gangcil_yc

"...capitalism and having things like free healthcare and education are hardly mutually exclusive..." -- good point.

It's also important to note that the semantics on capitalism is almost always misleading in discussions:

https://chomsky.info/20130305/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9XFBN5X1JU

This should be a required reading on this: The Soviet Union Versus Socialism ( https://chomsky.info/1986____/ )

Pretty interesting book with obscure yet consequential assessment and history on a controversial topic today: Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims https://ia902506.us.archive.org/17/items/ReligiousExtremism/... (* written and translated well before September 11).

Another valuable read: What Is Islam? http://d1.islamhouse.com/data/en/ih_books/single/en_What_Isl... Both made it less nebulous to me of what is otherwise a largely irreconcilably contradictory narrative (http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/missing-paris-attacker-loved-ga...).

Bad Samaritans, Ha-Joon Chang : a neat illuminating read on economic development matters that are not typically articulated in discussions of relevance and dominance.

If we accept all that people claim to be true, Kissinger, Bush and Blair et. al. cannot be any exception. Then what suggestions one gets from the correlation between "upholding democracy and human rights" and the butchery in brutally murdering tens of millions in the last several decades (from Algeria to Cambodia to the genocides in Iraq through sanctions and slaughtering)?

There are apparently some driving elements behind that: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/cage-campaigner...

At the larger scale, religious justifications are no more relevant than socialism's role in turning some rural Cambodians into ruthless killers (as opposed to the state-terrorism): http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything...

Here are some perspectives: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/reflections-on-the-recent-pari...