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International - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Solidarity Gathering for Kobane
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Tuesday October 07, 2014 23:33 by Kurdish Solidarity
Join us on Wednesday, Oct 8th from 5 pm to 6 pm to answer the call for solidarity from Kobane, outside of the GPO in Dublin city. Join us on Wednesday, Oct 8th from 5 pm to 6 pm to answer the call for solidarity from Kobane, outside of the GPO in Dublin city. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8perhaps you should hold this vigil outside the US embassy in Ballsbridge?
After all, they and their allies in Qatar and Saudi arabia did so much to help arm train and fund ISIS / Al Qaeda / Al Nusra / moderate jihadists (what an oxymoron! ) in Syria (or whatever it is these lunatic US proxies are supposed to be called this week)
A bunch of religious nutjobs killing themselves and everyone else and creating chaos is just so much easier to manipulate than strong secular arab states with educated intelligent leaders who value this life and their own sovereignty and natural resources more than an alleged 72 virgins in the next one, and who won't play ball with corrupt financial institutions, one sided free trade agreements and western imperialist policies. Funny how it's the more secular states in the middle east that get toppled isn't it? Libya, Iran under mossadeq, Syria, Iraq under Saddam.
But I forgot, the US dropped a few weapons consignments and food parcels so they are friends of the kurds now aren't they?
How quickly we forget how bush exhorted the kurds to rise up and depose Saddam after the first gulf war then stood back doing nothing while Saddam defended his regime and gassed the subsequent kurdish uprising with US supplied chemical weapons.
With friends like that........
I think you might be preaching to the converted, just a little bit.. And I don't think it's the wrong location; this isn't about you or the US, it's about the Kurds, and the reason people are gathering is not to protest against ISIS and their virgins (if you actually believe this is the motivation behind ISIS, you could believe anything), but to 'bear symbolic witness to the bravery of those who fight back in Kobane'.
Solidarity with the Kurdish resistance!
I don't believe any of those driving ISIS are interested in a supposed 72 virgins in the afterlife, no, although many gullible conscripts in their rank and file are probably fed this kind of nonsense to encourage them to fight and die. The kurds taking on these lunatics are certainly very brave people, agreed. Sorry for preaching to the converted but maybe those reading aren't aware of how the US backstabbed the kurds previously. No harm to remind people.
Patrick Cockburn writes on Turkish / US shafting of the Kurds defending Kobane. Situation is dire for them
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/08/the-siege-of-kobani/
From the WSM
more details on the cynical use of ISIS by Turkey to destroy the kurds
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/10/has-obama-change...yria/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/10/as-isis-moves-to-slaughter-kurds-in-kobani-the-u-s-bombs-syrian-grain-silos/
The unfortunate and increasingly desperate Kurds in Kobane are caught between the USA russophobes, violent ISIS lunatics and Turkey and their desire to bolster their power in the region and control future pipelines and gas supplies to the EU. Sickening stuff.
Looks like the Turkish government is giving support to ISIS so that they can attack the Kurds and on the other side, the Turkish Army is effectively hemming them in so that they have nowhere to go.
From WSM:
Full text at the link below
Obama meets anti-ISIS “coalition” amid rising US-Turkish tensions
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/15/aafb-o15.html
It seems there are serious tensions building between the "allies" whose goals differ markedly
Erdogan is a callous bastard clearly working with ISIS against the kurds at present: