Rose
of the desert weeded out from the fashion garden
Tags: Asma al-Assad interview with Rossiya
24 channel, removal of previously published article about Asma
al-Assad (Vogue), Syrian war, unbiased news
sources
Five days ago, I came across an interview which Syria's First Lady, Mrs Asma
al-Assad, had recently given to a Russian television channel (Rossiya 24).
As I was very interested in getting the Syrian side of the story (albeit the
Presidency's), I watched the clip from Yandex's video search
section with the hope that I would thus be able to escape Google's
profiling efforts on that instance.
Yandex, video search: Mrs.
Asma al-Assad interview with Russia's Channel 24
Even though I was well aware that the purpose of this interview was to
portray the Syrian Presidency and régime in a positive light (therefore, a
form of propaganda), I was very much impressed by Mrs Asma al-Assad's
graceful and dignified composure*, by the down-to-earth quality of her
replies and, last but not least, by what seemed to me to be a deep and
genuine concern for the well-being of the Syrian people.
No western media would dare to call her the
Syrian Lady Di, as Sott.net rightly points out
Yesterday, through one of those serendipitous occurrences that the Internet
makes possible, I stumbled across an article from Russia
Today reposted on Sott.net
(an alternative news site) which links to a highly laudatory
portrait of Syria's First Lady (also reposted on Sott.net)
which was published by Vogue on 25th February 2011, i.e. before
the country was plunged into what the media in the West dishonestly describe
as a ‘civil war’.
The article, entitled ‘Asma al-Assad: A
Rose in the Desert’ by Joan Juliet Buck, is no
longer available on the website of Vogue [you can check for
yourself at
http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert].
Does this ‘weeding out of the rose of Damascus’ surprise you?
For my part, it does not surprise me at all given the
‘Assad must go’ mantra western media were instructed to drum into our heads
more than five years ago and which they have all too obligingly and
subserviently worked hard on doing so since March 2011 – in accordance with
what I believe to have been the guiding principle of the West's ruling
elites for well over a century: demonise the head of the country
which is your enemy so as to dehumanise him (or her) and then be able to
destroy that country.
However, courtesy of Sott.net (https://www.sott.net/article/264587-A-Rose-in-the-Desert-Asma-Al-Assad-Lady-Diana-of-the-Middle-East)
and of the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20110228011424/http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert/),
the article is available out there on the Internet for anybody who is
interested in finding out about the truth.
No wonder that some dark forces repeatedly call for the ‘policing’ of the
Internet as there must be so many other beautiful roses they would like to
see weeded out...
* Despite the horrid ordeal Syria is going
through, the risks to Mrs Asma al-Assad and her family's lives, the
uncertainties, etc., I felt that the radiance emitted by her face could
only point to some genuine elevation of that person's inner being, of that
person's soul.
Mrs Asma al-Assad's Rossiya 24
interview can be viewed on the Russian search engine Yandex
by clicking here;
otherwise you can view it directly on YouTube, at
https://youtu.be/ahMxGAPQHiQ (as part of the official Syrian Presidency's
channel).
News sources on Syria free of any
regime-change bias
Government-owned
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA): http://sana.sy/en
RT (Russia Today): https://www.rt.com/search?q=Syria
Sputnik: https://sputniknews.com/search/?query=Syria
Press TV: http://www.presstv.ir/Default/Search?q=Syria
Alternative news sites
21st century wire: http://21stcenturywire.com/tag/syria
Global Research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Syria&x=0&y=0
Voltaire Network: http://www.voltairenet.org/mot119.html?lang=en
Two independent journalists/bloggers based in the West but who make
frequent visits to Syria
Vanessa Beeley: https://thewallwillfall.wordpress.com
; https://twitter.com/vanessabeeley
Eva Bartlett: https://ingaza.wordpress.com
Lausanne, 26th October 2016
