Your writing is filled with interesting history and I appreciate all your research and sharing of thoughts and information. Well written and heartfelt. Thankyou for being a voice in this spiritual war of good and evil. Truth ALWAYS roses to the top. You are instrumental and being used as a blessing. 🙏🏼❤️
I followed post 9/11 events in the mideast closely, wanting to understand exactly what was going on, and why. Antiwar.com had some excellent news and analysis (I really miss Justin Raimondo's columns), so I was already aware of how the Kurds were used and abused, including in the US manufactured Syrian "revolution." This article provided a much more personal perspective. Thank you.
After I made that comment, I got to thinking how much many people in the US take for granted, while the people in much of the world spend most of their energy just trying to stay alive. We may find out what that's like before it's over with.
David Graeber campaigned for Kurdish rights and I believe he spent prolonged periods residing in their community (I hope I got this right! I remember him being very impressed with the open society & decentralised economic arrangements, plus the active role of women encouraged at all levels including the military.) Such a devastating loss, he would have been (in the same way as Charles Eisenstein) a tremendous ally over these last 3+ years, I think.
Possibly even more controversial in this context is a book by Michael Lewis called "The Undoing Project" which I read and enjoyed very much in the early part of this year. Now, I know the author has been discredited by his recent foray into US propagandising, and the subjects of the book being Israeli is a trigger-issue right now, but your description of Dawood reminds me very much of Amos Tvertsky - psychologist extraordinaire and Israeli paratrooper - a small-framed man with an infectious personality, strong of body and will, and with boundless energy. Another similarity being the co-opting of both these men's strengths for what turned out to be rather malign purposes.
Your writing is filled with interesting history and I appreciate all your research and sharing of thoughts and information. Well written and heartfelt. Thankyou for being a voice in this spiritual war of good and evil. Truth ALWAYS roses to the top. You are instrumental and being used as a blessing. 🙏🏼❤️
Thank you 🙏❤
I followed post 9/11 events in the mideast closely, wanting to understand exactly what was going on, and why. Antiwar.com had some excellent news and analysis (I really miss Justin Raimondo's columns), so I was already aware of how the Kurds were used and abused, including in the US manufactured Syrian "revolution." This article provided a much more personal perspective. Thank you.
Thank you 👍
After I made that comment, I got to thinking how much many people in the US take for granted, while the people in much of the world spend most of their energy just trying to stay alive. We may find out what that's like before it's over with.
How did the Amerikan chicken cross the road?
First he carpet bombed it, then he bribed a public works guy to strip mine it, and afterwards he caught a helicopter...
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David Graeber campaigned for Kurdish rights and I believe he spent prolonged periods residing in their community (I hope I got this right! I remember him being very impressed with the open society & decentralised economic arrangements, plus the active role of women encouraged at all levels including the military.) Such a devastating loss, he would have been (in the same way as Charles Eisenstein) a tremendous ally over these last 3+ years, I think.
Possibly even more controversial in this context is a book by Michael Lewis called "The Undoing Project" which I read and enjoyed very much in the early part of this year. Now, I know the author has been discredited by his recent foray into US propagandising, and the subjects of the book being Israeli is a trigger-issue right now, but your description of Dawood reminds me very much of Amos Tvertsky - psychologist extraordinaire and Israeli paratrooper - a small-framed man with an infectious personality, strong of body and will, and with boundless energy. Another similarity being the co-opting of both these men's strengths for what turned out to be rather malign purposes.
Lewis was my favourite author; I'd read almost everything he'd written. His betrayal stung.
Interesting.