Re: [Marxism] Fwd: British hostage Alan Henning aimed to help Syrians
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Lüko Willms marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: bearing the White man's burden to save humanity from those unwashed masses of the colonies. That's asinine. You can say what you like about journalists, but Henning volunteered for a charity, Al-Fatiha Global, that's largely Arab and overwhelmingly Muslim (although they take pride in having some Christians involved too). Incidentally, I'm told ISIS' killing of a Christian working with such a distinctively Muslim charity has cost them a lot of whatever support they briefly enjoyed among some Muslims abroad, especially in his native UK. Just as the step towards a unity government of the Palestinians made the Empire and the colonial settler state Israel so furious that they started a five week long terror campaign against the Gaza strip, killing more than 2000 people, and making hundreds of thousands homeless. That's also pretty dumb. Both the US and the EU have publicly supported the reconciliation deal since its announcement in April. As for the occupier, whatever their grumblings at the beginning, they've now come around to such an extend that they're issuing cabinet members of the unity government passes to travel to Gaza for their first meeting tomorrow. (I suspect this has something to do with pressure from the Empire, of course.) -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Socialists urge solidarity with Rojava, Kurdish struggle
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Stuart Munckton via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: The full statement includes a final two points of which were chopped off as they were internal and specific to Socialist Alliance - which is working daily right now with the progressive Kurdish community in Australia and supporting their actions. Maybe they were needed to give the rest of the statement some context and for it to make any sense. Yes, I rather think they were. If you don't agree with this type of solidarity for whatever reason, then fine. But say that, don't pretend you don't know what acting in soldiarity means. As I said in a reply to a message Stuart (accidentally?) sent me offlist: Here's an idea: how about if the people putting out these statements 'don't bullshit,' do the asking on the topic about which they've chosen to write themselves, and tell their readers just what it is they're 'urging'? Then there would at least be something on the page to agree or disagree with, instead of this pointless, feel-good wankery passed off as left politics. I mean, it would never occur to me to issue a statement encouraging people to act in solidarity with Palestine, without suggesting a single damn thing they could do. That seems pretty basic to me. But maybe I'm just confused? -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What's new at Links: Venezuela attack, Gender justice in Kolkata, Honk Kong, Kobane Kurds, Grenada, Bulgaria, Jean-Luc Melenchon
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: Venezuela attack, Gender justice in Kolkata, Honk Kong, Kobane Kurds, Grenada, Bulgaria, Jean-Luc Melenchon * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to linkssocial...@gmail.com *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. *Comments welcome on all articles *Return daily for new articles * * * Venezuela: Chavista leader Robert Serra assassinated in likely right-wing terror attack http://links.org.au/node/4089 By *Ewan Robertson*, Merida October 2, 2014 --- Robert Serra (27), a legislator of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and the National Assembly's youngest parliamentarian, was found dead in his Caracas home on October 1. Authorities confirmed that Serra and his partner Maria Herrera had been murdered in their residence. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4089 India: Eyewitness account, images of Kolkata's huge movement for gender justice http://links.org.au/node/4086 Story by *Kasturi*, photos by *Ronny Sen* September 24, 2014 -- One of the slogans churned out of the womb of turbulent Paris in the May days of 1968 was Don't trust anyone over 30. The student uprising of May '68 with its audacity and exaggeration might have failed. But the /mahamichhil/ (grand rally) called by students which took command over the heart and pulse of Kolkata on September 20 was a literal, vivid, living embodiment of this slogan. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4086 Eyewitness Hong Kong: The 'Umbrella Revolution' unfurls http://links.org.au/node/4082 By *Sean Starrs* October 1, 2014 -- The largest student demonstrations and occupations in Hong Kong's history are unfurling in what is increasingly being called the Umbrella Revolution, in reference to the sea of umbrellas being used as cover against both pepper-spraying riot police and the rays of the sun. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4082 Kurds: Statement by People's Democratic Party (Turkey) on developments in Rojava http://links.org.au/node/4091 By the *foreign affairs commission of the People's Democracy Party* (HDP),Turkey October 3, 2014 -- Today the peoples of the Middle East face the threat of a large-scale massacre. Peoples of the region, particularly Syrian and Iraqi peoples, are putting up an historic resistance to ISIS terror. Heavy attacks by ISIS, especially on the Kobane Canton of Rojava, are being resisted by the people of Kobane and YPG forces. The defence of Kobane, under the siege from four sides, continues. