Anyone surprised that pro-Assad websites & those supporting Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians are denouncing the anti-Trump protests as orchestrated & manipulated by George Soros? The whole shebang of them: RT, Global Research, 21st Century Wire, Pepe Escobar, who actually campaigned for Trump.

That’s because those who support Assad’s dictatorship support Trump. Which is just as shameful as those who campaigned for Clinton hoping she would increase US military intervention in Syria.

Elections & wars always heighten the fractures of political movements. Often the schism is irreparable.

A word to the wise: the Facebook site called We Are Change portrays itself as progressive but if you go to its website you will find a cornucopia of racist & pro-Trump crap like the article titled “Fake Hate Crimes Going Viral, As Real Violence Surges Against Young Trump Supporters” & “Multiple Reports of Racist Trump Graffiti in South Philly,” by which they appear to mean graffiti against Trump.

I have over 200 friends who liked that wall & am absolutely certain they do not agree with the content of the website.

Paul Craig Roberts & the theoretical degeneration of the “left”

Nothing shows the profound political degeneration among progressives more pathetically than the widespread respect shown for Paul Craig Roberts, a former official in the Reagan administration, now a libertarian, white supremacist, anti-Semitic speaker & blogger. Roberts is frequently published in liberal journals like Counterpunch & OpEdNews; is a regular contributor to Russian-owned media like RT, Sputnik, & Strategic Culture; is a regular contributor to libertarian sites like Global Research, Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Infowars. But most disgraceful of all, he was a frequent writer for VDARE, a notoriously white nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-Semitic blog which Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, & Michelle Malkin also write for.

Among his writings are denials of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings; claims the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris were a US operation; claims the 2016 Orlando attack were a false flag operation; claims WWIII has begun, the Bill of Rights has been overthrown, & the US is ruled by a gestapo; that the anti-Trump protesters are “tools of the oligarchy” manipulated by George Soros; that progressives find ‘white trash’ more threatening than nuclear war.

Roberts is a supporter of Putin, a supporter of the Assad dictatorship & of Russian carpet bombing of civilians in Syria. In October, an article he wrote titled “The Real Humanitarian Crisis Is Not Aleppo” is still being circulated widely by progressives. Prominent activists Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, & Colleen Rowley share & promote the view he expresses in this article & only oppose US intervention in Syria. All three have promoted his writings & shared platforms with him. Are they unaware of his racist, white supremacist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic views? Surely they were offended by his ugly misogynist reference in the article to Clinton as “the killer bitch Hillary.”

Roberts is a committed campaigner for Trump. He’s jubilant about the election, calling it a victory for the working class. As youth, including working class youth most affected by the fascistic threats of Trump protest the elections, Roberts & his intellectual minions denounce them as manipulated by nefarious forces.

Do yourself a favor. Before you post the false flag rubbish & racism of Paul Craig Roberts, check out what he stands for, so clearly expressed in his articles. If you still agree with him, do me a favor & unfriend me.

Rohingya refugee Ziaur Rahman on human trafficking of Rohingya

Ziaur speaking at the screening of ‘Bodies for Sale’ in November, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur

This article is the story of Rohingya refugee Ziaur Rahman who many FB friends know from his posts on my wall about the trafficking & plight of Rohingya refugees.

About a month ago, we asked if anyone could contribute toward a computer for him since he had to write off a beaten up mobile. A friend who does not wish to be identified has contributed money for a computer & a new mobile.

Thank you all for keeping Ziaur in mind. Mostly thank you to the generosity of our anonymous friend for making Ziaur’s political & educational work much easier.

He is part of building a solidarity movement to demand Myanmar stop the genocide & grant full citizenship, human, democratic rights to Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

http://www.born-in-malaysia.com/i-was-trafficked-7-times/

(Ziaur speaking at the screening of ‘Bodies for Sale’ in November, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur)

Let me clarify that when I mock “sore losers” & the Trump Apocalypse, I am not taunting those who considered Clinton the lesser evil & are troubled by the outcome. I don’t agree with lesser evil voting but well understand it, given the repugnant character of Trump & the fascistic nature of his threats.

The target of my scorn is solely those who campaigned for Clinton because they believed she would escalate US military intervention in Syria & would target the Assad regime rather than continue to work sub rosa with Syria & Russia to destroy popular opposition to Assad’s dictatorship.

