What, a Brand!!
littlegreenpills posted:i was hoping this would be an essay im disappointed
LONDON (AP) — The U.S. is contemplating military action in Iraq to quell the fast-moving insurgency because it has spent years investing in Iraq's future, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.
Kerry said the Sunni insurgency, which has swept to control of several cities in Iraq's west and north, is also plotting against American and Western interests.
Known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the brutal insurgency has brought Iraq back to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy as the Obama administration debates how deeply to intervene halfway around the world. President Barack Obama has touted his decision to end the war in 2011 as one of his administration's key successes.
Kerry said no decision had been made as of Friday as to whether the U.S. military would help Iraq beat back the insurgency. The Iraqi government has asked for U.S. airstrikes to target terrorists, and the Obama administration is weighing whether to do so.
Kerry said a decision would be made soon.
"Iraq is a country we've had a very direct relationship with, very direct investment and engagement with, not to mention the lives of our soldiers who were lost there, providing this opportunity to them," Kerry told reporters at the end of a conference in London on combating sexual violence in conflict zones. "And I don't think anybody in the region, or in this administration, believes it is in the interest of the United States to turn our backs on that."
When asked about his recent phone conversation with George W. Bush, Kerry relayed a vague message from the former President.
"We spoke briefly about the crisis in Iraq. President Bush said, "Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar, well, he eats you." That is all. The conversation soon turned to other matters."
HenryKrinkle posted:serious question: should anti-imperialists support Maliki against Gulf state funded Sunni Islamists?
Anti-iimperialists should focus on opposing imperialism. lol.
Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they are forced to lie facedown in the dirt with their hands tied behind their back.
In the next frame, a Sunni militiaman appears to execute them in a hail of automatic gunfire that kicks up the dirt near their heads. The next frame shows a pile of lifeless bodies.
Earlier on Saturday ISIL announced on Twitter it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The release of these images – which have also not been verified but appear to be legitimate – indicates the Sunni militants have killed many soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
what vile behaviour
HenryKrinkle posted:serious question: should anti-imperialists support Maliki against Gulf state funded Sunni Islamists?
serious reply: is zz top a blues band or a rock band?
peepaw posted:HenryKrinkle posted:
serious question: should anti-imperialists support Maliki against Gulf state funded Sunni Islamists?
serious reply: is zz top a blues band or a rock band?
trick question, they're a 'pop act'
Ironicwarcriminal posted:http://www.smh.com.au/world/isil-twitter-terror-gruesome-iraq-photos-and-candid-selfies-of-jihadist-group-members-20140615-zs898.html#ixzz34hokjhPM
Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they are forced to lie facedown in the dirt with their hands tied behind their back.
In the next frame, a Sunni militiaman appears to execute them in a hail of automatic gunfire that kicks up the dirt near their heads. The next frame shows a pile of lifeless bodies.
Earlier on Saturday ISIL announced on Twitter it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The release of these images – which have also not been verified but appear to be legitimate – indicates the Sunni militants have killed many soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
what vile behaviour
where will the line be drawn between NATO and Iranian occupation zones
Crow posted:i mean the point here is to show how imperialism creates the conditions for these outcomes in the first place, expose both the hidden and open roles of NATO in fomenting ethnic cleansing and regional armed struggle, and conect the "dots" on how Gulf and NATO Capital are funding the annihilation of hopes for any regional peace and sovereignty. obviously that includes countering war propaganda and etc, but also shifting the focus back onto imperialism and not regional 'sides'
thank you.
HenryKrinkle posted:Crow posted:i mean the point here is to show how imperialism creates the conditions for these outcomes in the first place, expose both the hidden and open roles of NATO in fomenting ethnic cleansing and regional armed struggle, and conect the "dots" on how Gulf and NATO Capital are funding the annihilation of hopes for any regional peace and sovereignty. obviously that includes countering war propaganda and etc, but also shifting the focus back onto imperialism and not regional 'sides'
thank you.
let's be honest here: if imperial misinformation and ideology is obscuring the true conflict, stakes, and is 'flipping the script' on what's happening on the ground (like when it paints foreign mercenary forces as some sort of 'revolutionary people's movement'), then it's certainly already framing the entire scenario in the first place. so if one just hedges their bets in the opposite direction, while still using this 'imperial perspective', then eventually you hit a dead-end. instead, there's a missed opportunity to attack the imperial system that is being obscured when focusing instead on these localized conflicts.
