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Saturday, February 17, 2018

BLACK PANTHER bores in Black Face

Bruce A. Dixon (BLACK AGENDA REPORT):

The Black Panther movie’s main characters are black and beautiful and all, but the lead guys are still a king and a brutha who wants to be king. The king is one of the richest people in the world – except for Spiderman I never heard of a comic book character worried about where next month’s rent would come from – and he rules over a fictional African country called Wakanda, a place loaded with technology so advanced it’s able to conceal its wealth and achievement from the rest of the planet.
I’m a senior citizen now, and it’s a little sad that apart from making the sheroes and heroes black and beautiful, which is sort of necessary but not nearly sufficient, comics and sci fi, at least the stuff brought to us by capitalist corporate media pretty much fails to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like.


Yep, that's the film I saw last night.

A film supposedly about Black revolution -- one using "the revolution will not be televised" over and over in its early TV commercials.  (Gil Scott Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.")  Yet instead of some sort of world we might aspire to, it's just more of the same.

They threw a little Black face on the characters but it's a White world and White story.

The Black Panthers -- having nothing to do with the comic book, I know -- had nothing to do with a feudal system.  They were a community that worked together to address basic needs.

You don't see that in the film.

There's not even something as mild as the love of spirit to be found in the Amazons of Paradise Island.

It's just a White male world that's been baked on a tanning bed.

The people behind it tried too hard to win White approval -- copying from Shakespeare, badly -- and, in doing so, looked behind when they should have been envisioning a future.

It's a small movie, with a tiny brain.  Even the action scenes are derivative of what has come before.

See Stan's posts on the movie:



  • Again on BLACK PANTHER
  • BLACK PANTHER -- not all that great


  • It's so bad it makes your basic Sly Stone film seem intelligent.


    "Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
    Friday, February 16, 2018.  'Progress' fifteen years later.

    May 12th, Iraq is supposed to hold elections. Dr. Manuel Almeida (ARAB NEWS) notes:

    Among the leading contenders is Al-Maliki himself, heading his State of Law Coalition, while several PMU leaders — some loyal to Tehran — have joined new Shiite coalitions. There have also been rumors that Masoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and former KRG president, has been testing the possibility of an alliance with Al-Maliki. This alliance would constitute a major challenge to the current prime minister’s re-election. Last month, Abadi announced his re-election bid at the head of a cross-sectarian bloc, the “Victory Alliance,” which collapsed after less than 48 hours. 
    The return of Al-Maliki to the premiership is a dreadful and not far-fetched prospect that would put many foreign investors on the back foot. The current vice-president remains a widely influential figure and leads the largest bloc in parliament. 
    But the key challenges facing the future Iraqi government and its hopes of building a much-needed investor-friendly environment do not end with the people’s leadership choice in a few months’ time. Corruption will remain a cause of major concern, and the related matters of transparency, accountability and even the existence or otherwise of qualified local staff to deliver the various projects will define success or failure.


    Nouri al-Maliki's return?  The possibility that the man whose actions caused the rise of ISIS in Iraq could still return as prime minister says a lot about how little has been accomplished in the last four years in Iraq.

    The fact that Hayder and Nouri promise so little and differ so little also says a great deal about how bad things remain in Iraq.

    Both men remain members of the Dawa political party and Hayder is a member of Nouri's political slate State of Law:

    Kirk Sowell (CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE) observes:

