#syria
Und sie dachte, sie würde Europa in einem sicheren Boot erreichen, verbrachte aber 2 Tage auf See auf einem alten hölzernen Boot, bevor sie von der #GeoBarents gerettet wurde.
Maysan floh vor dem Krieg in #Syrien.
via @MSF_Sea
🧵ihre Geschichte:
Nearly four million refugees have fled #Ukraine since #Russia invaded. But these are hardly the only refugees fleeing war-torn countries today. Starting in 2021, the government of #Belarus has cynically used thousands of refugees displaced by wars in #Syria, #Afghanistan, #Iraq, #Ethiopia, and elsewhere as a weapon with which to exert pressure on the European Union. #EU governments have responded callously, leaving these refugees trapped in limbo between two militarized borders and establishing a restricted zone to ensure that observers could not see them dying. Despite this, anarchists organized in the #NoBordersTeam network have defied the restrictions to provide assistance to the refugees in the name of a world without borders. We spoke with anarchists mobilizing on the #border between #Poland and Belarus to learn more.
https://pl.crimethinc.com/2022/03/29/solidarity-in-an-age-of-war-and-displacement-anarchists-confront-the-weaponization-of-refugees-on-the-poland-belarus-border #migration #latvia #lithuania #lukashenko #Ryanair #violence #duda #yemen #ukraine #germany #france #Italy #czechrepublic #UK #minsk #refugees #police #acab
Lehren aus Syrien: Open-Source-Ermittler für die Ukraine | DW | 27.03.2022
Jahrelang nutzten Internetrechercheure verschiedenste digitale Quellen, um Beweise für russische Kriegsverbrechen in Syrien zu sammeln. Können ihre Erfahrungen jetzt helfen, für Gerechtigkeit für die Ukraine zu sorgen?#Ukraine #Syria #Aleppo #Mariupol #Kharkiv #Russia #OpenSource #Bellingcat
Lehren aus Syrien: Open-Source-Ermittler für die Ukraine | DW | 27.03.2022
Hello, je suppose que j'ai loupé un épisode. #Macron refuse les #afghans mais accepte les #Ukrainiens ?? Les #mannequins d'#Ukraine sont probablement plus "mariables" que les veuves de #Syrie. En #France on choisit ses #migrants en fonction de leur religion, leur compte en banque et leur couleur de peau..
Hej, jag antar att jag missade ett avsnitt. #Macron vägrar #afghaner men accepterar #ukrainare? Modeller från Ukraina är förmodligen mer "gifta" än änkor från Syrien. I #Frankrike väljer vi våra #invandrare utifrån deras religion, bankkonto och hudfärg.
Hello, I guess I missed an episode. #Macron refuses the #Afghans but accepts the #Ukrainians? Models from #Ukraine are probably more "marriageable" than widows from #Syria. In #France we choose our #migrants according to their religion, their bank account and their skin color..
Russia Continues to Attack Syrians in Syria to Prop Up Assad Regime
This has been happening since 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and the Violations Documentation Centre (VDC) put the number higher, at over 2,000; SNHR's report stated that Russian attacks have killed more civilians than either the Islamic State or the Syrian Army. Weapons used included unguided bombs, cluster bombs, incendiaries similar to white phosphorus and thermobaric weapons. By the end of September 2017, the SOHR stated that Russian airstrikes killed around 5,703 civilians, about a quarter of them children, along with 4,258 ISIL fighters and 3,893 militants from the al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces.
Russia isn't trying to defeat IS. It's trying to prop up the Assad regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#International_support
Assad's support from the right-wing has mostly been from the far-right, both before and during the Syrian Civil War. David Duke hosted a televised speech on Syrian national television in 2005. Georgy Shchokin was invited to Syria in 2006 by the Syrian foreign minister and awarded a medal by the Ba'ath party, while Shchokin's institution the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management awarded Assad an honorary doctorate. In 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center claimed that Bashar al-Assad had sheltered Alois Brunner in Syria, and alleged that Brunner advised the Assad government on purging Syria's Jewish community.\
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The National Rally in France has been a prominent supporter of Assad since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, as has the former leader of the Third Way. In Italy, the parties New Front and CasaPound have both been supportive of Assad, with the New Front putting up pro-Assad posters and the party's leader praising Assad's commitment to the ideology of Arab nationalism in 2013, while CasaPound has also issued statements of support for Assad. Syrian Social Nationalist Party representative Ouday Ramadan has worked in Italy to organize support movements for Assad. Other political parties expressing support for Assad include the National Democratic Party of Germany, the National Revival of Poland, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Bulgarian Ataka party, the Hungarian Jobbik party, the Serbian Radical Party, the Portuguese National Renovator Party, as well as the Spanish Falange Española de las JONS and Authentic Falange parties. The Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn has spoken out in favour of Assad, and the Strasserist group Black Lily has claimed to have sent mercenaries to Syria to fight alongside the Syrian army.\
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Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British National Party, was chosen by the Assad government to represent the UK as an ambassador and at government-held conferences; Griffin has been an official guest of the Syrian government three times since the beginning of the Civil War. The European Solidarity Front for Syria, representing several far-right political groups from across Europe, has had their delegations received by the Syrian national parliament, with one delegation being met by Syrian Head of Parliament Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi and Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad. In March 2015, Assad met with Filip Dewinter of the Belgian party Vlaams Belang. In 2016, Assad met with a French delegation, which included former leader of the youth movement of the National Front Julien Rochedy.\
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has expressed confidence that Syria will eliminate the current crisis and continue under the leadership of President al-Assad "the fight against terrorism and foreign interference in its internal affairs".
