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October 22, 2017
Open Thread 2017-38

Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:

October 16: How The Washington Post Deceives Us About The War In Syria

Ahab Jezebel dissects the bullshit the Washington Post peddles on Syria.

October 16/17: Iraq – Thus Ends The Kurdish Independence Project

Egged on by Netanyahoo the Barzani mafia made a bid to steal Kirkuk and its oil from Iraq. The Iraqis disagreed with being robbed and took back their land. Barzani failed. The Kurdish bubble deflated. There will be no Kurdish independence.

Syria, Iraq – Why The Kurdish Independence Project Failed

Background analysis on the failure of Barzani's bid and thoughts on the consequences in Iraq and Syria.

October 18: Saudi Money Invades Raqqa – Sowing The Seeds Of ISIS 2.0

After having bused out the remaining ISIS fighter, the U.S. declared victory in Raqqa. But after more than 20,000 bomb impacts the city lies in ruins. U.S. envoy McGurk brought in the Saudis to pay for rebuilding it. They will pay, but only for new Wahhabi mosques that will then create the next incarnation of ISIS.

October 19: The U.S. Military – Pampered, Safe And Very Scared

Members of the U.S. military are well cared for and mostly live a safe life. There is factually little 'sacrifice' in being a U.S. soldier. While one side of the propaganda depicts the military as 'heroic', another side emphasis the ever growing 'fears' it allegedly has. That doesn't compute.

October 20: Emma Sky – British 'Mother of Daesh' Wants To Reoccupy Iraq

Three op-eds in four days? Clearly, someone hired Emma Sky for an influence campaign. She argues for keeping U.S. soldiers in Iraq. But the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and Emma Sky's very active role in it, created the mess in the first place.

October 21: "Above All" – The Junta Expands Its Claim To Power

The generals have consolidated their power within the White House. They are now moving to extend it over the public.

Please use the comments as open thread …

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https://www.rt.com/news/408080-hungary-ukraine-nato-bid/

Posted by: Mina | Oct 28 2017 13:00 utc | 101

Evidently this interview was done on October 24th but is only now being translated and entering broader exposure.
Qatar confesses to being one of four countries behind ISIS

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 29 2017 2:05 utc | 102

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/10/28/540168/Qatari-premier-Hamad-Syria you folks might find this very interesting..

Posted by: fudmier | Oct 29 2017 3:22 utc | 103

Yesterday, CGTN (China) raised a Turkish news item which other International TV News outlets seemed determined to ignore. A female Turkish MP is attempting to launch a new political party to challenge Erdogan’s stranglehold on power and corruption. I couldn’t find a print story on CGTN but the following Zio-Jazeera article sums up the crux of her platform, the most important element of which is the restoration of the democratic principle known as Separation Of Powers…
Ex-Turkish minister Meral Aksener launches new party
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/10/turkish-minister-meral-aksener-launches-party-171025200606462.html
One imagines that the Erdogan cabal has enough spare billions to buy any potential supporters whom Erdo can’t toss in the slammer, but she’s probably going to make some interesting, and memorable, noises before being sidelined by Turkey’s Deep State.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 29 2017 3:38 utc | 104

Below is a link to a story about the covered up drug addiction of the last Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
WILLIAM REHNQUIST, DRUG ADDICT
The hypocrisy of the US leadership knows no bounds. This is the society you get when your God is Mammon.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 29 2017 6:08 utc | 105

