Last Saturday, there were a couple tiny gatherings of the Assadist/Stalinist antiwar cult demanding “US out of Venezuela & Iran.” Since the US is doing some serious saber-rattling against those two countries, it is certainly appropriate to protest. But the real US wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, or the genocidal Syrian & Russian bombing of Idlib were not even mentioned. The Assadist/Stalinist antiwar cult insists that Syria & Russia have a right to bomb because they are defending Assad’s right to self-determination & anyway they’re only bombing terrorists. Those gatherings were tiny & will continue to get tinier because their politics are entirely corrupt, if not also politically deranged & squarely rooted in the Islamophobic “war on terror.”
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Because Syrian & Russian bombing of Idlib is so sustained & genocidal, my posts have focused on that & I have been unable to pay sufficient attention to the struggles of Kashmiris, Palestinians, Rohingya, Uyghur, & others–not to mention the monstrous wars in Afghanistan Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, Libya. Those struggles are all extremely urgent & my inattention is not to suggest they are not. All of these struggles are anyway connected in the so-called ‘war on terror’ which is a euphemism for the modern form of colonialism.
This video report by Basharat Amin is about how the Indian government uses vandalism & destruction of homes as a weapon of occupation & colonialism.
The Facebook accounts of Kashmiri photojournalist Aasif Shafi continue to be censored. His photojournalism sites with over 150,000 followers were simply deleted. Anyone who follows his work knows he is a serious, committed journalist, not an inflammatory instigator. Please follow his page to show political support for his work & to express outrage at Facebook’s continuing censorship.
“Pro-Assad/Russia loons & propagandists have been so effective in muddying the waters, casting aspersions on Assad’s victims, & deflecting criticism away from this century’s most brutal dictator that they undermine any coordinated & sustained international effort to protect the Syrian people from a genocide.”
–Saad Bin Muhammad
Last week 22 countries sent a letter to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva denouncing China’s concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims. The list of signatories is not impressive since most of them have troops deployed in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, & elsewhere. They include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, & the UK. The US was not a signatory since they had earlier walked out of the UNHCR.
In response, Cuba, Venezuela, & Syria were among 37 of the worst human rights violators in the world, including Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, North Korea, UAE, Qatar, Nigeria, Angola, Togo, Tajikistan, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Myanmar, & Belarus, in signing a shameful letter to the UNHRC praising China’s remarkable achievements in human rights & claiming that concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims are necessary to fight “separatism” & “terrorism.”
We’d like the propagandists & guppies of the Cuban, Venezuelan, & Syrian regimes to explain why those three governments which they declare bastions of democracy sided with genocide if they are so damn progressive? Or does that explain why, among Assadists, denial of the Uyghur genocide is now as de rigueur as kissing the asses of those three regimes?
(Photo of one of the concentration camps where China holds more than a million Uyghurs from Reuters)
Amir & Tasnim Zakareya Hussein al Sayyed were killed yesterday along with their mom & dad by a Russian airstrike on Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province. Authorities have not been able to identify which faction of “al-Qaeda affiliated Salafi-jihadi terrorists” the family belonged to because they were just civilians.
(Photo from journalist Asaad Hanna on Twitter)
Sketch from eyewitness photo: last Thursday, a White Helmet rescue worker tried to save a child who had been disemboweled in a slaughter by Syrian & Russian bombers.
Stop the slaughter! Stop bombing Idlib!
(Sketch by artist Marc Nelson on Twitter)
Sketch from eyewitness photo: a hospital in Idlib was targeted by Syrian & Russian bombers after it announced a blood drive. Women & children were bombed to death, including this infant.
Stop the bombing of Idlib! Stop the bombing of hospitals!
(Sketch by artist Marc Nelson on Twitter)
Sorry for not explaining my absence. It wasn’t a Facebook suspension this time. I was ill & had a sick puppy so took time to recoup. I hope somebody missed me.
A wonderful album of photos from a protest in Berlin against Syrian & Russian bombing of Idlib: