Born into a socialist family, in what was then a socialist country. Today, politically homeless. Degrees in Philosophy, Int. Development, and Cultural Studies.
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They cry that Arab governments don’t support Palestinians, then spend years antagonizing the one Arab government that actually delivered arms to Palestinians.
And of course, their source is Al Jazeera.
Notice the selective outrage. They obsess over Hafez al-Assad coming to power through a coup—as if coups were some extraordinary event in the Syria of that era—yet have almost nothing to say about Jolani's coup and reaching Damascus after years of Zionist sponsorship.
Virtually every Arab ruler they tolerate sits in power without anything resembling a democratic mandate. Yet Al Jazeera managed to convince an entire generation that Assad was the one Arab leader they absolutely had to hate.
Who benefited from that obsession?
Certainly not Palestine.
They will recycle videos from 2011 and 2012 forever when atrocities are attributed to the Syrian government. But show them the endless footage of beheadings, lynchings, suicide bombings, kidnappings, sectarian massacres, rape, executions and ethnic cleansing committed by the Takfiri armed factions, and suddenly their Wi-Fi stops working.
And now many of those same people don't hate Jolani the same way they hated Assad because, underneath all the slogans about democracy and human rights, sectarianism and al-Jazeeratism was doing most of the thinking.
A Sunni jihadist can be washed, dressed in a suit and presented as a statesman. But Assad's Syria had to be destroyed.
Brilliant.
They still don’t understand that Syria falling into the hands of Takfiri factions was one of the final nails in the coffin of Palestinian statehood.
They helped destroy one of the most important states in the regional architecture supporting Palestine, then turned around and started crying that nobody supports Palestine.
At some point, you cannot help people who are committed to misunderstanding the world.
The fact that Palestinians are still regurgitating Al Jazeera debunked BS that led to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians opposed to foreign-terrorist intervention in Syria and the Takfiri horrors that they now endure - is indicative of how successful the Zionist bloc brainwashing project has been.
They are not even prepared to discuss their 5 Pillars nonsense, none of them were on the ground in Syria, none of them appreciate the savagery suffered by Syrians because of their wilful ignorance.
Their 'Free Syrian Army' Muslim Brotherhood heroes carried out some of the worst massacres of Syrian minorities - Alawite, Shia, Christian, Druze - in history. I covered many of them, on the ground. I would not even know where to start.. but they maintain, even now, the denigration of the Syrian Arab Army and allies that died to protect the Resistance Axis, Palestine and their own families against the thugs and savages these people call "rebels".
Anyway here is an account of just a few of the massacres of civilians by the Free Syrian Army allied with Nusra Front etc in all regions of Syria:
https://t.co/kqZksRUkiL
One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.
Rest easy, Dolly 🤘
Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children.
Syria wasn't removed from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list until Al-Qaeda/ISIS took control of the place, and now run it in the interest of US + Israel. That makes sense given that it was the US + Allies that funded ISIS + Al-Qaeda in the first place...
Mumia Abu-Jamal sent a message about his actual feelings about the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. He wrote it on two paper plates. It is more eloquent than the Guardian letter, whose right to put his name down needs to be questioned. Who signed for Mumia?
A transcription of the text on the plates:
‘My young friends,
Iran is showing the world (especially the 3rd world) how to fight against the Empire. Their drones are rewriting the rules of war. And countries across the Global South are studying this phase of the war for that use!
They remind me of Vietnam poor country that whipped the most powerful army on earth... That's where we are today.
Love...
Mumia’
In the scandal of the Open Letter, the @guardian should do an investigation - given the following facts that have now emerged.
1. Mumia Abu-Jamal did not give consent for his signature on this letter.
2. Several initial signatories, such as Robin DG Kelley, have now retracted their signatures saying that the letter that was published was not what was shown to them.
a. Why did the Guardian's editorial team not check to make sure that the signatures were accurate? They could have asked to see emails or - in the case of Mumia - letters to verify the signatures on such a consequential statement.
b. Why did the Guardian not verify with the signatories that what they were publishing was indeed what the signatories had read?
The @guardian is responsible for ensuring accuracy. It turns out that they let slip a poorly executed intelligence operation.
We must Free Mumia and ALL US political prisoners, but this is unconscionable.
This letter from a litinay detached US-based academics claiming Iranians are trapped between two oppressors only exposes their irrelevance.
Six months into a war that IRAN has won and the US EMPIRE started as the cherry on top of their regional genocide from Gaza to Lebanon and these so-called "intellectuals" want to attack the ONLY country in the region part of, and standing up for, Palestine and the resistance.
This is liberal imperialism plain and simple. And a waste of everyone's time.
Angela Davis, Judith Butler, Jairus Banaji, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Rashid Khalidi are not complete idiots. They know that the CIA and Mossad, per mainstream reporting, are actively organizing mass terrorist sabotage operations inside Iran, including being behind the January terrorist operation. This is not some arcane hidden "tankie" conspiracy theory, it was literally reported in the New York times and elsewhere. They openly boast about it, and they say that they are still doing it.
So why come out with an article that casts the Iranian state as inherently evil and fascist and authoritarian and in need of destruction, particularly when it is being waged war on by Israel and their own US regime?
Ok, let's say Iran follows your prescriptions, and dismantles its entire coercive state apparatus. It abolishes the IRGC, the prisons, the police forces, all of it is abolished.
What do you think happens after that, you utter fucking depraved pseudo-radical frauds?
What happens after is Syria and Libya on steroids. Unless you are a liar, you know that too.
And of course Iran, like any other state least of all your own with its global genocidal Zionist empire, will never do that because it is not suicidal, and its first and foremost task is to protect the sovereignty of the nation and its people. There is nothing "purported" or "ostensible" or "pretend" about this, as you say in your vile letter: Iran is among the only active anti-imperialist forces in the world today. That's an objective fact, and your pseudo-radical word plays in The Guardian cannot obscure it. We can all see it with our own eyes.
But the sole purpose of your letter, its sole function, isn't to affect any geopolitical realities, it's much more modest and personal than that: it is to act as a certificate to launder yourselves in the Western pundit academic class as the Good Pseudo-Radicals, so you can keep getting lucrative invites to talk at Princeton and Harvard and Yale and sell your pseudo-radical status for cash, which Davis and others have been doing for decades now as they demand you vote for genocidal Zionist Democrats every election cycle. This same crowd always puts out those hectoring letters ahead of an election for this purpose; suddenly "lesser evilism" becomes a moral necessity over immediate abolition when it comes to maintaining their genocidal Zionist empire and its coercive institutions, because they greatly personally benefit from it.
There is no excuse, no reasonable logic whatsoever, that justifies any anti-imperialist signing a public letter that labels the state that you're own country is trying to wipe out of existence as an "evil regime"
Ya notaron que ahora que EE.UU. ha robado todo el oro y el petróleo de Venezuela ya no hay lanchas de drogas y todos los problemas del país han desaparecido mágicamente de las noticias?