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As the impeachment hearings showed, one of the major impediments to Trump
one-man rule is the staff in the different wings of the federal government.
That is especially so for the National Security Council, which plays a key
role in coordinating the other agencies of the federal government. Now
Trump is moving on them, just as he did on the State Department.

From the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/alexander-vindman-nsc-trump.html?action=click=Opinion=Homepage

On Friday, the White House announced that it was *transferring Lt. Col.
Alexander Vindman
*,
who testified during the House impeachment hearings, out of the National
Security Council. The move is unsettling, petty and vindictive. But it’s
not a surprise: The dismissal is just one part of a campaign by the
national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, to trumpify one of the most
powerful and important institutions in government.

Over the last six months, while impeachment dominated the news, Mr. O’Brien
undertook the first restructuring of the council in a generation. He cut 60
to 70 positions, about a third of the staff, many of them career
professionals. He also directed that the National Security Council focus
less on transnational issues like global economics and nonproliferation,
and more on bilateral and geographic priorities. In all, Mr. O’Brien’s
trumpification of the staff will hamper the United States’ ability to meet
the world’s challenges, and hamstring the next president.

The staff of the National Security Council has evolved since its creation
in the National Security Act of 1947, which sought to connect the various
departments and agencies that together drive the nation’s foreign policy.
At first, the staff served merely as administrative clerks to the
principals on the National Security Council — the president, secretaries of
state and defense and other leaders. According to its first director, the
staff coordinated and integrated the “ideas in crisscrossing proposals”
from around government.

But over the years, various presidents have coopted the council’s staff,
which grew both bigger and more influential, especially after 9/11 — to the
point where it not only distributes a meeting’s agenda, but sets the
government’s.

Congress mostly indulged the presidents a “personal band of warriors,”
as *George
W. Bush called
*
the
staff, to fight their fights in Washington. And agencies like the Pentagon
and C.I.A. lent the White House almost a battalion’s worth of diplomats,
intelligence analysts and career military officers like Colonel Vindman.

Mr. Trump inherited from President Barack Obama the most powerful National
Security Council in history. But the new president struggled to win over
the hundreds of staff members who’d fought for the sorts of globalist
policies — like trade deals and alliances — he had long opposed. Mr. Trump
certainly tried to conquer the staff, naming a loyalist retired lieutenant
general, Michael Flynn, as his first national security adviser and his
nationalist adviser Steve Bannon to a high-level committee within it. The
message was, as a Trump hire *told one member of the staff
*,
“The president doesn’t care about the things you care about, and the sooner
that you know about it, the better.”

The public outcry over the resulting turmoil at the council — even the
Hollywood celebrities *Sarah Silverman
* and *Judd
Apatow * tweeted
their concerns — forced Mr. Trump to back down and bounce Mr. Flynn and Mr.
Bannon (Mr. Flynn’s legal troubles helped ease his way out). But the fight
continued in the council’s cipher-locked offices and classified memos. Mr.
Trump’s loyalists on the staff *attempted to spy
*
 on, *scapegoat
*
 and *smear
*
their
nonpolitical colleagues. Within a year of the inauguration, Mr. Trump
was *tweeting
* about a
“deep state” working 

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M.E. O'Brien on insurgent queer and trans communism:

"Recent years have also seen a blossoming in the smaller worlds of queer
communist and socialist politics. Though the scale of US gay rights
organizing has atrophied since the victory of the gay marriage campaign,
efforts to organize trans and queer people explicitly against capitalism,
to think queer freedom alongside communism, are at their most vibrant since
the gay liberation era of the early 1970s. Communism has inspired growing
numbers of young working-class trans people raised on vicious austerity and
chronic underemployment, on the one hand, and Tumblr social justice and
meme politics, on the other. New forthcoming journals seek to engage queer
communist theory: Invert in the UK, Pinko in the US."

https://communemag.com/fifty-years-of-queer-insurgency/
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Mark wrote: "It looks pretty self-explanatory. The folks who scorned the
idea of
supporting the Greens because they weren't "socialists" now seem to be
sharing their contributors list with the Democrats."

I don't get this at all. It seems that you missed the main message of the
article, which is that the writer is endorsing Kshama Sawant. The context
mentioned is an all-out assault on Sawant by the billionaires of Seattle,
but not just her. Also, notably, Lisa Herbold (my councilmember) is under
the gun. This is notable because Herbold, a first term councilmember, has
spent time and political energy trying to distance herself from the
socialist Sawant even though they mostly agree on policy. This article is
saying that this has done Herbold no good, that the rich are gunning for
her, too, and urges Seattleites to respond by supporting both of them.

