Syria Civil War resumes; Assad Regime Falls

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For all of their huge and lasting implications on world affairs, ongoing developments in Syria are receiving surprisingly sparse news coverage on MSM outlets.
 
mynameisbond said:
For all of their huge and lasting implications on world affairs, ongoing developments in Syria are receiving surprisingly sparse news coverage on MSM outlets.
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Agreed — I mean, it is not NO coverage but surprisingly little. (And even worse for ongoing events in Georgia and Romania.)
 
nycfan said:
www.bbc.com

Syria rescuers end search for secret cells in Saydnaya prison

The White Helmets say it did not find any "unopened or hidden areas" after it was captured by rebels.
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“… The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, says almost 60,000 people were tortured and killed in the Assad government's prisons.

Human rights groups say more than 100,000 people have disappeared since Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 that triggered the civil war. …”


For reference, the Syrian population is currently over 25 million. That means about 0.004% of the population was “disappeared” by the Assad regime (and this population growth chart from Worldometer tells the story of the civil war generally —

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.4% not .004%

Journalists are in general math illiterate.
 
nycfan said:
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close to 65% of the Iranian population is under 30, meaning they were born in '94 or after, and most hate the Mullah's. Iran's restructure must come from within. Sad the savagery they've face so far and will not doubt face to finally replace the Mullahs. They are our natural allies in a very rough neighborhood.
 
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