{"id":358113,"date":"2018-04-23T23:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doctor-death-from-damascus-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T23:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:53:58","slug":"doctor-death-from-damascus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doctor-death-from-damascus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Death from Damascus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Eric Margolis, The Unz Review, 21 April 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster.<\/p>\n<p>These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria\u2019s president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate.<\/p>\n<p>As a veteran Mideast watcher, I find all this hard to swallow. Compared to other brutal Mideast leaders, Assad is pretty weak tea. The US\/British propaganda effort to paint Assad in blackest colors is having a difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Mideast leaders who toe the US line and make nice to Israel are invariably called \u2018statesmen\u2019 or \u2018president\u2019 by the American government and its increasingly tame media. There\u2019s good old President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt, the military dictator who crushed that nation\u2019s only democracy and imposed an iron-fisted rule. But we will never hear from the US media of Egypt\u2019s political murders, disappearances, secret prisons and torture. Or that Egypt has been one of the world\u2019s most draconian police states since the era of Anwar Sadat and successor Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi rulers are reverently treated by the US media and government in spite of leading the world in executions. Last year, 44 people were publicly beheaded. In some years, around 150 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia, often a quarter of them Pakistani guest workers. Having been arrested by the Saudi religious police, I can tell you that the kingdom&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/doctor-death-from-damascus\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Margolis, The Unz Review, 21 April 2018 Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster. These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria\u2019s president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358113","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\/358113","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}