https://www.facebook.com/PRESSTV/videos/1199647783410340/?pnref=story

A brief, powerful document about women’s resistance in Kashmir.

Forgive me for saying so, but under Trump, the style for right-wing women commentators is blond Barbie. So unfortunate on a six-inch doll is disaster on a grown woman especially when accompanied with three-feet false eyelashes.

Hands Off Venezuela joins forces with the Hands Off Syria Coalition. No surprise there. No growth either since it’s the same political forces who substitute hero worship of dictators for analysis of capitalist crises & wars.

Cindy Sheehan, who has been writing dirges about the antiwar movement for years rather than building it, has now gone completely over to the dark side by promoting Assadist propagandists like Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, & the smarmy English vicar Andrew Ashdown.

Pity that, but it’s classic right-wing libertarianism. Grandstanding in politics only takes you so far. Then you have to decide whether being famous & getting honoraria is more important to you than fighting for the oppressed even when that will lose you likes on FB.

Assadists say we can’t believe Assad gassed civilians because MSM reported it. MSM also reported the US dropped the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan. Do they think that a lie too?

They also say the Assad regime is not so monumentally stupid as to gas civilians & there is no proof he did. No one ever claimed his regime was stupid but only criminal against dissent & revolution. Though it can afford to be supremely stupid as long as it has the deranged remnants of the antiwar movement explaining how Assad would never gas civilians because he’s such a western secular kind of guy.

As for proof? Interesting that in an era of sophisticated military surveillance systems taking videos from satellites there is no undisputed proof. The US Pentagon & other military forces know exactly who gassed civilians & what other kind of bombs Syria & Russia are using against civilians. The refusal of the US to release that documentation shows which side the US is on because obfuscation & disputes about Assad’s weapons keep attention off the US role as counter-revolutionary ally of Assad.

https://www.facebook.com/Personsofint/videos/200459677112761/?pnref=story

There isn’t a stronger, no-nonsense rebuttal to Ayaan Hirsi Ali than these Muslim women. She’s trying to build a career by selling them down the river. The extremes of her rhetoric are seen in Assadist apologetics but are straight out of the book of US-NATO war propaganda.

So the question is, do birds have language? Cause my wee parakeets spend hours jabbering away to each other in that staccato, earnest way they have & appear to answer back & forth.

Don’t say I’m anthropomorphizing again. We’ve moved way beyond that in recognizing animals have intelligence & deep emotions too.

Kashmiri women protesters in Srinagar: one a stone-pelter & one taking on an armored vehicle of the occupying army.

Where are the kids? Taking lessons in how to stand against oppression & occupation from the mothers of revolution.

(Photos are from FB wall of Life in Saudi Arabia)

Reposting this from 2014 about the betrayal of the Oslo Accords & the conflicts at al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem:

Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas threatened last week to dismantle the PA & dump the Oslo Accords if the phony peace talks with Israel fail. Abbas is, of course, just blowing hot air but it’s impossible to think of a single down side to his threat. The Oslo Accords formalize the terms of Palestinian surrender to Israeli apartheid & employ the PA as enforcers against intifada without meaningful jurisdiction over occupied territory: they establish a bantustate solution; legitimize Israeli occupation & terrorism of Gaza & the West Bank; facilitate Zionist settlements.

This past week an estimated 125,000 tourists poured into Jerusalem to celebrate Easter & Passover. Many of these “tourists” are Zionists (including Christian Zionists) & come as provocateurs. The al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem (per the Oslo Accords) is a focus of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. Worshippers from the West Bank & Gaza are restricted access & no males under 50-years-old are allowed to pray there but must instead kneel on the public pavement in adjacent areas. It is frequently under attack by Israeli soldiers. So that’s the first place the pious pilgrims head for to stir up more violence against Palestinians.

Zionists have fabricated quite a mythology about the religious history of the al-Aqsa site & Judaism to get around the mosque that’s been there over 1,300 years. There are even knuckle-headed Christian evangelists who claim the site has a history for Christianity. Soon enough Scientology will be laying claim to the site.

On Monday, April 14th, five Zionist “worshippers” smuggled a goat through strict bag inspections at al-Aqsa, intending to re-enact an ancient Passover sacrifice ritual. Does anyone seriously believe you can smuggle a live goat past military checkpoints or that their intentions were religious!? It was an attempt at the political level of a frat house prank to disrespect & make a mockery of the mosque. Strict inspections administered by Israeli authorities apparently only apply to Palestinians.

This past Wednesday, 1,000 Israeli special forces & a sniper squad escorted buses of these pious tourists to al-Aqsa. To believe they were going there to worship would tax credulity beyond redemption. The military story is that “fierce clashes erupted” when they responded to “stones & firecrackers” lobbed by Palestinians with stun grenade canisters & rubber-coated bullets. At least 20 Palestinians were injured & dozens were arrested. The pious tourists were apparently hustled back on to their buses safely & we can only wish some of them caught some buckshot up their butts while boarding.

This travesty is apartheid; it is the legacy legitimized by the Oslo Accords & enforced by the PA. Support the right of Palestinians to worship at al-Aqsa; support Palestinian justice by honoring the boycott of all Israeli products (barcode beginning 729); supporting the cultural boycott of Israel; & demanding “No military aid to Israel!”

(Photo of Abbas blowing hot air from Israel National News)

Some may think I overstate the reactionary political character of libertarianism which is the theoretics of fascism & ideology of Assadism. The confusion is that many of the adherents support immigration rights or oppose US military intervention or think good thoughts on other issues. That’s the nature of libertarianism & why it’s raked in so many activists. As I usually so indelicately but aptly describe it, they learn to talk out of both sides of their ass. David Icke & Ron Paul are the paragons of that style.

A few months back, there was a lowbrow discussion among Assadists who were having a conniption fit session about my politics & opposition to Assad, associating me with “jihadi head-choppers” in Syria & ridiculing my support for Kashmiris & Rohingya who they claimed were trained by & associated with the “jihadi head-choppers in the Middle East.”

When, under the reactionary banner of anti-Islamism, your politics justify ethnic cleansing, military occupation, denial of human, democratic, civil rights, crimes of unspeakable magnitude against millions of human beings, you can talk justice till the cows come home but in the vulgar parlance of the street, you’re blowing smoke out your ass.