Mary Scully Reports

This protest in solidarity with Idlib is in Boulder, Colorado. It is hardly the largest or most impressive protest yesterday out of many. Nor does it reflect the huge number of activists who posted placards on social media reading “Stop bombing Idlib.” But what this protest & all the other protests do show is the immense potential for building a principled & massive antiwar movement to replace the corrupted remnants of the old one who vigorously chased the ass of the Assad dictatorship & support Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians.

Stop the bombing of Idlib! Stop the war on then Syrian Arab Spring uprising!

(Photo from #EyesOnIdlib on Twitter)

This little girl survived the Russian bombing massacre of al-Bara, a village in Idlib province an hour south of Aleppo. She has survived without being disfigured or dismembered but not without the devastation of war trauma & PTSD to haunt her entire life. The entire region is under siege by Syrian & Russian bombers, troops, & Iranian militias. We hope her medical treatment is completed before Russian & Syrian bombers get to this medical facility.

Over three-million people lived in communities in Idlib & Hama but since the bombing & ground troop assault by Syria, Russia, & Iran began several weeks ago, over 270,000 have fled for their lives, unable to cross the closed Turkish border, & forced to live in squalid refugee camps. For those who so misguidedly want the US to militarily interfere to stop this carnage, US officials say it’s none of their business since they are engaged in conflicts with ISIS somewhere else. Bombing civilians is what the US does in Syria & several other countries so why would civilians in Idlib be of any concern to the Pentagon?

There are many political commentators of some renown who have not yet, after 8 years, expressed their views on the carnage in Syria. Their cowardice, so easy to confuse with complicity, will not be forgotten. Others like Tariq Ali, John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn, Vijay Prashad, Noam Chomsky, have become acolytes of the Assad dictatorship & follow the droppings of Assad propagandists like Beeley & Bartlett as though they were the gospel truth. Then there are the social climbers & Pilger wannabes like Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Rania Khalek, Jonathan Cook, who are scrambling to salvage their careers from lies & ignominy. They bet on the wrong horse. They expected to advance their so-called journalistic careers by sucking up to Assad but they’ve lost their careers & no one trusts them. Most of these creeps will survive their treachery regarding the Syrian Arab Spring uprising & will continue to rake in honoraria, publish articles (at least in Russian media), publish unread books (published by Verso press), be treated as éminences grises & celebrities by those without an ounce of political discernment. But it’s over for them whether they recognize it or not. Their sorry asses are no loss but the military defeat of the Syrian Arab Spring which they ensured will remain one of the greatest political reversals of our times.

A salute to the Syrian Arab Spring, which till the last fighter goes down defies the Assad dictatorship & Syrian, Russian, Iranian, & US-coalition military aggression.

(Photo from several Syrian sources on Twitter)

Assadists have been gloating over their interpretation that the Mueller report exonerates Putin from involvement in US elections. But anyway, Russian interference in rigged elections is hardly a central issue in world politics. The wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, & Libya are. The Uyghur & Rohingya genocide are. The struggles against occupation in Palestine & Kashmir are. The uprising in Sudan is. Unfortunately, the only thing any Assadists have had to say on these is to deny the Uyghur & Rohingya genocides & occupation of Kashmir & attribute them to ‘Wahhabi-Salafi jihadi terrorists.”

So we’d like Assadists to stop harping on Russian meddling in US elections, stop talking about the occupation of that abandoned embassy in DC, stop making Assange defense the epicenter of world politics, & make some judgements about Russian meddling in the Sudanese African Spring uprising. Since they ardently support Iranian & Russian military interference in Syria, including massive bombing, since they haven’t uttered a peep about the carnage in Idlib except to claim Syria & Russia are bombing ‘Salafi-jihadi terrorists’ because there are no civilians living in Idlib, do they support Russia continuing its mining operations in Sudan & above all, do they support Russia continuing to provide arms to the Sudanese military now murdering, raping, torturing democracy activists? Evasions don’t cut it. We want to hear your explanation for Russian military support to repressing & murdering Sudanese protesters. It’s gonna be a doozy.

