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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Captured IS 'Beatles' jihadists 'were trying to escape to Turkey' [UPDATES]

https://news.sky.com/story/captured-is-beatles-jihadists-were-trying-to-escape-to-turkey-11246756

An SDF spokesman also says a decision on where the men will be tried will be made after an initial investigation concludes...

SDF Spokesman: Syrian regime fears our co-existence model

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/sdf-spokesman-syrian-regime-fears-our-co-existence-model-27114

RELATED UPDATE: Spotlight on Global Jihad (December 20-26, 2018)

https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/spotlight-global-jihad-december-20-26-2018/

RELATED UPDATE: SDF unable to secure ISIS prisons in Syria if Turkey attacks

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2019/10/07/syria-al-hol-security-isis-sdf/

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava – “There is an increase of negative propaganda against the SDF” - Interview with Kino Gabriel, spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces

https://www.kurdishinstitute.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Interview-Kino-Gabriel.pdf

RELATED UPDATE: SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi stresses need to liberate occupied areas

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/sdf-commander-mazloum-abdi-stresses-need-to-liberate-occupied-areas-53875

RELATED UPDATE: Northern and Eastern Syria Social Contract Drafting Committee holds second meeting in Amûdê

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/northern-and-eastern-syria-social-contract-drafting-committee-holds-second-meeting-in-amude-59978

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ: We are proud of our comradeship with Elefteria Hambi

https://anfenglish.com/women/ypj-we-are-proud-of-our-comradeship-with-elefteria-hambi-68626

RELATED UPDATE: YPJ announces death of commander Roşna Egîd

https://anfenglish.com/news/ypj-announces-death-of-commander-rosna-egid-69168

RELATED UPDATE: Koma Saz û Awaz: Fighting Turkish special war with culture

https://anfenglish.com/culture/koma-saz-u-awaz-fighting-turkish-special-war-with-culture-69351

RELATED UPDATE: Sakharov Prize awarded to Mahsa Amini and “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising

https://anfenglish.com/news/sakharov-prize-awarded-to-mahsa-amini-and-jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-69896

RELATED UPDATE: Young women at World Youth Conference: We stand for the freedom of AP0

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/young-women-at-world-youth-conference-we-stand-for-the-freedom-of-abdullah-Ocalan-70165

RELATED UPDATE: Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi goes on hunger strike in prison

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/nobel-peace-prize-winner-narges-mohammadi-goes-on-hunger-strike-in-prison-70183

RELATED UPDATE: Conference: The Art of Freedom - Strategies for organising & collective resistance

https://anfenglishmobile.com/culture/conference-the-art-of-freedom-strategies-for-organising-collective-resistance-70197

RELATED UPDATE: 'Art is an avenue for showing what's going on': New exhibit details the struggle for women's rights in Iran

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/exhibit-details-the-struggle-for-womens-rights-in-iran/103-ecdcdf3e-6db3-4307-b177-b849875feb38

RELATED UPDATE: Council of Martyrs' Families: The Heart of the Revolution

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/martyrs-families-council-the-heart-of-the-revolution-70203

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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Trump's Betrayal of YPG (Paris Commune Falls Again?) [UPDATES]

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-van-deusen-trump-s-betrayal-of-rojava-paris-commune-falls-again

As an American, as a Vermonter, and as a Labor leader I have marched many times against US lead wars. [1] However, I do not oppose wars and US military action because I assert war as always unjust and always unnecessary. I am not philosophically a Kantian; this is not a moral imperative for me. I am also no liberal. If truth be told it was only through war and armed conflict that Vermont and the United States became republics free from the British Empire. And like the US, Ireland would still be an exploited outpost in the same empire if it were not for the force of arms demonstrated by the IRA. Cuba, today, without their victorious 1959 revolution, likewise would remain an economic colony of America. And further, it was only through the Allied war effort that Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy & their murderous ideologies were crushed for generations. But since my birth, from the Vietnam War, to armed interventions against Latin America, up through the invasion of Iraq, I am hard pressed to find a US military intervention that, by purpose or accident, carried with it an intrinsic moral clarity; rather contemporary US military action time and again has been launched to serve the interests of corporations and a tiny minority of wealthy elite...

RELATED: Are the Syrian Kurds next for betrayal by the Trump administration?

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/12/are-the-syrian-kurds-next-for-betrayal-by-the-trump-administration_partner/

RELATED UPDATE: Trump Accused of Betraying Kurds and Giving ISIS New Life After Green-lighting Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-betraying-kurds-giving-isis-new-life-syria-1463538

RELATED UPDATE: Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds spurs the drumbeat to end his presidency

https://macleans.ca/news/world/trumps-betrayal-of-the-kurds-spurs-the-drumbeat-to-end-his-presidency/

RELATED UPDATE: The Trump Doctrine is simple: Allies can’t trust him

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-09/column-the-trump-doctrine-is-simple-allies-cant-trust-him

RELATED UPDATE: Betrayal of the Kurds shows we can’t trust Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/betrayal-of-the-kurds-means-we-cant-trust-trump

RELATED UPDATE: Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is sickening to U.S. soldiers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-us-soldiers-its-a-dagger-to-the-heart-to-abandon-the-kurds/2019/10/14/f0a1db60-eecf-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

RELATED UPDATE: Betrayal of the Kurds Is a Stain on American Honor

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/10/16/betrayal-kurds-stain-american-honor.html

RELATED UPDATE: Betrayal of Kurds one of Trump’s gravest errors

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/betrayal-of-kurds-one-of-trumps-gravest-errors,13212

RELATED UPDATE: Veterans who fought ISIS say Trump's 'betrayal' of a crucial ally was 'a total slap in the face'

https://www.businessinsider.com/veterans-of-isis-fight-lament-trumps-policy-in-syria-2019-10

RELATED UPDATE: Trump’s Middle East Meltdown

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/trump-s-middle-east-meltdown?barrier=accesspaylog

RELATED UPDATE: Nashville’s Little Kurdistan community feels ‘betrayed’ by Trump

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/nashvilles-little-kurdistan-community-feels-betrayed-by-trump-6078498/

RELATED UPDATE: 'Trump betrayed us': Kurds plead with US soldiers as they pull out of Syria as the president 'plans U-turn to leave 200 troops in the country' and US soldier is spotted with banned patch of solidarity

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7594671/US-Special-Forces-soldier-wears-BANNED-Kurdish-patch-troops-pull-Syria.html

RELATED UPDATE: U.S. soldiers who fought alongside Kurds blast Trump's Syria retreat

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-usa-military/u-s-soldiers-who-fought-alongside-kurds-blast-trumps-syria-retreat-idUSKBN1X00ZO

RELATED UPDATE: Russia, Turkey reach deal to remove Kurdish YPG from Syria border

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/russia-turkey-reach-deal-to-remove-kurdish-ypg-from-syria-border-idUSKBN1X10ZE

RELATED UPDATE: For Syrian Kurds, a leader's killing deepens sense of U.S. betrayal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-kurds-future/for-syrian-kurds-a-leaders-killing-deepens-sense-of-u-s-betrayal-idUSKBN1X11HZ

RELATED UPDATE: Kurds tell EU: Get tough with Turkey or face Islamic State fighters

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-syria-security-kurds-idINKBN1XI1S0

RELATED UPDATE: America’s Abandonment of Syria

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/americas-abandonment-of-syria

RELATED UPDATE: KCK’s Andok: Colonialism led by Turkey has used the KDP as its interlocutor

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/kck-s-andok-colonialism-led-by-turkey-has-used-the-kdp-as-its-interlocutor-60611

RELATED UPDATE: Besê Hozat: AKP-MHP's aim is to take control over Alevis - PART II

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bese-hozat-akp-mhp-s-aim-is-to-take-control-over-alevis-63287

