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totallyhussein-blog · 1 year

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Talking about a revolution? Exploring Socialist perspectives on Iraq

In the article Communism and the Iraqi Revolution, Benjamin Curry of the UK based Socialist Appeal (British section of the International Marxist Tendency) goes to the roots of the revolutionary history of the Iraqi people.

According to Benjamin Curry, the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq and the liquidation of the Ba’athist state, “opened a Pandora’s Box in Iraq” but “for a time in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Iraq became the key theatre of struggle in one of the most significant dramas in modern history.”

Estimates suggest more than a million people were killed in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and as Benjamin Curry argues: “The conditions in Iraq today cry out for the socialist reorganisation of society. The contradictions will permit no other solution.”

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palestinestuffff · 15 days

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Similarities between Iraq War protests and Palestine Protests.

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#free palestine #iraq #palestine #human rights #protests #gifs #Youtube

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sayruq · 28 days

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Tunisia ⤵️

Jordan ⤵️

Iraq ⤵️

West Bank ⤵️

Pakistan ⤵️

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carmsgarms · 2 months

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FUCK YEAH BOY AND THE HERON WON THE OSCAR

fun fact: the last 2D animated movie that won the Oscar was in 2002

it was Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

Miyazaki is the only person to ever win for 2D animation and he's done it twice.

#he deserves it #miyazaki #boy and the heron #lol and last time he didn't show up to accept because he was protesting the iraq war #what a fucking king #he does not even give a shit #carm watches the oscars #2024 oscars #oscars #oscars 2024

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decolonize-the-left · 5 months

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Let's bring this back.

I know I'm not the only one worried about how bad this is gonna get. I'm in the USA. I'm in a country with some power. And I know for a fact that the US government will use that power to commit war crimes for profit.

And obviously they don't care if we disagree with them about it. They clearly would go through great lengths to commit war crimes with enough profit motive.

So Americans, we need to help make that profit a negative number. We need to make the idea of going to war and funding this genocide the worst financial decision in history. We need to make sure that not only the Biden admin, but even incoming candidates believe that supporting Israel or war would be the biggest American Presidential Fuckup in history

You know, like that time we sent troops to Vietnam despite massive protests and then the US responded by failing it's singular goal to stop the spread of communism so the only results were ashamed troops, death, and debt?

We need to make this as bad as that was. For the record, the legacy of that failure is still an American embarrassment on a global stage. The president who started the war, LBJ, was also a democrat, btw. In fact, it was a guerilla war that time too. The Vietnamese military didn't fight too different from the way we hear about Hamas. "Like ghosts." We just aren't in a jungle this time.

It will be impossible for journalists and reporters to look at solidarity rallies, war protests, demands to defund the military, boycotts, and spin genocide and war and death as a necessary evil for American safety or something Americans want.

Look at these crowds. Look at the songs artists were releasing.

Bring this back.

Remember governments serve their people, not the other way around. If the government would rather serve Israel than us, then that's all the more reason to challenge it.

#photos are from antiwar protests surrounding Iran Iraq Vietnam and Afghanistan #they are not just american protests either #history #solidarity #Spotify

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eretzyisrael · 2 months

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#muslims killed #syria #yemen #afghanistan #sudan #iraq #mass protests

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notyourtoday · 9 days

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Footage emerging from Iran shows air defence systems blocking ariel attacks in the sky. Citing a senior US official, ABC News reported that Israeli missiles have struck a site in Iran. According to Anadolu Agency, Iranian media reported an explosion near Isfahan's airport, impacting the 8th Shekhari air force base.

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futurebird · 5 months

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The day after 9/11 my brother hovered on the phone in his midtown apartment where I'd been crashing while I started my new job. He was convincing my folks not to come and get us.

CNN kept repeating the same things over and over in the background.

I was very young. I thought a team: a cross between the NAVY SEALS (as seen in US film and TV) CSI and maybe Law and Order who would bravely and precisely find whoever was responsible. Then there would be a trial.

Because that's what would be right.

In the years that followed? An incomprehensible horror. Slowly being an anti-war protestor became less dangerous.

At one of the first protests I remember a woman screaming: they had attacked her home city. As if I didn't live in the same city too.

Took about two years for it to become obvious to most that whatever our government was doing it had little to do with justice, or preventing terrorism.

About that same time the rest of the country remembered it'd never liked NYC anyways.

#war #iraq war #9/11 #nyc #protests #anti war protests #anti war

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opendirectories · 9 months

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#open directories #protest #iraq war #activism #terrorism

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alphacrone · 6 months

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love seeing high school kids organize real protests for actual world issues bc when i was in high school the only time my peers and i managed to actually pull a protest together was when we organized a sit-in to protest the new rule that we weren’t allowed to sit in the hallways during lunch

#we really didn’t have enough cafeteria space for all of us #so sometimes you had to eat in the hall #we liked it but admin didn’t #oh there was also sort of a protest against the #‘no consensual hugging’ rule #but that came more in the guise of hugging people non consensually #very loudly #our vice principal hated that rule he was so exhausted by us #there were real things we could have been protesting #gay marriage wasn’t federal law yet #iraq war was still going on #rick perry shot a coyote with a handgun during his morning jog #and yet. and yet.#this is not to say other teens of the time weren’t protesting. they were #this is about my idiot peers and i #we were not organized

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susansontag · 6 months

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absolutely ridiculous. what you are ‘discovering’ here is no more than the western corporate press’s tendency to exclude certain stories for political and economic reasons. the british government funds those civilian deaths in yemen, obviously they don’t want too much media scrutiny being given to it. and honestly, support for palestine is actually a novelty in this regard, because the israeli military is trained and funded by the most powerful imperial state on earth, and american media moguls control a large percentage of the mainstream media, including the avenues where smaller presses source their own international news.

