What's the problem with that reason? It's better to ban the troll fast that to check and evaluate the (hundred) reports pending.
Also, all my support to the sdf admins. I can't understand all this pressing against the non bigger instances, they are doing free work for all of us.
The original text of the cite was b i tch, not removed
obviously-not-open-source
Yes: futo keyboard license. And also a contradictory license with that definition of 'use'.
I would say for most of the coalition countries it was to defend their geopolitical and material interests in the region or those of their allies.
Btw, according to this 1991 article linked from the Wikipedia, it was also a highly propagandized war in the USA.
Not only 75-250k manifested against this war that caused more that a 200.000 deaths. From the libcom link:
In several countries workers went on strike against the war, or against attacks on their working conditions resulting from the war.
In Bangladesh there was a one day general strike in September 1990 protesting against the despatch of Bangladeshi troops to the Gulf. At least 50 people were injured when police used steel- tipped batons against demonstrators. In Pakistan there was a general strike in February against the US bombing of Iraq. Palestinians in the city of Jericho held a three day strike in mourning for the 300 killed in the US attack on the Baghdad bomb shelter. Militants defied the Israeli imposed curfew to call for action through their megaphones.
In the first week of the war, more than 2 million Spanish workers stopped work for two hours demanding an end to the war and the recall of three Spanish warships. In Germany draft resisters forced to work as hospital orderlies went on strike for three days in opposition to the war, and in Italy, 100,000 workers and 30,000 students stopped work on 22 February.
Students took action in many places. In Turkey, 70% of universities were hit by anti-war boycotts in November 1990. At a school in suburban Berkley (near Detroit), 30 high school students were suspended after staging a sit-in. On 22 January there was an anti-war strike at School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Students there organised against intimidatory security measures and racism against Arab students. One Egyptian student told of how "On the tube a guy looked at me and said 'Iraqi bastard'. And you get 'bloody Arab'".
Dockers and seafarers were often at the forefront of action, perhaps not surprisingly given the key role of ships in moving troops and supplies to the Gulf. The departure of French ground forces for Saudi Arabia was delayed when seafarers on a car-ferry requisitioned to carry troops demanded danger money before agreeing to sail. The ferry left Corsica after this dispute was resolved, but it was held up for another 12 hours on 21 September on the dockside at Toulon, by workers opposed to the war. In February, dockers in Marseilles refused to load containers full of military materials destined for the Gulf.
In Japan, the shipment of supplies to US troops was delayed when seafarers refused to leave port without an additional 30% on base salaries to compensate for the military nature of the voyage. Spanish seafarers stopped a passenger ship from sailing to pick up French troops and take them to the Gulf; they refused to let it sail unless its crew had volunteered and were getting increased wages for sailing into a danger zone. The Spanish government had chartered the ship as part of its support for the war.
In this article of may 2024 they confirm they intention of blockade ‘Our operations in the Red Sea are consistent with the world’s demands’: an interview with Yemen’s Ansar Allah. In this one, the effect in a Israel port Israel says Eilat Port ‘bankrupt’ after months of Houthi naval blockade. Or this one, about the cesefire and the blockade: Houthis warn to resume attacks on Israel if Gaza ceasefire is violated
Of course, that is not a naval blockage at all.
Just after they announced it, the USA (or Genocide Joe/USA Democratic Party, what do you like more) announced an 'international' military intervention to stop them. Some usual USA bootlickers withdrew from that army (I remember that Spain was one of them, but there were more). Later, I have only read references to the USA and the UK.
At least, I think that we can agree that Yemen (or Houthis/Ansar All·lah, what do you like more) can not sustain a blockade with the active opposition of the USA.
No, I mean Yemen. Ansar Al·lah is the Yemeni party that is in position to dictate their actions during the civil war that has been paused as a reaction of the Israel attack to the Gazan territory (i.e.: the escalation of the Israel genocide)
How does their piracy and kidnapping of ships and their crews do anything to protect Palestinians?
What you call piracy and kidnapping, others can call it blockade of Israel and detention of the ships in violation of that blockage.
