This is the remarkable story of Behrouz Boochani who recently won highest literary honors in Australia for his memoir written one text message at a time from detainment at the Manus refugee camp maintained by Australia.
If it were all just about raking in the ‘likes’ on social media, it would be the line of least resistance to swallow the Assadist poison & just gibber on about ‘regime change operations’ by Mossad & the CIA in Syria & the other Arab Spring uprisings. But it’s not about a worthless popularity. It’s about antiwar & human rights principles & above all about standing with those being vilified & turned into monsters & terrorists to serve the militarist interests of predatory nations like the US & Russia. You have to be willing to be in a minority of opinion. But in this case, the voices of oppression are the minority hellbent on shouting down the voices of emancipation represented by the Arab uprisings, by Palestinians, by Kashmiris, Uyghur, Rohingya. We have to be confident that if we stand on principle against hatred of Muslims, that in the not-so-long run, truth will triumph over the propaganda that turned a dictator into a champion of democracy.
It staggers the mind when a Muslim or Jew does not see the antipathy & hatred for Muslims & Jews or the ‘war on terror’ rhetoric written all over Assadist propaganda. It represents a profound debasement in political analysis when hatred is mistaken for liberation.
This family traumatized by Syrian bombing of civilians are called “Wahhabi jihadi terrorists” by Assad propagandists & their guppies in the antiwar & socialist movements. Such a monstrous betrayal of principles signals the need for a new movement as the corrupted one limps it way to oblivion.
(Photo from Syrian Portal)
Exhausted Palestinian doctor Mosheer Amer who is treating those injured in the Great Return March on Saturday.
In a senior moment I forgot that I just posted this video by Basharat Amin on the miscarriage of justice in the case of little 8-year-old Asifa Bano who was monstrously gang-raped by grown men in January 2018 in Jammu.
Can Kashmiri friends update us on where justice for Asifa stands?
“from kashmir all the multiple parties contesting in indian elections look the same, if you are in doubt, ask any one of them a single question: “Is Kashmir an integral part of india?” They will agree in unison and stand firm behind this core violent doctrine which has prevented Kashmiris for decades to exercise their right of self determination. The occupation of kashmir and therefore the resultant daily violence is openly or tacitly supported by every indian political party, transcending divisions like right, left, centre, hindu, muslim, brahmanical, non-brahmanical, progressive, aam, khaas, savarna, non-savarna etc, etc. If BJP is dislodged, the violence against kashmiris won’t stop, what might change is the rhetoric justifying the violence, instead of hard, shameless bravado there will be return of a more deceptive business-as-usual type terminological violence which Congress and others are more adept at.”
–Mir Laieeq
Hell on earth for Syrians: or what Assadists call liberation from “Wahhabi jihadi terrorists.” Mission completed in Syria, fascist & Assad propagandist Eva Bartlett is now on to Venezuela to accomplish the same paradise on earth for Venezuelans. Or rather for Maduro. Since her concern is always for the oppressive regime & never for working people.