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U.S. plans to send tanks to Syria oil fields
by Countercurrents Collective
The U.S. is reportedly planning to deploy tanks and other heavy military hardware to protect oil fields in eastern Syria. This would mark the first deployment
of U.S. tanks to Syria.
The U.S. is reportedly planning to deploy tanks and other heavy military hardware to protect oil fields in eastern Syria.
This would mark the first deployment of U.S. tanks to Syria.
A senior Pentagon official told Newsweek Wednesday that the U.S. is seeking to deploy half of an Army armored brigade combat team that includes 30 Abrams tanks to eastern Syria, where lucrative oil fields are under the control of a mostly Kurdish force. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), will continue to be involved in securing these oil fields, the official said.
The plan, if executed, will reverse U.S. President Donald Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops from Syria.
The plans come one day after Trump announced a “permanent” cease-fire in northeast Syria and said a “small number” of U.S. troops would guard oil fields now in Syrian Kurdish hands.
“We’ve secured the oil and therefore a small number of U.S. troops will remain in the area. Where they have the oil and we’re going to be protecting it and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future,” announced Trump.
The Pentagon is “likely” to order tanks and hundreds of soldiers to eastern Syria, U.S. officials told Fox News.
Fox News reported such a deployment was “likely” and that the tanks would come from units already in the Middle East.
CNN said it would happen relatively soon.
The new tank deployment by the U.S. would have a combined purpose of keeping ISIS, and the Syrian government, Iran and their allied militias away from the eastern oil fields.
It would take more troops to deploy, maintain, supply and protect armored units in the middle of the eastern Syrian desert than the roughly 1,000 that were in the country before the Turkish invasion.
The contradiction has been apparent in Trump’s remarks in recent days, in which he claimed the U.S. had “secured the oil” even while withdrawing its forces.
On Capitol Hill Wednesday, the president’s special envoy to Syria acknowledged pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria would have been a mistake.
“We obviously had troops there for a mission, the mission was defeating ISIS so if you remove those troops before that mission is complete then you have a problem and we do have a problem right now and we are working our way through it,” said Ambassador James Jeffrey the president’s special envoy to Syria and the ISIS fight.
He later told a Senate panel the plans on defending the oil fields have not been completed.
“What are we going do with these oil fields? That’s a really good question and were really working hard on it. We do not have an answer on it at this time,” Jeffrey said.
“It would mean walling off eastern Syria as a U.S. zone,” Aaron Stein, director of the Middle East program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Washington, said of the plan to put tanks around the Conoco plant. “You would have to protect it from the air. You have to supply it and then you have got to protect the road, presumably from Iraq. You can easily see a scenario where we end up with more troops in Syria than we started off with.”
The U.S. president did suggest Wednesday he would keep troops in the small southwestern garrison of Al-Tanf, and across crucial oil fields now controlled by the SDF.
“We’ve secured the oil and, therefore, a small number of U.S. troops will remain in the area, where they have the oil,” Trump said at the White House. “And we’re going to be protecting it, and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future.”On Thursday, Trump added to the confusion on Thursday by tweeting: “Perhaps it is time for the Kurds to start heading to the oil region!”
The remark seemed to endorse a population transfer from the Kurdish areas along the border with Turkey southwards to the almost entirely Sunni Arab area of Deir Ezzor. Such a mass displacement of Kurds from their homes would fit with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans to resettle northeastern Syria with Syrian Arab refugees to create a buffer zone against Kurdish insurgents. Kurdish refugees in Turkey are already reported to be subject to forcible deportation.
“The president of the United States is now helping Turkey achieve ethnic cleansing by telling the Kurds to flee their homes,” former US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said in a comment on Twitter.
Such mass demographic changes – carried out at the barrel of a gun – risk prolonging Syria’s multiple-front conflict indefinitely, said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UN’s former humanitarian chief.
“This was an area of relative stability, before all of these deals,” said Egeland, who was also the UN’s special adviser on Syria. “We need to remind all of these people with the power and the guns that this is no chessboard. It is a place where people live. There are two to three million civilians in this area. I cannot see how this can be a safe zone for long with so many different armed parties.”
