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Why are Indian children still dying of poverty?
by Brother Jonah - May 9, 2011 0
There was an AP story about infanticide in India, mostly young girls, and the question attached was "why, with rising prosperity?" One question immediately answered, the "rising prosperity" is mostly the Rich getting Richer, much like the Class War they "upper class elites" declared in America long long ago and are intensifying now. Having the top economic level, the "1 percenters" getting an even larger share of even an expanding economy means those in the 80% who have less income than it takes to actually survive, will have even less. A classic example of How Deregulated Free Market Capital works to destroy the poor for the profit of the very richest. And now, it's taking its bloody horrid toll on the children of the poor PEOPLE.
Wikileaks information freedom fighter granted bail – Swedes appeal what?
by Eric Verlo - December 14, 2010 December 14, 2010 0
Although reporting of the CableGate leaks is taking a backseat to Julian Assange's arrest, the Wikileaks media powertrain has grown into a monster truck. Nothing like a jailed dissident to illuminate tyranny. And of course the oppressiveness of the private sector is unveiling itself, as Assange points out from jail: "We now know that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal are instruments of US foreign policy. It's not something we knew before." If not a revelation, it's confirmation. BREAKING-- Unprecendented: British judge allows tweeting from the courtroom. Accruing list includes London Times correspondent Alexi Mostrous, ABC's Jim Sciutto, transparency author Heather Brooke, at http://twitter.com/notmytribe/assange-trial. So Julian Assange was granted bail, now he has to raise it. A number of celebrities have pledged contributions, but the total required is 200,000 pounds, but that's not why Assange remains in custody. The Swedish legal team has declared it will appeal, but refuses as yet to declare when they will file it. Appeal Assange's release on bail, without having even leveled formal charges against him. Whose legal team is it exactly, who's concerned that house arrest in Britain is insufficient custody of the Wikileaks coordinator facing so far merely allegations of charges in Sweden? Assange's legal team has been expressing objection to their client's transfer to Sweden based on the risk that Sweden will remand him to the US where a grand jury has been mobilized to conjure charges against Assange based on the 1917 Espionage Act.
Question of Nationalism v. Imperialism …again
by Brother Jonah - February 11, 2010 February 11, 2010 0
EU officials not allowing Washington to monitor their economic transactions, Washington upset. So, does Washington allow the EU or Mexico or Cuba or Iran or who-the-hell-ever a similar privilege of monitoring United States bank transactions? Nationalism that doesn't grant equal sovereign rights to every nation isn't nationalism, it's Imperialism. That's the stated British Empires propaganda excuse for The Great War. While and at the same time they were doing to Ireland, India, China, Kenya. etc etc etc etc etc precisely what the King's Cousin the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria and Hungary was doing to Serbia. "Down from the trees, and onto your knees" White Man's Burden, Our Fledgling Civilization is better than yours, which was thriving when our ancestors were living in mud huts. (Hitler actually told Himmler that about his constant harping on Aryan Supremacy, his personal tastes ran more toward Rome) Speaking of Rome, the "Oderint Dum Metuant" policy that Bush made our official foreign relations Nightmare seems to be raising its ugly head once again. I was hoping, ever the optimist, that the hubris of the Bu'ush Regime would end when the Bu'ush Regime ended. Apparently not. There was absolutely NOTHING about the Bush administration or their annointed Replacement Palin/McAncient that indicates a moral or especially Intellectual superiority that they could use to justify their claim to having a right, indeed, a DUTY, to run the rest of the world. The Right wing can, and do, claim a tit-for-tat same-back-at-you about Presidents Obama and Clinton.
