In order to make Islam a worthy enemy, the Empire had to first radicalize and pervert countless Muslim movements and organizations, then create the new ones, consequently training, arming and financing them, so they could really look frightening enough. Islam is big and mighty enough, to scare the shit out of the middle class housewives in some Western suburb! And on top of that, it had to be contained anyway, as it was essentially too socialist and too peaceful.ДЄt that time in history, all great secular and socialist leaders of Muslim countries, (like in Iran, Indonesia and Egypt), were overthrown by the West, their legacy spat on, or they were simply banned. Oh how missed that threat was, suddenly! Just a threat of course not the danger of egalitarian and internationalist idealsвЂ¦ДЄnd so the West linked terrorism with Islam, which is one of the greatest cultures on earth, with 1.6 billion followers. There had to be something really huge, something matching that вЂevilвЂ™ Soviet вЂњthreatвЂќ. It was not good enough to face a few hundred вЂfreaksвЂ™ somewhere inside the Colombian jungle or in Northern Ireland or Corsica. It needed a new вЂњmightyвЂќ, really mighty, enemy to rationalize its astronomical military and intelligence budgets. Somehow it felt that it needed to justify its monstrous oppressive acts in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. They had to be contained, liquidated, and if they held power, overthrown.Д«ut terrorists became really popular in the West only after the Soviet Union and the Communist Block were destroyed through thousands of economic, military and propaganda means, and the West suddenly felt too exposed, so alone without anyone to fight.

There were also several Latin American вЂterrorвЂ™ groups вЂ“ the revolutionary movements fighting for freedom and against oppression, mainly against Western colonialism. It вЂњhad to be doneвЂќ, in order to discredit the Left, just to make sure that people would not become so irresponsible as to vote for the Communists or true Socialists. You remember, the NATO countries were blowing up those trains inside the tunnels, or bombing entire train stationsвЂ¦ But only now we are learning that the terrorist acts attributed to them were actually committed by the Empire, by several European right-wing governments and intelligence services. In summary they are wife beaters, child rapists and Greek and Roman statue destroyers.ДЄctually, during the Cold War, there were some white looking вЂњterroristsвЂќ вЂ“ the left-wingers belonging to several revolutionary cells, in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Many of them are bearded almost all are вЂњforeign lookingвЂќ, non-white, non-Western. We are asked to believe that terrorists consist of dirty lunatics, running around with bombs, machine guns and explosive belts. Terrorism has many forms and many faces, but the most terrible of them is cold cruelty. The Hundred YearsвЂ™ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance Rashid KhalidiДЇear and Loathing in the Lone Star State E.R. No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World Michael Albert Manufacturing Hate: How Africa was Demonized in Western Media Milton AllimadiДЄnother Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present Yanis Varoufakis The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump Clifford D ConnerД®vermore Mihaela Melnic and Scott Thomas Outlar Stand on Guard for Whom?: A PeopleвЂ™s History of the Canadian Military Yves Engler The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Robert F.

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