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Monday, March 25, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
June 1: Rally for Bradley Manning at Fort Meade
June 1: Rally for Bradley Manning at Fort Meade
By exposing the truth, Bradley Manning helped end a war based on lies. Join us June 1, 2013 to rally in support of Bradley Manning at Fort Meade.
A still from the Collateral Murder video which exposed the murder of two Reuters journalists
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This week, pundits across the political spectrum are searching for meaning in the tenth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. The decade-long campaign of bombings and occupation left hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead and millions wounded, displaced, or scarred. Justified with lies about biological and chemical weapons that never existed, the senseless war cost U.S. tax-payers more than 3 trillion dollars, and far more in blood and shame. Tens of thousands of US soldiers were wounded or killed, and to this day, $490 billion is owed to veterans.
Many credit President Obama with the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, and almost none mention the fact that it was cables provided by Bradley Manning and published by WikiLeaks that made Obama’s attempt to keep troops there past the 2011 deadline impossible. As CNN reported in October of that year,
[Iraq and U.S.] negotiations were strained following WikiLeaks’ release of a diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children, were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an airstrike as the U.S. military initially reported.
Obama had wanted to keep troops beyond President Bush’s 2011 deadline, but required the condition that all U.S. soldiers be guaranteed legal immunity for their actions. Upon reading the WikiLeaks-released cables, the Iraqi government refused.
By revealing the hidden realities of the Iraq War, Pfc. Bradley Manning achieved his noble goal of sparking domestic debate, and he helped begin the end of an aggressive, violent, and counterproductive war.
Rally at Fort Meade, June 1.
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- 15,000 more Iraqi civilians had been killed than were reported in any other count
- U.S. soldiers were formally commanded not to investigate reports of torture committed by the Iraqi Federal Police with whom they cooperated
- The American occupation of Iraq has failed to stabilize the widespread violence and corruption that has escalated following the destruction of Iraq's infrastructure
Embarrassed by the exposure of its failures, the military is seeking to make an example of Bradley Manning, and for this reason we must thank, support, and defend him. The government has chosen to pursue all 22 counts, amounting to a life sentence without parole, against Bradley when his court-martial trial finally begins on June 3.
We’re calling on supporters to descend in droves to Ft. Meade, MD, on June 1, 2013. President Obama and Gen. Martin Dempsey have already deemed Bradley guilty, pressuring Judge Denise Lind to follow suit, making it impossible for Bradley to receive a fair trial. The military court has failed to repudiate Bradley's unlawful torture and the violation of his right to a speedy trial. It has significantly hindered the defense's ability to discuss both Bradley’s motive to expose wrongdoing and the fact that no harm has come from WikiLeaks’ publications. So we must support Bradley both inside and outside the courtroom. We must express our outrage at the government’s attempts to send this generation’s Daniel Ellsberg to jail for life. Bradley Manning put his life and liberty on the line to inform his fellow Americans about a disturbing war’s darkest secrets, and on June 1, we must return the favor.
Learn more about organizing a van or bus to Ft. Meade — grants are available.
If you can’t make it to Fort Meade, organize a solidarity event in your own community
Saturday, March 16, 2013
cracks
Cracks
Cracks expanding like silky threads of a spider’s web
reaching spreading bonding more & more to ripple linking spokes everywhere
cracks on the face of the apartheid wall deepening connecting bonding -dazzling
Each crack a breath of freedom every fracture a warm touch of hope healing despair
a frozen lake of apathy, indifference & silent conformity relentlessly split by insatiable struggle
ruptures popping & cascading from ripples of unfaltering struggle for social justice
Lines of free will forming creating a canvas from abuses & usurpations for all to see
listen to them crackle and pop as they sing their hope for emancipation &autonomy
i heard them sing of a power within the prison of Bethlehem that could never be muted
Each burst of light illuminating insidious ethnic cleansing, occupation & military subjugation
the 30 foot tall great grey prison walls are crumbling from the weight of their own oppression
for on the other side i see free people strongly stepping out of the darkness lit in integrity
Splinters like Courage to Refuse & B’tselem reaching into every dark corner
Bab al-Shams,& True Torah Jews Against Zionism spreading their truth
The Black Hands, Gaza Youth,EI, & CPT together with the same message; Let my people go
So that one day i see the radiance even illuminating the Knesset
for one day egalitarianism will fill this the darkest hole of the abyss
from water to water no fence, no check point no more ethnic cleansing no more apartheid
When all the cracks unite to splinter the wall of hate as it then falls crumbles into dust filling the grave
on a warm summer day when all the soot settles from this great inevitable collapse
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Rule of Law for One and All
'The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aim'
-Which describes virtually every government every police force,every military on this planet does it not?
Wasn't the illegal aggressive initial attack on Iraq back in 2003 even described as a terrorist attack by the initiators as they called it; SHOCK AND AWE'?... Wasn't the overwhelming attack on this first week was intended to frighten and intimidate the Iraqi people, the Iraqi military and Saddam into a quick surrender?
"My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger... My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail." -George W. Bush - March 19, 2003
Anyone been indicted for stating that terrorist attack? For the murdering of 1.4+ million Iraqi people?
Anyone been arrested for causing the hundreds of thousands of orphans?
Anyone charged with the millions of refugees and displaced Iraqi people?
