Tweeted regarding Syria: “We’d like to be like the French. We asked for a new president. We got one million dead.”

(via Anealla)

This baby refugee rescued from a sinking boat off the coast of Libya could be one of those “jihadi” terrorists we’re always warned about. But this rescue worker whose humanity makes mockery of paranoia & racism rescued the baby & everybody else on the boat. That’s what being human is all about.

The rescuer is part of the Phoenix rescue ship operated by Malta-based MOAS. SOS Mediterranee & Doctors Without Borders operate the Aquarius rescue ship & these are the only rescue operations for hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Mediterranean route from Libya. The EU & NATO navy ships are too busy thwarting refugees to rescue the drowning.

Anyone looking for a place to contribute help for refugees might consider one or both of those marine rescue operations so they can expand fleets & services.

Accepting refugees is international law & an imperative of human civilization.

Open the borders. Immigration is a human right. No human being is alien to us.

(Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)

Not making this up, not exaggerating, not patronizing to make a point: when I go through my Facebook memories which pop up automatically every day, a huge share of the images are of women involved in struggles, usually leading them. Their are lots of images of grieving women, but some like the women of Kashmir or the Mayan women of Guatemala, are grieving as they protest mass rape, the disappearance or execution of their kids & spouses, ethnic cleansing.

A huge percentage of the images are of veiled Muslim women & my photos only go back to April 2012 when Facebook deleted my entire album, including my hundreds of posts about the Arab uprisings.

Draw your own conclusions from my observation. But mine are that women are leading revolution & that Muslim women are chief among them.

Palestinian woman: where the kids learn Intifada.
Sling shots are the first line of defense against one of the most sophisticated military forces in the world.

Organizing revolution to wrest power & create a democratic, secular state where Palestinians & Jews can live as brothers & sisters is the goal.

Honoring & building the economic & cultural boycott of Israel (BDS) is the international line of defense. Buy nothing with barcode beginning 729.

(This photo is reposted from April 2013)

Anayet Ullah Arman, a schoolteacher & Rohingya refugee in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has introduced me to another valuable source of information about the Rohingya struggle. It is called The Stateless & is run out Ireland, presumably by Rohingya refugees.

This is the FB wall: https://www.facebook.com/thestateless/

This is the blog: https://thestateless.blogspot.com/

This is the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Statelessrhg1

This is Twitter: https://twitter.com/Thestateless1

(Photo is Rohingya children in refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh by Saiful Huq Omi/UNHCR)

A new work by Rollie Mukherjee: a tribute to the youth & children of Kashmir blinded, disabled, terrorized, disappeared, tortured, murdered by the Indian occupying army. Yet still defiant against occupation & determined to achieve freedom, self-determination, azadi.

Our fullest respect & solidarity with this historic, monumental struggle for freedom. A victory for Kashmiris would change the balance of power to the advantage of the oppressed around the world.

Their struggle is our struggle. Je suis Kashmiri.

The hacking of Satyadeep Satya’s Facebook account either by amateur or professional hackers is becoming more of a problem among many of my friends. It threatens the work people do to advance justice, interferes with our friendships, creates distrust among us.

Usually the recommendation is to change one’s password & make it complicated & strong. But that isn’t proving to be enough against the malignant & against pros. As we know from how India messes with internet & social media access in Kashmir, our democratic access to reliable news is under siege.

One of the most dangerous professions is journalism with astronomical murder, kidnapping, forcible disappearance incarceration rates. (We’re talking real journalists, not the embedded kind who sing for their supper.)

Social media is a democratic source of information, giving us a vast range of sources & the means to vet those sources so it’s in our interests to protect it.

We know from the “VPN war” India is running against Kashmiri activists that many of the latter are tech savvy & know their way around lockouts so maybe they know their way around ambushes like hacking. We know that many others are also up to speed on this stuff. No questions asked of the latter, we’d be interested if anyone has ideas of how we can protect our social media accounts from being hacked & attacked.

Satyadeep Satya is back.

He says his account was hacked & Facebook locked him out as precaution against further misuse. And here we jumped to the conclusion FB was censoring for Modi! What brought us to that conclusion so quickly? Its history of doing so?

We’re delighted Satyadeep is back; Facebook wasn’t the same without him. The upshot of this is that many who didn’t know his contributions to building the movement to oppose occupation of Kashmir now know about his work.

Thank you to Facebook for doing the right thing. We like when you do that. Now stop censoring altogether.

Suggestion to Assadist cum Stalinist cum Nazi Paul Antonopoulos: you need to stop posting on social media. You need to move to another country, take an assumed name & new identity & stfu. Perhaps you could join an ISIS unit. They’re looking for recruits just like you.

Assadist Tim Anderson just bounced Paul Antonopoulos from the Australian Hands Off Syria Coalition leadership body because he was outed as a Nazi with an active secret life posting outrageously vile & hateful racist comments about Aborigines.

Antonopoulos was a featured speaker at the recent Assadist conference Anderson organized in Sydney. He is also a Stalinist who portrays himself as “anti-imperialist.” After being outed as a Nazi, he was bounced as deputy editor of Al-Masdar News, the Assadist journalistic equivalent of The National Inquirer. Only worse. More like Sputnik News.

Anderson & Leith Abou Fadel, the editor of Al-Masdar News, are going all righteous but neither one of them is a slouch when it comes to ugly racism. It’s their stock-in-trade. It’s who they are politically. The political essence of Assadism is a demented amalgam of Stalinism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, libertarianism, fascism. All you have to do to show that is look at the political forces lined up four-square behind Assad & Putin.

If Anderson & Fadel get all carried away with righteousness & start expelling Nazis & fascists, the entire grass roots of the Assadist movement is gone along with every one of the leaders. The only ones left will be the rah-rah chorus of lost souls who don’t know their ass from their elbow. If a movement is built on support for a fascist dictator, the grass roots movement of followers will most likely be comprised of fascists.

Now a question remains: articles & speeches by Antonopoulos have been shared all over social media. He’s heralded by Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, & countless other Assadists. How will they scoop up all that manure to disassociate at least publicly from his fascism which they secretly share?

(Photo is Antonopoulos speaking at Tim Anderson’s Assadist conference in Sydney.)