If you are more concerned about the forensics on Jeffrey Epstein’s death than you are about Kashmir, the slaughter in Idlib, or Israeli bombing of Gaza going on right now, maybe you missed your calling as a gossip columnist. Politics may be just over your head & that’s okay. No one will judge you. But first you have to stop parading yourself around like a leader of the revolution. Capitalism has never been so secure under such ‘leaders’.
Artist Marc Nelson’s tribute to the several White Helmet rescue workers recently killed in ‘double tap’ bombing sorties: a double-tap strike means bombing a target, waiting a period of minutes, often during which first responders arrive, & then bombing the target a second or even third time. Syrian & Russian bombers do it for the sole purpose of killing White Helmet rescue workers.
White Helmets have been maligned in the worst possible ways by Assadist two-bit propagandists like Bartlett & Beeley because the courageous humanitarian work of these men & women exposes the criminality of the Assad regime. History will record things quite differently: Bartlett & Beeley will be shamed as the Ann Coulter & Leni Riefenstahl of the Assad dictatorship. Those political deadbeats who fell for & promoted their lies will be shamed right along with them but have already become politically corrupted & irrelevant. Syria is not a complicated issue. Either you stand with the civilians being persecuted & bombed for trying to build a democratic society or you stand with Syrian, Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah, & US-coalition forces working in their own ways to pulverize the Syrian Arab Spring.
A salute to the work of the White Helmets. May they Rest In Peace after sacrificing their lives to trying to make this world a humane place to live.
(Art work by Marc Nelson on Twitter)
Beside the massive protests in London & Lahore yesterday, there were protests reported in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, & Portugal. It’s not certain what German city this protest was in.
(Photo from Twitter wall of Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan)
Paris #StandWithKashmir rally, August 15th, 2019.
(Photo from Twitter wall of Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan)
China’s genocidal persecution of the Uyghur Muslims puts it in no position to speak with any moral authority on India’s onslaught in Kashmir. So maybe that’s why they came out with this pitiful statement when they would have better kept their traps shut: “The Kashmir issue should be resolved properly through peaceful means in accordance with the UN Charter, relevant Security Council resolutions & bilateral agreement.” By “peaceful means” do they mean like the concentration camps they employ against Uyghur Muslims?
Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi tweeted that the UN Security Council meeting “validated Pakistan’s clear view that the matter of IOK is a global one & that India’s unilateral action is unacceptable. It has confirmed that a peaceful negotiated solution is the only way forward.” There are stronger condemnations of children picking their noses in public. Genocidal conditions in Kashmir demand a lot more than this kind of diplomatic hogwash which doesn’t even amount to shaking the naughty finger at India.
Images & videos from the Birmingham, UK #StandWithKashmir rally. We also know that activists from Birmingham attended the London rally of thousands yesterday.
A very good article on the idiocy & political blunder of Israel & the US barring US Congresswomen Omar & Tlaib from visiting Palestine.
You read so much about evil in the world that honestly you think there may be no hope, that the human race is doomed. Then you see thousands, nay millions, of people like Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingya, Uyghur, Syrians, Yemenis, Afghans, & others stand up against oppression against seemingly insuperable odds & thousands of others around the world protesting with them & you know the human race still has a fighting chance. Those on the front lines of oppression are leading the struggle to make this world a suitable place for human beings to live & love in. That’s why we stand with them. And may it be said, that Muslims are the predominant forces involved which is why the Islamophobic ‘war on terror’ has become the oppressor’s battle cry of our times.
This placard from the Pretoria #StandWithKashmir rally protesting pellet munitions should be highlighted because of reports that despite restrictions Kashmiris continue to protest by the thousands, facing pellet guns, rubber bullets, & tear gas canisters. The SMHS hospital in Srinagar alone reported 35 young people with pellet gun injuries to the eyes since August 5th. It’s being reported that Indian troops are firing without provocation & not just at protesters. One victim was a 5-year-old girl riding on a motorcycle with her uncle who was delivering sacrificial meat for Eid. One young man was hit with a volley of pellets when he stepped out his front door; another young man said he was showered with pellets the moment he stepped out of the mosque after prayers.One Indian journalist reported that hospitals are on order to turn away pellet injury victims to keep incidents from being recorded. Several sources claim Indian forces regularly patrol the hospitals to get patients discharged without sufficient care so they can’t speak to media & even worse, many young people sustaining serious injuries are not going to hospital for fear of being arrested for taking part in protests. The Indian government of course denies all this. But some of the most damning reports come from Indian reporters who, unlike Barkha Dutt, do not have their nose up Modi’s butt.
We demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian forces from Kashmir & the immediate release of all Kashmiri political prisoners.
#StopUsingPelletGunsInKashmir