SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #Save_Idlib, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, bombing, bombs, ceasfire, drones, featured, Hama, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Idlib, Iran, islamic relief, israel, Nato, propaganda, putin, raed al-saleh, Russia, saraqib, save idlib, state media, Syria, syria campaign, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, terrorism, turkey, UN, united nations, white helmets.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Children and anybody with a free spirit have become terrorists in the eyes of the world.” My Syrian friend and I are discussing the current situation in Idlib. We are both exasperated that the world is standing idly by as thousands of innocent people are murdered or made homeless. Idlib, a governorate in North West Syria, is often portrayed as home exclusively to terrorists and violent Islamist extremists. My friend’s reference to “a free spirit” is his description of the people who participated in the Syrian revolution: those who dared to demand a free and peaceful life including the right to participate in democratic elections and to exercise freedom of speech and assembly without fear of being arbitrarily detained, tortured, executed or otherwise disappeared into the Syrian regime’s nightmarish prison system.Continue Reading

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Andrei Karlov, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, ceasfire, Crimea, daesh, drones, featured, Hezbollah, humanitarian corridor, Iran, israel, Jaysh al-Islam, Nato, propaganda, putin, Russia, state media, Syria, terrorism, Trump, turkey, Ukraine, UN, united nations, withdrawal of US support.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions drone attacks, conflict, and terrorism.

While the US President, Donald Trump, has made it clear that the US presence in Syria was to carry out the extermination of Daesh, Russia’s intentions have always been to support their ally, Bashar al-Assad. Last September the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, made a surprise visit to Syria to announce that Russia had succeeded in its mission. While both might be correct, it is Putin who is in a more difficult position and the risk that Russia will be dragged further in has become ever more likely.

Syria was an opportunity for Putin’s Russia to flex its muscles on the international stage again after creating trouble in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Having already interfered in the election in the US and potentially in other elections in Europe, Russia remains largely unchallenged. Sanctions brought about by the US Congress do little to curb the ambitious plans of a nation seeking to relive past glories. Russia continues to forge relations with former satellite states and the lack of US involvement in NATO does nothing to deter the risk of another cold war breaking out in Eastern Europe. Yet, as with so many Western states, Russia has found itself stuck in the political and religious quagmire that is the Middle East.Continue Reading

KARL MARX DEFENDS HENRY KISSINGER BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged capitalist, chief defense counsel, class struggle, Clinton, death, distinguished public service award, drones, east timor, external, gaddafi, henry kissinger, ICC, international criminal court, iraq, karl marx, kissinger, Libya, Madeleine Albright, mass murderers, nobel peace prize, nuremberg, obama, reaper drones, satire, the hague, war hero, West, writing.

by Gary Olson

Content warning: mentions mass murder and drone warfare

Mr. Robert Walpole
Editor-in-Chief
The Onion
1000 Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Dear Mr. Walpole:

I read in The Atlantic that Cole Bolton, The Onion’s editor in 2015, said that his publication is devoted to “calling out bullshit” and has “had an anti-corporate rebellious streak throughout [their] editorial history.”

Taking that mission seriously, I submit to you the satire below.

In the spirit of speaking truth to power,

Gary Olson

In a parallel universe, Henry Kissinger is being prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Seated at the table with Kissinger is his cunning choice for Chief Defense Counsel, none other than Karl Marx.

The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor addresses the three-judge Trial Chamber, reminding them that the preamble of the Rome Statute establishing the court states “that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished.”

She draws upon a myriad of impeccable sources, including historian Greg Grandin’s new book Kissinger’s Shadow. The judges are stunned by the prosecutor’s searing portrayal of the defendant’s alleged responsibility for so many deaths — six million in Indochina alone. An anguished look crosses the face of Norwegian judge Olaf Ingeborg as he watches some unspeakably macabre visual evidence.Continue Reading

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged air force, airstrikes, army, British army, CND, cold war, drones, ethics, Europe, F-15E, France, Goldsboro, Lakenheath, Liberty Wing, military, military presence, Nato, norwich, nuclear bombs, nuclear weapons, Nukemap, Pakistan, Palomares, RAF, Russia, Strike Eagle, Syria, uk, United States Air Force, US, USA, USAF, war, war crimes, Women of Greenham Common, Yemen.

by Zoe Harding

In my last piece, while blithering about the US Presidential Race, I mentioned that one of the reasons for my interest in the politics of another country was the continued presence of their nuclear-capable aircraft in the skies over my head. This week I think I should clarify that, and take a look at what the world’s largest and most ludicrously overfunded military is up to in our neck of the woods.Continue Reading

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SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

KARL MARX DEFENDS HENRY KISSINGER BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

THE LIBERTY WING: WHAT’S THE USAF DOING OVER NORWICH?

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