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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61035472011-04-21T18:26:26.893-07:00Margot B War NewsHeadlines, quotations, news about the Iraq and Palestinians warsMargot Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109218348458672603noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103547.post-81047271879825535132009-03-19T14:32:00.000-07:002009-03-19T14:32:09.219-07:00Genesee Crest Ltd.: Writers Wanted

Genesee Crest Ltd.: Writers Wanted

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Advantages/Disadvantages of Pure Play Internet Retail Advantages: Convenience of shopping on-line with increasingly secure technologies safeguarding Internet transactions, e.g. on June 27th Visa International announced that more than 60 of the world's top Internet solutions providers combined to launch its "Visa Authenticated Payment". This will enhance the security of Internet-based payments on

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Genesee Crest Ltd.: Writers Wanted: "jmichaelwarner(at)yahoo(dot)com"

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ON RESPECT: http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com:80/blog-CplNAyIlc6PRvYisHBVo9PYIUEpJ Respect means no interruption.Respect means no confrontation.Respect means no accusation.Respect means no "mocking,"Especially, no mocking of elders.Respect means no lies between us.Respect means no betrayal of confidence.Respect means no "ripping off."Respect means no hoarding.Respect means no "Lording it

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Dianne Feinstein resigns committee post amid scandal; accused of war profiteeringSource: www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.htmlPosted by Joshua Holland at 12:52 PM on March 30, 2007. SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and

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Conspiracy Theories and Plain Old Liesby Marlow BWe hear a lot of what we assume are conspiracy theories and don't have time to check them out as well as not paying that much attention to the news anyway. We don't have time for that and by most of those around us, we're considered a bit obsessed if we spend too much time on it. Before I retired I got most of my news from the mainstream media and

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Conveniently forgottenSaddam committed most of his crimes when he was an ally of those who now occupy his countryBy Tariq Ali01/01/07 "The Guardian" --- It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging - most of it shown on state television in occupied Iraq. It has been that sort of year in the Arab world. The trial was so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch had to condemn it as

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My Election MusingsNov 21st, 2006 in politics by Marlow B America was the big winner in the mid-term election of 2006. The Dem's control both houses of Congress. So now what? We have Nancy Pelosi as Leader of the House starting in '07. She said she wants to clean up the ethics problem that has plagued us for eons in Congress, especially for the last 12 years, all 12 of which have been

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You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or

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Generous with the fortunes they did nothing to deserveDo they expect us to be grateful?July 14, 2006 Alan Maass examines the philanthropy of today’s robber barons.BILL GATES and Warren Buffett have grabbed headlines lately not for the usual reason of the record fortunes they’ve amassed, but because of the record sums they plan to give away to charity.In June, Gates--cofounder of Microsoft and the

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AGE OF GRIEFby John ZerzanA pervasive sense of loss and unease envelops us, a cultural sadness that can justly be compared to the individual who suffers a personal bereavement.A hyper-technologized late capitalism is steadily effacing the living texture of existence, as the world's biggest die-off in 50 million years proceeds apace: 50,000 plant and animal species disappear each year (World

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Is Civilization Worth it?As things get worse and worse for us, we're going to need more and more of all the things that give us relief and oblivion and all the things that get us revved up and excited. More religion, more revolution, more drugs, more television channels, more sports, more casino's, more pornography, more lotteries, more access to the Web-more and more and more of it all-to give

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The political character/figures have always been Pretenders. They read their scripts on stage. They serve the public no good. ...ShakespeareMy ProfileMy Web Site

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Cynthia under attack by Ian BuckleyWith Fox News leading the way, the story of Cynthia McKinney's scuffle with a Capitol cop continues to make the headlines in the United States. An absurdity, one would have thought, given the original incident.The Capitol Hill policeman in question supposedly failed to recognise Congresswoman McKinney, grabbed hold of her, and she responded by allegedly hitting

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Scooter Libby’s Client, Marc RichBy: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 11.03.2006 [05:48 ] (136 reads) Marc Rich, Scooter and Bush (22421 bytes) [c] Sophists and Other Scoundrels Part 2: Scooter Libby’s Client, Marc Rich (Part 1: Scooter Libby's Mentor) By Linda Minor October 28, 2005 “The man attacking my integrity and reputation – and, I believe, quite possibly the person who exposed my wife’s

