufacturing machine.
What we have here is some psychological warfare, which back in World War Two was called “black propaganda”. Why on earth would pro-Russian and pro-Iranian forces be fighting each other ? Makes no sense, bearing in mind both have been fighting ISIS. Looks like Washington is trying to saw discord in Syria, Iran and Russia. Won’t work. It’s too infantile.
The target audience for this fake news must be in the west.
Obviously the Iranians and the Russians and the Syrians know the truth of this. They know if their forces fought a week ago. Thus, the fake news could have no effect upon them. Thus, obviously the target is not them but the western audiences.
Most likely the idea is to get support for keeping the war, death, destruction, maiming and torture going for the foreseeable future and to kill off the notion of an American fake-withdrawal by claiming that since the bad guys are fighting each other then victory must be only just around the corner if the Americans can send billions more in tax dollars and the blood of their citizens to the fight.
“However, the lack of factual data was ignored”
This strange modern age summed up in one phrase.
Didn’t see any of this Russia vs Iran nonsense reported on last week. But then I rarely bother with zionazi-gay media and propaganda sites. Dont recall seeing any of this nonsense listed here, either. Not even from the guardian/moa/offguardian advert spammers. I must be missing out… ;-D
In other news from the Free Press, Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found by the Gay Girl in Damascus blogger, who is in possession of Mohammad Atta’s Magical, Indestructible Passport that miraculously survived the 9-11 attack!!!
From Daniel Rich BTL SyrPer #286070
2 days ago, Syria’s First Lady, Asma Assad, underwent surgery. Let’s pause a moment and wish Syria’s courageous ‘Desert Rose’, her husband, H.E. Dr, Assad and their children, all the strength they need, to find safe passage through the treacherous cliffs of cancer.
Best post in this exercise in bovine scatology false flag news.
I agree completely, Dr. Maroudas,such a terrible disease to fight in the middle of the patently hideous attempt of the destruction of Syria. May God bless the lady and defeat this disease, may God give her the strength to continue with her efforts for the poor and disadvantaged and grant her many years of peaceful life.
Auslander
But — but — we’ve got Whack-A-Mole(r) and CHILI-CHEESE-DOGS !!!