So I am going to provide a link to a posting that I didn’t read.
Let me provide it and then explain below
KOS link about Trump Dossier revenge
Most MoA readers know the general description of KOS readers and might agree that they are more brainwashed into protecting Clinton II than, say, prosecuting her for the war crime of being instrumental in the killing of Muammar Gaddafi.
Most MoA readers also understand the red meat the Dossier investigation is to the Drain the Swamp brainwashed.
Isn’t this fun? The world that is not America, and those that rule our world, are collectively either not paying attention (some quite consciously) or wondering if/when the latest version of empire is going to morph into something a bit more stable, evolve into a retrograde 3rd world self-consuming pariah, or blow up this interesting cosmological experiment, or ????
I believe the world can move forward without the patriarchal and God of Mammon aspects of our complex of social organization.
Where are the evolved human adults to step forward and lead our species out of this dead end? Has the CIA killed them all or are they going to come forward with their master plan for humanities ongoing existence?
As someone with a traumatic brain injury that is almost healed beyond belief with neurofeedback, I am still a bit pensive about this soap opera period we seem to be cruising through….sigh.
Keep breathing folks and yes, neurofeedback is a real hope for many of our “mental problems” which I am anxious to report more about here. I have recently broke through the deep hurt layer but can’t keep the healing persistent yet….115 sessions and counting…..grin

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 30 2017 6:47 utc | 106

psychohistorian 106
Food for thought.
In looking at communism vs capitalsm, current Russian federation and current China that a balanced society is like a balanenced diet. A little of everything. Russian Federation has gone this way and has no professed ideoly. China, although still communist government structure has also gone this way.
US and “US west’ are still bound by capital ideolgy – private finance – ideology rather that it being just part of the diet. ??

Posted by: Peter AU 1 | Oct 30 2017 8:01 utc | 107

Myanmar and the role of Facebook as a proxy for Anglo-US Imperialism:
Came across this today in the online NYT that I think is relevant, regardless the NYT slant on the events:

This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement. Violence against the Rohingya has been fueled, in part, by misinformation and anti-Rohingya propaganda spread on Facebook, which is used as a primary news source by many people in the country. Doctored photos and unfounded rumors have gone viral on Facebook, including many shared by official government and military accounts.
The information war in Myanmar illuminates a growing problem for Facebook. The company successfully connected the world to a constellation of real-time communication and broadcasting tools, then largely left it to deal with the consequences.
“In a lot of these countries, Facebook is the de facto public square,” said Cynthia Wong, a senior internet researcher for Human Rights Watch. “Because of that, it raises really strong questions about Facebook needing to take on more responsibility for the harms their platform has contributed to.”
In Myanmar, the rise in anti-Rohingya sentiment coincided with a huge boom in social media use that was partly attributable to Facebook itself. In 2016, the company partnered with MTP, the state-run telecom company, to give subscribers access to its Free Basics program. Free Basics includes a limited suite of internet services, including Facebook, that can be used without counting toward a cellphone data plan. As a result, the number of Facebook users in Myanmar has skyrocketed to more than 30 million today from 2 million in 2014.

Posted by: William Bowles | Oct 30 2017 11:16 utc | 108

psychohistorian | Oct 30, 2017 2:47:19 AM | 106
Where are the evolved human adults to step forward and lead our species out of this dead end? Has the CIA killed them all or are they going to come forward with their master plan for humanities ongoing existence?
Seeing the hopelessness of the reality extant; they left…
Much like some of the Germans pre-WWII; nobody blames them.
Just what is it that keeps so many Usians from fleeing certain enslavement?
Rhetorical question; denial…

Posted by: V. Arnold | Oct 30 2017 11:30 utc | 109

More on Myanmar:

Myanmar’s newest insurgency: An Asia Times investigation into Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh shows the insurgent Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army relies on religion and coercion to recruit its sometimes reluctant members, Carlos Sardiña Galache writes. Little is known about ARSA and its overall strategy. According to the International Crisis Group, a conflict resolution outfit, the group’s leadership is formed in a committee in Saudi Arabia. Its on-the-ground leader, Attah Ullah, is a Rohingya male born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia. In the group’s frequent public statements, ARSA insists that it is carrying out an ethno-nationalist struggle for Rohingya rights; the group’s unexplained sudden name change from Harakah Al-Yakin to ARSA, however, points to a desire to distance itself from religious connotations, at least in the international eye.
“>http://www.atimes.com/article/inside-view-myanmars-rohingya-insurgency/

Posted by: William Bowles | Oct 31 2017 12:24 utc | 110

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