US-led war killed a million Iraqis.Then destroyed Libya Syria & Yemen using Wahhabi/Jihadi terrorism, NATO, Saudi & Israeli rulers. Iran is their next target.
Mar 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Urgent:
US occupation forces are being observed withdrawing from a number of US bases and positions in #Iraq.
Iraqi sources believe it’s a redeployment within Iraq, amid widely circulating rumours of ongoing preparations for a US-backed coup.
2. The US is currently backing well known corrupt politician, Adnan al-Zurfi, to become prime minister amid large scale opposition.
Mass opposition to al-Zurfi is seriously curtailed by the curfews and emergency measures necessitated by the need to fight spread of #CoronaVirus
Mar 12, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Urgent:
US jets are tonight bombing Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), using pretext that it was Ketaib Hizbullah KH that attacked US forces at Taji base near Baghdad yesterday.
PMU forces are part of the official armed forces of Iraq, so US is in effect launching new war on #Iraq2. Important to note PMU volunteers were main force on the ground that defeated ISIS in Iraq. They waged sustained battles against the terrorists and fought alongside the regrouped Iraqi army. The US refused to help for 3 long months after ISIS occupied Iraqi territory in 2014
Jan 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Comrades & friends ask me why I, as a secular socialist, am mourning assassination of two leaders who are part of a religious movement.
Without abandoning my general outlook to the social world, my starting point is always to look at the facts on the ground rather than...
2. ... rather than a preconceived picture of events or wishful thinking.
I have come to recognise, after decades of being part of the struggle against domestic reactionary forces & external imperialist powers, that the broad material nature of these conflicts have not radically..
