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Turkey accuses Kurdish Afrin woman of bombing, raising fears of a False Flag pretext, for new Invasion.

RPJ Allex 3 hours ago.. from Reuters/ /Turkish Minute/ Telegram /https://www.rt.com/

Turkish authorities have released images of a woman, arrested for allegedly planting a bomb that killed six people and injured 81 in Istanbul on Sunday. Ankara has accused the “PKK” Kurdish Defense militias in Syria of masterminding the plot.

The accused woman’s photos were all over Turkish media.

“I don’t trust the Turkish government. Period. They are still NATO members. They invaded northern Syria and Iraq and support rebels in Syria. They assassinated a Russian diplomat and tried to blame an obscure dissident group. They shot down a Russian aircraft in pursuit of “ISIS” terrorists. The last couple of major bombings in Turkey were done by “ISIS” and they just conveniently happened to target Kurds and leftists, two enemies of the Turkish state”... from Comments on South Front

At least 47 people were arrested and interrogated. Any one of which might confess under duress. Officials banned news channels and social networking services from sharing any images of the deadly explosion, while claiming the young woman had ‘dropped a backback’, and publishing her photos in which she appears tortured or drugged, in a ‘trial and sentence by Media’.

Suspicion is rife in Kurdish circles. Turkey has seen a whole series of black propaganda and false flag attacks over the years, sometimes stemming from the huge security apparatus and ultra nationalist Grey Wolves.

One of the worst was the 2015 Suruc bombing of Kurdish volunteers taking toys to child victims of ISIS, which led to a shady revenge attack, that sparked the military crackdown and carpet bombing of entire Kurdish cities inside Turkey.(Suruç Bombing Victims Were Bringing Books And Toys To Kobanê)

The ‘elected dictator’ Erdogan is suspected by some of repeating that evil strategy, desperate to attack Kurdish Syria yet again and thus gain far right support in upcoming elections, and deflect attention from inflation running at over 80%.

Accused bomber said to be from Afrin

The accused woman is said by State controlled media to have come from Afrin, yet the border with Turkey is sealed with a huge wall, and the province is occupied and tightly controlled by the Turkish army and a range of their extremist Islamic mercenaries.

December 2, 2019, for example, eight Kurdish children died in an intentional attack by Turkish mercenaries against Tell Rifaat, in the north west of Syria. All of them were under fifteen years old. Tell Rifaat is home to many of the Kurdish refugees from the Efrîn (Afrin) canton, currently occupied by Syrian, Turkish and Mercenary Troops. Three adult civilians also died in the attack.

In Aug 2022 Erdogan announced that his next illegal invasion will begin precisely in the town of Tell Rifaat!

Afrin was invaded, massacred, subdued and occupied by Turkey on a totally false pretext and 80% of the surviving mainly Kurdish population was expelled to refugee camps, mostly in a small enclave which is still regularily shelled and drone attacked by Turkey. A crime objectively much worse than Russia’s in Ukraine, but shamefully with zero world interest.

Road to Rojava

Features, Nov 2022 at FreedomNews by Danny Mitchell and Ross Domoney via thefreeonline.com

In 2019 a crew of experienced documentary makers travelled to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava. The cameras followed Janet Biehl as she got to grips with the role that her late partner Murray Bookchin’s ideas played in the region’s Kurdish-led revolutionary movement.

That documentary, called Road to Rojava, is now reaching its final stages of production. The team isasking for help to complete the crowdfunder and finish the film.

This is an interview with directors, Danny Mitchell and Ross Domoney, and looks at the experiences they had making the documentary. The pair met at a screening of The Accidental Anarchist and realised they shared a vision of documenting daily life in Rojava.

What motivated you both to make the documentary?

