Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal

"The anti-humanitarian tenor of Western policies towards the Kurds are well rooted in history. Indeed, they are based on long-standing strategic interests in the region. “The Kurds are in several countries and that was planned by Britain”, observes former President of the American Kurdish Society in Boston, Hussein Aktas. “If you have a problem with Iraq, you can use them against Iraq, same for Iran and Turkey.” Thanks to this disasterous condition, historically established by the West, there are “millions of Kurds who have been displaced from their homes since 1993 in Turkey”, and “hundreds of thousands of people have been tortured.”" - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "Modern Turkey - A Shining Example of Secular Democracy?"

II. Light Reading: Articles About The Tentative Turkish-Kurdish Peace Deal

Oray Egin - Turkey Kurd Peace: What Lies Beneath Turkey's Peace With Kurdish Rebels? (May 13).

Isabel Coles/Reuters - First Kurdish rebels arrive in Iraq under Turkey peace plan (May 14).

Galip Dalay - Kurdish peace process: The latest phase of de-securitisation politics (May 14).

AlBawaba.com - Kurds Begin Arriving In Iraq, Government Says Relations With Turkey Damaged (May 14).

John Hannah - Erdogan's Great Gamble (May 14).

Wladimir van Wilgenburg - Turkish Ties with Iraq, IranWorsen Over PKK Peace Plan (May 19).

Noreldin Waisy - With Abdullah Ocalan from Athens to Nairobi: Exclusive interview with former Greek intelligence officer Savvas Kalenteridis (May 6).

III. My Thoughts, For Whatever It's Worth (Not Much, I Know)

Where to begin?

Well, for one thing, Erdogan cannot be trusted, plus he is America's dog in the region so his word means nothing. Siding with America and Erdogan against Syria's Assad may boost the options for peace between Kurds and Turks in the short term but it won't end well for the Kurdish people in the long-term, especially since after America is done wrecking the region it will leave the Kurds to fend for themselves. How do I know this? Because it happened once before in history. And it wasn't that long ago. America betrayed the Kurds once, and it will do so again. Mark my words.

America betrays its allies at will because it has no morals, honour, a long-term vision, or anything except guns and bombs to offer. Being the ally of America is like being the ally of Death. In fact, you're better off marrying Lady Death and spending your honeymoon in Hell than forming an alliance with America and its puppets.

So good luck to America's allies like Israel, but be prepared to be stabbed in the back, along with the Kurds. That's how America treats its friends. And, oh yeah, Turkey will end up getting screwed as well. That's America for ya.

There is nothing honourable about that government in Washington. It deserves to crumble to ashes and wither away from this earth. 

Richard Tarnas - City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light

"Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View" by Richard Tarnas.

City Dark: Facing the Shadow of Modernity's Light, Richard Tarnas 11-30-2012. Source: Uploaded by ArchetypalView on December 26, 2012.

The City Dark Trailer (2012)

Turkish TV Reporter/Propagandist Gets Owned By A Truth-Telling Villager

Somebody wrote in the comment section for the video below, "this needs to happen all over the planet....correct the mouthpieces live on tv!"



Also, remember this? CNN got caught demonizing the Tea Party movement.

Turkish People Protest Against Their Government's Policy Towards Syria

Now it's about to get interesting.

Cops beat, teargas Turkish protesters angry at govt stance on Syria. Source: RT.

Anti-government anger in Turkey after Syria border bombings. Source: Euronews.

'Neo-Ottomanism driven Turkey does NATO's job, adds fuel to Syrian fire.' Source: RT.

The Plight of Syrian Refugees

There are Syrian refugees in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and other countries. There is an estimated 400,000 refugees in Turkey alone. But it is hard to pin down the real number of Syrian refugees because there has been no systematic accounting of people leaving Syria during this crisis.

Also, since belligerent nations like the United States, Saudi Arabia, France, and Turkey that seek to oust Assad have a political interest to increase the number of refugees on paper, official statistics that are reported in the news cannot be trusted.

One last note: Thank you United States of Israhell for all that you do! First you create problems in the Arab world by arming Jihadist terrorist groups to fuel years of warfare in the region, and then you don't do anything about the human costs and consequences of your war-making. Have a nice fall, assholes. And don't let your pet toy, Al-Qaeda, hit you on the way down.

Below are videos about the Syrian refugee crisis:

Title: The Syrian Refugee Crisis In Iraq: Neglected, Underfunded And Escalating. YouTube Description - [Channel: NorwRefugeeCouncil. Published on May 16, 2013]:

Today there are more than 140 000 Syrian refugees in Iraq. Every week, thousands of new refugees cross the border in the search for protection. What's needed?
1: Emergency funding to provide safe water and camp sanitation
2: A realistic plan to house the expanding refugee population
3: Political and technical support to bolster the capacity of host authorities

Title: Race against time in Zaatari refugee camp. YouTube Description - [Channel: NorwRefugeeCouncil. Published on December 21, 2012]:

With temperatures plummeting down to near freezing point at night, it is a race against time to ensure that Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp are prepared for winter. The NRC is insulating tents, distributing thermal blankets and has airlifted 6,000 heaters into Jordan to be distributed in the coming days.

Title: The Plight of the Syrian Refugees. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Salwa Attiga. Published on January 28, 2013]:

Hi everyone, this is a video that I made to support my 10th grade personal project at school. The objective is to raise awareness about the suffering of Syrian refugees in Jordan and particularly those in Al-Za'atari refugee camp in Mafraq.

Hope you enjoy it...

Title: The suffering of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Uploaded by Medlebanon on March 31, 2013.

Rudolf Steiner On Cultivating The Higher Organs

Below is an excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's book, "Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos." 1994. Anthroposophic Press: Hudson, New York. Pg. 96-99.

"Within our body, our eyes and ears develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes. Similarly, we can develop soul and spiritual organs of perception that will open up soul and spirit worlds to us. For anyone who does not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the physical world is dark and silent to a being without eyes and ears. However, we relate differently to these higher senses than to our physical ones, which as a rule are fully developed in us by good Mother Nature without our doing anything about it. But we ourselves must work at developing our higher senses. Just as nature develops our physical body so that we can perceive our physical surroundings and orient ourselves in them, so we must cultivate our own soul and spirit if we want to perceive the soul and spirit worlds.

There is nothing unnatural about cultivating the higher organs that nature itself has not yet developed, because in a higher sense, everything that human beings accomplish also belongs to nature. Only those who contend that we should all stay at the level of development where nature left us could call developing these higher senses "unnatural." For such people, these organs and their significance are "mis-known" in Goethe's sense. Such people might as well oppose any and every kind of education for human beings---because that too goes beyond the work of nature---and should also be especially opposed to operating on anyone who was born blind. What happens to a blind person after a successful operation is very much like what happens to those who awaken their higher senses in the way described in the last section of this book. The world now appears to them full of new qualities, new processes and new facts that their physical senses never revealed. They see clearly that there is nothing arbitrary or capricious about supplementing reality through these higher organs, and that without these organs the essential part of this reality would have remained hidden from them. The soul and spirit worlds are not "next to" or "outside" the physical world, not separated from it in space. The formerly dark world is suddenly radiant with light and color for a person born blind who has undergone an operation. Similarly, the soul and spiritual qualities of things that until now had appeared to us only in a purely physical way are revealed when we are awakened in soul and spirit. Of course this new world is also full of occurrences and beings that remain totally unknown to anyone who has not undergone a soul and spiritual awakening. (Later on in this book, the development of the soul and spiritual senses will be discussed in greater detail, but first the higher worlds themselves will be described. Those who deny the existence of these worlds only demonstrate that they have not yet developed their own higher organs. Human development is never complete at any given level; it must always be taken further.)

We often tend, unintentionally, to imagine these higher organs as being too much like our physical ones. It is important to remember that these organs are soul or spiritual formations and that we must not expect what we perceive in the higher worlds to be only a misty and diluted form of material substance. As long as we expect anything of that sort, we will not come to a clear idea of what is actually meant here by "higher worlds." Many people would find it much easier to actually know something---at first, of course, only the elementary facts---about these higher worlds if they did not imagine that what they are to perceive is a highly refined version of something physical. That they make this assumption usually means that they do not want to recognize what is really involved. They find it unreal, do not accept it as something that could satisfy them, and so on. True, the higher levels of spiritual development are difficult to reach, but the levels adequate for recognizing the nature of the spiritual world---and that is already a lot---would not be nearly as difficult to reach if people would first get rid of the prejudice that makes them imagine that what is of a soul and spiritual nature is simply a more refined version of what is physical.

We obviously do not really know a person if we have only an idea of his or her physical appearance, nor do we really know the world around us if we know only what our physical senses can tell us about it. A photograph becomes intelligible and full of life to us once we come to know the person in the photograph so well that we know his or her soul, and in the same way, we can really understand the material world only once we know its soul and spiritual basis. That is why it is good to talk first about the higher worlds of soul and spirit, and only then come to conclusions about the physical world from a spiritual scientific point of view."

Egyptian Music Video About The Betrayal of the Muslim Brotherhood

An excerpt from the article, "Brotherhood loses the middle class," by Azmi Ashour, published in Al-Ahram on December 5, 2012:

Anyone who watched the million-man marches in Tahrir and other Egyptian cities on 23, 27 and 30 November (which is to say three huge mass protest demonstrations in a single week) can easily observe the change in the composition of the revolutionary crowds. The middle class, which is generally more moderate and less activist than the revolutionary youth, added their numbers to Tahrir and other major squares in the country. Their anxieties as to where the Muslim Brotherhood is leading the country galvanised them into staging huge marches from various parts of the capital to the epicentre of the revolution, lending a strong backing to the youth who had remained steadfast in their defence of the principles of the revolution from the outset.

Title of Song - Ikhwan Survive. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Aaskar Kazeboon. Published on May 16, 2013]:

Ikhwan Survive.. performed by: Kazeboon campaign team
Original music -- sound track:
"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor,
written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Survive