To the Enemies of Humankind

…and for the Kurdish people in Rojava, Occupied Kurdistan

for the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine

and for those resisting, under paramilitary siege, in the Occupied Cities

of the U.S.

 

“Our choice is clear; victory or victory.”

YPJ Commander Raya Mihemed (Hasakah, Rojava):

 

1

Me? i’ve fought this radio to a homicidal truce

where it hides beneath its bunker of books,

the ones i’ve torn pages from,

instead of letting them argue their lies to

my illiterate children, down all these years

living as a slave.

 

i’ve fought the ghosts of enemies

i misunderstood in their sentry posts

on the walls of Immorality

and so they bombed my shelters,

slaughtered my dreams,

imprisoned every single one of my

demands in dungeons and despair

 

and all my wretched howling was

to no avail.

 

Now i am an old man in the midst

of endless war.

My stomach hurts,

my bones ache, my eyes

bleed daily

with the countless casualties

inflicted on us

for believing in a better world.

 

And still it rains here,

constantly.

 

2

All this water must soon

swiftly flee

to find its way from

the river to the sea

 

and bring with it both

the bodies of the dead,

slaughtered for spite and

the butchers’ greed

as well as these lies that tell me

“thank you for your attention”

…as if this will always be the way

things are…

 

Fuck all that.

 

3

i am, an old man with a grudge.

i am an old man with a grudge i

am proud of.

 

i’ve slept in doorways

cursing the rain.

i’ve bitten the hand that

refused to feed me.

By now, my enemies should

have all died before me

just so i could dance

on their graves,

this pathetic dance of the

drunkard i longed to be

and even failed, too frequently

at that task.

 

4

But now i look all around me

and all i see are these humanless humanoids,

these brainless brutes with their bankroll

as big as their toothless mouths

with their vicious brains and their fucking bombs

their militias, presidents, spies,

their assassins, warships, artillery and airbases

and always, always, their greedy twisted tongues

telling me to bow and scrape and serve

to this servile religion of slavery and servitude

 

and i know today for sure

what i was told as a child

 

Oh, let this “sleeping beast” sleep

“for if it wakes it will shake

the whole wide world”.

 

5

And so i surely know

this “sleeping beast”

must be the human heart,

this one right here being

torn in two

 

and no motherfucking shiteating

murdering fascist

in all the thieves’ dens

in all the bars and brothels of a world

already sold to these bankers

and billionaires

 

will

stop

it…

 

not all the “sick beings” in

their broken world

can stop our insurgent and

uprising war.

 

6

So, please, go search,

go out and search

for Her,

i tell you now

 

this heart,

this human heart,

insubordinate,

seditious,

subversive

 

insurrected!

 

séamas carraher

22 january – 27 january, 2026

https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/

 

IMAGE

President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting, Tuesday, December 2, 2025, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 

References (& Context)

 

January 21 & 22, 2026

Trump’s Board of Peace: billionaires, cronies and genocidaires

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace repackages genocide with “humanitarian” branding.

Electronic Intifada – 21, January, 2026

 

DAVOS – January 2026

“The tyrannical egomaniac running the USA is setting the earth on fire and the US public is being distracted with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and actions (the usual divide and conquer). But for him and his billionaire friends, they merely got richer (Trump got $1.5 billion richer in one year of the presidency per NY Times). This will be studied by historians after the next global war with comparisons drawn to the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Niron, or Genkiz Khan. But what is more interesting is how world leaders and business leaders bend their knee to this buffoon even when they know he is not going to spare them once they become the vassal rulers of provinces of the empire.”

Popular Resistance Blog – January, 22, 2026

 

January 22, 2026

Syrian Government Gains Ground in Northeast Syria After Arab Tribes Defect Against Kurdish SDF

Dropsite News – January 22, 2026

 

January 23, 2026

Kongra Star calls on all humanity to join the mobilization for Rojava

“As is widely known, West Kurdistan (Rojava) is currently facing a large-scale genocidal attack. This offensive is occurring with the acquiescence of international and regional actors and follows the plans of the Turkish state under the leadership of Erdoğan. The groups now operating under the names al-Amshad, al-Hamzat, Sultan Murat, and Nureddin Zengi, which maintain close ties to the Turkish state, previously attacked the city of Kobani in 2014 under the banner of the “Islamic State.” It was only through the extraordinary resistance of the Kurdish population that Kobani was liberated at that time.

“…We call on all humanity to join the mobilization for Rojava.”

ANF English – January 23, 2026

 

January 23, 2026

Kurds Resist Syrian Government Attack on Rojava

“The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces played a key role in defeating ISIS. Now they are again forced to fight for their survival, as former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa’s transitional government seeks to crush Syria’s minorities.”

