Re: [Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

2019-05-10 Thread mkaradjis . via Marxism 
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Apologies to the list, I didn't mean for this personal message to go
through, hadn't realised the message to me had been sent via my earlier
message to list.

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 1:41 PM mkaradjis .  wrote:

> Hi Steffan,
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Re: [Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

2019-05-09 Thread mkaradjis . via Marxism 
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Hi Steffan, I am aware of two links not working, but since being informed I
have found both on the wayback archive. Could you please send me a list of
links that are not working for you, both for my sake but also because I
could then send you either the wayback link or the original article if I
have it in my files (most likely do). I don't think I have the article with
the original links, I think I amde them hyperlinks straight off. In any
case, for the 2 I'm aware of, that would make no difference.
The two I am aware of are:
"Meanwhile, in the initial months of the uprising Saudi Arabia, the UAE,
and Qatar all gave strong support to Assad" (the Saudi link doesn't work,
the others do). Saudi link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180419184933/http://eaworldview.com/2013/06/syria-special-the-us-saudi-conflict-over-arms-to-insurgents/

"At times, the US blocked any and all weapons getting to the FSA from its
regional allies." https://web.archive.org/web/20
180419184933/http://eaworldview.com/2013/06/syria-special-
the-us-saudi-conflict-over-arms-to-insurgents/

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:13 AM Steffan Wyn-Jones via Marxism <
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> Great work as always. Some of the hyperlinks in the piece don't seem to
> work, or at least I'm having trouble accessing the websites they direct
> to. If you made a word document or pdf with the original web addresses
> of the articles you link to, could I get a copy please? Or perhaps
> you'll be posting it on your academia.edu page?
>
> Once again, thanks for this, and all your work on these topics.
>
> SWJ.
>
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> >   Here in my debut on the wonderful al-Jumhuriya site, I have attempted
> to
> > comprehensively take apart years of nonsense spouted by pro-Assad writers
> > (like the epigone version of Ben Norton) about what they claim was some
> US
> > role in pushing "regime change" against Assad in Syria, which both denies
> > the agency of the millions of Syrian people who rose up to overthrow a
> > tyrannical regime, while also being false to the very core factually. "As
> > the military conflict in Syria has been largely decided in favor of the
> > Bashar al-Assad regime, there have been a number of attempts to review
> the
> > role of US intervention, or lack thereof, in the Syrian outcome. Late
> last
> > year, Washington’s special envoy to Syria, Jim Jeffrey, clarified that
> > while the US wants to see a regime in Damascus that is “fundamentally
> > different,” it is nevertheless “not regime change” the US is seeking.
> > “We're not trying to get rid of Assad.” Much commentary jumped on this as
> > some kind of major shift in US policy, or a signal the US had “given up”
> on
> > regime change. Yet, as will be shown below, the US never had a “regime
> > change” policy. On the contrary, Washington has always sought a modified
> > form of regime preservation. Jeffrey’s statement was followed by
> President
> > Trump’s announcement of an immediate US withdrawal from Syria. While the
> > “immediate” was later dropped for reasons of expediency, a more gradual
> US
> > withdrawal is still on the cards; a process coinciding with a creeping
> > rapprochement with Assad by Trump’s Gulf allies, spearheaded by the
> United
> > Arab Emirates and Bahrain restoring diplomatic relations with Syria in
> late
> > December 2018."
> >
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Re: [Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

2019-05-09 Thread Steffan Wyn-Jones via Marxism 

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Great work as always. Some of the hyperlinks in the piece don't seem to 
work, or at least I'm having trouble accessing the websites they direct 
to. If you made a word document or pdf with the original web addresses 
of the articles you link to, could I get a copy please? Or perhaps 
you'll be posting it on your academia.edu page?


Once again, thanks for this, and all your work on these topics.

SWJ.


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  Here in my debut on the wonderful al-Jumhuriya site, I have attempted to
comprehensively take apart years of nonsense spouted by pro-Assad writers
(like the epigone version of Ben Norton) about what they claim was some US
role in pushing "regime change" against Assad in Syria, which both denies
the agency of the millions of Syrian people who rose up to overthrow a
tyrannical regime, while also being false to the very core factually. "As
the military conflict in Syria has been largely decided in favor of the
Bashar al-Assad regime, there have been a number of attempts to review the
role of US intervention, or lack thereof, in the Syrian outcome. Late last
year, Washington’s special envoy to Syria, Jim Jeffrey, clarified that
while the US wants to see a regime in Damascus that is “fundamentally
different,” it is nevertheless “not regime change” the US is seeking.
“We're not trying to get rid of Assad.” Much commentary jumped on this as
some kind of major shift in US policy, or a signal the US had “given up” on
regime change. Yet, as will be shown below, the US never had a “regime
change” policy. On the contrary, Washington has always sought a modified
form of regime preservation. Jeffrey’s statement was followed by President
Trump’s announcement of an immediate US withdrawal from Syria. While the
“immediate” was later dropped for reasons of expediency, a more gradual US
withdrawal is still on the cards; a process coinciding with a creeping
rapprochement with Assad by Trump’s Gulf allies, spearheaded by the United
Arab Emirates and Bahrain restoring diplomatic relations with Syria in late
December 2018."
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/content/regime-preservation-how-us-policy-facilitated-assad%E2%80%99s-victory?fbclid=IwAR0ZDa2HWqC4HA0ZP-He2DdgsalCPWcX7xXcgXYamUQnnTfnEedVhdYd-bA
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[Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

2019-05-08 Thread mkaradjis . via Marxism 
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 Here in my debut on the wonderful al-Jumhuriya site, I have attempted to
comprehensively take apart years of nonsense spouted by pro-Assad writers
(like the epigone version of Ben Norton) about what they claim was some US
role in pushing "regime change" against Assad in Syria, which both denies
the agency of the millions of Syrian people who rose up to overthrow a
tyrannical regime, while also being false to the very core factually. "As
the military conflict in Syria has been largely decided in favor of the
Bashar al-Assad regime, there have been a number of attempts to review the
role of US intervention, or lack thereof, in the Syrian outcome. Late last
year, Washington’s special envoy to Syria, Jim Jeffrey, clarified that
while the US wants to see a regime in Damascus that is “fundamentally
different,” it is nevertheless “not regime change” the US is seeking.
“We're not trying to get rid of Assad.” Much commentary jumped on this as
some kind of major shift in US policy, or a signal the US had “given up” on
regime change. Yet, as will be shown below, the US never had a “regime
change” policy. On the contrary, Washington has always sought a modified
form of regime preservation. Jeffrey’s statement was followed by President
Trump’s announcement of an immediate US withdrawal from Syria. While the
“immediate” was later dropped for reasons of expediency, a more gradual US
withdrawal is still on the cards; a process coinciding with a creeping
rapprochement with Assad by Trump’s Gulf allies, spearheaded by the United
Arab Emirates and Bahrain restoring diplomatic relations with Syria in late
December 2018."
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/content/regime-preservation-how-us-policy-facilitated-assad%E2%80%99s-victory?fbclid=IwAR0ZDa2HWqC4HA0ZP-He2DdgsalCPWcX7xXcgXYamUQnnTfnEedVhdYd-bA
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[Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory | AlJumhuriya.net

2019-05-08 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism 

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A close examination of eight years of US policy in Syria shows 
Washington’s objective has never been regime change, but rather “a 
modified form of regime preservation,” writes Dr. Michael Karadjis in a 
comprehensive review of the record.


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