Now, while Herbold is a Democrat, Sawant is not. The author's statement of
the Democrat's position on endorsing other parties is accurate, and she
supports ending that. Since it is not, within the 37th District Democrats,
lawful to endorse Sawant, Hagopian does not propose it, but you have to be
blind to not get that she would if she could.

The other thing that matters, that any Democrat and many many others in
Seattle would know, is that Amy Hagopian is a long-time leader of the DP in
Seattle, has held party positions, so the writer has potentially more
weight and influence than the average writer for the South Seattle Emerald.

There is no need to share a list of contributors since all campaign
contributions in the State of Washington must be disclosed very quickly and
Sawant has famously refused any corporate or PAC money. In her first
election she refused a check from David McDonald Photography, a local
powerhouse.

I have been spewing anti-Leninist-party invective for some time now so I
hope I don't have to explain my disdain for Socialist Alternative, but I
will say that Sawant has made a gigantic difference in Seattle, from the
fight for $15 Now, cop accountability, the millionaire's tax and much
beside. I attribute this mostly to her outstanding personal leadership
qualities, which are manifest. I support her re-election.
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Callous and politically cowardly in that the concerns and questions that
comrades had to Philip's initial post on this subject were never answered.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:23 PM MM via Marxism 
wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 17, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/the-intolerance-of-transactivists/
> 
>
> The failure of this post to deal with any of the substantial responses to
> the last one on this topic — responses countering the thread of “moral
> panic” that seems to run through this whole series of posts, and providing
> empirical data on the *overwhelming* predominance of violence against trans
> folks, as against the vanishingly rare cases of violence by
> “trans-pretenders” against “real women and girls” — does the credibility of
> both Whitmore and the Redline blog no favors. I think we all recognize
> there are strong feelings at play in this issue, but in the wake of those
> previous exchanges this piece comes across as incredibly obtuse and
> blinkered — not to mention incredibly callous.
>
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> On Dec 17, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/the-intolerance-of-transactivists/ 
> 

The failure of this post to deal with any of the substantial responses to the 
last one on this topic — responses countering the thread of “moral panic” that 
seems to run through this whole series of posts, and providing empirical data 
on the *overwhelming* predominance of violence against trans folks, as against 
the vanishingly rare cases of violence by “trans-pretenders” against “real 
women and girls” — does the credibility of both Whitmore and the Redline blog 
no favors. I think we all recognize there are strong feelings at play in this 
issue, but in the wake of those previous exchanges this piece comes across as 
incredibly obtuse and blinkered — not to mention incredibly callous.

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"A law to allow anyone to change the sex on their birth certificate, no
questions asked, is before parliament. This demand arose under the banner
of transgender rights. Measures to make life easier for transgender people
should be supported, however this law change will have potentially negative
unintended consequences for women and girls and this deserves discussion. .
."

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On 11/9/18 11:44 AM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

This article details the measures taken for voter suppression, among other
things. There are also photos of last night's protest in Oakland -
organized by MoveOn - against Trump's firing of Mueller.


It was Sessions who was fired, not Mueller.
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"The 2018 elections is that they were a scandalous fraud, even by the
standards of capitalist legality. The fact that the AFL-CIO completely
ignored this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the absence of an
independent working class voice within the election process, as we will
see."

This article details the measures taken for voter suppression, among other
things. There are also photos of last night's protest in Oakland -
organized by MoveOn - against Trump's firing of Mueller.

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/11/08/2018-midterm-elections-voter-suppression-racism-and-chauvinism/

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*Impressions of elections in San Leandro*

Two years and three months ago, for reasons totally unrelated to politics,
we moved back to the United States from Colombia. After nearly twenty years
of life in Bogotá, we landed in San Leandro, California.

During that time, I kept up on the USA through Marxmail, the New York
Times, the Sacramento Bee and sundry other sources, but I paid close to
zero attention to the nitty-gritty details of local politics in this
country.

A few months after we arrived, Donald Trump was surprisingly elected. Ouch.
That was a wake-up call. I had thought that the next big crisis of
capitalism in the USA was going to be presided over by a Democrat and that
one result would be radicalization to the left of the Democratic Party -
something like what happened during the 1960’s when Kennedy and Johnson
presided over US escalation of the war in Viet Nam.

Now, it seems that the new radicalization is occurring during the
presidency of a racist, misogynist, authoritarian Republican. One
consequence is that radicalization to the left is occurring mostly in, and
through, the Democratic Party.

I guess you could say that the United States suffers from a form of bipolar
disorder.