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Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords who inhabited the castles whose towers may still be seen along the Rhine concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of

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BOROWIT: HALLIBURTON WINS CONTRACT TO RECONSTRUCT CHENEY'S REPUTATION:The Borowitz report offers this satire—or is it?While Halliburton has been known for massive reconstruction projects in such war-torn nations as Iraq, the $42 billion contract represents the first time that the company has been employed to put its reconstruction expertise to work on one embattled human being.“At the White House

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The Last Word: Noam ChomskyA Tale of Two QuagmiresNewsweek InternationalJan. 9, 2006 issue - Noam Chomsky has been called one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, but it's an accolade the 77-year-old MIT professor doesn't take very seriously. "People just want to hear something outside the rigid dogma they're used to," he says. "They're not going to hear it in the media."

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Brother George's Traveling Salvation ShowBy Malcom Lagauche (Jeff Archer)February 9-10, 2004George Bush is tired of running for the presidency of the United State. He's already been there and done that. With recent speeches, one could assume that he is running for a higher position - God's vice president.The president has taken the issue of same-sex marriage and elevated it to a religious level.

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America's Corporatocracy Says "No MAS" by Jason MillerWhile he may be dead in the corporal sense, the spirit of Simon Bolivar continues to wage the struggle for freedom from oppression. Hugo Chavez is perhaps the most familiar incarnation of Bolivar's élan vital as he defies the neocolonial policies of the United States, a nation which has supplanted the European colonial empires as looters of

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Dispatch: Bombed in Beijing China’s development is stunning, but not as stunning as the Goddess of Tiananmen Square. By Stewart NusbaumerThis is Stewart’s second dispatch from China, the first is Astounded in China.Beijing, China -- “Hi, me Susie. Where you from?” I turn to my left -- instantly stop! “Ah, the West End Bar,” I stammer. “Huh?” “I mean New York.” With the slanted eyes of

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Judy is Out; Wants It Made Clear She Didn’t Screw Libby (Just the American Public) In reporting that Judy Miller is leaving the New York Times (a great victory for the Times newsroom, the blogosphere, and journalism -- sorry no one gets the baklava!), the Times makes a big deal of the dust up over Miller’s anger at a memo in which Bill Keller wrote of “Judy’s entanglement with Libby”.Judy

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Source: Orion magazine: www.oriononline.org From the Faraway NearbyRebecca SolnitFire In the SouthIf you want to see what Democracy could be, look to Latin AmericaTHE MOST EXHILARATING and the most promising things going on at this particular moment in history have hardly made news in the USA, or bits and pieces have without a summary that says: Latin America is on fire with revolutions that

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** Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **** http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** Open Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi ConstitutionThe following letter was composed by members of the Brussels Tribunal, one of the groups from the WorldTribunal on Iraq. For those interested in international law and theupcoming referendum vote on the Iraqi constitution, this is a must read:We would like to

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'I sat there in agony thinking about all that had led me to this private hell. My idealism, my patriotism, my ambition, my plans to be a good intelligence officer to help my country fight the communist scourge - what in the hell had happened? Why did we have to bomb the people we were trying to save? Why were we napalming young children? Why did the CIA, my employer for 16 years, report lies

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"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what

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"We joke about having transferred from the Marine Corps to the Oil Corps, or the Petrol Battalion, and while we laugh at our jokes and think we're damn funny jarheads, we know we might soon die ... squandered lives with the comedy of combat and being deployed to protect oil reserves and the rights and profits of certain American companies, many of which have direct ties to the White House.”--

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[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus: =Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow

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In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus: =Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow

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NewsletterDate :June 17 2005Why do we do the things we do? Why do we continually make such a mess of things? Temptationby Terrance Watson We are constantly faced with a choice to do good or do evil. At least that’s what they say. But maybe it’s not that simple. A man will gladly cheat his brother, but he will never cheat himself. He’d cheat a cousin before he’d cheat a brother. A man will

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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak: Ralph ChaplinMy ProfileMy Web site

