Africa & Asia

Here is my blog of political and anthropological reflections. Much of my professional career was in West Africa (and some of my childhood as well), but I also know East, Central and North Africa quite well. I have visited most Arab-speaking countries from Morocco to the Persian Empire. I know both Iran and Afghanistan, and many of the surrounding countries in Central and Southern Asia.

With terrorism, peace, sexual violence and injustice in the mix, this will be an eclectic series of articles !

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Posts tagged Syria

Two Ambassadors to Syria with Wildly Different Analyses

A British Ambassador analyses Syria; and an American Ambassador repeats phony propaganda about Syria. That is my opinion. Read this important Transcend Peace Journalism article and make up your own mind.

AfricaElisabeth DrummApril 10, 2021Syria, Ambassador, United States, United Kingdom, Transcend, Nato

Syria TMS article by Dr Chandra Muzaffar March 2021

Dr Muzaffar is completely correct in his critical analysis of Western policy, which has proved disastrous for Iraq and Syria. Syria’s civil war can only be understood through the prism of Iraq and the destructive and nonsensical “Shock and Awe” delivered by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 2001.

AfricaElisabeth DrummMarch 31, 2021Africa, Syria, Transcend, Nato, Bashar al-Assad, Daraa, genocide, Sunnis, Alawite, Sergei Lavrov

Africa & Asia

With terrorism, peace, sexual violence and injustice in the mix, this will be an eclectic series of articles !

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