    Division within the SLC, and its lead faction, the Dawa Party, to which Maliki and Abadi both belong, left it unclear how Abadi would run. While Abadi kept his own counsel on his plans throughout 2017, Iraqi and pan-Arab news reports indicated he would run on a separate electoral list as a representative of the Dawa Party. Maliki would again head the SLC, with Dawa part of the alliance. It never seems to have occurred to Abadi to clarify with Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) if the party was permitted to run on two separate electoral alliances. The issue was clarified on January 8 when IHEC ruled that parties could not do so according to article 29 of the 2015 Political Parties Law.
    This led to a deadlock within the Dawa Party because Maliki, who has remained its secretary-general, had the party registered in his name as a way of blocking Abadi. When a majority of the party’s leadership supported Abadi, on January 13 the party decided to not run at all, allowing candidates to join any coalition as independents. Since registration of new coalitions closed on January 11, the electoral map is now clear, though parties can join or leave coalitions until February 10, when candidate lists are due. Among major Shia leaders, Abadi registered the Nasr (“Victory”) Coalition, which quickly grew to include 29 parties. Maliki again registered the SLC, Badr Organization leader Hadi al-Ameri leads the Fatah (“Conquest”) Alliance, while Muqtada al-Sadr founded a new party called Istiqama (“Integrity”), which will be part of a new coalition called Sairun (“March Onward”). Ammar al-Hakim also registered the Hikma Current, which he had formed in July 2017 after splitting from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI).
    In an effort to ensure a win, Abadi pivoted from his conflict with Maliki to an attempted alliance with Ameri’s Fatah. Abadi, who spent the past three years advocating non-sectarian politics, in recent months even promising a cross-sectarian coalition, endured enormous criticism for the cold pragmatism that drove him to an alliance with Fatah, which is made up of the political wings of Iran-backed militia groups. While Abadi’s current list does have Sunni candidates, his bloc is dominated by Shia Islamists—and because the Sunni candidates are not as prominent, it is possible none of them will win in their provinces and Abadi could end up with an all-Shia bloc in parliament. However, criticism remained even after the Abadi–Ameri “Nasr al-Iraq” alliance, announced the evening of January 14, collapsed less than 24 hours later when Fatah withdrew. Its leadership seemed in disagreement over the benefits of allying with Abadi; however, Ameri emphasized that he was ready to join coalition after the elections. Other factions have left since left Abadi’s Nasr coalition, including Hikma.
    The election will also be a referendum on Sadr, who has spent the past two years rebranding himself as a unifying populist pushing for reforms and clean government, in part by allying his Islamist followers with secular protesters. Yet the protest movement that Sadr has led jointly with the secularists has been controversial given the Sadrists’ own political ambitions. The Civil Democratic Alliance (CDA), Sadr’s protest partners and Iraq’s main secularist party, which won five seats in 2014, has split into four parts, weakening their own chances of obtaining any seats. Furthermore, efforts by Sadr’s appointed leader for Istiqama, Hassan al-Aquli, to obscure the fact that it is just another Sadrist party in secularist clothing could undermine its credibility.
    Another challenge for Abadi is the boycott effort promoted by activists on social media, mostly in response to the expectation that the election will simply reproduce the current political elite. Yet this could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It has long been clear anecdotally that many Iraqis are dissatisfied with Islamist and sectarian parties, and a 2017 survey from the Baghdad-based Bayan Center confirmed this. Still, the superior organizational resources of Shia Islamist-dominated lists, division among secular factions, and the impact of the boycott mean that the election is likely to produce another Shia Islamist-dominated parliament.


    Histyar Qader (NIQASH) reports:

    Right now, it looks like the current prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has a good chance of keeping the job. However his rival, Nouri al-Maliki, is also jockeying to take back the position he once held. Both men are Shiite Muslim politicians from the same party and are also bitter rivals, whose competition represents a wider split between Iraq’s Shiite Muslim-dominated political establishment. Both politicians and their supporters are working, in public and behind closed doors, to persuade the Kurds their cause will  get better support.
    The Kurdish politicians spent eight years under al-Maliki and the last four years, they have been dealing with a government headed by al-Abadi. Although the Kurds supported the Shiite parties after every election since 2005, both prime ministers have left them with bad memories.
    One of the most powerful parties in the semi-autonomous northern region, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, plans to wait until after the elections to decide who it might ally itself with, says Rasul Razgaey, a KDP spokesperson. Neither possibility looks particularly appetizing right now, Razgaey agreed.
    “Al-Maliki stopped paying the salaries of Kurdish staff and al-Abadi attacked the region,” Razgaey told NIQASH; he is referring to budget quarrels between Iraqi Kurdish politicians during al-Maliki’s administration and more recently, the fact that, last October the Iraqi military, under instructions from al-Abadi, reclaimed territory that the Kurdish had previously controlled. “You should expect anything and everything in politics,” Razgaey continued. “There is no permanent friend or enemy. And anyway, we do not know if another party altogether might win the majority.”