Leaving aside any deeper discussion of the present conjuncture, here are my
impressions of the 2018 midterm elections from my current vantage point on
the border of East Oakland and San Leandro.

I live just inside of San Leandro at the north end of town, one block from
East Oakland (which is really in the southern part of Oakland). The
dividing line is Durant Avenue. When I was a kid, it was the dividing line
between all-white San Leandro, and all-black Oakland.

Segregation was a reality here even if it was not written into law. Here,
it was a strange kind of segregation because “white” in San Leandro meant
“not-black” most of the time, so English speaking Chicanos, various other
brown Latinos, Filipinos, and various Asians were able to live in San
Leandro and own property here.

Now both sides of the city line have integrated, but not in exactly the
same ways. Real estate prices are substantially higher here than they are
two blocks away in Oakland, so this part of San Leandro has gentrified with
leakage from Silicon Valley as well as gaining more Asian and Latino
residents, a substantial number of black residents, most of whom are
professional people, and a slew of multiracial and multicultural couples
with their kids. Now the neighborhood reminds me of the way south Berkeley
and north Oakland were back in the 60’s and 70’s.

Nearby East Oakland has mostly avoided gentrification, although real estate
prices there have risen apace with real estate prices throughout the Bay
Area. Integration there has taken the form of Latino and Asian renters
moving in. There are also a smaller number of white gentrifiers buying
moving in.

In 1960, this neighborhood was full of white trade unionists with a
smattering of small business owners and professionals. The Oakland General
motors plant was located just a few blocks away at Durant and East 14th St.
(now called International Blvd in Oakland). In 1963, GM opened its big new
assembly plant in Fremont, so the Oakland plant was turned into a parts
warehouse, but the adjacent neighborhoods remained UAW bastions: white GM
workers across East 14th street in an extension of San Leandro, and black
GM workers north of the plant and north of the white workers’ neighborhood.

In those days, there was also the giant Caterpillar tractor factory nearby
(the first Caterpillar factory anywhere, since Caterpillar was started here
in San Leandro.) My first wife worked there for a time. Not too far away,
there was a Mack Truck factory, a Peterbilt truck factory, a couple of GE
plants, many food processing plants, and dozens of machine shops and sheet
metal shops.

Black east Oakland was even more a bastion of trade unionism than was San
Leandro, especially the UAW, the ILWU and the UE.

East Oakland and San Leandro were right in the center of the World War II
industrial belt that snaked along the bay from Pittsburgh, California on
the Carquinez Straits, where US steel had a plant, through Martinez and
Richmond, where the oil refineries and chemical plants were located,
through the enormous Kaiser shipyards which stretched from Richmond almost
to Albany, through the foundries, glass factories, food processing plants,
and automobile, farm machinery and truck factories of Oakland, San Leandro
and Hayward.

In the center of it all was, and still is, the Port of Oakland. In the
1960’s it was transformed by the war in Viet Nam into one of the world’s
most important container ports.

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From today's NY Times (
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/world/europe/uk-brexit-theresa-may.html?action=click=Top%20Stories=Homepage
)

"After two years of negotiation, Britain has reached a moment of
consequence for the process known as Brexit. The insulating layer of time
that had protected the country from a potentially failed divorce from the
bloc is thinning. Soon, it will be gone.

"What this could mean for ordinary Britons has been seeping into the
newspapers, sometimes in leaks from secret government reports: Northern
Ireland has only one energy link to the mainland, so a no-deal Brexit could
lead to rolling blackouts and steep price rises; and the energy system
could collapse, forcing the military to redeploy generators from
Afghanistan to the Irish Sea

"In many ways, the country is in the same position it was on the morning
after the 2016 referendum: without a clear plan

"In the meantime, there is a strange calm, as if the country is waiting to
see if a storm will make landfall. On Twitter, the novelist Robert
Harrisrecently
compared the atmosphere
 to the
months before Britain entered World War I, when the authorities watched
helplessly as they were dragged toward war by the momentum of events

"Was Brexit, as Mr. Johnson would argue, an act of emancipation that would
breathe life into a once-proud imperial power? Or was it, as his opponents
would contend, a gesture of rage by communities that feel left behind by
global capitalism, egged on by politicians’ false promises and
tabloid-fueled xenophobia?"

The idea of "Lexit" or of a socialist Brexit was always a daydream.
Socialist support for Brexit is like socialist support for ending bourgeois
democracy... when the alternative is bourgeois bonapartism! And remaining
"neutral" isn't much better. It's based on the idea that anything that
destabilizes capitalism is good. No. What we should strive for is what
strengthens the working class, what helps the working class unite and
become more clear on its role in history. Brexit did just the opposite.

