Matthew Sloly
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🇯🇲-🇨🇦 artist, ecosocialist, cybercommunist ☭ | A socialist movement uniting working class of 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇬🇱can defeat Trump! | Free Palestine! 🔻🇵🇸🍉
My statement on Iran-related hostilities in the Middle East:
"....we focus on defeating this war against our people. This requires not merely exposing the contradictions of U.S.-led imperialism, but turning imperialist wars on our people into peoples’ war against imperialism..." Full Statement: blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements
Fathead Hash and his posse of fashy fucks would prefer you to send your kids to private school, and that plan is working. Private school enrollment is up significantly in Ontario. And if you can't afford private, then send them to learn abortions are bad and virgins give birth.
“I think it would be a shame if (this) were to end, because we live in a free society, so I feel like we should be able to." A day after Quebec passed its expanded secularism law banning collective public prayer, hundreds of people walked silently through the streets of Montreal to honour Jesus’s last day on earth, as they do every Good Friday in a procession known as the Way of the Cross. Read the latest: montrealgazette.com/news/it-would-…
Some Americans are worried about the fate of the pilot because they think every nation is as savage as their regime in their torture camps in Iraq. We are not like you.
Back to the Stone Age.
📰 A New York Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged By @NYTBen A 16-year-old girl left her home in northwest Syria last May to visit a shop and disappeared. Weeks later, an anonymous stranger phoned her distraught family and said that he had the teenager and would let her go if they paid thousands of dollars in ransom, according to four people involved in her case. The family paid the ransom and the girl returned in August, more than 100 days after she had been kidnapped. She told confidants that she had been held in a dank basement and was regularly drugged and raped by strangers, the four people said. A medical exam turned up yet another shock: She came home pregnant. Since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, panicked families and activists trying to help have regularly sounded the alarm on social media that women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority have mysteriously disappeared or been kidnapped. Many fear that their sect is being targeted as retribution for the brutality of Mr. al-Assad, who also belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite. The government has denied that Alawite women and girls are being targeted by kidnappers, saying that it has confirmed only one such case. But a New York Times investigation based on dozens of interviews with Alawites who say they were kidnapped, their relatives and others involved in their cases found that these abductions have been common and often brutal. The Times verified the kidnappings of 13 Alawite women and girls, in addition to one man and one boy. Five said they had been raped. Two came home pregnant. The family of one woman said it sent $17,000 to kidnappers who never released her, and provided screenshots of ransom demands and the money transfers. A 24-year-old said she had been held for three weeks in a filthy room where men raped her, beat her, shaved her head and eyebrows and cut her with razor blades. Her relatives also paid the kidnappers and in this case secured her release, according to four people involved in her case. Syrian activists say they know of scores of such kidnappings but details are difficult to confirm because victims and their families are too scared to talk. Most people who spoke with the Times did so on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the government or the kidnappers. The Times is not identifying most of those who were kidnapped for the same reason. The Times corroborated accounts from people who had been kidnapped and their relatives, as well as through social media posts announcing when they were taken and returned, ransom messages sent by kidnappers and interviews with medical and aid workers who spoke with the abductees after their release. The kidnappings took place against a backdrop of deep distrust between the Alawites, who make up about one-tenth of Syria’s population, and the new government. Mr. al-Assad relied heavily on his sect in his military and security services while in power. That led many of the Sunni Muslim former rebels who now run Syria to associate the Alawites with the ousted regime. Last March, that anger fueled days of sectarian violence in northwestern Syria that left about 1,400 people dead, according to a U.N. investigation. The inquiry found that some government security forces had participated in the killing, leaving many Alawites afraid of them. Many of the kidnapped women and girls, along with their relatives, said the government had failed to take their cases seriously. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/wor…
Toronto Police will have an increased and visible presence across the city this weekend at places of worship and gathering spaces. Our priority is simple: making sure people can gather and celebrate safely.
🔥 BREAKING 🔥 Israel is looking to acquire 40 Greek islands for Israeli citizens revealing a new layer of complexity in Eastern Mediterranean geopolitics. This is not the first time Israeli officials have cast their gaze toward Greek islands. Reports indicate that similar discussions took place in 2012, involving a potential lease or purchase for naval purposes, though that idea was ultimately shelved. Steiner has pointed to the existence of roughly 40 uninhabited Greek islands as a viable option for development. The suggestion has been met with a mixed reception in Greece, where the government, grappling with economic challenges, has previously considered long-term leases for certain islets through the country’s asset development fund. American tax-payer money at work.
“Instead of Iran charging $2M/vessel going through the Strait, the U.S. will charge a $2M escort fee for every vessel, which is about $9B a month or $100B in revenue.” “We will waive that fee for any country that participates in the coalition to open up the Strait.” BRILLIANT!!
This is my beautiful country, Iran These are not just Iran’s national treasures, they also belong to humanity, as they represent a 2,500 year old civilization The sad reality is that many of these sites are being damaged in strikes by the US and Israel, which is heartbreaking…
Every time DeepSeek releases a new model, Silicon Valley screams: “They stole our chips.” “They stole our tech.” “They violated export controls.” But nobody asks the real question: How did you lose to a competitor you claimed was handicapped, restricted, and cut off from your best hardware? If a “sanctioned, isolated, smuggled-chip” team can outrun you, maybe the problem isn’t theft. Maybe the problem is that your entire industry depends on excuses. So you lose to someone you claim is “crippled,” you didn’t get robbed — you just got outclassed.
