Recommended articles for 2/7/2018

• US Jingoism vs. Russian Propaganda: From ‘The List’ To Social Media Censorship by "_anonym" from The Greanville Post.

American culture places an extreme emphasis on the right to hold an opinion with next to none on the actual ability to form one. We are, as a people, uneducated for democracy, which is to a large extent why we do not have one, and why the powers that be feel obliged to rely on censorship: people can’t be trusted to think for themselves. If Americans have neither the moral nor intellectual capacity to distinguish truth from lies, good argument form cheesy propaganda, enter the anti-propagandist and ‘censor-as-a-public-service’ to tell them what to believe.

Thankfully there is a large and growing number of Americans with no such moral or intellectual deficit, who have educated themselves for democracy since the system does not.

•  Kurds, Out of Options, Look to Syria’s Assad for Help by Jim Carey, editor of Geopolitics Alert. This is a well-documented look at the twists and turns of the Syrian Kurdish leadership and their current usefulness to the US Empire to destabilize Syria. For more background information I suggest you read my post of 2/25/2017 entitled "The Myth of the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence". Also, for more historical background for the Empire's on again, off again, use of the Kurds, read an article entitled "America, the Kurds, and History: Only a Pawn in Their Game".