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I left this comment on the Intercept: It seems to me that Greenwald and Co. are still to a large extent > participating in the cover up. While this article makes for a fine catalog > of all the statements made by gov't and media about Khorasan, Greenwald > never says who was being bombed it their name. It was al Nursa that the US > is calling Khorasan and and al Nursa has been in alliance with the FSA and > IS and fighting both Assad and ISIS. I don't think this oversight > accidental because if Greenwald is forced to admit that the US has entered > the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad he will have to admit that he has > been wrong about Syria all along. Khorasan was a fiction created to cover > up the real target of US air strikes and Greenwald & Co. continues this > cover-up. > Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust <http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com> Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/> <http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The actual story here is one that is somewhat more complex than appeals to > conspiracy theorists like Glenn Greenwald and Alex Jones and it requires > giving as much attention to what is happening in Syria as to what is > happening behind closed doors in the capital of the Evil Empire. > > The invention of the Khorasan Group — which is to say, the creation of the > name — seems to have been necessitated not by the desire to find a pretext > for bombing another Muslim country, but instead the desire to avoid > headlines which would identify the target of a cluster of airstrikes by its > real name: Jabhat al-Nusra (JN). > > full: http://warincontext.org/2014/09/29/glenn-greenwalds- > khorasan-conspiracy-theory-misses-the-point > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/clayclai% > 40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