#russia #putin #syria #syrian-civil-war #war #civilians #civilian-deaths #assad #assad-regime
Bodies by Wafia https://youtu.be/g5SgBSgmVCs
or https://yewtu.be/g5SgBSgmVCs may be a nicer choice.
' "My instinct was to write a really sad song, but that didn’t feel right.” Wafia talked to Marc Fennell about writing her song ‘bodies’ after her Syrian family was denied refugee status."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/video/wafia-stage-fright-role-models-and-syria-in-crisis/woe6ddjie
Prof Dr Rainer Mausfeld -Stopp Air Base Ramstein 28-06-2019
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FlbreZrgWMk/
#irak #iran #NATO #Osterweiterung #Putsch #Ukraine #Putsch #Militaer, #Bundeswehr, #Aufruestung, #Waffenexporte, #Drohnen, #Frieden, #Krieg, #Friedenserziehung, #Menschenrechte, #Zivilklauseln, #NATO, #USA, #Kriegsluegen, #Grundrechte, #Menschenrechte, #Abrüsten, #Aufrüsten #Ostermarsch #Atomkraft #Atomwaffen #AbgereichertesUran #protest #musik #FirstWorldProblem #Mangel #Wohlstand #Gedanken #Probleme #Welt #Politik #Gesellschaft #Danke #positiv #Überfluss #making #peace #earth #nature #life #earth #land #future #resources #terra #viva #humanity #syria #refugees #solidarity #Militärisch-industrielle-Komplex #Weltfrieden #iran #Saudi-Arabien #Rüstungsexporte #war
Aufruf „Friedenspolitik statt Kriegshysterie“ (veröffentlicht am 7. Februar 2022)
Die Krise um die Ukraine hat sich zur ernsten Bedrohung des Friedens in Europa zugespitzt.
#irak #iran #NATO #Osterweiterung #Putsch #Ukraine #Putsch #Militaer, #Bundeswehr, #Aufruestung, #Waffenexporte, #Drohnen, #Frieden, #Krieg, #Friedenserziehung, #Menschenrechte, #Zivilklauseln, #NATO, #USA, #Kriegsluegen, #Grundrechte, #Menschenrechte, #Abrüsten, #Aufrüsten #Ostermarsch #Atomkraft #Atomwaffen #AbgereichertesUran #protest #musik #FirstWorldProblem #Mangel #Wohlstand #Gedanken #Probleme #Welt #Politik #Gesellschaft #Danke #positiv #Überfluss #making #peace #earth #nature #life #earth #land #future #resources #terra #viva #humanity #syria #refugees #solidarity #Militärisch-industrielle-Komplex #Weltfrieden #iran #Saudi-Arabien #Rüstungsexporte #war
Here are the 37 nations that chose not to condemn Russia's invasion of #Ukraine in a UN vote on March 2nd.
This is interesting as it is strongly suggestive of Russia's global allies.
#Russia #allies #unitednations #vote #unvote #Algeria #Angola #Armenia #Bangladesh #Belarus #Burundi #CentralAfricanRepublic #China #Congo #Cuba #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #India #Iran #lraq #Kazakhstan #Kyrgyzstan #Lao #Madagascar #Mali #Mongolia #Mozambique #Namibia #Nicaragua #NorthKorea #Pakistan #Senegal #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #SriLanka #Sudan #Syria #Tajikistan #Uganda #Uzbekistan #Vietnam #Zimbabwe #maps #data
Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz
Media Lens
(...) Every time US-UK-NATO launches a war of aggression on Iraq, Libya, Syria – whoever, wherever – our TV screens and front pages fill with ‘beautiful pictures’ of missiles blazing in pure white light from ships. This is ‘Shock And Awe’ – we even imagine our victims ‘awed’ by our power. (...)
