The great American war machine has been destroying millions of lives in Afghanistan for 20 years. We never knew why. But to them and all the arms industry, mercenary private contractors, layers of bureaucracy and hangers on it makes good sense to keep their gravy train war flowing forever. To give him credit Trump made an executive order, and May 1st 2021 was fixed as an exit date. So now the US media must justify its caring, inclusive, woke, democratic and truly wonderful desire to keep the slaughter going.
US intelligence agencies have warned the Biden administration that if the United States withdraws its military presence from Afghanistan under current circumstances, the nation would be at severe risk of falling under the control of the people who live there.
A New York Times article titled “Officials Try to Sway Biden Using Intelligence on Potential for Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan” warns that an intelligence assessment has predicted that if “U.S. troops leave before any deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government, the militant group will take over much of the country.”
Just one short snippet for this Sunday morning, for I am both exhausted and discouraged and most anything I write is going to come out surly at best.
Mr. Greg Gianforte first popped onto my radar in May 2017 when he beat up a reporter … yes, physically beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter from The Guardian during a campaign event. The fools in Montana elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives anyway, and last year they went one better and elected him as the governor of Montana.
Beating up a reporter who was simply trying to ask a question is a serious crime, one worthy of some prison time and certainly not one to be taken lightly, as the people of Montana have apparently done. Gianforte had a history of abusing and damning the press even before the 2017 event, and he does not, obviously, have the temperament…
Sat, 03/27/2021 – 09:58 AM Hanneke Willemse (Amsterdam, 1949-2021)
Hanneke closed her eyes at a quarter to ten yesterday morning.
I had just landed in Amsterdam that summer of 2012 when we first met thanks to Octavio Alberola. We met one sunny morning at the IISH and it was with her, I think I remember, the first time that I set foot in the building.
Hanneke was still sad then, she was still mourning the loss of her partner Jan Groen (1945-2011), with whom she shared love and anger. Life, caravan trips, photography and research. And who she loved so much …
Together they got involved in the Amsterdam kraker movement and filmed it. “You cannot live in a tank” (In een tank kan je niet wonen, 1981), when the riots took over Waterlooplein and the screen.
We used to meet together with friends over her star chicke dinnerand a long animated -after lunch- with revolutionary songs. In her house, for some reason, Labordeta‘s music reached deeper and splashed earthy flavor, perhaps because I felt far from home. ( note: they called her Ana, as well as Hanneke).
6 years have passed already. Yesterday I saw an old map of North Yemen in the 1970s.. The borders were nearly identical to the Houthi held area today. So what went wrong? Yemen should never have been made into one State.
The Houthis have their own ancient culture based in the high mountains, their own branch of Shia religion, and their own social revolution , called Ansarullah (Houthi is just the name of a leader).
All this is anathema to the House of Saud, who fear and brutally repress tribes of the same Shia variant (about 6 million) in Qatif in East Saudi, and indeed in the mountains just across the Yemeni border.
When Saudi Arabia chose Hadi to be President of Yemen (elected but he was the only candidate, and the ‘election’ legitimized continuing UN support for Saudi invasion) the Houthis (Ansarullah) rebelled, and when Saudi always refused negotiations war finally broke out.
‘We are witnessing an astonishing new level of human depravity in which the US sells $110,000,000,000 worth of arms to the terrorist Saudi state while actively aiding it in bombing and starving it’s neighbours to death.
Today North Yemen remains unbroken despite starvation by total blockade and constant bombing by Saudis armed and trained by the USA and UK . Whereas the south is divided in Saudi, UAE and ISIS controlled areas, among others. President Hadi lives in Saudi, of course
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Six years of the Saudi-led war have passed in Yemen, and it keeps going with no sign of a peaceful solution on the horizon.
The “occasion” was “commemorated” with a briefing by Ansar Allah, or as they are popularly known – the Houthis. Some impressive numbers were shared.
Houthi spokesperson Yahya Sari said that the Saudi-led coalition carried out more than 266,150 airstrikes throughout these 6 years. The predominant number of those strikes targeted Yemeni citizens, homes, cities and other infrastructure.
On the side of the Houthis, at least 1,348 separate missile operations were launched, with nearly 500 being behind enemy lines on key military facilities of the Kingdom and the UAE. In total, the Houthi Air Force carried out 12,623 raids with drones. In 2021 alone, Ansar Allah has carried out 1,464 operations, including 124 attack operations, and the rest reconnaissance.Video: Renewed Saudi Air Strikes against Yemen. Houthi Drone Attacks on Saudi Airports
The Ansar Allah ground forces carried out 12,366 combat operations throughout the years. When it comes to losses, the Houthis didn’t share theirs. They claimed that over the 6 years, the Saudi-led coalition had suffered some significant losses. In total, more than 240,000 fighters were either killed or injured.
This includes UAE forces, Sudanese mercenaries, Saudi armed forces, as well as the troops of the Yemen puppet government.
As expected, the update focuses more on what the Houthis achieved and what Saudi Arabia has lost, but it has been an open secret that Riyadh’s intervention in Yemen hasn’t been a glowing example of success.
