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There will be an information stall this Saturday to spread the word about this film screening – from 10am-noon at the West End Markets (the Montague Street entrance – under the big fig tree). If you can’t make it to the stall, but would like to get some flyers/posters to distribute, please drop me a line (kathynew1).

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/10/or-your-lying-eyes-truth-and-fiction-in-the-news-business/

It’s clear enough that the Sunni alliance led by Saudia Arabia and Qatar has ensured that the insurgency inside Syria will countenance no ceasefire offers; and that the propaganda machine so well described by Aisling Byrne on this site http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/the-neocon-propaganda-machine-pushing-%3Fregime-change%3F-in-syria/ will continue a non-stop flow of mendacious bulletins eagely seized upon by the western press.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/the-neocon-propaganda-machine-pushing-%E2%80%9Cregime-change%E2%80%9D-in-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/the-neocon-propaganda-machine-pushing-%3Fregime-change%3F-in-syria/

What we are seeing in Syria is a deliberate and calculated campaign to bring down the Assad government so as to replace it with a regime “more compatible” with US interests in the region.

The blueprint for this project is essentially a report produced by the neo-conservative Brookings Institute for regime change in Iran in 2009. The report — “Which Path to Persia?”  – continues to be the generic strategic approach for US-led regime change in the region.

A rereading of it, together with the more recent “Towards a Post-Assad Syria” (which adopts the same language and perspective, but focuses on Syria, and was recently produced by two US neo-conservative think-tanks) illustrates how developments in Syria have been shaped according to the
step-by-step approach detailed in the “Paths to Persia” report with the same key objective: regime change.

The authors of these reports include, among others, John Hannah and Martin Indyk, both former senior neo-conservative officials from the George W Bush/Dick Cheney administration, and both advocates for regime change in Syria. Not for the first time are we seeing a close alliance
between US/British neo-cons with Islamists (including, reports show,