    The scrapping over who is a better friend to Iraq’s Kurds is highlighted by recent events. During an interview with the Iraqi Kurdish media house, Rudaw, al-Maliki said he believed it was wrong not to pay the salaries of Iraqi Kurdish civil servants – that is despite the fact that it was his government that originally made the decision. After the interview al-Abadi made new promises to finally send the money north and he also agreed to meet further Kurdish delegations to discuss the matter.


    Seems like we're not the only ones who dismissed the lie that Nouri wasn't interested in being prime minister again.

    There are no new developments in Iraqi politics, just more of the same.

    Which explains a great deal of the ongoing frustration.

    Kurdistan 24 English‏Verified account @K24English Feb 15
    In a statement issued on Wednesday, @masoud_barzani said Kurds have dealt with successive central governments since the creation of #Iraq in the 1920s which have continuously disregarded the minority’s concerns, rights, and future. #TwitterKurds
    3 replies38 retweets80 likes




    It's amazing considering the damage that Nouri has done to the Kurds and the damage that Hayder has done to the Kurds that now both men try to court the Kurds and hope that the historical memory as well as memories of recent times will be forgotten.

    Memories across Iraq could lead to many not voting.  The Sunni rich province of Anbar could be such an area.  Kamal al-Ayash (NIQASH) reports:


    There are over a million potential voters in Anbar and there are 71 polling centres throughout the province, as well as offices to oversee the polling centres. However, some of the latter are still closed as they are based in areas that were, until relatively recently, controlled by the extremist group known as the Islamic State. 
    According to Iraq’s Independent high Electoral Commission, or IHEC, only 31 percent of potential voters in Anbar have updated their entries on the electoral roll, a significant sign of political lethargy and voter apathy.

    Even local tribal leaders are expressing these kinds of feelings. Previously community and tribal leaders would often persuade their family members and distant relations who to vote for. Politicians would spend time and money on sweetening up the tribal leaders to exactly that end.


    Nearly 15 years after the start of the Iraq War, the above passes for 'progress.'

    Paul Blumenthal (HUFFINGTON POST) observes:

    Fifteen years ago, on Feb. 15, 2003, somewhere between 6 million to 11 million people turned out in at least 650 cities around the world to protest the United States’ push to invade Iraq. It was the largest anti-war protest and remains the largest one-day global protest the world has ever seen.
    Today, there are still 5,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and continued war on terror operations in close to a dozen other Middle Eastern, Central Asian and African nations. The war is ongoing. The anti-war movement, practically speaking, is not. What happened?
    One explanation is that the anti-war push of 2003-2007 was successful — not in ending the war, but in knocking out the political party that started it.
    The anti-war movement was not purely an anti-war movement, as Indiana University professor Fabio Rojas pointed out. He described the anti-war protest movement as “two groups coming together”: the core peace movement and the larger group of people who were registered Democrats and opposed to the Iraq war and then-Republican President George W. Bush, in general.
    “Once the Democrats win the White House,” he said, “the two groups start moving apart.”

