![]() Among other things, everyone is subjected to struggle sessions of the kind associated with Mao or the Khmer Rouge. Belden describes the ascetic nature of the true believers in the PKK’s ideology-of which he, clearly, is not one-and the collectivized nature of life. The YPG calls its rule “libertarian socialism,” says Belden, but it’s “pretty much a Stalinist state”. Belden describes joining the YPG by first linking up with the PKK at its headquarters in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, before being spirited across the border into Syria.īelden gives a very interesting glimpse of the YPG’s method of governance. The most amusing part of the interview is Belden’s formal maintenance that the YPG, while fraternal comrades to the PKK and admirers of their ideology, have absolutely no organizational links at all, while at the same time letting the audience in on the fact that the YPG and indeed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition that it controls are parts of the PKK structure. The YPG is run by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) front of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). It was very interesting and informative on the state of play in northern Syria. Life under the Kurdish YPG in Syriaįour days ago, Chapo Trap House, a Left-wing politics and humour podcast, hosted Brace Belden, known to Twitter as “PissPigGranddad,” a 27-year-old from San Francisco who has joined the Syrian Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). ![]() This entry was posted in Book Review, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alan Berkman, America, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, apartheid, Armed Forces of National Liberation, Armed Resistance Unit, assassination, Assata Shakur, BAAANA, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Bill Ayers, Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers, Black Power, Central Intelligence Agency, China, CIA, civil rights, COINTELPRO, colonialism, Communism, Counter-Intelligence Program, Cuba, cult, dehumanization, Democrats, Dianna Block, Donna Joan Borup, El Salvador, Elizabeth Anna Duke, Eve Rosahn, FALN, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FRELIMO, Hezbollah, Hizballah, homosexuality, indoctrination, insurgency, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Jeral Wayne Williams, Jeremiah Denton, Jews, Joanne Chesimard, John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, Judith Alice Clark, Kent State shootings, KGB, Ku Klux Klan, Laura Whitehorn, lesbian separatism, Linda Sue Evans, looting, Mao Zedong, Maoism, Margo Pelletier, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Mary Patten, Marylin Jean Buck, May 19th Communist Organization, Mozambique Liberation Front, Mutulu Shakur, national liberation movements, National Party, Nicaragua, NYROB, OCEAN VENTURE 84, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Osedrick Lalupe, Palestine Liberation Organization, PFOC, PLO, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Puerto Rico, racism, radicalism, reconstruction, Red Army Faction, Red Guerrilla Resistance, Republic of New Afrika, Revolutionary Fighting Group, Rhodesia, Richard Nixon, Robert Mugabe, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Sandinistas, Sekou Odinga, separatism, SEQUEL SIX, Silvia Baraldini, South Africa, Soviet Union, Springboks, Stokely Carmichael, struggle sessions, Students for a Democratic Society, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, Susan Vicki Tipograph, terrorism, Timothy Adolf Blunk, Timothy Leary, Tyrone Rison, United States, Vietnam, Weather Underground Organization, white supremacy, William Morales, Zimbabwe on Januby KyleWOrton. A new book, Tonight We Bombed the Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group, by William Rosenau, a senior policy historian at CNA and a fellow in the International Security program at New America, examines this forgotten episode. ![]() Congress, the place where laws are made-was bombed by a Communist terrorist group, a group remarkable for its all-female membership. It is unlikely that many people remember or even know that nearly forty years ago, this building-the meeting place of the U.S. The world has been captivated this week by the scenes of an insurrectionary mob overrunning the United States Capitol at the behest of President Donald Trump.
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