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4091 Socialist Alliance: Solidarity with Rojava revolution! West prefers IS killers to humane, pro-woman, democratic revolution http://links.org.au/node/4090 /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- /This resolution was adopted by the Australian Socialist Alliance National Council on October 4, 2014. Below that is the text of a leaflet being distributed by Socialist Alliance members at solidarity mobilisations in Australia. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4090 Grenada: 'A big revolution in a small country' http://links.org.au/node/4085 */We Move Tonight: The Making of the Grenada Revolution/* By Joseph Ewart Layne St. George's, Grenada: Grenada Revolution Memorial Foundation, 2014 Paperback 203 pp. ISBN: 9781492724582 Review by *Laurence Goodchild* * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4085 India: 100,000 marchers in Kolkata say: 'Hok kolorob' (Let there be uproar!) http://links.org.au/node/4084 By *Tithi Bhattacharya* October 1, 2014 -- On September 20, 100,000 people marched in Kolkata [formerly Calcutta], India, against police violence and for gender justice. I have known the city all my life and have not known of a demonstration of that size since the 1960s. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4084 Bulgaria: Wealthy EU governments target 'freedom of movement' for poor workers http://links.org.au/node/4083 By *Raya Apostolova* September 30, 2014 --The election in Bulgaria scheduled to take place on October 5, 2014, comes in the midst of a deep political crisis and social disarray. Bulgaria's right-oriented vote in the past two decades has resulted in non-existent public services and social destabilisation. Thousands of Bulgarian workers journey to Germany's slaughter houses or
[Marxism] Bosses and the state are the main beneficiaries of higher education
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bosses and the state are the main beneficiaries of higher education The government and the capitalists are the primary beneficiaries of higher education Duncan Hart writes in Red Flag. ?Fairness? would be the exact opposite of the government?s plans to cut subsidies and introduce deregulated fees. Rather it would mean a system in which education is free and accessible to all and paid for by a tax on employers. http://enpassant.com.au/2014/10/08/bosses-and-the-state-are-the-main-beneficiaries-of-higher-education/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Workers World Party to Hong Kong protesters: Drop Dead
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks Jay and Louis. Note that both statements focus on maintaining socialist norms, but that for them the key norm is continued one-party rule by the CCP! And of course they haven't a clue of how it's the CCP that has deepened the capitalist and imperialist nature of Chinese society (including doing so in Hong Kong), that the bureaucracy profits from it, that it is both in competition and cooperation with other imperialist powers (that's impossible in their undialectical perspective). Most shocking is how the Chinese working class, mainland and otherwise, is totally absent in their worldview. Must read in contrast: http://focusweb.org/sites/www.focusweb.org/files/shifting_power-china_0.pdf and everything by Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue (see NLR, IV, http://www.europe-solidaire.org/ ) On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/8/14 8:23 AM, jay rothermel via Marxism wrote: Hong Kong protests: Why imperialists support ‘democracy’ movement http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/10/07/hong-kong- protests-imperialists-support-democracy-movement/ Same thing from the PSL, the group that split from WWP: What accounts for their praise for the Hong Kong demonstrations and sharp criticism of the Chinese government’s response? It is part of the ongoing campaign aimed at forcing China to “open up” its political system. The Western ruling classes consider the break-up of the political monopoly of the Chinese Communist Party as a long-term strategic objective that would usher in the unrestrained domination of U.S. corporations and militarism in the region. Regardless of what interruptions such “liberalizing” reform in China would bring to current Western profits and international finance in the short- or medium-term, in the long-term it would amount to a conquest equal to the overthrow of the Soviet bloc. http://www.liberationnews.org/hong-kong-crisis-analyzed- statement-central-committee-psl/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Workers World Party to Hong Kong protesters: Drop Dead
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == WWP is ominously silent on Kobane and broader Kurdish struggles: like their approach to Ukrainian struggle against 300 years of Great Russian chauvinism, another epic fail on the national question. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Socialists urge solidarity with Rojava, Kurdish struggle