RELATED UPDATE: One year has passed after the uprising Jin, Jiyan, Azadî

https://hawarnews.com/en/16950207604649

RELATED UPDATE: First World Youth Conference to kick off in Paris on 3 November

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/first-world-youth-conference-to-kick-off-in-paris-on-3-november-70015

RELATED UPDATE: Kurdish girl killed by Iranian state forces laid to rest in Tehran

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/kurdish-girl-killed-by-iranian-state-forces-laid-to-rest-in-tehran-70051

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava Revolution faces threats amid ‘World War 3’, KCK warns on World Kobanê Day

https://medyanews.net/rojava-revolution-faces-threats-amid-world-war-3-kck-warns-on-world-kobane-day/

RELATED UPDATE: KCK: Let's protect the revolution in Kobanê with the spirit of resistance and solidarity

https://anfenglish.com/features/kck-let-s-protect-the-revolution-in-kobane-with-the-spirit-of-resistance-and-solidarity-70093

RELATED UPDATE: YPG: The Kobanê resistance makes us more determined to defend the Rojava revolution

https://anfenglish.com/news/ypg-the-kobane-resistance-makes-us-more-determined-to-defend-the-rojava-revolution-70094

RELATED UPDATE: HPG publishes balance sheet of war for October

https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-publishes-balance-sheet-of-war-for-october-70122

RELATED UPDATE: Internationalists remember 944 guerrilla Andrea Wolf

https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/internationalists-remember-pkk-guerrilla-andrea-wolf-70124

WHY UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE JUST AS UNLIKELY AS EVER, UNFORTUNATELY

I'm a leftist (Libertarian-Socialist), who votes progressive, because I live under an "elected" government, and I had thought I had purged the MSNBC/CNN Nation from my friends list, but apparently not, as my timeline is just chock-full of media-driven hysteria over current events, so here's a primer:

"Liberals" who think their arguments are clever or relevant to the Second Amendment are exhausting.

They are not the left; they are just one half of the good cop/bad cop act of the corporate owned fire-hose of bullshit that is the corporate media, and corporate America's governing criminal cartel/duopoly.

Both cults "I like simple and ineffectual 'solutions', because they make me feel like I'm doing something, and I'm just stinky with fear."

There are over a hundred million legal gun owners, who some want to punish for somebody else's crime.

Well, there are some things to consider.

We've been a heavily armed country since 1621, and yet the epidemic of daily mass-shootings didn't begin until 20 April 1999 (Columbine), at a time when gun ownership was at an all-time low, and five years after Clinton's assault-weapons ban, so maybe guns aren't the variable.

Maybe, just maybe, dead school-children are the price of the neoliberalism practiced under the "Washington Consensus" of BOTH right-wing authoritarian parties since the 1980's?
When your country offers you no prospects, and you become terrified of the future, what then?
Fear can make unstable people do desperate things.
Add to that a culture of celebrity, and what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world

Another factor that goes completely unexamined, is the way Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill emptied our state hospitals onto our streets, and onto families ill-equipped to deal with the sometimes violent mentally ill.

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/the-desperate-and-the-dead/series/community-care/

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2023-04-24/opinion-impact-of-deinstitutionalization-on-homelessness-reagan-mental-health-hospitals-san-diego

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/03/hard-truths-about-deinstitutionalization-then-and-now/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opinion/us-mental-health-community-centers.html

Thank God, the "solution" is so simple...

Also, 84% of NRA members support universal background checks. The problem is, every time a bill comes up for a vote, Democrats add poison pill amendments guaranteeing defeat in the legislature (and the courts), and then they proceed to tell the TV cameras that "once again the GOP and the gun lobby have voted down background checks and defied the will of the people", or some such nonsense.  

If you want to watch Dems sabotage universal background checks (while Republicans roll their eyes and face-palm) in real time, go here:

https://www.c-span.org/networks/

P.S. You can probably guess which one of these three groups I belong to (Hint: It's the one that's growing and actually decides elections):

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#LaborPartyNow!!!