Coloradans For Peace and Freedom: in Ireland and occupied lands everywhere
by Eric Verlo - March 4, 2009 March 4, 2009 0
UPDATE FROM COLORADANS FOR PEACE about March 14 St Patrick's Day Parade: Drummers, Hats, Flags, Kazoos, and a great St Patrick's theme! Come wave international flags for PEACE and FREEDOM! Join COLORADANS FOR PEACE to represent the local peace community in this year's St Patrick's Day Parade. Saturday, March 14, on Tejon Avenue downtown. The parade starts at 12noon, and staging begins at 10am. Peace participants are welcome to park in the TOONS parking lot, at 802 N. Nevada Ave, at the intersection of Nevada and Dale St. We'll have food and drink as early as 9am for those who want to come early. We'll have a canopy there where parade accessories will be distributed. Bring your green peace shirts, if you have them. We'll have fresh shirts available too. The green peace flags from last year are welcome as well. No need to bring any other banners or posters, as parade signs are being limited. Our single, unified message will be pre-vetted. This year's peace theme will tie into the St. Patrick's celebration of Irish independence. Irish Americans celebrate no longer being occupied by Great Britain. Given the current direction of US policy, COLORADANS FOR PEACE want to take this opportunity to call for a stop to all ongoing occupations, in which the US is complicit. Our message is the national DC protest theme marking the 6th year of the Iraq War : OCCUPATION IS A CRIME. More specifically: (FROM IRELAND) TO IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND PALESTINE, OCCUPATION IS A CRIME! Behind our main banner, marchers will wave the flags of these four nations. PLUS, as a reminder to parade watchers, of America's own struggle against British occupation, we will also feature the American Revolutionary War era flags which read "Don't Tread On Me!" This year our parade entry will be spearheaded by the superlative Manitou Drummers. The drummers have percussion instruments to share with any participant who wants to accompany them. We will also have a multitude of green kazoos and pipes. The kazoos are decorated with peace symbols. Kevin Johnson of Elope Hats has donated a marching-band-sized portion of super tall leprechaun hats, which will be emblazoned with peace symbols. These hats will be worn by all the musical participants. Other marchers are requested to wear the green peace shirts, or to wave the matching green peace flags. International flag wavers will wear their traditional national costumes. Please contact us if you can lend any suitable apparel. Wearing Kuffiyeh scarves would certainly be appropriate. White bandanas can do in a pinch. These will also be available beforehand. We are also interested in any and all participants who would like to ride their bikes, or walk beside them. Bringing bikes serves as a not unsubtle ecological reminder, to counter the parade's usual multitude of fossil-fuel guzzling vehicles. For the latest updates, please check coloradansforpeace.org
British activists bring aid convoy to Gaza
by Eric Verlo - February 17, 2009 February 17, 2009 0
Yes, the aid convoy to Gaza has been scrutinized by UK authorities, and three members have been detained as terror suspects. But the 110-vehicle relief effort left London yesterday, due to arrive at Gaza's border in 20 days. Hopefully the caravan will receive enough visibility that Israel will feel compelled to grant them access to the Gazans in desperate need of the supplies.
NO TO NATO Protest 2009
by Tony Logan - January 30, 2009 April 3, 2009 5
A No to NATO Protest 2009 is being organized in Strasbourg, France, but where is the US Antiwar Movement? A similar protest against NATO should and could be built on the same date in Washington DC at the Pentagon, so why does the American Antiwar Community always give NATO a free ride? Look below at the organizing committee for the Strasbourg event and notice how the US antiwar Community is simply MIA. That's very sad... No to NATO Protest Saturday 4th April 2009 - Sunday 5th April 2009 Details to be confirmed.................................................. A protest is being organised outside the NATO conference in Strasbourg, France marking the 60th anniversary of NATO. Sixty years of NATO are enough. NATO is the main driving force behind global war. NATO stands for the missile defense system, military bases around the world, nuclear weapons and military interventions and expenditure. NATO is a rival to the UN and the system of international law, and it is intertwined with the European security and defense system. But NATO is not all-powerful, indeed it is under extreme pressure right now in Afghanistan. Members of the open preparation committee for the protest at the 60th anniversary of NATO include: Arielle Denis (Le Mouvement de la Paix, France) Reiner Braun (IALANA, speaker of Cooperation for Peace, Germany) Chris Nineham (Stop the War Coalition, UK) Tobias Pfl�ger (MEP, IMI, Germany) Thomas Magnusson (International Peace Bureau, Sweden) Sotiris Kontogiannis (Stop the War Coalition, Greece) Elaheh Rostami Povey (Stop the War Coalition, UK/Iran) Peter Strutynski (Federal Committee Peace Council, Germany) International Peace Bureau (IPB) International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA Europe) War Resisters' International International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Germany Le Mouvement de la Paix, France Stop the War Coalition, Great Britain Stop the War Coalition, Greece Cooperation for Peace, Germany Federal Committee Peace Council, Germany Further details of the NO TO NATO demonstration will be available shortly. To read a briefing on NATO's expansion by Kate Hudson, the chair of CND, click here.
Putin once again to the US and Europe- 'Fuck you, you are not going to turn Russia into a Third World rape victim!'
