Articles recommended for Wednesday, September 12, 2018

• 17 Years After 911, US Backs Al Qaeda in Syria by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Washington’s Long War on Syria Isn’t About to End by Stephen Gowans from his blog What's Left.

• YouTube Censors Multiple Accounts Reporting Truth on Idlib Campaign by Julia "Samar" Kassem from Geopolitics Alert.

• Behind the Anglo American War on Russia by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook.

• Elections and the Illusion of Political Control by Bob Urie from CounterPunch.

It is ironic, and perhaps wholly coincidental, that insurgent groups as diverse as Occupy Wall Street and the Black Panthers were shut down when they began demonstrating that they could build (small scale, ultimately utopian) alternative institutions. Elections are intended to change the cast of characters without challenging existing institutions.

Sorry Urie, but I don't consider this coincidental. Carefully managed elections have been established as a ruse by the ruling class to fool once again the American people into believing that they have they live in some kind of democracy. (This comment was added at 8:15 AM CT on Sept. 13.)