    Richard Burgon MP‏Verified account @RichardBurgon 19h19 hours ago
    Me amongst millions more. 15 years ago today me and my mate Sally got the coach at the crack of dawn from outside the Leeds University steps and went down to London to call on Tony Blair's Government not to support Bush's invasion of Iraq.
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    1. Jeremy Corbyn‏Verified account @jeremycorbyn 20m20 minutes ago
    Fifteen years on from Iraq, peace in the Middle East is further away than ever, says @EmilyThornberry. Labour will end the bomb first, talk later approach that has made our country and the world less safe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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    Jacobin‏Verified account @jacobinmag 22h22 hours ago
    Fifteen years ago today millions of people marched against the Iraq War in more than 600 cities across the world. The biggest protest in history.
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    Fifteen years after Iraq war protests, peace is further away than ever | Emily ThornberryJeremy Corbyn’s warnings on Iraq, Libya and Syria have proved right, and now Iran looks like the next battleground, writes shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry
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    1. Jeremy Corbyn‏Verified account @jeremycorbyn 18h18 hours ago
    Fifteen years ago today, two million people marched against the disastrous and illegal Iraq war. We warned that the war would create catastrophe in the region and make us less safe at home but the establishment didn't listen. This must never happen again.

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    Rodney Latstetter‏ @proviewsusa 17h17 hours ago
    February 15, 2003 Fifteen years ago today millions of people marched against the Iraq War in more than 600 cities across the world. The biggest protest in history.
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    Wednesday, February 14, 2018

    The double standard



    1. Debbie for the Don‏ @debrajs17
       2h2 hours ago
      @HillaryClinton you did this!Resist! You and your rhetoric. Weren’t those the words you used? Resist? After each massacre you scream gun control! You and Hollywood with your resistance and hate! Gun control isn’t the problem you are! Congrats blood on your hands! #Trumpville
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    Is that true?

    If so, will it be seriously covered?

    I remember how the press ran to ignore the fact that the father of the man who shot up the LGBT club in Florida was a Hillary supporter who attended a rally after the shooting.

    My opinion?

    Who someone's supporters are does not say who they are.

    But I have noticed how my standard is applied to Democrats by the press but the same press also rushes to drop that standard when it comes to Republicans.

    It's as though they rush to believe every evil thing possible about Republicans while acting rationale while covering Democrats.



    "Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
    Wednesday, February 14, 2018.  The big donor conference goes small.



    For Iraq, this week's big focus has been Kuwait.




    The US State Dept released the above video with the note, "Secretary Tillerson poses for a "family photo" with ministers attending the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS meeting in Kuwait City, Kuwait on February 13, 2018."

    The point of the meet-up was to raise money.



    "Who's going to pay for the mess?" asks Francois Picard in FRANCE 24's report above.  And it's a question worth asking.  Another question worth asking is who has paid all along?

    The answer to the first question?

    No one really.

    Margaret Coker and Gardiner Harris (NEW YORK TIMES) report:

    An Iraq fund-raising conference in Kuwait attended by dozens of potential donors was headed for failure on Tuesday, with barely $4 billion pledged — none from the United States. While the conference does not end until Wednesday, the message was clear: President Trump is leaving nation-building to others, and they are barely responding.
    It was a humiliating blow for the Iraqi government, which cannot possibly afford a fraction of the reconstruction cost for a war that was, in some ways, an outcome of the 2003-2011 American-led occupation.


    "A humiliating blow for the Iraqi government."

    Hayder al-Abadi, so promising and wonderful insist paid whores for the US State Dept but those are just words -- usually on the pages of NYT -- and they have no meaning at all as demonstrated by the refusal of so many to donate.

    Kuwait, for instance.  Some outlets give it credit for donating $2 million.  Uh, no.  It gave a million and it's loaning a million.

    An observation on the way the money's being handed over?


    Yerevan Saeed‏Verified account @YerevanSaeed 2h2 hours ago

    So far most of the money for Iraq is not simple donations. They come as loans and potential investment. Looks like no one is ready to hand Baghdad free check while Haider Abdi still punishes Kurdistan and hinders it’s development.

