It isn’t too much to say that the EU is committing genocide against African refugees in the Mediterranean.
Those erstwhile progressives who aligned with fascists against the Syrian Arab Spring uprising & in defense of “self-determination” for the Assad dictatorship have to live with culpability for those Syrians murdered.
The way so many progressives lost their way after Syria is thinking support for repressive regimes was the same as support for the struggles of working people against those regimes. Now they don’t know which end is up & are busy running interference for regimes, not just leaving out working people altogether but rendering solidarity to the wrong side. That’s one reason why there are no antiwar protests with several major wars going on. It’s why a few are occupying the Venezuelan embassy instead of organizing massive antiwar protests.
(Posted May 11th, 2019)
In what only appears to be an irony, Assadists denounce the Syrian Arab Spring uprising as ‘Saudi Wahhabi terrorism’ but agree with Mohammed bin Salman who told China they have a right to persecute & put Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps. What is politically consistent is Assadist support for the persecution & genocide of Muslims or at least their complete adherence to ‘war on terror’ ideology.
(Photo is Mohammed bin Salman with Xi Jinping by Liu Weibing/Xinhua)
35 FB friends ‘like’ the Zionist site Jewish Voice Ministries International causing it to come up in my newsfeed. Are they liking it for the free ‘’Stand with Israel’’ car magnet? You can stick that magnet where the sun don’t shine but you should unfriend me first.
It was once wrenching for me to see people I held in high esteem & worked with in the antiwar movement sharing articles from Assad propagandists like Eva Bartlett, Mint Press, Global Research, defending “self-determination” for the Assad regime against the Syrian Arab Spring uprising, & defending Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians as a fight against ‘jihadist terrorism’. Now I’m just waiting for their other shoe to drop so they can limp off to the oblivion which their corrupt, rotten politics deserve.
In an apostolic letter, Pope Francis has issued long-awaited rules mandating church officials report sexual abuse by priests to other church officials for prosecution by church officials. What has changed is exactly nothing since the rules do not require church officials at any level of this procedure to notify law enforcement so that offenders can be prosecuted in a civil court of law where rape allegations belong. The church will continue to cover up & transfer rapists. Rape is first of all a crime against children. Salvation & redemption of the offender are between a rapist & his confessor & are none of our concern. Justice is between the child & the rapist & is adjudicated in a civil courtroom.
Bernard, the Nazi pope, was bounced & Francis installed under the hope that Francis would clean up the mess within the clergy but he has shown he is completely unwilling to do so. The church’s tax exempt status should be revoked until it demonstrates compliance with laws regarding the protection of children from priest rapists. That means church officials should skip all that internal maneuvering & be mandated to turn the offenders over for prosecution to civil authorities. Until the Pope orders that, he’s just playing us for fools.
PS: I don’t understand why civil authorities do not prosecute the Catholic Church dioceses for obstructing justice when it comes to turning rapists over to civil authorities.
Can any of us who have not experienced war, occupation, genocide even imagine what it is like for a child to live in such circumstances?
(Photo of child caught in Syrian & Russian bombardment of Idlib & Hama from White Helmets, May 10 2019)
A White Helmet rescue worker in Idlib going about their nefarious business of saving civilian lives from the rubble of Syrian & Russian bombers pounding homes, schools, hospitals. There are also Syrian & Russian ground troops deployed in this onslaught. Because of Assadist vilifications & vituperations against the White Helmets associating them with terrorism & organ trafficking, these men & women rescuers are in an extremely dangerous position if those forces get to them on the ground or from the air. That they stand ground to rescue civilians speaks to their immense courage.
This is an emergency appeal from the White Helmets & others struggling to save people: https://diary.thesyriacampaign.org/sosidlib/?
(Photo from White Helmets)