Antigovernment Syrian media activists set up an Internet satellite connection to upload photos and video of the destruction by government shelling and bombardment of areas controlled by the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Aleppo, Syria, on October 22. Scott Peterson/The Christian Science Monitor/Getty Images
Syria's YouTube 'War' Could Win The War -- Christian Science Monitor
Another failed ceasefire in Syria once again demands new ways to end the violence. Perhaps the truth-telling tactics of the opposition in YouTube videos can help hollow out the lies of the Assad regime so that his remaining support collapses.
Another failed United Nations-brokered truce in Syria over the weekend should now force the outside world to again ask: What can stop the violence?
More than 30,000 people have been killed in a conflict sparked 19 months ago when the military arrested 15 teenagers writing graffiti – “The people want the downfall of the regime” – that revealed an unspoken truth. Since then, peaceful protests have largely given way to a civil war that’s also spilling over Syria’s borders. Russia and the United States can’t agree on what to do, so little is done from the outside.
That leaves either more violence to resolve the conflict or something else. What might that something else be?
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My Comment: The propaganda war is usually just as important as the one on the battlefield .... a fact that the Syrian regime is realizing everyday.
Update: A hidden eye on the Syrian conflict: Wael Salahudeen is among the artists who have risked arrest to secretly turn their lenses on the fight. -- L.A. Times
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