Jacobin – January 23, 2026

 

January 25, 2026

Video Analysis of Public Execution of protester in US

“On Saturday, U.S. federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shooting him multiple times at point blank range while pinned down prone on the ground and surrounded by officers along Nicollet Avenue.”

Dropsite News – January 25, 2026

 

Quote

 Raya Mihemed, a member of the Deir ez-Zor–based Begara tribe, told ANHA news agency that the forces in the city of Hasakah are fully prepared to respond to any threat against the security and peace of the city and its people.

ANF English – January 23, 2026

 

References (Text)

1

homicidal truce

“…since the ceasefire was declared Israel violated the ceasefire agreement 1,350 times… they’ve killed more than 485 people and they’ve injured more than 1,300 and it goes on. Second Israel should have withdrawn from parts of the area it is it is controlling instead of doing that it is expanding the area controlling. Third as you have heard yourself, Netanyahu is bluntly saying he’s not going to allow any reconstruction in Gaza and of course even the supplies of humanitarian aid which should have happened in the format of 600 trucks every day was never implemented. Israel allowed only less than 40% of what was supposed to happen in the first stage and they did not allow any serious heavy equipment into Gaza, any medical equipment into Gaza. This is terrible. What we see here is that Israel does what it wants. And now moving into the second stage, they’re imposing two things. They’re transforming the whole discussion into one issue: which is disarming Hamas…”

Mustafa Barghouti (Palestinian National Initiative – 1:09 – 2:15)

TRT World News – 27 January, 2026

 

“thank you for your attention”

Check out (if you are strong enough): Truth Social…”an American alt-tech social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group…” (Wikipedia)

 

2

the river to the sea

“Most Palestinians using this chant do not see it as advocating for a specific political platform or as belonging to a specific political group. Rather, the majority of people using the phrase see it as a principled vision of freedom and coexistence.”

The Conversation – November, 2023

Hamas in 2017: The document in full

Hamas explains general principles and objectives in 42-article document

Middle East Eye -May 2017

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

“Speaking to the AP in Istanbul, Al-Hayya said Hamas wants to join the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by the rival Fatah faction, to form a unified government for Gaza and the West Bank. He said Hamas would accept “a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the return of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the international resolutions,” along Israel’s pre-1967 borders.”

AP News – April, 25, 2024

 

4

Oh, let this sleeping beast sleep

“for if it wakes it will shake

the whole wide world”

Words most commonly attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”

 

humanoids

“A humanoid (…from English human and -oid “resembling”) is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics.”

Wikipedia – Humanoid

 

“sick beings”

“And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. Or what would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers.”

I Have Been To The Mountaintop Speech Transcript – Martin Luther King Jr. – last speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee.

American Rhetoric – Speeches

(Read)

The Martin Luther King Jr. Centre

(Listen)

 

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this human heart,

“When we emerge from the age of loneliness and alienation, from an obsession with competition and extreme individualism, from the worship of image and celebrity and power and wealth, we will find a person waiting for us. It is a person better than we might have imagined, whose real character has been suppressed. It is the one who lives inside us, who has been there all along.” (“Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis”

 George Monbiot)

 

So, please, go search,

go out and search

for Her,

“…if you are frightened

by pencils with dull points, if Mother

Spain falls—I mean, you hear that said—

go forth, children of the world; go out to seek her”

( “Spain, Take This Chalice from Me” from the book by Cesar Vallejo.

‘España, aparta de mí este cáliz’ )

 

Finally: Hope for the future?

 Martin Luther King, Jr “Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up, and wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Accra, Ghana, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson, Mississippi, or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same. We want to be free. And the reason that I’m happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple through history, but the demands didn’t force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men for years now have been talking about war and peace, but now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer the choice between violence and non-violence in this world. It is non-violence or non-existence. That is where we are today.”  (06:20)

I have been to the Mountain top, April 3, 68, Memphis, Tenessee

Talahasse Democrat – Hope to an Angry Nation

 

Prof. Dr. Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna, Italy):

“I am following with anger and anxiety the military attacks on the multi-ethnic and democratic self-administration of the Rojava Revolution. Since 2012, the name Rojava has mobilized people in and beyond the region, opening up new horizons for a revolutionary politics of liberation. To stand up and defend Rojava is a duty for anybody committed to freedom and equality. In an age of war and genocide, struggling for Rojava means struggling for a different world, built upon the ecological, feminist, and democratic principles that the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has turned into a lived reality over the last years. Biji Rojava…”

The Attack on Rojava – is an Attack on Hope – ANF English (23 Jan 2026)

 

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