Also, this quote from David Graeber at the end of the zcomm article is worrying:
'What I am speaking of here instead is the feeling that foiling imperial designs — or avoiding any appearance of even appearing to be on the ‘same side’ as an imperialist in any context — should always take priority over anything else. This attitude only makes sense if you’ve secretly decided that real revolutions are impossible. Because surely, if one actually felt that a genuine popular revolution was occurring, say, in the [Rojava] city of Kobanî and that its success could be a beacon and example to the world, one would also not hold that it is better for those revolutionaries to be massacred by genocidal fascists than for a bunch of white intellectuals to sully the purity of their reputations by suggesting that US imperial forces already conducting airstrikes in the region might wish to direct their attention to the fascists’ tanks. Yet, astoundingly, this was the position that a very large number of self-professed ‘radicals’ actually did take.'
White, intellectual, self-professed radicals... has he looked in the mirror lately? Why doesn't he consider asking the russians for airstrikes, or the syrians themselves? Apparently he expects better results from the airforce which let that massive IS convoy go through Syria unmolested. I'm not saying they +should+ have bombed it, or that it would be okay for western intellectuals to beg +other+ foreign powers for bombing campaigns, just pointing out the machiavellian reasoning behind the US's strategic choices which Graeber is apparently unconcerned about.
Also he's one to talk about 'purity of reputations' - the only reason he's calling for (illegal) military intervention by the international Godfather gangster state is because the rojava social experiment fits his ideology. Has he ever 'sullied' his own reputation by calling for defensive military action against Israel, for example? Maybe if the Palestinians just mentioned Murray Bookchin a few more times...
In the meantime I see the liberal media have started their crocodile tears about the kurds again in the wake of trump's withdrawal announcement, eg this from Monday's Independent: