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To: epicure who wrote (192056)

6/19/2012 10:00:06 AM

From: scamp

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Detailed analysis on Syria.

SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK
- by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2012-07-15

A timely article in the Jerusalem Post last month brings to the forefront the unspoken objective of US foreign policy, namely the breaking up of Syria as a sovereign nation state --along ethnic and religious lines-- into several separate and "independent" political entities. The article also confirms the role of Israel in the process of political destabilization of Syria. The JP article is titled: "Veteran Kurdish politician calls on Israel to support the break-up of Syria' (by Jonathan Spyer) ( The Jerusalem Post (May 16, 2012)

Sherkoh Abbas, President of the US based Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria (KNA) has "called on Israel to support the break-up of Syria into a series of federal structures based on the country’s various ethnicities." (Ibid)

The objective of the US sponsored armed insurgency is --with the help of Israel-- to "Break Syria into Pieces".

The "balkanisation of the Syrian Arab Republic" is to be carried out by fostering sectarian divisions, which will eventually lead to a "civil war" modelled on the former Yugoslavia.

One possible "break-up scenario" pertaining to Syria, which constitutes a secular multi-ethnic society, would be the formation of separate and "independent" Sunni, Alawite-Shiite, Kurdish and Druze states: “We need to break Syria into pieces,” Abbas said. (Quoted in JP, op. cit., emphasis added).

"The Syrian Kurdish dissident argued that a federal Syria, separated into four or five regions on an ethnic basis, would also serve as a natural “buffer” for Israel against both Sunni and Shi’ite Islamist forces." (Ibid.).

Ironically, while Islamist forces are said to constitute the main threat to the Jewish State, Tel Aviv is providing covert support to the Islamist Free Syrian Army (FSA)..............................

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To: epicure who wrote (192056)	6/19/2012 10:30:52 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543805

After all, many very religious folks were involved in the anti-war movement, and in the fights against segregation- those folks definitely weren't existentialists. It depends on which folks. You refer to the folk in the black churches a sentence or two after this one. And there you are quite right. But if you are referring to the black and white students who participated in the movement, who were the founders of SNCC, then the evidence is more than a little mixed. I'm not making the general case, only the specific instance of my own experience. And there are at least two elements to that experience--existential theology and the remnants of the social gospel movement of the 20s and 30s. How broad a generalization one makes from that is hard to say and would take some serious reading of the better historical works on the movement. But just to get specific, the university student church movements of the late 50s and 60s which contributed lots of troops to the civil rights movement, were reading existential theology. And writing about it. The Methodist magazine Motive was hugely popular in these groups and it was filled with existential theology. And, as I said, the most influential theologian at that point was Tillich, who is the name most frequently mentioned as an existential theologian. So I can make the case that it was in the air, so to speak. The far more difficult case to make is its influence on people who read it seriously, let alone those who talked about it in the endless all night conversations. And the most difficult case, at least to me, to make is its influence on social action and social movements, since existentialism, per se, as a philosophical school of thought, lacked a social ethic. One of its more serious shortcomings.

To: epicure who wrote (192056)	6/19/2012 10:43:00 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543805

That is essentially my thesis about the 60's protest movement. That it was initially about segregation and racial equality and next about protesting the draft and the VN war (there was some overlap) and that this did not have anything to do with the existential discussions prevalent in/on 60's campuses. Yes, existentialism was exceedingly present there, but I maintain it was incidental/coincidental to the protest movement. I do agree though that the "picture" of a decade can be a complex mosaic.