By contrast, the morning after Russia launched its war of aggression on Ukraine, front pages were covered, not in tech, but in the blood of wounded civilians and the rubble of wrecked civilian buildings. (...)
Political analyst Ben Norton commented:
‘Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has gotten much more coverage, and condemnation, in just 24 hours than the US-Saudi war on Yemen has gotten since it started nearly 7 years ago… US-backed Saudi bombing now is the worst since 2018’
This is no small matter. Norton added:
‘An estimated 377,000 Yemenis have died in the US-Saudi war on their country, and roughly 70% of deaths were children under age 5’
Some 15.6 million Yemenis live in extreme poverty, and 8.6 million suffer from under-nutrition. A recent United Nations report warned:
‘If war in Yemen continues through 2030, we estimate that 1.3 million people will die as a result.’ (...)
We can be sure that Instagram, YouTube and Tik Tok will never be awash with the sentiment: ‘I stand with Yemen!’
As if the whole world belongs to ‘us’, our righteous rage on Ukraine is such that we apparently forget that we are not actually under attack, not being bombed; our soldiers and civilians are not being killed. Nevertheless, RT (formerly Russia Today), Going Underground and Sputnik have been shut down on YouTube and Google as though the US and UK were under direct attack, facing an existential threat. (...)
So how did we get here? State-corporate news coverage has some glaring omissions. (...)
In a rare example of dissent in the Guardian, Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow for defence and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, wrote this week:
‘The Obama administration’s shockingly arrogant meddling in Ukraine’s internal political affairs in 2013 and 2014 to help demonstrators overthrow Ukraine’s elected, pro‐Russia president was the single most brazen provocation, and it caused tensions to spike. Moscow immediately responded by seizing and annexing Crimea, and a new cold war was underway with a vengeance…’
Carpenter concluded:
‘Washington’s attempt to make Ukraine a Nato political and military pawn (even absent the country’s formal membership in the alliance) may end up costing the Ukrainian people dearly.
‘History will show that Washington’s treatment of Russia in the decades following the demise of the Soviet Union was a policy blunder of epic proportions. It was entirely predictable that Nato expansion would ultimately lead to a tragic, perhaps violent, breach of relations with Moscow. Perceptive analysts warned of the likely consequences, but those warnings went unheeded. We are now paying the price for the US foreign policy establishment’s myopia and arrogance.’ (...)
The New Yorker magazine describes political scientist John Mearsheimer as ‘one of the most famous critics of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War’:
‘For years, Mearsheimer has argued that the U.S., in pushing to expand NATO eastward and establishing friendly relations with Ukraine, has increased the likelihood of war between nuclear-armed powers and laid the groundwork for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive position toward Ukraine. Indeed, in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Mearsheimer wrote that “the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for this crisis.”’ (...)
In 2014, then US Secretary of State John Kerry had the gall to proclaim of Russia’s takeover of Crimea:
‘You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext.’
Senior BBC correspondents somehow managed to report such remarks from Kerry and others, without making any reference to the West’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. (...)
Noam Chomsky highlights one obvious omission in Western media coverage of Ukraine, or any other crisis involving NATO:
‘The question we ought to be asking ourselves is why did NATO even exist after 1990? If NATO was to stop Communism, why is it now expanding to Russia?’ (...)
Conclusion – ‘Whataboutism’ Or ‘Wearenobetterism’?
Regardless of the history and context of what came before, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major international crime and the consequences are hugely serious.
Our essential point for over 20 years has been that the public is bombarded with the crimes of Official Enemies by ‘mainstream’ media, while ‘our’ crimes are ignored, or downplayed, or ‘justified’. A genuinely free and independent media would be exactly as tough and challenging on US-UK-NATO actions and policies as they are on Russian actions and policies.
To point out this glaring double standard is not to ‘carry water for Putin’; any more than pointing out state-corporate deceptions over Iraq, Libya and Syria meant we held any kind of candle for Saddam, Gaddafi or Assad. (...)
The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gulf War was waged over there.’ (Howard Zinn, ‘Power, History and Warfare’, Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, No. 8, 1991, p.12)
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Do you remember this?
#refugees #Greece #Turkey #Syria @Ukraine #Hypocrisy #RefugeesWelcome #Doublestandard