An article showed up in my news feed titled “How the Vatican created Islam” from the David Icke website. By the time I got to paragraph three, the Jews were fighting with the Christians & then Satan & the Roman army got involved so to calm things down Satan set up a fake church, they called it counterfeit in those days–& Roman Catholicism was born.

There’s only so much derangement you can take at one sitting. So I never did learn how this led to the Vatican inventing Islam but if you really want to know, just say so & I’ll work my way through the rest of this rubbish.

That “nature red in tooth & claw” thing isn’t easy to reconcile to. You’d think domestic animals would get past that. My Schnauzer girl Sophie broke out of the yard again with Franky the three-legged Chihuahua. After two hours of searching, the gas man pointed them out under a neighbor’s house which was fenced in.

I did a break & enter job & grabbed Franky but Sophie was in the crawl space under the house attacking a litter of newborn puppies. She’s smart enough to go to college & moved deeper so I couldn’t get at her where she played with a baby that wasn’t more than the size of mouse. They play with their prey. It sickened me but the neighbors weren’t home so I could get her out of there nor could I get under there.

Now she’s back & I have a terrible reaction to her; I don’t want her in the house & don’t want her near me. I’d also like to talk to the neighbors about their puppies but am afraid they’ll call animal control on Sophie the psycho Schnauzer.

By tomorrow this too will pass. I had the same reaction when she killed my beloved little bird but you can’t blame a dog long for being what a dog is.

The Unbroken by Rollie Mukherjee: a tribute to Kashmiri women & girls.

“You can kill us, but you can’t break us!”

This is a beautiful article about Rollie’s paintings of Kashmir where women’s struggles & strengths are a constant theme: http://twocircles.net/2017feb23/405234.html

Interesting that so many western women are Assad apologists, even if they exhibit little knowledge about what is going on in Syria: Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, Rania Khalek, Sarah Abed, Abby Martin, Mnar Muhawesh, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Sara Flounders, Donna Nassor, Coleen Rowley, Margaret Kimberley, & several other hangers-on.

Fox News has an entire stable of such ideologues, including Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin, who seem to hold the status of deranged crank who will say anything. It’s an ironic form of misogyny.

Perhaps we’re expected to pull our punches in criticizing them, especially when like Sheehan, Khalek, & Nassor they’re way over their heads. They’ll have to learn the hard way that if you side with counter-revolution there are no remedial education programs available nor dispensations for ignorance.

According to the Rappler which is monitoring the death toll from Philippine president Duterte’s death squad war against the poor, there have been 7,080 people killed like animals on the street since July 1, 2016.

The Rappler number is however doubtful since it has remained the same since early February 2017 when until then there were about 1,000 executions per month.

Our deepest respect & solidarity with the human rights activists campaigning against this monstrous war. Our sincere condolences to the families. We consider the victims our own. May they Rest In Peace.

Assad’s ally Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, says feminism & gender equality are a “Zionist plot” to corrupt the role of women in society. We’d like to ask Assad propagandists to “nuance” that since one of their selling points for his dictatorship is the secular character of his regime.

They can object they aren’t responsible for everything Khamenei says but then of course there’s all that Saudi Wahhabi/Salafi/Zionist schtick they run on Syrian working people to justify bombing them as “head-chopping jihadists.” So maybe, if they can pull themselves away from vilifying the White Helmet rescue workers they could explain how Khamenei differs from that Wahhabi stuff.

An undercurrent of Muslim-hating among Assadists is hating on Jews. It’s why libertarians like Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, David Icke, Ron Paul, are such groveling devotees of Assad. The reptilian Jewish Illuminati are the bedrock of their demented obscurantism so Syria appeals because Assad’s father already expelled most of the Syrian Jews. There are none left. Now they just have to get rid of the Muslims.

It’s also why the outright fascists & white nationalists are so enthralled with Assad & why some like KKK guy David Duke tried to horn in on the Palestinian solidarity movement. And, to be frank, why so many anti-Jews have found themselves in Palestinian solidarity where they don’t belong through a profound misunderstanding about the character of anti-Zionism.

Then there’s the rubbish peddled by Global Research (including Felicity Arbuthnot & Michel Chossudovsky), SOTT (the David Icke journal edited by Eva Bartlett), & most anti-Jewish bloggers called “The Greater Israel Project: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East.” According to these deranged ideologues (once you believe reptilian Jewish bankers run the world, you’ll believe anything), Greater Israel would include parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, Iraq, & Saudi Arabia. Undoubtedly, extremist Zionists harbor & promote such delusions, but the libertarians give a particularly odious rendition. It gets harder to distinguish between Zionism, Assadism, fascism, libertarianism because they are in fact all of a piece.

Many just don’t get the rift going on among Palestinian supporters, in the antiwar & socialist movements because they don’t get the hatred for Muslims yoked to hatred for Jews that is the problem. You can’t broker that hatred because the future of a secular democratic state to replace Israel’s colonial project & where Palestinians & Jews can live in harmony is politically dependent on the future of the Syrian revolution against dictatorship. If these movements are to go forward to justice, there is no room for hating on Muslims or Jews so good riddance to the ideologues of that perspective.

This is 15-year-old Suhail hit by pellets in both eyes & disfigured by occupying forces in Kashmir last Friday.

Yesterday Kashmir Reader reported there were night raids in several villages, hauling in scores of young people for stone pelting.

Protests were held in at least one village against the arrests.

What’s still missing are international campaigns demanding: End the Occupation & Self-Determination for Kashmir.

(Photo tweeted by Irshad Nabi)

“Next Muslim-ban: Muslims can come, but they can’t wear pants on the flight over here.”

(Tweeted by Murtaza Hussain‏)

The most stinging rebuke for the lack of international solidarity is the cry “why is the world silent” heard from Kashmir to Myanmar & among millions of refugees shut out of borders. In contrast, there is the international prepossession over terrorist acts in Paris or Florida or California.

In the early 1970s, during a major famine in parts of Africa, professors at Harvard promoted the triage solution–the final solution for those starving to death–claiming it was more merciful to let people starve to death because they had no future anyway. It seemed shocking when they formulated it but it was practice anyway since the origins of colonialism.

There’s no need to beat around the bush. Everybody knows what that’s all about: the same white supremacy that justifies war, colonialism, genocide. But racism is a late invention in human history to justify colonialism & slavery in the Americas. Ancient slavery was not based on ethnic differences but originated as a humane way of addressing prisoners of war. A cabal of exploiters & their intellectual minions invented racist ideology in a German university. A groundswell of committed international solidarity will shred it like confetti & scatter it to the four winds (after pummeling it to death of course) so that human beings can get on with the business of loving one another–because we didn’t survive 4 millions years of evolution with the social model of neoliberalism, the barbaric phase of capitalism, but with the social model of cooperation.

These are beautiful images of Rohingya refugee kids in Bangladesh. Mohammed Imran, who represents refugees, is the hunky guy standing with the microphone.

You look at kids, you see the contemptible irrationality of racism & inequality.

https://www.facebook.com/md.imran.5891/videos/1513449022052844/?pnref=story