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IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON …; Carl Davidson; Facebook; September 14, 2015.
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They know they can’t win if they don’t lie #10.
Carl Davidson (KD): “IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ISIL AND THE MIDDLE EAST, take some time to read this piece about Phyllis Bennis and her new book. Hint: It will reveal the utter and ongoing depravity of Dick Cheney, George Bush and crew--and Obama’s ‘drone wars’ don’t help all that much either.”
Surprise! The subject piece doesn’t mention Messrs. Bush and Cheney at all, let alone their “utter and ongoing depravity.” While the Bennis book (Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror) frequently bashes Mr. Bush for his time in office, it doesn’t say anything about him after he left office. The book mentions Mr. Cheney only once, and that’s about when he was VP.
How many KD followers will read the article and/or book and find (or care?) KD lied to them yet again?
Consider the following excerpts from the subject article.
“Ali Hashem, who had recently finished an investigative documentary about ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Hashem is the chief correspondent for Al Mayadeen, a pan-Arab news channel based in Beirut, and his investigation backed up Phyllis Bennis’ claims.
“He described al-Baghdadi’s ascent to power as linear and logical. He also said that his investigation runs contrary to conspiratorial theories surrounding the organization that involve the U.S. and Israel. Facts, he said, do not support those claims.
“‘People, especially in the Middle East, do not want to believe they have such people among them,’ Hashem told MintPress. ‘They always want to blame it on the West or on Israel.’”
KD preaches everything he deems bad in the Middle East is the fault of Israel and the US. That’s not what this piece claims, at least with respect to this point.
“‘We have to reach people in the schools,’ [Ms. Bennis] continued. ‘We need to change the curriculum of how our children are educated so they grow up looking at what role the U.S. could play as a bastion of disarmament, not just non-proliferation, starting with our own arms, our own disarmament.”
Yes, you read that right. Ms. Bennis wants the U.S. disarm and she would use schools to shove her positions down the throats of children. Similarly, KD recently wrote, “one good place to start is here” for getting rid of nukes, but he knows that’s a ridiculous position. That’s what someone can write to impress his followers when he knows he will never have the responsibility to make that decision himself and deal with the consequences.
Looking at the “journalist” players, MintPress News (publisher of the subject piece) is a for-profit lefty “news” website.
According to Wikipedia, “Phyllis Bennis is an American journalist, activist, and political commentator. Focusing mainly on issues related to the Middle East and the United Nations, she is a strong critic of Israel and the United States and a leading advocate of Palestinian rights. She directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. … Bennis is a staunch opponent of what she regards as American imperialism and believes that actions should be taken to counter American and Western global hegemony. In the 1990s, she opposed US-led sanctions against Iraq and the US war on Iraq. In the early 2000s, she came out strongly against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and has supported anti-American movements in those countries.” According to its website, “As Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice movements for over four decades — from the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s to the peace and global justice movements of the last decade. Some of the greatest progressive minds of the 20th and 21st centuries have found a home at IPS.”
In 2013 Ms. Bennis said, “[The ]Iraqi civil society has been in motion in extraordinary, impressive ways. Yes it’s been non-violent, but that’s not the only thing, it has also been broad-based … challenging the existence of a sectarian government system that was put in place by the United States at the very beginning of its occupation.” Can she spell ISIS?
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