Konflikten i Syrien

While this does not absolve Assad from the corruption and abuses that may or may not be present in his government, it does lay out the fact that the chaos now slowly consuming the strategically located Middle Eastern nation is not the result of a spontaneous, indigenous political awakening, rather it is the result of a carefully planned, well funded, and meticulously organized foreign plot - verbatim torn from the pages of Brookings Institution's "Which Path to Persia?" report pursuing American global hegemony, not democracy. As the Brookings' report makes note of throughout its pages - for the various duped ethnic groups that took arms, funding, and encouragement from the US to rise up against the West's enemies in the past, it was always betrayal and total annihilation, not democracy and freedom, that laid right around the corner for them.

Indeed, the final goal of the Syrian unrest is not democracy or freedom by any stretch of the imagination. It is but one component in a larger, incredibly ambitious, perhaps even desperate geopolitical gambit aimed at subjugating Northern Africa and the Middle East under a Wall Street-London centric global oligarchy. Controlling these regions hems in both China's emergence as well as Russia's attempted reemergence. The contrived "Arab Spring" is accompanied by concerted efforts to promote similar unrest in both Southeast Asia on China's doorstep as well as around Russia's peripheries - Belarus in particular.

For Syria, or indeed any nation on earth to truly progress forward toward a brighter future, solutions, programs, and movements must be centered around pragmatic, not political solutions. Burning police stations to the ground, waving placards, chanting, and toppling governments doesn't put roofs over people's heads or food in their stomach. Growing gardens, pursuing technical progress, learning trades, improving practical education, increasing local self-sufficiency while decreasing dependency on corrupt monopolistic corporations and governments does.