PTB.
Its probably too far to say "full throated support for genocide",
The USA is not only supporting the genocide with money and arms; they (and the UK) have also been bombing the only state (Yemen) that has tried to fulfill the international principle of Responsabilty to Protect (R2P) and has deployed their naval army to prevent others states to do it and/or to help with the genocide.
For me, that's enough to speak of an Israel-USA-UK genocide.
And sorry to go off-topic. 🤷🏽
Edit: added wiki link snd typos
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17339715
Ghassan Kanafani Assassinated (1972)
Sat Jul 08, 1972
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), assassinated on this day in 1972 by Israeli forces in retaliation for the Lod Airport Massacre, claimed by the PLFP.
In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into the city of Acre, Kanafani and his family were forced into exile while he was still a child. After fleeing ~eleven miles north to Lebanon, they settled in Damascus, Syria as Palestinian refugees.
In 1969, after establishing himself as an author and journalist, he joined The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and, resigned from his post as editor for the magazine Al-Anwar to edit the PFLP's weekly magazine, al-Hadaf ("The Goal"). He drafted a PFLP program in which the movement officially took up Marxism-Leninism, a notable departure from pan-Arab nationalist ideology.
On July 8th, 1972, at the age of 36, Kanafani was assassinated via car bomb by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad for his role in the PLFP, which claimed responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre.
The massacre, committed by three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the PLFP, killed 26 people, injuring 80 others.
Ghassan Kanafani was an influential author, whose literary works have been translated into at least 17 languages and published in 20 countries. He began writing short stories when working as a teacher in refugee camps. Often written through the eyes of children, his stories were designed to help his students contextualize their surroundings.
"Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause."
- Ghassan Kanafani
- Date: 1972-07-08
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.middleeastmonitor.com.
- Tags: #Marxism, #Assassinations, #Massacre.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16976545
Founding of the IWW (1905) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An...
Founding of the IWW (1905)
Tue Jun 27, 1905
Image: The IWW logo
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An injury to one is an injury to all!"
The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.
The IWW was officially founded in Chicago, Illinois on June 27th, 1905. A convention was held of 200 socialists and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies and politics of the more moderate American Federation of Labor (AFL). In particular, the IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions.
The IWW's founders included many historically important labor activists and socialist thinkers, including "Big Bill" Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.
- Date: 1905-06-27
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, iww.org.
- Tags: #Socialism, #Labor, #IWW.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15788619
George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...
George Floyd Murdered (2020)
Mon May 25, 2020
Image: George Floyd with his six-year old, Gianna [blackpast.org]
On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around the world; by July, more than 14,000 were arrested in the U.S. alone.
Floyd, a 46-year old black man, had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill. The cop, 44-year old white man Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds while he was handcuffed and lying face-down in a street. Floyd was dead before Chauvin's knee left his neck.
The following day, after videos made by witnesses and security cameras became public, all four officers involed were fired. Floyd's state murder became the catalyst for worldwide Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, which took place on every continent except Antartica.
The scope of civil unrest within the U.S. was nearly unprecedented. Author Malik Simba writes: "the protests have involved more than 26 million Americans in 2,000 cities and towns in every state in the U.S., making [them] the most widespread protests around one issue in the history of the nation. By the end of June alone, one month into the protests, 14,000 people had been arrested."
Initially, the local District Attorney's Office only harged Chauvin with third-degree manslaughter, but this charge was later increased to second degree murder, following mass protests. On April 20th, 2021, Chauvin was convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.
Floyd's murder was witnessed by several people, including children. On the incident, seventeen year old Danella Frazier stated "When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad, I look at my brother, I look at my cousin and my uncle." Her nine year old cousin, also an eyewitness, testified in court: "I was sad and kind of mad and it felt like [Chauvin's knee] was stopping him from breathing and it was hurting him."
- Date: 2020-05-25
- Learn More: www.blackpast.org, en.wikipedia.org.
- Tags: #Protests.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
Critical support to any gun(wo)men stopping genocide-gun(wo)men.