The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 23rd August 2017

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  1. Fascist blaming the victim?…and who has a vested interest in toppling Assad?…and who really are the fascists?

    ( Trump doesnt want Assad toppled so Trump is now by implication a fascist…before this Trump was called a Russian collaborator and spy …and before that he was a serial sex abuser of women)

    ‘Linking Charlottesville to Assad – latest witch hunt of the US war lobby’

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/400409-us-war-charlottesville-assad/

    …”In other words, the activities of all too obvious domestic far-right/neo-Nazis are being used to promote the cause of a different but more disguised form of fascism. The fascism that targets independent resource-rich countries in strategic parts of the world for destruction, and whose adherents don’t dress up in silly Halloween-style costumes, but who wear suits and have full Establishment approval.

    Even though the pro-war Washington Post admitted that the authenticity of Field’s pseudonymous Facebook account could not be confirmed, it still ran an article entitled, ‘Syria’s Assad has become an icon of the far right in America’….

    “Again, the implication of the piece is that if you oppose the War Party’s line on Syria, then you’re an Adolf Hitler groupie. Don’t want to see the secular Syrian government toppled (and it replaced by al-Qaeda/ISIS)? Then you’re just like the KKK and those extremists in Charlottesville! Repeat after me (by orders of the NeoCon Thought Police): If you don’t want Assad toppled you must be a Nazi… If you don’t want Assad toppled you must be a Nazi…

    Never mind that Assad leads a party called the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party – and that Syria’s constitution (Chapter 1, Article 8), expressly prohibits the forming of political parties on ‘religious, sectarian, tribal, regional or professional basis, or according to discrimination because of sex, origin, race or color’.

    Never mind too the strong and significant support Assad has had from leftist governments around the world, such as Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela….Again, the implication of the piece is that if you oppose the War Party’s line on Syria, then you’re an Adolf Hitler groupie. Don’t want to see the secular Syrian government toppled (and it replaced by al-Qaeda/ISIS)? Then you’re just like the KKK and those extremists in Charlottesville! Repeat after me (by orders of the NeoCon Thought Police): If you don’t want Assad toppled you must be a Nazi… If you don’t want Assad toppled you must be a Nazi…

    Never mind that Assad leads a party called the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party – and that Syria’s constitution (Chapter 1, Article 8), expressly prohibits the forming of political parties on ‘religious, sectarian, tribal, regional or professional basis, or according to discrimination because of sex, origin, race or color’.

    Never mind too the strong and significant support Assad has had from leftist governments around the world, such as Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela…

    What we are witnessing is a third witch-hunt, which has strong parallels with the ’Reds under the Beds’ McCarthyite persecution of alleged ‘communists’ and ‘communist sympathizers’ in the 1950s, and the hysterical anti-Russian campaign of the last few years. The agenda now is to try and link far-right/neo-Nazi activists at home with ‘official enemies’ abroad in order to discredit the anti-imperialist movement and facilitate more regime-change wars.

    [Neil Clark is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. He has written for many newspapers and magazines in the UK and other countries including The Guardian, Morning Star, Daily and Sunday Express, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Week, and The American Conservative. He is a regular pundit on RT and has also appeared on BBC TV and radio, Sky News, Press TV and the Voice of Russia. He is the co-founder of the Campaign For Public Ownership @PublicOwnership. His award winning blog can be found at http://www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. He tweets on politics and world affairs @NeilClark66 ]

  2. Gawd strewth! I just saw a car with ‘Subway Development Team’ on the side!
    I wonder if they’re advising the gNats on employment policy.

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