Posted on 09/11/2013 1:07:43 AM PDT by TexGrill
Many thousands of people from the social media and civil society groups have worked tirelessly and selflessly for the last months fighting with their pens and keyboards against an upcoming peak of violence fuelled once again by the neo-conservative corporate elitist lobbies which pull Washington's strings and those of their poodles in NATO. Can we call this a victory?
Let us examine this issue from various angles and let us not fall into the temptation to pat each other on the back and ignore the Syrian people themselves.
The informed society and social networking
To begin with, the context of the decision by President Obama to halt any military strikes against Syria is one of massive public opinion against the United States of America's hegemonistic plans to gain access to and control the world's energy resources.
It is also a context of an informed public, this time around fuelled by many millions of US citizens sick and tired of their governments squandering thousands of billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax-dollars on dubious wars in distant lands and this time around aware of the real issues behind the scenes.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
Ex-neocon here.
We’re abandoning ship fast.
The ship was a mirage created by the financial oligarchs of the world.
Pravda, if you’re not sure who I mean by financial oligarchs, ask the wealthy elite British and Americans the Russians have been in bed with for a century.
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