Not to act the know-it-all, but people really need to vet their photos on google image search. A photo shows up in my news feed today as from Gaza & from Raqqa, Syria. It’s true all carnage looks alike but it’s to the advantage of ending violence & war that we are scrupulous about the truth. Remember that Suu Kyi used misidentified photos she called fake news against the Rohingya at the height of her last genocidal onslaught. Lecture over.
Trump’s politics are consistent & of a piece with war, occupation, & genocide. That makes him the ideal president for US capitalism.
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/trump-pardons-us-soldier-who-killed-unarmed-iraqi-man-26441?
In April, Indian authorities ordered a two-day a week ban on civilian traffic on a main highway in Kashmir for the exclusive movement of military & paramilitary convoys. Soldiers patrolled the highway & erected steel & razor wire barricades at intersections with neighborhood roads which would also prevent emergency vehicles like ambulances & fire trucks.
Now, they are imposing a toll tax to travel on the road for the five days a week civilian traffic is allowed. In its intent to prevent Kashmiris from free movement in their own country, it has shades of an open air prison.
“Right, so here is the truth that according to the Zionist logic must be given a circuit for most the citizenry of this world to believe:
1. Palestinians have been colonizing their own land.
2. Palestinians have been bombarding their own people and killing them so that Zionists will settle more colonies.
3. Palestinians have done Nakba (Palestinian exodus) themselves after they did their own ethnic cleansing.
4. Palestinians intimidate Palestinians on daily basis and not Zionists.
5. Palestinians confiscate their own lands on daily basis and not Zionists
6. Palestinians slash off their own social services daily and not Zionists.
7. Palestinians are the settlers that had come to Palestine in 1948.
So here is the thing, lets us give it a circuit.”
–Kashmiri Zafar Iqbal
Burmese reporters Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo were released from prison where they were to sentenced to seven years for investigating the massacre of ten Rohingya men. Their release is almost certainly due to political pressure on Suu Kyi & the generals.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists-idUSKCN1SD056?
A beautiful RamadanMubarak/Ramzan Mubarak from Rollie Mukherjee.
According to a report in rightwing media, throughout the Saudi-coalition bombing campaign in Yemen, starting with Obama & continuing under Trump, the US has provided logistical support including refueling, target intelligence, & many of the bombs used that have killed between 60,000 & 80,000 people. An estimated one-third of the airstrikes between March 2015 & March 2018, many with US-made bombs, hit civilian targets including schools, homes, mosques, hospitals, food stores, farms, water & power facilities, funeral homes, & a school bus full of kids.
The antiwar movement is too engaged with supporting the Iranian, Syrian, Venezuelan, & Russian regimes to organize massive international opposition to the slaughter in Yemen.
Days after the Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan army chief Mahesh Senanayake told a BBC interviewer that some of the 12 suicide bombers had traveled to Kashmir & parts of India (Bangalore & Kerala state) probably for terror training & to make links with other subversive groups. Reacting sharply to the unsubstantiated accusation, a top intelligence official in Srinagar (who did not wish to be named) said there was no proof that any of the bombers had visited Kashmir for terror training or any other “subversive activity.” An official in the Indian Home Ministry backed him up, saying that after investigation Sri Lankan security officials had themselves ruled out the possibility.
Asked why the ‘threats’ were not taken seriously after receiving intelligence information from India, General Senanayake said: “We had some information & intelligence-sharing, situations & military intelligence on a different direction & the others were different & there was a gap that everybody could see today.” Intelligence officials in Kashmir & India are still trying to figure out what the hell he was trying to say.
One of Netanyahu’s campaign promises was that if he won a fourth term he would start to annex & extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank. For those who still cling to the pipe dream of a bantustate solution, this would be the death blow to those delusions & is the accompaniment to genocide in Gaza. This eventuality is, unfortunately, the logic of the Oslo Accords which legitimized occupation & annexation. It’s the very nature of the Accords which were, when they were signed, a betrayal.