The Real News Network has the interview Islamic State Born of Deteriorating Economic Conditions in Iraq.

Poverty and inequality created by the plunder of Iraq’s wealth by elites and multinational corporations after the US occupation of Iraq a great recruiting tool for ISIS says Sabah Alnasseri, Professor at York University’s Department of Political Science.

In the main stream media we hear about how the youth around the world are being recruited to fight in places like Iraq on the side of ISIS. I have yet to read a serious discussion of what it is that attracts people to join. This video starts to fill in what is missing in the understanding that I have.

I’ll have to confess that I have not been keeping up-to-date with The Real News Network as much as I have in the past, so I probably have missed a lot of the explanation here that I have been missing elsewhere.

It is sad to contemplate how much damage the Bush administration did by deciding to force American style government onto another country in the name of Neocon ideology. The Bush administration had a firm view on what they thought was wrong with Iraq, but they had no clue about what was right.

I say “American style government”, but that is not completely true. For thirty or forty years or more, the Neocons have been destroying what has worked in America and transforming it to their liking. If they didn’t have a US Constitution and traditions that restrained them here, they might have done to the US in the same amount of time they were able to do it in Iraq.

MSNBC has the article and video Mary Landrieu doubles down on controversial race remarks.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu faces a heated race to keep her seat, and decided to do the unthinkable; she told the truth about inequality the South. Ed Schultz, Zerlina Maxwell and James Paterson discuss.

Do you think the people of Louisiana don’t know what is going on there? Perhaps some Louisiana voter thought, “I am not going to vote for Obama because he is black, but that is not racism”?

EcoWatch had the article Watch Jon Stewart Welcome His Newest Advertiser: The Koch Brothers.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart traveled to Texas this week to broadcast from Austin, offering Texas-based guests and commentary. But one advertiser that cropped up on the show this week may be having second thoughts.

I think we really have to be worried when the Koch brothers think they can buy the love of the liberals who watch The Daily Show. Do you believe in subliminal advertising? (Although this advertising seems liminal. Or as the previous links calls it, supraliminal.)

Maybe there is hypnotic suggestion. Do you have your foil hat to protect you?