by Tony Logan - December 31, 2008 January 1, 2009 2
Russia-Ukraine gas talks collapse --like when the US tried to pull off its little con game using Georgia to bomb South Ossetia. Vladimir Putin has responded to the US and its Klan of Western European allies, that Russia will not be dragged further into the Third World by capitalist imperialism. That's what it's all about, too, as both the former Chinese and Russian 'socialist' bureaucrats were promised full partnerships in the imperialist capitalist world if only they would tag along quietly behind the US and its world allies. Instead, the Pentagon has been trying to push both countries backwards and not forwards. The USA government has been having its own way for the last three decades doing it, too. Colonialism 101 is something that the former 'Marxist-Leninist buffoons running China and the Soviet Union back then never learned for themselves, let alone taught to others in their pantomime of playing 'Great Helmsmen' cartoon roles for the world public. Both Russia and China drifted away from internationalism and solidarity with the oppressed of the poorer and exploited Third World masses of destitute laborers, and instead began to ape assholes like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in their politics. They wanted their places on the big table alongside their capitalist associates of Great Britain and the US, Germany, France, and Japan. The dummies were conned, and Putin is quite aware of that by now. Further, he understands Peak Oil is a reality, as well as Peak Gas. In his words, 'Cheap Energy' is over for you guys, and now we're not just going to sit by and let you pillage everything from our country, Russia. Sadly, our own US 'leaders', from Obama to Clinton to Bush to all of the schmucks up there are nothing but criminal robbers and murderers, and world war is soon in the cards if the common folk don't begin to wise up in the US and Britain, Germany, France, and Japan quite soon. Not to mention the utter ecological destruction of our planet in the cards for all of us quite soon, too, if we continue to fail to act. That picture is of the university in Gaza being bombed by the US... Oh, I meant Israel. Sorry.... Happy New Year.
Arab dictator allies of US line up in support of Israeli terrorism against Gaza
by Tony Logan - December 28, 2008 December 28, 2008 1
Silence. Or worse yet even, efforts to blame Hamas instead of Israel for the new slaughter in Gaza. That's what the US allied Arab dictatorships imposed on the Arab world offer their people. Complicity. Many of these Sunni Arab elites (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, et cetera) are eager for the US to hammer the Shiite led Iranians, and have no solidarity at all with their own poor let alone the Palestinian poor of Gaza.... or Palestinians elsewhere for that matter. This is the opening battle of the war to bring about regime change in Iran for the Washington, D.C. rat class, and the Arab dictatorships controlled by the US government are fully behind the effort. Meanwhile the corporate media in the US and Britain keep a tight lid on the spin of the actual news, all in support of their own imperialist ruling cabals. At least, the European Union and the United Nations have had the decency to tokenly oppose this slaughter by this Jewish/ Christian Corporate Alliance centered in the US, Great Britain, and Israel. Everybody around the globe pretty much knows who holds the big guns, and it is the US government and its immediate side kicks that do. Everybody realizes that there is always the big price to pay if one gets too out of line with what these gangsters want from them. The US antiwar community, dominated by phony 'Peace'crat types, are immobilized. It seems that the script promised by the 'Peace'crats with an Obama victory were as false as they come. They all voted for Obama and now don't know what exactly to do? Really going out and protesting against their rulers is something that might make them embarrassed and scares them no end. Locally, not a word from the office clowns of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace De-Commission, with them only wanting to turn the other cheek from reality, though reality just keeps on beating them about their public face. So now we know why the Arab World hates us so? It has to do with their own gang of thugs kept in power by the US government. The US and Israel have even turned the Arabs into hating the PLO, now that the leader of the PLO, Abbas, is totally controlled by our sorry leaders in Washington, D.C. What a mess! And the world keeps on just getting more and more dangerous, more and more messed up, day after day. Nobody has any 'national security' these days, thinks to the Democratic and Republican gangsters that almost all voting Americans backed in the last election. This Israeli bombing of mainly children Arab youngsters living in the most horrible poverty and isolation in Gaza, is their work. Aren't you proud you voted for this, if in fact you did?
Harold Pinter on drama and US banditry
"What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days - conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts but to do with our shared responsibility in the acts of others? Is all this dead?" -Harold Pinter (1930-2008) I'm reminded of a friend of mine who asked "You know what PTSD is? It's a bad conscience." An outspoken critic of the Iraq War, Harold Pinter died Christmas Eve. Here is the address he prerecorded for his acceptance of the Nobel Prize in 2005, when he had become too infirm to attend in person. Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false? Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realising that you have done so. But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did. Most of the plays are engendered by a line, a word or an image. The given word is often shortly followed by the image. I shall give two examples of two lines which came right out of the blue into my head, followed by an image, followed by me. The plays are The Homecoming and Old Times. The first line of The Homecoming is 'What have you done with the scissors?' The first line of Old Times is 'Dark.' In each case I had no further information. In the first case someone was obviously looking for a pair of scissors and was demanding their whereabouts of someone else he suspected had probably stolen them. But I somehow knew that the person addressed didn't give a damn
Anti-Zimbabwe sanctions create cholera epidemic in Africa
by Tony Logan - December 6, 2008 December 6, 2008 0
There is nobody more cynical and murderous than Gordon Brown, the Barack Obama equivalent who is Great Britain's Prime Minster at the time. Here is Gordon the Goodie promoting genocide in July of this year UK looks to Europe for Zimbabwe sanctions Now here is the same Gordon Brown in December PM urges Zimbabwe cholera action where he blames Mugabe for the cholera outbreak and not himself. He wants regime change in Zimbabwe and he is not about to cry (other than crocodile tears) about any collateral damage he might cause! Who gave Gordon Brown and the British the right to be intervening against any government of Zimbabwe anyway? This all started back when Mugabe moved against the couple of thousand left over Rhodesian White Apartheid regime's leftovers in the country, who had taken away about 40% of the best land in the country from its indigenous Black population. Mugabe began a program of redistribution of that land and Great Britain went bananas about it. Today, cut to the cholera epidemic where the same Brits have used economic warfare to destroy Zimbabwe and to create untold suffering. Mugabe is no hero in all this, but the issue really is imperialist intervention and not just one unlikable head of state is up to or not? It really is nauseating to see the BBC reports where they honey coat their pro economic warfare against Zimbabwe 'reports' as they always do. Gordon Brown as saint? Not even close.