    3 replies4 retweets15 likes





    CNN serves up some misinformation.


    CNN International‏Verified account @cnni 3h3 hours ago

    The reconstruction and recovery money would go to areas that had been seized by ISIS, including the country's second-largest city of Mosul cnn.it/2ErsKyV

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    CNN knows damn well better.  They could have typed "should go" or "is said will go."

    But Iraq is corrupt, ranking among the most corrupt governments on Transparency International's index.

    There is no way of being sure that any money will "go to areas that had been seized by ISIS" -- in fact, if corruption weren't so great in the Iraqi government, no one would need to beg for money to begin with.


    In the FRANCE 24 report above, Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group) observes that there is "pervasive corruption that makes it very difficult for the Iraqi government to effectively do reconstruction in many areas.  A lot of money just simply disappears."

    When that's who you are, when that's your reputation, you're always going to struggle in motivating people to give you money.



    Brett McGurk‏Verified account @brett_mcgurk Feb 12
    Brett McGurk Retweeted kuna


    Broad gathering of Kuwaiti and International NGOs earlier today produced $330M for #Iraq’s immediate humanitarian and stabilization needs in areas liberated from #ISIS. twitter.com/kuna_en/status… #KuwaitConference

    Brett McGurk added,

    kunaVerified account @kuna_en

    NGOs Conf. for Iraq amasses USD 330.130 mln in pledges kunanews.net/l1K930ilhbJ

    23 replies45 retweets67 likes




     Brett McGurk Retweeted

    Douglas Silliman‏Verified account @USAmbIraq 23h23 hours ago

    Secretary of State Tillerson at the #KuwaitConference for #IraqReconstruction announced @EximBankUS financing of $3 billion for projects in #Iraq. @USEmbBaghdad @USEmbassyQ8


    7 replies28 retweets53 likes






    The need states ahead of the meet-up was $88 billion with some anticipating a possible haul of $100 billion.

    That did not happen.

    "A humiliating blow."


    Sajad Jiyad سجاد‏ @SajadJiyad 2h2 hours ago

    Pledges for Iraq so far in KW (some in loans/credit):
    Turkey: $5bn
    US: $3bn
    Kuwait: $1bn in loans & $1bn investments
    Saudi Arabia: $1.5bn & $1.5bn from Arab Fund
    Qatar: $1bn
    UAE: $500m & $5.5bn investments
    Islamic Development Bank: $500m
    Germany: €500m
    EU: €400m
    Japan: $100m

    4 replies12 retweets13 likes





    The Arabian Peninsula's Elizabeth Dickinson tries to spin this "humiliating blow."


    Elizabeth Dickinson‏Verified account @dickinsonbeth


    There's a fundamental misreading of the #Kuwait conference going on right now. #Iraq did not expect or ask to raise $88bn from donors today. 1/

    2:56 AM - 14 Feb 2018
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    • شاد هوشیارMohammed FatihC van den ToornFanar Haddad فنر الحدادSosyal Medya HizmetiEric Michael BurkeCrispin BurkeJon NordensonLori P. Boghardt

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      1. New conversation
      2. Elizabeth Dickinson‏Verified account @dickinsonbeth 3h3 hours ago

    $88bn is the amount that the World Bank assessed Iraq will need over the next 5 years to rebuild. The government budget will form the bulk of that money, followed by private investment. Donors are seen as an added boost, not the bulk. 2/

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  • Elizabeth Dickinson‏Verified account @dickinsonbeth 2h2 hours ago

  • $4bn in donor support is enormous given the context. Neither the #Iraq economy nor the state would be equipped to absorb $88bn in immediate financing, even if it were to exist. 3/

    1 reply6 retweets3 likes



  • Elizabeth Dickinson‏Verified account @dickinsonbeth 2h2 hours ago

  • Just looking at top line figures also misses the fact that conference was meant to "introduce" global companies to Iraq and put guarantees and incentives in place, so private finance flows in longer term. Small biz deals could prove imp tomorrow than $1bn in cash today 4/

    1 reply5 retweets2 likes



  • Elizabeth Dickinson‏Verified account @dickinsonbeth 2h2 hours ago

  • For context, the biggest donor conferences in recent years have drawn in $10bn to $15bn. Comparing numbers today to $88bn is just silly.

