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2023: Historic Defeat For American Imperialism; Who Were The Victors!?

This video is from beginning of 2023, stating that the END of 2023 will be very different from the BEGINNING of 2023.

Partial Transcript of video:

The world is experiencing fundamental changes in global power constellation.

And, as the geostrategic, most important, region in the world West Asia is in the middle of these historic transformations. …

The World is now coming to understand the profound significance of the historic defeat the U.S. & its allies experienced in West Asia, in the early 21st century: in Iraq, in Syria, and in Afghanistan.

Some have suggested it was a 3rd World War, by historic standards, which effectively ended any U.S. claims to global hegemony and began a re-ordering of global affairs by the victors.

But, who were the winners of this 3rd World War: the Islamic Republic of Iran with its allies in the various Resistance movements of the region; joined later by a resurgent Russia and a rising China.

The victors are now in the process of creating a new global order, with its own institutions, independent of the West, for the first time in centuries.

This is turning out to be a big test for many of the local elites in West Asia who have staked their continued worldly power and existence on U.S. and Western backing. And, we are witnessing their desperate efforts to quickly reorient themselves towards these new powers, in order to save their illegitimate tribal and military dictatorships.

What’s clear to most observers is that West Asia will be very different at the end of the 2023, than it is at the beginning of the year 2023.

Events

Bombs, the blockade, and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen

Conference: Bombs, the blockade, and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Venue: Kane Hall (Room 110), University of Washington

Speakers

  • Congressman Adam Smith, Congressional Representative, Washington’s Ninth District
  • Kate Kizer, Policy Director at Win Without War (formerly with Yemen Peace Project)
  • Kate Gould, Legislative Director for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
  • Aisha Jumaan, Yemeni-American Activist, President of Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
  • Amy Hagopian, moderator

Free and Open to the Public
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We are witnessing the starving and the crippling of an entire generation.
— UN Secretary General

Why is there so little discussion of the U.S. role in perpetuating this ongoing catastrophe?
And what can we, as Americans, do about it?

The UN describes Yemen as having one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. A UNICEF report says 9.6 million children (80% of all the children in Yemen) need humanitarian assistance, and the World Food Program predicts the deaths of 150,000 malnourished children in the next few months. The current cholera outbreak, a direct result of this siege, reached its millionth case and has been characterized as the worst and fastest spreading cholera epidemic in modern history.

 

Events

U.S. Saudi Coalition: bringing peace or war?

Conference: U.S. Saudi Coalition: bringing peace or war?
Date:       Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
Time:       2pm - 5pm
Venue:      Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University
            1620 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97201
Speakers:
* Aisha Jumaan - Yemeni Activist
* Mohammed al-Nemer - Activist & Son of executed scholar
* Catherine Shakdam - Geopolitical Analyst
* Jim Fetzer - Professor UMD
* Scott Bennett - Former U.S. Army Officer
* Kevin Barrett - Author, Journalist, Broadcaster

** Senator Richard H. Black (Skyped-in)

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Introduction:

Saudi Arabia has been, as of recent, making threats to wage war on Iran.

Saudi Arabia has been busy, since 2010 and the rise of “Arab Spring,” with:

  • Occupying Bahrain and helping crush the real, peaceful, people’s revolution there.
  • Helping to remove the more progressive Arab leaders, such as Gaddafi in Libya, a country that is now in ruin and chaos.
  • Utilizing that chaos to wage a proxy war on Syria, which seemingly is winding down, and major defeat for the Saudi front and its backers.
  • And, waging war on the people of Yemen to suppress a revolution that was just starting to bloom – thus mixing war and revolution.

Some questions:

  • Has Saudi Arabia been alone in these endeavors?
  • Where from are this Saudi/Wahabi phenomenon?
  • What of GCC countries relations with Saudis; how much collaboration and/or competition?
  • Is Trump adding to longevity of these GCC regimes that are footprints of British-East-India company in the Persian Gulf?

Perspective:

  • After World War One we had the October revolution.
  • After World War Two we had myriad anti-colonial revolutions.  
  • After Vietnam, we had the Iranian revolution.

Thus, it would seem that revolution(s) are to be expected, especially considering the scope and longevity of the current war.

The “Arab Spring” mixed a slight taste of revolution with war; where, soon the warmongers were able to transform revolution into counter-revolution, in Syria.  The defeat of counter-revolutionary forces in Syria has prompted the militarists in the Trump administration to rename the “infinite war,” of Bush administration, as “unlimited war.”

As wars lead to revolutions, ultimately, it is expected that revolution(s) may one day prevent war(s).

  • Will this “unlimited war” be able to ebb the flow of revolution(s) that it seems to be more stimulating, now, than abating?
  • Will revolution(s) be able to ultimately end war, especially in this case where an “infinite” and/or “unlimited” war has been announced?

Within the confines of wars and revolutions, and humanity evermore facing survival or perdition; Saudi war mongering stands in stark contrast to Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Today, we will focus on Saudi wars, aggressions, and its relations with the West, in particular United Kingdom and United States that together have defined worlds’ biggest empire for last century.

Events

Muslim-Christian Friendship Event

Muslim-Christian Friendship
– Achieving Better Understanding of the Other

Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 4 PM – 7 PM

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
99 Wells Ave S, Renton, Washington 98057

Program:
4:00 p.m. Welcome
4:05 p.m. Introductions
4:15 p.m. Covenants of the Prophet, by Dr. John Morrow
4:45 p.m. Birth of Islam, by Sheikh Noor-uddin
5:05 p.m. Questions & Answers
6:15 p.m. Refreshments & Socializing

Presented by:
Zahra Abidi, Roots of Conflict Executive Director

Featured Speakers:
– Dr. John Morrow, Sr. Research Scholar
– Imam Sheikh Noor-uddin

Free. No Tickets Required.

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