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, Stuart was right the first time around. While the added specific solidarity suggestions are good, they should have been unnecessary for any supporter of Kurdish/Syrian/Middle East-North Africa liberation. The fact of the matter is that 95% of what we do by way of solidarity for any struggle is not material support, not concrete aid, but propaganda and education. The two emergency protests in NY for Kobaine primarily supported the Kurds by letting them and their enemies know which side we're on. SAME THING FOR PALESTINE. When we picketed Barclays Center last night, we were supporting and showing solidarity SOLELY by showing the crowds and the media which side we were on. The Kurds rebelling right now all over Turkey and Europe are asking for precisely that kind of solidarity, because it lets the world know who we're for, and who we're against -- the latter category including Erdogan for his collaboration with ISIS. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Stuart Munckton via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, I will actually admit that Joseph does have a point and my response was deterimined by some other frustations over debates on our Kurdish coverage and that his blunt response set my frustrations off. But I think yes, it is important calls for solidarity include more concerete actions people can take not just very general and vague calls. And that it would be reasonably easy for the link I put up to include some of that. And as the person who put up the link in the first place on the Green Left site, I accept that and will look to correct it. So despite losing my shit a bit, I think the criticism is actually justified -- within reason (that is, we are doing real solidarity work not just calls, but we need to make it clear what that is and how other people can be part of it too). Stuart On 8 October 2014 18:10, Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Stuart Munckton via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: The full statement includes a final two points of which were chopped off as they were internal and specific to Socialist Alliance - which is working daily right now with the progressive Kurdish community in Australia and supporting their actions. Maybe they were needed to give the rest of the statement some context and for it to make any sense. Yes, I rather think they were. If you don't agree with this type of solidarity for whatever reason, then fine. But say that, don't pretend you don't know what acting in soldiarity means. As I said in a reply to a message Stuart (accidentally?) sent me offlist: Here's an idea: how about if the people putting out these statements 'don't bullshit,' do the asking on the topic about which they've chosen to write themselves, and tell their readers just what it is they're 'urging'? Then there would at least be something on the page to agree or disagree with, instead of this pointless, feel-good wankery passed off as left politics. I mean, it would never occur to me to issue a statement encouraging people to act in solidarity with Palestine, without suggesting a single damn thing they could do. That seems pretty basic to me. But maybe I'm just confused? -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. -- “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 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: IMF says economic growth may never return to pre-crisis levels | Business | The Guardian
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[Marxism] best books/articles on Kurds?
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[Marxism] David Graeber, Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?
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[Marxism] The US quid pro quo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below is the link to a revealing article from Foreign Policy, the influential magazine with close ties to the US national security establishment, illuminating the American reluctance to supply much needed military equipment to the YPG, the left-wing militia which is defending Syria’s Kurds from massacre by the marauding army of the Islamic State. Former ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, reveals to FP that such assistance has been conditional on the support of the two left-wing Kurdish parties - the PYD in Syria and PKK in Turkey - for the joint effort by the US and Turkish governments and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to overthrow the Assad regime in Damascus. Despite having designated the PKK as a “terrorist” organization, secret talks between the US and the left-wing Kurdish parties to this end have been held over the past two years. The YPG is the armed wing of the PYD and recently entered into a military alliance with the FSA against the Islamic State. But the two parties have themselves so far refused to become embroiled in the Syrian civil war since neither the Assad government nor the widely disparate forces comprising the opposition recognize the Kurdish right to an autonomous homeland in the region. The PKK and YPD have also had strained relations with the autonomous Kurdish regional authority in Iraq under Massoud Barzani, which maintains close commercial and diplomatic ties to the US and Turkey and supports the opposition in the civil war. The article describes how the Americans initially tried to assist Barzani in undermining the PYD as the representative of the Syrian Kurds before acknowledging the futility of that approach “at some point in 2012, (when they) chose to open the back channel to the PYD.” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/07/washington_secret_back_channel_talks_with_kurdish_terrorists_turkey_syria_robert_ford_exclusive Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] John Pilger: only a deal with Assad Co. can stop ISIS