Egeland said about 180,000 people, half of them children, had been displaced as a consequence of the Turkish incursion. He added that Kurds arriving at overcrowded camps in Iraq said that many more would join the exodus from the northeast but could not afford to pay people-smugglers who charge hundreds of dollars per person.
Egeland said the mass displacement of populations was being brought about as a consequence of “explosive, improvised deals”.
The U.S. initially joined Turkey in backing the rebels and jihadis trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but later switched its support to the SDF as defeating ISIS became a priority.
Earlier reports said that the SDF have entered into arrangements to sell oil to the Syrian government.
Asked about the oil situation during a White House press briefing Wednesday, one senior administration official echoed the president in saying that the final fate of these resources was yet to be determined.
“The President has stated that we are going to have a residual force in the region to protect areas that hold the oil fields, as well as the base down at Al-Tanf, in southern Syria. Those are important areas to allow us to constrain the resurgence of ISIS. And there is some artillery benefit, of course, to Kurds and other Democratic Forces being in control of the oil,” the official said.
“As far as how the oil will be sold and that sort of thing, that’s something that we’ll certainly look into and we’ll monitor going forward. And we’ll keep a close eye on that,” the official continued, adding that “the goal of the administration, the goal of the President — as he made very clear today — is to have all American troops out of Syria, and that’s something that we believe will ultimately happen.”
“We have troops in towns in … northeast Syria that are located next to the oil fields. The troops in those towns are not in the present phase of withdrawal,” Esper told a joint press conference in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
“This withdrawal [of U.S. forces] will take weeks, not days. Until that time, our forces will remain in the towns that are located near the oil fields. The purpose of those forces —a purpose of those forces, working with the SDF, is to deny access to those oil fields by ISIS,” he added.
Donald Trump’s Kurd decision
by David Anderson
The time has come for serious introspection in America. The Nation is locked in a race between self-discovery and self-destruction. It is losing that race. It needs to recognize that the present equation does not equate. It is off-balance. America needs to reformulate a new equation. More wars based on the old equation will not do. Unfettered release of the human psyche as we now see in the current political scene will not do.
A Seminal Event: (Defined as an event that will strongly influence what comes after), It revealed: The Need for a New American Formula
The time has come for serious introspection in America. The Nation is locked in a race between self-discovery and self-destruction. It is losing that race. It needs to recognize that the present equation does not equate. It is off-balance. America needs to reformulate a new equation. More wars based on the old equation will not do. Unfettered release of the human psyche as we now see in the current political scene will not do.
The recent American withdrawal from northern Syria and then Kurdish retreat there is exposing a deep seated American formulaic weakness that raises many troubling questions. An analysis of American involvement in the Middle East from 1948 onward can give us a clue as to underlying elements. Following is this analysis beginning with post-World War II.
First we have Truman’s Israel decision followed by the UN decision to grant Israel statehood. It is difficult to pass judgement on this. Secretary of State General George Marshall strongly opposed it for two reasons; oil and Arab hostility. Had the decision gone Marshall’s way, there is the question: Would Muslim attitude toward the West in the area be different than it is today? The answer is most likely not. The reason: There is no evidence to suggest that the genesis of The Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaida or of ISIS/Daesh was the result of Israel statehood. Yes Muslims believe all of their land is Holy and once occupied, it can never be returned. But that belief has both a strong and weak foundation; also it is specifically geographic. So it can be concluded that Israel statehood has not been positive for the West, but is not at the core of the problem. What is at the core is the conflict between Western Civilization and Islam. The following recorded statement from Osama bin-Laden to the American people after 9/11 says it all:
“Indeed, I’m a trustworthy adviser to you. I invite you to the happiness of this world and the hereafter and to escape your dry, miserable, materialistic life that is without soul. I invite you to Islam, that calls to follow of the path of Allah alone who has no partners, the path which calls for justice and forbids oppression and crimes.”
There were significant events with ongoing repercussions to this day well before 9/11. The focus here will be on recent history. Here is a summary:
Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers in August of 1953 deposed Prime Minister Mossadegh the elected Prime Minister of Iran and installed Mohammad Reza Shah under the pretext of “containment” of the Soviet Union. They did not understand that Mossadegh was no Soviet stooge. He was about to bring a form of Scandinavian Social Democracy to the country and also nationalize the exploitive British oil interests. The Shah then brutalized the Iranian people with his SAVAK police forces. That brutality empowered a revolution, (January 1978 – February 1979) and the deposing of the Shah who with his family fled the country. It led to the return from exile of Ayatollah Khomeini, a reversion in Iran to Shia fundamentalism and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard as protector. ’
As an aside to this Middle Eastern failure we have Kennedy’s failed Cuba invasion along with Johnson’s Vietnam escalation. Over 58,000 American soldiers; more than 200,000 South Vietnamese and more than one million North Vietnamese and Vietcong fighters died.