US and allies try to starve Zimbabweans into submission
by Tony Logan - November 11, 2008 November 11, 2008 0
The United Nations has just cut off funds to 4,000,000 starving Zimbabweans in line with US/ Great Britain made sanctions against that country. UN cuts food rations in Zimbabwe The goal is to starve Zimbabweans into total submission to these 2 imperialist countries. Don't look for a bunch of Hollywood actresses and college campus teenyboppers to come to Save Zimbabwe from the US and Europe, since it's off their radar screens to do so.
Why Israel, Great Britain, and the US would attack Iran?
by Tony Logan - October 11, 2008 October 11, 2008 3
Taken from the BBC'According to the BP (British Petroleum) survey, taken together this country (Iran) has the largest combined oil and gas reserves in the world, and it is the world's third largest oil exporter.'
Honor Above Orders.
by Brother Jonah - July 28, 2008 July 28, 2008 0
Not about the Mai Li - Lt Calley Massacre, or the Kent State Massacre, or other well known incidents when U.S. soldiers refused to question orders. See, I get a little flack from ReichWing Trolls saying that Scottie McClellan was a "traitor" for documenting SOME of the lies and other machinations BushCorp did to start the war against the Iraqi people, for the profit of the shareholders of BushCorp. And that Tony Snow was a hero for not "ratting out" his Accomplices in Treason. And Thefts. And Murders. So I dug into my extensive memories, and came up with this one incident. It involves Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, George Bush Sr and ONE USN seaman who disobeyed an order. It's not surprising, Ronnie did associate and do a lot of business with the Bush Klan. (Kartel?) and other unsavory types. Gordon Liddy, Ollie North, Bill Casey, Dick Nixon, Dick Cheney... All of them are the type who, when you shake hands with them, you have to count your fingers afterward to make sure they didn't Steal any of them. Theft and Lying, to these guys, is as natural as eating worms is to robins. Bush and Family, they made one fortune financing the Slave Trade. Yep, not content to just steal people's property, they went ahead and stole the people as well. Arguably, the ones alive today didn't do the actual dirty deed, but they still have the money, now, haven't they? And they fight tooth and nail against the concept of Reparations. But that's not the focus of this story, just an unpleasant diversion. Treaty law comes into the story, so allow me to explain, yes? According to the Constitution, the Constitution itself is the Law of the Land, and the final decider in any court in America. In a related Article (VI, if I recall correctly) Treaties are given equal weight in all matters of Law to the Constitution itself. English Law has similar provisions, that's where the Framers got it. Seeing the Company Kept By Reagan, one of whom has declared the Constitution to be "just a goddamned piece of paper", it's hardly surprising that Reagan, also, treated the Law as something to be used for his own pleasure and convenience, and put aside when it was more convenient to do so. Organization of American States. A treaty organization to which the United States belongs. So does Grenada, which is why the invasion had to be called a "rescue operation". So does Argentina. Which fought a war with Britain during Thatcher and Reagans Rein of Terror. A war involving an island where the sheep outnumber the people by tenfold at least. An island which is strategically located and has a Naval Base and an Air Base. A war in which, we, the United States, were either Treaty Bound to support Argentina, or stay way the hell out of it. Charleston Naval Station. British Navy ships refueled and provisioned there, at the expense of the American Taxpayers. Considering the treaty, that was illegal. Which is probably why the U.S. Navy ordered the sailors not
Britain and US have plans to invade Zimbabwe
by Tony Logan - June 24, 2008 June 24, 2008 2
Yes, Britain and the US have plans to invade and occupy Zimbabwe using primarily troops of the African Union to hide behind. Then of course, the United Nations also would step in to camouflage the neo-colonial military operation. MoD contingency plans for military action in Zimbabwe Mugabe is a dictator, but this is not at all what bothers the US and Great Britain about him. What bothers the Western European governments allied around the US and Britain is that Mugabe is not their dictator. They do not control him therefore he must go. The 'elections' that took place in Zimbabwe were the grand plan to move the imperialist countries back into controlling the Zimbabwe government, but Mugabe did not just fall down and surrender beneath the superior fire power of the outsiders. Now Britain and the US are really angry about this! Once again we see how the US and Britain claim to be the ultimate guardians of all humanitarianism, even as they destroy entire regions of the world with their military industrial complexes. We in the British and American antiwar communities should not allow ourselves to be deceived by the con men that run our governments. There is absolutely nothing at all humanitarian in their plans for continual and perpetual global warfare. Their plans for Zimbabwe are just more of their around-the-clock, global inhumanitarian interventionism and we should not be fooled into thinking otherwise.
