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ilmdge posted:

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whats this from

https://t.co/IbTF629qPs



Year of the Rhizzone

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HenryKrinkle posted:

i once got into a dispute with phillip grief about assad doing the neoliberal stuff and he seemed absol;utely convinced the syrian govt was 100% anti-neoliberal based on wikileaks cables about them not being neoliberal enuff. while that's good evidence for certain US motives as to why it wants Assad gone, it certainly isn't enough to suggest the Syrian govt never enacted reforms that were detrimental to the population.



i guess that makes you a phillip griefer!! haha a little "workers spatula" for u there.

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Is bombing the s*** out of ISIS a strategy?
By Tim Lister, CNN
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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/video-civilians-eastern-aleppo-accuse-rebel-leaders-corruption-storm-aid-center/

good thing #holocaustAleppo has dropped off the radar in the west
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http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950827000373

Syrian coroner estimates thousands of syrians have been butchered for their organs in rebel controlled territory or in refugee camps on the borders.

reports that rebels are kidnapping children and draining their blood to transfuse to their fighters reminded me of the nazis doing that when they occupied the CCCP, running fake orphanages to do that...

(there is a memorial to such children in Donetsk: The world's only memorial complex of the donor children, victims of Nazism, is in Makeyevka Donetsk region, Ukraine. On the stele of black granite inscribed only the names of 120 victims of Nazism.)
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the syrian uprising comes to Rojava to show the YPG how to make a real revolution

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-withdraws-support-turkish-backed-rebels-beheading-video-surfaces/



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U.S. military pays Syrian rebels up to $400 per month: Pentagon

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0P22BX20150622

Syrian rebels receiving U.S. military training to battle Islamic State militants are being paid $250 to $400 per month, depending on their skills, performance and leadership position, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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Rye denied a news report that the group withdrew because its members did not want to sign a contract agreeing not to fight the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.

He said that, while U.S. officials had been clear the program was to train fighters to combat Islamic State, the only document participants had to sign was one committing them to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law, a mandate issued by the U.S. Congress.
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xipe posted:

He said that, while U.S. officials had been clear the program was to train fighters to combat Islamic State, the only document participants had to sign was one committing them to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law, a mandate issued by the U.S. Congress.



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if they're following the syrian rule of law, shouldn't they be in the syrian army?
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xipe posted:

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950827000373Syrian coroner estimates thousands of syrians have been butchered for their organs in rebel controlled territory or in refugee camps on the borders.


I would've been much less likely to believe this if it wasn't for the KLA yellow house case

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That shows you again how bad Mad Max: Fury Road was. People thought gangs of mercenaries rolling through the desert while attached to blood IVs from captured hosts was badass but it's actually quite common in Syria.
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tbh i have no fucking idea what trump's syria policy will be when Actually In Office because he's so fucking unpredictable.
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part of me worries some agency is just going to kill assad and his top people somehow now just because they didn't get their regime change the old way. like introduce some volatility to the situation so that trump is forced to change tack. who knows!!!
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ilmdge posted:



lmao

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Next up: never before seen photos of Joseph Goebbels planking.
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aerdil posted:

ilmdge posted:

lmao


they set a very convincing scene don't they, hmm

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getfiscal posted:

part of me worries some agency is just going to kill assad and his top people somehow now just because they didn't get their regime change the old way. like introduce some volatility to the situation so that trump is forced to change tack. who knows!!!



i watched assad speak for the first time the other day and was impressed

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xipe posted:

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/video-civilians-eastern-aleppo-accuse-rebel-leaders-corruption-storm-aid-center/

good thing #holocaustAleppo has dropped off the radar in the west



so that's how they raise money to build a new hospital every week + replace the destroyed last one

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xipe posted:

i watched assad speak for the first time the other day and was impressed

thanks for posting that, dont think ive ever heard him speak either. i realised about 2 or 3 years back that i hadnt ever heard putin so i was just listening to his interviews/speeches for a while. kinda crazy how media filtering works.

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his wife gave her first interview in years as well recently they are both really good speakers compared to the baboons we are ruled by ... all the more reason to keep them off our media and chant 'assad the butcher' ad nauseum
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some interesting things to ponder in this fb post

https://www.facebook.com/sukant.chandan/posts/10154311210393547

*Is Russia going to allow Trump fascist imperialism to destroy Iran?* This is a post that pains me greatly to write, never written a post with such anxiety . But the danger signs are too big for me not to say something with the intense hope and prayers that I have got this very wrong. As many of us know, the Russian leadership have been supporting the global south in many important historical ways, but also there has been a worrying escalation of them doing as much as they can in soft-power to bring to power fascists in the 'west' with the terribly and frankly criminally wrong-headed delusion that western fascists will be 'nicer' to Russia. The RT (Russia Today) channel has been the most important and leading platform for global fascism, especially in the last year or two. But there are many other neo-fascist platforms run from Moscow that surround us.

