Τρίτη 21 Ιουνίου 2022
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Δευτέρα 20 Ιουνίου 2022
The most important "bad cause" is patriarchy.
Κυριακή 19 Ιουνίου 2022
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Russia's Barbarism in Ukraine Started in Syria. It Is Still Ongoing.
Russia's Barbarism in Ukraine Started in Syria. It Is Still Ongoing.
The mass graves and bombed-out cities targeted by Russian forces in Ukraine have shocked the civilized world, and rightly so. But to millions of Syrian war refugees, and Syrian-born Americans like myself, Vladimir Putin's barbaric assault on Ukraine is less a shock than it is a grim reminder of the overwhelming destructive forces he and his fellow dictator, Syria's Bashar Al-Assad, unleashed on our home country over a decade ago.
The West's response to Putin's murderous invasion of Ukraine has been swift, decisive, and unequivocal. Yet the ongoing Syrian crisis, which began in 2011 when protesters rose up against Assad's repressive government, is now, tragically, all but ignored. It's a mistake to see these two conflicts as separate. The failure of the United States and its allies to stand up to the Russian-backed Assad government years ago opened the door for Putin to wage all-out war against Ukraine. And unless Western leaders commit to helping Syria's opposition topple Assad and achieve the Syrian people's aspiration to transition to democracy, the world will remain needlessly vulnerable to the whims of dictators.
In the first years of Syria's civil war, opposition forces made steady progress, gaining control of large segments of several provinces, including Aleppo, Idlib, and Deraa. That all changed in 2015, when Putin came to the aid of Assad. What followed was one of the most horrific airstrike campaigns in history. Putin's forces didn't just bomb military targets -- they intentionally bombed schools, hospitals, and markets, killing 24,743 defenseless civilians, by one estimate, and leading to the world's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
All told, 6.6 million Syrians have fled their country since the beginning of the war, and an additional 6.7 million have been internally displaced.
My own brother, along with his wife and children, were forced to flee the Damascus suburb of Ghouta to avoid the bombings and a terrifying chemical attack that killed scores of their neighbors. They joined tens of thousands of Syrians who fled to overcrowded and unsanitary refugee camps in Idlib.
These joint Russian-Syrian assaults were critical in helping Assad stave off opposition forces and remain in power. But for Putin, they were a proving ground for tactics and technologies he would later deploy in Ukraine. Not only did the Syria campaigns allow Russia to test out new weapons systems and refine their disinformation techniques. They also offered Putin a sense of how the West might respond should he use these strategies in the future.
And it's here that the connection between these wars is most critical. Had the United States and other Western countries rallied behind Syria's opposition, and worked with allies in the Middle East to help rebel fighters beat back the Assad regime, it would have sent a strong message to Assad and Putin both. Specifically, it would have shown these dictators -- and others around the world -- that targeted assaults on helpless civilians won't be tolerated, no matter where they occur.
But no such response materialized. In fact, at no point has the United States ever provided enough support to the Syrian opposition to even remotely threaten Assad's power, much less Putin's. In effect, Putin was permitted to perpetrate horrific war crimes against the civilians of another nation with impunity. Is it any wonder he believed he could do the same in Ukraine?
Thankfully, the West has finally taken notice, showing solidarity with those fighting for their freedom in Ukraine, and demanding action from their leaders in the form of much-needed military support and economic sanctions. But an effective response to Putin's uncivilized behavior can't ignore his past and ongoing crimes against the Syrian people.
It's time for the West to make up for its failure in Syria, and finally provide my home nation's opposition forces with the support they need to beat back both Assad and Putin and achieve the Syrian people's desire to transition to democracy.
Dr. Tarek Kteleh is a practicing medical doctor, president of Rheumatology of Central Indiana, and a member of Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, a nongovernmental organization whose mission is to promote security in the Middle East and democratic progress in Syria. He is the author of The Six Pillars of Advocacy: Embrace Your Cause and Transform Lives. The views expressed are the author's own.
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"Neither Lebanon nor Gaza, think of the retirees" ..
"Neither Lebanon nor Gaza, think of the retirees" ..
This "reactionary" -by the left and Iranianleft criteria- slogan, drips like a poison in the "anti-Zionist" false consciousness of the (iranian and west) far left, freezes them, because they see where the Iranian people are going, and they do not like it. Let leftists be careful, but they are not careful, and so they will lose again.
The "west-east" divide may in fact be an alienative determination/definition, and may have to be overcome in the future, but at the moment eastern totalitarianism is the worst, first and foremost for the eastern peoples themselves who live within its chains.
