{"id":248192,"date":"2016-06-06T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/group-ssuk-condemns-excess-of-free-speech-on-syria\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:29:51","slug":"group-ssuk-condemns-excess-of-free-speech-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/group-ssuk-condemns-excess-of-free-speech-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Group SSUK condemns excess of Free Speech on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-62876\" readability=\"73.103497164461\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Paul Larudee \/ June 6th, 2016<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\" readability=\"68.739173228346\">\n<p>The group SSUK (s\u016dk), has registered its strong objection to, and condemnation of, the participation of Dr. Tim Anderson in the Crossing Borders Conference on Refugees, to convene July 7-10 on the Greek Island of Lesbos. Dr. Anderson is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/store.globalresearch.ca\/store\/the-dirty-war-on-syria-washington-regime-change-and-resistance-pdf\/\"><i>The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance<\/i><\/a>. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syriauk.org\/2016\/06\/pro-assad-speaker-re-invited-to-lesvos.html\">complaint<\/a> is that Anderson presents facts and a point of view that SSUK does not like.<\/p>\n<p>We understand their concern. \u00a0It is difficult enough to justify their support for some of the world\u2019s most vicious terrorists without having someone like Dr. Anderson presenting genuine facts and arguments against doing so. \u00a0How much more daunting, therefore, to justify violating international law and the UN Charter, and forming alliances with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the world\u2019s great imperialist powers for the sake of \u201cfreedom and human rights\u201d? That\u2019s a hard sell even without a voice like Dr. Anderson\u2019s pointing out the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>But money can fix everything. \u00a0SSUK\u2019s White Helmets allies can bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2016\/04\/256667.htm\">$23 million<\/a> from the US government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/481277\/Syria_UK_Non-Humanitarian_Support_-_Public_Document.pdf\">\u00a315 million<\/a> from the UK and millions more from private sources to mobilize a great marketing effort and twist a few arms to silence Dr. Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anderson has nothing in his arsenal but facts and reason, and he is not even making an effort to silence the SSUK supporters of takfiri mercenaries. Perhaps he thinks that mere truth will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/06\/group-ssuk-condemns-excess-of-free-speech-on-syria\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Larudee \/ June 6th, 2016 The group SSUK (s\u016dk), has registered its strong objection to, and condemnation of, the participation of Dr. Tim Anderson in the Crossing Borders Conference on Refugees, to convene July 7-10 on the Greek Island of Lesbos. Dr. Anderson is the author of The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248192","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}