If we could just get middle-class feminists to stop glorifying & legitimizing prostitution as a form of labor rather than what it is: systematic oppression & the sexual exploitation & commodification of declassed & working class women & children. Then maybe they would put their apparently limited analytical skills to exposing the exponentially growing sex trafficking of young women & children which is an international, multi-billion dollar industry. Once again, prostitution & sex slavery are not a form of exploited labor. They are a continuum of oppression involving humiliation, violence, rape, torture, murder. There can be no talk of consensual sex when the power relations involved in prostitution & fundamental to sex trafficking are violence & degradation of women & children.

The middle-class feminists ought to ask themselves why they are fixated on legitimizing prostitution rather than focusing on sex trafficking which dwarfs prostitution. But they have exhibited little interest or none in addressing an industry involving the lives of millions of women & children. How deep does their feminism really go? Contempt for the working class is written all over their apologetics. Just like they do for their daughters, we have higher aspirations for our girls that do not include commodifying their bodies as cheap play things or objects of abuse & contempt in an extremely dangerous environment. They also ought to ask themselves why their venom is turned toward feminists who uphold the dignity & beauty of women by calling us SWERFs & carceral feminists, whatever the hell that is. Why haven’t they turned any venom towards pimps, traffickers, & johns who think of women & children as disposable toys? No matter what you call us, we will never accept the power relations involved in prostitution & sex slavery nor ever legitimize the idiotic notion that commodification of women & children is a form of labor when it is the systematic oppression of women & children.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jul/06/living-hell-of-bangladesh-brothels-sex-trafficking?

China, which once denied the existence of Uyghur concentration camps, now calls them boarding school facilities that provide vocational training & reeducation to discourage ‘radicalization” & terrorism among Uyghur. Whatever China chooses to call these facilities, they are places where Uyghur are incarcerated, held against their will, tortured & abused by camp guards, brainwashed & indoctrinated to make them abandon their cultural & religious practices, live with rotten food & substandard, overcrowded living conditions. Very much like refugee concentration camps in the US.

There’s no speculation here. We know this information from Uyghur activists & journalists. Or do creeps like Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Tim Anderson, & the many other Assadists & Stalinists who deny the Uyghur genocide think the Chinese government which armed & supported the Rohingya genocide a more reliable source of information than the Uyghur people themselves? Just how low can their racism go?

Are there any Canadian friends willing to sponsor a Rohingya refugee? Or do you know anyone who would be willing? It isn’t a major commitment & certainly not a financial commitment. But it does allow a refugee to acquire papers & asylum. Let me know if you can.

My neighbor found a wild bird with a badly broken leg. The bone actually protrudes. I’ve successfully splintered (using straws) two cockatiels with broken legs & they recovered but this is a complex break way beyond my skills. There are no rehab centers locally & my car is not up to traveling to the closest one. Everywhere there are kind people & a woman at the closest rehab arranged for me to deliver the bird to a local shelter which will transport him/her to rehab. Wish the little one God’s blessings.

Assad propagandists produce one diatribe after another & go from one Assadist conference to the next denouncing mainstream media for biased coverage of Syria. A professional journalist doing a comprehensive analysis for Airwars concluded that US media coverage about harm done to civilians by US warplanes in its deployment against ISIS is practically nonexistent & that reporting by US media about the slaughter of Syrian civilians mainly covers the harm done by Syria & Russia. That’s a bias alright just like Assadist reporting that the only ones being bombed by Syria & Russia are terrorists.

The thing is that those who want to know exactly what is happening to civilians in Syria do not rely on US or European media at all but look to Syrian journalists & citizen journalists within Syria reporting on social media, on several Syrian human rights groups, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, & on political groups like Action Group for Palestinians of Syria who are in or who have direct contact within Syria.

Most mainstream media does not appear to do its own on the ground investigations from Syria–anymore than it does in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Yemen–but relies on information from Syrian human rights groups & independent journalists. War journalism, at least for the main media outlets, is becoming a thing of the past, especially since embedding journalists with the military is now their norm–a norm which compromises & outright corrupts journalism, turning it into propaganda, as we have seen not just with Bartlett, Beeley, Khalek, & Fisk, but also as we have seen with US journalists in Iraq & Afghanistan.

The lack of coverage in US & European media has facilitated the influence of Assad propagandists whose writings bear as little resemblance to journalism as romance novels do to love & allows them to claim there are no civilians in Syria, only “al-Qaeda affiliated Salafi-jihadi terrorists”. What matters to principled antiwar & human rights supporters is what is happening to civilians & rescue workers? How many have been displaced, made homeless, live in refugee camps, were forced into exile, injured, disappeared, tortured, killed–& what can we do to stand with them in opposing the slaughter?

Stop the bombing of Idlib! All foreign military forces & mercenaries out of Syria!

Article on the Airwars investigation: https://airwars.org/news-and-investigations/major-challenges-with-us-media-coverage-of-civilian-harm/?fbclid=IwAR1l2PTh3Lys1DqK_E-

Airwars report titled “US Media Coverage of Civilian Harm in the War Against So-Called Islamic State:
https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Airwars-News-in-Brief-US-media-reporting-of-civilian-harm.pdf?

(Photo is terrified Syrian child being evacuated from Homs in 2014)

We are civilians being bombed by Syrian & Russian war planes, not terrorists.

A brilliant excoriation of the bantustate solution by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy: “Those who today talk about a two-state solution are the biggest supporters of occupation.”

https://www.facebook.com/thepeoplesbritain/videos/2451750211720269/UzpfSTE2MjUyMjkwNjE6MTAyMTY5OTk0ODE3MzIzMTk/

This article is about satellite imagery showing forced labor in Uyghur concentration camps. Satellite imagery was also used by Human Rights Watch in Arakan state, Burma to monitor the Burmese genocide of Rohingya. It’s very hard with such technology for governments to claim they don’t know what is going on in conflict zones. The same technology is certainly available for Syria & if published could lay to rest all Assadist claims of justified slaughter. But in so many ways, obfuscation is essential to war, occupation, genocide. The US isn’t engaged in a Syrian “regime change operation” but its obfuscations have destroyed the last vestiges of the antiwar movement & left only a pro-war cult in its place so that there is no antiwar movement to oppose its several wars.

Satellite imagery can play a technological role in understanding political realities. Social media is another way Uyghur, Kashmiri, Palestinian, Rohingya, Syrians, Sudanese, & so many others have brought their freedom struggles to international attention for human rights supporters.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-satellite-imagery-reveals-about-xinjiangs-re-education-camps-and-coerced-labour/?

Showing grace & political savvy, Ilhan Omar refused to respond to Trump’s tweet accusing her of supporting al-Qaeda because she’s a Muslim. Instead, she called him ‘inept’, promised to hold him fully accountable for his crimes, said Trump’s nemeses of four would put forward a bold progressive agenda for this country.

I’m not going soft on Democrats, but these four women are tough.

There are credible accusations, in fact legal documents, charging arch-Zionist Alan Dershowitz with involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking of young girls for the rich & powerful. He has been one of American Zionism’s leading & most malignant voices. They might want to dump him now before the dirt on him really starts to flow & the arrogant sob is exposed as a pervert & child rapist. Oh how the mighty dirtballs fall.