Anyone in prison for violating the Constitution, for committing international aggressive violence against the non-belligerent ancient land of Persia?
And now you want to do the same thing to Iran??
"No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights." - Muqtada al Sadr
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole": Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. ":U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945
We as US are Accountable & Responsible
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Drones Over DC...
Something smells funny..
"My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger... My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail." -George W. Bush - March 19, 2003
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" : Adolf Hitler
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to" : Malcolm Muggeridge
Living on the stardust of the past glories of yesterday-what could have been..Now we just send up secret military junk,call center satellites and if we want to send something wonderful we have to beg, then pay the russkies because most of our 'resources are not in education, research(save weapons)infrastructure...nope over 1/2 the federal budget is sucked up by the militarism and that boys and girls is a crime, a crime against you,against your kids and the rest of humanity...Your american,what are you going to do about it? Play dead? Salute the flag? Support the troops?
Or are you going to wake up, realize your not just being screwed by lies,deception,false fears,pretexts,red-herrings but ROBBED,robbed of your future,robbed of your kids future so that the status-quo(your owners,who by the way-and it ain't the politician)who is ripping you off for massive profits in the military-corporate complex and their banking/wall street SHORT TERM profit margins while they glorify yesterday's accomplishments to bamboozle you by star-spangled-eyes, the sullied flag and rah rah propaganda bs for you to worship and keep your mouth shut about while the troops commit the most insidious crimes in your name.
Your government does the most odious deeds like torture,murdering by drone children, medics and first responders,at weddings,at funerals and sells arms to virtually anyone who will throttle their people for a bribe or two and military training for its own secret police trained by the CIA or at the School of Americas. Now this nightmare school in Georgia will train you in how to torture effectively and to kill with precision those who dare ask for rights or complain about their rights.
Internationally illegal aggressive violence and pure terrorism assaulted upon nations who have what we want to consume but won't sell at a discount or exclusively who dare not succumb to hectoring is not the act of an exceptional 'city on the hill'. Nor the unjustified boasting of almost all the leaders who shout at the top of their lungs; 'We are the greatest nation the world has even seen." Not even close. America is simply stated the greatest purveyor of violence and the largest exporter of terrorism in the world today and yet its a uninterrupted path from the day she was born.
America has the vainglorious history of supporting proxies/dictatorships of nations who do as we say, not as we do...We are the monster,the bully of the global neighborhood and our forces straddle 151 nations with over 1000 bases and that is not only unprecedented, it is financially untenable. This empire spends 2.2 million a day on militarism and if you spent that 2/2 million every day since Jesus was born to the year 2011, you would have spent what this 'most christian' nation had spent on militarism just in one year-2011. We spend more on militarism than the whole rest of the planet combined and we have the largest military contract ever devised with one of the worst dictatorships-monarchies in the world who just happen to finance the very terrorism your leaders say they are fighting-'Whahabi extreme islam' (Wahhabi Islam, the primary religious movement behind extremist Islam, includes beliefs and doctrines not found elsewhere.").
I am sure as well-informed american citizens you remember some of the members of that sect. 15 of them were the ones who performed 911 on you and yours and yet do you remember what Bush did? Did he go attack Saudi Arabia for fermenting anti-western hatred culminating in 911? Did he send the troops to overthrow that backward despotic dictatorship that was directly involved? Nope, he just allowed private planes to pick up his friends- 'the bin laden family' during the next couple of days(which by the way were the only flights allowed in the whole nation at the time-everything else was grounded-you, me, but not the bin ladens) and fly them home to Saudi Arabia. Now the FBI did go to Saudi Arabia later to do interviews with the bin laden family and others...But THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED to talk to them! Do you understand now? Its not about principles or values or even the nation or the people within, it is about profit, profit and power and nothing else matters to them. They simply hoodwink you and take advantage of your loyalties,nationalism and patriotism for their own means. This is not conspiratorial theory. This is simply the way things are and you,we need to do something about it,for our sake, the planets sake and the futures sake.
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and participatory to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether nazi or communist." Winston Churchill
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves-or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control.
If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn." -
Sophie Scholl - 1921 - 1943 - German student, a member of the White Rose society, a non-violent anti Nazi resistance group.
"The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America's addiction to war and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending for jobs?" - Bruce Gagnon
"Many U.S.citizens have avoided knowing that U.S. citizens, including minors, have been targeted and killed, that women and children are on the list of those to be killed, that hundreds of civilian deaths have been documented by serious journalists including victims' names and identities, that U.S. peace activists went to Pakistan and met with victims' families, that the U.S. ambassador in Pakistan said there was a U.S. government count of how many civilians had been killed but he wouldn't say what it was, that the vast majority of those killed are not important leaders in any organization, that people are targeted and killed without knowing their name, that people are targeted and killed merely for the act of trying to rescue victims of previous strikes, that the wounded outnumber the dead, that the traumatized outnumber the wounded, that the refugees who have fled the drone strikes are over a million, that the drone wars did not replace ground wars but began war making in new nations so destabilized now by the drone strikes that ground wars may develop, that some top U.S. military officials have said the drones are creating more new enemies than they kill, or that what drones are doing to our reputation abroad makes Abu Ghraib look like the fun and games our media pundits said it was."
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
"A time comes when silence is betrayal … but the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony.” MLK
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