DM: I have been interested in the revolution in Rojava since I first heard about it around 2014. I wanted to explore what was happening there as a filmmaker and go behind the news headlines because at the time, most of the news was primarily focused on the battles with ISIS and there was hardly anything about the political project being developed in Rojava. I had tried different ways of approaching the story but nothing had materialised but had heard Janet speak at various conferences and was intrigued by her story. I was interested in her connection with Murray Bookchin and how Abdullah Öcalan had used some of Bookchin’s revolutionary ideas as part of the political framework for the revolution in Rojava. I thought this could be a good way to approach the story and may help to bring it to a wider audience.

RD: I had been interested in the politics of Syria since the beginning of the uprising against the authoritarian regime of Bashar Al Assad in 2011. It was not so easy for me to go to other parts of Syria amongst the conflict and I am not a frontline war reporter. The politics of North and East Syria where the Rojava revolution happened, particularly interested me and it was more accessible with the right connections. I had tried to go there twice in the past but the situation was too dangerous so the trips had not gone ahead. I wanted to explore with my camera the radical democratic experiment that was being played out amongst the ashes of war. And where I was interested in the politics of the ecologist Murray Bookchin, I was most interested in learning about life there from the people of North and East Syria. I wanted to spend time with them, and find ways to use the film-making process to put the most value cinematically to their stories. I wanted to go beyond the poster images some western leftists where imagining of the Rojava revolution. We saw a lot of people re-sharing images of women with machine guns taking on ISIS. Of course this is amazing bravery (and we have also captured some of these images in our film). However I wanted to use the film-making process to go further and explore the different layers of the revolutionary society in Rojava.

UN envoy admits fabricating claim of Viagra-fueled rape as ‘Russian military strategy’

UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.

In a November 10 call with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, better known by their aliases Vovan and Lexus, UN Envoy on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten admitted that there was no evidence to back up her widely publicized claims from October that the Russian government was using Viagra-fueled mass rape as a weapon of war….. continues…

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/13/un-envoy-fabricating-viagra-russian/

Tales from the Conspiratum

The entire Western media and Slavoj Zizek promoted a UN envoy's claim that Russian soldiers were on a Viagra fueled rampage in Ukraine.
That UN envoy now admits she had no proof, and was influenced by an ex-Ukrainian official who's confessed to lying. https://t.co/Ei0c9Kd8JG
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 14, 2022

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Kurdish defense group PKK denies Istanbul bombing, cites its longstanding Anti -terrorist policy

Nov 14 – The Kurdish militant group PKK denied involvement in Sunday’s bomb attack in Istanbul, saying it did not target civilians, in a statement on its website on Monday. Turkey routinely blames without evidence thousands of ‘crimes’ under their cultural genocide policy against the 17 million Kurdish citizens.

“It is out of question for us to target civilians in any way,” the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said, refuting Turkey’s claims that it and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for the blast that killed six people.

Government says Kurdish PKK and YPG to blame
Officials point to U.S. support for YPG in Syria

The PKK has long renounced separatism and any terrorist attacks and held 2 long unilateral ceasefires. Yet it is still classed as a ‘Terrorist Group’ by the US and its client states with continuing drone, bomb and assasinations against suspected PKK supporters across borders in Syria and Iraq

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ISTANBUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Turkey blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for an explosion that killed six people in Istanbul and police detained 47 people including a Syrian woman suspected of planting the bomb.

No group has claimed responsibility so far for Sunday’s blast on the busy pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied involvement in it.

The explosion wounded 81 people, sending debris flying into the air and hundreds of shoppers, tourists and families fleeing from the scene.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for the blast.

Ankara says the YPG is a wing of the PKK. The United States has supported the YPG in the conflict in Syria, stoking friction between NATO allies.

As international condemnation of the attack poured in, Soylu, a fierce critic of Washington, likened U.S. condolences for the victims to “the murderer arriving as one of the first at the scene of the crime”.

Every week dozens of Kurds are murdered by Turkish drone bombs in illegally invaded Syria and Iraq. Shamefully this never makes it to Reuters, the MSM or even Russian media who collaborate in placating the ruling AKP’s Turkish genocidal racism.

In a statement on its website, the PKK denied involvement and said it would not attack civilians. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi also denied involvement on Twitter.

