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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2018-40
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Three weeks before the current Canadian-Saudi spat, the Canadian Revenue Agency took away the charity status of an Islamic center and mosque in Ottawa. The mosque had received largess from foreign donors and, it is alleged, featured radical preachers. The event may have caused the otherwise inexplicable Saudi behavior.
Just now the U.S. occupation suffers a new defeat.
On Friday some 1,000 Taliban infiltrated into Ghazni, an important city on the ring-road between Kabul and Khandahar. They have since taken most of the city:
Accounts from residents leaving the city said the only areas still being held by the government were the governor’s office, police and intelligence agencies headquarters, an ancient fort called the Bala Hisar and a few other government facilities.
Early today the Taliban brought the police headquarter under their control:
Intense fighting continues in Ghazni, the police HQ caught fire and collapsed to the Taliban. 113 dead bodies and 142 wounded were taken to Ghazni hospital. The hospital is running out of the capacity for treatment, they are using corridors and other available space.
Only the province government headquarter is still defended. More than 100 police and soldiers have been killed so far. Relief forces sent from Kabul are holed up in an army headquarter some five kilometers away. Telephone communication with the city is down. Some bridges were blown up by the Taliban which makes it difficult for the army bring in more re-enforcements. Some 150,000 civilians live in the city and bombing it to hit a few hundred Taliban would be catastrophic and of little use. Additionally to the city 15 of the 18 districts of Ghazni province are under Taliban control and it is obvious that they have the support of a significant part of the population.
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The U.S. occupation forces and their Afghan proxy government have long been in denial about the Taliban forces in Ghazni province as well as elsewhere. With the Taliban sitting on the ring-road, the south of Afghanistan is cut off from the center. They may eventually be evicted from the city but the attack is already a huge propaganda success for the Taliban and the negative moral effect on Afghan government forces will be huge. Another U.S. war that the empire obviously lost.
Right now Erdogan is holding a speech in Trabzon. He is defiant:
DAILY SABAH – @DailySabah
LIVE — President Erdoğan: The fluctuation in Turkish lira is a plot against Turkey, but Turkish people will not give in
LIVE — President Erdoğan: We might as well say goodbye to those who sacrifice their strategic partnership with a country of 81 million, alliance over 50 years for links with terror groups
Does that sounds like "Good bye NATO"? The Turkish military would not be happy with that. But by now it is presumably under Erdogan's full control.
Use as open thread …
@89 Grieved
What the socialist countries are doing with their nations is demonstrating how to live with sustainable security in this world using socialist principles and tested methods. Their examples offer perhaps the only hope I can see for a better world in the future.
Then the felony was forged. April 10, 1919, Zapata, calm, accompanied by a small escort went to an appointment with Colonel Guajardo in the Chinameca hacienda. There, the welcoming troops presented arms, simulating to pay honor to the strong man; and shot him in the back, point blank.
Yet in Guerrero, even before this blow fell, the influence of the Zapatista movement had reached its limit and was receding, because well-heeled financial, political and military elements of the Carrancistas had been forging alliances with the large land owners, merchants, politicians, mercenaries, money lenders, foreigners, mining operations and port authorities.
When they considered that the greatest danger had passed, these interests resumed their familiar lucrative privileges and exploitation over the peasant and indigenous population of the state and, for the moment, the effects of the Revolution were not translated into socioeconomic benefits for the people. The new bosses were the same ones who had exploited them before the Revolution; however, now they reigned with some respect.
Mexicans had to wait until the 1930’s and the six years of the Presidency of Lazaro Cardenas, when the land repartition and other decisions of social justice were given, in a reading of the Mexican Constitution, similar to the reading President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, gave to the Constitution of the United States.
The Mexican Constitution has indeed been most welcome in the South since it invited the diverse communities to develop in accordance with their own respectable traditions. The idea of having a right by law is generally pleasing to the common citizen, and it is conditioning the population to become constructive and cooperative.
Article 2 states that Mexico is pluricultural, and that indigenous peoples own their own cultural identity and that it is protected by law. Article 3 of the Constitution states that every Mexican has the right to education and that which the State imparts must tend to develop all the faculties of the human being, including love for the country and respect for the rights of its citizens.
Additionally, a Labor Law was established governing employer employee relations and guaranteeing the rights and benefits of the workers and the obligations of employers. Article 1 states: Slavery is prohibited in the United Mexican States. Foreign slaves who enter the national territory will, by that fact alone, attain their freedom and the protection of the laws.
Article 27 of Mexico’s Constitution begins thus: The ownership of lands and waters included within the limits of the national territory, correspond originally to the Nation.
So, apparently, Mexico has the resources to do what it wants and the people have already paid their share of blood in the Revolution; it was supposed that, on account of the sacrifices of her patriots, Mexican rights were universally regarded as well-earned.
In southeast post revolutionary Mexico, in 1923, in Tabasco, in the first free textbooks of primary school, printed on the first page the following legend of encouragement:
The human being is a social being. Anyone who isolates himself is selfish. Those who want to have everything for themselves, and those who try to monopolize land and money in a few hands, impoverish everything and bring general discontent and misery to the majority. The worker must alternate between tools and books, between workshop and cornfield and the school so that, by cultivating his intelligence and forming his sensibilities, he becomes a conscious being, dignifying himself and his family.
The institution of the school without dogmas and of natural rational teaching, was examined in multiple pedagogical congresses at the national level, and not only in the South.
Posted by: Guerrero | Aug 14 2018 17:24 utc | 98
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