Monday, March 19, 2012

#Syria Islamists make a political play for Syria

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While the Western world watches the horrific daily massacres in Syria without the slightest shred of strategy or planning, the Islamists are twelve steps ahead in their quest to take over the country.

If there is anything we have learned in the past year (let alone the last couple of decades) it is that any Middle East power vacuum will be filled with Islamists, ready to provide social services and a heaping spoonful of Muslim supremacism.

Over the weekend, there were a series of bomb blast...
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Daniel Rice  -  4:09 PM (edited)  -  Public
Older, but worth very it.

Also: A controversial piece from early-February on black bloc:http://goo.gl/bFZyg
and an interview/discussion about the article and the bigger issue (frustrating at times):
Occupying Beyond Divisions: Anarchy, Black Bloc and Protests (A RevolutionTruth Panel)

Not bombs nor bullets or rocks or guns
just hashtags and voices at the tops of our lungs...
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There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. - 2012...
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