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  • Germany: Berlin - Scholars at Risk global congress

    23 April, by siawi3

    The 2018 Global Congress is held in the center of Europe at a time of historic challenges not only to higher education, but to
    liberal democratic society in general.
    These include the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and beyond; the
    resulting refugee crises; the resurgence of populism, authoritarianism and
    ethnic nationalism; and related attacks on higher education ranging from the targeted pressures on Central European University to the firing of over 5,800 academics in Turkey, to travel restrictions and widely-publicized unrest on U.S. campuses.

  • Yemen war: Saudi-led air strike on wedding ’kills 20’

    23 April, by siawi3

    The Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV reported that warplanes had carried out two raids on the wedding party in the rebel-held village of al-Raqa, which is about 90km (55 miles) north-west of the capital Sanaa. The rebel Houthi movement blamed the raid on a Saudi-led coalition that is supporting Yemen’s government in the country’s three-year civil war.

  • Indonesia: “Government plans to make special ID cards specifically for followers of indigenous faiths”

    23 April, by siawi3

    Some religious authorities, particularly the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), criticized the decision to allow the followers of aliran kepercayaan to state their belief in the mandatory religion column of their ID cards, saying that it elevated indigenous faiths to the same level as the six religions officially recognized by the Indonesian government (one MUI official said it “signifies the country’s regression into the stone age”).

  • Syria: The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots

    23 April, by siawi3

    The three major mobilisations of the western ‘anti-war’ left had little to do with ending the war. More than half a million Syrians have been killed since 2011. There is no outrage or concern feigned for this war, which followed the regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators. This left exhibits deeply authoritarian tendencies, one that places states themselves at the centre of political analysis. Solidarity is therefore extended to states (seen as the main actor in a struggle for liberation) rather than oppressed or underprivileged groups in any given society, no matter that state’s tyranny. This ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots is one which equates imperialism with the actions of the US alone. They seem unaware that the US has been bombing Syria since 2014. They turned a blind eye to Assad filling his gulag with thousands of secular, peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators for death by torture, whilst releasing militant-Islamists from prison.This pro-fascist left seems blind to any form of imperialism that is non-western in origin.

  • L’anti-impérialisme des imbéciles – Le mouvement anti-guerre occidental et la Syrie

    23 avril, par siawi3

    Pour cette gauche autoritaire, le soutien à Assad se manifeste au nom de l’anti-impérialisme. Assad est perçu comme appartenant à l’« axe de la résistance » face à l’empire américain et au sionisme. Cet « anti-impérialisme » des imbéciles est celui pour qui l’« impérialisme » équivaut uniquement à l’action des États-Unis. Cet anti-impérialisme là a préféré adopter le discours de la guerre au terrorisme autrefois promu par les néoconservateurs et repris maintenant par le régime qui qualifie de djihadiste et terroriste toute opposition à Assad. Il a fermé les yeux sur le fait qu’Assad envoyait dans ses goulags des milliers de manifestants laïques, pacifiques et pro-démocratie afin de les torturer à mort tandis qu’il sortait les militants islamistes de prison.

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