#civilwar
(from A couple of days back, I heard in a podcast that saying the current #HTS offensive being linked to #Israel (or #NATO) was a "conspiracy theory". In that same podcast they recognized that one of the factors in the success of the anti-#Assad forces was the years long bombing campaign by Israel. Since the offensive started, the #USA bombed #Syria twice.
Now, Zionist media publishes a #FSA commander calling for support from #Israel to "hit back at #Iran".
Turkey/Israel/US backed Free Syrian Army captures several towns and small cities in southern Syria.
What begun in Inkhil in the morning has spread to several other towns. #FSA sleeper cells have captured towns, checkpoints and administration buildings, with the Syrian Arab Army retreating.
Unconfirmed and auto translated from #Syria News: This is a map that was published an hour ago and it shows the direction of the Syrian army to surround the #terrorists in the city of #Hama. The terrorists entered #Digeh from around #Halim and now they have no way to escape from the siege and their only hope is to get help from outside the siege ring. have been According to statistics, over the past few days, more than 1,500 Takfiri terrorists of Turkish descent have been killed and hundreds of others have been injured in Hama on different fronts
Al-Mayadeen: The Syrian army recaptured important positions from the terrorists
The Al-Mayadeen reporter reported that the Syrian Army has recaptured the headquarters of the 87th Special Forces Brigade and the #Hama and Jabal Zain al-Abidin military airport in the north and northwest of this city from the #terrorists.
At the same time, the fighters of the Russian army also targeted a convoy of terrorists on the Al-Ristan bridge on the way from Hama to #Homs.
Syrian military have retreated from Hama and Jeish AlSha'eb and Hashad AlShaibi ( حشد الشعبی) entered eastern areas of the city.
Heavy fighting is reported between the Turkey/Israeli/Ukrainian revels and Syrian Arab Army backed by Russian Air force and Small group of Fatemian brigade (shia Muslims from different countries under "advisory" command of Iran IRGC Quds force).
Large drone attacks were reported against targets in Damascus that is only 44 minutes away from Hama.
SAA in agreement with 11 tribal leaders have officially requested help from Iran to stop the advancement of Arab fighters towards nations capital.
#Syria #Damascus #Israel #Turkey #US #Iran #IRGC #CivilWar #ISIS #AlQaeda #Politics
#Sudan’s Civil War Has Killed at Least 62,000. The True Figure May Be Far More.
"A profound humanitarian crisis is occurring in Sudan, characterized by ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, food scarcity and the spread of disease, complicated further by flooding in the northern states."
#Sudan #Africa #CivilWar #Floods #EtgnicCleansing #Emergency
Remembering #Sabra and #Shatila, 42 years on: testimonies.
French writer Jean Genet, one of the first to enter Shatila after the massacre said, "I have spent four hours in Shatila, and what remains in my memory are around forty bodies, all of which—and I emphasize all—have likely been tortured, amidst the ecstasy of the torturers, their songs, their laughter, and amidst the smell of gunpowder. The smell of the corpses was not coming out of a house or from a mangled body; rather, it seemed to me that my body and my being were the ones emitting that smell."
Picture 2 shows Mohammed Said Wihibeh with photos of his martyred family members. He stated, "I'll tell you, they took a boy, just a little boy, and they tore him in half. They literally tore him in half by the legs. And we screamed, 'why?!' They said he would only grow up to be a terrorist! My grandson, what did he do to get killed? First of all, they killed his mother—they hadn't seem him, he was asleep in his cot. He started to cry; of course he did, he wanted his mother. They took him, and they killed him."
Picture 3 shows Lebanese martyr Ilham Dhaher Al-Miqdad, 23 years old, of Shatila camp. She was martyred with her ID in her hand.
Pictures 4 and 5 show Milana Boutros, a Lebanese witness to the massacre, punished for marrying a Palestinian man: she was kept alive to "teach her a lesson" as the Phalangists murdered her entire family.
The second video shows the touching moment that the Palestinian poet Rehab Kanaan, who lost 54 of her family members as martyrs of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, met her daughter on television for the first time in years after believing her to be martyred. The video needs no subtitles, as the raw emotions transcend all languages.
