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The heroic spirit displayed by our forces a week ago near Qara Qwzaq Bridge and the Tishreen Dam serves as the most compelling evidence of the triumph of the Kobani resistance
Yesterday, December 18th, the Turkish occupation launched a large-scale attack on the Tishreen Dam axis. Intense clashes erupted and lasted until the evening hours. Our forces resolutely confronted the attackers and successfully repelled their attacks. Additionally, various areas within Kobani came under attack from Turkish occupation UCAVs and heavy artillery.
Simultaneously, the Turkish army continues to mobilize forces in the Suruj area, while Turkish tanks and armored vehicles are deployed along the northern border of Kobani and the western side of the Qara Qwzaq Bridge.
The heroic spirit displayed by our forces a week ago near Qara Qwzaq Bridge and the Tishreen Dam serves as the most compelling evidence of the triumph of the Kobani resistance
SDF General Command December 19, 2024
Turkey rejected the ceasefire agreement between the SDF and SNA. The YPJ General Commander Rohilat Afrin confirmed that an attack on Kobane is imminent.
«The Turkish state is sending military forces to attack Kobanê. Everyone must take action for Kobanê. Just as we defeated ISIS in Kobanê, we will also defeat Turkey!»
We are following the situation closely. We must make preparations and act to stop Turkey. With the spirit of 2014 and our şehids we will defend Kobane!
The British double crossed all sides during the 2nd World War, fomenting Arab and Palestinian Nationalism with false deals while setting up Israel as a Western proxy
The conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East and most of the mess in Syria and the general region is a direct product of Britain’s Great War on the Ottoman Empire.
Britain, after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, as part of the Great War taken on against Germany, expected to make short work of the Turks.
However, the major reverse suffered at Gallipoli in 1915 convinced the British that they required various regional allies to help them conquer the Ottomans. They had already acquired the Russians through a convention in 1907, and through them the Armenians and their irregular forces in the eastern parts of Ottoman territory.
The Tsar was persuaded through an offer of his heart’s desire, Constantinople, which was made formal in a secret 1915 agreement by Sir Edward Grey after much diplomatic work done behind the scenes in the previous year.
However, having failed to defeat the Turks in the time expected and with the Russians and Armenians, England lured the Arabs into active participation in the war against the Muslim Ottoman State on the promise of a great Muslim Arab state after it.
To achieve this the seeds of nationalism were sown amongst this people, which had, up until then, proved impervious to such things. And Syria/Lebanon/Palestine/Jordan, they were led to believe, would be part of the nationalist inheritance at the harvesting of victory.
However, at the same time Britain divided up the Arab lands, including Syria, with their allies in secret agreements, despite knowing that this would confront the new Arab nationalism which they were cultivating, after the War.
While the McMahon correspondence and treaty with Shereef Hussein was being formulated, in which Britain agreed to establish a large Arab state in return for an Arab rising against the Ottomans, London began making secret treaties with the French (The Sykes/Picot Agreement of May 1916) which sought to divide up the Middle East amongst the Western Christian Powers after the Great War was won.
In 1917 Britain launched yet another project, on another set of promises, of a Jewish colony in Palestine, during a moment of great difficulty during its Great War. The object was to win over what it believed to be the considerable force of international Jewry to the failing Allied cause.
To do this it announced the Balfour Declaration and Britain set about the process of large-scale Jewish colonization of Palestine under the auspices of the Mandate system of Versailles. The plan was not to establish an independent Jewish State but a Jewish colonial state of the British Empire.
So, having created an Arab nationalism in the region that was going to be confronted with Imperialist domination, England simultaneously made sure of its frustration by giving it a powerful alien rival nationalism to also conflict with.
It is sometimes said that the Arab world was the victim of a British double-cross. But it actually fell foul of a triple cross. And in the century or so from 1918 there has been a working out of what emerged from the activities of the British State between 1916 and 1918 in destroying the Empire of the Ottoman Turks.
Shereef Hussein knew nothing of the agreement that aimed to balkanise the region so that the Muslims could not operate a state that would amount to anything in the world.
This plan of balkanisation was, of course, a most unsuitable way to administer the region because divisions within the Arab world were not national in any way. They were religious and cultural. Different religions and cultures were spread right across the region and could not be delineated by national boundaries or through nation states drawn out of the sand.
That was why the Ottoman structures worked – because they enabled different religious groups, clans and families with different cultures, ways of life and allegiances to live next to each other, with no lines in the sand to bother them.
When the lines in the sand were imposed on the Arabs they were forced to see themselves as nationalities, (but with no historical meaning) and to see others (who had the same history, religion or culture as themselves) as alien and a threat, because they were from without the newly imposed lines in the sand..
The Zionist Embassy at 28 Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin has been without an Ambassador since she left Ireland last May in protest after the Irish Government, along with the Spanish and Norwegian governments, officially recognised the state of Palestine.2
D.B cartoon drawing of celebrations outside the block in which the Zionist Embassy was located (and under 24-hour Garda protection). Many of the other users of the building will be relieved at the departure also.
However the Irish State’s recent decision to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice3 seems to have prompted the closure of the Embassy and led once again to allegations of “anti-semitism” in Ireland which the President called a “gross slander”.4
Simon Harris, Taoiseach (prime minister equivalent) of the outgoing Irish Government5 expressed his regret at the ‘Israeli’ decision while at the same time rejecting vigorously the allegation that the Government is anti-Israel. He is absolutely correct in doing so.
