JOHN ESKOW—In the fifty years since then, Moyers has moved well to the left, and I’ve grown to have increasing respect for him. In the corporate media landscape in which he operates, he’s shown genuine courage, prodding what my late mother called “good liberals” to a more daring worldview. But until recently he seemed to be enveloped by the MSBNC/Democratic Party mindset on all things Russiagate. So I was truly astonished last week when I heard that Moyers, on his Facebook page, had republished a piece I wrote for CounterPunch called MSNBC: A Trainload of Fools Bogged Down in a Magnetic Field. (I won’t link to myself, because I’m pretty sure God punishes people for that.)
February 27, 2018
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MARK TALIANO—Syria and its allies have every legal right to defend Syria’s peoples, its sovereignty and its territorial integrity. The terrorists, on the other hand, have no right to destroy the country, and to target civilians, as they have been doing, for the last 7 years.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—An immediate error will arise if Westerners want to view “Arab nationalism” through their own experiences with nationalism: One nationalism is the nationalism of colonizers, the other is that of the colonized. To compare the two is to compare apples and bowling balls.
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Will Assad’s retaking of East Ghouta be the the last great battle of the Syrian war?
40 minutes readALEX MERCOURIS—In 2016 it was eastern Aleppo; this time it is east Ghouta, which is a suburb of Syria’s capital Damascus. Just as in 2016 the presence of these violent Jihadi terrorists is being ignored, with the fighters ‘defending’ east Ghouta more often referred to in the Western media as ‘moderate rebels’ rather than the Al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliated Jihadi militants that they actually are. Just as in 2016 the air waves and the presses are full of furious denunciations of Syrian and Russian bombing.