They keep calling it "reconstruction." I call it what it is: a receipt.

A Syrian woman writes to us this week about what's left after thirteen and a half years of dirty war — oil fields that once belonged to a state now belong to an American ambassador, a pipeline America itself bombed now reopening for America's profit, uranium stockpiles handed to Turkey truck by truck, garbage rotting in the streets because there's no fuel for anything but HTS convoys.. This is the "victory" they sold you.

And don't come to me with the fairy tale that Syria's "allies" were any better. Russia and Iran, sitting on more gas and oil than half the planet, dripped aid to Damascus in teaspoons — while pumping discounted Iranian gas straight into Turkey's pipelines with ever increasing discounts and building Erdogan a nuclear plant on Russia's own long-term dime. Meanwhile Erdogan spends his days poking Moscow everywhere from the Turkic republics to Ukraine, and helping Israel do its damage to the Slavic and Orthodox world. Some alliance.

Read the whole account — "Syria's Oil Wealth Flows to America While Syrians Bleed for It" — on Syria News: Syria's Oil Wealth Flows to America While Syrians Bleed for It.

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Zionist-controlled, US-led, NATO-sponsored, Russian-approved, Gulfies-funded Al Qaeda HTS and the other Zionist-controlled, US-led, NATO-sponsored, Russian-approved Kurdish SDF terrorists agreed on joint rule of Syria after they destroyed the country, murdered over half a million Syrians, and expelled more than 5 million into the diaspora, just to serve their masters better, of course.

That's disgusting, overwhelmingly; what's less disgusting but disgusting nevertheless is the blind eye turned on this alliance by parties supposed to be anti-imperialists, or that's how they promote themselves; I'll not call them fake in their anti-imperialist stance, they did expose some of the crimes committed by the NATO-sponsored terrorists in my country, but they were and continue to be silent about the crimes and terror committed by their 'Marxist' ilk, the so-called Kurdish SDF groups, which kept renaming their group to please their NATO and Israel masters.

Prominent German historian and political analyst Stefan Heuer brings to light the above hypocrisy by the German publication 'junge Welt (young world; jW)' in their article covering the dissolution of the Kurdish SDF separatist terrorists after 'Mission Accomplished,' in his latest contribution to Syria News.

Some of the claims used by the German publication are hard to look past, like 'the SDF were the defence force of the autonomous region of Rojava in north-eastern Syria', what autonomous region, and what Rojava? The area claimed to be under their 'defending' was controlled by terror, oppression, and burning crops Israel-style; that's not defending, that's occupation.

Another example: 'the SDF are (now) dissolved and integrated into the Syrian army '- what Syrian Army? The Syrian Arab Army was completely dissolved and replaced with Al Qaeda HTS and their affiliated terrorist groups, many of whom are foreign anti-Islamic Wahhabi and Muslim Brotherhood 'freedom fighters'.

We wouldn't usually blame foreigners, especially Westerners, when commenting on the news in our region, especially in the Levant; they're under constant, enormous Zionist propaganda; otherwise, they wouldn't be serving the Zionists for free, and on the account of their own well-being. We're only criticizing the supposed-to-be enlightened of them who are presumably fighting the same cause that Syria battled on behalf of humanity for over 13.5 years alone and was being backstabbed by its own allies until it gave up from exhaustion.

Will leave you with Stefan's article: Reporting on Syria: When Ideology Covers Reality..

Your objective comments are always welcome.

Craig Mokhiber, former New York Office Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, exposed on X what Western newsrooms and, in extension, Western politicians, intentionally manipulate.

Mohiber said "The constant sanitizing of language by the corporate Western media, done on behalf of the US-Israel Axis, is simply stunning to watch. The attacks on Iran are not some "war of choice," they are the crime of aggression, full stop. The Israeli regime's ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people are not a "war", they are the crime of genocide. And the lawless dissemination of Axis propaganda by the media is not journalism, it's complicity."

— Craig Mokhiber on Twitter

This is exactly the same game we have been documenting here on Syria News since the war of terror on Syria first began, more than a decade and a half ago now.

Language is never innocent in these wars. It is chosen, on purpose, word by word, to launder real crimes into something soft and forgettable for the people back home in the West, the very same people whose tax money is paying for all of it.

We were heavily criticized for years, since the very beginning of the war of terror on Syria, simply for refusing to call the head-chopping terrorists of Al Qaeda and ISIS by the polite name the mainstream media insisted on using for them, "moderate rebels." That was the accepted narrative back then. Anyone who called it what it actually was got labeled "not balanced."

It is the same trick, over and over, in every single one of these wars.

• An illegal aggression becomes a "strike."
• Unilateral sanctions, imposed without any approval whatsoever from the United Nations Security Council, become simple "measures," almost like paperwork.
• And now, a deliberate war of aggression by choice against Iran, which is in fact the highest crime recognized under international law, as it was defined by no one other than the victors of World War II themselves when they wrote the UN Charter, gets softened down into something as forgettable as "tensions in the region."

Mokhiber is completely right to name this for what it is. It is not journalism, it is complicity, and it has been complicity for a very long time now.

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If you want to see, in real and undeniable clinical detail, exactly what all these sanitized, softened words are actually hiding underneath them, we invite you to check our two-part series, The War of Terror on Syria Through Forensic Medicine and its second part here.

We have also collected many more examples just like this one, over the years, under our War of Terror tag on the site, a running record of the real gap between the words the media chooses to use, and the actual heinous crimes those words are designed to hide from you.

Your objective comments are always welcome.