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New from Linux Beach:
The Imperial Left's sarin song: still "Regime Change" after all
these years!
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-imperial-lefts-sarin-song-still.html>
More than two years ago we saw the reintroduction of mass poisoning
into the class struggle on a massive scale when more than 1,400 people
were killed by a sarin attack in and around the Damascus suburbs of
East Ghouta. It had been one of the great victories of the progressive
movements of the last century that a ban against such weapons was put
in place after what they then called /"The Great War,"/ showed the
world the true horror of these weapons. Before this war, they were
gaining favor as a means of putting down insurrections while
minimizing damage to capitalist property. The outcry against them
after the war put an end to that and put in place a prohibition
against their use that has largely held up for the better part of a
century. It hadn't been used on such a massive scale in a
quarter-century before its use against the Syrian uprising. That
earlier use was in 1988 when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein used sarin
against the Iranians and the Kurds. Washington gave him a green light
for those attacks. The US even provided targeting intelligence
<http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/>
knowing sarin would be used. They would only become /"troubled"/ by
his possession of chemical weapons 15 years later, when he didn't have
any.
*More...*
<http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-imperial-lefts-sarin-song-still.html>
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