Axis Of Resistance – Tim Anderson (1)

Amnesty, like the ‘White Helmets’ and the ‘Syrian Observatory’ (SOHR), flies the red starred ‘revolution’ flag. Amnesty also corroborated the false stories about Libya, campaigning strongly against the government of Muammar Gaddafi. Head of Amnesty (France), Genevieve Garrigos, claimed the Libyan president was threatening Libyan civilians and had used ‘black mercenaries’ to kill civilians. At this time, Al Jazeera (owned by the monarchy of Qatar, which also funded Libya’s armed Salafist groups) was telling lies about shootings at a Benghazi demonstration.

After NATO bombing had destroyed the Libyan state, Garrigos admitted that there was ‘no evidence’ to support the claims over ‘black mercenaries’ (Teil 2011; Timand2037 2012; Kuperman 2015). In a similar way, Amnesty ran a series of unreliable and partisan stories to inflame the war on Syria (Sterling 2017). Second, aligning itself to its openly partisan sources, Amnesty flew the flag of armed jihadists on its websites, next to a ‘peaceful protestor’ flashing a peace sign (see photo preceding page).

By the time of this 2012 graphic ‘Free Syrian Army’ groups had engaged in sectarian killings, using genocidal slogans (Blanford 2011; Anderson 2016a: 123) ‘Fight bad guys’ would became one of Amnesty’s slogans, a not too subtle, populist advocacy of ‘humanitarian war’. Using jihadist-linked sources, Amnesty joined the US-based groups Avaaz, Human Rights Watch and The Syria Campaign, funded by US billionaire George Soros, to call for UN Security Council Chapter Seven (armed) action against Syria, while claiming it remained ‘even-handed’.

As with Libya, the pretext was defending civilians: ‘the main victims of a campaign of relentless and indiscriminate attacks by the Syrian army’ (Amnesty 2012b). Third, Amnesty adopted the claims of current and former sectarian jihadists that there were mass hangings at a small prison in Saydnaya.

‘Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty’ was the headline (Chulov 2017).

“The broader “Middle East” if we include Afghanistan North Africa and Iran has been in a state of war throughout the 21st century. It is a story of imperial war conquest resistance and blowback. And it’s not over yet. None of the fires lit in 2001 and after have been extinguished and most are burning more fiercely than ever.

A huge monster of bitterness hatred and alienation has been created which will haunt us and our children even yet unborn. Western policy has been worse than a crime it’s been a blunder.Tim Anderson’s epic study shows what a crime, what a blunder it has been.And how ugly the monster which now stalks the land. My land, your land, the whole of humanity. It is a must read.” —GEORGE GALLOWAY, British politician, writer and broadcaster “Axis of Resistance will take its place alongside the few books worth reading on how and by whom the flickering lights of the imperial twilight of ‘the West’ in the Middle East were finally extinguished.”

—DR. JEREMY SALT, Middle East historian, former professor Melbourne University and Birkeit University “An excellent book by an exceptional author and activist who understands well the shakers and makers of the region within the new world order shaped by rising global forces.” —AMAL WAHDAN, Veteran Palestinian activist, Al Quds / Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine “For decades now Western understanding of the conflicts in the Middle East has been obfuscated by the effects of both intensive propaganda and ideology.

Whether you agree or disagree with Anderson’s arguments, Axis of Resistance is an important starting point for much needed soul searching, public debate and self-reflection by publics, academics and politicians. Such debate is essential if we are to rein in the West’s imperial ambitions, which have caused so much suffering and destruction, and allow genuine independence for all the peoples of the Middle East.“ —DR PIERS ROBINSON Organisation for Propaganda Studies Former Professor of Politics, Society and Political Journalism at Sheffield University “A refreshing analysis of West Asia’s regional alliances that was pushed into existence by continuous Western hegemony.

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