The US, UK, & France, all involved in several wars, have proposed the UN Security Council designate Masood Azhar a global terrorist. He’s the head of Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) which claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb that killed 42 Indian counterinsurgency troops. Doesn’t it all come down to how we define terrorism. Most sane people would consider the presence of nearly a million troops in Kashmir engaged in every kind of human rights crimes to be terrorism. But the global powers that bomb millions of civilians in the name of fighting terrorism don’t see things that way. Because they’re not fighting terrorism. They’re trying to crush freedom struggles.
Say no to war. End the occupation of Kashmir. Out now from Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan.
So much concern for that downed Indian pilot. It’s touching. It really is. So little concern for Kashmiris under occupation sustaining every form of human rights crime on a massive scale. What’s wrong with that picture?
“To indians, by all means trend #NoToWar, but we will know you are serious only if you trend #EndIndianOccupationInKashmir as well. Kashmiris are fighting for freedom from your country for over 70 years now and are resisting the war imposed on them for 30 years. Reclaim your humanity by opposing war in all its forms and manifestations and not selectively. Cool hashtags is all well, but remember the biggest Litmus Test continues to be Kashmir. You cannot claim to be a decent human being and yet support the core violent assertion that “Kashmir is the integral part of India”. Expand the anti-war discourse to include the real cause and not just the symptoms, otherwise hashtags are nothing but simplest means of self deception. Wake up.”
India bombed Pakistan. Now Pakistan will bomb India. It is going on for years. #Kashmir in the meantimes bleeds. We all need peace.
Indian violence in Kashmir since 1989:
Killed by Indian army: 94,479
Custodial killings by Indian army: 7,048
Disappearances of Kashmiris at the hands of Indians: 10,125
Gang rapes by Indians in Kashmir: 10,283
Kashmiri blinded by Indian firing: 188
Kashmiri Kids orphaned: 20,085
Kashmiri Women widowed: 20,005
Kashmiri Buildings destroyed: 106,071
Its about time the world grant Kashmiris what the #UN promised and Indians and Pakistanis agreed to: A right of self-determination. Allow vote to decide if they want to remain in India, join Pakistan or become an independent nation.
Dear friends: I haven’t flown the coop. My work schedule changed & then changed again so I’ve not been attentive to the important things. I’ll catch up with your posts & get back to business. Thank you for expressing concern.
So actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested & charged with a hate crime hoax just days after filing a false police report that he was the victim of a racist & homophobic assault. Now if those who actually commit crimes against Black or gay youth could be just as expeditiously arrested & charged. That would be the dawning of a new day which won’t happen until the emergence of a new civil rights movement.
Tulsi Gabbard–Zionist, anti-Semite, Islamophobe, & Hindutva supporter–thinks she can ‘aloha’ her way through criticism to become president of the US. But her repugnant views are catching up with her. There are dozens of videos on YouTube showing her support for the Assad regime, even meeting personally with him, & denial of his war crimes, making her the longtime darling of Assadists & their favored candidate. But now she appeared on The View where she was grilled by rightwing Meghan McCain about being an apologist for the Assad regime. Putting aside McCain’s detestable politics & support for war, Assad propagandists like Beeley, Bartlett, Tim Anderson, Sarah Abed, & RT media are screaming bloody murder that she has caved to political pressure out of expedience by characterizIng Assad as a “brutal dictator” who “used chemical weapons” against Syrian civilians. But of course. If she thought being an Assadist would win her the White House, she’d still be singing that discordant tune. Opportunism is the flip side of demagogy.
Now will Bernie Sanders supporters please explain away his support for Tulsi Gabbard? Or does he have to go on The View for us to get some straight answers?
Gabbard on The View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3N-uR2SY4&fbclid=IwAR07mi7ZnBiCCP0CMT1INgxlyigA5h31hjw4IYqOiVEnbppSAxenSfxboYw
The intellectual lowbrows around the Nation magazine are accusing those who detest Bernie Sanders of anti-Semitism. How deftly that plays into the Zionist campaign to identify anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The political brief against Sanders is precisely his Zionism, his equivocations on genocide against Palestinians, his support for US wars, his support for Tulsi Gabbard (a Zionist, anti-Semite, Islamophobe, & supporter of Hindutva nationalism), & his role as a left shill for the Democratic Party. It’s not our fault that some people just can’t tell the difference between populist rhetoric & Congressional votes.
Turns out Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe really did nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after Trump plied him with alcohol & asked him to while visiting Mar-a-Lago. For those who think this merits ridicule: are you serious? After Kissinger won the damn thing? And Suu Kyi? The Nobel has become the laughingstock of useless honorifics of no more value than toilet paper.
(Abe & Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April 2018 by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
