Turkey: protests and repression continue for third night

Obviously the Turkish socio-political conflict is far from solved. Repression is once again not any solution and only feeds more and more anger. 

Large protests took place in Ankara, Antalya and Antakya (Antioch) in anger for the latest mortal victim of Islamo-Fascist repression, Ahmet Atakan, hit by a gas canister. They were once again brutally repressed by a government that does not know how to get out of their own trap of ultra-violence and dogmatic totalitarianism.

There are local elections in 6 months and state ones in a year. At least that's the schedule. But meanwhile the regime continues with the most brutal repression it can fathom. 

Source: WG[es].

Turkey: renewed protests and repression after young man killed in Antakya

A man aged 22 was murdered on Monday by police forces in Antakya (Antioch, near Syria) upon being hit by a gas canister thrown by police forces in the context of yet another anti-Islamist demonstration, incidentally in memory of another victim of police brutality in the same town earlier in the year. 

As reaction, yesterday there were new demonstrations in central Istanbul, which were repressed by police forces by means of water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets among others. People who were not taking part in the demo were also attacked.

There were also demonstration on Monday in the bicontinental metropolis, demanding punishment for those responsible of the injuries against a minor who has been in coma since he was hit by a gas canister months ago. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


Update: photos and video of the clashes now also at WG. 

Syria: hostages confirm that the chemical attack was done by the Islamists

The evidence piling up is so large that if there would be any justice in this world, Obama's nose would be now a kilometer long. Or in other more barbaric traditions his tongue might have been cut off so he could not lie anymore. 

Newly freed Italian journalist Federico Chirico, who was held hostage with Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin, said that he overhead a Skype conversation between three guerrilla members, including one who said to be a General of the Syrian Liberation Army, in which they acknowledged that the chemical attack was perpetrated by themselves and that it was done to trigger a Western military intervention. They also mentioned that the number of deaths being reported was wildly exaggerated.   

Chrico upon arrival to Rome

Piccinin also heard the communication and declared that it is their moral obligation to declare that it was not the government of Bashar al Assad which used the chemical weapons, but the armed opposition. 

They mentioned that they were very angry when they realized that the attack was being used against Assad, knowing that it was false. In the five months of their kidnapping, they were held by different groups, some extremely violent, anti-Western, anti-Christian Islamists.

They tried to run away twice but were captured and punished very harshly, with beatings and other physical abuse. Chirico was even submitted twice to fake executions with an unloaded gun.

Previously Ukrainian Anhar Kochneva, who escaped kidnapping by the sectarian terrorists, also confirmed from her own experience that it was impossible to have happened as the Western media reported.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Tunisia: large demonstrations demand immediate resignation of Islamist government

Tens of thousands marched through Tunis in demand of the resignation of the Islamist government, carrying national banners and photos of the victims of state terrorism.

The ruling Enhada party already conceded to early elections but first they insist in completing their Islamist constitution, what the protesters hope to avoid.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Syria: even more evidence of the falsehood of the "chemical attack"

A Christian nun, Agnes-Marie de la Croix, confirmed to Russia Today that she witnessed how children were selected for the farcical video of the supposed "chemical attack". 

The nun also declared total hostility against any Western attack against Syria, describing the Islamist groups as new barbarians, who have massacred mercilessly all non-Sunni communities: Chistians, Druzes, Alawites and Ismailites. The terrorist crimes by the Islamist gangs include rapings, kidnappings and beheadings, among other crimes. 

Also, a former hostage of an Islamist gang, Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva also supports the version that the "chemical attack" was a farce. That day she was at her residence just a few kilometers from the location of the supposed attack and the wind blew strongly in her direction (some 20m/s). 

She explains that if there would have been any such chemical attack they would have been no doubt affected, exactly the same as they smell the gunpowder and the burning. However there was nobody intoxicated in Damascus that day. 

The only "evidence" for the attack, she explains, are some videos highly questioned in their credibility. It is generally believed that the children were taken hostage from Kurdish areas or maybe from Latakia and then drugged as a video now removed from YouTube (account canceled, what a coincidence!) showed very clearly. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es] (link1, link2).

Geopolitics around Syria

I just drew a map showing the 30 largest World powers, according to GDP (PPP), and reflecting their governments' political stand on the so-far speculative attack against Syria:

Red: imperialist camp: government declared support for attack against Syria
Blue: anti-imperialist camp: government declared opposition to attack against Syria
Yellow: unknown official stand
Black: Syria (for reference)
Circles' areas are proportional to GDP(PPP)
(IMF data 2012, except Syria: WB 2005-2012)

Notice please that the alignment of governments on this matter may and in most cases does not reflect that of the people or even the parliament. In fact in some cases (UK), the government had to step down from its hawkish stand because of parliamentary opposition. In all cases the citizenry seems very hostile to any new imperialist adventure, especially considering how poorly justified it is (obvious psy-op) and who are the beneficiaries (Islamist terrorists of the worst kind).

