The musician Roger Waters, who has distinguished himself by his support for Palestinians (& often by his misogyny in doing so), stopped his concert in Spain to claim the White Helmet rescue workers are a fake propaganda construct for terrorists. Apparently he finds the slanders of Assad propagandists more persuasive than several exposés of the propagandists. His commitment to Palestinians is genuine. His understanding of the Assad dictatorship stinks of libertarianism & corruption. There is no nicer way to say that. Shame on Roger Waters.

Protesters at the justice for Asifa rally yesterday in Srinagar, Kashmir:

(Photo by Basit Zargar)

A small girl at the Srinagar rally yesterday demanding justice for Asifa–holding a doll representing Asifa & all children oppressed for gender, ethnicity, religion, caste, or class & those living under occupation.

(Photo by Faisal Khan)

This man is at the rally yesterday in Srinagar demanding justice for Asifa. The doll, which others also carried, represents little Asifa & protection for all children against violence from gender, ethnic, religious, caste, & class oppression. Gender violence under the occupation of Kashmir involves harassment, assault, mass rapes where demands for justice go unheard. So the case of Asifa resonates profoundly with the struggle against occupation & the call for azadi that a new society without such violence can be built.

(Photo by Faisal Khan)

Palestinian Mohammed Matter on US, UK, & France bombing Syria:

“I feel like vomiting on the existence of all those who support the American, British and French aggression on Syria just because they hate Asad. I hate Asad and the Russians as much as you do! Maybe a bit more since I’ve experienced wars, death, siege, bombs, refuge and poverty! I also had the chance to meet Syrians & listen to their stories in Greece, Germany and Turkey. Yes, I can’t wait for the day to see Bashar Alasad gone but I will never ever support any aggression on any country especially if the aggressor is fucking Trump!”

Help us out with this, Assad propagandists: how do three overnight bombing sorties fit into US regime-change strategy?

War mongering is bad enough. But thanking Trump for bombing Syria is unseemly groveling evincing the political development of a garden slug. It is bereft of any sense of decency to thank a man for bombing & who imposes bans on Muslims, hunts down & deports undocumented immigrants & refugees, speaks of Mexicans & Blacks in the most degrading & racist terms, & considers all women as blowup sex toys. At least have some dignity while you make a display of your reactionary politics.

Not sure how war mongers for US-coalition intervention in Syria can approve of bombing chemical weapons storage depots when that will release unknown poisonous chemicals into the environment, likely killing hundreds. Not sure they’ve thought their militarism out to its conclusions.

Early this morning, the US, UK, & France launched airstrikes on three sites in Syria in retaliation for the chemical attacks on Douma last week. War mongers have been pressuring Trump to lay bombs on Syrian airfields but instead the military triumvirate bombed a chemical weapons research center & two chemical weapons storage facilities. US Secretary of Defense Mattis says the bombing, which came after a week of threats, was a one-time shot like the bombing of the empty airfield last year. Apparently the US has a gentlemen’s agreement with Russia to control Assad’s use of chemical weapons–as if Russia is averse or the least bit squeamish about war crimes–but they were careful not to get close to any Russian bases or facilities in Syria.

Hopefully, this dog & pony show will satisfy the war mongers who look to the US Pentagon under the deranged Commander In Chief Donald Trump to save the Syrian revolution–just like the US is saving the Yemeni, Egyptian, & Bahraini Arab Spring uprisings through massive repression & carpet bombing. They haven’t been able to explain what cognitive disorder leads them to think the US is changing its entire military history of overthrowing governments & installing dictators to morph into freedom fighters on the side of revolution in Syria. Their war mongering is reactionary & dangerous because it helps legitimize US military intervention in other countries. This dog & pony show will certainly feed the umbrage of Assad propagandists & their fellow travelers who are put in the regrettable position of denying that Syria was researching or storing chemical weapons while at the same time denouncing the US for bombing the chemical weapon labs & storage depots. Such are the conundrums of militarism.

Lets cut the crap & face the harsh realities of life. The only principled demands are for the immediate cessation of Syrian, Russian, & US coalition bombing in Syria & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.

Photo is the leader of the free world morphing into a revolutionist in Syria. Yeah right!

So far this year, the US has admitted eleven Syrian refugees. How many refugees do you think the US has created since it began openly intervening in Syria in 2014?