Then during Reagan’s 8 years in power the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid through Pakistani to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan.The Wahhabi Saudi’s assisted by building Wahhabi madrasas in Pakistan. These madrasas as the Americans and Europeans later found in their own countries when the Saudis built them there became factories cranking out jihadi conscripts who became the backbone of violence throughout the world.
Reagan also armed Saddam Hussein to fight Iran in an eight year war and gave him satellite imagery to improve his use of WMD’s and employ poison sarin gas, a lethal nerve agent. It has been estimated one million Iranians died in that war.
It gets worse. Evangelical Christian W. Bush defeats Al Gore in the contested 2000 election. (Without the exiled Miami Cuban vote Bush would have lost the election) Then we have 9/11. In response Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney retaliate with the disastrous Iraq invasion. After the adventure, Bush has the newly appointed American Ambassador to Iraq Paul Bremer disenfranchise all the military and other government Baathists (The elite) in the country with his de-Baathification law based on a foolish analogy to post World War II Nazi party elimination in Germany. Some Baathists are sent to Abu Ghraib Prison (many brutally tortured) which becomes the genesis and finishing school of the ISIS/Daesh that followed. It gives an opening for ISIS/Daesh in Iraq and Syria where none had before existed.
Then it continues to get worse with the W. Bush/Condoleezza Rice Arab Spring. (she was described as W. Bushes’ “Warrior Princess”) As a first try she chooses Gaza. She and the President reasoned that America could solve all the problems in the Middle East simply by bringing American style Democracy to the region. Much to the regret of the Israelis today, the then Israeli government complied. This spawned Hamas, (an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood) a violent Islamic resistance movement of Palestinian Sunni–Islamic fundamentalists.
As for Barack Obama, the next US President, American style Democracy in the region still seemed to make sense. He encouraged an “Arab Spring” in Egypt, Syria and Libya. Today we are all witness to those failures. Only Egypt was able to recover.
As Syria began to turn into chaos, Obama then followed through with the myth of a Free Syrian Army ready and able to take down Bashar al-Assad. That “Free Syrian Army” faded away as a total failure.
(Note on Syria)
A word on the current Syrian situation can give us some insights into Middle Eastern complexity today. The thought of a transitional unified post Bashar al-Assad government in Syria has always been fanciful. Psychotic power hungry Sunni individuals like deceased rebel leader Zahran Alloush once in power would set out to crush every last Alawite. Sunnis consider Alawites illegitimate, oppressive, anti-Islamic, secular, wine drinking, women unveiled “Infidels”. Faction by faction area by area city by city radical power hungry clannist Islamists would then by their very nature turn on each other.
Religiously; al-Assad’s Alawites are Shia/Mystic with a touch of Christianity. Contacts with the Byzantines and Crusaders early on added later Roman Christian elements to their Islamic belief They even have their own Triune God story. They were given control of the country by the French after World War I. Then over the years they solidified that control through key government posts, the military, and access to the limited natural resources. The Sunnis remained agrarian.
Now to the core of the Syrian problem: Over the years the non-Alawite Syrians grew from just a few million to over 24 million today. Then as the semi dry land of their forefathers became unable to support them, many gravitated to the cities. As a result Alawites today at 4.3 million plus are only a fraction of the total population. The non-Alawite Sunnis were all lumped together by the Obama Administration as “opposition fighters.” He called them the “Free Syrian Army.” He did not understand that there is a very complex side to this conflict.
This discussion has so far centered on the failures of US intervention in the Middle East. There is a second part of the equation that must be understood. It is the exponential population growth throughout the Middle East based on the Islamic mandate to multiply. Families with six to eight children are common. The Alan Kurdi story is an example. His grandparents sired 6 who sired 24.