    1 reply4 retweets6 likes


    1. End of conversation

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    2. ابو حسين‏ @abuhusseiniq 35m35 minutes ago
  • Replying to @dickinsonbeth


    Not true. Iraq can barely balance its books right now and can not save a penny for reconstruction. Abadi was very clear in his expectations from this conference. If Iraq can cover 90+% of the costs anyway then this conference would not even be worth all this humiliation.

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    Now to the second question, "who has paid for it all along?"

    The US government and the UK government primarily.

    "Reconstruction" was the removal of Saddam Hussein.

    Don't pretend otherwise.

    Don't pretend that the prime ministers of Iraq since the US-led invasion hasn't been made up of cowards who fled Iraq.

    They fled Iraq, too scared to fight Saddam.  They fled and then agitated for foreign intervention.

    They promised that troops -- foreign troops -- would be greeted as heroes.

    Their motive was to overthrow Saddam Hussein so they could install themselves.

    Which is what they did.

    They are cowards and, like most cowards, they governed through fear -- which led to the abuses and crimes.

    Foreign governments have been 'donating' to these corrupt officials all along.

    It is past time that Iraq was ruled by non-cowards.  Past-time that a leader came up in Iraq, not in discussions in the Oval Office.



    Yesterday, the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette observed:

    Iraq now faces two serious hurdles to future progress. The first, to be addressed in a donors’ conference in Kuwait, is some $100 billion that it seeks for reconstruction after the various wars. The second is national elections, to be held May 12.
    Pledges at the Kuwait conference are problematic. The United States is reportedly not planning to increase the aid it already provides Iraq. Previous big donors, the Sunni Islam states of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are taking the position that they have other fish to fry. Their real problem with Iraq is that, through Iraq’s majority Shiite Islamic faith, it has fallen too much under the sway of Shiite Iran. There is also an active Iranian military presence in Iraq, left over from the campaign to take Mosul back from the IS.

    The May elections are another question altogether. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sought to stitch together a political “Victory Alliance,” based on his Popular Mobilization Forces. However, there quickly spun off another Shiite-based, Iran-supported group, the “Conquest” list, formerly part of the PMF that Mr. al-Abadi had been working through. The political picture is further complicated by the appearance of a new “Wisdom Alliance,” led by Shiite clergyman Ammar al-Hakim. All in all, the campaign promises to be a real jumble, with Mr. Abadi’s ultimate fate uncertain.



    That's the still struggling Iraqi government.

    On the issue of the Islamic State, it's not gone.

    Yesterday in Kuwait, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared:

    But the end of major combat operations does not mean that we have achieved the enduring defeat of ISIS. ISIS remains a serious threat to the stability of the region, our homelands, and other parts of the globe. Without continued attention on the part of coalition members, we risk the return of extremist groups like ISIS in liberated areas in Iraq and Syria and their spread to new locations.
    Each of us must continue our commitment to the complete defeat of ISIS. Maintaining stabilization initiatives is essential in this regard. If communities in Iraq and Syria cannot return to normal life, we risk the return of conditions that allowed ISIS to take and control vast territory. We must continue to clear unexploded remnants of war left behind by ISIS, enable hospitals to reopen, restore water and electricity services, and get boys and girls back in school.



    THE LATIN AMERICAN HERALD TRIBUNE notes, "US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday the Islamic State terror organization was not yet fully defeated and continued to pose a danger to the region, despite losing 98 percent of its territory in Iraq and Syria, in a speech broadcast on Kuwaiti state television."





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