Kashmir uprising 2016

A wounded Kashmiri boy, with an injured eye, lies on a hospital bed after being hit by pellets fired by paramilitary forces during a protest in Srinagar.

“Hearken to us oh rulers, return to me my eyesight”.

And they just keep coming:

“Bowling Green! False Flag Operation By Bilderberg Group!”

–John Scott

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that it deployed troops to clear explosive devices in east Aleppo. They’re actually present in Aleppo as an occupying army but they do have to demine thousands of buildings & public roads to make it habitable because of their use of cluster munitions in over one year of bombing the city.

Cluster munitions, which are dropped from warplanes or fired in rockets, contain hundreds of small explosive devices the size of an apple that spread over large areas indiscriminately & are designed to explode upon impact. But unexploded ordnance, including cluster bombs, bullets, shells, grenades, & land mines, often do not detonate, are buried in rubble or the ground, & continue to maim & kill long after, even decades after their deployment. There are millions of unexploded ordnance in every country subjected to military attack by US-NATO & Russian warplanes.

Russia & Syria deny the use of cluster munitions in east Aleppo because they are banned in international law but there is photographic & video documentation along with testimony from Syrians being bombed with them.

The photo is Russian soldiers on foot patrol in east Aleppo. Presumably assault rifles are not used for demining but to enforce occupation.

End Syrian, Russian, & US bombing of civilians in Syria. No foreign military intervention. Out now.

(Photo by Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

Media continues, for xenophobic & racist political purpose, to call all refugees “migrants,” even Rohingya fleeing genocide & those from African & Middle Eastern countries fleeing war.

Immigration policies, which are coordinated internationally by governments, used to distinguish between economic & war migrants to deport economic migrants back to their home countries. That distinction is no longer operative; all are considered deportable

We should dispense with the term immigrant & call them all refugees since most of them come from countries economically gutted by neoliberal sweatshop economics & often with US or other foreign troops deployed.

They are all refugees. They are all human. They are all our brothers & sisters. Open the damn borders.

As if being called obtuse wasn’t insolent enough, I was asked to write an article about the left & Syria which the editor accepted & rewrote in language completely foreign to me. I objected & edited the editor’s rewrite.

I got an email just now saying the edited rewritten “piece was not articulated as cogently as it needed to be in order to meet the magazine’s publication standards” but that I was welcome to submit other articles. Excuse me? What are the odds I’ll put myself through that again?

Someone told me that “regrettably” I was “growing more aggressive/obtuse with the passage of time” because I didn’t see things the way his racist friends did. Isn’t that a mouthful? Halfwits say the damnedest things.