Tag Archives: Free Syrian Army

beginnings without endings

The world lives in fear of the “incident”- In Iran perhaps, or Saudi Arabia, or Egypt? —that will ignite the next great conflict; but if you look back on the Thirty Years War and take it as a template for … Continue reading

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divine wrath

Divine wrath: punish them for their sins. Certainly, they areĀ  being kept on a short leash, and for good reason, some of it tied back to American electoral policy, the other a revolution viewed as too big to fail status, … Continue reading

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so romantic: but NIMBY

Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading

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teamwork in the heart of the country: fun with guns

Everything is a “price tag” policy. It keeps the Macbeth pot boiling letting the passionate vapors intoxicate the kooky from vandalizing cars in annexed East Jerusalem, rustling goats and sheep in the West Bank, war crimes in Syria, Francois Hollande … Continue reading

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people on our side

Like the French movie, La Diner des Cons,” the public is taken to be the little suckers that seem such an agreeable role, preordained path of least resistance as long as there are a few crumbs left on the table. … Continue reading

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revolutions are messy

As the world burns. We are long removed from those utopic socialist ideals of revolution, the magna cartas of romanticism, where naive complacency was quickly subjugated by a new variant of the exploitation of nature and of the proletariat it … Continue reading

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tunnel vision: rejigging the disposition matrix

Atheist reinforcement workshops. Death and destruction in the Middle East. Its always racist, violence and excessive. But its holy. Somehow sanctified under some tawdry pretext for the greater good and the glory of the almighty, someone’s almighty of the moment. … Continue reading

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climbing walls: walls and bridges

Exposing the racist, sectarian, homophobic, and misogynist characteristics intrinsic to Judaism as patriarchal “activity” used to reinforce the inferior status of women? Or is it just an easy public relations target for the women, who expose themselves to little risk … Continue reading

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motley crew: its Huck Finn time

Sympathy vote. The gang that couldn’t slingshot straight. This is a ridiculous story; equal parts situation comedy, black comedy and farce. It looks like warfare depictions from the fall of Constantinople. The idea is to show how courageous the Free … Continue reading

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free, except for the catches in the fine print

The Aleppo campaign seems bogged down by lack of dry powder.They agree to disagree. But one thing is certain, they don’t seem to really want a free functioning liberal democracy with both secular and religious rights in harmony side by … Continue reading

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