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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War Mike Whitney One Plan To Guide Them All:  “….. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq. .. into ethnically or religiously unique areas…  is Israel’s primary target … while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short-term target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure… Oded Yinon,  A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,  voltairenet Israeli military forces have moved to within 15 miles of the Syrian Capital of Damascus.  The IDF has seized large tracts of land in southern Syria it intends to occupy and where it will eventually build checkpoints, military outposts and settlements. The “lightening” invasion has been accompanied by a massive bombing campaign that has obliterated numerous military bases, weapons depots and research labs eliminating any hope that Syria will regain the ability to defend itsel...

  THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF TERROR How Regime Change is ruining your life Frank Wright We inhabit a vast machine of cultural production . This means that for a century the methods by which we are governed using mass culture have been constantly refined to produce a total system of control. Today I will argue that this system produces terror, virally marketing violence alongside promoting the benefits of the downstream effects of regime change. It has produced the  War on Terror  - as well as the terrorists required to sell it to the populations of the West. From 9/11 to Syria today, the US and its allies have manufactured terrorism abroad and at home to replace stability with a permanent state of emergency. This is all part of the story - of the Cultural Production of Terror. Contents Part One - How Terror Became the New Normal Part Two - Starting a War on Terror - US, Israel and Al-Qaeda in concert Part Three - The Cultural Production of Islamic Terrorism Described as a...