Bachar el-Assad

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Bashar al-Assad not for his own policies but as an example of how Western media and governments treat their designated enemies. He places him among the figures demonised one after another1 and sees him as a case of the personalisation of the adversary2: he is presented as the "butcher of Syria"3 and as the executioner responsible for the refugees' exile4. He specifies that the man is "not his cup of tea", but he rejects this demonisation, which he considers cynical5. He recalls that jihadists were funded to overthrow him without succeeding6, and that his fall, announced every day, did not happen7. In 2023 he links him to the question of secular regimes targeted by the West8. These remarks recur between 2014 and 2023, in the course of reflections on propaganda, collective amnesia and the divide between left and right.

1. 1L'île du Peuple : le débat23 Jun 2015 · 8:21
2. 2Keller (Helen)15 Feb 2016 · 30:33
3. 3#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 2:19:46
4. 4#3 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...6 Nov 2020 · 48:48
5. 5Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 17:14
6. 6#5 Libéralisme-libertaire, consommation libidinale et musique...27 Sept 2014 · 14:26
7. 7#3 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...6 Nov 2020 · 1:09:50
8. 8Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 50:46

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