Syria Massacre, Children In Body Bags

"Activists say troops loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad committed a 'terrible massacre' in the city of Homs on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, including women and children. Photos taken by activists on Thursday and obtained by the Associated Press purport to show the bloodied dead bodies of five small children wrapped in plastic bags, along with five women and a man piled up on beds. They were allegedly killed in an apartment building in the Homs neighborhood of Karm Al-Zaytoun...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/syria-children-body-bags-homs_n_123688­5.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/syria-children-body-bags-homs_n_1236...

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[isteemaen]

@robben9 Just because they do interviews of or cooperate with each other, it doesn't mean they support or agree with each other wholeheartedly. RT and TYT are very critical of US politics. They have this in common. I have seen great interviews on RT. I have also seen some wacky ones. It might also be worth mentioning that the quality of news a person gets largely depends on their own critical thinking, so we should be vigilant wherever we get our news from.

[D5932]

@robben9 really? that IS alarming... I fuckin hate RT becuz whatever i type on youtube they fill the results. and they're doing a good job of brainwashing. as for FOXnews idk what that is, never seen. not in US. but Cenk's emotions get the best of him sometimes. other than that I like them.

[D5932]

not to mention, after acquiring nuclear weapon US can't do shit fearing they would send it some place. so they will have free pass to torture, invade, whatever the fuck they want. Syria is a tragedy and I'm doing everything i can to inform people, but Iran is the greater evil I must say.

[D5932]

i agree but disagree too. nuclear weapon is a serious issue. and the people trying to acquire it are not talking much about peace, they from time to time reveal their desires to "wipe off" Isrealis from the map. as much as I hate Isrealis for the gaza, nuclear weapon is not a toy. Homs 7000, nuclear weapon could hurt millions, not just Isrealis but also millions of Iranians.

[robben9]

I was wondering if some of the veteran TYT army people on here could offer some insight on an issue that has really been bothering me as of late. I really admire CENK and TYT they do us all a great service in the name of reliable journalism.what seems to baffle me is their occasional cooperation with RT... if anyone has followed their coverage of the Syria conflict or others (Georgia for example) their bias and their foxnews-style propaganda journalism is extremely alarming ..

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@waltermh111 democracy, because of what Fukuyama called Thymos is best served by democracy.

& I ask you again, explain why I have no debate skills: take an argument of mine & explain why it is a bad or even fallacious arguments.

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@waltermh111 I don't think I'm particularly constrained by any ideology so excuse me for having to say: "Yes I can, I do it all the time". & I'm not trying to say dictatorships can't have effective policies, but effective policies have nothing to do with being a dictatorship (so there is no correlation, nothing ideological about that for all I can see). & because of that I don't think that good policies validate a dictatorship. On the realm of the political I believe we should have

[waltermh111]

@TheRacistsMustDie I think your responses show your lack of skills well enough, you think in terms too simple to debate well.

I am not condemning democracy or republic or whatever because some have terrible human rights policies, any more than I am condoning authoritarian systems because they have some good human rights policies.

You only want to discuss the bad and conflate any talk of good with suppport, thats such a simple ideologically blinded stance.

[waltermh111]

@TheRacistsMustDie complimenting that it happened, comparing it to past governments, just giving credit where due and criticism where its due

But to compare fairly, you must give both

A democracy can be worse than an authoritarian gov if their policies work out that way.

A democracy can have a high illiteracy, few womens rights etc... Can democracies make such things easier? Thats beside the point of saying it can happen

gov types affect how things are done, not what can be

[waltermh111]

@TheRacistsMustDie dang, can you ever think beyond ideological blinders?

Whatever type of gov, they can still do policies in a way thats effective.

So if an authoritarian helps their people have good education, high literacy, womens rights etc... its not because the gov is authoritarian, its because of the policies of the gov

Now maybe being authoritarian made it easier to pass such initiatives, made it more effective. I dont know, its beside the point of saying it happened