We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, June 27, 2014

Rise of ISIS: West, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are Responsible for Talibanization of Iraq

Click here to access article by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post.

Although this writer could have done a better job of documenting his allegations, his analysis of the operations of US ruling class directors, their allies, especially rulers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in creating ISIS, the general chaos in Iraq, and nearby areas is very accurate based on my own close observations of events in the Middle East. US actions were engineered largely by neocons in the Bush administration and still active in the Obama administration who, of course, closely identify with the interests of Israel.
An all-out regional sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites might not have been the goal, but it is certainly the result. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the region should have known that Iraq, Libya and Syria, without strongmen like Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Bashar al-Assad at their helm, were likely to implode into chaos. Who might ultimately profit from fueling a fratricidal war within Islam? Could this be a strategy of ash and ruins, preliminary to the expansion of the Jewish state into the so-called Greater Israel?
See also "The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a neocon’s dream" from Al Arabiya, "US-Sponsored Terrorism in Iraq and “Constructive Chaos” in the Middle East" from Global Research, and "Fear and loathing at Hotel Babylon" (Pepe Escobar) from Asia Times Online.