Zimbabwe, caught between 2 groups of gangsters
Pity the poor people of Zimbabwe, who have found themselves caught in the crossfire between two groups of gangsters. One group of gangsters is made up of the Black clique around home towner Mugabe, while the other bigger group of gangsters is White, and is centered in the foreign capitals of DC, London, Paris, Germany, Belgium, etc. These White gangsters have been campaigning against the Black gangsters for years, and the common folk of Zimbabwe have become the injured and dead victims falling down in the battle for control. Ground Zero of the White Gangster camp has to be Great Britain, the ex-colonial controller of Zimbabwe. There, the Whites just drool with hatred of the Black gang that had gained ground on them. How to overturn the situation? The solution was in 'elections'. There, the control over financing, control over the international press, the control over the international imperialist armed forces, could all be brought out as heavy artillery. The common people got caught in the crossfire. London's man, has now run off to the Dutch Embassy... Tsvangirai seeks embassy refuge for help. Condi Rice, amongst others, will see what she can do? It is a pitiful drama now being played out, and though one can have little sympathy with the Black Gangsters, the White ones are even worse. The poor people caught in between... I just visited a country whose people fell in between local and international crowds of gangsters. The country of Nicaragua, now living the lowest standard of life in the Americas, outside of Haiti. This is a county whose people fell back into the clutches of the White Gangsters of DC through an 'election'. We forget the war though, as is the same these days as in the case of Zimbabwe. Pity the people caught in the crossfire...
How did London's new Dubya-like clown mayor get elected?
London, Great Britain has just recently elected a new Dubya-like clown for mayor. How did this city go from having a relatively liberal mayor like Ken Livingston, to a neo-con stooge for its highest office? The answer has some sad lessons for the US, a country that is once again desperately trying to throw its most corrupt corporate clowns out of DC. But will they return once again, just as has been the case in the past? Sadly, the answer is YES they will return. Why is that? The answer once again is pretty simple to figure out. Just like in Britain, when a population allows another group of marginally less corrupt corporate clowns in, the worst do get back in after a short while. And in Britain, just like in the US, the corporate world totally controls the main electoral options. There simply is no electoral choice of worth. The Hindu has a great analysis of what happened in London's election that allowed a Tory fool to get back in as mayor there. See Extreme swings for a great analysis of how the "two party system" works in Great Britain. Yeah, I know that there are now actually three main parties, like in Mexico, but still the similarities with the US Tweedle Dee- Tweedle Dum con are chilling. So we may well be back to having a Clintonite figure get elected into the presidency once again, but it will only be prep for returning the worst of the worst corrupt corporate Klan back later. You can bet on that. The Democrats are what make the Republicans possible, and until we get fed up as a people with both of these gangs, we will just get more of both of them in the future. Ugh, what an ugly world. You really have to work to make it better, and just 'voting' in elections run by the corporate world, just will not produce any real change.