As population in the Middle East continues to expand and oil revenues throughout the region decline, at some point there will be social turmoil among the disenfranchised far beyond what we now see. Islamic terrorism will be on the rise. Millions of Muslims will be forced to flee. Tens of millions will seek asylum in the West. They will be blocked from entering at the borders.
Now to return to the continuing American dysfunction:
In 2016 Republicans in the US congress attempted to kill the Iran Nuclear Agreement. It should be noted that many of them were members of fundamentalist Apocalypse believing Christian Churches who hold firmly to the conviction that the end of times is soon to begin in Jerusalem. They were joined by an assortment of members of the American Jewish community hostile to Iranian influence.
Nuclear physicists, military officials, non-proliferation experts, and more than 100 countries across the globe all voiced their support for the Agreement as the best solution available to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
There was no concern by the opponents of the Agreement over the horrific reality that if the Iranians continued with their program, the Sunni Saudis would bring nuclear weapons in from their friendly Sunni Salafi/Wahhabi neighbor Pakistan. Then there would be a Middle Eastern nuclear escalation; Sunni vs Shia vs Israel.
The American problem has in the past and continues to be the government and the public inability to understand the historical/religious complexity of the Middle East and the limitations of American military power and diplomatic influence there. As for the American public: The Wahhabi-Salafi-Takfiri cult; what’s that? Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Ayman al-Zawahiri; who are they? Salafi Wahhabis, what’s that? Most Americans conclude: Just send over more of our troops to clean the place up. Then bring our heroes home.
And as for those American heroes: There is no comprehension that since 2001 (according to the Department of Veteran Affairs) of at least 2.5 million members of the American armed forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, among returnees, between 11 and 20 percent are estimated in any given year to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. (PTSD)
As all of this is taking place, most Americans are happy just listening to Fox News or CNN Wolf Blitzer; and for some even Rush Limbaugh. Some find their understanding each week in their evangelical Christian church. Some believe that God and his choice of US President Donald Trump will move it all in HIS divine direction.
America has an even greater problem beyond this dysfunction. Money now buys “free speech.” Wasn’t it Joseph Goebbels who said that if you keep repeating a lie, eventually people will believe it? Most of the American media understands this all too well and is intent on making revenues based on the public’s extreme bias and shallow thought.
To understand the challenge facing the American nation, using the analogy of an equation can be helpful. On the one side there is a force; powered by dangerous psychotic internals buried in the Homo sapiens brain and there regardless of race, religion, class. It is all powerful. It can be described with the common words: psychotic, neurotic, self-hatred, self-interest: competitive, aggressive, selfish, deceptive, mean spirited, ego centric, violent, jealous, possessive, power hungry, narcissistic.
On the other side of the equation we have the vision of an idealistic world; a cooperative peaceful state of selflessness innocence. Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:14) told his followers: “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” From the time of its founding, America was to be that light and that city on the hill.
Unfortunately this is not the way it all turned out. Today, America has become a city of the psychotic, the neurotic; a city of self-hatred, self-interest, a city of many competitive, aggressive, selfish, deceptive, mean spirited, ego centric, violent, jealous, possessive, power hungry, narcissistic individuals.
The time has come for serious introspection in America. The Nation is locked in a race between self-discovery and self-destruction. It is losing that race. It needs to recognize that the present equation does not equate. It is off-balance. America needs to reformulate a new equation. More wars based on the old equation will not do. Unfettered release of the human psyche as we now see in the current political scene will not do.
David Anderson brings together a wide range of interests in his writings, namely; theology, history, evolutionary anthropology, philosophy, geopolitics, and economics. He has written four books. The fourth is about a necessary geo political, social, religious, economic paradigm shift for human survival.
The Militarization of Everything in USA
by William J Astore
Democracy shouldn’t be about celebrating overlords in uniform. A now-widely accepted belief is that America is more divided, more partisan than ever, approaching perhaps a new civil war, as echoed in the rhetoric of our current president. Small wonder that inflammatory rhetoric is
thriving and the list of this country’s enemies lengthening when Americans themselves have so softly yet fervently embraced militarism.
