Besides Malory Archer, Who Is Behind Isis?

Patrick Cockburn is on the case; don't expect to learn anything useful from the establishment media in the USA.  Cockburn, on the other hand, is a for-realz English-speaking expert on the Middle East, so maybe we would all be better off with a bit more from Cockburn and his peers and less from the same Koch-sucking jerkoffs who have been fucking up American policy for a hundred gods-damned years.