War-mongering really fries my ass especially when it’s done by those who claim the bombing of civilians is for a higher purpose.

What attracts people to conspiratorial explanations of reality?

Hard to understand what attracts people to conspiratorial explanations in politics. Maybe anti-intellectualism, paranoia, lack of actual experience in movement building; maybe derangement.

Judging from social media, there’s a large current of people who look at political events as orchestrated & manipulated by nefarious forces–especially if those events include massive numbers of working people entering the political arena on their own behalf or for social justice. Apparently those who see things that way don’t know the long history of social movements & revolutions all over the world. But mostly, they have no respect for working people. To them, the prime movers are elite operatives like the CIA & Mossad, or special forces.

People are allowed crackpot notions in a democratic country–though obscurantism & crazy-pants crap best serve autocracy. They’re allowed those theories & free to peddle them but they have to expect to come under the harshest criticism by those who detest elitist & boogie-man theories of history.

When you claim, as Global Research & other libertarians do, that the 2011 Arab uprisings against dictatorship, involving millions of people in several countries, were staged events, you have to expect to be ridiculed, excoriated, denounced as intellectual buffoons. Or do you have an explanation for how nefarious operatives recruited & payed millions of people to protest, get arrested, beaten, tortured, murdered, disappeared?

When you claim thousands of young people protesting Trump’s election–because they are directly affected & scared by his campaign threats–are paid or manipulated by Clinton forces to reverse the election, you make asses of yourself & cannot be taken seriously as political thinkers.

We’re living in a period of crisis, the barbaric phase of capitalism, & we need to work together against war & social hatreds of every kind. We need to build solidarity with those who are under siege. It’s very hard to do that when people who don’t have all their marbles are trying to divide us with stories about the boogie-man.

Trump born Dawood Ibrahim Khan in Pakistan

Trump:Dawood Ibrahim Khan (Nov 13 2016

According to a report on Neo News, a Pakistani television network, Donald Trump was born Dawood Ibrahim Khan in the now Taliban-controlled Waziristan region of Pakistan in 1954.

Neo News claimed that after Dawood’s parents were killed in a car accident, a British Indian army officer took him to London where the Trump family later adopted him & brought him to America. That would, of course, make Trump ineligible to be US president.

Neo News appears to have based the story on social media posts which included stories about Dawood’s youth & life in Pakistan. This photo of Dawood in traditional garb shows a likeness to Donald beyond dispute.

Skeptics will question this story with their always tedious & scrupulous demands for proof. The social media community that follows Global Research & Pepe Escobar, hanging on their every conspiracy & crackpot theory, will denounce this story because it conflicts with their new campaign claiming the anti-Trump protests are orchestrated by George Soros to unseat Trump, the candidate of choice for libertarians & other crackpots.

There are however compelling circumstantial factors pointing to the veracity of the story. Trump’s adopted mother was from Scotland. Scotland is not that far from London. And of course there is that head of hair which for so long we thought was bleached. That’s proof enough for Global Research & it should be good enough for the rest of us.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, referring to Dawood by his American name, congratulated Trump on his “historic” electoral victory, saying it “is indeed the triumph of the American people & their enduring faith in the ideals of democracy, freedom, human rights & free enterprise.” He was just buttering Trump up (who identifies with none of those ideals; nor do those who elected him) to get more military aid out of him. But of course, Nawaz & Dawood may even be cousins.

Photo is Trump/Dawood Ibrahim Khan from Neo News.

Coup d’etat at Buckingham Palace. For real!

Honestly, ff you didn’t have to stand in line at the supermarket you would never know what’s going on in this world. At least the really important things. Did you know that Charlie & Camilla have pulled off a palace coup in Buckingham? See what I mean?

Willy & Katy have been removed in a deft power play by Charlie, Betty has been exiled, & Harry won’t be allowed to date that soap opera star from the US.

The store clerk & the lady behind me in line were as outraged as I was to think the elections had preempted this news in mainstream media. You can’t trust a damn thing mainstream media tells you.

Some people’s idea of cogent journalism is posting naked photos of Melania Trump. If you want to ogle naked ladies why not do it privately where your misogyny isn’t exposed?