Category: ISIS Islamic State
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
ISIS The Mother of All Blowback / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: President Barack Obama is being lambasted by US Republicans for admitting that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for dealing with the rise of the militant group, ISIS, or Islamic State, as it’s now known.
Given that the US had made an unbelievable mess of its Mideast policies, the president is right to pause and think, something his shoot –from- the- lip Republican critics rarely do. They are demanding the US attack both Iraq and Syria without asking “what then oh brave Washington warriors?” These are the Republicans who ardently supported George Bush’s catastrophic invasion and destruction of Iraq.
Friday, August 29, 2014
ISIS Is Only A Metastase – Not The Original Cancer / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Andrew_McKillop
Obama Says Extract The Cancer of ISIS
President Obama is not an oncologist but a golfer and a politician when he is off the golf links, so we don't have to treat his diagnosis as definitive. For metastases to appear there is obligatorily a deep-seated, primary, primitive or original cancer either still present today or no longer present but active in the form of metastases. Each of these can in turn generate a new deep-seated cancer, oncologists tell us, but the process is in no way 100% predictable.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Foley Beheading: Terrorism as Theater / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: STRATFOR
Robert D. Kaplan writes: The beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq was much more than an altogether gruesome and tragic affair: rather, it was a very sophisticated and professional film production deliberately punctuated with powerful symbols. Foley was dressed in an orange jumpsuit reminiscent of the Muslim prisoners held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. He made his confession forcefully, as if well rehearsed. His executioner, masked and clad in black, made an equally long statement in a calm, British accent, again, as if rehearsed. It was as if the killing was secondary to the message being sent.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The ISIS Menace - Just What We Need, Another War / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Danny_Schechter
New York, New York: Sound the bugle! Get the press to march along; we are going to war.
Again!
Enemies r ‘us, and for a long time with the killing of bin Laden, a Jihadi fatigue had set in. With the apparent shriveling up of the Al Qaeda menace, America’s threat-defining and refining machinery was somewhat adrift. What had been so simple, turned too complex to fuse into one soundbite.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Islamic State - Yeah, This Will Work Out Just Fine / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: John_Rubino
The Islamic State (ISIS) has set a modern-day “emergent threat” record by going from obscurity to existential global menace in what seems like a matter of weeks. But as with most overnight sensations, there was a longer gestation period outside of the limelight. And like most military threats of the past few decades it was nurtured by, you guessed it, us.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
The West Set Up the ISIS Endgame / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Andrew_McKillop
The Conventional Explanation
This can be found in the MSM or mainstream media, and paints a picture of political leaders in the US and its European partners being so committed to the overthrown of Syria's Bashr al-Assad regime that not enough notice went to where the arms supplied to the so-called “moderate opposition groups”, like the Syrian Free Army, were really going. The anti-Assad forces were “porous”, and in any case the most extreme jihadists received both funding and weapons supplies from Saudi Arabia and the other Arab Gulf states. But this was OK because these jihads, western security “experts” said, were totally opposed to al-Qaeda. Also, the anti-Assad forces, of all kinds, were either supported or tolerated by the west simply because they were anti-Assad, and simply because Putin's Russia was pro-Assad.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Hitting The ISIS Panic Button In The Middle East / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Andrew_McKillop
Obama's Transcript
The US Federal News Service, August 20, released president Obama's remarks on the decapitation of journalist Jim Foley, in which Obama said that people across the Middle East have to make a common effort “to extract this cancer so that it does not spread”. Speaking at a joint press conference, August 21, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel went much further. Saying that ISIS, ISIL or IS “poses a threat greater than 9 / 11”, he added "This is beyond anything we've seen. We must prepare for everything."
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Real Priorities – Destroy ISIS Is Number One / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Andrew_McKillop
Silence Speaks Loud
Nothing filters out of Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi or Muscat on the the slowly-growing rollback in Iraq of the Islamic State and its filthy barbarians. The reason is simple. ISIS was funded, armed and supported by the Sunni-minority regimes of the Gulf states when it ran its rampage of atrocities in Syria, with arms-length acceptance of this by the so-called “mature western democracies”.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Undercover Look Inside ISIS Islamic State Caliphate - Videos / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Videos
Whilst the Jewish fundamentalist state Israel is busy killing thousands of Palestinian men, women and children these two videos take an undercover look at their new born sibling the Islamic Fundamentalist State, giving a unique window into why they too can so easily kill innocent men, women and children as they, along with Jewish fundamentalists and Evangelical Christian fundamentalists are infected with the same virus that craves fulfillment of prophecy.