British and French imperialists are the problem, too
by Tony Logan - June 16, 2008 0
Together with the US, the British and French governments make up a trio of warlord imperialists that rule over the entire world in a not so benign manner at all. We in America often want to blame it all on George W. Bush and the US neo-cons, but they rule the world with the help of people like Tony Blair, Gordon Brown (current PM of Britain) and France's Nicolas Sarkozy (the Dubya of France). Also in tow, are the Right Wing governments of Germany and Italy. How do these gangsters operate? We can see the French fomenting war alongside the US in the Horn of Africa and in Chad-Sudan. Djibouti says France to send ships over Eritrea clash And we can see the Brits working together with Bush and Obama to threaten to extend the Middle East fighting into Syria and Iran. Bush and Brown's warning to Iran Why this grand alliance of gangsters? The answer is quite obvious and simple. All 5 of the these countries (US, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain) are ruled over by the multi-national corporations HQ ed in those locales. Goodbye Democracy everywhere, as the corporate world determines for all of us the shape of the world we live in. It is not a pretty picture. Lesson? The 'presidential election' is only about image changes, and not much else. There will be no real change coming about through voting to put Barack Obama into the office. Vote Obama, and you have done nothing. In Britain, they thought getting Tony Blair into office would solve the problem of the conservative Tories. Then they thought getting Blair out and Gordon Brown in would help solve the problem of stopping British participation in all the US wars. Delusions! Nothing has changed. If you want real change in the world, you can't find it in simple ways. Your vote in the election will not do anything. Your message of putting Barack Obama in office will be nothing more than saying to the powers that be, that YES, they can manipulate you at will. Just like putting Carter and Clinton in office did nothing positive in the past, another corporate Democrat in office mouthing off sweet nothings 'for the people' will do nothing, too. Until the populations of all the imperialist countries come alive, the world will be constantly engulfed in bloodshed, poverty, ecological destruction, and war. Passively mailing in your 'vote' accomplishes next to nothing at all. You must open your mouths, make your protests public and loud, and be vociferous in opposing society run by enslaved enterprise.
A vaccine for PTSD.
There is a natural (perhaps "unnatural") Immunity Factor to counter Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... It's called "sociopathy" and its evil twin "narcissism". I know, some people will only accept the opinion of Army scientists on what causes or prevents the disease, so I'll use a paraphrase of their definitions. It started to be a really really noticeable problem at the time of our Civil War and the Crimean War(s)... A time when large standing armies of conscripts were suddenly the norm rather than an aberration. A time of weapons technologies wherein somebody you could not see or hear, somebody perhaps miles away, could kill you, or your comrades, large numbers of you at a time. But the truly extraordinary stress, wasn't from the sudden spurts of violence, not directly, at least. It was the vastly longer times Between barrages, between battles... The disruption of you natural Circadian rhythms, sleep patterns and waking patterns, the "attack at dawn" because Dawn is the point at which all living creatures, from the lowest proto-bacterium to the Great Apes, and Humans, are at their lowest level of energy. So you had to be awake, and aware, by dawn. Guards have to be maintained at all hours... thus intermittent episodes of sleep deprivation. And that not on a regular basis. The randomness of that is also a factor. Then there's the acts of pure murder. You can train yourself to ignore your conscience, or be trained en masse to ignore your collective conscience... to supress the certain knowledge that you are doing something totally against your basic humanity... But the Basic Training itself, aka Indoctrination, aka Pavlovian Conditioning, aka Brainwashing, is designed not to strenghten your resolve, or your ability to think logically... but to break those barriers, those mental and spiritual bits of armor provided by God, that keep most people from committing outrageous crimes. You can, if your indoctrination is constantly reinforced, maintain that level of denial... but only for as long as your indoctrination is reinforced. Once you are separated from your army, or from your cult, or whatever group is brainwashing you, the denial becomes harder and harder to maintain. False "patriotism", or devotion to whatever OTHER similar lower-case "g" god you've been trained to worship, and a simple fear of admitting, mostly to yourself or your comrades, that you have done wrong, is a very powerful reason to keep it sublimated, to bottle it and suppress it. Alcohol and other drugs are one really commonly used method. Perhaps it's the reason members of the military are actually Encouraged to drink. Somebody who's a total drunkard might be punished or looked down upon, but so are tee-totallers. People who abstain from social drinking are actually looked upon as having antisocial tendencies, or at least, not being as suggestible, "not a team player". So, what would be a good, non-destructive vaccine, a good prevention for PTSD? not maintaining a Standing Army for one. It might sound kind of idealistic, like what would then prevent some foreign power from invading and enslaving America... Well, for one thing, we haven't been invaded since 1814.
