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UST A THOUGHT - ON THE WAR IN SYRIA: IT IS TIME FOR THE REBELS TO CONCEDE AND END THE MISERY THE END..!

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And it is now time for them to stop being enemies to themselves, and begin the now more difficult process of learning to be friends, to be a family again.  Irrespective of their religious, tribal and political affiliations and belief. To begin to work to unite themselves as one people again.  To return to perennial struggle of humans to live in peace, and not to engage in deadly and suicidal wars, under the pretext of fighting for elusive 'freedom and democracy.'   When living a peaceful and economically viable life is so obviously of greater value than having  the oftentimes superficial 'freedom and democracy.'  Which the West is always demanding that other countries adopt, and which it uses to measure their comparative value.  When one would have great difficulty in naming a country where one is able to say, with any great validity, it probably did worth the great slaughtering, maiming and destruction to have the society which this country now has. S

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT RENEGING ON THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT SHOULD BE A 'RED LINE' FOR EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT! PART 3.

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One which Europe, as are other regions of the world, has been invited to join. And this is not an order which China has state is intended to make it great again.   Or at the cost of the rest of the world, as President Trump intends to do, in pursuing his America First doctrine. So, Europe, like other regions of the world, no longer has the raison de tre' to continue to be so damn subservient to the United States.  To act as its willing and or reluctant accomplice in persistently and spitefully attacking Iranian sovereignty and aspirations to achieve her national developmental potential.  To maintain it in a state of relative weakness, so that Israel can continue to attack it directly and indirectly.  To be reluctant to stand up for the rights of the Iranian nation, for fear of the conservative and orthodox forces in Israel labelling it 'antisemitic.'  As Netanyahu's government is apt to do when he is challenged about the injustices his government is per

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT RENEGING ON THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT SHOULD BE A 'RED LINE' FOR EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT! PART 2.

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Even when it is patiently clear that the American doctrine of how the world should be, is clearly making things worse than better.  Even when the American ruling classes and Establishment show themselves to either worse than the ascribed 'enemies' they are fighting, or to be only marginally less unacceptable than the Americans.  They have supported, for too long, the brash and arrogant approach which the Americans oftentimes take towards trying to resolve delicate issues and problems, only to make them worse. It is not right for Europe to continue to look to the United States for its leadership.  When it is quite clear that the United States of America no longer has sound and sagacious leadership at its helm.  The fact that America is still the most potent military and economic nation in the world, does not make it the best choice for leadership of the world.  Even if this is a leadership role which is assumed, than one which has been acquired, 'as of righ

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT RENEGING ON THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT SHOULD BE A 'RED LINE' FOR EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT! PART 1.

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'Europe cannot expect Iran and the Iranian people to suffice with her sympathy and expression of 'we stand by or with you.'   If the United States imposes new sanctions on Iran, whether those sanctions violate the Nuclear Agreement with Iran, or are deemed not to be directly related to them.  Nothing short of Europe pursuing legal, diplomatic, political and other means of negating and preventing any such sanctions.   From adversely impacting on Iran and her people, should be seen as a necessary and sufficient condition for Iran.   Not to take whatever reasonable, non-pyrrhic  action it considers is required to safeguard and promote her and her people's best interests.' The government of the United States, under the tutelage of the 'Mad Don', his son-in-law and a cabinet of 'yes men and women.'   Is hell bent on reneging on the nuclear agreement between Iran and 6 other countries, which include America, Russia, Germany, France, the

CONTEMPLATING ACHIEVING 'EQUALITY' AND 'FAIRNESS.' THE END..!

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It will demand that the goal of  people having a decent standard of living, be placed above the greedy elite minority laying claim to more than a reasonable share of the world's wealth.   Based on a fair return on their investment of labour and capital. A capital which they most likely will have borrowed, making it at least partly a collective or socialised capital. But such an arrangement can only take place if us humans can organise our societies on the basis of forming the equivalent of  confederate or federal world government.  A massive challenge, considering what is happening to multi-national bodies, such as the European Union, the African Union, the Arab League and, of course, the United Nations, which is the precursor of a world or global government.  Which alludes to the validity of challenging the concept of a global government being a viable one.   When we consider the existing and increasing economic disparities within not only small countries, b

JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE WAR IN SYRIA: IT IS TIME FOR THE REBELS TO CONCEDE AND END THE MISERY PART 2.

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If we are to accept that the lives and living of humans is of the greatest value, then none of the goals which were being fought for in this brutal war, was really worth the sacrifice.  Not least because only the deceived faithful and the incorrigible 'patriot' and 'nationalist' would really believe that, 'dying for something is really the best way of achieving it.  Dying only achieves oblivion. The people who led or initiated the uprising which has resulted in this brutal war.   Can hardly have imagined that it would have erupted and morphed into the hellish cauldron  which it has evolved into.  Indeed, it is probably unlikely that they would have acted the way they did.  Had they known of the action and reaction chain which it would have given rise to.   And how it would have nearly destroyed Syrian State and its people.  And made it an opportunistic and deadly theatre for the external enemies of the country to intervene, on the pretext of wanting

JUST PHILOSOPHISINNG - THE THREAT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT 'RADICALISM' TO WORLD PEACE! THE END.!

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The Republicon Party in the United States, has traditionally loathed government, especially 'big government', and those which it does not control.  Either directly thought its legislators, or indirectly through the lobbyists who use their money and influence to buy legislative power in the government.  The Islamic State extremists were and are motivated by their equivalent of Hitler's theory of Aryan racial superiority.  In that, for IS, the world should be inhabited only by Sunni Muslims. A spurious objective which they tried to achieved by methods not dissimilar to those employed by Hitler's Nazis, and Pol Pot.  With others doubtlessly having preceded them in the history of modern humans. For the establishment radical extremist elites',  the world and the future, it seem, should belong to the Sunni Muslims, the Israelis, and the people with the myopic and religious fundamentalist mindset of the American Republican Party.  Their driving force

CONTEMPLATING ACHIEVING 'EQUALITY' AND 'FAIRNESS.' PART 7.

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Indeed, it is arguable that this form of human socio-political, economic and demographic organisation, is of decreasing viability as a model  for the more complex world of the future. Too often, in fact, almost invariably, the independence of a country or a region of a country, results in something much less than what the people thought it would have been.  With probably the greatest benefit being accorded to the masses, being their right to vote to choose their leaders, where that right is not denied them.  While the the local ruling elites, and the vested global economic interests manipulating them, continue to accumulate any wealth the the country has.  Consequently, in many instances, for the masses, 'independence' is no more than a sham which is used  by political activists and the ruling elites, to manipulate the masses, even when they, the elites, do not genuinely believe in it.  In terms of their standard of living, any improvement will oftenti