Russia has been putting out the notion that Trump as well as Farage, Le Pen and other fascist leaders will be 'nice' to Russia, than hitherto have imperialists been with Russia. Putin has tied himself into knots from his Bonapartist (limiting class conflicts in favour of a elite leadership of the country) politics that plays to the Soviet socialist anti-imperialist masses, but draws them towards and is loyal to the Russian nationalist oligarchs who are firmly in control. Putin has lost his mind, desperately trying to get imperialism to treat Russia as equals, and now he has convinced himself and many others that western fascist victories will be of benefit to Russia. What an insult and humiliation to the 40 million Soviet martyrs against fascism in the 1940s, which proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that european/western fascism will, despite the apparent colonial tricks, will seek to prepare the ground to destroy Russian independence. While playing to our socialist martyrs, Putin is dragging that legacy in dog shit, and using the anti-imperialist socialist sentiments of the former Soviet peoples to help develop a fascism that they sacrificed so greatly to defeat.

We have had so many people paid by Russian and their leading fascist (Aleksander Dugin AKA Dugin the Dog (apologies to dogs)) to promote Trump, they have been doing it for many many months, and now they have the victory their were being paid to achieve. These political sociopaths really think that Trump is going to befriend Russia? THIS is the point we have to dig right into:

It seems to me that Trump will pull what the usa and western imperialist states did with Obama and Libya. Use Trump like they did Obama to lull sections of the global south to sleep, and then when guards are slightly down go for the kill and knock out Libya, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and nearly Egypt and aiming for Algeria, Hizbullah. The Palestinian struggle has been already been neutralised and is currently just not a strategic struggle, although we must of course support it loyally. I think what is taking place is that the leading factions of the usa ruling classes have brought Trump to power to trick the Russians into thinking that the yanks are going to 'normalise' relations towards Russia.

Why on earth would an imperialist system in freefall crises into fascism befriend Russia? It would not of course, as it is seeking even more vicious domination. So what's going on? What's going on is I think, a la Obama, Trump will lull the Russians, cut a deal with them and say: listen, we will go soft on you, ease the sanctions, bring in you fro the cold. The usa doesnt even NEED to be too nice to the Russians for too long, they just have to give them the impression that they will be nice to them *just* long enough to prepare the media war propaganda to take along the masses to acquiesce in a war of destruction against Iran like they did to Saddam's Iraq, Gaddafi's Libya etc. I been saying for more than five years: after knocking out Libya, Tunisia, Syria, downgrading Egypt, Yemen; they will go directly onto Iran.

Iran is bogged down in Iraq and Syria and to a lesser extent Yemen. Hizbullah is bogged down in Syria. The Syrian government are hanging on a string that the Russians are holding. In the event of a full war of destruction against Iran (like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya) the Iranians straits of Hormuz military strategy will not work, the usa can blast everything out of the water no problem. Iran will partner with Lebanese Hizbullah to launch rockets onto israel, south Lebanon and the border with Syria will be wasted in no time by the usa military. Anyway, if israel fries in all of this, its not the biggest deal for imperialism, israel is a junior attack dog in the region that is expendable, always has been, just used and armed as long as they are useful.

Without Russian backing and support, Iran has no real strategy other than long term peoples war to perhaps in the next generation or more to defeat this aggression.

All the imperialists need to do is to ensure the Russians dont move when they go for Iran. That's it. They don't need anything more. The usa might be saying to Russia: guys, just look the other way when we go for Iran, like you did with turned away when we went for Libya in March 2011, and then we can divvy up the region and all that oil between ourselves and remove one of the biggest obstacles in the region. Once the operation on Iran is under way, the usa and western imperialists will then turn their crosshairs to China and Russia. Russia will not escape, it will be brought under total imperialist domination or will have to fight back. The massive danger is that the Russians are fooled for a few years, Iran is destroyed, and then Russia are totally surrounded from the south.

f/when Iran is attacked and Hizbullah launch again against israel, will Russia side with Iran or israel? I hope I am totally wrong, but indicators are that it will side with israel, too much goodies out of that relationship on military, economic and political things than compared to Iran, a 'third world' state struggling, whereas israel is a outpost of modern imperialism with its up to date modern high-scientific-military-industrial complex. It takes militant anti-imperialist ideological and strategical clarity to side with Iran and not with the enemy, China has that commitment, not Russia as things stand currently. China-Iran will be talking right now about the Trump-Russian problem.

The other hard line nationalist figures in the Russian state will be having arguments right now with Putin's faction, but the problem is that those arguments might be off-set by the harder nationalist elements thinking there is some great opening with Trump that they want to go for. Trump's likely secretary of state is john bolton, that signals a clear approach to war on Iran, the sanctions will be deepened, the nuke deal will be ripped up and war will be developed against Iran. Even if bolton is not chosen, the mood music from Trump is rapprochement with Russia so as to go gung-ho to Iran and China, that's very clear.

