Borzou Daragahi: Why the Middle East is being rocked by new wave of protests // Al-Assad: Openly Criminal Trump is the best US President we could Wish for
The latest protests in the Arab world are taking place in countries that mostly sat out the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings A Friday of protests
across three major capitals and dozens of cities shook the
Middle East and North Africa, with young people draped in the flags of their nations demanding a departure of ruling elites in Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria. During weeks of demonstrations that have been sometimes violently suppressed by Iranian-backed militiamen, Iraqis have called for a clearing out of the entire political class that came to power after the 2003 US toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and controls the country’s massive oil wealth.
Middle East and North Africa, with young people draped in the flags of their nations demanding a departure of ruling elites in Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria. During weeks of demonstrations that have been sometimes violently suppressed by Iranian-backed militiamen, Iraqis have called for a clearing out of the entire political class that came to power after the 2003 US toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and controls the country’s massive oil wealth.
They poured into the streets of
central Baghdad and other southern Iraqi cities in what some were calling the
largest protests so far. At least six protesters were reported killed on
Friday, according to an official of the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights
quoted by local media. Lebanese protesters
similarly are asking for the warlords-turned politicians who have dominated the
country’s politics and pilfered its coffers since a 1989 power-sharing
agreement that ended the country’s civil war to step aside.
Algerians too, having
pushed for the ousting of long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, are
pressing for the sweeping away of the entire military and security elites that
have run the oil-rich country since the end of its 1990s civil war. They marked
the 37th consecutive weeks of protests....
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/middle-east-protests-lebanon-iraq-algeria-arab-spring-sudan-a9181411.htmlThe Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about
Syria's Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for
Ann Arbor (Informed
Comment) – Syrian
strongman (and mass murderer) Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Syrian
media in which he expressed his happiness that Trump is president of
the United States, “because he is the most transparent, so he says, ‘We want
the oil,’ and this is the reality of American policy.'” Al-Assad said, “When
it comes to Trump, you may ask me a question and I’ll give you an answer which
might seem strange. I tell you he’s the best American president, not because
his policies are good but rather because he is the most transparent president.” He continued, “All the
American presidents commit all the political sins and crimes and take home the
Nobel prize, and they give every appearance of defending human rights and the
‘advanced’ and American or Western principles but they are in fact a gang of
criminals who represent the interests of the American lobbies, i.e. the big
arms and oil and other corporations.”
Al-Assad, whom human
rights organizations have accused of being responsible for extensive war crimes
and massive human rights violations throughout the past 8 years, continued:
“Trump speaks with complete transparency; he says, “We want the oil. This is
the American political reality since at least the end of the Second World War:
‘We want to get rid of so-and-so. We want to provide a service in return for
money.’ This is the American political reality. What do we want more than a
transparent enemy?”...
https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/syrias-criminal-president.html