Irish Governments have consistently been pro-Israel and colluding with Zionism, in contradiction to Irish popular opinion. The outgoing government6 has allowed military supplies for ‘Israel’ to fly through Irish airspace and the US military to land and depart from Shannon Airport.
One of the participants outside the Israeli Embassy yesterday celebrating its imminent departure. (Photo: D.Breatnach)
The Irish Government has also held up for years the relatively mild UN-compliant Occupied Territories Bill. These points were well made in an Al Jazeera Inside Story7 program by Mícheál Mac Donncha, Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor and by Zoe Lawlor, IPSC8 Chairperson.
The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.
Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for the minerals like manganese, nickel, and cobalt that are needed to make electric vehicle batteries and other technology in support of the global energy transition.
While the most coveted seabed area for potential mining — the vast and relatively flat Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean — is under international jurisdiction, parts of the world’s oceans controlled by individual nations have also attracted interest.
Some countries, like Papua New Guinea, have taken the step of issuing exploration contracts. France, by contrast, passed an outright ban on mining in its waters. (In Papua New Guinea, reports recently emerged of illegal mining in its waters.) Other countries are still debating what to do.
Since 2017, Norway has been considering the possibility of mining in the part of the Arctic Ocean set aside as its exclusive economic zone — specifically in an area comprising over 100,000 square miles, about the size of Italy.
The resources of interest there include two coveted deposits: polymetallic sulfides, which are ores that form around hydrothermal vents, and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, or accretions of metal along the sides of underwater mountains.
Earlier this year, in January, a proposal to allow companies to survey Norway’s waters and assess its resource potential sailed through parliament with an 80-20 vote. Until that point, seabed mining had not been a widely publicized issue in Norway, but the vote prompted a groundswell of civil society opposition.
“To large parts of Norwegian society, this came as a surprise when the Norwegian government suddenly announced that they were going for deep sea mining, and it sparked a lot of outrage,” said Haldis Tjeldflaat Helle, a deep sea mining campaigner at Greenpeace Nordic.
Environmental organizations found themselves in an unusual alliance with the country’s fishing industry, which organized against the mining plan because of the threat it posed to fish stocks (seafood is Norway’s largest export after oil and gas).
What exactly is going on with this Labour government? It’s like they have decided to set out to piss off as many pensioners as they can in the shortest amount of time. If that’s what they’re doing, then they are certainly one of the most successful governments in modern history. Perhaps they’re hoping all the […]
The Turkish State and its jihadi mercenary proxies have prepared a large scale offensive to cross the Euphrates, and attack Kobanê.Turkey has also opened their wall with Kobane and massed troops and artillery on the border.
Today’s demonstration in Kobane with the entire town taking part,carrying portraits of their relations killed by Turkish attacks.
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Kobanê now: tens of thousands of residents on the streets in protest against the attacks and threats of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries in the city of Kobanê (Syrian Kurdistan)
From Kobanê they plan to push into the rest of North East Syria. They did not stop at Afrin, Shehba or Minbic. They will not stop at Kobanê. The Turkish State wants it all.
Yesterday thousands of people in Kobanê protested against Turkey’s plans.
Türkiye ‘building up forces’ on Syrian border – WSJ
For days, there have been increasing reports that a large-scale attack on Kobane is imminent. Turkish media are openly announcing this. We see videos of SNA convoys, already camouflaged with mud, gathering on the west side of the Euphrates.
Kurdish officials are reportedly pleading with US President-elect Donald Trump to convince Ankara not to launch an invasion
Türkiye and its militia allies are reportedly building up their forces near the Syrian border in what is speculated to be preparation for a large-scale incursion into Kurdish-held territories, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing senior US officials.
On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, a shocking and disgraceful incident occurred in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During a meeting of shareholders from Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), environmental rights defenders were arrested, and an environmental journalist was kidnapped after displaying banners denouncing PHC’s mistreatment of local communities. PHC, formerly known as Feronia, is a multinational company that operates large palm oil plantations in the DRC.
Trump and his allies are doing their donors’ bidding (open bribery) by rigging a $4 trillion giveaway to wealthy elites —while preparing cuts to programs that working and middle-class US Americans depend on.
IT’S NOT FAIR.. screamed little Bill the nepo-billionaire when Bob got the cherry on the cake
Its not your fault if you were born into a US Billionaire family.. But later you’re likely conditioned into being a monster.
The Fairness Report is only about US Americans and how they could revel in a Tsunami of Dollars if the Billionaires were taxed ‘fairly’.
But of course the USA is a Mafia State, pulling in trillions of dollars from the other ‘would-be’ mafia States by means of its military and financial control..
The rest of us just don’t matter to conditioned monsters.
We don’t matter even to the ‘fairness advocates’ of the Report. US folks are steeped in a culture of privilege, especially for the ‘white’ race and those privileged who are already nepo-rich.
A privilege which has hardly ever reached the workers, and is now fast fading, as the US Israeli-backed Corporate Ecocidal War State splurges its ill gotten gains, indulges in Humongous Debt, and lavishes the spoils on its 0.1% of Billionaires.
Of course most capitalist States might be just as bad if they had ‘Hegemoney’
Alongside cheeky profiles of inheritors wasting family fortunes on failed vanity businesses, medieval church purchases, lifestyle brands, private jets, and more, the report examines the startling realities of billionaire wealth growth.
Example: 30 of the largest billionaire dynasties have seen their fortunes swell by 54% over the past nine years, while the wealth gap between the top 0.01% and bottom 90% has reached its highest level since the Great Depression.
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