Mary Scully Reports

‘War on terror’ ideologue & Assad fanboy Max Blumenthal tweeted a report that there was standing room only at the launching of his new Verso book. He might have been wiser not to tweet a picture of the event showing ten people, including a man sleeping in the back row. Our man better get used to small audiences since events in Sudan are exposing him & the whole stable of dictator apologists as the political lowlifes they are. Eva Bartlett & Vanessa Beeley better hotfoot it back to Damascus to get programmed for damage control. Things are looking bad for propagandists but very good for the truth.

Whoever it was at Verso that authorized the publishing of this book should be fired. Although it also publishes books promoting prostitution as another way to earn a living.

(Photo of event posted by Blumenthal as “standing room only.”)

Pardon me for jubilation, but how will the Assad regime & it’s apologists ever recover from the Sudanese Arab Spring? The Syrian people have paid such an incalculable price in human suffering because of betrayal by the corrupted antiwar movement & being vilified as terrorists. Now the Syrian Arab Spring is vindicated by Sudanese solidarity. No matter what Assad propagandists & their Islamophobic & anti-Semitic guppies say, the whole world now knows where justice & freedom lies. It’s a mortal blow to ‘war on terror’ ideology portraying the glorious Arab Spring as “Islamist” & terrorism. It is not too late for those taken in by Assadism to admit their misjudgment & correct course. We would welcome you back, not rub your nose in it.

A young schoolboy killed by Indian occupying forces on Election Day. Is that how Modi campaigns in Kashmir?

https://www.facebook.com/thekashmirwalla/videos/2260058534241633/UzpfSTE2MjUyMjkwNjE6MTAyMTYzMzQyMDkwMjA5MTc/

If the BJP wants misguided Kashmiris to vote Modi back into power, it might be the judicious part of brutal occupation to stop shooting protesters with pellet guns—at least till the ballots are cast.

(Photo from JandK Today)

Syrian Arab Spring graffiti in solidarity with the Sudanese Arab Spring.

Idlib, Syria.

Long live the glorious Arab Spring.

When Sudanese dictator al-Bashir paid a state visit to Assad in December 2018, it was to render solidarity with the counterrevolution against the Syrian Arab Spring. Understanding the character of the counterrevolution in Syria, Sudanese protesters have fully rendered solidarity to the Arab Spring. Now, in a maneuver modeled on the military ouster of Egypt’s Morsi, the Sudanese military has ousted al-Bashir & taken power in order to salvage capitalism & prevent the popular uprising from pressing forward to revolutionary transformation.

A military dictatorship modeled on General Sisi in Egypt is decidedly not what the Sudanese movement had in mind & they continue to protest demanding a civilian transition government.

The power & importance of the Sudanese revolution identifying with the Syrian Arab Spring cannot be overstated. In one momentous stroke, it puts the lie to Assad propagandists & their guppies & reduces the political stature of commentators who support Assad, like Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Chris Hedges, to lapdogs of dictatorship.

Long live the Sudanese Arab Spring!

Protesters in Sudan carry the flag of the Syrian Arab Spring uprising: from Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria to Sudan, one revolution. The Arab Spring rises again.

This graffiti from the Sudanese uprising reads: “Thank you Syrian revolutionaries who taught us the art of patience, adhering to the truth, & sacrificing for freedom, dignity, right & justice.” If the antiwar movement doesn’t understand what is happening in Syria, fellow revolutionists in Sudan certainly do.

These are two of the three children injured yesterday by a cluster bomb explosion from Russian & Syrian bombing of civilians in the countryside city of Hreitan near Aleppo. Syrian authorities have not yet identified which terrorist group they belong to.

Demand the immediate cessation of bombing & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.

(Photo by unidentified photographer)

To speak frankly, Julian Assange gives me the creeps. But that is completely irrelevant to the importance of defending him on civil liberties grounds. The government of Ecuador has betrayed its trust by handing him over for arrest into the hands of the US courts where he cannot possibly have a fair trial. The only legal brief the US government has against him is that Wikileaks exposed US war crimes in Iraq. And for that, he deserves our respect & political defense.