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Media Release Thursday, 2 March 2017

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
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CEC’s Syria petition exposes lies of regime-change agenda

The petition initiated by the Citizens Electoral Council last September, “Australia must get out of Syria”, was finally tabled in federal Parliament last week. The CEC launched the petition just after Australian air force personnel and equipment was involved in bombing and killing more than 80 Syrian Arab Army soldiers who were holding a position against ISIS. It happened in the middle of an intense propaganda escalation against the efforts of Russia and the Syrian government to defeat al-Qaeda and other actual terrorist organisations backed by the UK and USA.

Have you noticed that the media is hardly reporting on Syria any more? Since December, the Assad government has retaken Syria’s biggest city, Aleppo. If Assad is a butcher, as the media constantly screamed, where are the reports of continuing mass genocide in Aleppo? Why isn’t the media reporting every day the horror of what Assad is doing to these people that Russia helped to deliver into his clutches?

Because nothing like that is happening, and never was! And the dishonest, fake-news media has moved on to its next pack of lies, ignoring the stories that proved them to be the propagandists for British and American warmongers that they are.

Here’s what has actually happened, since the CEC launched its petition:

Donald Trump was elected President of the United States on 8 November, after campaigning to join forces with Russia in Syria to defeat ISIS, and rejecting calls to overthrow the Assad government. Trump’s public position was a full-bodied denunciation of the regime-change agenda started under Bush, Cheney and Blair and continued by Obama, Cameron and May. Two days after Trump’s election the US State Department, knowing the fraud was going to end, finally designated al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm JFS (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra)—which Obama had backed—as a terrorist organisation.

Russia and Syria launched a final offensive to drive al-Qaeda out of eastern Aleppo, where civilians were being used as human shields. The British government especially, at the very time they were arming and directing the Saudi genocide of Yemen, screamed about war crimes and hurled wild accusations, all sourced from the UK and US-funded White Helmets, that Russia was deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians. (Although funded by the UK and US governments, the White Helmets’ leader was barred by Obama from entering the USA due to his terrorist links, which ban also stopped him from attending this week’s Academy Awards where a propaganda film about his organisation won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary.) In a similar operation under way presently to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, reporters are calling civilian deaths from US bombings “collateral damage” that in Aleppo they would call Russian “war crimes”.

By early January Aleppo was fully liberated, at which time independent media on the ground were able to confirm from firsthand testimony that all of the wild accusations levelled against Russia and Syria were false. In the final negotiation to get al-Qaeda to leave the city the Assad government actually gave its enemies, who are committed to its overthrow, safe passage to another part of Syria, knowing they would continue fighting, purely to minimise civilian losses. What other government in the world would do such a thing? But of course Assad is a butcher, because US Senator John McCain says so.

Having lost Aleppo, and with signs of a shift in US attitudes due to Trump’s election, the Syrian opposition groups—not all of whom started as terrorists, but who were all suckered by Obama’s agenda that quickly led to the terrorist domination of the Syrian opposition—agreed to negotiations that were brokered by Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Held in Astana, Kazakhstan, these have produced concrete progress, and there is now the possibility of a peaceful settlement that doesn’t require regime change but will lead to constitutional reform. In other words, thanks to Russia’s intervention beginning in September 2015, by March 2017 there is progress towards ending the six year old conflict.

There’s a long way to go yet, but peace is possible if Trump is able to follow through on his desire to cooperate with Russia. He also has to ensure that the neocons, liberal interventionists and shadowy intelligence agencies in the USA and UK, who have unleashed hell right across the Middle East and North Africa through their regime-change agenda, are not able to sabotage it. If this can be achieved, China has offered to intervene economically with an infrastructure development program connected to its One Belt, One Road vision that can transform the Middle East and lay the foundation for lasting peace.

As the CEC’s petition stated, if Australia is not prepared to work with Russia to achieve peace in Syria, we should get out. It would be far better, especially in light of these positive developments, if Australia were to work with the Syrian government, Russia and China, and hopefully a born-again USA, to achieve peace through development in Syria and throughout the world.

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