P S The line, "You don't need 30 rounds to shoot a deer!" is not clever.

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting tools, toys for hobbyists (target shooting), or even weapons for self-defense.

It's about ARMS!!!

It's about the individual citizen's right to arms, so they'll be prepared to join a militia, not the other way around. ‘Well regulated’ at that time, simply meant, ‘efficient.’ In other words, in order for a muster to be efficient, civilians needed to be already armed.

So the "collective rights" argument has a couple of problems that make it quite unhinged from history and reality.

1) As I've mentioned above, Americans have always been relatively heavily armed. How did that happen in a collective rights paradigm?

2) Contrary to what you were probably taught in school, by the time of the Confederate artillery barrage on Fort Sumter, the war over slavery had already been going on for over six years, and was fought entirely by independent volunteer militia's. Fort Sumter was just the beginning of official involvement by government troops. How did that happen in a collective rights paradigm?

3) In what universe do government forces need to have their right to arms protected?

4) Since when do National Guard members keep National Guard arms (Hint: they're kept at the armory, and have been since colonial times)?

5) Obviously, "Liberals" are stupid.

Again: #LaborPartyNow!!!

P P S That was ENTIRELY the point of the first fruits of dissent, the 10 Amendments we've come to call the BILL OF RIGHTS (which have become a beacon to aspiring democrats all over the world), to protect INDIVIDUALS from the government they had just created. #TrueStory
 

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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Syrian Kurdish-led forces ready for push on last Islamic State pocket [UPDATES]

https://ekurd.net/syrian-kurdish-led-forces-2019-02-08

Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria prepared Friday for a push on the last remaining speck of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate” where diehard jihadists and their families are holed up...

RELATED UPDATE: The release of ISIS suspects gaining momentum in Turkey, new figures reveal

https://nordicmonitor.com/2023/09/the-release-of-isis-suspects-gaining-momentum-in-turkey-new-figures-reveal/

RELATED UPDATE: US shoots down Turkish drone after it came too close to US troops in Syria

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/ap-us-shoots-down-turkish-drone-after-it-came-too-close-to-us-troops-in-syria/

RELATED UPDATE: America's Syria Ally Warns Attacks on US Troops May Destabilize Middle East

https://www.newsweek.com/americas-syria-ally-warns-attacks-us-troops-may-destabilize-middle-east-1836313

RELATED UPDATE: Turkey’s Recent Offensive Threatens the Women’s Revolution in Rojava

https://womensmediacenter.com/women-under-siege/turkeys-recent-offensive-threatens-the-womens-revolution-in-rojava

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava’s Experiment in Radical Democracy Braces for Turkish Invasion

https://headtopics.com/us/rojava-s-experiment-in-radical-democracy-braces-for-turkish-47282821

RELATED UPDATE: Jina Mahsa Amini awarded top EU human rights prize

https://medyanews.net/jina-mahsa-amini-awarded-top-eu-human-rights-prize/

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava: Nûdem supports 30,000 people with disabilities

https://anfenglish.com/news/rojava-nudem-supports-30-000-people-with-disabilities-69919

RELATED UPDATE: People of Kobanê bid farewell to 3 martyrs

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/people-of-kobane-bid-farewell-to-3-martyrs-69932

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish attacks: over $1 billion damages to infrastructure of North and East Syria

https://medyanews.net/turkish-attacks-over-1-billion-damages-to-infrastructure-of-north-and-east-syria/

RELATED UPDATE: Daniele Po Prize awarded to Kurdish feminist Zeinab Bayazidi

https://medyanews.net/daniele-po-prize-awarded-to-kurdish-feminist-zeinab-bayazidi/

RELATED UPDATE: KNK Women's Commission praises award of Sakharov Prize to Jina Amini and Jin Jiyan Azadî Movement

https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/knk-women-s-commission-praises-award-of-sakharov-prize-to-jina-amini-and-jin-jiyan-azadi-movement-69955

RELATED UPDATE: Bayık: Our main work is to carry the international initiative for 0ca1an to the conclusion!

