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New from Linux Beach:
Blue Monday: Will Russian bombs become Syria's new silent killers?
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/10/manic-monday-will-russian-bombs-become.html>
*BREAKING NOW!* *NBC News* is reported
<http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/russians-moving-artillery-ground-forces-hama-syria-n438801>
1:38pm et *Russians Moving Artillery, Ground Forces to Hama, Syria*
This is going far beyond air strikes!
Of course, Russian bombs are incredibility noisy when they explode in
Syria. The question is: Will they be heard in the United States? I was
surprised when *CBS This Morning* made no mention of Syria or new
Russian actions there. I was hoping for reports of any new attacks
overnight and I know there had been attacks over the weekend this
weekday news show had never mentioned, so I expected at least a short
report. *Democracy Now *this morning opened with
<http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/5/headlines#1052> the US strike
against the Kunduz Hospital that killed 22 and followed it up with two
stories about this and other US war crimes in Afghanistan, but it
mentioned no new Russian air attacks in Syria. It did say an air
strike killed a family of 5 and a rescue worker in /"northern Syria,"/
which ain't too specific, and it was even less specific about who was
responsible for this war crime, saying only /"It is unclear who
carried out the airstrike."/ Like the CBS show, Democracy Now had the
weekend's news to summarize in its Monday brief.
So these early US reports left me hopeful that Syrians had been spared
another day of playing Putin's new game of Russian roulette. But after
I checked my twitter feeds and Syrian sources, I found that had not
been the case and this raised fears that what is, more than ever,
looking likely to become the first holocaust of the 21st century, will
be carried out with the same media blackout as before even after
Patrick Cockburn's /"heavy hitter"/
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/10/patrick-cockburn-lets-welcome-russian.html>
has joined the killing spree.
I find this very troubling and ominous. Generally, the US bourgeois
media can be depended upon to give wide publicity to the bad acts of a
major rival. Sometimes they will even make up false stories as part of
their propaganda effort, but when there is real news to report that
will put say, Russia, in a bad light, generally they will jump all
over it. Generally. When they don't, it is usually because they have
some other ulterior motive, and if they forgo the opportunity to
report that Russia is slaughter civilians in Syria it may mean that
they are giving silent consent to the Russian efforts. I find this a
very ominous development, both for Syrians and the world.
So it would appear that once again, the task falls to bloggers like me
to try and keep you inform about events the bourgeois and /"Left"/
media would rather keep hidden from you.This is what I've pulled
together this morning:
*More...*
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/10/manic-monday-will-russian-bombs-become.html>
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