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US Media Censors Uranium Weapons Stories - Depleted Uranium Turns to Poison GasDedication for the year 2120.A Dedication in 2120 might say: Dedicated to the memory of the Iraqi people. Many people believe Iraq was the birthplace of civilization some 5,000 years ago. Iraq was destroyed and radioactively contaminated in an early 21st Century Oil War by a fascist world power, now

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The War Prayerby Mark Twain"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;

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'This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed . were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.': Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.My ProfileMy

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Bush's European Vacation QUESTION: Mr. President, thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to talk to you. You're going to Europe, commemorating 60 years of liberation in Europe. You could have gone to many countries, why did you choose to go to Holland? THE PRESIDENT: First of all, Holland was a stalwart, and the people of Holland were brave and courageous when it came to resisting

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George Bush's Fascist AdministrationTopic: spoon-in-his-nose -spoon-in-his-nose Class War: - Even as George Bush ordered the weapons inspectors to leave Iraq the inspectors were supervising the destruction of Iraqi missiles. The inspection process was working. Diplomacy works. Containment works...But war also works. War works for them. It works for Boeing and it works for Halliburton. It works

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Obviously Iraq couldn't even come close to matching the extent of destructiveness from the West nor from even the United States alone. Nor can al-Qaeda or Libya or any other Third World country and neither does any other country in the United Nations Security Council. In fact the U.S. spends more, to bully other countries into doing what the U.S. wants, and euphemistically calls it "defense";

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"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do

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Can't Turn A Lie Into The TruthAt first every U.S. war is supported by the masses but eventually the truth is disclosed and U.S. misbehavior exposed - and then we hear about the cover-ups, black operations, the massacres, prisoner abuse, intentional targeting of civilians and the death and wounding of Americans and it all seeps out slowly like an oozing wound. The truth has been wounded so many

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Silent Holocaust"For the people of Iraq, for the children of Iraq, from the radiation tothe embargo, the war has never ended. There is no escape into normalityand there is no hiding place," says Felicity Arbuthnot. When ProfessorMagne Raundalen, director of the Center for Crisis Psychology in Bergen,Norway, a world-renowned child psychologist and veteran observer ofchildren's terrors in almost

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Truly Allah favours the Muslims http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293343853Let's see if I've got this right: * A Muslim hiding in a cave in Afghanistan masterminds the greatest spy operation in History. * The intelligence services of the Western World can't stop it. * The Muslim shuts down the civil air defence systems of North America AND accesses the secret

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New Declaration of IndependenceWe have been asked by a number of people to post this without the Pythonesque humour as it appears to have struck a chord with many of you. What has been pointed out to us is that although when written it was an attempt to show Dubya up as the bumbling fool that he is, the actual content is very scary and very relevant to Americans who value their freedom..........

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Full article here Being with us --- means that you believe that it was us who liberated Europe, it was us who liberated Auschwitz, --- But, to be historically accurate, it wasn’t even us who liberated Auschwitz. As it appears, it was Stalin, the other evil. Being with us means that you are not supposed to ask too many questions about our own immoral conduct. For instance, you don’t ask why

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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'" : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire = " The liberty of a

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The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the

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No one is taken in by the US lies The graves of Falluja show the reality of Iraq's occupation Rana Kabbani Tuesday November 23, 2004 The Guardian In an ideal world, the US-appointed interim prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, would find himself answerable for his craven obeisance to his American overlords, instead of using this week's Sharm el-Sheikh conference as an excuse to condemn those

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged: Anne Frank: Jewish girl author

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"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill." George W. Bush -Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004 View my complete profile

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Spotted Tail [Sinte-Galeska] (1823-1881) Native American Chief of the Brule Sioux “This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. . . . This war has come from robbery--from the stealing of our land.” Margot B World NewsRead My Full Profile

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America was founded on the blood, torture, and genocide of MILLIONS!! of Indians!...On theft of Indian lands, deception, fraud, and dishonesty with a long history of protest and dissent. Indeed, it could be argued that had the American Revolution not been co-opted by the rich and powerful this country might have been great. However, even the failure of the revolution to accomplish real and

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Brain Dead, Made of Money, No Future at All By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 17 August 2004 To: George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear George: A pretty awful joke has been making the rounds lately. Some might say it's an awful joke because of the comparison. Most, however, think it's an awful joke because it isn't funny

