They post rehashed Syrian regime propaganda and conspiracy theories on a blog. It's pathetic.
By blog you must mean
A Closer Look on Syria (ACLOS), the transparent-process research wiki. Obviously your adjectives for it are pulled out some poisoned sector of thin air you always keep nearby. (ETA: I like that line but actually, yeah, we post and compare everyone's propaganda and allegations, including "regime" and theorize about various conspiracies to commit and conceal crimes, and then we continue from there... )
CE might sound grandiose, but I think we really have had some impact, and the ground we've stood is growing firmer with time. Ex: A Google search for "Houla massacre," the most infamous episode still and with an easy and clear name and high searched-for status, has my article/our work as the #1 result now, ahead of the Wikipedia article and the BBC's impressively detailed "activists say" report everyone cited in the day. That, the report, and linked research at ACLOS of course:
- shreds the credibility of the activist-supplied alleged witnesses,
- explains the video findings and other evidence that rebels, not army and Shabiha, took over the town in the hours just before the massacre and were thus best placed by far to do it
- exposes suspicious decisions by U.N. investigators to blame the regime by squelching ambiguous reports from Gen. Mood's observer team and playing logic games to pretend rebels
only took over the army posts that were
not right next to the victims' homes, when it seems really they took over those ones too.
(We can't independently prove yet the victims were converts to Shi'ism and Sunnis related to the freshly-sworn-in parliament speaker, but the locals most consistent with the other evidence say that's who rebels killed there. )
Similar results in numerous less prominent areas = very strong presence on this issue. Like the Libya blog, getting a lot of good honest work crammed under one banner does it. There's a hunger for it.