Mugabe and the British move to regain control over Zimbabwe
by Tony Logan - April 3, 2008 April 3, 2008 0
The world corporate press has been going non stop against 2 African governments the last couple of years. The targets have been the governments of Sudan and Zimbabwe. Why such attention given to these 2 African governments out of a continent full entirely of unsavory governments and dictators? Is it that the US and Western European elites have suddenly become a group of benevolent saints, only concerned with the welfare of the poor Black populations of their 'Dark Continent'? One can't really think so. So let us take a brief historical look at Zimbabwe now, and see why the corporate press is so hot for regime change? One does not have to be in love with the 82 year old Mugabe, current head of the Zimbabwe state, to question why our attention is focused by others in his direction. Has this attention about 'human rights' been consistent, coming from the European and US governments and their servile press? Yeah, right... Let us ask several questions, then... Has the corporate press informed the world public about the economic warfare being waged by the colonialists against their former colony, Zimbabwe? Well, why not? Zimbabwe is an economic basket case today, but the US and Europeans have made it so, as well as Mugabe himself, but that's not what the corporate press wants the public to know. They are campaigning for regime change and not the welfare of Zimbabweans. The governments and their press want to gain back direct control over Zimbabwe, not save the people living there. Look for the likes of O'Reily and the other media whores at the Fox 'News' stable to be shedding crocodile tears on behalf of that population though, as the Murdoch press in England routinely does, too. Another question, too? A lot of press has been given to the dangers of an anthrax terrorist attack on the US. Has any of the pro-military/ police state press ever informed the public that the largest case of anthrax terrorism directed against people happened in Rhodesia (the white racist Apartheid state ruling over Zimbabwe) just a while back? That's right, the Whites of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe that were intimately connected with Great Britain, used anthrax against the Blacks of that country. It was the largest such biological warfare use of anthrax in world military history. As somebody around back then, I don't really remember the press ever giving much a shit about the affairs of Zimbabwe back then. Now, they can't do anything else other than blab on and on about Zimbabwe, same as they do about the Darfur in Sudan. The British, French and US governments want control back over these 2 regions of Africa. And they want the general public to think that they are being good people
Jordan, an American-made 'Arab democracy'
by Tony Logan - March 11, 2008 March 11, 2008 1
The US, which hardly has any functioning democracy of its own, has a government that went on a Christian Crusade, a Christian Crusade to supposedly bring democracy to the Arab World. The American Empire of Torture, Inc. has a model 'Arab democracy' that it wants other Arab states to be militarily impelled (by our friends at the Pentagon) to establish, and that model is Jordan. Jordan even once had a queen, an American citizen named affectionately (by the Western press)Queen Noor, who was courted by a king (or at least a thug of one)! How romantic, right? But, Tony, what supposed democracy in the world is headed up by Queens and Kings? The answer is, Not So-Great Britain, for example, so we cannot hold it against backward peoples (like the Arabs) if 'their democracies' too have kings, queens, and court jesters running the show. It just wouldn't be fair. But the peasantry really should be more respectful in these modern day, Made-in-America 'democracies', should they not? Especially peasants from abroad, like this slimy gay French citizen twit who insulted the King of Jordan. Isn't Made-in America 'Arab democracy' just great?
Super Harry kills the barbarians
by Tony Logan - February 29, 2008 3
One of the frequent refrains in the US is that the powerful and well-to-do war promoters here always keep their own children out of the fighting, and that many of them are �chicken-hawks�, gung-ho avoiders of doing the actual fighting themselves. But in Britain, along comes Prince Super War Hawk, Killer of the Pagan, and he has duly registered and true authentic �royal blood�, too! He�s a True Warrior Prince from the Royalty� pure breed! Well, the US has had several more plebeian Super Heroes for the pro-war press, one of which was an American pro- football player who once tried to outdo Warrior Prince Harry. That American Super Hero evidently was not very popular among his own troops, and was killed by �innocent� fire. But Super Prince of Arabia, TE Lawrence, no I meant of Afghanistan, Prince Harry, is claiming to be the truest killer of the barbarians of them all. He�s making a few dinosaurs in Britain proud that such a fossil from the dead Empire of Great Britain apparently still is around, lost in some sort of time warp, one must guess? In this picture Super Prince MANS a machine gun, as he strolls through the brutal barrios of The Natives. But alas, Super Prince is ready to PULL OUT, and return to being only poor Clark Kent once again. Who needs Princess Di in these modern times, when the Murdoch press can PUSH Super Prince in its tabloids? But for now, Super Prince Harry must once again remove his Super Hero cape, and return to his people. One wonders what the British population thinks of this gala show?
US is militarizing Canadian society too
Uncategorized by Tony Logan - August 4, 2007 August 4, 2007 3
Just like the US has drawn Great Britain into its orbit of militarizing world society so to is it doing with our neighbor to the North, Canada. (Hey, I always liked that 'neighbor to the North' phrase!) Here is an interview with prominent Canadian antiwar activist, Steven Staples that sheds some light on the situation UP THERE. It's a good interview, though I think he takes a much more positive view of how the Peace Movement there is actually doing than it in fact might deserve.