the propaganda actually is pro-israel, in the same way that all propaganda in the corporate press is pro- western allies, client states, or strategic partners. the fact some are seriously arguing popular movements in favour of palestinian liberation or simply for a ceasefire are evidence of some lobby funding pro-palestinian propaganda shows total ignorance of which governments and corporations have influence in the corporate-owned media.

absolutely the media sometimes must make concessions when ignoring masses of people protesting on the streets would become too obvious, but this does not mean the ideological frameworks within which reporters are writing favour the ‘unworthy victim(s)’. journalists writing for corporate-owned media with reliance on business for advertising revenue to subsidise the publication they are writing for will absolutely self-censor or are censored somewhere along the way to publication, who could have thought.

it’s incredibly self-righteous and ridiculous to blame ordinary people for only focusing on issues that are reported on in the media. where the hell else are people meant to get their news? it’s designed like this for a reason. the majority of people are not reading marginalised or independent media with very little audience reach (not that the people who posted this even care for the viewpoints of those journalists or researchers anyway). sorry they’re not talking about yemen — maybe write to CNN or whatever to ask why they’re not covering it instead of positioning ordinary people as brainless idiots.

the implication here that people are angry about mass civilian death of a population trapped in a strip of land without drinkable water because they’re antisemites, idiots who only read the news made available to them (which, as I’ve said, is overwhelming pro-israel in its orientation anyway for very clear political and economic reasons), and that they need to prove their virtue by protesting about all massacres equally, places the blame on ordinary populaces of people with an ordinary capacity for horror and outrage rather than on a corporate-run media landscape that caters to the views of western business and political elites who do not care when they fund muslim deaths in countries they hate and want to bomb into submission. I’ll have to block @a-room-of-my-own and her circle of idiots now because their imperial apologism is frankly ongoing and deluded at this point.

#their were also mass protests against the invasion of iraq despite media towing the official line #moth.txt

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elbosta · 2 years

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the mother earth, painting by Layla Al Attar on an oil canvas in 1980

"the art of Layla Al Attar was suggestive of alienation and deep sadness, which made her take nature as a subject for salvation." – Adel Kamel

During the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, the Arab world was still enveloped with conservative and traditional attitudes, which were undeniably ruled by the prejudgement for the women who were trying to abandon the dominating morals of their time. This was mainly done within literature and plastic art, to 'challenge the deep-seated traditions seeking to present their intellectual views and vision.' This movement led to a group of Iraqi artists breaking free from the conservative mould imposed by their societies and came to produce intricate artworks as a representation of the 'turmoil of their time.' With this, it has allowed their work to transcend time, gifting hope and courage for the lives of men and women to this day, granting generations the knowledge and wisdom to help re-establish the position and power of women in their still heavily conservative communities. As well as this, their works are a striking source of nostalgia for all civillians, feeling their defiance through their artwork which shall be long remembered.

#layla al attar #middle east #middle eastern art #art #painting #oil painting on canvas #iraq #iraqi artists #nature #middle eastern history #history #art history #20th century art #20th century #arabic art #iraqi art #protest art

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quotian · 7 months

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People make fun of us because we lost, but we tried to turn the ship around. Millions of us around the world, half a million in New York City alone, banging our drums, marching in the streets, shouting “Wake up!” Less than twenty percent of Americans supported that war. No one wanted to send their sons and daughters to die in the desert, but generals gathered in their masses, right? And look at the world they made. how to sell a haunted house - grady hendrix

#how to sell a haunted house #grady hendrix #protest #george w bush #iraq war

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mostlykind · 7 months

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how do you stay hopeful when every powerful force is against you, and mainstream media yields to their wants and needs, when every step forward is met with brutalisation forcing you 10 steps back, and sympathy is only extended to the oppressor

#I am feeling completely hopeless. and miserable.#it just feels like no matter how many people support palestine we won’t ever see genuine action and change #bc Israel is back by the US and the UK and so many other global actors and superpowers #plus Saudi wants to normalise relations with them and Turkey practically has #so it’s like. yeah power to the people but what can we DO #what will we actually achieve #and this is by no means my giving up or accepting ‘defeat’#but it’s just so constant #it feels like there’s no winning and I can’t even begin o conceptualise how horrifying for Palestinians themselves #and I’ve been going to protests and demonstrations since I was a kid with my parents #and it’s so obvious our governments do not care. and will never succumb #they’re not for us. they don’t care about us. nothing we do or say matters #we protested the Iraq war and they still bombed it. we protested against the way on Syria and still they bombed it #it just feels like we have no voice. no say. no opinion #this is a terrible rant. I just feel tired. and it’s sad I can say that and go on with my life when my fellow people can’t #rahma’s rambles #free palestine #palestine

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jimhair · 1 year

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From Wikipedia: “On 15 February 2003, a month before the invasion, there were worldwide protests against the Iraq War, including a rally of three million people in Rome, which the Guinness Book of Records listed as the largest ever anti-war rally. According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between 3 January and 12 April 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.” Danger Angel and a few Friends Protest the Rush to War in Iraq, San Francisco, January 2003 🇺🇦💔🌎💔🌏💔🌍💔🇺🇦 #earth #human #family #sanfrancisco #iraq #war #street #demo #protest #social #documentary #photography @hasselblad #hasselblad #camera #mediumformat #fuji @fujifilm_northamerica #film #photography #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #leftcoast #oregon #streetphotography #ishootfujifilm @hasselbladculture @hasselbladfilmgallery 0301xx10 Fuji NPC100 Hasselblad SWC 38mm Biogon https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_BI-gSSzX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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notyourtoday · 9 days

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