PREFACE..............................................................................................................
Here is a brief overview of the chapters.............................................................
CHAPTER I: SYRIA AND WASHINGTON’S ‘NEW MIDDLE EAST’......................................
CHAPTER II: BARREL BOMBS, PARTISAN SOURCES AND WAR PROPAGANDA..................
CHAPTER III: DARAA 2011: ANOTHER ISLAMIST INSURRECTION................................
CHAPTER IV: BASHAR AL ASSAD AND POLITICAL REFORM.........................................
The Reform Movement...................................................................................
Bashar, Demonised outside but Popular Inside Syria..........................................
CHAPTER V: THE EMPIRE’S JIHADIS..........................................................................
Imperialism, Wahhabis and the Brotherhood....................................................
The Empire’s Jihadis in Syria..........................................................................
CHAPTER VI: EMBEDDED MEDIA, EMBEDDED WATCHDOGS........................................
The Liberal War Trolls.....................................................................................
Techniques of Persuasion................................................................................
‘Humanitarian War’ NGOs...............................................................................
CHAPTER VII: THE HOULA MASSACRE REVISITED....................................................
Inconvenient Evidence....................................................................................
Dissent at the UN..........................................................................................
The Aftermath.............................................................................................
CHAPTER VIII: CHEMICAL FABRICATIONS: THE EAST GHOUTA INCIDENT....................
Chemical Weapons in Syria............................................................................
The East Ghouta Incident.................................................................................
Chemical fabrications and Syria’s Missing Children.............................................
CHAPTER IX: THE ‘RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT’ (R2P) AND THE DOUBLE GAME..........
CHAPTER X: HEALTH AND SANCTIONS....................................................................
CHAPTER XI: WASHINGTON, TERRORISM AND THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS)..................
CHAPTER XII: WESTERN INTERVENTION AND THE COLONIAL MIND...........................
CHAPTER XIII: TOWARDS AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE EAST........................................
ANNEX: STAYING INFORMED...................................................................................