That doesn't mean uncritical support for the daydream that the EU is - that
the European capitalist states could all cooperate to end the history of
devastating wars between them. Opposition to Brexit should have been linked
with a call for a working class struggle throughout the region for a
minimum wage, minimal levels of social services, etc. Instead, with Brexit,
we got the campaign that British workers and British capitalists have a
common interest. It lowered the class consciousness. And, incredibly,
socialists played into it!

John Reimann
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This is so unspeakably vile for Counterpunch to publish this.

"A day prior, SANA reported on the collaboration between militants from the 
Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the White 
Helmets to identify key locations, where sarin and chlorine gas has been 
shipped, to launch a potential chemical weapons attack."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/12/idlib-youtube-and-the-war-on-information/
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Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?

My review of an important new paper in which leading Earth System
scientists say:

“The Earth System may be approaching a planetary threshold that could lock
in a continuing rapid pathway toward much hotter conditions. …

"Incremental linear changes to the present socioeconomic system are not
enough to stabilize the Earth System."

http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/08/12/hothouse-earth-1/
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Offensives against workers and living standards are quite different in
different parts of the world, reflecting the fact that the globe remains
divided between imperialist countries and countries that are oppressed by
imperialism.

John Smith, the author of 'Imperialism in the 21st Century' notes:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/imperialism-and-the-capitalist-offensive-in-the-first-and-third-worlds/
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An update on what's happening in Iran by veteran Iranian revolutionary
Yassamine Mather; there are also links to a number of other significant
features on Iran that are up on Redline, including on the state of the
workers' movement in Iran at present, an interview I did with Yassamine and
another done with Torab Saleth of Workers-Left Unity Iran, plus a piece by
Torab on how the theocratic regime came to power and has been able to
remain in control so long.


https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/no-longer-should-there-be-a-choice-between-bad-and-worse-mass-protests-break-out-in-iran/

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The fuckwit author writes the role of the DA is to “finish the job begun by
the police”.

Why keep reading?

Greg
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Lou wrote: *Just got off the phone with an old friend from Bard whose
son-in-law is  highly placed former military officer now involved with
intelligence gathering for Republican politicians. He told my friend that a
bloc is  forming between Republicans and Democrats to remove Trump because
he is viewed as incompetent and mentally unstable. Interesting times we're
living*.

Interesting indeed-. Here in Australia we have had seven changes of Prime
Minister in ten years compared with four in the 1975 to 2007 period.
Admittedly the electoral cycle in Australia is 3 years only but consensus
has eroded around what is the "responsible" thing for governments to do and
the result is a great deal of institutional instability.

Stability will only return with a decisive victory for one side or other in
the great war of the 1% versus the rest of us. certainly that was what
happened in Australia in the Great Depression. The defeats of the strikes
of 1928-9 led to conservative governments (Both Tory and Labor) staying in
power for decades.

I am inclined to believe that the American ruling class will want an
alternative leader to be their point man in the coming battle.

comradely

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I'm trying to build up efforts for the RI Green Party and, though I don't like 
playing gossip games, I have a few questions regarding David Cobb and the 2004 
campaign. What was the conflict involving Peter Camejo about? Did anyone read 
Greg Gerritt's book on the topic?


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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Chris Hedges: Defying the Politics of Fear
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> On 11/7/16 8:56 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:
> I can't imagine Stein and Baraka were happy about his invocation of the
> anti-Stalinist movements in Eastern Europe.

In fact most Stein supporters, including me, would have preferred Chris 
Hedges as a presidential candidate with Cornel West as VP candidate. Or 
vice versa. But the Green Party will outlive whatever flaws of the 
current candidates. Their contribution is to raise its profile as a 
party that does not accommodate to the Democrats even though there were 
some indications that there was intense pressure to do so over the past 
few weeks, something we can thank the dirtbag David Cobb for.
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Lou wrote:
"Interesting to see that Gloria is the campaign chair. I heard her speak at
the conference in Chicago on building an independent party of the left that
never went anywhere after the Sanders campaign kicked off. She is ex-ISO
and really quite astute."

Actually she is ex-Socialist Alternative. She was in it when SAlt was very
active in the now defunct Labor Party leaving SAlt shortly after that in
the early 2000s, I think. She's been with the GP ever since and was a
candidate for them a few times.