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"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004

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The Saudis with all their newfound wealth needed alliances and that is where James Bath and George Bush came in and were important to them. Favors beget favors and patience is a virtue in that part of the world. Favors and support which was guaranteed then comes back later and that is why Prince Bandar kept those ties close and used them to get Saudis out of the country after 9/11 (See Michael

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"The ever-growing social inequality in America is incompatible with any meaningful conception of democracy, because democracy has more than just political dimensions. It has economic dimensions as well. A society which permits (let alone encourages) such disparities in wealth has a shallow notion of democracy, indeed. In fact, one might say that there is an unbridgeable contradiction between

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War Is A Racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes: Major General Smedley Butler. 1881 - 1940

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President Declares "Ownership Society" Tells Convention He's Ordered Invasion of Social Security Trust Fund by Greg Palast [New York] Of all the bone-headed, whacky, breathtakingly threatening schemes George W. Bush is trying to sell us in his acceptance speech tonight is something he and his handlers call, "the Ownership Society." Sounds cool, "ownership." Everyone gets a piece of the

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" ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press.

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Mad Hatter It seems that the 'Mad Hatter' policies emanating form the heart of the plutocratic Empire are not just the work of one person. Rather, they emanate from a cabal of religious fanatics bent on an insane and irrational religious crusade that will, most likely, lead to another series of military clashes alike in their brutality to what we have seen imposed on Iraq. Goals and Strategy of

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The Third Reich. Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000: "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum 4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating, "Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals." Who made Hitler? Bush Finances Hitler. http://www.ciagents.com/

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Bush and WWII from George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin Chapter - II - The Hitler Project Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-

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Nothing Learned in 60 Years "But neutrality, the avoidance of war, is not the normal aim of governments. Governments are 100% useless appendages to any society, and have to work to justify their existence in the eyes of those they rule; one way to do so, proven effective by 5,000 bloody years of history, is to excite small boys -- and adults with a juvenile perspective -- with the idea of

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" They know we own their country. We own their airspace...We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need." : US Brig. General William Looney (sic), Washington Post, 24/6/1996

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Bush has created what is in effect a gulag. It stretches from prisons in Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantánamo to secret CIA prisons around the world. There are perhaps 10,000 people being held in Iraq, 1,000 in Afghanistan and almost 700 in Guantánamo, but no one knows the exact numbers. The law as it applies to them is whatever the executive deems necessary. There has been nothing like this

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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense: Randolph Bourne

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On March 18, two days before the U.S. invasion, Barbara Bush had an interview with ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer. ''Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen?'' Mrs. Bush declared. ''It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'' Maybe she is right, but I don't think so.

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"Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they

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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and

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"COWARDICE, n. A charge often levelled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These 'cowards' are to be contrasted with red-blooded, 'patriotic' youths who literally bend over, grab their ankles, submit to the government

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"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses." -Edward Abbey

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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"A man who has in mind an apparent advantage and promptly proceeds to dissociate this from the question of what is right shows himself to be mistaken and immoral. Such a standpoint is the parent of assassinations, poisonings, forged wills, thefts, malversations of public money, and the ruinous exploitation of provincials and Roman citizens alike. Another result is passionate desire - desire for

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein

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Dress it as we may...huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

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Dress it as we may...huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

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I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr

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Mind-Numbingly Outrageous: Wars 'useful', says US army chief; "no use having an army that did nothing but train." OMG. What is wrong with these people?

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"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands... [Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called

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"The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' it is a very serious consideration...that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." : - Samuel Adams, speech in Boston, 1771

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Some of the most effective forms of nonviolent resistance in the twentieth century were undertaken, mostly without advance preparation and co-ordination, against the Germans in World War II — a fact consistently overlooked by those who reply to the examples of Gandhi and King by saying that they could not have done it against the Nazis

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First published From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College. "The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw

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General Smedley Butler, a much-decorated and celebrated US war hero of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with 34 years' military service, later reflected on his campaigns and produced a telling volume entitled War as a Racket. He explained his central thesis thus: "I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short I was a

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Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was

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"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." Rev. Martin Luther King. 4 April 1967

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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather

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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism: Howard Thurman:

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt: (1918)

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"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves

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