Personally I believe (or at least hope) that the attack will never take place and that the various imperialist governments are actually using the parliament card to get an excuse not to intervene, while at the same time using the crisis to gauge the weight of global alliances.

But, whatever the case, we do get an interesting picture of global alignments. First of all the BRICS bloc has responded unanimously against the imperialist aggression, second some important and possibly unexpected non-BRICS states like Mexico, Egypt or Indonesia stand against the intervention. Of these the most notable is probably Germany, which also opposed (along with Italy) the intervention in Libya.

One can speculate that Merkel is just being cautious because of the elections but in fact she has such a wide advantage that she could do anything. The reality is that all this classical Western imperialism (it's just like the old Entente) is hurting German interests, which has long and strong ties with states like Iran, not to mention Russia, etc.

Also very notorious is the stand of India, often ambiguous. But maybe the most interesting development is the stand of Egypt. It is not just a calculated stand to appease the populace but apparently the Egyptian military is very hostile to any intervention in Syria and would like Assad to stay in place. In fact the anti-Damascus stand of the former President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have been one of the triggers of the military coup.

Not just the military, heavily dependent on US aid, but also Tamarod flatly rejects any intervention against Syria and has called for the government to close the Suez canal to Western military ships in such event, calling traitors to anyone who supported the Western aggression. 

The ghost of Nasser, who nationalized the Suez canal and was adamant of pan-Arabism, has returned strongly to Egyptian politics. Many would like Al-Sissi to be another Nasser, although I suspect that this is quite unlikely.

In any case around the Syrian crisis a new cold war seems to be brewing. True that China, the rising superpower, is keeping a relatively low profile but it is also true that, would the crisis escalate to the Persian Gulf, as it is perfectly possible they would be extremely upset.

Turkey: more repression against students in Ankara

The police forces of Islamist ruler Erdogan brutally charged with loads of tear gas and other violence against students protesting the deforestation of their campus to build a highway. 

The also Islamist mayor of Ankara, Melih Gökçek, recently announced that the works for the highway to be built right through the Technical University of the Middle East would begin this week. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Bahrain: more protests, more brutal repression

Hundreds of Bhraini citizens attempted again to protest in many towns around Manama but were violently repressed by police forces at the service of the totalitarian regime. 

People chanted slogans like "Death to Khalifa" (the dictator dynasty) or "Stop repression!". 

Only in August at least 203 citizens have been arrested (and surely tortured) and more than 482 homes have been assaulted.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Turkey: the Islamist regime continues with repression as the masses march against war in Syria

At least 40 people were arrested in a journey of renewed protests, this time with the cause of peace. Again Gezi Park and Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul were the epicenter of protests and brutal fascist repression by police forces. The protest in Istanbul was not the only one, in the last weeks concentrations and marches have been spreading again through Turkey after a summer downtime, all them have been met with the brutal repression of a regime that calls itself "democratic" but obviously does not want to know what the word means. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Update: short video of some of the protests and police deployment:

Syria: reasons to think that the chemical attack is a false flag attack

Translated and synthesized from Webguerrillero[es]:

• The videos of the purported attacks were online 24 hrs. before these allegedly happened.
• Many of the images used are from Iraq or the clashes in Egypt.
• Some of the bodies recorded are seen in various places, possibly to make the number appear greater.
• The children affected do not show symptoms of asphyxia nor convulsions and nobody takes care of them. It's very likely that they are Kurdish children kidnapped days earlier by the Islamists.
• The Islamist acknowledged in social media to have chemical weapons.
• Those pretending to be medics do not use masks, what would be a serious risk for their lives if actual chemical weapons were involved.
• Turkey, Iran and Syria have shown repeated evidence of the Islamist having chemical weapons. They have also displayed all kind of contempt for life, including murdering children and even cannibalism.
• The Syrian Army has found Saudi chemical weapons' containers in the outskirts of Damascus.
• It is very suspicious that the alleged attack happened precisely when a UN observer team was about to arrive.
• The area where the alleged attack took place has been depopulated of civilians since months ago.

Egypt: did Morsi lose the support of the Army for his plans to attack Syria and Ethiopia?

That's what Press TV and some other media say, echoing an analysis issued first by the Washington Post.

The combination of Morsi’s aggressive designs against Syria, together with some trial balloons from presidential circles about a possible conflict with Ethiopia, plus the massive anti-Morsi demonstrations organized by the National Salvation Front and the Tamarod movement, convinced military leaders that the incompetent and erratic Morsi, who had destroyed his own popularity by selling out to the demands of the International Monetary Fund last November, represented an intolerable risk for Egypt.

