Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
The arrival of Columbus opened a long chapter of ghastly Western barbarism among non-white nations that continues to this day. His “discovery” of the Americas should be an event to denounce and decry instead of celebrate. A person’s attitude toward Columbus is a reliable litmus test of their knowledge or ignorance about world affairs.—Eds.Millions of corpses attest to the barbarity of Western civilization. Its pure evil may kill us all.
In an extended multi-part interview with Sputnik News, Assad showed his humanity, his genuine concern for his country and people, why Syrians overwhelmingly support him, why US-led rogue states want him ousted, a puppet they control replacing him. His struggle to free Syria from the scourge of US created and unleashed terrorism deserves universal support. The West can’t be trusted, he stressed.
“The most important lesson we have learned, but I suppose we knew it all along, is that the West is not honest. Western countries are dishonest,” he correctly observed.
America, EU countries and their rogue allies “are pursuing a policy far removed from the principles of international law and the United Nations.” It’s “impossible to rely upon the West to solve any issue.”
“We live in a world where there is no international law or morality in politics at present. Anything can happen anywhere on our planet.”
Leaders everywhere “should be able to choose friendly states that will stand by (them) during crises,” implying supreme gratitude for vital Russian help, a true ally of the Syrian Arab Republic and its people.
They’ve endured over five years of US inflicted “inhuman suffering,” using ISIS and other terrorist groups to commit appalling atrocities still ongoing.

President Assad has a lot more popular support than the Western media would concede, but his “unpopularity” is part of the Big Lie to topple him.
Assad believes if current crisis conditions are overcome, if Syria is freed from the terrorist scourge Obama unleashed, its “society will be improved from a social point of view.”
“And (it) will be better able to play its historic role in this region.This role, open to the public, will influence other nations, because it is a single region, the same people with similar traditions.”
“We influence each other as Arab states, as Islamic countries. In this regard, Syria should have a very important role” to play.
International law is ignored in today’s world, he stressed. No nation should be ravaged and destroyed like Syria, like other regional countries, their people slaughtered and displaced, their resources plundered.
Bipartisan extremists running America want unchallenged global dominance, endless wars their main strategy of choice.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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It is difficult to separate christianity from western civilization. The more enlightened roots of greek philosophy and culture have long since been obliterated and marginalized by christian conquest. The history of christian conquest is filled with inquisitions, crusades and holocausts against the infidel… Currently christian crusaders are marauding with incursions into muslim lands in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan – Christianity is incapable of coexisting – it must dominate, conquer and silence any cultures and beliefs that threaten the never ending quest for power and wealth…
This is as true for animals as it is for humans… With the ethic of dominion christianity has proclaimed the right to own, exploit and destroy animals, nature, the infidel, other religions and other cultures.
Gandhi understood that civilization cannot be based on the pillaging of other cultures, humans, animals and nature. He was heir to a more benevolent tradition… that of ahimsa with its principles that honor reverence for life of man and animal alike and respect the ideal of a multiplicity of views, which allows different religions and beliefs to exist side by side, without the need to destroy the unfamiliar. Gandhi rightfully questioned the merit of western civilization based on his understanding of the wisdom of ahimsa.