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bayik-our-main-work-is-to-carry-the-international-initiative-for-ocalan-to-the-conclusion-69964

RELATED UPDATE: Crespo: We insist on Abdu11ah 0ca1an's freedom

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/crespo-we-insist-on-abdullah-Ocalan-s-freedom-69967

RELATED UPDATE: Cemil Bayık speaks about recent developments in the Middle East

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/cemil-bayik-speaks-about-recent-development-in-the-middle-east-69979

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish subcontractors implicated in transport of recruits for ISIS training in Georgia

https://medyanews.net/turkish-subcontractors-implicated-in-transport-of-recruits-for-isis-training-in-georgia/

RELATED UPDATE: MLKP fighter martyred in targeted Turkish attack in Rojava

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mlkp-fighter-martyred-in-targeted-turkish-attack-in-rojava-69986

RELATED UPDATE: Pinheiro: Turkish attacks on SDF-held areas affect hundreds of thousands of civilians

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/pinheiro-turkish-attacks-on-sdf-held-areas-affect-hundreds-of-thousands-of-civilians-69987

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH Syrian Civil War and Spillover: Every Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxfSPfbx2E

 Aurora's Sunrise

https://www.pbs.org/video/auroras-sunrise-lnthno/

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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava WATCH Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope Among Horror [UPDATES]

https://truthout.org/articles/rojava-s-democratic-feminist-revolution-a-source-of-hope-among-horror/

In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils...

RELATED UPDATE: Animation map of Syrian Civil War 1 July 2016 - 14 January 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JtbYw6R1IBg

RELATED UPDATE: Rojava in Syria – growing local democracy and defending ecology in the midst of conflict

https://rapidtransition.org/stories/rojava-in-syria-growing-local-democracy-and-defending-ecology-in-the-midst-of-conflict/

RELATED UPDATE: “Rojava Revolution” changed from Kurdish nature to pure Syrian

https://npasyria.com/en/101317/

RELATED UPDATE: 13th Kurdish Film Festival Berlin: Spotlight on Rojhilat and ‘Jin Jîyan Azadî’

https://medyanews.net/13th-kurdish-film-festival-berlin-spotlight-on-rojhilat-and-jin-jiyan-azadi/

RELATED UPDATE: Armenian Brigade: We will defend the Rojava Revolution!

https://anfenglish.com/freedom-of-the-press/armenian-brigade-we-will-defend-rojava-revolution-69715

RELATED UPDATE: Kurdish journalist Maroofian arrested and tortured in Sulaymaniyah

https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/kurdish-journalist-maroofian-arrested-and-tortured-in-sulaymaniyah-69753

RELATED UPDATE: Besê Hozat: Isolation in Imrali is de facto at the center of the Kurdish genocide policy

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bese-hozat-isolation-on-imrali-is-de-facto-at-the-center-of-the-kurdish-genocide-policy-69770

RELATED UPDATE: Final Straw: Updates on Rojava Revolution with the Emergency Committee for Rojava

https://itsgoingdown.org/final-straw-rojava-ecr-interview/

RELATED UPDATE: Saki: The AKP-MHP regime isolates everyone who doesn’t agree with it

https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/saki-the-akp-mhp-regime-isolates-everyone-who-doesn-t-agree-with-it-69854

RELATED UPDATE: Kalkan: 0calan deepened his research under the conditions he has to endure in Imrali

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/kalkan-Ocalan-deepened-his-research-under-the-conditions-he-has-to-endure-in-imrali-69869

RELATED UPDATE: 19 October 2023

https://syria.liveuamap.com/

RELATED UPDATE: WATCH Syrian Civil War and Spillover: Every Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxfSPfbx2E