According to the Washington Post, the dissatisfaction of the Egyptian military with Morsi “peaked in June, when Morsi stood by twice as officials around him called for Egyptian aggression against Ethiopia and Syria, threatening to suck Egypt into conflicts that it could ill afford, former military officials said.” 

Regarding Ethiopia:

In the spring of this year, tensions rose between Egypt and Ethiopia when the government in Addis Ababa announced its intention to build a dam on the Blue Nile, prompting concerns by some in Egypt about future water supplies downstream. On June 2, with Morsi in attendance, Islamist politicians recklessly discussed how to sabotage the dam by funding Ethiopian rebel groups, followed by an attack by the Egyptian air force. Unknown to the participants, this incendiary discussion was broadcast on live television. Many were long to see that Morsi did not repudiate these proposals for naked aggression, but instead later commented that “all options are open.” 

Of course these would be at most just elements of a more complex scenario in which the disgraced President threw himself, his movement and all Egypt by repeatedly bowing to Washington, Tel Aviv and the IMF.

Syria: is chemical weapon massacre totally false? - Updated

Last time that Damascus was accused by the West of using chemical weapons against civilians it ended up being the Islamist guerrillas and not the government. This time it seems it's just a total farce. Watch this video please:

Among other elements suggesting farce is this photo, which has been used several times to "document" various massacres:

It is not the first time it happens: in the past images borrowed from Iraq massacres have been used also to "document" alleged massacres in Syria. Recently I had to watch how a "corpse" (Egyptian context) suddenly "came back to life" to kick off a person who was ispecting too much and found no injury under the bandage.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Update: Islamist close to Al Qaeda admits that they have chemical weapons. Video that shows apparently Islamists preparing a farce massacre scene.

Webguerrillero[es] reports, citing Syrian sources, that Abdolá al-Jaledi, an Islamist guerrilla close to Al Qaeda reported in his twitter account that they do have chemical weapons indeed. He wrote at the account @abo_almonthir:

Wouldn't it be for the confidentiality of the information, I would reveal who was the warrior, who built the said chemical weapons.

Syrian press has also spread two telephone calls that apparently show the implication of Islamists in chemical warfare.

The same newsblog posts this video showing what are apparently Islamists preparing a "massacre scene" for the international media (CNN+ and Al Jazeera, they say specifically - in Arabic):

It is said that they uploaded the video online accidentally had soon it was known to all.

Egypt: the third way

Something that is becoming obvious to me in the ongoing Egyptian crisis is that, by forcing the situation from a struggle between the Egyptian People vs. the Government (first Mubarak, then Morsi) to one between two reactionary forces: the Army and the Brotherhood, the revolutionary forces in Egypt have been completely sidelined while creating the pretext for a de-facto dictatorship again.

I have been missing accounts that are not pro-Brotherhood or pro-Military but sufficiently independent and cold-headed. In this sense I welcome very much the effort by The Real News Network to interview independent Egyptian analysts in two successive video-interviews, which I mirror here.

Egypt: statement of the Revolutionary Socialists

Neither with Morsi nor with Sissi, for Egypt and for People's Power. The Revolutionary Socialists seem one of the few Egyptian forces able to remain independent and opposed to all forms of totalitarianism, be it Islmanist or neo-Mubarakist. At least that's what they claim:

August 14, 2013 -- The bloody dissolution of the sit-ins in Al-Nahda Square and Raba'a al-Adawiyya is nothing but a massacre—prepared in advance. It aims to liquidate the Muslim Brotherhood. But, it is also part of a plan to liquidate the Egyptian Revolution and restore the military-police state of the Mubarak regime.

The Revolutionary Socialists did not defend the regime of Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood for a single day. We were always in the front ranks of the opposition to that criminal, failed regime which betrayed the goals of the Egyptian Revolution. It even protected the pillars of the Mubarak regime and its security apparatus, armed forces and corrupt businessmen. We strongly participated in the revolutionary wave of 30 June.

Neither did we defend for a single day the sit-ins by the Brotherhood and their attempts to return Mursi to power.

But we have to put the events of today in their context, which is the use of the military to smash up workers' strikes. We also see the appointment of new provincial governors—largely drawn from the ranks of the remnants of the old regime, the police and military generals. Then there are the policies of General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi's government. It has adopted a road-map clearly hostile to the goals and demands of the Egyptian revolution, which are freedom, dignity and social justice.

This is the context for the brutal massacre which the army and police are committing. It is a bloody dress rehearsal for the liquidation of the Egyptian Revolution. It aims to break the revolutionary will of all Egyptians who are claiming their rights, whether workers, poor, or revolutionary youth, by creating a state of terror.

However, the reaction by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists in attacking Christians and their churches, is a sectarian crime which only serves the forces of counter-revolution. The filthy attempt to create a civil war, in which Egyptian Christians will fall victims to the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood, is one in which Mubarak's state and Al-Sisi are complicit, who have never for a single day defended the Copts and their churches.

