#North Syria

[slovenlyrecordings]

a message from our friends The Raws:

Dear friends,

On monday, a major earthquake struck large areas of southeastern Turkey and North Syria destroying 10 cities. Thousands of people killed, injured and left homeless in freezing winter conditions, many still buried beneath rubble. There are not enough rescue teams and the state aid is inadequate. The situation is terrible.

If you want to help, you can make donations through the following organizations.

AHBAP: https://bagis.ahbap.org/kampanya/paytr-ailesi-deprem-kampanyasi @ahbap For our animal friends: Pawguards: https://www.patikoruyuculari.com/destek-ol @patikoruyuculari

[butterfly-95]

I think people need to realize that it was sheer luck that they have been born in developed countries with decent living conditions, away from the threat of war or civil conflicts. It is by pure coincidence at times that you end up being a citizen of a developed country, rather than one with an impoverished population experiencing man-made (because it is man-made in this day and age) famine, diseases that have been long eradicated or war (be it a civil conflict or due to selfish interests of developed nations who profit from these, at the cost of civilian lives). You could have been born into these conditions.

The point is: NO ONE should ever be made to witness the horrors of war, famine, poverty, disease or any other trauma inducing situation in which they have no free will or say about its outcome.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

The CIA-backed ISIS and Al Qaeda rulers of Syria are refusing to defend themselves against Israel who is currently bombing Syria?

How shocking. It’s almost like ISIS and Al Qaeda are on Israel’s side.

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[boysborntodie]

“I don’t talk about Palestine because I don’t like going into politics : /” fuck you. The existence of Muslims and MENA people has always been political to the West. Their lives and their deaths. Their happiness and anger and sorrow. Their love and hatred. Their sweat and blood and tears. Everything has always been reduced to politics when they are more than you could ever begin to comprehend. Palestine will be free. And so will Sudan and Pakistan and Lebanon and Yemen and Syria and every other country, place and people who suffer only for their pain to be called political by those responsible for and complicit in it

[deepspaceboytoy]

Truly one of the things that will drive you the most insane if you become a Rome guy good style is when European fascists or American twitter addicts with statue avatars post about like. Embodying the glory of Rome because the Romans were maybe the most racist anyone has ever been to Europeans. The things I have seen legionaries say about Germans are frankly shocking and in many cases almost disquieting.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[serinyxx]

[vividdreamer]

Donald Trump is not anti-war.

Disclaimer: I am not pro-Kamala and I do not support the Democrats.

[ladyimaginarium]

reminder that asia is. fucking massive. btw

[dougielombax]

No….

No, disobeying international law out of SPITE is not brave!

No, it’s just stupid!

It’s seldom necessary to do so, and any time it may be, that’s only in extremis!

No I will not “debate” you. You’ll just use that pretense to yell at me. Again!

I have SPOKEN!

[tomorrowusa]

Dictators sometimes resort to manufacturing and trafficking drugs to raise money for their shoddy régimes. Trump's bro Kim Jong-un famously sells illicit drugs. North Korean diplomats are often drug pushers in countries where North Korea has embassies.

So when a warehouse linked to the ousted al-Assad régime in Syria was found to be stocked with the drug captagon, it simply confirmed suspicions about Syria's involvement in the drug trade.

A social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. The large warehouse was reportedly located at the headquarters of a military division near Damascus that was commanded by Assad’s brother Maher. CNN is unable immediately to verify the location. A voice commenting over the video says that it is “one of the largest warehouse facilities of captagon manufacturing of pills.” Piles of pills are seen on the floor along with drug-making equipment. If confirmed, the discovery would support claims by the United States and others that the Assad regime had been involved in actively exporting the drug. Captagon has become a significant social problem in neighboring Arab nations and spurred some of them to engage in talks with the former Syrian regime to curb its trafficking. It is a highly addictive drug, mostly containing amphetamine, that is sometimes described as the “poor man’s cocaine.” Studies over recent years have estimated the annual trade in the drug to be worth billions of dollars. It is believed to have become an economic lifeline for the Assad regime while it was under crippling American sanctions. This week, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported the discovery of thousands of captagon pills at the Mazzeh airbase south of Damascus.

This was a bigtime operation, not just a couple of bros in a basement with a chemistry set.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, is a longtime apologist for drug kingpin Bashar al-Assad.

Before she was redpilled, Gabbard’s outstanding trait was warmth toward dictators. In 2017, she traveled to Syria and met with Assad not once but twice, explaining that she met the dictator because “the suffering of the Syrian people . . . has been weighing heavily on my heart.” Like so many political pilgrims, Gabbard saw what she wanted to see, not the reality staring her in the face. In 2017, she had every reason to know that Assad had not only used chemical weapons against the Syrian people, but had welcomed Russian assistance in his civil war, and that Iranian-allied troops and Russian fighters had conducted operations against American interests in the region. No one knows what Assad and Gabbard discussed in their two hours together, but soon after she emerged, Gabbard was expressing skepticism that Assad had really used poison gas, and by the time of her 2020 presidential run, she was citing full-on conspiracy sites that claimed the chemical attacks were false-flag operations designed to bring the United States into the war. Gabbard’s credulousness—if that’s what it is—looks particularly obscene this week, as stories are coming out about the grotesque human rights abuses committed by Assad in Sednaya prison and at other places around Syria. [ ... ] Gabbard demonstrated similar credulousness about Russia and Putin, mouthing so many Kremlin talking points that RT hosts referred to her as “Russia’s girlfriend.”

Of course Russia has been al-Assad's main backer for the past decade. The al-Assad family escaped to Moscow before Syrian rebel forces could apprehend them.

Gabbard may be considered "Russia's girlfriend" by Russian state TV, but she's more generally a harlot for despots.

Trump wants to send the US Army into Mexico to destroy alleged fentanyl labs. But he's quite willing to kiss the butts of dictators who are producing and exporting drugs.

[shwbyy]

I am Lebanese. I used to be really white washed when I was a kid. I used to wish I was completely Australian and not have any Lebanese in me at all.

Just recently have I started embracing my culture and heritage as a Lebanese woman and I dreamed of visiting Lebanon again so I could absorb what I missed out on appreciating as a child. The language, the history, the food, the people.

Israel is currently bombing Lebanon as well as Palestine and Syria. This isn’t the beginning, but it’s scary. People have died/been injured, including children. I fear that the country that I used to not acknowledge as my native land, the country that I now hold so much respect and love for, the country that I wanted to come back to after I graduated so that I could finally embrace my rich culture, will be reduced to rubble.

To my Arab friends, Israel is already counting on people to forget and be apathetic about their actions. They spread lies and hatred about the Middle East and its people. They terrorise the inhabitants, steal their land, destroy their homes and try to cleanse them of their ethnicity. If Israel is already doing all this to try and eradicate our history and culture, we cannot assist them in this process.

Be proud about who you are, now more than ever. Be loud. Be irritating. Be the flies in their ear, they already see us as insects. Don’t ever be ashamed of where you come from, who you are. Your culture, values and beliefs are instilled in you from the moment you are born and are attacked the moment you are born. Keep them close to your heart because you have a heart, a functional one. One that feels empathy, compassion, kindness, love, joy, appreciation. In a world where these things are in such short supply, they are more valuable than ever.

Be MENA and proud in a world that tries to tear you down from the moment you rise.

Free Palestine.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

What won't these demons steal?

[anti-imperialist-squad]

[sonyaheaneyauthor]