Photo is ousted Sudanese dictator Omar Al-Bashir meeting with Putin in the Kremlin, in July 2018.

(Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/TASS)

The US blames Iran for the tanker attacks without a single shred of evidence. Assadists & other anti-Semites blame Mossad for the attacks without a single shred of evidence. See how conspiracy thinking works? It’s more boogieman stuff than politics. They deserve each other politically. It’s US military aggression facing the most pathetic weak-kneed political opposition it has seen since Assadists & other halfwits began to dominate politics. They will ride a crest for a while, taking flakes & guppies with them, but racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, & theoretical debasement will eventually catch up with them & they will end up writng hack for Mint Press, Global Research, Sputnik, RT, one of their other journalistic fronts or doing podcasts that no one listens to accept to hear Rania Khaled & Ben Norton make asses of themselves sending up alarms about those ‘Salafi-jihadi terrorists.’ No one to feel sorry for here. They deserve the oblivion they are limping into.

57 medical centers & hospitals have been targeted by Syrian & Russian bombers since February 2019. Do the so-called socialists who support Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians & hospitals have any ready quotes from Lenin, Marx, or Engels that they think will cover these war crimes? Or are Lenin, Marx, & Engels waiting to fry those fat ‘socialist’ asses in hell when they go knocking on the pearly gates? Not even the dead like having their ideas misrepresented to serve war & fascism.

(Photo from Independent Doctors Association providing medical care in Syria)

There are many gruesome photos from the bombing of Idlib showing small children dismembered by barrel bombs, the oil barrels with explosives & shrapnel being dropped by Syrian & Russian bombers. They’re too gruesome & disrespectful to post even to counter the rabid propagandists who would claim the children are terrorists or ‘crisis actors’ trained to play dead by the White Helmets.

So we post this appeal from a child in Idlib that wherever we are we make a placard, rally, post protests on social media, or in some way show our support for the civilians of Idlib in the monstrous bombing campaign against them.

Stop the bombing! Stop the war against the Syrian Arab Spring uprising.

(Photo from several Syrian sources)

There are protests today against Syrian & Russian bombing of Idlib, Hama, & Aleppo taking place in Paris, London, Ankara, Berlin, Washington DC, Sao Paulo, Dublin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana, Srinagar, & of course they continue in Idlib.

Stop the bombing! Stop the war against the Syrian Arab Spring uprising!

(Abdul Baset al-Sarout artwork by Adi Atassi)

“People of Syria have our unconditional solidarity, as do all people suffering under tyrannical regimes.

“Let us all show support to the people of besieged Idlib (Syria) with our messages of love and solidarity.”

–Tweeted this morning by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS)

Just who are we to believe in the propaganda war against the Syrian Arab Spring? The Assad regime & its stable of Leni Riefenstahl wannabes who claim Syria, Russia, & Iran are only engaged in bombing & killing “al-Qaeda Salafi-jihadi terrorists”? Or thousands of Syrian civilians, many internally displaced or in diaspora, protesting against the bombing of civilians & demanding the ouster of the Assad dictatorship?

Assadists & their guppies claim (& one of them dared claim on my wall) that Abdul Baset al-Sarout ‘cut off the head of a Palestinian child & took a photo & video celebrating it; that the child begged him to shoot him rather than cut his head off but al-Sarout & his friends insisted on beheading’. But thousands of Syrians in diaspora & those protesting the bombing in Idlib, Hama, & Aleppo are coming out in the streets while Syrian & Russian bombs rain down to honor the contributions of Abdul Baset al-Sarout to the Arab Spring against the Assad dictatorship. Only the politically corrupt would listen to the deranged vituperations of propagandists over the voices of the oppressed.

We honor Abdul Baset al-Sarout. May he Rest In Peace.

(Photo of Abdul Baset al-Sarout leading chants at Arab Spring protest)