Sunday, October 13, 2019

Sounds like peaceful speech and assembly to me

During his sermon on Friday, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, spiritual leader for Iraq’s Shiite majority, upped the pressure on authorities.
“The government is responsible when, under the eye of law enforcement, protesters are fired on illegally and media are beaten or attacked to terrorise their employees,” he said.
Sounds like the basic trio, free speech, right to assemble, and an expectation that local police will protect those rights.

So if this Bearded One gets it, why is the Bearded One next door telling Iranian militias to shoot? Why does no one yet recognize that the ISIS threat is back? All the Bearded Ones seem stuck.

The Guardian has a complete summary of the Turkish invasion and political currents:

Erdoğan has managed the unthinkable: uniting all the other Middle East rivals

No one wants a revival of the Ottoman empire.  And the Muslim Brotherhood is none too popular. At this point all parties are clinging to post Ottoman national boundaries.

The Socialist response:

Rojava: No to the Turkish invasion!

More of the same with the anti-imperialist tint. This article adds the news about Iran's ambition to build a northern highway to the Mediterranean. Israel calls it terror highway. The highway makes economic sense is a basic problem. Bu economic sense requires the skill of self government.

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