Maybe if supporters of Assad & Maduro stop asking themselves what would Stalin do & instead asked what would Jesus or Mohammad do they’d get closer to the truth rather than speaking rubbish from the bowels of hell.

Forces of evil have intervened to make it impossible for me to do anything on Facebook until I finish my long overdue article on Venezuela for Pakistan Today. And this is a good thing since the forces of Bolivarian baloney are on full mobilization to discredit Venezuelan working people for protesting neoliberal austerity, lack of democracy, & violent attacks on protesters as fascist. Exactly what the same political forces did in Syria & the Arab Spring uprisings & tried to do with protesters in Brazil & Hong Kong.

The political currents behind this are Stalinists–the same ones who defended the monstrosities of the USSR–& libertarians who think reptilian Jewish bankers rule the world & who are nascent fascist forces. Racism & sucking up to state power is their modus operandi. My article will be an attempt to expose them as the sniveling rightwing forces they are. And I make no bones about that because working people have a right to rise up en masse to settle scores with tyranny & inequality even when it calls itself the Bolivarian Revolution.

In the scale of things, the haircut that makes me look like Little Lulu in the comics is small potatoes. But oh lord it’s ruined my day. I asked the hairdresser to shave 40 years off my looks, not make me look like a cartoon.

Don’t come to my wall with puerile blithering against BDS. The blah blah blah about why don’t we boycott every country that’s making war? Why just Israel? Inform yourself about the Palestinian call for BDS, about the powerful political impact it has already had, about how it has strengthened Palestinian solidarity, about how it has politically armed an unarmed people. If you want to debate it, this isn’t the place. But I can refer you to Facebook walls where other blockheads gather for companionship & you can feel right at home.

Originally I came across this photo on Twitter & posted it last August 1st. It had no identification of when it was taken or who took it but it was likely the protests in Kashmir held in solidarity with Palestinians when Israel was carpet bombing Gaza at this time in 2014.

There is everything to love about this photo of young scruffy rebels standing defiant, armed only with rocks against a brutal military occupation–& at the same time standing with their Palestinian brothers & sisters under siege thousands of miles away. This is the very heart & soul of solidarity.

Long live Palestinian & Kashmiri Intifada.

Retrospectives are starting on the life & death of Diana Spencer. I don’t do that “people’s princess” crap & regret credulity about the brilliant PR campaign that was her life. I detest moochocracy & every cynical attempt to make feudalism seem modern or having any useful function at all. I’m an unreasonable hard-ass on the issue. We’ll have to part ways if you make Diana hagiography show up in my newsfeed. I have my faults but getting weak-kneed over feudal monarchs is not one of them.

Kashmiri women are running from a tear gas & pellet gun attack by Indian forces on a funeral last July 21st. Tanveer Ahmad Wani, the young man killed, was a tailor by profession. He was executed when the Indian army opened fire on unarmed protesters in the village of Arwah in Beerwah town of the Budgam district.

There are so many human rights crimes involved in this event it would take an international tribunal months to fully lay out the charges: setting up a hunt to kill operation; shooting live ammo at unarmed protesters, killing unarmed protesters; attacking mourners at a funeral with a deadly arsenal.

End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir. May young Tanveer Rest In Peace.

(Photo by Bilal Ahmad)

Kashmiri photojournalist Bilal Ahmad has many marvelous vignettes of the occupation but this delightful photo is of him with some little kids. He captioned it: “To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.”

(Photo by Masrat Jan)

My Facebook campaign walls when I ran for Texas governor in 2014 & for US president in 2016 still get lots of likes & views. I let them pass into archive but since I’m still getting read, does anyone think I should keep them up by posting from my own wall?

Funeral ceremony for Firdous Ahmad, a young man killed by Indian forces near an encounter site at Harkipora, Pulwama. There isn’t much information available on the encounter or how young Firdous was fatally shot. In respect for his life, will Kashmiri friends please tell us more about who he was, his life, & about the encounter at Harkipora?

May he Rest In Peace.

(Photo by Basit Zargar)