Ukrainian army itself announces ‘reprisals’ against remaining Kherson civilians. Only 20% have declined voluntary evacuation

by Liu Sivaya /CNN /Daily Mail/ Sky News via thefreeonline

🇬🇧The media lie: Ukraine is already in Kherson and the citizens celebrate it. They are happy and safe.

The reality: the Ukrainian army itself announces reprisals against civilians. They believe that the vast majority of those who stayed collaborated with Russia. They promise revenge.

Daily Mail photo

🇪🇸La mentira de los medios: Ucrania ya está en Jersón y los ciudadanos lo celebran. Están felices y a salvo.La realidad: el propio ejército ucraniano anuncia represalias contra los civiles. Creen que la gran mayoría de los que se quedaron colaboraron con Rusia. Prometen venganza.

🇬🇧 Kherson. This man (below) has been arrested because he did the military service in the Soviet Union and in his military primer appears “Russian” as his nationality. The Ukrainian soldiers humiliate him and record themselves proudly. According to the politicians of the European Union, these are the values of Europe..

🇪🇸 Jersón. A este hombre lo han detenido porque hizo la mili en la Unión Soviética y en su cartilla militar pone “ruso” como nacionalidad. Los militares ucranianos lo humillan y se graban orgullosos. Según los políticos de la Unión Europea, estos son los valores de Europa…

🇬🇧 VERY IMPORTANT: THIS CHANNEL MUST BE REPORTED.
❌https://t.me/Kherson_kolaborant.. It is a channel (one of many) that is now dedicated to pointing to the alleged “collaborists” in Kherson so that the Ukrainian army can take revenge on them. There are no soldiers on that list. They are civilians whose only crime was to stay in the city when Russia came. Please, LET’S DENOUNCE.// 🇪🇸Es un canal (uno de tantos) que ahora se dedica a señalar a los supuestos “colaboracionistas” en Jersón para que el ejército ucraniano pueda vengarse de ellos. En esa lista no hay militares. Son civiles cuyo único delito fue quedarse en la ciudad cuando vino Rusia. Por favor, DENUNCIEMOS.

CNN on the ground as Kherson celebrates liberation

‘This is what liberation looks like’: Britain, USA and Ukraine take back Kherson CNN

Comic Series: Revolution in Every Country – Episode 2 – Sudan: Building Power from Below..Read here

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By Hisham Rifai, Ayman Makarem, Contributors October 25, 2022 on UNICORN RIOT via thefreeonline

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A series of comics on revolutionary movements, events, and ideas in the SWANA region.

Sudan – Four years into a political revolution, this episode of Revolution in Every Country is an intimate portrait of organizers embedded in the social and political movements which already toppled a 30-year dictatorship and now works to form a new social compact that overturns the old order.

This piece reflects the viewpoints of the Sudanese Revolution and its supporters in Sudan. See our included list of additional materials for more context.

About this Comic Series:

Revolution in every country (ثورة بكل البلدان) is the name of a chant that was sung during the Lebanese uprisings in 2019. It was a chant of solidarity with communities in the SWANA region (South West Asian/ North African) and around the globe that were/are resisting their own oppressive regimes. The chant was rooted in the understanding that we, as people with revolutionary demands, have so much to learn from different revolutionary struggles, especially those happening concurrently: whether it’s learning how to build strong communities or learning how to turn off tear gas.

This comics series covers inspiring revolutionary movements, events, ideas, and the frontline communities that are almost always erased in macro-level geopolitical analyses. The comics are both educational and accessible, and each comic is accompanied by a list of relevant books, podcasts, and/or documentaries on the topics discussed.

Episode 1: Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution (June 5, 2022)

Artist Bios:

Ayman Makarem is a Lebanese writer primarily interested in the intersection of the personal and the political.

Hisham Rifai is a Lebanese artist and illustrator. He is currently based in Antwerp, Belgium completing an advanced master’s in research in arts and design. His work aims to combine political urgency with artistic practices.