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great article, thanks I had forgotten about her CP article on Occupy Fallujah: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/24/occupy-fallujah/ On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Most media outlets and pundits are missing the most important story behind > the recent take-over of Mosul, which is connection between the social > movements that had been present in Sunni parts of Iraq, and the popular > support that ISIS is presently benefiting from. Should ISIS not benefit > from conscious popular support; there is no way that they would have > captured so much territory in so little time. More importantly, most > experts would rather not incriminate the international community, nor its > enabler the United Nations, for their standing idly by as sectarianism > crept into Iraqi life since the botched democratization process that was > initiated by the 2005 electoral cycle. No one cares to remember for > instance that despite being invited repeatedly to visit the Occupy Fallujah > demonstration site since December 2012, UN chief in Iraq Nikolai Mladenov > preferred to echo Maliki’s terrorism hate narrative against Iraqi Sunnis > instead of doing his job and not siding with one party to the detriment of > the other. Even as Maliki initiated his disastrous Anbar campaign to curb > Occupy Fallujah’s political demands in late December 2013, Mladenov kept > using the word “terrorism” when referring to the Fallujah leadership. He > now keeps issuing statements of concern for local displaced populations, > too little too late. > > full: http://www.victoriacfontan.com/blog/isis-the-slow-insurgency > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
