THS posted:

in what universe, considering the past 20 years, the millions dead - how the gently caress would anyone in good conscience think “something might be done about Syria” with the american military

frankenfreak posted:

Pirate Radar posted:

I would say 20 years is too narrow a timeframe but people do have hope that things will work out and be better in the future . Sorry to interrupt you telling Brown Moses to suck your dick though.

THS posted:

you live in a contextless sea, a hollow void. a place where we judge each horrific US military intervention by its individual merit, and not by what happens every time

when the next war ramps up you’ll be there with a rational take. just like all the past times

donald trump is president

THS posted:

you live in a contextless sea, a hollow void. a place where we judge each horrific US military intervention by its individual merit, and not by what happens every time

when the next war ramps up you’ll be there with a rational take. supportive because we have to be just like all the past times

donald trump is president

Brown Moses posted:

so outside of posting on a subforum of a dying website, what do you actually do to make a difference?

THS posted:

im a socialist activist in texas trying to make the world a little better. you’re actively making it worse

freckle posted:

https://www.google.com/search?q=7.92%D733mm+Kurz

Brown Moses posted:

Well most recently I was meeting with a range of organisations as part of ongoing case building efforts around war crimes and other violations in Yemen. This week I'll be picking up the Ars Electronica Prize in Austria and then using the prize money to fund the development of a VR project about the extrajudicial shootings of Palestinians in Hebron, with the hope of being able to use it in the future to allow witnesses to crimes and atrocities to visit a photo realistic recreation of the environment the violations took place in, allowing them to give accurate statements without the trauma and danger of visiting the real sites. Then in September and October we'll be holding a number of workshops in the US with people from wide range of backgrounds, including activists and journalists. You?

THS posted:

im a socialist activist in texas trying to make the world a little better. you’re actively making it worse

TenementFunster posted:

does Brownells ship to Damascus?

Pirate Radar posted:

this is a fascinating question to me because do you think somebody here in the US ordered up a ton of 7.92x33, did they then ship it on to Syria, how many laws did they break, and why on Earth would all that have been the best way to arm some people?

THS posted:

i dont know i didn’t feel the need to list my schedule to validate all my juvenile insecurities

Brown Moses posted:

you're up at 3am

THS posted:

i didn’t feel the need to [...] validate all my juvenile insecurities

Brown Moses posted:

Bellingcat receives no funding from the Atlantic Council, our funders are NED

quote:

This is not the first time that NED funds have made an appearance in Central America’s largest country. U.S. Congress created the NED—as a non-profit, private NGO—in 1983 at the height of the Cold War. The NED was designed to promote democracy overseas, and it was funded through the U.S. congress to remain autonomous from U.S. foreign policy. From 1984 to 1990, the U.S. NED spent roughly $15.8 million dollars to fund civil society groups and to political parties, most of them opposed to the Sandinista government. In 1990, against all odds, Chamorro defeated Daniel Ortega, and ushered in three consecutive terms of conservative leadership.

NED has expanded a great deal since 1983. Today, funds from the NED support civil society groups, election observation efforts and democratic political parties around the world, including in Africa and the Middle East. In fact, in the years leading up to the Arab Spring, the U.S. government used funds from the NED to nurture civil society organizations in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

THS posted:

yes, the national endowment for democracy. something that’s not the state department. v independent.

quote:

The Endowment played an important role in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, funding key components of Oliver North’s shadowy “Project Democracy” network, which privatized US foreign policy, waged war, ran arms and drugs, and engaged in other equally charming activities. At one point in 1987, a White House spokesman stated that those at NED “run Project Democracy”. This was an exaggeration; it would have been more correct to say that NED was the public arm of Project Democracy, while North ran the covert end of things. In any event, the statement caused much less of a stir than if – as in an earlier period – it had been revealed that it was the CIA which was behind such an unscrupulous operation.

NED also mounted a multi-level campaign to fight the leftist insurgency in the Philippines in the mid-1980s, funding a host of private organizations, including unions and the media. This was a replica of a typical CIA operation of pre-NED days.

And between 1990 and 1992, the Endowment donated a quarter-million dollars of taxpayers’ money to the Cuban-American National Foundation, the ultra-fanatic anti-Castro Miami group. The CANF, in turn, financed Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most prolific and pitiless terrorists of modern times, who had been involved in the blowing up of a Cuban airplane in 1976, which killed 73 people. In 1997, he was involved in a series of bomb explosions in Havana hotels, and in 2000 imprisoned in Panama when he was part of a group planning to assassinate Fidel Castro with explosives while the Cuban leader was speaking before a large crowd, although eventually, the group was tried on lesser charges.

https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy

Brown Moses posted:

I love hearing the opinions of how funders operate from people who have literally no idea how funders operate. Maybe you can tell me about George Soros and our funding from OSF too?

THS posted:

george soros, noted anti-imperialist and thorn in the side of western foreign policy goals

Brown Moses posted:

Can you recommend some socialist funders?

THS posted:

someone in here is gonna suck my dick

Pirate Radar posted:

will someone in here please suck this poster’s dick?