#Lebanon #History #ArielSharon #QarCrime #MassMurder #Israel #NeveeForget #NeveeFirgive #Inhumanity #Polotics #Phalangista #CivilWar #Occupation #History
From story by late Robert Fisk 12 years ago
The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip amid the concrete hovels – the stench of injustice still pervades the camps where 1,700 Palestinians were butchered
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-forgotten-massacre-8139930.html
Video wn francaise:
https://www.sudouest.fr/international/videos-il-y-a-40-ans-le-massacre-de-sabra-et-chatila-au-liban-12298363.php
https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/112547559739906346 MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social - Today in Labor History June 2, 1863: Backed by three gunboats, Harriet Tubman and her force of 300 black soldiers, freed 800 slaves in the Combahee River Raid, South Carolina. Furthermore, they set fire to the plantations and destroyed millions of dollars-worth of stores, cotton and homes of the wealthy, without losing a single person. Additionally, it was the only military engagement in American history where a woman, black or white, “led the raid and under whose inspiration it was originated and conducted.” Tubman devised her war strategy after repeatedly penetrating across enemy lines and spying on Confederate troop movements. In the aftermath, Confederate Captain John F. Lay said, “The enemy seems to have been well posted as to the character and capacity of our troops and their small chance of encountering opposition, and to have been well guided by persons thoroughly acquainted with the river and country.” Most Americans know of Tubman’s role in the Underground Railroad. However, she was also a spy for the Union Army. And in the late 1850s, she helped John Brown plan his raid on Harper’s Ferry and recruit supporters for the raid.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilwar #harriettubman #slavery #Abolition #undergroundgailroad #johnbrown #liberation #espionage #strongwomen #BlackMastadon #blm
... our current situation, is that the United States #government is aiding and abetting our own conquest, encouraging it and paying for it with forced #taxation and printed funds. I believe there is a legal means of refusing to pay taxes to the federal government, because they have refused to abide by their obligations to maintain #borders, ensure the welfare of the people and been woefully negligent in acting in the fiduciary interest of the American people. If we had an actual legal system instead of a corrupt means of punishment, that is.
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To get that right, like all of the others, it seems as if we are going to have to demand it at a point of leverage that the American people seem unwilling to employ as yet. This is the break point. We are either going to pay for our own conquest, or we’re going to throw off these criminal masters and engage in either wholesale secession, #civilwar or a #counter-revolution to the bureaucratic dictatorship that has risen up and supplanted representation. Those are the simple choices. Nothing makes this more clear than the recent 1.2 trillion dollar spending bill recently passed, which was done in the face of popular opposition.
~ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/complacent-about-replacement
Is the US headed toward a second civil war? This is from 2 years ago but I just saw it today. Barbara F. Walter from UC San Diego led a research project for the CIA where they analyzed 30 factors that correlated with civil war in countries other than the US. They found that there were 2 factors that predicted civil war: when the government is neither a democracy nor an autocracy, but in an in-between state (which she calls "anocracy"), and when people organize around identity rather than ideology.
As an example, she cites the civil war in Yugoslavia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia tried to transition to democracy but never made it out of the in-between state. And in the elections, you might imagine they could have had parties organized around ideology, such as a communist party and a capitalist party, but instead what Yugoslavia got was a Serbian party and a Croat party.
So is the US headed toward a second civil war? Voting in the US is increasingly based on identity (which she defines as race, ethnicity, or religion), so the question largely rests on the question of how stable US democracy is or whether it is leading towards the in-between "anocracy" state. Which yo-yos up and down according to some index she cites where the strength of US democracy is estimated ("the polity scale"). In the end she seems to give an estimate of 4% odds per year. That means over a 20 year period, the odds reach 50%. I don't know about you, but 50/50 odds of a civil war in the next 20 years seems about right to me. [Insert sarcastic joke about 2024 election here.]
She doesn't mention that Yugoslavia didn't just have 2 ethnicities -- the country broke up into 7 countries as a result of the war. Thankfully the different ethnic groups have been able to live peacefully side-by-side in their own separate countries since the war. She also makes a point of putting the blame on Slobodan Milošević, the former ruler under the Soviet regime, and says that the group that formerly has power but sees their power decline are always the ones who start civil wars, not the downtrodden like people think. She doesn't mention that the US, NATO, and Russia got involved. I'm guessing I should interpret that as meaning that these details are not predictive factors of civil war in general.
If you're interested in more, she's published a whole book on the topic.
Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in international relations: Is the US headed toward a second civil war?
#Age is not the issue with #Biden. He has a lifelong stutter and I and most of you will confuse words easily and look like a dumbass when off script. Also #Trump lies all the time so he can just gaslight people into believing that's what he meant or they heard it wrong. He lies all the time so no one holds him to the same standards of being correct like they do Bide. My two issues are #Gaza and the #border issue but I can kind of rationalize much of that for the inaction of the GOP to actually pass anything to fix our backed up immigration court and fund asylum seekers with better housing. He is our only hope to survive #climate crisis. #fascism or #civilwar would be game over for the planet. #Age