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Yahoo! News photo staff put together a vivid photo essay of life in the safe zone in northern Syria. ca.Yahoo! News: PHOTOS: For Syrian Kurds, and aid workers – the ‘safe zone’ is not so safe « I am preparing my tent » Diyar 4, a Syrian refugee at Bardarash Refugee Camp in Iraq. Over 13,000Continue reading “Nov 9 (1/8): Photo Essay: The Safe Zone”

More Kurdish propaganda: People have unearthed a video from Sep 1997 of Nelson Mandela’s message of solidarity with the Kurdish struggle. Message of #Mandela for the Kurds: “I’m a part of the Kurdish struggle I am one of you.” | “Ez beşekî têkoşîna Kurdan im. Ez yekî ji nav we me.” | “Ben Kürtlerin mücadelesininContinue reading “Nov 8 (14/14): Nelson Mandela & The Kurds”

For awhile now, towns in the south east region of Turkey where the Turkish military is conducting operations of various sorts, military and otherwise, have been attempting a kind of small scale public relations of campaign about how they are ancient settlements of immense intrinsic value to humanity that are being destroyed. Hasankeyf bir ilçeContinue reading “Nov 8 (13/14): Broken Heritage”

OK, Nov 8 was a relatively “dull” day from a tactical and geopolitical strategy POV (though terrifying on the ground). There’s the same fighting in the same places, but not a lot of ground given up. There is reason to believe that the relative lack of movement on the ground is a function of theContinue reading “Nov 8 (12/14): Run Down & Big Picture”

During WWII, when the United States conducted the internment of Japanese descent in America on the west coast (It’s not well known that there was no internment on Hawaii; being a different theater of operations, they had a different general who, among other things, did not give overtly racist testimony to Congress. Hawaii had noContinue reading “Nov 8 (11/14): Erdogan’s Ways and the Kurds”

I get a huge kick out of the Operation Inherent Resolve Twitters Like, check this out: More pro-radical feminist propaganda put out on the internet by—oh, oh shit. #المرأة_السلام_الأمن#WomenPeaceSecurity pic.twitter.com/Cu1cLDN6lm — Operation Inherent Resolve (@CJTFOIR) November 7, 2019 And just in case, despite what the Pentagon said yesterday, anyone forgot or somehow didn’t know whereContinue reading “Nov 8 (10/14): The Tweets of War”

So there’s fighting in all the places there is fighting. SDF have reportedly made progress near Ayn Issa and Tal Abyad picking up some villages. Turkey is still pounding SDF near Tel Tamr. And our friend David Eubank may be moving through the stages of grief, because he’s pissed. Turkish drone strikes continue here northContinue reading “Nov 8 (9/14): Comms Check: Work, Rescue, Protest, Save”

Turkey’s (mis)Use of Allied Sold Weapons Continues Reports: Gambling in the establishment has been discovered. CNN: US believes reports Turkey misused US-supplied weapons in Syria incursion are ‘credible’ US looking in to possible misuse of arms sold by them to Turkey. This feels like a joke almost. Like, the whole What Did You Expect Them ToContinue reading “Nov 8 (7/14): Ethnic Cleansing, Rocks”

teddywingman Thanks for keeping us informed Rev. Earlier you kinda asked it there were any requests, right? Or did I imagine that? Either way, I have one. Reverend You did not imagine it. teddywingman It might be a rather mundane task for you, so feel free to ignore it. I would love to see aContinue reading “Nov 8 (6/14): Alphabet Soup”