Paul-Ogden Ford on the political alliance between former KKK leader David Duke & Syria’s executioner Grand Mufti Hassoun:
“That Mufti should take off his turban & try to buy a cup of coffee, unescorted, in David Duke’s stomping ground.”
Daily Archives: August 16, 2017
This story from Greater Kashmir has to be read in full to be believed: a 16-year-old boy named Sahil Hamid will never be able to see again after Indian soldiers shot him in both eyes with pellets. He was not protesting one of their hunt to kill operations but was standing on the road as they returned from one. Twelve others were admitted to hospital for pellet injuries, including nine also shot in the eyes.
End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.
On the proposed change in the Indian constitution by Mir Laieeq:
“Modi’s sadist embrace for Kashmiris means nothing but the planned revocation of Article 35A & Article 370 of the Constitution of India. The BJP/RSS wants to engineer a demographic change in Kashmir, to reduce its Muslim majority into a minority. This will further strengthen the occupation & begin a new bloody chapter in its beleaguered history, much in line with what is happening in Palestine. It is adding the violence of forced exclusion to the already existing violence of forced inclusion. Modi, like anyone else in power in India, cannot think of Kashmir except in terms of inflicting more & more violence.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), Uruguayan journalist & writer, described his vision for humanity in “The right to dream”:
“the air shall be cleansed of all poisons except those born of human fears & human passions; in the streets, cars shall be run over by dogs…cooks shall not believe that lobsters love to be boiled alive; historians shall not believe that countries love to be invaded; politicians shall not believe that the poor love to eat promises…street children won’t be treated like garbage because there won’t be any street children…death & money shall lose their magical powers…in Argentina, the “mad women” of the Plaza de Mayo shall be held up as exemplars of mental health because they refused to forget in a time of compulsory amnesia; the Church shall correct the typos on the tablet of Moses – the sixth commandment shall ordain the celebration of the body; the ninth commandment, which distrusts desire, shall declare it sacred; the Church shall also proclaim an eleventh commandment which God forgot: ‘You shall love nature, which you are a part of’…every night shall be lived as if it were the last & every day as if it were the first.”
(compressed from Galeano’s El derecho a soñar thanks to Jairus Banaji)