some forces in the world appear to be working hard to create ::confused:: ::confused::
the recent demonstrations against the majority Brexit vote smacks of clear social manipulation. there are forces behind this that appears to be stoking the middle upper classes to come out and forcibly over turn Brexit
this has the makings of a classic "COLOUR REVOLUTION"
www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/04/from-the...ower-of-nationalism/
Unfortunately, over the following 40 years it turned out that the Lebanese war was a foretaste of the violent sectarian, ethnic and social divisions that were to tear the Middle East apart. Nation states ruled by despots became more politically fragile by the year and foreign powers exacerbated civil wars by military intervention and by backing their local proxies. Extreme Islam flourished in conditions of chaos, replacing nationalism and socialism as the ideological vehicle for opposition to the status quo.
Just how Britain plunged into this morass without much idea of the dangers it was running should be illuminated at great length by the Chilcot Report when it is published next Wednesday, but the risks involved were obvious from the beginning.
Analogies between the break-up of Lebanon into warring factions, which I witnessed when I first arrived, and the disintegration of the Middle East today are clear cut and undeniable. There are currently at least seven wars and three serious insurgencies raging in the countries between Pakistan and Nigeria, with no signs of those conflicts ending. Over the year
