I can sniff you from afar

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Cake day: November 9th, 2022

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  • How much of the Palestinian solidarity from them is equally thin and motivated by sectarianism rather than genuine humanitarian outrage? It’s deeply disappointing and reveals that we have all failed as supporters of Palestinian freedom to educate enough people as to why the cause matters.

    Divide and conquer. The Qatari comprador capitalist hegemone have their own interest. The Saudi-UAE-led Khaleej too. The Turks too. Which all align with the interests of the Western American-European clique, in regards to Syria.

    Using the cudgel of fighting for Syrian Democracy against Syrian Baathist ‘authoritarianism’, then later “Iranian influence” and Political Shia’ism, they reason and condition with their local populations that they have a stake to behold in such endeavors, and thus in funding them, sending in foreign fighters and guns, sanctioning them and so forth

    After all, the Shia and Baathist ideologies are often anti-western imperialism, socialist-oriented, and all revolutionary, threatening the spoils of empire for the following Sunni hegemones.

    As you can see, in ‘The Assassination of Julius Caesar, A People’s History of Rome, by Michael Parenti’

    But ideology is not merely a promotion of class interest. The function of ideology is precisely to cloak narrowly selfish interests, wedding them to a more lofty and capacious view of society. These might be summarized as follows:

    First and foremost, the oligarchic clique represents its own privileged special interests as tantamount to the general interest -