Turkey’s president is destroying the democracy that Turks risked their lives to defend
The failed putsch may well become the third shock to Europe’s post-1989 order. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014 destroyed the idea that Europe’s borders were fixed and that the cold war was over. The Brexit referendum last month shattered the notion of ineluctable integration in the European Union. Now the coup attempt in Turkey, and the reaction to it, raise troubling questions about the reversibility of democracy within the Western world—which Turkey, though on its fringe, once seemed destined to join. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702465-turkeys-president-destroying-democracy-turks-risked-their-lives-defend-erdogans?fsrc=permar|image1
They are likely to remain very close partners of NATO without becoming full members, something Carnegie Europe analyst Andrei Kolesnikov described as "smoking without inhaling".
They take part in NATO military drills, including parts of those scripted around Article V which lays down the principle of collective security, but are not bound by it as non-members.
Sweden was involved in NATO's 2011 air campaign in Libya and both Nordic neighbors sent troops to the alliance's mission in Afghanistan.
"They cannot be part of decision-making but they are definitely part of decision-shaping. The fact that the leaders will discuss Russia at the summit dinner, and that Sweden and Finland take part, sends a message," said a NATO official.
The way western societies are ready to accept invisibility of massive and single slaughter in the third world - both warzone and gun violence - are to be blamed.
Far from freedom fighters, jihadists in France seem to share this same frustration, they don't see families commemorating Bastille day as part of their reality. This "happy rich white people bubble" - according to many outsiders that fall in love for jihadist neoanarchism - are to be blamed for the sistematic killing of innocent people in muslim land.
And yes, western societies enable marginal people to watch also what is going on in Syria and Iraq.
This is a powerful combination - unconventional weapon and invisibility. It turns out also that those whio are in charge of operaring many of these unconventional arms oftern are also invisible!
If western societies choose the same pattern of their former America colonies, insisting to not look at marginal sectors suffering, jihadist neoanarchisms will shake their establishment again, and probably soon.
A Indonésia é um mercado promissor, com 250 milhões de habitantes, e uma maioria de muçulmanos, com alta demanda pela carne halal (cujos animais devem ser abatidos seguindo certos preceitos religiosos). O Brasil é o principal exportador global da carne halal, com embarques de 1,8 milhão de toneladas do produto por ano, segundo a ABPA. Diversos países se inscreveram como terceiras partes interessadas no painel, como os Estados Unidos, Nova Zelândia, Canadá, Japão, União Europeia, Argentina e outros. "O Brasil tem todo o potencial para se consolidar como um parceiro do auxílio à segurança alimentar da população indonésia. Infelizmente, não conseguimos avanços e as autoridades do país insistem em manter barreiras injustificadas", afirmou o presidente da ABPA, Francisco Turra. http://revistagloborural.globo.com/Noticias/noticia/2016/07/globo-rural-comecam-hoje-audiencias-do-brasil-contra-a-indonesia-na-omc-sobre-exportacoes.html
The bastille attacks unveils many failures -
France lack of security to safeguard public demonstrations.
The west may ignore Muslim suffering, but Islamic Jihad will continue to remind Europe how close they are from these ongoing bloody wars.
The war in terror transformed the world into a less safer place.
Digital revolution enables Jihadist anarchism to act without state's involvement, different from "active terrorism support".
San Antonio — I never really understood how fascism could have come to Europe, but I think I understand better now. You start with some fundamental historical transformation, like the Great Depression or the shift to an information economy. A certain number of people are dispossessed. They lose identity, self-respect and hope.
They begin to base their sense of self-worth on their tribe, not their behavior. They become mired in their resentments, spiraling deeper into the addiction of their own victimology. They fall for politicians who lie about the source of their problems and about how they can surmount them. Facts lose their meaning. Entertainment replaces reality."
Normally, nations pull together after tragedy, but a society plagued by dislocation and slipped off the rails of reality can go the other way. Rallies become gripped by an exaltation of tribal fervor. Before you know it, political life has spun out of control, dragging the country itself into a place both bizarre and unrecognizable.
This happened in Europe in the 1930s. We’re not close to that kind of descent in America today, but we’re closer than we’ve been. Let’s be honest: The crack of some abyss opened up for a moment by the end of last week.
Blood was in the streets last week — victims of police violence in two cities and slain cops in another. America’s leadership crisis looked dire. The F.B.I. director’s statements reminded us that Hillary Clinton is willing to blatantly lie to preserve her career. Donald Trump, of course, lies continually and without compunction. It’s very easy to see this country on a nightmare trajectory.
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