Absolutely. Parliament needs George Galloway, not Zak Polanski.
Polanski is another Waitrose war hawk, who would support war against Russia. Virtually all of the main parties are stuffed full of cheerleaders for Zelensky, from Reform to Green and everything in between.
Protests over rising oil prices and the high cost of living have continued in Syria. 🇸🇾
Although the protests have subsided slightly and the intervention of security forces has contained their spread, roadblocks and intermittent clashes with patrols were again reported today in the eastern part of the country. Slogans against Jolani and the Syrian Transitional Government were also chanted.
Nunca olvidemos que por culpa del gobierno del gusano cobarde traidor Lula da Silva, Venezuela no logró ingresar al Brics. Ni olvido, ni perdón con ese bichito rastrero
@EdbieLigerSmith@OsosYTequila the overthrow of Ba’athism in both Iraq and Syria destroyed the economies and made it miserable for the average person, all because of mass privatization to outside countries
Bashar Al-Assad was far from being a perfect leader, and I’ve stated my criticisms of his former Government many times.
However, the current turmoil in Syria really gets to the heart of why so many of us believed the fall of the Ba’athist Socialist State was a tragedy.
The Assad family did not enact major land redistribution, which I believe was a mistake, but they did utilize methods of central economic planning such as petroleum subsidies & state issued fuel prices in order to keep gas prices down & spur economic development.
After the Assad Government fell the economy was liberalized, which is a fancy way of saying it was handed over to private interests who don’t give two shits about the Syrian people.
Over 100 state run companies were privatized & the IMF is now working directly in Syria’s Finance Ministry, molding their “economic recovery” in a way that is beneficial to the profits of Western/Gulf corporations and banks.
Now people are being hit with a 40% increase in fuel prices at a time when the country is divided into factions & the central Government lacks the ability & the will to unify the country.
Chaos has erupted and Syria now risks falling into the state of anarchy and civil war that Libya did after the overthrow of Gaddafi.
And as with Libya, the main beneficiaries of such a disaster would undoubtably be the US and Israel.
In my view, the people who’s analysis of this conflict can be summarized in two words, “Assad bad” are not giving you the full picture, and those who characterize it as nothing more than a religious conflict are missing the underlying economic situation, including the goals of the US empire in Syria.
@Souria4Syrians Jewlani will clinch onto power for as long as his Mossad-Turkish handlers find him useful. they spent so much time trying to overthrow assad after all
Tonight's Syria fuel hike protests are larger and angrier than yesterday's
Currently protests and road blocks are ongoing in several Syrian governorates
If jolani regime fails to appease them by Thursday, then expect major escalation on Friday (after Friday prayers)
Nicolás Maduro es inocente. Stephanie Weatherbee Brito, de la Asamblea Internacional de los Pueblos, y yo escribimos para Globetrotter, https://t.co/J3RYuFgyfB
It should be noted that the SAA always enjoyed strong support in this neighborhood; under PYD rule, the flag of the SAR was regularly flown there by locals, and during the Deir ez-Zor campaign, many volunteered to fight alongside the SAA
🏴🏴🇮🇪Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nationalist leaders declare right to self-determination at Cardiff summit
Leaders of the Scottish Nationalist Party, the Welsh Party Plaid Cymru, and Northern Ireland’s Sinn Féin declared their nations’ right to choose whether to remain part of the UK at a rare joint meeting in Cardiff on Monday, signing a memorandum of understanding stating: “Our nations have the right to self-determination. No Westminster government has the right to block democracy or undermine the principle that our people will decide their own future.”
The parties diverge on timing and method: the SNP wants a second independence referendum after Scotland’s narrow 2014 vote to remain in the UK; Sinn Féin seeks a vote on Irish reunification; and Plaid Cymru favors independence only in the longer term, with no immediate referendum push.
Meanwhile on Yemen's western coast:
"A message to our countrymen who sold the homeland. And pledged themselves to Saudi and American hands.
Return to the homeland. You will have security... If they refuse, the sword of truth will cut them down."