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a fucking nimrod. 2/3 of the column is on-target explanation of how the genocide perpetrated by Washington in Iraq created Cambodia-style conditions for the rise of ISIS. Then he makes the same claim for Syria -- when in fact it was Assad and his allies in Iran and Hezbollah who created, and maintain, those same conditions through their own genocide. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/08/from-pol-pot-to-isis/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] seeking signers: Asian-American support statement for Hong Kong protests
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Re: [Marxism] best books/articles on Kurds?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/8/14 10:19 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: suggestions? re articles I'm not thinking about recent events, but historical/social/political background As the title of my article written in January 2004 reflects--The Kurdish Pawn--it was a reaction against Christopher Hitcnens. That being said, I referenced a very good introduction to the Kurdish question. http://www.swans.com/library/art10/iraq/proyect.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Taylor Francis Online :: Making sense of postcolonial theory: a response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Cambridge Review of International Affairs - Volume 27, Issue 3
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[Marxism] UNC professor says black holes can't exist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course they can't. A *point* has no dimensions and so occupies no space--it therefore cannot exist in physical space. A single point in space is a contradiction in terms. Unfortunately her alternative theory (as described in Wikipedia)--that the data used to hypothesize those impossible black holes is explained by the gravitational attraction of some other universes within a multiverse that includes our own cosmos--is an even more absurd violation of Occam's Razor than the establishment big-bang-black-hole-dark matter-dark energy cosmology since to get rid of one impossible set of unobservable entities she has to multiply them into a vast congeries of even less observable entities, namely all the diverse universes making up her multiverse. How much simpler and more scientifically fruitful ius the electric-universe approach, adumbrated by Herakletos and developed in our times by such scientific giants as Khristian Birkeland and Hannes Alfven! by WNCN Staff A physics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says she has proof that black holes can't exist. The university said that by merging two seemingly conflicting theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven black holes can never come into being in the first place. Black holes are thought to be the densist matter in the universe. I'm still not over the shock, said Mersini-Houghton, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. We've been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about. Click Here to read Mersini-Houghton's study Black holes have long thought to be formed when a massive star collapsed under its own gravity to a single point in space known as a singularity. An event horizon would then surround the singularity, creating a black hole whose gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape it. Using quantum mechanics, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking hypothesized in 1974 that black holes emit radiation. Mersini-Houghton's theory combine Hawking's radiation theory with a fundamental law of quantum theory that states no information from the universe can ever disappear. Mersini-Houghton agrees with Hawking in that a star's collapse gives off radiation; but by giving off radiation, she said the star also sheds mass to the point that it no longer has the density to become a black hole. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] a catalogue of Palestine documentaries
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Re: [Marxism] UNC professor says black holes can't exist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/8/14 5:50 PM, Jeff via Marxism wrote: Wait! I just discovered Shane's qualifications for rejecting established physics! Please! As long as our Marxist Bill Maher is not posting about the jihadist threat to Western civilization, who can complain? Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] UNC professor says black holes can't exist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Oct 8, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jeff via Marxism wrote: Perhaps Shane should share his wisdom with many hundreds of astronomers who are busy observing black holes... It is, of course, impossible to OBSERVE something that by definition emits and can emit no radiation of any sort. Well maybe not for Jeff and the others who claim to observe something not abhorrent in armed insurgent groups professing various varieties of Salafist Islam and armed and financed (with US weapons and US dollars) by Biden's allies like the Al-Sauds, Qataris, Emirates, and Turks. On Wed, October 8, 2014 22:38, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Of course they can't. A *point* has no dimensions and so occupies no space--it therefore cannot exist in physical space. A single point in space is a contradiction in terms. Shane Mage scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: How Alexander Cockburn’s ancestor torched Washington and freed 6,000 slaves | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: LENIN'S TOMB: Pilger calls for a deal with Assad
