Mondayu, 23 December 2024 — MROnline
By Victor Grossman (Posted Dec 22, 2024)
It’s reached that time again, a time to look forward but also, for an old geezer like me to look backward. Being 96 for a while yet (until March), I can permit myself some retrospection (while noting that those two digits, if only reversed and embodied, might well have been greatly preferable. Wot-the-hell, while I can still enjoy each new spring and fall and even a snowy winter (if I ever see one again), why shouldn’t I review the many happenings I observed or was part of the worst of them, luckily, from a distance. (But if you’ve read my “Crossing the River” or “A Socialist Defector” you can skip all that follows.)
Islamist rebels of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham light a fire to keep warm as they guard the abandoned Iranian Embassy in Damascus, December 13, 2024
Islamists take over Syria as Western media launders the barbaric reputation of HTS.
The New Dark Age 