1- Doesn't all of the U.S. rhetoric about Iran sound very familiar to the rhetoric about Iraq before Bush invaded it, resulting in his responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths, or woundings, or home destructions, or imprisonments, or tortures!?
2- The world needs MORE alliances of countries that will NOT allow the U.S. military & "intelligence" to run roughshod through their countries, but will stand up to the world's bully & briber!
3- I like BRICS: an economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China, & South Africa.
4- U.S.: Stop talking about "democracy" when you are interfering in everybody else's election & won't even honor the right of EVERY adult American to vote!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Steady Rise of Assassinations by U.S. Drones
Is the U.S. public aware that dozens of secret government agencies & corporate entities working with them are spending in the TRILLIONS of dollars in taxpayer money for assassinations around the world, often by unmanned drones, & that this money is hidden under the categories of "national defense" or "law enforcement?"
In their 2011 book, "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State," Washington Post writers, Dana Priest & William Arkin, who have long connections to the U.S. military & "security" agencies, are supportive of them, & take their word about who are "the bad guys," nevertheless, document in detail the increasing thirst for & action in, using drones & other means to assassinate people in various countries.
The authors have a couple telling quotes, such as one senior officer stating that "The Department of Defense is no longer a war fighting organization, it's a business enterprise," & another describing the U.S. intelligence-security world as "a living, breathing organism." And it is chilling to read how people using our taxpayer dollars can calmly sit at a computer & kill people thousands of miles away, as though it was all a video game.
With increasing repression of dissidents, like of those in the "Occupy" protests, how long will it be before drones are used to kill people in the U.S.? Already, many "law enforcement" entities are using them or requesting them for surveillance!
All this & The drone assassinations this past week that inflamed the Pakistanis should make Americans start to give a damn about fixing our $14 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT problem by demanding that ALL assassinations stop & that ALL the funding cutbacks be to the military-intelligence-security monster!!!
In their 2011 book, "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State," Washington Post writers, Dana Priest & William Arkin, who have long connections to the U.S. military & "security" agencies, are supportive of them, & take their word about who are "the bad guys," nevertheless, document in detail the increasing thirst for & action in, using drones & other means to assassinate people in various countries.
The authors have a couple telling quotes, such as one senior officer stating that "The Department of Defense is no longer a war fighting organization, it's a business enterprise," & another describing the U.S. intelligence-security world as "a living, breathing organism." And it is chilling to read how people using our taxpayer dollars can calmly sit at a computer & kill people thousands of miles away, as though it was all a video game.
With increasing repression of dissidents, like of those in the "Occupy" protests, how long will it be before drones are used to kill people in the U.S.? Already, many "law enforcement" entities are using them or requesting them for surveillance!
All this & The drone assassinations this past week that inflamed the Pakistanis should make Americans start to give a damn about fixing our $14 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT problem by demanding that ALL assassinations stop & that ALL the funding cutbacks be to the military-intelligence-security monster!!!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
More hypocrisy
Three items in the news today which illustrate the continued hypocrisy of the world's only two nations that are not forced to be accountable for any of their continued acts of aggression, the U.S. & Israel:
1- Israel threatens to cut off water & power to the Gaza strip if the Palestinian parties: Fatah & Hamas unite. Of course the U.S. will support them if they starve the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Israeli "prison camp" called the Gaza Strip.
2- In Pakistan, NATO (i.e. the U.S.), again killed "the wrong people," & Pakistan wants the U.S. military to leave the offending base in 15 days. Ha! Just like with the point below, money (or the threatened withdrawal of it) will solve anything for the killer "good guys."
3- Well over 4,000 "Occupy" protesters have been arrested & thousands more brutalized by the enforcers of the 1%'s laws, while trying to exercise their Constitutional rights. Many have had their property trashed and stolen by the cops. Yet there is no problem with the ruling class lying, cheating, & stealing to buy their elections, & then claim that "the public" elected them. They can speak, assemble, & occupy whatever they damn well please & call it democracy!
1- Israel threatens to cut off water & power to the Gaza strip if the Palestinian parties: Fatah & Hamas unite. Of course the U.S. will support them if they starve the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Israeli "prison camp" called the Gaza Strip.
2- In Pakistan, NATO (i.e. the U.S.), again killed "the wrong people," & Pakistan wants the U.S. military to leave the offending base in 15 days. Ha! Just like with the point below, money (or the threatened withdrawal of it) will solve anything for the killer "good guys."
3- Well over 4,000 "Occupy" protesters have been arrested & thousands more brutalized by the enforcers of the 1%'s laws, while trying to exercise their Constitutional rights. Many have had their property trashed and stolen by the cops. Yet there is no problem with the ruling class lying, cheating, & stealing to buy their elections, & then claim that "the public" elected them. They can speak, assemble, & occupy whatever they damn well please & call it democracy!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Two thoughts on current concerns...
1- With the non-stop month of holiday commercialism beginning this week with "Black Friday" (which capitalism has made "black" everyday in the lives of millions of Americans), I again watched Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," which was released in 2010, long before the 'Occupy' movement started across the country. He says in the film what I have said for years... the rich elite ruling this country will keep robbing from the poor to give more to themselves until the poor stand up to them with action, like with OWS! Is the Federal Gov't using the FBI & "law enforcement" to intimidate & destroy the movement? You can be damn sure they are ... in fact a trademark of the FBI is to infiltrate all "left of center" groups, carry out some extreme actions (like vandalism, theft, & "unsanitary" acts), to turn the public against them, & then open the door to wholesale arrests, brutality, & even murder by any in "law enforcement."
