Neo-liberal revolutions in Arab world proved to be an utter failure, must go back to classic meaning of revolutions!

The end of the nation-state in the Arab world, a long nightmarish film Kuwaitis said to their Emir we won't let you! Pretty courageous lessons for neighbouring archaic absolute monarchy Monarchies and princes are supposed 2 be unifying forces in divided societies, in Arabian Peninsula, they are sources of division Saudi regime will be hysterical if Kuwaitis succeed in having an elected government, will be 1 in Gulf Kuwaitis will be marching to Irada sq on Tuesday, they seem to be fed up with corruption Madawi Al-Rasheed on urgency of reform in KSA http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/authors/madawi-al-rasheed … via @AlMonitor Egypt's revolution won't be undone: the people still have the will | Ahdaf Soueif http://gu.com/p/3pkq7/tw via @guardian Great article on plight of HR activists in KSA Saudi anti-terrorism law casts wide net http://almon.co/23nd via @AlMonitor #Saudi local and regional policies to control any potential dissent only postponed addressing bigger issues @MadawiDr http://almon.co/23qj https://www.facebook.com/events/257625761103971/?ref_notif_type=like&source=١ President Barack Obama threatened U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Thursday against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want to establish their own state in Iraq and Syria.شاركها ان كنت عراقي أو كان يهمك امن العراق ، مادامت الحرب اعلامية، فكلنا جنود #العراق كلنا مع #الجيش_العراقي، من يتمنى السلام لهذه المراقد، انضمو معنا و ادعو اصدقائكم من اجل نصرة الدين والحفاظ على المراقد المقدسة لنجمع مليون دعاء لنصرة الجيش العراقي الذي يواجه اسوأ خلق الله من التكفيرين. الرجاء دعوة كل الاصدقاء لديكم للانضمام للحملة لا نملك ان نكون بين المقاتلين ولكن نملك الدعاء لهم من ابو جعفر الزرفي لابن ابيه العدناني (اما بعد ان لعب الشيطان بعقولكم وقدمتم سوف ندفنكم احياءا في خنادق الكوفه...انتهى) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204048335392740&set=gm.674878052589257&type=1 اللهم احفظ جيشنا ..وعجل فرج امامنا بحق محمد وال محمد في العام 1970 بعد حرب ضروس دامت عشره اعوام بين فيتنام الشماليه المدعومه من الاتحاد السوفيتي والصين وفيتنام الجنوبيه المدعومه من الولايات المتحده واستراليا ..انسحبت القوات الامريكيه من فيتنام الجنوبيه فلم تصمد بعدها حكومه سايگون غير خمسه اعوام فدخل ثوار الفيتگونگ سايگون ولم تحرك الولايات المتحده ساكنا لانقاذ حلفائها في الجنوب وتركتهم في مهب الريح لانهم فروا بدون قتال خوفا من بطش الفيتگونگ ..فامريكا دوما تضعف الاقوياء ولن تدافع ابدا عن الضعفاء!!! In 1970, after ten years of war between North Viet Nam supported the Soviet Union, China, South Viet Nam supported the United States and Australia.U.s. troops pulled out of South Viet Nam did not hold up after the Government سايگون not five years, income الفيتگونگ سايگون rebels and the United States did not move a finger to save their allies in the South and leave them in the wind because they fled without fighting for fear of oppression الفيتگونگ.It always weakens the mighty America would never defend the weak!!! NAMYO HO RANGE KYO السلام عليكم شلونكم * Bird makes Journey of 24,000 KM in a systematic way. ZOOLOGY ANIMALS AND BIRDS LIVE IN COMMUNITIES “There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you.” [Al-Qur’an 6:38] Research has shown that animals and birds live in communities, i.e. they organize, and live and work together. THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS “Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are Signs for those who believe.” [Al-Qur’an 16:79] Another verse also touches on birds: “Do they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them except (Allah) Most Gracious: truly it is He that watches over all things.” [Al-Qur’an 67:19] The Arabic word amsaka literally means, ‘to put one’s hand on, seize, hold, hold someone back,’ which expresses the idea that Allah holds the bird up in His power. These verses stress the extremely close dependence of the birds’ behaviour on Divine law. Modern scientific data has shown the degree of perfection attained by certain species of birds with regard to the programming of their movements. It is only the existence of a migratory programme in the genetic code of the birds that can explain the long and complicated journey that very young birds, without any prior experience and without any guide, are able to accomplish. They are also able to return to the departure point on a definite date. Prof. Hamburger in his book ‘Power and Fragility’ gives the example of ‘mutton-bird’ that lives in the Pacific with its journey of over 24,000 km in the shape of figure ‘8’. It makes this journey over a period of 6 months and comes back to its departure point with a maximum delay of one week. The highly complicated instructions for such a journey have to be contained in the birds’ nervous cells. They are definitely programmed. Therefore, should we not at least reflect on the identity of this ‘Programmer’? ------------------------------- Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric issues call to fight rebels Fri, Jun 13 08:59 AM EDT image 1 of 5 By Raheem Salman and Isra al-Rubei'i Baghdad, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a relentless advance by Sunni militants, in a sharp escalation of a conflict which is threatening civil war and the potential break-up of the country. In a rare intervention at Friday prayers in the holy city of Kerbala, a message from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who is the highest religious authority for the Shi'ites in Iraq, said people should unite to fight back against advancing militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Fighters under the black flag of ISIL captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a lightning sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a mediaeval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria. "People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of their country ... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal," said Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai, delivering Sistani's message to the faithful. Those killed fighting ISIL militants would be martyrs, he said as worshippers chanted in acknowledgement. U.S. President Barack Obama threatened military strikes against ISIL on Thursday, highlighting the gravity of the group's threat to redraw borders in an oil-rich region. In the spreading chaos, Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized control of Kirkuk, an oil hub just outside their autonomous enclave that they have long seen as their traditional capital. Thrusting further to the southeast after their seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran. Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim insurgents after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said. The Iraqi army fired artillery shells at Saadiyah and Jalawla from the nearby town of Muqdadiya, sending dozens of families fleeing towards Khaniqin near the Iranian border. Obama said on Thursday he was considering "all options" to support Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-dominated central government that took full control when the U.S. occupation ended in 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam. "I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria," Obama said at the White House, when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes. "In our consultations with the Iraqis, there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily," he said. A U.S. defense official said the United States had been flying surveillance drones over Iraq to help it fight ISIL. U.S. officials later said that U.S. ground forces would not return to Iraq. INTERNATIONAL ALARM But Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq's minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam's demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge. "This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this," Obama said. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes. But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers "must deal with the situation". In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city. Giving a hint of their vision of a caliphate, ISIL published Sharia rules for the territory they have carved out in northern Iraq, including a ban on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and an edict on women to wear only all-covering, shapeless clothing. ISIL militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns. On Friday, ISIL said it was giving soldiers and policemen a "chance to repent ... For those asking who we are, we are the soldiers of Islam and have shouldered the responsibility to restore the glory of the Islamic Caliphate”. Residents near the border with Syria, where ISIL has exploited civil war to seize wide tracts of the country's northeast, saw its militants bull-dozing tracks through frontier sand berms - as a prelude to trying to revive a mediaeval entity straddling both modern states. ISIL has battled rival rebel factions in Syria for months and occasionally taken on President Bashar al-Assad's forces. But its fighters appear to have held back in Syria this week, especially in their eastern stronghold near the Iraqi border, while their Iraqi wing was making rapid military gains. WEAPONS INTO SYRIA ISIL's Syria branch is now bringing in weapons seized in Iraq from retreating government forces, according to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. Matthew Henman, Head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre said in a report that ISIL's capture of Iraqi territory along the Syrian border will give the group greater freedom of movement of men and material across the two countries. "Light and heavy weaponry, military vehicles, and money seized by ISIL during the capture of Mosul will be moved into desert area of eastern Syria, which ISIL has been using as a staging ground for attacks," he said. At Baiji, near Kirkuk, ISIL fighters ringed Iraq's largest refinery, underlining the potential threat to the oil industry. Further south, the fighters extended their advance to towns only about an hour's drive from Baghdad, where Shi'ite militia were mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007. Trucks carrying Shi'ite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend Baghdad. Security and police sources said Sunni militants now held parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad. "We are waiting for reinforcements and we are determined not to let them take control," said a police officer in Udhaim. "We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north." TARGET BAGHDAD ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki's office. ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there' - that’s what their leader kept repeating," said a regional tribal figure. The senior U.N. official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in "no immediate danger". The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned "terrorism". As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria. Now the Shi'ite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet U.S. support, may share an interest with the "Great Satan" Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki. The global oil benchmark price has jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said. The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shi'ites. (Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Ziad al-Sinjary in Mosul Isabel Coles in Arbil, and Washington bureau; editing by Janet McBride; Writing by Mark Heinrich, editing by Peter Millership)