Σάββατο 18 Ιουνίου 2022
Neutral puppet but puppet of Putin.
Παρασκευή 17 Ιουνίου 2022
Avaze Mahali, Yare Mehraboon
With my poor knowledge of music, however, I can understand the multitude and complexity of the changes and rhythms in this Iranian folk song. Surely, however, I can understand why a stupid left-wing sectarian when he hears the word ''folk'', can not understand that this (Iranian) ''folk'', for example, can not be compared and paralleled with the ''folk'' that haunts him like a ghost and has led him to ideological spells, like those of the idiot-fool-idiots "autonomous Marxists" who grow in Germany like cabbages with which German-Marxist cabbage soups are made.
I see a left idiot, playing the good kid in the Turkish rapist.
The end of a blackmail, or, all pigs have the same face.
The end of a blackmail.
Turkey uses immigrants on the Greek-Turkish
border as a weapon, sometimes at their own risk, but Greek society must
overcome its fear and accept them now all, in a fraternal way, overcoming the
trap of its heterodetermination by the Turkish state trap.
But here I must emphasize something:
The
only ones who do not have the right to judge us (apart from the Turkish
state, of course) are the "solidarity" westerners (and Greeks)
"solidarity" and extreme leftists who did not say ANYTHING about the
decision of the hegemonic nation-state-vampire in Europe, Germany, which
DECIDED at the critical moment to close the Greek-Northern Macedonian
border, and thus to stop the free flow of migrants-refugees to western
Europe (some would also stay in Greece), converting my country
(especially some islands in the eastern aegean) in a closed-open
concentration camp for immigrants-refugees.
Το νεκρό Όνομα..
Αυτοκαθορισμός : Το νεκρό Όνομα..
Η αποτυχία αναβίωσης ενός νεκρού κεντρικού Ονόματος μέσω τής πρόσθεσης εμβόλιμων και μη-οργανικά συνυφασμένων με αυτό κατηγοριακών προσδιορισμών, δεν είναι η τελευταία φάση θανάτου του.
Δεν το έχουν κατανοήσει μερικοί «εκ γενετής αθώοι» ότι μια «αυτοκριτική» και μια «μετατροπή» δεν αρκεί για να απαλείψει τις ευθύνες και να δικαιολογήσει μια τόσο ακραία βίαιη διαδοχή των οικείων κεντρικών σημασιών τους.
Ακόμα δε χειρότερο είναι να νομίσει κάποιος από αυτούς τούς «εκ γενετής αθώους» ότι θα αρκούσε έτσι απλά μια πλήρης αποποίηση ευθυνών για «λάβαρα» και πρακτικές που οδηγούν μέσω τής πλήρους αφέλειάς τους στο θανατικό χωρίς καν λόγο, η οποία θα μπορούσε να υπάρξει με μια μεταφορά τής ευθύνης αυτής στον εχθρό, πάλι.
Κανένας λογικός άνθρωπος, κανένας άνθρωπος με τσίπα, δεν θα μπορούσε να δεχτεί ότι μπορεί να υπάρξει ένας «άλλος» εθνικοσοσιαλισμός, αφού το βάρος των εγκλημάτων αυτού τού τερατώδους δεν μπορεί να αποκολληθεί από το όνομα του, ούτε το όνομα του μπορεί να αποκολληθεί από το βάρος των εγκλημάτων που έγιναν υπό την σκέπη του.
Όμως, υπάρχουν πολλοί ακόμα στον άγιο οικείο χώρο μας (κομμουνισμός) που δεν τους έχει περάσει καν από το μυαλό η ιδέα ότι κάτι ανάλογο αν και ηπιότερο (είναι δόξα αυτό το «ηπιότερο»;) συμβαίνει και σε μας, ή σε αυτούς (αν δεν με δέχονται στην πίστη τους) όσο ακόμα υπάρχει προσκόλληση σε ονόματα, σύμβολα, κεντρικούς συμβολισμούς, αλλά και στρατηγικές ιδέες περί ολικής απάρνησης τού πολιτικού στοιχείου τής κοινωνίας.
Η ενοχλητική προσκόλληση σε σύμβολα και λάβαρα που έχουν ακυρωθεί αμετάκλητα, και δεν ξεκολλάνε από την κακή τους χρήση όσα ξόρκια κι αν κάνεις, δεν είναι απλά εμμονή, μαγικοθρησκευτική προσκόλληση, αλλά εντέλει σημαίνει, ως εμμονή, ένα σημάδι ότι δεν έχουν εγκαταλειφθεί κεντρικές στρατηγικές ιδέες και βλέψεις που είναι αυταρχικές.