Dubya, there's been a change of plans about attacking Iran
by Tony Logan - August 3, 2007 2
For months it appeared that an expansion of war from Iraq into Iran was getting underway but there has been a change in plans. No, it wasn't that the US has been flubbing up its occupation and humiliation of Iraq so bad that made the Powers That Be pull back. Not that at all. The reason to holding back on spreading war into Iran is for another reason. That reason is Afghanistan and the Pashtuns. It seems that the war in Afghanistan is going as bad, if not worse, as the War Against the Iraqi People is. Due to geographical , social, and historical illiteracy, the US captains of War didn't seem to realize that the Pashtuns are spread between 2 countries, and were not merely concentrated in Afghanistan. So now, the corporate political parties are calling for new blood, but this time in Pakistan! Obama and Hillary are fighting to out do themselves on this one. Obama doesn't want to use nuclear weapons inside the nuclear state of Pakistan, but Hillary wants to swing with all that we got. Or at least threaten to do so. So Time Out! No bombs for you yet, Iran! Wait a sec, Tancredo. Pakistan is calling for Great Britain to pull out of Afghanistan. Musharraf and Gordon Brown now look like Larry and Curley Stooge trying to balance themselves to not get hit by Moe. What an episode! Forty million Pashtuns.... Hey, the Arabs still have some friends around in the world. But let's face it, we can pick on Pashtuns until Hell freezes over without anybody saying anything. And nobody in the US will ever learn a word of their Pashtun language either. It will make it that much harder for reporters to ever get out of beddedness with the Pentagon if they can't communicate with the locals, not even in Arabic! That will teach Al Jazeera.... Al, jeer us. This new switch in alliances is already underway as the US government plans to increase the amount of nuclear tech it gives to India. Blowback, Blowback, Blow us away back! Clowns should never be given anything other than pies to battle with. Unfortunately, our 'leaders' got other toys. Uh, US out of Pakistan Now! The list just gets bigger and bigger. Pakistan is crumbling into civil war. Yet another great victory for Homeland Security!
UK PM Gordon Brown nose continues Blair policies
Uncategorized by Tony Logan - July 31, 2007 2
Gordon Brown has met the Bush-Cheney team and it is to be more of the same. Despite some empty rhetoric about world poverty and rethinking British role in Iraq, Brown has deliberately refused to order British withdrawal from Iraq. Instead, Bush and Brown are ordering United Nations troops into Sudan, 26,000 of them in total at a cost of $2 billion dollars a year. What a miserable and stupid way to spend money which could have gone to improve the lives of the Sudanese instead of policing them. Yes, but that would not have increased imperial control over the region. Gordon Brown is showing herself to be the Hillary Clinton equivalent for Great Britain, which is a lesson about how liberalism everywhere is nothing much more than a pillar and cornerstone of Empire. A lot of hope was put in getting Blair out of office as is the case in the US with the hope that change will come with merely getting Bush out of the presidency. The Democrats offer no more than the Labor Party has offered with Brown. Just more of the same. If you are for an end to US imperialism running the world, it will take more than elections of liberals to get it done. Liberalism just does the run around but the Empire is kept running. Those who hope for change are just conned.
I don't understand all this talk about impeachment?
by Tony Logan - January 30, 2007 January 30, 2007 2
I don't understand why liberals obsess about impeaching Bush? Just the word 'impeach' is something that has strong negative connotations like with the phrase, 'they tried to impeach his credibility.' In fact, isn't that what the Republicans and Kenneth Starr did exactly when they tried to impeach Clinton? They tried to impeach Slick Willy's credibility, besmirch it. Fancy that from such scoundrels as the Republicans? Besmirching someone's character rather than honestly challenging their politics is certainly what they do best. Let's look at what's wrong with the impeachment process. When Nixon was impeached, he was removed from the office of the Presidency, and then promptly pardoned for his actual crime of committing burglary! Wouldn't due process be to actually have given him a criminal trial, convict him of what he did, and only then, remove him from office? Imagine if other criminals were treated as Nixon was? Imagine if somebody burglarized your house and stole and otherwise trashed all your precious possessions inside. The police get the guy, but the District Attorney and the men in blue, before a criminal trial of any sort, have the guy fired from his job (assuming he has one other than fencing and burglary?). Then, the District Attorney informs you that this criminal who ransacked your castle has been given a pardon, and that there will never be any trial regarding his criminal act! Then the criminal burglar goes and opens up a big library (something presidential) with his name on it, and retires in bliss. While you, the victim, sit in wonder at the whole damn charade of process! America, supposedly has one set of laws for all. We all know by now that is a total crock of shit, but still? Shouldn't the public demand enforcement of laws on the books, even when the president, the vice-president, and his high officials break them? Torture, assassination, and robbery are a few of the crimes committed by Bush and his Klan. Shouldn't we demand that they be criminally prosecuted rather than just timidly asking that Bush be quietly removed from office? The most popular sign I ever use protesting against the illegal invasion of Iraq and looting of that country states, JAIL BUSH, FREE IRAQ. Can you get any simpler than that? Does anybody really think that criminals are really afraid of 'impeachment'? They make jokes about it down in Florence no doubt. 'Hey, Guards, let me go. Impeach me instead.' Why such a blatantly double standard of legal process when it comes to high officials? Impeachment works this way. You first try to smear the character of a person you can't get to totally go along with your corruption. The impeachment of the character, Slick, began
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