2- These "new sanctions" on Iran over their alleged nuclear weapons program is the height of hypocrisy. What 2 countries already have more nuclear weapons than the whole world combined AND militaries that have no qualms about invading or bombing whoever they damn well please? The U.S. & Israel, of course!
2- These "new sanctions" on Iran over their alleged nuclear weapons program is the height of hypocrisy. What 2 countries already have more nuclear weapons than the whole world combined AND militaries that have no qualms about invading or bombing whoever they damn well please? The U.S. & Israel, of course!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
SCREAMING the Obvious
Why haven't nations and citizens of the world been SCREAMING about
what has been obvious for decades about the Palestinian-Israeli situation? The United States can NEVER be the "mediator" in a "peace process," because a "mediator" by its very definition is one who is neutral. The U.S. never was, is, or will be neutral, so to let this farce continue year after year while the Palestinians suffer horrors day after day is ludicrous!
The PRIMARY client of the U.S. in the world is Israel and it has been pouring billions of dollars into Israel's military personnel and weapons
year after year ... personnel and weapons that are used AGAINST the Palestinians! The U.S., then, has been acting like a "prosecuting attorney"
against an "accused person," either one who has NO attorney, or; as really
happens in the American "justice" system; as a "public defender" who is really working with the prosecution to "sell out" his own client!
Thus, the obvious need for the Palestinians is to have an "attorney," an
advocate, to represent THEM, and them ALONE; namely, a country or group of countries that will stand up to the "prosecution," the U.S., and which carries some clout.
Here are MY suggestions of who the Palestinians should approach:
1) China - The world's 2nd economic power, 1st in population, among the
top in miliary power, and most importantly the LARGEST HOLDER OF U.S.
DEBT. They, therefore, would have a bargaining chip in negotiations with the U.S. and Israel.
2) The block of 122 nations who supported the anti-Israeli settlement
resolution that the U.S. dashed with its one veto.
3) A union of Arab nations.
4) Or ... if none of these worked, a single nation that has shown it will
not take U.S. bullying "lying down," like Venezuela, Cuba, or perhaps even
Brazil.
OF COURSE, the U.S. and Israel will whine and moan that they will not accept any other negotiators, claiming that the European Union, Russia,
or the U.N. is actually a "negotiating partner" along with the U.S....
blah...blah...blah. But everybody knows, just as with the so-called
"coalitions" that the U.S. makes a big thing about in their invasion
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is the U.S. that is running the whole
show and is also responsible for the damage its causes, although it consistently tries to avoid any responsibility for that.
Does such an idea have any chance of working? I believe it may, IF
Palestinian leaders first FIND such an advocate, and then second, refuse
to do ANY negotiating with the U.S. as "mediator," AND without their
advocate representing THEM, just as the U.S. ALWAYS represents Israel.
what has been obvious for decades about the Palestinian-Israeli situation? The United States can NEVER be the "mediator" in a "peace process," because a "mediator" by its very definition is one who is neutral. The U.S. never was, is, or will be neutral, so to let this farce continue year after year while the Palestinians suffer horrors day after day is ludicrous!
The PRIMARY client of the U.S. in the world is Israel and it has been pouring billions of dollars into Israel's military personnel and weapons
year after year ... personnel and weapons that are used AGAINST the Palestinians! The U.S., then, has been acting like a "prosecuting attorney"
against an "accused person," either one who has NO attorney, or; as really
happens in the American "justice" system; as a "public defender" who is really working with the prosecution to "sell out" his own client!
Thus, the obvious need for the Palestinians is to have an "attorney," an
advocate, to represent THEM, and them ALONE; namely, a country or group of countries that will stand up to the "prosecution," the U.S., and which carries some clout.
Here are MY suggestions of who the Palestinians should approach:
1) China - The world's 2nd economic power, 1st in population, among the
top in miliary power, and most importantly the LARGEST HOLDER OF U.S.
DEBT. They, therefore, would have a bargaining chip in negotiations with the U.S. and Israel.
2) The block of 122 nations who supported the anti-Israeli settlement
resolution that the U.S. dashed with its one veto.
3) A union of Arab nations.
4) Or ... if none of these worked, a single nation that has shown it will
not take U.S. bullying "lying down," like Venezuela, Cuba, or perhaps even
Brazil.
OF COURSE, the U.S. and Israel will whine and moan that they will not accept any other negotiators, claiming that the European Union, Russia,
or the U.N. is actually a "negotiating partner" along with the U.S....
blah...blah...blah. But everybody knows, just as with the so-called
"coalitions" that the U.S. makes a big thing about in their invasion
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is the U.S. that is running the whole
show and is also responsible for the damage its causes, although it consistently tries to avoid any responsibility for that.
Does such an idea have any chance of working? I believe it may, IF
Palestinian leaders first FIND such an advocate, and then second, refuse
to do ANY negotiating with the U.S. as "mediator," AND without their
advocate representing THEM, just as the U.S. ALWAYS represents Israel.
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