butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Well, they finally managed to kill Raed Fares. And some other revolutionaries along with him.
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And next, Syria?
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HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
My thoughts go out to anyone that knew him, I learned a lot and indeed was inspired by his pictures and stuff he put online.
Really fucking upset to hear this but don’t know how to put that across, sorry if this sounds glib.
RIP.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
His funeral was why the revolution will never die.
It's not rebel-held idlib as so many obits said. It's free syria.
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butchersapron
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Cheesepig3
Cheese. Cheese. Cats.
rekil
to menny cranks
Muhammad Khalid Rahmun, mentioned here, is the new Minister Of Interior in a reshuffle.
Syria’s Chemical Weapons Kill Chain
Syria’s Chemical Weapons Kill Chain
petee
no gods, no malarkey
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
A worrying new stage with potentially dreadful consequences - the YPG/PKK now escalating their 'hands off resistance' in Afrin through the wrath of olives to classic terrorist car-bombs against non-kurdish civilians (sorry 'settlers') over the weekend.
ska invita
back on the other side
Is there a correlation with Trump's withdrawal and the very publicly announced forthcoming assault on the Kurds by Erdogan last week?
ManchesterBeth
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what a time to be alive. public endorsements of assad in the turkish media in any future election, and yet the anti-imperialist 'anarchists' haven't clocked it yet.
ManchesterBeth
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MBS the greatest unwilling anti-imperialist of the century.
ManchesterBeth
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obsessive focus on diyarbakir as if that is all of turkish kurdistan.
And this minimises the class content of turkish states crimes cos they don't account for a sizeable conservative kurd contingent doing good financially from aligning with... can't see anything good coming out of this.
And this minimises the class content of turkish states crimes cos they don't account for a sizeable conservative kurd contingent doing good financially from aligning with... can't see anything good coming out of this.
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ManchesterBeth
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and there we have it, please continue US intervention to not upset our alliances. even though the turkish establishment is now explicitly (finally?) publically coming out for assad.
These ph.d wonks weren't all that concerned when thousands of kurdish villages were being destroyed in the 90s whilst the PKK was just abetting this from the other side with their revolutionary tax and drug cartel shit. anything to monetise your neoconservative trajectory because you always have to be an ex-leftist to howl like a wolf.
These ph.d wonks weren't all that concerned when thousands of kurdish villages were being destroyed in the 90s whilst the PKK was just abetting this from the other side with their revolutionary tax and drug cartel shit. anything to monetise your neoconservative trajectory because you always have to be an ex-leftist to howl like a wolf.
ManchesterBeth
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feminism Fatma Sahin-thought.
Sure looks like it. Trump appears to be telling Erdogan to go ahead and smash the Kurds in Syria.
ManchesterBeth
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yeh as if the turkish state hasn't been smashing the kurds for over 40 years now.
ManchesterBeth
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*if true* then just adding fuel to the fire.
ManchesterBeth
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So entirely predictably Syrian army is now deploying forces near Manbij. Assad owned Turkey but the anti-imperialists were owned as well. Arab league must be gloating. What can the PKK actually do? it will just get folded back into its iran axis. What can the anti-imperialists say?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
People setting themselves in fie in the camps now. So the arab spring ends as it started.
How and why reconstruction under the regime is a profit (in many ways) making and thieves charter. (pdf)
Summary
1 The reconstruction plans of the al-Assad regime largely ignore the needs of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The regime’s reconstruction strategy does not
address the most pressing needs of over 10 million Syrian IDPs and refugees. Instead it
caters mostly to the economic interests of the regime itself and its allies.
2 Current Syrian legislation obstructs the return of IDPs and refugees, and legalizes the
deprivation of rights of residents of informal settlements. A series of tailor-made laws
have made it legal to deprive inhabitants of informal settlements of their rights. This
includes the restriction of housing, land and property rights through Decree 66, Law No.
10, the restriction of basic rights under the counter-terrorism law, and the legal bases for
public-private co-investments. These laws also serve the interests of regime cronies and
regime-loyal forces. The process of demographic engineering in former opposition-held
territories, which has already begun, driven by campaigns of forced displacement and
the evictions of original residents, is being cemented by these laws. They considerably
discourage and obstruct refugees from returning to Syria. Funding reconstruction
under the umbrella of the Syrian state threatens to reinforce this policy.
3 Under the current circumstances, reconstruction would further strengthen the
dictatorship and its nepotism, as well as fuel new conflicts. Current housing, land and
property rights are a key driving factor for future conflicts in Syria, and are expected to
considerably increase the existing and massive social inequalities in Syrian society that
were major motivating factors at the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011.
4 Instead of providing reconstruction assistance to the country, the allies of the Syrian
regime are plundering the country’s natural resources. Iran and Russia in particular
are hardly contributing towards a base for future reconstruction. Rather they are
plundering the country’s few resources. One example is the Russian-Syrian agreement
on the use of phosphate resources, which assures a Russian company 70 percent of all
the phosphate extracted while the Syrian government will get only 30 percent. Such
agreements jeopardize the prospect of economic stabilization in Syria, as potential tax
and foreign exchange earnings are compromised.
5 Reconstruction fails as a means of political pressure on the Syrian regime. So far,
the al-Assad regime has attempted in vain to force European states to fund Syria’s
reconstruction by using the repatriation of Syrian refugees from Europe as a “bait”.
At the same time, Western states have not been very successful in making financial
pledges for reconstruction conditional, attempting to use them as a foreign policy
tool to aid political change in Syria. This is due to the fact that the military victories of
the al-Assad regime and its allies have reduced what little pressure there was on the
Syrian regime to commit to reforms or a political transition. Its current reconstruction
strategy illustrates how the promise of reconstruction funds cannot be used to pressure
for substantial change within the Syrian regime.
