Aleppo: How The US Manipulates Humanitarianism For Imperialism

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The United States is manipulating humanitarian concern in an effort to protect its proxy militias and its imperial regime-change project in Syria.

The media and intellectual classes are dutifully falling in line, promoting a narrative of military aggression under the cover of “protecting civilians.” These same “responsibility to protect” arguments led to the invasions of Iraq and Libya, exponentially increasing the massacres, chaos, and proliferation of violent extremism within those countries. They are hypocritical, designed to further interests of conquest and domination, and will lead to more death and destruction in Syria as well.

The United States has no stake in the wellbeing of Syrian civilians, despite their condemnations of Russia’s offensive in Aleppo. This is clearly shown in the fact that the people they are supporting are guilty of the same crimes they accuse Russia and Syria of: indiscriminate attacks, targeting of civilians, destruction of schools, hospitals, etc. Furthermore, the offensive in Aleppo is really no different from what the U.S. did in Manbij, where they are said to have incorporated a “scorched earth policy” while they liberated the city from ISIS, whereby the civilian population was treated “as if they were terrorists or ISIS supporters.”

What’s In A Name? From ‘Al-Qaeda’ To The ‘Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia’

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The recent repackaging of Syrian al-Qaida affiliate from Jabhat al-Nusra to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham has hoodwinked very few people.

The Americans, who blacklisted Nusra back in 2012 and are widely and practically sympathetic to the Syrian Islamist insurrection against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, have refused to accept there is anything substantial in the name change besides different labeling.

Taking a step back, the name “al-Qaida” itself has indefinite and opaque origins but the leaders and individuals who came to personify “al-Qaida,” especially after the atrocities in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, emanated in an Islamist insurgency which had considerable support from the West. Specifically, the Afghan war in the 1980s which pitted the old Soviet Union against Islamist jihadis was where many of al-Qaida’s future operatives and leaders learned their bombastic trade.

Under My Country’s Sky: American Bombs In Yemen

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Eleanor Goldfield, host of Act Out! devotes the entire new episode to the crisis in Yemen, in which a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition has targeted civilians and infrastructure crucial for survival, leaving hundreds of thousands starving.

Here’s how Goldfield describes her guest:

“Bushra al-Fusail is a Yemeni-American who lived under the ongoing airstrikes in Yemen for months before coming, ironically, to the country that makes the destruction of hers possible. Far from tucking herself away, she has been working tirelessly both on the streets and in the halls of Congress to raise awareness of the ongoing conflict in Yemen and perhaps most importantly, of the US role in the death and destruction in her home country.”

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