The socioeconomic policies of Assad jr. represented by the austerity measures and the espousal of neoliberalism is what led, to a great extent, to the uprising in the first place. I don’t have book recommendations, but I did find two interesting articles from a Marxist/leftist POV that discuss this exact matter, and which include a rich bibliography and citations that you can look through.

https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2017/09/21/socio-economic-roots-syrias-uprising/

https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/39149/syria-the-social-origins-of-the-uprising

It is still considered complicity in violating humanitarian law.

If it only takes an hour to convince someone of a world-changing idea then we’d have an abundance of revolutions that come and go. I mosly found “success” by directing questions to my interlocutor, so I would be in control more or less of where the discussion is heading while maintaining the other person’s introspective and critical spirit. The goal is for them to leave the discussion with something to think deeply about.

If he’s wealthy then he has a lot of assets which can serve as a guarantee for the creditor.

I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!

Disinformation on my racism app?? I find it hard to believe!

You’re welcome!

Just gonna leave this here

You thought Lemmy’s co-founder and main developer is a bot? Lmao

Despite the importance of the UN in international law, it is in no real way a superordinate authority, and therefore there is no monopoly of legitimate coercion and hence interpretation internationally. The only bodies able to provide the necessary coercion for international law are the subjects of that law themselves, the states. Given the extraordinary disparities of power between those states, and given that the real content of the legal regulation will be the struggle between them, it is no wonder that materially effective international law, as opposed to the high phrases and noble interpretations of the idealists, has favoured the stronger states and their clients.

International law is a relationship and a process: it is not a fixed set of rules but a way of deciding the rules . And the coercion of at least one of the players, or its threat, is necessary as the medium by which particular contents will actualise the broader content of competitive struggle within the legal form.

– China Miéville, Between Equal Rights, p.151.

Failing my studies as I am simultaneously naked.

I didn’t know this, I will look into it. Thanks!

I’d like to add that the PPP was originally the Communist Party but was rebranded as a socdem party after the USSR was dissolved.

BTW, I wrote a few months ago an essay on the Palestinian left if anyone wants to check it out.

Hezbollah was effectively paralyzed by the recurring airstrikes on its depots and tunnels, followed by an unfavourable ceasefire agreement which the US sanctioned (and which unsurprisingly Israel itself has violated countless of times). Israeli hegemony onthe borders and beyond has been normalized, and Hezbollah is currently laying low to avoid further damage, be it from the IDF attacking its locations or the Lebanese army dismantling its weapons.

The admins are principled Marxists so they wouldn’t sell out or concede without a fight.

What client do you use?

You can contribute monetarily, check https://join-lemmy.org

“evil corporation” is quite the tautology.

I am intrigued to know what is the original message.

I see myself blowing up a pipeline.