#patrick_cockburn

Voici pourquoi tout ce que vous avez lu sur les guerres en #Syrie et en #Irak pourrait être faux
▻http://www.larevuedesressources.org/voici-pourquoi-tout-ce-que-vous-avez-lu-sur-les-guerres-en-syr

« Il est trop dangereux pour les journalistes d’opérer dans les zones contrôlées par les rebelles d’Alep et de #Mossoul ; mais il y a une soif énorme de nouvelles du Moyen-Orient, c’est dire la tentation pour les médias de créditer l’information obtenue en seconde main. » (Patrick Cockburn, « This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong », à Beyrouth, #The_Independent, le vendredi 2 décembre 2016) L’armée irakienne, soutenue par des frappes aériennes menées par les (...)

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#Patrick_Cockburn and the Rise of Islamic State

Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. The capture of Mosul on June 10, 2014 and the declaration of the caliphate spanning the Iraqi–Syrian border, show that these movements are a new serious territorial power, that cannot be ignored.

▻http://www.debalie.nl/agenda/podium/patrick-cockburn-and-the-rise-of-islamic-state/e_9758920/p_11732232
#ISIS #EI #Etat_islamique #djihadisme

This spread of ’holy fascism’ is a disaster - Comment - Voices - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-spread-of-holy-fascism-is-a-disaster-9391052.html

The ever-increasing impact of Wahhabism over Sunni Islam is a disaster, the effects of which are felt from the villages of northern Nigeria to the courts of Khartoum and the Sultanate of Brunei. It has everywhere produced persecution of minorities, subjugation of women and the crushing of dissent.

Syria’s road to hell: A hair-raising journey between Damascus and Tartous
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syrias-road-to-hell-a-hairraising-journey-between-damascus-and-tartou

My journey showed that in this part of Syria, the government is expanding its control and the rebels are under pressure. But the expansion is slow and the army is overstretched. The road was more secure than it had been six months earlier, but it was still vulnerable to a sudden attack.

It also reminded me that Syria is more than ever a patchwork of different circumstances, depending on the military situation and which sects predominate. Much of what I had heard in Beirut and Damascus about what was happening turned out to be mistaken, and media reporting has been full of certainties that melted away in the face of reality. In Syria, more than most places, only eyewitness information is worth much and even then it swiftly becomes outdated. That being so, sometime in the course of the year, I am likely to find myself back on the risky but always interesting road from Damascus to Tartous.

Foreign media portrayals of the conflict in Syria are dangerously inaccurate
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/foreign-media-portrayals-of-the-conflict-in-syria-are-dangerously-ina

Every time I come to Syria I am struck by how different the situation is on the ground from the way it is pictured in the outside world. The foreign media reporting of the Syrian conflict is surely as inaccurate and misleading as anything we have seen since the start of the First World War. I can’t think of any other war or crisis I have covered in which propagandistic, biased or second-hand sources have been so readily accepted by journalists as providers of objective facts.

A result of these distortions is that politicians and casual newspaper or television viewers alike have never had a clear idea over the last two years of what is happening inside Syria. Worse, long-term plans are based on these misconceptions. A report on Syria published last week by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group says that “once confident of swift victory, the opposition’s foreign allies shifted to a paradigm dangerously divorced from reality”.

#propagande #media