Corbett Report | Douglas Valentine on the Resurrection of the Phoenix Program
A longish video that is well worth listening to/watching.
Corbett Report | Douglas Valentine on the Resurrection of the Phoenix Program
A longish video that is well worth listening to/watching.
The Bullying of US Militarism Pervades the Entire Society
Both the military and its allies in the armaments industries have a strong stake in promoting a violent bullying culture where weapons are a norm.
#NoWar2016 | Protest at the Pentagon (Video)
Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska one of those arrested explained why she was at the Pentagon seeking a meeting today “The measure of a healthy society is how we treat the marginalized. How we can care for them in a just and humane manner when 56% of the federal budget goes to the Pentagon for its 800+ military bases and the killing?
Linda Hoover | A Legacy of Resistance
U.S. decision-makers turned to soldiers for hire....Soldiers for hire are not a reliable military force. They fight not for a principle or belief, but for the highest bidder. In 2016, perhaps half of the troops fighting for the U.S. military are mercenaries from countries impoverished by U.S. foreign policies—countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, and Pakistan.
John Pilger | Silencing America as it prepares for war
A few years ago, I attended a popular exhibition called "The Price of Freedom" at the venerable Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The lines of ordinary people, mostly children shuffling through a Santa's grotto of revisionism, were dispensed a variety of lies: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved "a million lives"; Iraq was "liberated [by] air strikes of unprecedented precision". The theme was unerringly heroic: only Americans pay the price of freedom.
David Bryne | The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians
As individuals, how much and for how long should we adhere to our beliefs if they run counter to those of the community? To our neighbors (which would make us outcasts)? To the state (which would make us outlaws)?
Viet Con — by the inimitable Mr. Fish
and because you've shown good will to the United States in the years since we invaded and occupied your country, slaughtered more than 3 million of your people...
Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”
Time and again, members of the Washington press corps have credulously accepted officials’ lies and misinformation and passed them on to their readers as the truth. Their real-time skepticism is almost nonexistent. And they keep doing it.
William J. Astore | Tourists of Empire: America’s Peculiar Brand of Global Imperialism
Tomgram: William Astore, Taking Selfies in Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops are never seen as conquerors or oppressors, always as liberators and freedom-bringers, or at least helpers and trainers. There’s just enough substance to this myth (World War II and the Marshall Plan, for example) to hide uglier imperial realities...
Fr. Harry Bury: Hanoi 1972
Bury: Marianne and I were to be a part of a larger delegation of peace activists. Our mission was to bring back to the United States three prisoners of war, Lieutenant Markham Gartley, Lieutenant Norris Charles, and Major Charles Elias. The three pilots had been shot down in an area controlled by the Pathet Lao and were to be released as a gesture of reconciliation.
Seymour Hersh: The Scene of the Crime
“I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer.”