Paris Attacks
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Wasn't Assad the enemy we were supposed to be bombing a couple of years ago? It must be hard for the ruling class to portay us as the goodies and one side as the baddies if they are changing the baddies too much.
It seems they alway manage it with their power over the media, people swallow anything. it must be difficult for the armed forces to keep track of who the enemy is/are. It changes every week.Hopefully, with Corbyn's life-long anti-war stance, he can offer an alterative picture, perhaps similar to ours.He has used the term 'prifit driven, money obsessed economy'
Frankie Boyle Nails it
Quote:It’s not an insult to the dead to wonder why France, a $2tn economy, couldn’t make a better offer to its disenfranchised youth than a bunch of sick bullies grooming them on the internet. It’s not apologism to try to understand why something happened. When Syria’s drought kicked in, 25% of the population became unemployed. The vast majority of the country’s livestock has died over the past decade. A lot of Isis are farmers with nowhere to go, their entire industry destroyed – you’d think they’d have more sympathy for journalists. Those who think radicalising a youngster has nothing to do with climate – have you seen Tatooine?I think when it comes to ISIS etc there was an very interesting article by Orwell on the fascists written in 1940 on the two links below. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzmBhYakPbYtT3k5cDd4Sm1SRUE/edit?pli=1 https://danymihalache.wordpress.com/george-orwell-collected-essays-journalism-and-letters-my-country-right-or-left/george-orwell-the-collected-essays-journalism-and-letters-2-review-mein-kampf-by-adolf-hitler-unabridged-translation/ An easy to listen to radio four religion programme on ISIS http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sb42j and some background on the fertile soil from which they have grown; probably pretty close to how the foot soldiers and cannon fodder see things? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43546.htm
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