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, October 27, 2017

Kurdish PJAK Utilized to Weaken and Divide Iran

Click here to access article by Sarah Abed from The Rabbit Hole. 

I am posting a disproportionate number of article regarding Kurds because of what I believe has led to confusion about their progressive nature from articles mainly written by David Graeber and the people who formerly controlled the Reflections on a Revolution website. I believe that this author is another well informed person about Kurdish issues in Syria and nearby countries.
Every major Kurdish political group in the region has longstanding ties to Israel. It’s all linked to major ethnic violence against Arabs, Turkmens, Aramaeans, and Assyrians. From the PKK in Turkey to the PYD and YPG in Syria, PJAK in Iran to the most notorious of them all, the Barzani-Talabani mafia regime (KRG/Peshmerga) in northern Iraq.
Later in the article she asks in an apparent moment of exasperation (but doesn't answer):
Why are the so-called Kurdish “freedom fighters” willing to get in bed with any and every group that has an interest in destabilizing Syria, Iraq, and Iran? The provocative manner in which the SDF has teamed up with terrorist organizations during the war in Syria is a glaring contradiction to the “revolutionary” public relations image that they have fought hard to establish in recent years. [my link]
I have asked (to myself) the same question many times.
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