UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
I respectfully ask the mods to check through Anon1’s comments starting on page 11 and continuing ad nauseum in which he hardly ever misses an opportunity to slag off Islam. As well as being religionist (and racist) he has been warned by Fedup but supported by Habbabkuk throughout, even though these two are the first to complain when comments target the aparthied state of Israel. I am calling for both to be banned.
Thank you for giving this your attention.
Hospbug
don’t make me laugh, I want to pray my midday prayers, ” treasonous support of President Putin and his Russia through thick and thin. ”
My goodness me the neo-shill-cons are getting desperate, pulling ‘treason’ out the medieval book of Wizards spells. Like Syrian Opposition saying they won’t talk to Assad, when the whole world knows they have lied through their teeth from day one.
There’s something rather sordid about Her majesty’s own son talking about winning the Great Game, when we all know that the War on Terror is a war against the theological enemy of Queenie, Islam.
Maybe when Hospbug talks about treason , he really means blasphemy.
According to the UK Foreign Office David Cameron sits at God’s right side, with his foot on Jesus’ neck pbuh and his lance on the dragon of Islam, guarding the true religion of all good Englishmen, the worship of Market Forces and USUKIS global domination.
definition of civil war :
“a war between groups of people in the same country” — Merriam-Webster
“a war between organized groups within the same state or country” — Wikipedia
“a war between factions or regions of the same country” — the free dictionary
“a war between citizens of the same country” — oxford dicytionaries
“armed conflict between a government and another group from within the same country.” — business dictionary
“a war fought by different groups of people living in the same country” — cambridge dictionary
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List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War :
Syria Syrian government forces
Syrian Armed Forces
Syrian Arab Army
Syrian Arab Air Force
Syrian Arab Navy
Republican Guard
National Defence Force
Jaysh al-Sha’bi
Suqur al-Sahara
Ba’ath Brigades[1]
Allied armed groups:
Syrian Social Nationalist Party[2]
Arab Nationalist Guard[3]
Syrian Resistance [4]
Arab Democratic Party[5]
Jaysh al-Muwahhideen[2]
Forces of Abu Ibrahim[6]
Sootoro
PFLP–GC[7]
Liwa Al-Quds[8]
Palestine Liberation Army[9]
Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas[10]
Liwa Fatemiyoun[11]
Faylak Wa’ad al-Sadiq[12]
Fatah al-Intifada[13]
Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq)
Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada
Badr Organization[14]
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq[14]
Kata’ib Hezbollah[15]
Peace Companies[16]
DHKP-C[17]
Houthis[18]
Jaysh al-Wafaa[19]
Liwa Dhu al-Fiqar[20][21]
Dareh al-Sahel[22]
Dareh al-Areen[22]
Al-Hosn[22]
Dareh al-Watan[22]
al-Berri clan[23][24]
Tayy tribe militias[25]
al-Jihesh tribe militias[26]
Maghawir Forces[27]
Far right volunteers[28][29]
Popular Committees (2012)
Syria Slavonic Corps[30][31] (2013)
InfoboxHez.PNG Hezbollah[32]
Iran[33][34][35]
Revolutionary Guards[36]
Quds Force[37]
Basij[38][39][40]
Russia[41]
Armament support:
Russia[42][43]
Iran[44]
North Korea[45][46][47]
Iraq[48]
Egypt (from 2015)[49]
Belarus[50]
Non-lethal support:
Venezuela[51][52][53][54][55]
Angola[56]
China[57][58]
Algeria[59]
Armenia[60]
Cuba[61]
Syrian opposition Syrian opposition
Free Syrian Army
Southern Front
Homs Liberation Movement[62][63]
Jaysh al-Nasr[64]
Falcons of Mount Zawiya Brigade
Northern Division[65][66]
13th Division
16th Division[67]
46th Division[68]
1st Coastal Division
2nd Coastal Division
al-Rahman Legion
Islamic Front
Ahrar ash-Sham
Jaysh al-Islam
Al-Fawj al-Awal[69]
Northern Storm Brigade
Ansar al-Sham
Jaish al-Sham[70]
Levant Front
Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union[71]
Northern Brigade[72][73]
Jabhat Ansar al-Islam
Allied armed groups:
Criterion Brigades
Syrian Turkmen Brigades
Grey Wolves[74][75][76]
Muslim Brotherhood of Syria[77]
Shields of the Revolution Council
Hamas[78][79]
Joint operations rooms:[80]
Army of Conquest
Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta[81][82]
Jaysh al-Islam/al-Rahman Legion [83][84]
Fatah Halab[85][86]
Mare’ Operations Room[87]
Northern Homs Countryside Operations Room[88][89]
Itisam bi Allah[90]
Houla Operations Room[91]
Jaysh al-Tawheed[92][93]
Ansar al-Sharia[94]
Jaish al-Haramoun[95]
Saraya Ahl al-Sham[96]
Jund al-Malahm[97]
al Marj Operations Room[98]
Armament support:
Qatar[99][100]
Saudi Arabia[99][101]
Turkey
United States[102][103]
France[104]
Libya (until 2014)[105]
Non-lethal support:
United Kingdom[106]
Canada[107]
Germany[108]
Netherlands[109]
Italy[110][111]
United Arab Emirates[112][113][114]
Jordan[115]
Egypt (until 2013)
Salafi jihadists:
Al-Nusra Front
Khorasan Group[116]
Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar[117]
Jabhat Ansar al-Din[118]
Ghuraba al-Sham[119]
Fatah al-Islam[120][121][122]
Muhajirin wa-Ansar Alliance[123]
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan[124]
Turkistan Islamic Party[125]
Islamic Muthanna Movement[126]
Imam Bukhari Jamaat
Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Alleged support:
Qatar[127][128][129]
Saudi Arabia[128][129]
Turkey[128][130]
Rojava Kurdish Supreme Committee
People’s Protection Units (YPG)
Women’s Protection Units (YPJ)
Asayish[131]
Self-Defence Forces (HXP)[132]
Self Protection Force (HPC)[133]
Syriac Union Party
Syriac Military Council (MFS)[134]
Sutoro[135]
Syrian Democratic Assembly[136][137][138]
Syrian Democratic Forces
Allied armed groups:
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
People’s Defence Forces
Free Women’s Units
Al-Sanadid Forces
Army of Revolutionaries[139]
Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa
Jabhat al-Akrad
International Freedom Battalion[140][141]
TKP-Kıvılcım
Yekîtî Party
Liwaa Siqur El-Badiye[142]
Shammer tribe militias[143]
Sharabiyya tribe militias[144]
Zubayd tribe militias[145]
Al-Shaitat tribe militias[146]
Sinjar Resistance Units [147]
Iraqi Kurdistan
Peshmerga
Armament support:
Iraqi Kurdistan
Kurdistan Regional Government[148]
Kurdistan Democratic Party[149]
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan[149]
France[150]
United States[151]
Russia[152][153]
Syria (alleged)[154][155][156][157][158]
Airstrikes:
United States
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates
Morocco
France
Australia[159]
United Kingdom[160]
Canada[161]
Russia[162][163][164][165]
Non-lethal support:
Germany[166]
Finland[167]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Military of ISIL
See: Syrian opposition–ISIL Conflict
Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade[168][169] (allegedly)[170]
Jaysh al-Jihad [171]
Dokumacılar[172][173]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
John Goss
Don’t ask for the racist trolls to be banned, if they keep digging they might fall into their own huge holes. Nobody’s going to dig them out again.
“List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War”
So you agree there is a civil war in Syria then.
Node
For some strange reason your list omits to mention the UK passport holding 70,000 David Cameron Taleban.
They obviously don’t count because they’re fighting for our Queen, in the Queenida’s Royal Guards.
“The comments on the blogs run by Brian Barder and Charles Crawford are of a very different nature to most of the “comments” on here.
On the whole, one gets the impression of an attempt to engage seriously with whatever Brian Barder and Charles Crawford happen to be blogging about and a complete absence of the sort of megaphone shouting and cuckoo behaviour one sometimes sees elsewhere”
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Yet here you are Habb, on Sunday morning commenting, you’re so full of it.
So you agree there is a civil war in Syria then.
I agree that you, the main stream media, and others vested interests persist in labeling it a civil war in defiance of reason, common sense, and the English language.
Why the MSM and vested interests do it is obvious. Why do you do it?
Charles Crawford, the vicar’s poodle sticking its neck through the dividing hedge was too much for my grannie’s dog and he sunk his teeth round its neck. It had to be sedated and sat around for days with its pink part on exhibition
Hospbug certainly knows my buttons. but the dog has already done the necessary on the poodle Charles Crawford. even his name gets me sizzling.
“Why the MSM and vested interests do it is obvious. Why do you do it?”
Because it’s a civil war, it matches the definitions you posted for a civil war. Please feel free to call it anything you want to call it but don’t go telling me and the rest of the world we are wrong to call it what it is.
Mr Goss
It’s a bit steep for an unsuccessful blogger and cuckoo in Craig’s nest like you to call for others to be banned.
Why don’t you focus on improving your own blog? Your absence from here while so doing would, in turn, improve the tone and credibility of this blog.
Please give this serious consideration.
I personally find it quite revolting to see an English person offer his unflinching support to the regime of a corrupt paedophile like Mr Putin, who carries out nuclear assassinations against dissenters and has journalists who investigate his corruption bumped of by the secret services he used to work for. But I suppose we ought not to be surprised at the apparently seamless transition of an old Soviet Union apologist to Putinista propagandist.
Not to mention the ridiculous anti-Western conspiracies that person comes out with, which are too laughable even for some of the crackpot websites he visits and promotes unquestioningly. (The latest being that the Zika virus is a ‘Yank’ plot to make billions put of marketing a cure.)
But we live in a free country and I don’t call for that person to be banned.
I second this motion!
The simple fact is these above two entities have throughout contributed very little to any debate of any kind. Notwithstanding the point that they have constantly attacked, and derided anyone else forwarding cogent, coherent and well thought out comments, by now a very obvious fact, as their remit; defence of the apartheid regime in zionistan.
Furthermore due to the innate enmity of these entities with anything Islamic and any and all Muslims the said entitles and in particular anon that has not let an opportunity to go by without it’s incitement to hatred of Muslims that this entity does not even accept as incitement to hatred.
Accepting the tenets of freedom of expression somehow does not equate to giving these racists a platform to freely and without any let of hindrance to further of their cause; incitement to hatred of all Muslims, as manifestly obvious through use of derisory and hateful labels; “mooslime/mooslim”. As well as a continual narrative of hatred of Muslims, that is so manifest in their “contributions”.
So the Israeli’s have tried just about everything under the sun to acquire the Al-Aqsa mosque seen by Muslims as third holiest place in the Islamic world. It was their Muhammed was said to have ascended to heaven, and every Muslim has sworn to defend the holy site even to the death.
Israel in their sheer and utter desperation have been digging under and around the Al-Aqsa mosque, hoping to find a miniscule of evidence that the mosques is sitting on even older J**ish site. It’s a rather pathetic and desperate attempt to usurp the Muslims from the UNESCO site also know as the Dome of the Rock.
Secretly the Israeli authorities probably hope to undermine the foundations of the mosque, hoping it will collapse under its own weight.
Such is the concern over the mosque and the Judaisation of Jerusalem that Jordan (one of only two Middle Eastern nations to actually recognise Israel and its stolen lands) fear the mosque could be lost to Israel or at the very least considerably damaged.
Of course the oppressing occupying forces of Israel, don’t particularly care what the outside world thinks about them or the slaughtering of the Palestinians and the usurping of stolen lands.
Indeed many in the Knesset laugh at the Oslo Accord, and see the UN as a joke, and they’d be right.
“Not to mention the ridiculous anti-Western conspiracies that person comes out with, which are too laughable even for some of the crackpot websites he visits and promotes unquestioningly. (The latest being that the Zika virus is a ‘Yank’ plot to make billions put of marketing a cure.)”
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Pfft…Anon1 you’re too stupid to realise that the release of genetically modified mosquitos is a form of Bio/entomological warfare.
Programmed little state cyberbots like you, are ten a penny.
It’s not the first time the number one warmongering country in the world has used that tactic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Buzz
Anon1
“Not to mention the ridiculous anti-Western conspiracies that person comes out with, which are too laughable even for some of the crackpot websites he visits and promotes unquestioningly. (The latest being that the Zika virus is a ‘Yank’ plot to make billions put of marketing a cure.)”
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Didn’t the same treasonous Putin-admirer and West-hater once say something about the Ebola virus having been manufactured in and deliberately released by the US in order to wipe out a few million Africans?
“But we live in a free country and I don’t call for that person to be banned.”
You should be banned for all the racist-religionist comments you’ve made over the years including the racist comments when Nigel Farage was popular. It is relentless and very poorly argued like the comment from which the above quote comes – no reasoning, no authority, just plain bigotry. We let it pass time and again but in the end it is taking up space and time that could be better utilised.
Here is one for anti-Islamic supporter who thinks he has more right to be here than others.
http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-sock-puppeteer.html
Young people in England are the most illiterate in the developed world with many students graduating with only a basic grasp of English and maths, an in-depth analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found.
The OECD report rated English teenagers aged 16 to 19 the worst of 23 developed nations in literacy and 22nd of 23 in numeracy. In contrast, pensioners or those close to retirement were among the highest-ranked of their age group
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/young-people-england-have-lowest-literacy-levels-developed-world-says-oecd-1540711
This report will be right up David Cameron’s street, it will keep them in low paid jobs whilst the Tories build a Dickensian society around them, they won’t know what hit them.
And with the British bill of Rights, which in reality means f*ck all rights, and the 40% strike laws forced on the unions. It will effectively mean you have no right to strike, and if you try othe bill of rights will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Fedup
“Accepting the tenets of freedom of expression somehow does not equate to giving these racists a platform to freely and without any let of hindrance to further of their cause”
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I welcome your admission that legislation against Holocaust denial is justified and right.
