Paul Antonopoulos
Fort RussSat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
© ReutersPresident Masoud Barzani at independence rally
With the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq defiantly going ahead with a scheduled independence referendum on September 25, the
White House has released a statement announcing that it "does not support" the move.The White House claims that the upcoming referendum "is distracting from efforts to defeat ISIS and stabilize the liberated areas" and that "holding the referendum in disputed areas is particularly provocative and destabilizing."
The referendum has received condemnation globally with major world actors calling for the cancellation of the vote.It however remains unlikely that the referendum will be cancelled and it is expected that the majority of people will vote for independence.
Comment: Previously, President Barzani stated he would be willing to scrap the upcoming vote on the condition that the international community promise, in exchange, to accept unconditionally the results of a future vote. His timeline indicated a one-year deadline. If Barzani hasn't rescinded the offer, will conditions on the delay be accepted and upheld by those countries opposed to the rapidly upcoming September 25th deadline? Or will it result in a 'bait and switch' to avoid a snowball effect in other countries with Kurdish populations.
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To make the most of their independence movement, western interests launched a long range plan to create other 'independent regions' that together would make up a new nation whose creation would be solely thru US intervention and would then be the essentially owe their existence to the western world. Few realize the nation would be a crumb of their great grandparents historical land of AR, divided as spoils of war after WWI.
Without the essential key of Aleppo being razed to the ground, there could not be a new nation connecting the Kurd oil fields in Iraq, traversing the new country of Rojava and across Aleppo the the Med.
The massacre of the Syrian population, the future of families gone up in the flames of bombs, the demonization of Assad in the same style of Khadafy, all the American lives lost under the pretense of fighting for democracy was a disguise for not only capitalist greed but the protection of exclusive power as well.
This is the macro reflection of the micro world of individuals struggling to attain a job to enable home ownership against a corporate world determined to squeeze profit from all aspects of living. The media no longer sponsors truth but platitudes and idioms and catch phrases and many other isms that have nothing to do with real life but everything to do with creating a false front of idealism. We all live in Mr Bush's world: ONLY THE APPEARANCES MATTER.