We stand firmly against Al-Sisi's massacres, and against his ugly attempt to abort the Egyptian Revolution. For today's massacre is the first step in the road towards counter-revolution. We stand with the same firmness against all assaults on Egypt's Christians and against the sectarian campaign which only serves the interests of Al-Sisi and his bloody project.

Many who described themselves as liberals and leftists have betrayed the Egyptian Revolution, led by those who took part in Al-Sisi's government. They have sold the blood of the martyrs to whitewash the military and the counter-revolution. These people have blood on their hands.

We, the Revolutionary Socialists, will never deviate for an instant from the path of the Egyptian Revolution. We will never compromise on the rights of the revolutionary martyrs and their pure blood: those who fell confronting Mubarak, those who fell confronting the Military Council, those who fell confronting Mursi's regime, and those who fall now confronting Al-Sisi and his dogs.

Down with military rule!
No the return of the old regime!
No to the return of the Brotherhood!
All power and wealth to the people!

Sources LINKS, Socialist Worker.

Bahrain represses Tamarrod protests

The fascist Bahraini theocracy, armed by Saudi Arabia and NATO members, brutally repressed the protests against the dictatorship... again. 

Tear gas and pellets were used indiscriminately against those who attempted to bring the popular demands to the streets. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Bahrain: Tamarrod day arrives under barbed wire

Barbed wire and cement blocks dominate the landscape of Bahrain these days. Today, August 14th, has been called as Tamarrod (rebellion) journey and the totalitarian Khalifa regime has reacted making whole villages into prisons. 

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights explains:

On Monday, 13^th of August 2013, security forces started surrounding some villages with barbed wire and placed cement blocks to control the movement and prevent protestors from reaching the main roads. Residents of those areas will be forced to cross police checkpoints whenever they need to leave or enter residential areas, which imposes the threat of getting arrested if they were suspected of participating in the protests.

Also the only hospital in the island-state, the Salmaniya Medical Complex, is being controlled by the oversized security forces in a clear attempt to curtail health care for the foreseeable victims of police repression. In the past physicians and nurses themselves have been persecuted just for healing the victims of police. 

Source: BCHR.

Saudi Arabia: protests spread to the center of the country

Protests in the most totalitarian state on Earth, Saudi Arabia, began in 2011 and have continued intermittently through 2012 in the oil-rich Eastern Province, closely related to Bahrain. But now the protests (other than some instances of women fighting for their most basic rights) have extended to the interior of the country. 

Hundreds of Arab denizens took to the streets of Buraidah and other cities of Al Qassim province in demand of democracy and freedom for political prisoners, notably Hila al-Qasir, sentenced to 15 years of prison for her pro-democracy activism. 

The demands of the protesters are in essence: democratic reforms, freedom of speech, political amnesty and stopping the intervention in third countries like Bahrain.

Source[es]: HispanTV (via Webguerrillero).

Tunisia: 40,000 people demand government's resignation

Some 40,000 people gathered in Bardo Square in Tunis to demand the resignation of the Islamist government and justice for the Socialist leaders murdered by what seem to be their death squad. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Syria & Kurdistan: three Kurds burnt alive by the Islamists, CIA appoints Syria commander

The brutal fascist inhuman and psychopathic nature of the NATO-supported Islamist militias in Syria becomes even more evident with cases like these: three Kurdish citizens were burned alive in an execution like those of Torquemada.

Video from Russia Today[es]:

Earlier this year the same fascist militia massacred 450 Kurds near Tal Abyad. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


CIA names General Wright as commander for Syria

An anonymous source of the FARS news agency reported that the CIA has General John Wright, 57, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, has been appointed as "commander of operations and cooperation" for the Syrian civil war.

The general already has an office in Amman, Jordan, and keeps tight contacts with the dictators of Saudi Arabia. After a meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the USA provided stinger missiles to the Islamist rebels. The CIA has a training camp in Jordan where some 3000 Syrian rebels are being trained. They plan to occupy Deraa, the border town where the civil war began after infiltration of agitators and armed groups from Jordan.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Kabylia: hundreds break Ramadan fasting imposition

Hundreds of Kabyles joined into a public lunch at Tizi-Ouzud, not far from Algiers, to protest the religious dictatorship of Algeria, where people can be arrested and charged on the accusation of "anti-islamic activities" for not fasting during the Muslim month-long Ramadan festivity. 

The defiant act of disobedience was organized after Algerian police harassed three young Kabyles who were ignoring the religious imposition. Local nationalist leader Bouaziz Ait Chebib said:

We called this gathering to denounce the inquisition and persecution of citizens who, because of their beliefs, refuse to observe the fast. 

The authorities decided to ignore the protest this time.

Source: Al-Jazeera.