SYRIA PRIMER …. “from EZRA KLEIN & VOX …. details here …. “!!

~~April 8, 2017~~ 

SYRIA’S WAR: CONVOLUTED AND COMPLICATED

Syria has been at the forefront of the news for several years.

We know about the war raging within its borders.

We have seen the many refugees leaving and running into uncertain conditions about their travels and their eventual destination.

This week, the situation attracted a huge spotlight due to the launching of Tomahawk missiles, early Friday, April 7, by the United States on a base in western Syria that the United States says was used to launch Tuesday’s chemical attack, April 4, which left nearly 100 people dead and hundreds more injured.

The video explains the many details, factions, alliances and ‘players’.

Take a look.

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Ezra Klein brings you a video that starts where all good videos of this type start: from the beginning of the conflict so as to understand how it has morphed beyond its original intent.

After four-plus years of fighting, Syria’s war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million people. And, though it started as a civil war, it’s become much more than that.

It’s a proxy war that has divided much of the Middle East, and has drawn in both Russia and the United States.

To understand how Syria got to this place, it helps to start at the beginning and watch it unfold.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.jefferly.com/2015/11/a-useful-syria-primer-from-ezra-klein-and-vox/

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~~Syria’s War~~

Who is fighting and why

~~Published on Oct 14, 2015~~

Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today.

We ALL are ONE!! 

“I Wish I Hadn’t” …. This I have to share …. “POWERFUL …. “!!

~~July 7, 2016~~ 

THE FIRST OF TWO

Alton Sterling Killed by Baton Rouge Police

I haven’t been able to blog today.

As I said before, I have no words.

I can’t forget two Negro men who were killed in the light of day, with witnesses around, with the police cameras and civilian cell phones.

Social media is exploding with information about these events which occurred back to back in different cities.

The perfect words.

They are not mine.

I need to share.

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Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was standing in the parking lot selling CDs as he had for years when two white cops arrived on Tuesday night, July 6.

By Wednesday morning he was dead and protesters were in the city’s streets.

Calls erupted from Congress and the NAACP for an independent investigation into the shooting, which the Justice Department announced within hours.

~ALTON STERLING~

POWERFUL STATEMENT

By Ricardo Neftali Arroyo

I watched the Alton Sterling execution video.

I wish I hadn’t.

Not because I didn’t want to bear witness. The way Emmett Till’s mother wanted an open casket, “so all the world can see what they did to my boy.”

I’ve borne witness before.

I saw the final moments of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Laquan McDonald, Samuel DuBoise, and so many others. I’ve felt my heart break as Black men, women and children are gunned down for existing.

Not because it was triggering.

Police brutality is always triggering.

Triggering in that I too have seen the other end of a police officers gun, I too have felt the violation of being searched, of “fitting the description“, of being well aware that your body, at that moment is not your own, that even in the heat of my greatest discomfort my well being depended on having that officer feel as comfortable as I could.

Comfortable in my violation. Comfortable in my pain. Comfortable with my existence. All while knowing that even though I must give as many reasons for my continued existence as possible.This officer wouldn’t need to provide any to be my executioner. I am not alone in having that experience. That experience, like police brutality, is not isolated. Not even in the direct example of my life.

Not because I was already sick and tired thousands of deaths ago.
As a public defender in our criminal injustice system sick and tired is a state of existence. When on the best of days I can achieve a result for a person that resembles justice. But far more often I am simply fighting, as hard as I can, against the worst of several unjust outcomes so that I can minimize the level of injustice they must endure.

You learn, as a person of color in America, at a very early age, how to push on through the weariness of injustice.

No.

I wish I hadn’t seen that video because I have grown uncomfortable with the fetishization of black death and more importantly of its desensitization. Of those who do not lift a finger in the interest of racial justice. Or against police brutality. But are content to gawk at the trauma and injustice without engaging in the struggle against it. Those that only contribute by bearing witness.

I am uncomfortable with those who have grown comfortable with the idea that we must present our dead in order to be believed. In order for there to be action. How many more must we lay before you in order for you to do more than passively engage? If not us then who? If not now then when?

I’ll leave you with this.

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

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We ALL are ONE!!

To start the day …. Peace is better!!

~~July 11, 2014~~

This Israel-Palestine situation has been on my mind. I must confess that I’m basically ignorant of the reasons of what it’s happening in this part of the world.

All I know and care about is that, like so many other war-torn places, innocents are being oppressed, persecuted, displaced and killed. They are being robbed of the simple basic rights afforded by commissions, organizations, rules and bills.

Hate is learned, oppression is enforced by those in power. Inequalities are established when differences are not accepted and some think their way is the only way.

Let these children teach all a lesson: get along. 

From a dear Facebook friend. I tend to agree. 

“It is deeply disturbing as Palestinians are killed and wounded by the hundreds that the “civilized” world pays more attention to rocket attacks launched by Hamas that haven’t even injured a single Israeli. The world cares more about the thought of a potential Israeli death, regardless of how minute the chance is, than they do about Palestinians actually being slaughtered.

In a world conditioned by propaganda it isn’t surprising that this is the case. After all, the aim of the propagandist is to convince one group of people that another group isn’t human, and therefore doesn’t have rights. Palestinians have been stripped of their humanity and their death is both embraced as it is ignored, for the Israeli race is superior to theirs and the apartheid operations of Israel must continue undeterred.”

~~What a Wonderful World~~

Playing For Change

~~Published on Nov 20, 2012~~

Playing For Change is proud to present a new video of the song “What A Wonderful World” featuring Grandpa Elliott with children’s choirs across the globe. In these hard times children and music bring us hope for a better future.

Today we celebrate life and change the world one heart and one song at a time!!

The world is still wonderful, the skies are still blue, the clouds are still white. Rainbows still appear, flowers are in bloom. Babies cry, they grow and become adults. There’s still music playing, there’s still hope. It can’t be too late.

The world is in our hands. Children can see it. They are pure and have innate goodness in them. Why can’t adults get it like children do?

It is still a wonderful world.

Don’t mess it up. 

PEACE!! 

We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!!

We ALL are ONE!!