Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?
— Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” from his 1963 recording “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”
Jamila Assi
JamilaEyes
The best title for our contemporary history, we can never find a better slogan to promote our reality, a reality where showing compassion and solidarity replace real action to help those we sympathize with.
“Je Suis Hypocrite”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ~ George Orwell. The media furore surrounding the now viral image of wounded Syrian child, Omran Daqneesh, in terrorist-held eastern Aleppo, Syria is still raging, while the push back against the tide of western-sponsored anti-Syrian State propaganda reveals itself to be strengthening […]
FARS News Agency | August 13, 2016 Saudi intelligence officers have been training at least 7,000 anti-Syria fighters in Jordan’s territories and plan to dispatch them to the war-hit country via its Southern borders to distract the army from the war in Aleppo, Arab media disclosed. “Over 7,000 men have been trained in a Saudi-established […]
It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You just don’t invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests.
— Secretary of State, John Kerry, “Meet the Press”, March 2nd, 2014
Newer readers here may not recall these older posts? I'll necessarily digress......
I've altered the headline in order to broaden the thinking here.By M.K. Bhadrakumar on August 8, 2016Of course the bits I find relevant will be highlighted!
By Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post | July 22, 2016 While the United States attempts to back away from its association with terrorist group Nour al-Din al-Zinki, the “moderate” terrorist organization whose members recently videotaped themselves beheading a young boy and discussing whether or not to boil his body afterwards, previous reports coming the from […]
The shooting at the mall in Munich, Germany, made me think about the Kenya mall shooting? If anyone wants to share thoughts on that do so in the comment section-I'm not feeling well enough to dig into Munich- Dental pain- ouch! I look like a chipmunk, one side pouch full, with bruises. Making jokes at my own expense :)That said, the news item below certainly piqued my interest!
(MEE) About 60,000 Syrian refugees, more than half of whom are children, are trapped at the Jordanian border and in desperate need of aid after the government in Amman halted supplies of water, food and medical care, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday.
