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The Next #Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

Timothy #Snyder Apr 19, 2025

I don't want us to be more frightened than we should be. But I do want us to be ready, so that a moment of predictable shock does not become a lifetime of avoidable subjugation.

As I will try to show, the present government invites a terror attack. ...

snyder.substack.com/p/the-next

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #Trump #Musk #Vance #Gabbard #Assad #Putin
#TrumpAdministration
#CIA #FBI #DHS #NSA

Thinking about... · The Next Terrorist AttackBy Timothy Snyder
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Hours before #Trump announced US missile strikes on #Syria in response to a chemical attack that killed 90 civilians in April 2017, Ed Martin said on the Russian state television network #RT America that Syrian President Bashar al-#Assad might not be to blame. Instead, Martin told viewers, the situation was “engineered” in Washington “by the people that want war in Syria.”

#law#DC#USAttorney

"#Captagon—a deadly, addictive amphetamine—has turned #Syria into the heart of a $2 billion drug empire few know about, with the #Assad regime at the center of it all. From secret labs to smuggling routes, we uncover how this shadowy network operates and its devastating impact across the #MiddleEast."

aljazeera.com/program/true-cri

#narcotraffic #drugTrafficking #AssadFamily #MaherAlAssad @syria

Al JazeeraCaptagon: Syria’s Hidden Drug EmpireWas al-Assad’s Syria a narco-state?

Across Syria, as a stretched-thin interim government struggles to provide both security and services, local civil society groups are helping to fill the voids. But is there a part for them to play in politics, and in helping to shape the country’s future? #Syria #Assad #MiddleEast

csmonitor.com/World/Middle-Eas

Posted into WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST? @what-s-next-for-the-middle-east-csmonitor

The Christian Science Monitor · ‘A chance to build’: How Syrian civil society is making the country workBy Taylor Luck

« Après la chute du dictateur Bachar Al-#Assad, des centaines de Syriens ont ouvert les portes des infrastructures répressives de l’État. Dans les prisons et hôpitaux de l’appareil militaire, ils ont découvert ce que de nombreux témoins avaient déjà décrit : une machine à emprisonner, torturer et tuer rebelles et opposants par milliers. »

#Syrie : enquête sur les #fossesCommunes du régime de #BacharAlAssad

youtu.be/3If9Tg8M_B4

#révolutionSyrienne #crimesDeMasse #prisonsSyriennes @syria