I endorse your retelling / brilliantly and in depth - TY so mucho - I am so Happy for Syria 🇸🇾 and all the relatives scattered far and wide that can maybe return Safely now -
The best ever heavy metal band featuring an Ornette Coleman alumnus on guitar, hands down. Though James Blood Ulmer probably has it in him to challenge if he wanted.
on syria, i have now read the economist write up, listened to Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor's emergency podcast and heard the estimable carlotta gall on the daily.
however as no one else covered the louboutin angle, this is the best.
Funny little wrinkle: There was a time when conservative idiots were lionizing Assad as the protector of Syria's Christians, preventing them from being massacred by ruthless fanatical Muslims. Then Assad turns around and gets his support from Iran and Hezbollah. I guess the useful idiots had stopped paying attention by then.
Has anyone checked up on Susan Sarandon and that guy from Pink Floyd, who've been insisting for ages that Assad never gassed anyone and it's a false flag to do a regime change on him? Other former Assad shills are divided between "NOOOOOO THE ZIONISTS HAVE WON" and "akschually we were opposed to Assad all the time, don't know how you got that from our reporting on how he never poisoned gassed anyone"
There is no guarantee of the future in Syria, but al-Jolani is playing an excellent PR game. He's started dressing like Zelenskyy, for heaven's sake, and has just put out an order that HTS fighters are prohibited from trying to tell women how to dress.
The Assads are from the historically persecuted Alawi minority. There may be a precedent in the Middle East for a historically persecuted minority setting up a militarised state to keep themselves safe, which descended into paranoia and systematic war crimes, but I can't think of one right now.
Asma (why did her parents give her a disease for a name?) can get Louboutins online. Discounted. No one has to know. And if past is precedent, no one will.
I endorse your retelling / brilliantly and in depth - TY so mucho - I am so Happy for Syria 🇸🇾 and all the relatives scattered far and wide that can maybe return Safely now -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yDyZrKOV4
[ Living Colour - Cult Of Personality w/ Steve Vai at Rock In Rio 2022 ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5VkMqM07s
[ Living Colour - Open Letter To A Landlord ]
Unrepentant apologies, these dudes ROCK!! One of my fave CDs from the '80s
The best ever heavy metal band featuring an Ornette Coleman alumnus on guitar, hands down. Though James Blood Ulmer probably has it in him to challenge if he wanted.
Ta, Marcie. I never saw the Baba Wawa interview, but I do remember seeing Assad Jr. on Charlie Rose. I thought he was a heartless, slick liar.
AN OPEN LETTER TO TULSI GABBARD: THE DANGERS OF HAVING A DICTATOR’S ALLY IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“Your Complicity with Tyrants Makes You Unfit to Lead.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/an-open-letter-to-tulsi-gabbard-the?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Sic semper tyrannis. May it work out much better for the Syrian people, than the fall of Saddam Hussein did for the Iraqi people.
on syria, i have now read the economist write up, listened to Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor's emergency podcast and heard the estimable carlotta gall on the daily.
however as no one else covered the louboutin angle, this is the best.
Funny little wrinkle: There was a time when conservative idiots were lionizing Assad as the protector of Syria's Christians, preventing them from being massacred by ruthless fanatical Muslims. Then Assad turns around and gets his support from Iran and Hezbollah. I guess the useful idiots had stopped paying attention by then.
How useful of them
Donald Trump: "Assad is being treated very unfairly."
Thank you, Marcie Jones ! So much better than whatever crap NYT and WaPo are saying about it!
I wonder how many pairs of shoes Asma has.
Every time I see her name, I think Lord of the Flies.
Ah, she can just order her haute couture online, amirite?
It's not the same as doing it in the City of Lights.
It lacks the whole jeune se quois.
Surprised the Assads moved to Russia. The weather there is bad for Asma.
I see what you did there!
Has anyone checked up on Susan Sarandon and that guy from Pink Floyd, who've been insisting for ages that Assad never gassed anyone and it's a false flag to do a regime change on him? Other former Assad shills are divided between "NOOOOOO THE ZIONISTS HAVE WON" and "akschually we were opposed to Assad all the time, don't know how you got that from our reporting on how he never poisoned gassed anyone"
There is no guarantee of the future in Syria, but al-Jolani is playing an excellent PR game. He's started dressing like Zelenskyy, for heaven's sake, and has just put out an order that HTS fighters are prohibited from trying to tell women how to dress.
There's a template. With wardrobe and dialogue.
"I understand Arafat buys his suits there."
The Assads are from the historically persecuted Alawi minority. There may be a precedent in the Middle East for a historically persecuted minority setting up a militarised state to keep themselves safe, which descended into paranoia and systematic war crimes, but I can't think of one right now.
Asma (why did her parents give her a disease for a name?) can get Louboutins online. Discounted. No one has to know. And if past is precedent, no one will.
Does Amazon deliver to Russia?
Is there money in it?