Mary Scully Reports

This is a Syrian infant injured in the intensified Syrian bombing of civilians in Idlib. Assad officials have yet to identify which jihadi terrorist group she belongs to. The corrupted antiwar movement continues to call this liberation.

Stop the bombing of civilians in Syria! All foreign military forces out of Syria!

(Photo was posted to Save Idlib as infant injured in the current bombing assault on Idlib but that was a misrepresentation. After vetting the photo, I learned it is from 2018, most likely but not definitely from Syria. I will let it stand as a representation for those children who have been killed or injured in the current bombing.)

UNICEF reports that 2018 was the deadliest year for Syrian children since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring uprising in 2011. The highest number of children were killed in a single year, mostly through bombing attacks on homes, schools, & health facilities. The situation will only worsen since there is an intensification of bombing in Idlib, because of unexploded ordnance, because of limited access to food, water, shelter, healthcare, & because of worsening conditions in the refugee camps. Assadists continue to call this liberation.

No support to the Assad dictatorship! All foreign military forces out of Syria!

(Photo from National Coalition of Syrian Revolution & Opposition Forces)

Had to block an unfortunate soul who called me a “ziotard.” Calling me a Zionist is just gratuitous foolishness. Using -tard as a suffix is demeaning to those with learning difficulties & to my mind that’s lower than pond scum.

(Meme by human rights activist & refugee advocate, Carol Sughrue)

Tulsi Gabbard really has to drop the lei-wearing aloha schtick. She debases indigenous Hawaiian culture by associating it with her Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Zionism, & Hindutva nationalism.

So the question is, why did those ultra-rich parents pay a third party to get their kids into elite universities? Why not do it the old-fashioned legal way by just giving money directly to the school?

Armageddon in Syria (or what Assadists & the corrupted antiwar movement call “liberation”): the Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented 223,161 civilian deaths in Syria since March 2011 by the Assad regime & its Russian & Iranian allies. The death toll is of course considerably higher & does not account for US-coalition bombing deaths under the guise of hunting down ISIS. The purpose all along for all these military forces has been to destroy every vestige of the Syrian Arab Spring uprising.

(Photo from National Coalition of Syrian & Opposition Forces)

In an interview on Moderate Rebels, the podcast of the disreputable Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, & Rania Khalek, she complained that Arab & Palestinian groups no longer ask her to speak because of her Islamophobic war on terror rhetoric. In her defense, she said all Arab groups in the US receive money from foreign governments. This is an invitation to & justification for FBI surveillance of Arab & Palestinian groups. For that allegation alone she should be considered treacherous. She may just be an idiot but she is a dangerous one. Does it surprise anyone that she promotes Tulsi Gabbard?

To my mind holocaust denial should not be prosecuted because of free speech rights although it is outlawed in several countries. But the horrors & barbarities of the holocaust are so unimaginable that anyone who does deny it should be regarded as the political dirt balls they are. In almost every case, they are aligned with white supremacy, nationalism, & fascism.

The US Peace Council, a Stalinist & Assadist organization, has organized a delegation to Venezuela to meet with Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in a replay of the delegation they took to Syria to meet with Assad in July 2016. The Venezuelan delegation included some of the same people as went to Syria but broadened to include Assadist Ajamu Baraka & other activists from the corrupted US antiwar movement who also support the Assad regime. Fascist Eva Bartlett, described as a progressive journalist rather than an Assad propagandist, was part of the delegation. In Syria, Stalinism found its natural habitat in fascism.

Even if political people have made colossal mistakes in the past, it’s possible to work with them when they’re doing the right thing. This is not an instance of that. They went to Syria to drum up support for the Assad dictatorship & to undermine support for the Syrian Arab Spring uprising. They successfully disoriented the international antiwar movement so that it did not mobilize against Syrian & Russian bombing, Iranian military intervention, or even US military intervention in Syria. They persuaded thousands of activists around the world that the Syrian Arab Spring was ‘Wahhabi jihadi terrorism’ & not a popular uprising against dictatorship. Their intervention into Venezuelan politics is not as a peace delegation but under the tiresome rubric of “regime change operation” to drum up support for the Maduro regime & demonize the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting his austerity policies. They will present eye-witness accounts from their government-sponsored tour of the barrios as proof there is no popular resistance to Maduro & that which exists is US-sponsored. Venezuela may become the final nail in the coffin for the antiwar movement which cannot distinguish between repressive, capitalist regimes & the just demands of exploited working people. Or if can distinguish, chooses to side with the regime against working people.

Venezuela remained a capitalist country even after the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. Its programs to advance the working poor, though important, were more analogous to the poverty programs for Black workers coming out of the US Civil Rights Movement than to a social revolution against systemic inequality. The leaders of Venezuela have created a distorted economy based in oil & have shifted their axis from the US-IMF orbit to Russian & Chinese aid. That is a fundamental aspect of the austerity Venezuelans are protesting even though all of the economic misery is being placed on US sanctions by pro-regime apologists.

They will not be able to rebuild the corrupted antiwar movement on a basis of support for the Maduro regime but only on principled opposition to US military intervention which places political emphasis on the Venezuelan people & not on support for a corrupt capitalist regime.

(Photo of US delegation meeting yesterday with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza)