chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I've been reading about Blackwater. Fucking frightening.This is 2018, it'd be out-sourced to the lowest bidder, probably Capita.
I've been reading about Blackwater. Fucking frightening.This is 2018, it'd be out-sourced to the lowest bidder, probably Capita.
This is 2018, it'd be out-sourced to the lowest bidder, probably Capita.
Bump - he is about to appear on CH4 news in 5 mins I believe.Trying to get a post in edgeways from CrabbedOne's relentless post odyssey...
Picked up by the Beeb here:
Syrian refugee 'felt oppressed' by Stop the War protest - BBC News.
I have to confess I don't know what it would achieve but even if it undermines the regime a little bit it can't be a bad thing. .
I have to confess I don't know what it would achieve but even if it undermines the regime a little bit it can't be a bad thing.
Asked if this was a “one-time shot”, as US defence secretary, James Mattis, has said, Williamson replied:
“We’ve been working to make sure the targeting and the strikes have an enormous effect. It’s our belief the action we’ve taken has degraded their ability to act in the future.”
Pressed on the issue, Williamson said a clear message had been sent to the Syrian regime and it was now “in their hands”.
“It’s the Syrian regime choice - do they think it’s acceptable to use chemical weapons? There is a consequence.”
Williamson said the action taken by UK, US and France “significantly reduced” the likelihood of the regime using them again.
Possibly a harder sell if your house is in Damascus.
I've been reading about Blackwater. Fucking frightening.
I'm not following this stuff on social media so no doubt I am missing lots, but I do think it's possible to be both against British airstrikes and against the Assad regime. I wouldn't want to lump all dissent at military intervention into the pro-regime camp.
I take Geri's earlier point about listening to the views of the Syrian opposition but at the same time -at this moment - it's not just about the Syrians it's now, probably briefly, about us.
However trivial in comparison to what is happening in Syria, what is happening in the UK (i.e. the govt authorising airstrikes) merits its own response.
What exactly that should be is open to debate, and weakening the apparent grip of the conspiracists over swathes of what passes for the Left has to be a factor.
You've seriously not seen a large part of the publicly vocal anarchists morph into PKK apologists and through that a concomitant commitment against the wider revolution and through that into assad supporters? A large wall 1 minute away from me has turned into pro-PKK propaganda with an anarchist circled A. One of many in the area. You can't think anarchist are immune form this shit surely? Many of them are in the sewer with the tankies and london-left goons and directing people right into it.
Russia have said that this "didn't impact the areas where they are responsible for air defence".
Indeed so.I do think it's possible to be both against British airstrikes and against the Assad regime
The Jeremy Scahill book?
Yeah, but they don't seem to have tried to shoot anything down. (based on my 5 minute look at the news this morning).Didn't they also say there was no evidence of a chemical attack?
Yeah, but they don't seem to have tried to shoot anything down. (based on my 5 minute look at the news this morning).
This may be of some interest:
The Threat of Wider Wars in the Middle East and the Responsibilities of Socialists - Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists
"The alliances currently confronting each other are fighting over the control of the region, its capital, and aim to repress any movements for social justice."
"At this time, it is the responsibility of Middle Eastern socialists not to fall into the trap of the nationalist and hate-mongering propaganda of their states. Instead, we need to demonstrate that the current changing alliances are an expression of the logic of capital, its racism, misogyny and homophobia. We need solidarity between labor struggles, women’s emancipation struggles and those of oppressed minorities, including oppressed sexual minorities, against this destructive logic and for a humanist alternative.
Frieda Afary"
Their latest:They've now formed a wider group and released this statement of founding principles.
Didn't they also say there was no evidence of a chemical attack?
According to Russia 103 missiles were fired, 73 were shot down...