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Airstrikes: The Ridiculous Revenge Strategy Against ISIS

February 6, 2015 By Mohammad Tomazy 2 Comments

ISIS recently released a footage showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a Hollywoodish scene.

Technically, the brutal scene was professionally filmed. It was taken from various angles with high-resolution lenses. They also prepared the scene very well, as there was a cage and the fighters wore military uniforms inspired by traditional Afghani dress. ISIS succeeded in sending a brutal message to the world.

The message is also intended to terrify members of the coalition against them.

Airstrikes against ISIS’s locations are, so far, the mainstay strategy. However, al-Qaida affiliated groups have no pyramidal command, but are cluster groups that share a common ideology. They often fight each other for zones of influence. For example, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra are bitter enemies, although they have the same ideology.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, al-Anbar, al-Qaida, Amman, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Baghdad, blowback, Daesh, death penalty, endless war, Human Rights, i24news, Iran, Iraq, Iraq National Army, Iraqi News, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Jordan, Jurf al-Sakhr, King Abdullah II, Kurdistan, Kurds, League of the Righteous, Maath al-Kassasba, MENA, Middle East, Peshmerga, propaganda, Qasem Suleimani, Sajida al-Rishawi, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Shiite Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Syria, Takreet, terrorism, The Independent, Tikrit, Wahabism, War, Yadollah Javani

Like 9-11, The Paris Massacre Is Not About “Us”

January 13, 2015 By David Seaton 2 Comments

As in the aftermath of 9-11, the endless commentaries following the Charlie Hebdo massacre all seem to be reworkings of George W. Bush’s “Why Do They Hate Us?” speech with its long list of our democratic virtues and the perpetrators’ lack of the same:

“They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”

The Western commentators then and now, just as Bush himself did, mostly ignore the elementary, basic, central, core truth in next paragraph of his speech:

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: 9-11, Ahmed Merabet, Al Qaeda, al-Qaida, blowback, Charlie Hebdo, Crown Prince Salman, Egypt, France, George W. Bush, Germany, Hajj, history, House of Saud, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jordan, King Abdullah, Marine Le Pen, Mecca, Medina, Osama bin-Laden, Paris, Paris Attacks, Pegida, Saudi Araba, Saudi Arabia, September 11, September 11th, Syria, Time magazine, U.S. Energy Information Administration

Above The Law: The Invasion Of Panama & The World’s Lone Superpower

December 22, 2014 By Matt Peppe 8 Comments

Twenty five years ago, before dawn on December 20, 1989, U.S. forces descended on Panama City and unleashed one of the most violent, destructive terror attacks of the century. U.S. soldiers killed more people than were killed on 9/11. They systematically burned apartment buildings and shot people indiscriminately in the streets. Dead bodies were piled on top of each other; many were burned before identification. The aggression was condemned internationally, but the message was clear: the United States military was free to do whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, and they would not be bound by ethics or laws.

The invasion and ensuing occupation produced gruesome scenes: “People burning to death in the incinerated dwellings, leaping from windows, running in panic through the streets, cut down in cross fire, crushed by tanks, human fragments everywhere,” writes William Blum.

Years later the New York Times interviewed a survivor of the invasion, Sayira Marín, whose “hands still tremble” when she remembers the destruction of her neighborhood.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Berlin Wall, blowback, Central American Human Rights Commission, CIA, COEDHUCA, Contra, corporate media, El País, France, George H.W. Bush, history, Human Rights, imperialism, international law, Iran, James Peck, journalism, Juantxu Rodríguez, labor, Los Angeles Times, Manuel Noriega, Maruja Torres, Military-industrial complex, New York Times, Nicaragua, Noam Chomsky, Operation Just Cause, Organization of American States, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama City, Pentagon, propaganda, Russia, Sabrina Virgo, Sayira Marín, School of the Americas, Soviet Union, The Cold War, The Panama Deception, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, US imperialism, US Invasion of Panama, War, war crimes, William Blum

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