Meanwhile, we continue to rain death upon Syria
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 11:21am
The news media stopped caring about Syria long ago, but the bombs keep falling.
"International coalition planes targeted water wells where a group of civilians were gathered in the north of Raqqa city, killing at least 18 civilians," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Britain-based group said four children were among the dead.
U.S.-led coalition attacks killed 12 civilians, mostly women and children, in the village of Bukrus Fukani, Bukamal municipality, in the eastern countryside of the northeastern province of Deir Ezzor.
Two aerial attacks near Raqqa, Syria in March killed at least 84 civilians, including 30 children, and raise concerns that US-led coalition forces fighting the extremist armed group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) did not take adequate precautions to minimize civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Every eight minutes last month, a bomb, missile or shell was fired on the Syrian city of Raqqa by a US-led coalition battling ISIL, resulting in at least 433 likely civilian deaths, according to a report released by a UK-based monitor.
A new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) found that airstrikes conducted by the US-backed coalition have killed at least 2,286 civilians, including 674 women and 504 children. Many of the sorties are being carried out by US pilots.
"US troops dropped bombs on a residential area. How can they say it was mistake? We understand one time, two times, but not forever! They kill us, civilians, and call it a mistake all the time."
- Kabul resident Mohammed Amin
It's a good thing that the lives of foreigners are worth less than the lives of Americans. Otherwise our political and military leaders would be getting hung for war crimes.
.@UNCoISyria ‘gravely concerned’ about #Syria-n civilians killed by Coalition https://t.co/rfn0TA7WOg (via @samueloakford & @airwars)
— UN Syria Commission (@UNCoISyria) September 6, 2017
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The Regime in Washington must go!
These deaths are unacceptable. Washington has been been killing civilians half way around the world, in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, ... Human Rights Watch has filed complaints about the "Coalition" with the UN. The "Coalition" claims that they have been self policing but HRW disagrees.
Report from Human Rights Watch
It appears that the "Coalition" has also been dropping Cluster Bombs on Civilians in Yemen. Again from HRW.
I think that no administration should be able to butcher civilians anywhere and get away with it. Many red lines have been crossed. It's time to say that the criminal regime in Washington has to go.
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
Are you saying that Asshat must go? /nt
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
Which 'regime' are we talking about?
Trump & Co.? That's fine. But what about the other 'regime'? The one that just got booted out of power. The one that took us INTO Syria, Yemen...
If you want to stop eternal war, the eternal parasites of BOTH regimes have got to go. Stopping one side won't work. War represents a big part of our economy. And Corporate Amurika not only LOVES war because of the money it brings in but also because it's pure profit. And why would the big boys and girls in the corporate boardrooms not love war? They don't ever have to actually have to 'fight' in our wars. Neither do their kids. And they don't pay for ours wars. They just take in the profits. And they pay our 'representatives', House, Senate, and Oval Office, to ensure the war machine goes on forever.
And now it is necessary to both regimes survival that they continue down this path of Endless War. Because it's vital to the survival of our 1%ers and their bank balance that we try to stop the BRICS countries from stealing their piggy bank.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa BRICS s an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRIC, without South Africa, was originally coined in 2003 by Goldman Sachs, which speculates that by 2050 these four economies will be the most dominant. South Africa was added to the list on April 13, 2011 creating "BRICS".
Remember, you can't be Number 1 as the world's biggest economy and the world's policeman unless you keep your collective boot on a lot of foreign necks.
It's not just a fight against a 'regime'. It's a tight against BOTH regimes and those that benefit from this country's never-ending warmongering. TPTB firmly believe that this country's ONLY obligation is to keep funnelling cash and creating public policy for their benefit alone.
We need to take them ALL down, the Republican regime, the Dimocritic regime, and the 1%. But how is that possible? Because they'd rather kill all us Useless Eaters rather than give up their power and money.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews
Personally, I believe that we also have to quit being conned into referring to public servants in what's supposed to be a democracy as 'being in power' or as 'rulers' and the unelected and destructive self-interests running them against the public interest to benefit themselves at everyone else's expense as 'elites'.
The connotations of such language 'justifies' their claims of being 'rulers in power over the people', thereby being 'above the law' and able to make and enforce whatever 'law' they like against the public interest, ecological and economic survival - and warps public perceptions of what the public service is intended to be.
We need to take back the 'incremental' PR alteration of language and define democracy and the role of public servants within it, starting with the fact that nothing 'belongs to the government' and whoever happens to be holding public office at any moment in time any more than it does to any of all citizens to whom government and public property belong as a commons. They cannot do as they please to the people for whom they work or with their rights and public assets - they just say they can. They've been getting away with it because we've been conned into accepting it.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.