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ANOTHER STUPID F**KING WAR
How I have to reappraise 40+ years indentification with the Left
Thank God we still have a strong, righteous, left-wing anti-war movement to speak out against attacking Syria.
Oh my mistake, they ditched all that to obsess about gender pronouns, mythical gender pay gaps & hating white people.
SHARE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WuPFlMThw …
Exactly!
I
can find very little to disagree with in this assessment of Info
Wars' right-wing Paul Joseph Watson.
It
is endlessly perplexing how right he is while Leftists who used, in
my time to be anti-imperialist, anti-war activists but now range from
insane liberals who have long replaced a struggle for peace and
justice with an embracing of "hunanitarian" war with its
"humanitarian "bombs",not to mention crazy ideas of
political correctness (banning of sharp knives in crime-ridden
London) and identity politics.
Now
it is the liberals who are supporting a bloody war in Syria and are
embracing the CIA and the rest of the Deep State.
I used to be an avid reader of the Guardian which embraced many of the progressive ideals that I have so long idenified with.
Now the Guardian is the biggest advocate of war anywhere, outside of perhaps CNN, the BBC and the Washington Post, so that this is their latest, portraying a False Flag as a "chemical attack" by the evil Assad.
Where are the anti-war voices of the past?
They seem to be dropping off and joining the army pushing fake stories and advocating for war.
There have been numerous examples over the past few days. The Real News (who I mostly admire) interviewed Patrick Cockburn (who I also mostly admire). But what a disappointment to hear Ccckburn adopt a casual attitude and describe the whole matter with such casualness that I wondered if I was living on another planet.
When I first came across all this 14 years ago, in 2003, Democracy Now! was definitely one of the go-to sources of information and analysis that opposed the war.
No longer.
Democracy Now! was spectacularly unable to criticise Obama's "humanitarian" wars in Libya and later Syria.
Now that the American Deep State (with Trump well-and-truly on board) is seeking to unleash hell on Syria (and by extension on Iran and Russia) DN has very little to say.
Perhaps war is not a good idea, opine Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald but there is no doubt in their mind that the "tyrant" Assad unleashed chemical warfare on his own people, in an attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And then I was made aware of this today.
Joshua Landis, who has appeared on RT's CrossTalk in the past tweeting to promote an article by "progressive" Juan Cole.
Why Trump can’t reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating https://www.juancole.com/2018/04/reverse-syrian-gloating.html … via @jricole, who is always good.
This is what the "progressive", Cole had to say without so much as a skerrick of evidence but with smart rhetoric.
Why Trump can’t reverse Syrian regime dirty win in Ghouta & why Iran is Gloating
"The Army of Islam was inflicting substantial casualties on the elite Panther Brigade (Syrian Arab Army special operations forces) who led the invasion of Douma last week. The Army of Islam refused to surrender and said they wanted to work out a deal to remain in Douma. This was a non-starter for Bashar al-Assad, who wanted all the rebel bases near the capital completely gone. But my hypothesis is that he could not risk losing more troops from the crack Panther Brigades.
"So he decided to send down a barrel bomb of mixed chlorine and sarin gas on Douma. Perhaps he just meant to kill a dozen or two dozen Army of Islam fighters. Instead, the gas killed around 70 people, including mostly civilians and some children, and the relief workers in the enclave got video and blew the whistle on the regime. Al-Assad brazenly committed a war crime, confident that the Russian Federation would protect him from its consequences."
This brought a quick response from real anti-war actiivists/commentators, Patrick Henningsen and Daniel McAdams from the Ron Paul Institute.
Poor Prof. Landis. He's smart and knows better, but he's a slave to his initial assessment, i.e. that it was a genuine, homegrown people's uprising to overthrow a universally hated dictator. As a "scientist" he knows that when inputs are wrong, conclusion can never be right.
I have no idea of the politics of ex-ambassador Craig Murray but he has a point when he says the following.
I have no idea of the politics of ex-ambassador Craig Murray but he has a point when he says the following.
Instead of the progressive "Left" I have to get my information – replete with documentation and proof that shows the whole narrative from the Left is nothing but a crock of shit – from conservative Russian media and from real anti-war activists who also happen to be libertarians or "alt-Right" erstwhile Trump supporters.
Here are some examples.
Tucker Thompson and Fox News! You can't get a more impassioned statement of opposiion to war than this (apart from, perhaps, InfoWars' Mr. Watson
Even Alex Jones and his coterie of Trump supporters have jumped to tell (by-and-large) the truth about Deep State intentions in Syria.
Now, tell me, am I to hold on to my ideology of 40 years and embrace a Lie or am I to reassess my attitude to a movement that I have not left so much as it has left me?
P.S.Even fucking Sarah Palin has come out against the war and called out the Deep State. Perhaps I should reassess?
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