Just a few hundred meters from the Turkey-Syria border lies Atmeh, a once quiet farm town that, in recent months, has become a safe haven for the Free Syrian Army. Fifteen thousand Syrians roam freely, displaced by the civil war, along with various brigades and Islamic militants.
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“You left your lover to begin another relation. For your true love
is not he but another, it’s the love of an entire nation.”
Colombia: ELN Guerrillas Resist Canadian Imperialism
A Colombian guerrilla group is trying to draw Ottawa into its battle with a Toronto-based mining company which is quietly trying to secure the release of one of its executives who has been held hostage since January.
The Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) kidnapped Gernot Wober, 47, on Jan. 18, during an attack on the Snow Mine camp in Bolivar state, which sits in the northern part of the country. The guerrilla group kidnapped five other people, including three Colombians and two Peruvians, who have all since been released.
The guerilla group says that Wober, the vice-president of Toronto-based Braeval Mining Corp, won’t be released until the company gives up gold mining concessions in the San Lucas mountain range which the ELN claims were initially given to local miners who live in the area.
In a statement issued Wednesday and posted on the guerilla group’s website, the ELN took aim at the Canadian government.
“The Canadian government should at least be concerned about whether its anti-corruption laws are being followed by Canadian companies in their foreign operations,” said the ELN. “Neither the Colombian nor Canadian governments have bothered to investigate our accusations about the dispossession of four mining concessions held by communities in the southern part of Bolivar (state) by the Northern American company Braeval Mining Corporation.”
Monica Vitti
Red Detachment of Women 10 (by Performing Arts / Artes Escénicas)
Anarchist Militia women. CNT-FAI. Durruti Column
Spanish Civil War
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“On May 9th 1991, 24-year-old poet and singer Yana Stanislavovna Dyagileva (Яна Станиславовна Дягилева,) known as Yanka (Янка) left her Novosibirsk country home, never to be seen again. Yanka was Russia’s own Patti Smith, her delivery thoughtful and message sharp. On May 17th her body was found in the Inya River. Her death officially remains a mystery – although there was apparently no water in her lungs and a fractured skull. The fact that she was married to the singer from Yegor Letov may not have helped. Her record sales have grown since her death.”
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MEET THE LADIES OF THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY
Photography from Situationist International
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Shards of Iraq | Paris Match
The girls testimony was not without personal cost. Linae resented that as a victim, she had to put one of the murder weapons in her hands. She had watched her family murdered with these weapons and questioned why she had to touch them.
