“Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple.
Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, ex-terrorist turned Syria’s president. Image via White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Public Domain)
8 Jul 2025 – The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its “terrorism” designations in the future, but at this point it’s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so.
(UN News)* — Amid violent clashes in southern Syria’s Suweida governorate, a picture of grave human rights abuses and rising humanitarian needs is emerging by the hour, the UN said on Friday .
Briefing reporters in Geneva, UN human rights office, OHCHR, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani highlighted “credible” reports of “widespread violations and abuses, including summary executions and arbitrary killings, kidnappings, destruction of private property and looting of homes” in the city of Suweida.
Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where belief in the power of education remains strong.
(UN News)* —Craters filled with muddy water pocket the landscape of the Kono district in Sierra Leone – the result of a blood diamond mining industry which contributed to a decade-long civil war.
CIAT/Georgina Smith | Girls plant seeds in Lushoto, Tanzania.
But now, parts of the land have been restored. Crops are beginning to flourish and bees are buzzing around once again.
The people responsible for this change are a hodgepodge group – former taxi drivers and miners, people who barely finished secondary school and some with higher education degrees.
The unifying factor? Most have youth on their side.
Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, ex-terrorist turned Syria’s president. Image via White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Public Domain)
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