Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
A news report<\/span><\/a> from Russia\u2019s Interfax News Service quotes \u201cthe press-secretary of the US embassy in Moscow,\u201d whom it identifies as \u201cWilliam Stevens,\u201d as saying that during a meeting U.S. CIA Director William Brennan had in Moscow with \u201cRussia officials\u201d \u201cin early March,\u201d \u201cDirector Brennan\u201d chose \u201cto emphasize with Russian officials the importance of Russia and the Assad regime following through on their agreements to implement the cessation of hostilities in Syria\u201d and that, \u201cDirector Brennan also reiterated the US government\u2019s consistent support for a genuine political transition in Syria, and the need for Assad\u2019s departure in order to facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n All of this is from Russia\u2019s Sputnik News<\/span><\/a>, that allegedly \u201cWilliam Stevens told RIA Novosti.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Western news services are citing that Russian source as the sole source in their own reporting of the matter; and no denial has yet been issued by the U.S. government.<\/span><\/p>\n If the allegation is true, then the U.S., \u201cin early March,” was demanding \u201cAssad\u2019s departure,\u201d despite there being no participation of the Syrian people in that decision \u2014 no new election in Syria, much less Assad\u2019s losing any such election; and, yet, Mr. Brennan was demanding this, \u201cin order to facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people,\u201d somehow (despite there being no democratic process whatsoever).<\/span><\/p>\n Even Western polling firms have been finding that\u00a0Assad\u2019s remaining as Syria\u2019s leader is supported by 55% of Syrians<\/span><\/a>, and that\u00a0the U.S. is blamed by 82% of Syrians as being the source of Syria\u2019s civil war<\/span><\/a>: “82% agree ‘IS [Islamic State] is US and foreign made group\u2019.\u201d In other words: Syrians, the most secular, the most anti-theocratic, people in the entire Middle East, blame people such as John Brennan as the source of their miseries. This same poll found that “79% agree ‘Foreign fighters made war worse\u2019.\u201d It also found: “70% agree ‘Oppose division of country\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Obama Administration favors breaking Syria up into sectarian enclaves: Alawite-Shiite, versus Sunni, versus Druze, versus Kurd. This would be essential in order to permit Saudi Arabia to build an oil pipeline into Europe through the Sunni part of Syria, and Qatar also to build a gas pipeline through the Sunni part of Syria, both in order to get their (U.S.-corporate-backed) oil and gas into Europe, so as to replace Russia\u2019s main market for its oil and gas, which is the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n The same poll also found that \u201c65% agree \u2018Syrians can live together again\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Clearly, American involvement in the political process in Syria is unwelcomed, if not loathed, by the Syrian people. They don\u2019t want the U.S. to continue supporting the jihadists who are destroying their country; and they also don\u2019t want the U.S. dictating that Bashar al-Assad will stop being their leader.<\/span><\/p>\n None of these facts are brought up by any of the moderators in the U.S. Presidential candidates\u2019 debates. However, some of those moderators are on my email list for all of my news-reports (which have covered all of these matters), and therefore it would seem unlikely that the reason for the matter\u2019s not being covered \u2014 at all \u2014 is that they are ignorant of the reality. The explanation must be something other than ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse A news report from Russia\u2019s Interfax News Service quotes \u201cthe press-secretary of the US embassy in Moscow,\u201d whom it identifies as \u201cWilliam Stevens,\u201d as saying that during a meeting U.S. CIA Director William Brennan had in Moscow with \u201cRussia officials\u201d \u201cin early March,\u201d \u201cDirector Brennan\u201d chose \u201cto emphasize with Russian officials the importance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":234531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[4483,115,30,1036,32,96,1035,851,535,907,522,77,753,804,754,92,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-234530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-assad","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-cia","13":"tag-cover-up","14":"tag-daily-news","15":"tag-gas-2","16":"tag-global-news","17":"tag-isis","18":"tag-obama","19":"tag-oil","20":"tag-police-state","21":"tag-politics-2","22":"tag-syria","23":"tag-terrorism","24":"tag-usa-news","25":"tag-warfare","26":"tag-white-house","27":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}