Our role is to shout and scream that this does not happen, to demand Russia stays loyal to ALL sections of the global south including Iran and China against imperialism; that we demand GREATER military cooperation and aid to Iran and China and that they speed up their defences to the maximum asap; that we battle to defeat the infiltrating fascists who are delivering all of this. Other factors that might help in this situation is that imperialism in a fascist crisis just cannot maintain a steady deceitful approach to Moscow, they go in too harddc and make mistakes and lose Russia like they did after the last 'reset'. Also, China and Iran and other allies could make moves to try and scupper this bullshit from Moscow, but that's not really China's style, and Iran don't have the capacity to dictate anything to the Russians really without China helping out big time. India under the BJP may also sit on their hands if there is a war on Iran cos despite India and Iran being very close, the current BJP sectarian for big business are natural allies of Dugin's 'eurasian'-style fascism. We have lost Brazil, and that region is being defeated and not seeing further victories. If you stand still you go backwards, existence and liberation requires constant movement forward.

We can chart so much of this back to the massive historical blunder for the global south struggle that was Libya 2011. We don't have to look back far in history to see a precedent to what I am speculatively analysing here, only five years ago our global struggle fucked up big time and defacto allowed Libya to burn to an horrific end by Nato. The global south has seen what happened, many of them know what needs to be done to ensure it doesn't happen again, but there is no will, determination and leadership to implement the lessons going forward.

We are in growing extremely precarious times. If we lose Iran, we have definitively lost the region, and China or India or Algeria will be next, and then they will finish off with Russia, and 'latin' America will be a walk over cos imperialism is in no mood for massive military occupations a la Vietnam 1954-1975, Iraq 2003 and Afghanistan 2001. and all they need to do is send missiles until nothing stands. Africa, especially SADC countries have always been up for regime change and neutralisation, and thats going on against South Africa, they are preparing the country for annihilation using the DA and the EFF as pincer movements, Zim is holding on precariously as are the other states. We are talking about a new streamlined, refined, imperialism that has as its operational models Syria and Libya, no overt military on the ground (of course there are special forces a-plenty, covertly), use sectarian supremacist death squads to do the raping, pillaging and mutilations and societal collapse, bomb from the sky, send in the specialist private company mercenaries, and extract and grab and steal wealth at much as can be possible, and if you can't extract much, well you did what your crisis necessitated you to do: destroy all obstacles and seek total domination.

God, prove me wrong, I beg you.
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As many of us know, the Russian leadership have been supporting the global south in many important historical ways, but also there has been a worrying escalation of them doing as much as they can in soft-power to bring to power fascists in the 'west' with the terribly and frankly criminally wrong-headed delusion that western fascists will be 'nicer' to Russia. The RT (Russia Today) channel has been the most important and leading platform for global fascism, especially in the last year or two. But there are many other neo-fascist platforms run from Moscow that surround us.

Russia has been putting out the notion that Trump as well as Farage, Le Pen and other fascist leaders will be 'nice' to Russia, than hitherto have imperialists been with Russia. Putin has tied himself into knots from his Bonapartist (limiting class conflicts in favour of a elite leadership of the country) politics that plays to the Soviet socialist anti-imperialist masses, but draws them towards and is loyal to the Russian nationalist oligarchs who are firmly in control. Putin has lost his mind, desperately trying to get imperialism to treat Russia as equals, and now he has convinced himself and many others that western fascist victories will be of benefit to Russia.


This is godawful analysis. Re: Russian support of western fascists, I'm still waiting on the receipts, as far as RT goes they sure do air a lot of crap and they skew right but they're more likely to give airtime to libertarian types than outright fascists, who get more airtime on mainstream western platforms anyway. All that aside, Putin may be calculating and care only about his interests, I mean, he IS a world leader, but he's far from crazy. Who is this person that wrote this trash lol

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as far as RT goes they sure do air a lot of crap and they skew right but they're more likely to give airtime to libertarian types than outright fascists, who get more airtime on mainstream western platforms anyway.



"From Russian TV Network, Not So Much Love for Donald Trump"

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I've been thinking lately about how liberals think about other countries and other people and the deep chauvinism ingrained in their thinking. Getfiscal made me think about how silly it is to criticise other countries for how people have arranged their society - like who the hell are we to storm in and tell Venezuelans they've got it all wrong, or the Chinese or (on topic) the Syrians. Like, you poor people, if only you could rise up and get rid of that nasty dictator you could start to be free. It seems like the basis of this belief is the deeper belief that every other country is just an incomplete version of our own. Like China's only way forward is to see their folly and "liberalise". Syria can only advance by "opening up" or whatever. Your average crossword-doer listening to the public broadcaster in Australia probably holds these beliefs totally unexamined and won't hesitate to express them.
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ilmdge posted:

https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1272571/diff/0/1