These terrorists have participated in bombings of Aleppo, and also other villages we never hear about, and which I will be discussing today, al-Fu'ah and Kefriya. So, I do mean terrorists from those groups and also from the so-called Free Syrian Army. The Free Syrian Army has been as heinous and as gruesome as ISIS and as al-Nusra.
DB: Alright, you mentioned... a bunch of things we're hearing here. Let's just go over a few of them. You talked about the situation of the child, the Palestinian child who was beheaded. And you're saying that he was beheaded by forces supported by the West?
EB: Yes.
DB: And how does the West support this particular force?
EB: They deem Nour al-Din al-Zenki a moderate group. I'm not aware if there's financial support, there's certainly support in terms of whitewashing their crimes. And when the cease fires are enacted, for example, in September and in February, these groups were not expected to participate in the cease fires. Only al-Nusra and ISIS and other al Qaeda affiliated groups were expected to participate.
But the problem with this is the U.S. themselves cannot control the terrorists that they support as moderates, who intermingle with the terrorists that they designate as terrorists. So they're very aware of the crimes that these different groups they deem as moderates are committing, yet, they cannot control them.
DB: Alright, let me ask you a broad question, this way. You certainly do not get this story in watching the U.S. corporate media. So, let me ask you... what's missing, from the U.S. corporate media's picture? I mean you've been describing some atrocities that we haven't heard about, but in the broader picture what's missing?
EB: The Syrian voice. [...] The corporate media interviews people that might be representatives of Syria, living abroad who haven't been to Syria for years, or people they claim are in eastern Aleppo, until recently (now eastern Aleppo is liberated).
But they don't [talk to civilians on the streets]... I mean how many western journalists have gone to Aleppo? And, you can. I've applied for visas and I've waited well over a month for my journalist visa. It's not impossible, and other western journalists have gone to Syria and gone to Aleppo.
But they largely do not bother to talk to the Syrian people there, and ask how has life been for you these past years in Aleppo? If they had, they would find out that people have fled from eastern Aleppo. Something like 600,000 people over the years have fled from eastern areas of Aleppo which the terrorists' factions occupied, to government-secured greater Aleppo. They did so for their own safety and they were given shelter by the government in university housing and in other shelters.
But this is never talked about in the corporate media. They would never talk about the fact that water and electricity have been cut off, since the terrorists took over these areas, of eastern and outskirts of Aleppo. They wouldn't talk about the bombings that I've mentioned. They wouldn't talk about the period of prolonged sieges, when terrorist factions cut off the only road that was leading into Aleppo. And these prolonged sieges meant that people weren't getting food and medicine, etc. from outside.
DB: [...] Is there a website that people can go and find out [more about your lecture series]?
EB: Yeah. The tour is largely organized by a coalition of anti-war, anti-imperialist groups. The handsoffsyriacoalition.net is the website.
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DB: Now ... you probably heard that we just had a presidential election, here. And there's a big struggle... everybody, you know, is pretty clear that Trump is a white supremacist and serial liar, but when you consider what Trump has been saying and what Clinton was saying about Syria policy, Trump was making more sense.
In terms of the two candidates, you had to feel for what Trump was saying because Clinton wanted to draw down the same policy that gave us Libya, and a policy that puts the US head to head with Russia, and now China. And that could lead to WWIII. Your impressions and your thoughts on that?
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