Views of the World by Cartoon Movement-US for November 30, 2015

Yes, weird. Airforces from 3 continents carpetbomb their fleet of Toyota Hiluxs and they are still at large

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner-1.2436885

Without an outside enemy, certain states will rebel again.

Actually, the carpet bombing along with the Kurdish ground troops is working in Iraq.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/25/wesley_clark_isis_serving_interests_of_turkey_and_saudi_arabia_someones_buying_the_oil_isis_is_selling.html

Did they use a fax machine to send this strip to GoComics? I can’t read the last two bubbles.

’Coalition air strikes have not stopped the militant group from earning millions of dollars a week from its Iraqi oil operations

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/-sp-islamic-state-oil-empire-iraq-isis

“Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey, Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials.”

You obviously didn’t click the link.“Wholesale defections, sparsely manned checkpoints and elite foreign fighters pressed into mundane duty indicate that the U.S.-led bombing campaign and advances by Kurdish forces are eroding the forces of the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, said Army Col. Steve Warren, the top spokesman for the counter-ISIL coalition in Baghdad”.

How does Da’esh have access to the Internet?

I’m not asking about the operations run by sympathisers in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, the Gulf states, even within Europe or USA on twitter, facebook etc, but within the areas controlled by Da’esh/ISIS.I’d guess via satellite Internet providers (ahem, European Hotbird & American Comsat runing Intelsat). As far as I know, although Iraq initially only partially blocked internet access in the areas over-run by Daesh, directly cabled telecoms has been restricted since. But why can’t we cut off their internet access even via satelite?

Within Raqqa itself Da’esh restricts and monitors public access to the internet. Not sure how activist organisations like RBSS-Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently manages to get on-line, bootleg dishes? Below an article on how they got to control access to the internet from within Raqqa:

“How ISIS monitors and restricts internet access in the ‘caliphate’”http://www.techinsider.io/how-isis-governs-its-caliphate-2015-11

Amazing. GoComics has posted a cartoon which is not by Ted Rall that doesn’t blame Assad or Putin.

In one of his best, most carefully researched books “The Arms of Krupp”, the late, eminent historian William Manchester wrote about many of the shenanigans and outright corrupt actions which arms manufacturers engaged in to keep war-torn area fighting (as long as it is not near their factories) It’s good for business. Although Manchester was focusing upon the giant steel conglomerate A.G. Krupp, during the years preceding and during WWI, and through WWII, he writes about many other arms manufacturers from all corners of the globe, who would give slight hints, prods and bribes to national politicians to try to keep the battles going. I don’t imagine any of that has changed.