In just the past few days, leading up to March 22nd, the Houthis carried out a significant attack on Aramco oil facilities. A refinery was struck by 6 suicide drones. The Saudi Ministry of Energy claimed that the attack caused a fire that was “quickly” controlled by the refinery’s staff. Satellite imagery, however, showed the damage to be much more extensive than Riyadh let on.
An unidentified victim of the worst massacre so far.140 Yemenis were burned alive and more than 600 were wounded in the Saudi/US attack.
Saudi Arabia, on its part, released footage of its airstrikes on Ansar Allah in the Marib province. The videos presented 17 pinpoint airstrikes by Riyadh warplanes on vehicles and positions on several fronts of the province. The Saudi-led coalition also released a video showing precision airstrikes on a cave supposedly used by the Houthis to store suicide drones. It is purportedly located near Yemen’s capital Sana’a.
Fresh picture of the march against the Blockade. They still have to walk for 40K to arrive to #Hodedia..God with you guys#Yemen
In spite of these videos, and the Saudi attempt to present the situation in a somewhat positive light, the Saudi-led coalition has been slowly retreating in Marib.
Six years of war have passed in Yemen, in which massive amounts of funds were “invested” by Riyadh to fight a war that it still can’t even go near winning.
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note: I have checked out these sites and they seem genuine. The links in the report show detailed figures now up to 27th March 2021 of nearly 200,000 adverse reactions, to get updates of the new deaths figures see below . (26th March)
”Brian-Admin March 25, 2021 at 7:44 pm – Reply .…. For each vaccine, you need to click on the tab: “Number of Individual Cases for a selected reaction.” Then for each “reaction,” on the right side of the screen in the bottom (3rd) section, it will list “Fatal”. You have to do it for each reaction, which makes it tedious work. But it’s all there”.
This seems to be correct (March 27) the fatalities info is well hidden but does exist!. Perhaps because this Euro Agency exists to inform on adverse reactions not fatalities and doesn’t want to be seen as sabotaging the vaccine effort.
Check it yourself: click on the vaccines, one by one
At the top of page see ‘Number of Individual Cases’ and see the last option on the right , (Tab 6, report 2) click on the little arrows >> and choose the middle option that appears which is ‘Number of individual cases for a selected reaction’. The correct page appears like this, and has a drop down menu,
Go through each option of the drop down menu in turn. On the right hand side of the page in the bottom box you can see the number of fatalities.
Adding them all up and then repeating from the start choosing the other vaccines you can get the total number of deaths.
... notes: the 27th March 2021 figures are now available on the EudraVigilance database and seem far higher, see HERE. The Russian produced vaccine known as Sputnik is NOT included in the statistics, which seems like political censorship. It has still not been officially approved by the EU due to heavy pressure from the US, but Hungary is using the vaccine, Slovakia has taken deliveries, and Italy is setting up production. It would be important to know the relative lethality of the various vaccines. For instance in the 13th March 2021 figures the total killed by Astra Zeneca was ‘only’ 451 while the Pfizer vaccine (which was used far more) had killed 2540 people. With figures on the total number of vaccinations for each vaccine type conclusions could be reached on the relative danger of Mrna vaccines , Pfizer and Moderna, and ‘traditional’ vaccines like Astra Zeneca and Sputnik.
Obviously the authorities must already have all this information and are withholding it ”for our own good” . But their morality is totally questionable. For example if they know one vaccine is much more dangerous but they happened to buy that one. Or the fact that vaccine reactions kill people from all age groups, including younger people who were never in any danger from Covid. Or that hiding info on vaccine reaction deaths has increased by $billions the profits of private production corporations. etc..
La Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), de Brasil, junto con otras organizaciones sindicales convocan un “cierre de la clase obrera” para mañana miércoles 24 de marzo, de acuerdo con una decisión anunciado la víspera en una reunión conjunta de los movimientos promoventes.
La iniciativa fue tomada en la reunión del Foro de Centrales Sindicales la cual reúne a representantes de seis entidades, además de la CUT. La resolución es contraposición con la propuesta de lo que denominan “derecha tradicional”, de “sesgo claramente político”, en alianza con los gobernadores para, que “supuestamente luchar contra Bolsonaro”, por lo cual expresan que “desde el punto de vista de los intereses de los trabajadores, es dañino y abyecto”.
@Federacion Anarquista Gran Canaria 18h 25 March 2021:
We report: the civil guards ask that they be declared excluded and that the Provincial Court judge him. The case has been postponed until it is decided whether Ruyman should go to the Provincial court. Our opinion: the pressure has scared them. Later we will share beautiful images.
Informamos: los guardias civiles piden que se les declare aforados y que les juzgue la Audiencia Provincial. La vista se ha aplazado hasta que se decida si sigue en el Penal o va al Provincial. Nuestra opinión: la presión les ha asustado. Después compartimos imágenes preciosas.
Informamos: los guardias civiles piden que se les declare aforados y que les juzgue la Audiencia Provincial. La vista se ha aplazado…
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