When Assad officials & their stable of propagandists & fellow travelers claim bombing victims (like this child partially buried in rubble) & rescuers in Eastern Ghouta are only terrorists or Hollywood actors: keep in mind that they also claim the Arab Spring uprisings involving millions of working people in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, with reverberations in Jordan, Morocco, & occupied Iraq were also street theater orchestrated by the CIA & Mossad. Partially, it’s their fascism doing the talking–a fascism rooted in a deep-seated orientalist & racist attitude toward Arabs who have long been portrayed in films as dirty & squalid or as terrorists; a fascism rooted in Islamophobia which is the war mongering of our generation; & a fascism rooted in hatred for the working class who they consider too stupid to rise above their state in life.

Stand with the Syrian people in their struggle against dictatorship & war by participating in or organizing a rally to demand: stop Syrian, Russian, & US coalition bombing of civilians; immediate access for relief aid agencies; release of political detainees; immediate & unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.

(Photo of child from the Telegraph, February 21, 2018)