For example, when someone mentions the gas attacks by Saddam in the Iran-Iraq War. Well, who provided the gas again? Oh right, Da CiA. And who pumped up that war? HMmm. And why is that just simple ammunition to focus on Iraq in the typical humanitarian interventionist style and not an opportunity for the wholesale denouncement of the imperial system shaping these outcomes in the first place? HEllO
swirlsofhistory posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:http://www.smh.com.au/world/isil-twitter-terror-gruesome-iraq-photos-and-candid-selfies-of-jihadist-group-members-20140615-zs898.html#ixzz34hokjhPM
Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they are forced to lie facedown in the dirt with their hands tied behind their back.
In the next frame, a Sunni militiaman appears to execute them in a hail of automatic gunfire that kicks up the dirt near their heads. The next frame shows a pile of lifeless bodies.
Earlier on Saturday ISIL announced on Twitter it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The release of these images – which have also not been verified but appear to be legitimate – indicates the Sunni militants have killed many soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
what vile behaviour
when the soviets captured polish soldiers they would tell them to show their hands, if they had calluses than they were let go and if they didnt have calluses than they were bourgeois or petite-bourgeois officers who pushed the working class into nationalistic wars and were executed
https://twitter.com/intelwire/status/478306907875057664 posted:ISIS deployed its Twitter app to max extent when taking Mosul, and it's ramping up again, 3,000 tweets in 30 minutes
that's some app they got there!! twitter blocks bot accts super quick these days, especially when they're brand new. Just Saying~
fleights posted:swirlsofhistory posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:http://www.smh.com.au/world/isil-twitter-terror-gruesome-iraq-photos-and-candid-selfies-of-jihadist-group-members-20140615-zs898.html#ixzz34hokjhPM
Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they are forced to lie facedown in the dirt with their hands tied behind their back.
In the next frame, a Sunni militiaman appears to execute them in a hail of automatic gunfire that kicks up the dirt near their heads. The next frame shows a pile of lifeless bodies.
Earlier on Saturday ISIL announced on Twitter it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The release of these images – which have also not been verified but appear to be legitimate – indicates the Sunni militants have killed many soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
what vile behaviourwhen the soviets captured polish soldiers they would tell them to show their hands, if they had calluses than they were let go and if they didnt have calluses than they were bourgeois or petite-bourgeois officers who pushed the working class into nationalistic wars and were executed
thats good news for me my calluses have calluses
fleights posted:when the soviets captured polish soldiers they would tell them to show their hands, if they had calluses than they were let go and if they didnt have calluses than they were bourgeois or petite-bourgeois officers who pushed the working class into nationalistic wars and were executed
damn they sound mental. thank god they no longer exist.
fleights posted:swirlsofhistory posted:
Ironicwarcriminal posted:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/isil-twitter-terror-gruesome-iraq-photos-and-candid-selfies-of-jihadist-group-members-20140615-zs898.html#ixzz34hokjhPM
Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they are forced to lie facedown in the dirt with their hands tied behind their back.
In the next frame, a Sunni militiaman appears to execute them in a hail of automatic gunfire that kicks up the dirt near their heads. The next frame shows a pile of lifeless bodies.
Earlier on Saturday ISIL announced on Twitter it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The release of these images – which have also not been verified but appear to be legitimate – indicates the Sunni militants have killed many soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
what vile behaviour
Communists still do it better
when the soviets captured polish soldiers they would tell them to show their hands, if they had calluses than they were let go and if they didnt have calluses than they were bourgeois or petite-bourgeois officers who pushed the working class into nationalistic wars and were executed
...and that's why Marxism is a science.
