Surviving Capitalism (Not) : 2012 DIA ‘Islamic State’ Report Enters National Discourse after New York Times Coverage

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

Sunday, December 6, 2015

2012 DIA ‘Islamic State’ Report Enters National Discourse after New York Times Coverage

Click here to access article by Brad Hoff from Levant Report.

While the document was referenced and analyzed in literally hundreds of independent/alternative and foreign media reports, major U.S. news maintained its silence, even after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), head of the DIA at the time the report was prepared, confirmed its accuracy and importance in an Al Jazeera interview with Mehdi Hasan.

Even with Flynn’s public and unambiguous confirmation of the document, the American public remained largely in the dark as to the document’s existence.

While the rest of the world had easy access to the interview which featured lengthy discussion of the document with a man who was in 2012 and prior one of the top three highest ranking intelligence officials in Washington, it did not air on Al Jazeera America, and the program itself remains geo-blocked for Americans wishing to access it through Al Jazeera’s official YouTube channel.

It appears that Hoff was the first to break the news of this very important report (May 19, 2015) which was apparently inadvertently released under a Freedom of Information request by a conservative organization called Judicial Watch. I found it referred to in a Moon of Alabama article a few days later and I have posted other articles referring to it since then (see this and this). Now on November 18th apparently because it has been widely circulating in alternative media, the editors of the New York Times, the Empire's "newspaper of record", have been forced to refer to it in an article entitled "In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame".