linkinparkvevo:thejustcity:owning-my-truth:Full Text on Storify: How US Imperialism Created ISISCorr
linkinparkvevo:thejustcity:owning-my-truth:Full Text on Storify: How US Imperialism Created ISISCorrection: ISIS was not a subsidiary of Al Qaeda, although there were links between the groups which contributed to its rise before Al Qaeda disavowed ISIS. “ISIS grew out of the former Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist militant umbrella group that is believed to have helped create the al-Nusra Front in mid-2011” (x). al-Nusra is al Qaeda’s official arm in Syria.More Sources:CIA funds radical Islamist Afghan mujahideen, a large number of whom eventually come to form the TalibanAfghanistan under the Taliban was a base for Al Qaeda, ISIS was linked to the proto-groups which eventually formed al-Nusra, al Qaeda’s wing in Syria, although al Qaeda has since disavowed them for their brutality and sectarianism.Hamid Karzai comments on how the US directly contributed to radicalization of Islamist groups in Afghanistan and the region as a whole, “The more radical we looked and talked, the more we were called mujahedin. The consequence of that was a massive effort toward uprooting traditional Afghan values and culture and tolerance.”US invasion of Iraq leads directly to many of the catastrophes we are seeing nowThe US invasion of Libya leads to a virtual “terror diaspora” across the regionLibyan arms in Syria post-US invasionUS arms & those of “US allies” in the region being funneled into Syria and into the hands of Islamist groups“How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their ‘Caliphate’ and Ours”More on how ISIS is the product of US imperialism and the “War on Terror”A short (and incomplete given the scale of US-propagated violence across the globe) account of the myriad ways in which US imperialism directly led to creation of ISIS. US imperialism is never the answer and the US-led coalition now will only destabilize the situation further and lead to even more violence and long term problems in the entire region.what none of this says is that it is all to the benefit of a few companies. Oil companies can artificially inflate oil price citing “instability” (im looking at saudi arabia) even though the cost to produce doesn’t increase so the oil companies make billions.the military contractors make billions as well, Boeing, Lockheed martin, L-3 communications, Harris Corporation, Jacobs engineering, MA federal, Raytheon and ITT corporation all have lobbyists that directly control congressmen steadily whispering in their ear “war war war”. SO imperialism isn’t the end of that line of thought. It ends at capital, money and the system that supports it.War is a racket (thats an actual book one that you’ll never learn about in school) its profitable and disgusting. capitalism causes imperialism and it needs to end, all of it.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Affairs-Britains-Collusion-Radical/dp/1846687640^this is an excellent book that details the history of british imperialism in the middle east over the last couple of centuries. it’s important to remember this is not just the US doing this, it’s all western countries -- source link