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[Marxism] Fwd: As a Syrian Refugee, I Think Destroying ISIS Means Destroying Assad | Eiad Hererra
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: LENIN'S TOMB: Pilger calls for a deal with Assad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Pilger calls for a deal with Assad Yeh, and why not Pol Pot while we're at it. Oh, hang on ... We've come a long way. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Islamophobia in Australia, Che in Africa, Australian imperialism in Asia-Pacific
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[Marxism] Fwd: French Philosopher Jacques Lacan Was Sort of a Dick | VICE United States
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[Marxism] U.S. Focus on ISIS Frees Syria to Battle Rebels
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, Oct. 9 2014 U.S. Focus on ISIS Frees Syria to Battle Rebels By ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT BEIRUT, Lebanon — As American warplanes cross the Syrian sky dropping bombs on Islamic State militants, another set of air raids has sown destruction across the country, as the Syrian government returns with new intensity to its longstanding and systematic attacks on rebellious towns and neighborhoods. On Saturday, a mushroom cloud towered over the town of Saraqeb in the northern province of Idlib, after a ground-shaking government bombing that residents said killed two civilians and wounded six. On Sept. 26, government warplanes struck the nearby town of Bdama, injuring 11 people, damaging a school and enraging residents who initially assumed the planes were American. And in the northern province of Aleppo, army helicopters have been dropping crude barrel bombs packed with explosives on a near-daily basis, sending residents to dig the dead and wounded from the rubble with their bare hands. Dozens have died in such bombings since the American-led air campaign began. Such attacks — from airspace that American warplanes now enter at will — have fueled anger at the United States among opponents of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who wonder why the Americans are leading the fight against the Islamic State but give free hand to a dictator whose fight to remain in power has left as many as 200,000 of his own people dead. The United States’ focus on the Islamic State has given cover to Syrian forces, they say. That has freed Mr. Assad’s military from worrying about checking the militant group’s advances and allowed them to continue to focus attacks on the greater political threat — less extreme Syrian-based insurgent groups bent on ousting Mr. Assad and the communities where they hold sway. The Syrian government had long focused its attacks on insurgents other than the Islamic State, a group that had seemed more interested in establishing Islamic rule in its territories than in ousting Mr. Assad. But after the group overran parts of Iraq and carried out a series of lightning routs of Syrian Army bases, terrifying many government supporters, Syrian warplanes began attacking it with more intensity in its eastern strongholds. Since the American-led campaign began about two weeks ago, however, the need for Syrian forces to check the Islamic State has ebbed, and some insurgents who oppose the militant group say the government attacks on them have intensified. A United States official said there were indications that since the American campaign started, Syrian fighter jets and helicopters had increased strikes somewhat in the core territories of non-Islamic State insurgents, such as Idlib, Aleppo and the Damascus suburbs. “It would be silly for them not to take advantage of the U.S. doing airstrikes,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential intelligence reports. “They’ve focused in the west and left off the east, where we are operating. Essentially, we’ve allowed them to perform an economy of force. They don’t have to be focused all over the country, just on those who threaten their population centers.” That dynamic is at the heart of Washington’s impasse with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who is demanding that President Obama increase efforts to oust Mr. Assad before Turkey takes tougher action against the Islamic State. The attacks by the Syrian government are creating other political problems for the United States. With both air forces in the sky, attacks by the Syrian government can be mistaken for American ones, including raids that kill civilians. Mistrust of the United States is deepening among Syrian opponents of the government, including insurgents whom Mr. Obama hopes to train as a ground force against Islamic State militants. “Syria is divided between Assad and the coalition,” said Suhail, a fighter with the Free Syrian Army, the loose-knit group from whose ranks the United States is vetting potential allies. “The Syrian citizen is paying the price. The coalition took some of the burden from the regime.” Some Syrians go further, saying that the simultaneous bombings are evidence that the United States is covertly coordinating with the Syrian government. Mr. Obama has publicly ruled out such coordination, saying Mr. Assad lost his legitimacy after using force against peaceful protesters and carrying out indiscriminate bombings. “From a military perspective — there’s no communication or coordination with the Assad regime,” said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, adding that American strikes were focused in “largely ungoverned spaces that
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