Populist Crusade against Pope Francis
by Punsara Amarasinghe
It is true that many in Europe have stumbled upon a state of insecurity, xenophobia and skepticism as an offshoot of mass immigration, refugee issues and multiculturalism which have agitated European minds about the realty of multiculturalism. The loophole created by European doubt about their own continent dwells in state crisis has eventually paved the path for rightwing populist agendas to spread across Europe as a gigantic wave
Biden Backer — Former Lockheed Leader — Convinces Biden to Sell-Out
by Eric Zuesse
Bernard Schwartz, a former Vice Chairman and top investor in Lockheed Martin (which is by
far the largest seller to the U.S. Government, and also the largest seller to most of America’s allied Governments), is one of Joe Biden’s top donors. CNN headlined, on October 28th, “Biden allies intensify push for super PAC after lackluster fundraising quarter”, and reported that, “Bernard Schwartz, a private investor and donor to the former vice president’s campaign, said he spoke with Biden within the last two weeks and encouraged him to do just that.”
Bernard Schwartz, a former Vice Chairman and top investor in Lockheed Martin (which is by far the largest seller to the U.S. Government, and also the largest seller to most of America’s allied Governments), is one of Joe Biden’s top donors. CNN headlined, on October 28th, “Biden allies intensify push for super PAC after lackluster fundraising quarter”, and reported that, “Bernard Schwartz, a private investor and donor to the former vice president’s campaign, said he spoke with Biden within the last two weeks and encouraged him to do just that.”
It’s not for nothing that throughout Biden’s long Senate career, he has voted in favor of every U.S. invasion that has been placed before the U.S. Senate. If you are a weapons-maker whose sole market is the U.S. Government and its allies, then you need Senators and House members who will vote in favor of buying the weapons that you are manufacturing. And those same Senators and Congressmen also need to hire, as the U.S. Secretary of State, people such as Hillary Clinton, who likewise was a “super-hawk,” and who negotiated in favor of invasions, by the U.S. and its allies, against whatever nations are instead the targets, which are to be either taken over as U.S. allies, or else invaded with those weapons.
It’s not enough to have as many markets as possible; there also need to be nations against which your products can be used. This serves the ‘patriotic’ function of expanding the empire, not only for your own firm, but also for the U.S. extractive firms such as ExxonMobil, which need this military protection, in order to be able to apply the kind of pressure that will ‘persuade’ foreign leaders to choose them, instead of to choose a foreign competitor, to do the extractions.
Joe Biden has done surprisingly well in the polling thus far, despite poor performance in the debates, and despite having supported every foreign invasion that now the American public think shouldn’t have been done. He is the candidate with the most “experience” — like Hillary Clinton was — and, for the majority of voters (especially in today’s Democratic Party), this means the largest numbers of the worst possible decisions. And, so, he leads the Democratic field today, much like Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
Furthermore, as that CNN article notes: “Nearly 70% of the individual contributions that Sanders has raised so far came from donors giving $200 or less; Warren has a similar profile, at about 64%. Biden’s share of individual contributions raised from small dollar donors during the course of the campaign stands at roughly 35%.”
And both Sanders and Warren have raised lots more money from small donors than Biden has raised thus far from large ones. This scares people such as Bernard Schwartz. They don’t want their investments to fail.
And moreover: “The former vice president has relied on maxed-out contributors for 38% of the money he’s raised so far in his presidential bid, according to an analysis of financial disclosure reports, giving the candidate fewer opportunities than many of his rivals to return to loyal donors again for cash as the Democratic primary campaign heats up.” And, so, “the conversations intensified in the wake of a cash crunch for the former vice president’s campaign. He reported last week having less than $9 million in the bank, significantly less than his leading rivals.”
And this is the reason why Biden needs to open up the spigots, now, so as to become enabled to collect the more secret types of money, which aren’t so subject to disclosure and limit rules, and which, increasingly, constitute Joe Biden’s path to the White House.
The CNN article, as propaganda for the Democratic National Committee or the people who fund the Democratic Party, opens in its first sentence by presenting this contest as being already between the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee versus the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee, even though the reality is that it’s between contestants for the Democratic nomination: “A coalition of top Democratic strategists and donors are intensifying conversations about setting up an outside group to bolster Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, aiming to create a super PAC designed to fight back against a barrage of well-funded attacks from President Donald Trump’s campaign.”
