The Denouement About the Assad Family

10 January 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

It turns out that both the mainstream and the alternative-news portrayals of the Assad family were wrong. Whereas the mainstream portrayal was lies (such as this and this and this), the alt-news portrayal whited-out the very real evidence (and this, of course, does NOT include any of those U.S.-and-allied faked ‘evidences’) against the Assads.

An example of this white-out is here:

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transcript:

https://www.memri.org/tv/fmr-british-mp-george-galloway-arabs-lost-cause-syrian-girl

https://archive.is/cesuB

video:

https://www.memri.org/player/clip/68359/934,467/1

14 December 2014

“Former British MP George Galloway And 'Syrian Girl' Maram Susli Lament The Fall Of The Assad Regime”

Here’s the transcript:

George Galloway: "I feel that that part of my life, fighting for the Arabs, with the Arabs, behind the Arabs, alongside them, I feel that that period has now ended. ...

"I think the Arabs are a lost cause, frankly. At least for the time being. ...

"I'm washing my hands of the slave Arabs and their useful idiots. ...

"I cannot fathom why when the Arab world is being looted by imperialism, people would rather suck the boots of the imperial owner of their resources than associate with a Muslim who prays differently.” ...

Maram Susli: "I just want to say George I did hear what you have to say. You're absolutely right about everything you've said. I mean there's people inside, you know, Syria as well are thinking: 'What is the point of supporting this when you have the'... you know some of these people are essentially attacking themselves and benefitting Israel. Over the last thirteen months, we've witnessed the most horrific genocide in history, perpetrated by Israel on Gaza. And all of these people – and a Sunni I say this – all of these people would rather kill Shiites than do anything to stop Israel from committing that genocide. And it's disgusting, it is absolutely disgusting. ...

"They are Muslim Zionists. In the same way that Israel is the Jewish ISIS, these people are Muslim Zionists. They want to steal our land. And they want to kill us. And they don't give a crap if they're sharing with Israel, that's the reality of the people we're facing. And they're not necessarily even Arab, you know. We the people of the Levant, historically we spoke Aramaic. We adopted the Pan-Arab ideology and unfortunately the only Arabs that have helped us so far, god bless them, are the Houthis [and] the Iraqis. So, you know, unfortunately we can no longer expect very much from them because instead of helping us the majority of them have actually betrayed us to Israel."

MY COMMENT: What Galloway and “Syrian Girl” say is entirely true (UNLIKE he U.S.-and-allied lies). But, as I have only very recently learned, the Assad regime WAS a regime — NOT a democracy — even though it was supported by more Syrians to run the country than any available alternative was, because the vast majority of Syrians feared the jihadists that the U.S. was arming, even MORE than they feared the Assad family.

And HERE is an article about this, “Asma al-Assad: the mastermind of the starvation of the Syrian people”, by the independent Syrian investigative journalist Steven Sahiounie, that was recently published and also showing there the contentious reader-comments about it, which — all of that taken together — has persuaded me that the Assad family really WERE extremely corrupt (which reality almost all of the alt-news articles about the war in Syria ignore):

The reason that I was persuaded is that Sahiounie is a Syrian who has always, to my knowledge, reported honestly (and never parroting the U.S. lies) about the war in Syria, and that his article’s readers who criticize his article have cited only their beliefs, or else cited the very pro-Assad non-Syrian reporter Eva Bartlett, who flits from one war to another instead of knowing what it is like to actually live there. The article’s critics are not providing evidence, whereas near the end of the 26 existing reader-comments, I posted as my own reader-comments, two email-exchanges with Sahiounie that I had had about his article, where I posted my reasons for now finally accepting what the article says:

Eric Zuesse

January 10, 2025

I emailed to Steven Sahiounie requesting his documentation of the charges he had made against Asma al-Assad in this article; and here were his replies, and our subsequent conversation via emails:
From: [me]
Subject: Please respond to the reader-comments at
https://theduran.com/asma-al-assad-the-mastermind-of-the-starvation-of-the-syrian-people/#comments
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Hello Eric,
I am going through a very sensitive health situation and am trying to recover. Here is the main article with links. Some of the stories involve my family, my neighbors, and people I know. None of the stories in the article are lies, but the difference is that under the Assad regime, we could not speak out because we were at risk of being arrested. I lost my own cousin, who was just 16 years old, simply for posting a few things on Facebook; he died in prison under torture. My aunt also passed away from depression due to her son’s fate. I do not support radical Islam, I will always support Palestine but the Assad regime is brutal and corrupt.
https://mideastdiscourse.com/2024/12/30/asma-al-assad-the-mastermind-of-the-starvation-of-the-syrian-people/
Best regards,
Journalist Steven Sahiounie
Latakia, Syria
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May I post that as your response? Your statement here is important: you are citing YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES as your SOURCE — and this is methodologically entirely valid to do. I want to say that when I post it, if I may post this reply from you?
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You can share this
Yes, this is a personal experience. Security forces terrorized my father just to steal his property in the heart of latakia, and this happened to 37 real estate developers in Latakia. The customs officials came into my neighbor’s shop and stole all his merchandise, worth thousands of dollars, in downtown Latakia. My cousin was in prison in 2012 for posting a few things on Facebook against the government, and he was tortured to death he was only 16 years old.
I do not and will never support radical Islam, but I will never support a regime that has stoled Syria for 54 years and tortured its people. I will always support Palestine and Lebanon, and I will always stand against imperialism. Syrians want a free, democratic, civil Syria—that’s all we want. We are tired of living in fear. We are tired of being poor while one family has everything. Syria is not a poor country, but the Assad family has been stealing everything. I have thousands of stories from normal syrians what they went through because of the Assad regime.

Reply to

Eric Zuesse

January 10, 2025

Subsequently, Sahiounie called to my attention, in order to clarify, that “in the last 12 years I supported the Syrian army, I supported Syria. I didn’t support Assad and I never said one good thing about him. I never even mentioned him. I only wrote one article in the last 12 years about him. I didn’t mention him, not in an article or in an interview. I never said one good thing about him or his wife in my journalism work. I always and will always support my country Syria [but] I don’t support people.”

In other words: Sahiounie did, in his emailed responses to me, provide valid evidences to back up his article, whereas the readers who rejected his article did not provide any evidence at all.

PS: If you like this article, please email it to all your friends or otherwise let others know about it. None of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media will likely publish it (nor link to it, since doing that might also hurt them with Google or etc.). I am not asking for money, but I am asking my readers to spread my articles far and wide, because I specialize in documenting what the Deep State is constantly hiding — what the ‘news’-media ignore if they can, and deny if they must. This is, in fact, today’s samizdat.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.