David
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Having been active in both movements while also working in unionized public 
schools, which is the front line of labor's struggles against systemic racism 
and poverty, I think that you have a great start here but that you have to 
bring into discussion the cultural analysis of CLR James and Gramsci regarding 
spontaneity and action that takes place outside of the workplace and goes into 
the neighborhood, something that has defined every successful revolutionary 
moment. The Bolsheviks didn't win because they had a great union model, it was 
because they had a slogan that had almost nothing to do with the workplace, 
"Peace, Land, and Bread". The part about all power to the Soviets was about 
dual power to an organ that was meant to replace social services. This is what 
a lot of people miss.

https://louisproyect.org/2016/07/19/occupy-wall-street-black-lives-matter-workers-and-communists/


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“A stopped factory (is) a factory turned over to the people,” Maduro said.
“The moment to do it has come, I'm ready to do it to radicalise the
Revolution.”

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61764
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The following statement was released by the *Australian Kurdish Association* on
December 22.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60826

-- 
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s
original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

“The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker
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https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/how-russian-and-american-bombing-consolidates-support-for-isis/

How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS

November 9, 2015

As is well-known, the ongoing Russian airstrikes, despite Putin’s
claim to be carrying out an “anti-ISIS” campaign, have overwhelmingly
struck the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS
fighters, in regions where no ISIS even exists (western Homs, Hama,
Idlib, southern Aleppo, and even Damascus and Daraa).

The terrible civilian toll is also hardly in dispute, from bombing
nine hospitals 
(http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/23/nine-russian-airstrikes-hit-hospitals),
schools, factories, even bombing the revolutionary town of Kafranbel,
the high point of ongoing civil opposition to the regime
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-russia-bombing-my-town/2015/11/06/e1084ca0-8274-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html),
 driving tens of thousands more refugees fleeing north from Aleppo
(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/russia-us-sign-memorandum-syria-bombings-airstrikes).

Indeed, the extent to which this has actually facilitated ISIS
advances in the north Aleppo region is a whole story in itself
(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/19/russia-bombs-isis-gains.html;http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/russian-airstrikes-help-isis-gain-ground-in-aleppo;
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566032-isis-nears-regime-positions-outside-aleppo).
The ongoing attack on the FSA and other rebels in southern Aleppo
province by an Assad-Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah coalition directly
facilitated ISIS seizing territory from the rebels in northern Aleppo.
The Assad-ISIS relationship, which ranges from minor conflict in
certain places through détente in others, is best considered to be
strategic alliance in the Aleppo region. The farce of all this was
further highlighted when ISIS even returned some territory it had
seized from the rebels back to the regime!
(https://twitter.com/YallaSouriya/status/653278940711157760).

However, if partly to head off the criticism that its “anti-ISIS” war
was targeting anyone but ISIS. Russia did eventually begin to strike
some ISIS-controlled territory, overwhelmingly in the form of civilian
slaughter. Perhaps some 10 percent of Russian strikes have by now been
on such ISIS—controlled regions. In contrast, the year-long US
airstrikes have overwhelmingly struck ISIS, though there again, some
10 percent or less have struck other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS fighters,
mostly Nusra, but also Islamic Front and even the FSA.

This may be described as one of the tactical differences that exist
between the Russian and American approaches to the war in which they
have much in common. The other tactical difference is the question of
how long Assad himself should be allowed to remain in a “transitional”
regime, with the aim of saving the regime as a whole, finding a
“political solution” and launching a joint US-Russian-regime-former
opposition war against ISIS and everyone else the US and Russia
consider to be “terrorists.” The US says a few months, because his
divisive presence undermines the task of saving the regime as a whole
and widening its base, while Russia says it is not enamoured to Assad,
but we need to keep him a little longer to batter down more
“terrorists” before ditching him. The final declaration from the
recent meeting in Vienna, involving countless imperialist and
sub-imperialist powers but no Syrians, made this fundamental agreement
rather clear (http://eeas.europa.eu/statements-eeas/2015/151030_06.htm).

The article below examines one of the things the US and Russian
bombing of ISIS-controlled regions (when the Russian do take a break
from bombing ISIS’s enemies) have in common: the callous disregard for
civilian lives and/or civilian infrastructure by both, which is
actually boosting support for ISIS.

The article focuses on some terrible Russian bombings of civilians in
ISIS-controlled Deir Ezzor province in the far east of Syria, and
notes that this is on top of the fact that the Assad regime bombings
in this region already kill far more civilians than are killed by the
ISIS rulers themselves.

But it is not only in Deir Ezzor. According to the anti-ISIS
underground activist network, ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’,
last week 25 Russian airstrikes on the ISIS capital, Raqqa, hit
hospitals, schools, infrastructure, bridges and civilian
neighbourhoods https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/661507443516665856.
According to one activist, Hamid Imam, 35 people were killed by
Russian bombs and “The city’s infrastructure is 

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