So: they open by falsely characterizing what the Democratic Party’s primaries are actually all about. This is subtly, but fundamentally, deceiving the Party’s voters, regarding the rules of the electoral game in which they will be participating. This is how they had won the nomination for Hillary Clinton in 2016: by making suckers out of a large-enough percentage of the Party’s voters.
Biden is doing remarkably well, considering his appalling record in public office. Here are summaries of the latest polls:
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Buttigieg Jumps to Second Place In Iowa
October 24, 2019 at 8:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 261 Comments
A new Iowa State University/Civiqs poll finds Elizabeth Warren leading the Democratic presidential field with 28%, followed by Pete Buttigieg at 20%, Bernie Sanders at 18% and Joe Biden at 12%.
The poll of likely caucus-goers also asked voters to list the candidate they do not want to win the nomination. Biden and Sanders topped this list with Tulsi Gabbard third.
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New Poll Shows Warren Expanding Her Lead
October 24, 2019 at 6:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 147 Comments
A new Quinnipiac poll finds Elizabeth Warren leading the Democratic presidential race with 28%, followed by Joe Biden at 21%, Bernie Sanders at 15%, Pete Buttigieg at 10%, Kamala Harris at 5% and Amy Klobuchar at 3%. No other candidate tops one percent.
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Biden Still Way Ahead In South Carolina
October 23, 2019 at 12:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments
A new Monmouth poll in South Carolina finds Joe Biden way ahead in the Democratic presidential race with 33%, followed by Elizabeth Warren at 16%, Bernie Sanders at 12%, Kamala Harris at 6%, Tom Steyer at 4%, Pete Buttigieg at 3%, Cory Booker at 2%, Amy Klobuchar at 2% and Andrew Yang at 2%.
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Biden Widens National Lead
October 23, 2019 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 276 Comments
A new CNN poll finds Joe Biden’s lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president has rebounded, and now stands at its widest margin since April.
Biden has the support of 34%, followed by Elizabeth Warren at 19%, Bernie Sanders at 16%, Pete Buttigieg at 6%, Kamala Harris at 6%, Amy Klobuchar at 3% and Beto O’Rourke at 3%. [Almost all of Biden’s advantage there comes from his having a crushing 42% from Blacks, whereas all 6 of the next-supported candidates together are favored only by 40% of Blacks — it’s no contest. And it’s exceedingly irrational: “No public policy, in the last half century has been more detrimental to African Americans than mass incarceration, and no law has aided mass incarceration more than Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill which was drafted and supported by Joe Biden.” And, “Blacks make up nearly 40 percent of the inmates in the nation’s prisons, although they are only 12 percent of the U.S. population.” Biden and Clinton led in the ‘criminalization’ of Blacks’ ‘crimes’. So: are most Blacks simply gluttons for punishment? Or is there a different explanation?]
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 3 of Uncountable
by Priti Gulati Cox
There are no “right words to convince those who have the power to stop” whatever the “this” is in the context of war, intervention and occupation—not as long as we allow the language of our public servants to occupy our political dictionary.
Umar Khalid Wants Everybody Else To Rise In Rage, But Not Muslims, Why?
Co-Written by Areeb Rizvi
and Kuriakose Mathew
Muslims shall rise in rage, not only against the persecutors, but also against the Gandhian pacifiers in disguise who would quote Prophet against the People of the Prophet.
Kusumabale a brilliant anthology that still guides the oppressed for their quest to Justice
by Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
Kusumabale by D.Mahadeva acts as Rastafarianism in the Dalit literature movement especially in Kannada Dalit literature movement which is marked by 2 strands i.e Navodaya movement and Navya movement as noted by Vivek Shanbhag in his classic introduction. It could be a work of fiction,nonfiction or even an autobiographical one woven in the form of mysticism and mythology that gives it a distinct character and rightly Vivek Shanbhag
pointed it as an Indian variant of magic realism in tandem with latin American writings
In post Article 370 Phase few Q&A on Kashmir
by Syed Ali Mujtaba
Indian government by abrogating Article 370 has put the entire population in Kashmir valley in deep pain and agony. Since October 5, 2019 the people of the valley are subjected to untold hardship and they are silently suffering the pain without any hope of redemption. In the post Article 370 abrogation phase some uneasy questions are being asked about the future prospects of Kashmir. The quotations and answers are bunched into three categories to understand the situation that is unfolding every moment in Kashmir.
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