Today while watching football I glanced over at “faux anti-imperialist Twitter” to see them all sharing this post by Stephen Gowan, “The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t”. It continues the nauseating distortion and outright lies expected from those so-called leftists looking to deface the Syrian revolution. He relies on the same “protesters are rioters” and fear-of-Islam rhetoric common on the right, while treating regime sources as accurate and using the lives of Syrians in an “upscale district of Damascus” as evidence of youth support for the government – so much for Marxist analysis! ...