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Wayne Radinsky

"Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals secrets of illicit captagon trade."

"In the dark, cavernous warehouses at the abandoned site in the city of Douma, fighters who ousted Assad said they found thousands of pills hidden in furniture, fruit, decorative pebbles and voltage stabilizers that Reuters reporters saw stacked on pallets, with a trailer waiting outside. Many of the pills were stamped with the double crescent logo or the word 'Lexus' that identifies captagon pills."

I never heard of captagon before. Allegedly it was produced primarily in Syria and provided billions of dollars to the Assad regime for funding the civil war. Apparently "captagon" was a brand name and the chemical name is fenethylline, and it's a combination of amphetamine and theophylline. I never heard fo theophylline. Apparently it inhibits phosphodiesterase and blocks adenosine receptors. It has a caffeine-like stimulant effect. Amphetamine is of course a stimulant. Now that the Assad regime has fallen, production of captagon is Syria has also fallen dramatically.

"Captagon" is a street name. The chemical name is fenethylline, and it's a combination of amphetamine and theophylline. Theophylline inhibits phosphodiesterase and blocks adenosine receptors. Apparently it has a caffeine-like stimulant effect. Amphetamine is of course a stimulant. Allegedly captagon was produced primarily in Syria and provided billions of dollars to the Assad regime for funding the civil war. Now that the Assad regime has fallen, production of captagon in Syria has also fallen dramatically.

Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals secrets of illicit captagon trade.

#geopolitics #narcotrafficking

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Peace for Syria. Not a piece of Syria

#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Syria

For 13 years, Syria has been engulfed in unimaginable suffering, with its people enduring war, displacement, and oppression. The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime – a symbol of systematic human rights violations including imprisonment, torture, and murder – has sparked hope. Yet, this moment demands more than hope. It demands action.

The international community must finally confront the tragic reality of Syria: a nation treated as a chessboard by global powers, where the people’s humanity is overshadowed by the pursuit of geopolitical advantage. From Russia and Iran to Turkey, the United States, NATO, Israel, and Qatar, these players have exploited Syria, each backing factions to further their own interests. These interventions have fuelled sectarian violence, displaced millions, and committed crimes against humanity, all while leaving Syrians to grapple with unending loss and despair.

It is time to say enough. Enough of treating Syria as a prize to be divided. Enough of forced displacement and the endless deaths at Europe’s borders. Enough of racism in countries meant to be places of refuge. The cycle of normalised violence must end.

https://diem25.org/peace-for-syria-not-a-piece-of-syria/

Peace for Syria. Not a piece of Syria

The international community must finally confront the tragic reality of Syria: a nation treated as a chessboard by global powers

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

In Syria dirty war, “our side” has won - by Aaron Maté

#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Syria

Biden and his team of Obama administration veterans, who began the CIA war against Syria in 2011, now find themselves leaving office just as their regime change project achieves its goal. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and a country decimated – all so that a secular dictator could be replaced by a former leader of Al Qaeda -- it will not be a surprise if Biden and his aides soon stop taking credit for the fact that “our side” has won.

https://www.aaronmate.net/p/in-syria-dirty-war-our-side-has-won

In Syria dirty war, “our side” has won

The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and his replacement by the leader of an "Al Qaeda spin-off", fulfills a more than decade-long, US-led regime change campaign.

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Emmanuel Florac

Devant la guerre - by Branko Milanovic

#history #geopolitics #imperialism #war

As this brief description makes clear similarities with today’s situation are many. Whereas the conclusion of the Cold War did not have an official ending similar to Versailles, its main contours reproduced Versailles. The satisfied powers, the winners of the Cold War, were the US, UK, France and foremost Germany that regained unity. On the other hand, the “New World Order” produced one large power (Russia) that was from the very beginning unsatisfied with the outcome, especially since Russia, like Germany in 1918, did not at all feel defeated. From the very beginning when under Yeltsin the country was half-destroyed and internationally behaved more or less like a US vassal, Russia was resentful of one aspect of the victors’ policies: the extension of their military alliance to Russia’s borders.

https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/devant-la-guerre

Devant la guerre

On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"

wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In - by Caitlin Johnstone

#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Syria

Many pundits on my end of the commentary spectrum had been calling those proxy wars self-defeating and framing them as the desperate flailings of a dying empire which will only accelerate its demise, but now here we are watching the empire score a victory it’s been chasing for years, with the western/Israeli stranglehold on the middle east growing tighter than ever.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/assad-is-out-woke-al-qaeda-is-in

Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Presentation by and Interview with Ted Postol

He first has a presentation about the new Russian missile system, and later talks about the implications for Western Europe from a security perspective

https://rumble.com/v5sg71n-ask-the-inspector-with-scott-ritter-ep.-215-streams-live-on-nov-26-at-3-pm.html

A physicist, Theodore A. Postol is professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. His expertise is in nuclear weapon systems, including submarine warfare, applications of nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense, and ballistic missiles more generally.

— https://thebulletin.org/biography/theodore-a-postol/

#TedPostol #Russia #geopolitics

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Blinken Is Pushing For Ukrainian Teens To Die For US Hegemony

#geopolitics #imperialism #war

The “left” is divided on Syria only in the same way it’s divided on Ukraine and other conflicts: Marxists, dedicated peace activists and opponents of the western empire on one side; shitlibs, NATO simps and anarkiddies on the other. The high level of leftish unity we’ve been seeing between those two groups on Gaza this past year is the exception, not the norm.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/blinken-is-pushing-for-ukrainian

Blinken Is Pushing For Ukrainian Teens To Die For US Hegemony

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Either Watch The Footage Of Dead Kids In Gaza Or Stop Supporting Israel

#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Gaza #judeoNazism

If you are only able to hold your worldview together by refusing to face the facts about it, then your worldview is garbage and your opinions suck.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/either-watch-the-footage-of-dead

Either Watch The Footage Of Dead Kids In Gaza Or Stop Supporting Israel

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Emmanuel Florac

Read House Oversight Committee's COVID-19 report on origins, response

#geopolitics #politics #health #COVID19

The report yields five points of bipartisan consensus and seven findings. The report addresses the origins of the virus; U.S. funding for the lab in Wuhan, China, from which the report states the virus almost certainly leaked; mask mandates and lockdowns; Operation Warp Speed’s vaccine development, and more.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5017696-house-oversight-covid-committee-report-read/

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