6 No reconstruction without peace. Experiences from other conflicts show that
reconstruction only makes sense after armed conflicts have ended – that is, when all
hostilities have ceased and a peace agreement is signed. Syria still has a long way to go
in this respect, as no notable progress has been made with the Geneva peace process.
Before committing to any reconstruction aid, there must be a political solution to the
conflict in Syria.
7 Reconstruction aid must be tailored to the needs of those affected and involve Syrian
civil society. If reconstruction is to lay the foundation for the return of IDPs and
refugees to their home country, their needs must be assessed and their participation in
the reconstruction process ensured. In addition to material needs and assuring legal
rights regarding housing, land and property rights are maintained, other obstacles to
return must also be eliminated, such as, for example, establishing effective protection
against potential state persecution. This is why Syrian civil society and the diaspora
should be involved in reconstruction planning by Germany or the European Union at an
early stage.
How and why reconstruction under the regime is a profit (in many ways) making and thieves charter. (pdf)
Summary
1 The reconstruction plans of the al-Assad regime largely ignore the needs of internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The regime’s reconstruction strategy does not
address the most pressing needs of over 10 million Syrian IDPs and refugees. Instead it
caters mostly to the economic interests of the regime itself and its allies.
2 Current Syrian legislation obstructs the return of IDPs and refugees, and legalizes the
deprivation of rights of residents of informal settlements. A series of tailor-made laws
have made it legal to deprive inhabitants of informal settlements of their rights. This
includes the restriction of housing, land and property rights through Decree 66, Law No.
10, the restriction of basic rights under the counter-terrorism law, and the legal bases for
public-private co-investments. These laws also serve the interests of regime cronies and
regime-loyal forces. The process of demographic engineering in former opposition-held
territories, which has already begun, driven by campaigns of forced displacement and
the evictions of original residents, is being cemented by these laws. They considerably
discourage and obstruct refugees from returning to Syria. Funding reconstruction
under the umbrella of the Syrian state threatens to reinforce this policy.
3 Under the current circumstances, reconstruction would further strengthen the
dictatorship and its nepotism, as well as fuel new conflicts. Current housing, land and
property rights are a key driving factor for future conflicts in Syria, and are expected to
considerably increase the existing and massive social inequalities in Syrian society that
were major motivating factors at the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011.
4 Instead of providing reconstruction assistance to the country, the allies of the Syrian
regime are plundering the country’s natural resources. Iran and Russia in particular
are hardly contributing towards a base for future reconstruction. Rather they are
plundering the country’s few resources. One example is the Russian-Syrian agreement
on the use of phosphate resources, which assures a Russian company 70 percent of all
the phosphate extracted while the Syrian government will get only 30 percent. Such
agreements jeopardize the prospect of economic stabilization in Syria, as potential tax
and foreign exchange earnings are compromised.
5 Reconstruction fails as a means of political pressure on the Syrian regime. So far,
the al-Assad regime has attempted in vain to force European states to fund Syria’s
reconstruction by using the repatriation of Syrian refugees from Europe as a “bait”.
At the same time, Western states have not been very successful in making financial
pledges for reconstruction conditional, attempting to use them as a foreign policy
tool to aid political change in Syria. This is due to the fact that the military victories of
the al-Assad regime and its allies have reduced what little pressure there was on the
Syrian regime to commit to reforms or a political transition. Its current reconstruction
strategy illustrates how the promise of reconstruction funds cannot be used to pressure
for substantial change within the Syrian regime.
6 No reconstruction without peace. Experiences from other conflicts show that
reconstruction only makes sense after armed conflicts have ended – that is, when all
hostilities have ceased and a peace agreement is signed. Syria still has a long way to go
in this respect, as no notable progress has been made with the Geneva peace process.
Before committing to any reconstruction aid, there must be a political solution to the
conflict in Syria.
7 Reconstruction aid must be tailored to the needs of those affected and involve Syrian
civil society. If reconstruction is to lay the foundation for the return of IDPs and
refugees to their home country, their needs must be assessed and their participation in
the reconstruction process ensured. In addition to material needs and assuring legal
rights regarding housing, land and property rights are maintained, other obstacles to
return must also be eliminated, such as, for example, establishing effective protection
against potential state persecution. This is why Syrian civil society and the diaspora
should be involved in reconstruction planning by Germany or the European Union at an
early stage.
Patteran
A nowadays excuse
Four U.S. troops reported among 16 dead in north Syria attack | Reuters
US casualties among other Syrian dead & injured in Manbij after a suicide bombing. Not sure if this is likely to delay or encourage departure - I suspect the latter in the current context.
US casualties among other Syrian dead & injured in Manbij after a suicide bombing. Not sure if this is likely to delay or encourage departure - I suspect the latter in the current context.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
ISIS in manbij? That's a hard sell. PKK doing stuff like this all over afrin as 'resistance', well yes.
Edit: sorry, slipping into bad mindset. Don't need conspiracy guff.
Edit: sorry, slipping into bad mindset. Don't need conspiracy guff.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Well flip me:
British Isis hostage John Cantlie still alive, UK government says
Maybe all them new prisoners that patteran mentioned the other week may have not just been bullshitting for leverage.
edit: or is there a wider game at play that i'm missing here?
British Isis hostage John Cantlie still alive, UK government says
Maybe all them new prisoners that patteran mentioned the other week may have not just been bullshitting for leverage.
edit: or is there a wider game at play that i'm missing here?
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