What remarkable dissonance that Chelsea Manning has chosen to run for the US Senate as a Democrat. So admirable as a dissident; so otherwise conformist.

You dirty whore meme

Posted to show the level of political discourse employed in defense of Assad’s national sovereignty & his secular right to torture & hang political prisoners, forcibly disappear political dissidents, bomb & gas Syrian civilians. This was posted on an Assad supporter’s wall after he called me a “dirty whore” on one of my posts about Assad. The political rancidity of Assadism speaks for itself. The only thing they’re packing in defense of tyranny is hate & amorality.

Women’s March 2018

Women's March 2017

There will be hundreds of thousands of women marching today & tomorrow across the US & in countries on every continent for the Women’s March 2018. Last year, between three & four million women marched on every continent raising countless specific demands related to the struggle for women’s rights. Since the organizers of the events in the US are associated with the Democratic Party, including Linda Sarsour, they have again raised no specific political demands but have titled the march “Power to the Polls” & focused the US marches on getting women to register to vote for one of the two bankrupt major parties.

No one owns those women’s marches & no one can suppress the voices of those who think the electoral arena too corrupt & constrained to address women’s oppression. No one can stop protesters from showing up in contingents with placards raising concrete demands against war, occupation, genocide–even specifically addressing Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingya, Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis– along with demands for women’s reproductive freedom, against impunity for sexual assault, for immigrant & refugee rights–all of which are women’s issues.

This is our movement & the Democratic Party has no rights to determine or limit its political focus–even in the US. The movement dictates to government & politicians; not the other way around.

This is a list of US protests: https://www.facebook.com/pg/womensmarchonnyc/events/

This is a list of international marches: https://www.womensmarch.com/sisters/

(Photo is Women’s March 2017)

Who knew there were so many forensics experts & crime scene investigators among Assad supporters!?

Syrian bombing victim in MaarDabess town, southern Idlib *White Helmets) Jan 28--posted Jan 20 2018

Who knew there were so many forensics experts & crime scene investigators among Assad supporters!? Not to mention so many fake news & photoshop analysts. They’re storming social media trying to discredit the photos of the Syrian refugees who froze to death on the Syria-Lebanon border & they are doing so only because they cannot blame the bombing of civilians in eastern Ghouta & Idlib on US coalition war planes. In their twisted political mentality, it is righteous for Syria & Russia to bomb civilians & only barbarism if the US does so. They have abandoned principled politics & made a mockery of political morality.

Some of them are too far cooked to hold out hope they will retreat from such amoral unprincipled politics. We nevertheless hold out hope that many will rethink such stinking mendacity & political amorality & return to opposing the bombing of civilians by any country.

The only principled demands are that Syria, Russia, & the US coalition stop the bombing of civilians & for the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.

Photo is a bombing victim in MaarDabess town, southern Idlib, Syria on January 18th.

(Photo from White Helmets)

Assad supporters once again expose their amorality, xenophobia, racism

Rescuing in Eastern Ghouta Jan 20 2018

Indian Assad supporter Sabyasachi Chatterji posted the photo of Syrians who had frozen to death on the Syria-Lebanon noting that they were fleeing the war in Syria, without however mentioning they were fleeing Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians in eastern Ghouta or Idlib. Some of the comments on his post by fellow Assad supporters expose the political mentality & bankruptcy of those who defend Assad’s national sovereignty to bomb civilians, torture & hang political prisoners, forcibly disappear dissidents:

–“We have official borders.” “They were crossing the unofficial borders illegally.”

— “People are going back to Syria not fleeing anymore. Somebody used this family to try and make money smuggling them in the middle of winter!”

–“Hell, in terms of “seeing is believing” one could just look into how bad of a garbage crisis resulted in large part due to the influx of Syrians.”

–“This looks like a crime scene. It’s not natural for people or even animals to be stretched out like this if they were cold, on the contrary, they would be huddled, and anything that could be warn, ie plastic bags on the feet and stuff in the mysteriously opened backpack would be wrapped around them …. There’s something very wrong here.”

–“This is a mass murder scene, may be someone looted and killed them. So many people dying from cold at one spot !!!! And why they are not packed together in order to warm themselves, why their bodies are stretched and far apart, in extreme cold even animals know that they have to pack together in close group to keep themselves warm.”

Photo is what the Syrian refugees who froze to death were fleeing in eastern Ghouta.

(Photo from Ghouta Media Center)