Would anyone else care to second Fedup’s view?
Republicofscotland
“the 40% strike laws forced on the unions. It will effectively mean you have no right to strike”
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Look on the bright side, RoS, there could be a democratic upside to this.
The legislation might incentivise union members to get off their backsides and actually vote – whether for or against the proposed strike in question.
The excuser of genoicders, child abusers, and child torturers, is going for the nuclear option by resorting to perch upon mountains of bones result of the WWII.
Pitiful, predictable weak and inane moron, clearly has no where else to run to and hide.
Mr Goss
“We let it pass time and again but in the end it is taking up space and time that could be better utilised.”
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“We” ? Are you speaking on behalf of Craig Murray?
If not, I suggest you drop your airs and graces and think seriously about better utilising your time and effort to improve your own blog.
In that way, more people might be tempted to engage with you on your blog and there would therefore be less of an incentive for you to cuckoo on CM.
It’s yet another win-win!
“Didn’t the same treasonous Putin-admirer and West-hater once say something about the Ebola virus having been manufactured in and deliberately released by the US in order to wipe out a few million Africans?”
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I’m surprised you’re still commenting in here, after you intimated that Crawford and Barder, are a level above our mere mortal attempts.
Yet here you are banging away like a tin drum, of course in reality we all know little state apologists like you have to obey orders and divert and slander on here on a daily basis, and of course the likes of Anon1 who (monkey see monkey do) has to back you up.
It’s fascinating watching you and your fellow cyberbots squirm trying to remove credibility from other comment.
Huffpuff
“unsuccessful blogger and cuckoo in Craig’s nest”
Please don’t confuse some people’s humility and deference to another’s courage with weakness.
You move around this blog on tiny legs like an insect the size of a full stop.
Yet your arrogance and self-importance makes you look like the 35 tonne whale being paraded in Japan, which suffered from the Dickensian malady spontaneous self-combustion.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/spontaneous-human-combustion-1.jpg
Fedup
” I welcome …. legislation against Holocaust denial is justified and right
The excuser of genoicders, child abusers, and child torturers, is going for the nuclear option by resorting to perch upon mountains of bones result of the WWII.
Pitiful, predictable weak and inane moron, clearly has no where else to run to and hide.”
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Oh dear, perhaps I was wrong!
It looks as if you are against legislation outlawing Holocaust denial.
I must have got confused by you “Accepting the tenets of freedom of expression somehow does not equate to giving these racists a platform to freely and without any let of hindrance to further of their cause”. 🙂
““We” ? Are you speaking on behalf of Craig Murray?”
I’m speaking about the decent people who argue and debate rationally including Craig.
Now, Habbabkuk, before you go, and I sincerely hope you and the equally obnoxious Anon1 are banned for a stretch, kindly direct us to the Habbabkuk blog, and let’s see what good blogging is all about.
You don’t say!!!!!
As they say even a blind squirrel will stumble on a nut now and again.
“Look on the bright side, RoS, there could be a democratic upside to this.
The legislation might incentivise union members to get off their backsides and actually vote – whether for or against the proposed strike in question.”
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Trust you to look at it from that angle it is of course designed to divide and conquer, why else would they need a 40% bill.
The bill would’ve been dreamt up by some weak chinned corporate lawyer, then passed on to the Tories to impliment at their corporate masters behest. Google has been f*cking the taxpayer for years with the help of the Tories, now the corporate machine intents to do the same to the unions.
If its a civil war in Syria, how come we are part of it? We have no UN support for bombing civilians and turning them into refugees.
But that does not matter much to the apologists for the arms dealers and other corporate swine’s who can do nothing else.
One of the oldest steel makers Sheffield Forge masters, famous for making guns, Gerald Bull and Project Babylon being one of their clients, have been rescued by a cabal of British boom and bust industries, all of them famous for previous shady deals, corruption and price fixing.
This entity is incapable of understanding a simple block quote, and had to be educated by someone about it! There you go and expect it to run a blog? The tough work of a keyboard warrior unit’s acting rabbi is all about sneering and jeering at all and sundry who’re perceived enemies of the apartheid regime in zionistan and it does not have any thing to do with any constructive pursuit. Albeit even constructing a blog! Have bulldozer and will travel is these miscreant motto, be it in occupied Palestine uprooting thousand years old olive trees, or farms, and homes of the Palestinians or anyone who dares to let his/her blog to carry any opinions that are proscribed by the zionist hasbara hq.
In the true fashion of zionist supremacist parasites destruction is the only way!!
The notions of acting rabbi running a blog, would need content, and for a content less empty reactionary that would be a death sentence. Moreover the tenner a day trolling fee would not apply.
John you should know by now the measure of these predicable cretins, you are asking the impossible.