The bloody 3.5 month siege of al-Bab by Turkish-backed forces, that ended with the defeat of ISIS this week, went on so long that most people have forgotten the original reason why Turkey invaded Syria - to fight the Kurds.
I saw this clip live on PBS and had to find and post it here.
I am NOT a essay writer. Some have recently posted excellent and well written 0nes (for which we all are grateful). I just couldn't post this to the middle of an open thread. It needs more.
The thrust of the Dems and the #resistance movement seems clear - Hate the haters.
Lets not fall into that trap. Force the conversation to the issues not whack job personalities.
With mind-boggling tone deafness, one Lindsey Ellefson writes:
Hey, it's songday. I pick a song that I believe warrants it and publish an assortment of the covers of that song by various persons and or groups. Pick a few that are new to you and have a listen. It is also, of course, an open thread to talk about anything you feel like.
Today's song is: Candyman
Mississippi John Hurt
Last Sunday there were dueling diaries at The Other Place: History Tells Us The Extreme Left Cannot Beat Trump and
The Syria "civil" war began in 2011 after unrest occurred in the context of the manufactured Arab Spring protests.
"The CIA’s Fake “Arab Spring” Becoming A Long, Hot Summer Of War"
http://tarpley.net/2011/06/20/cia-fake-arab-spring-becoming-summer-of-war/
"U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings"
Why Trump’s America is like the real America
I grew up believing in a host of commonly taught myths about my country. I’m embarrassed by how long it takes to get over these myths, but I also see that many people never do.
A good way to shatter these illusions with good historical facts is to read An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz. Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Okay, the first shot, I fluffed the focusing with the new camera, but I like the saturation.
The second shot I took during my 'Industrial Period' which lasted approximately 5 minutes.
The third shot is of Purfleet, working hard again.
The election of President Trump is the New Pearl Harbor: it awoke the sleeping giant. Protests abound from coast to coast, from Canadian to Mexican borders. Undoubtedly part of it is due to George Soros and Hillary Clinton but that's only a part of the story and probably not even the major part of the story.
Angry citizens have voiced their fears, frustrations, and threats of reprisal against elected "representatives" (i.e., voting them out next election).
CPAC attendees trolled into waving Russia flags during Trump’s speech https://t.co/zNoquCRK3u pic.twitter.com/gqgdFXwr0f
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 24, 2017
Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus appeared in a joint interview at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C. and the former provided a glimpse of the crypto-fascist mentality that informs POTUS45* and his White House.
It was quite unlike the pageant queen’s interview segment where “world peace” was the main goal for a winner or her runner-up.
