War is an American religion
We cannot continue fighting 50 simultaneous, expanding, unprovoked and unwinnable wars. This insanity has already bankrupted the nation.
CIA arming and training terrorists led to attacks in Paris
Without the American crime of aggressive war against Iraq — which, by the measurements used by Western governments themselves, left more than a million innocent people dead — there would be no ISIS
Chris Hedges: America’s Electoral Farce: Posted Juns 16, 2015 By Chris Hedges
I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party candidate, and going home.
A vote for Bernie Sanders=a vote for war
“The attack on Kosovo is hardly the extent of Sanders’ hawkishness.”
The Portland Alliance: August 2015… Speaking Truth to Power
Much More in the August 2015 Portland Alliance:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/August
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Bernie Sanders endorses and supports wars and profiteering
“Sanders not only defends military contracts that benefit his constituents in Vermont, he also joined the 100 to 0 vote in the Senate to give unalloyed moral and political support to the state of Israel during its most recent bombing campaign against Gaza.”
The Middle East
To personalize this for a moment, imagine a bully sitting on a smaller child, and every time someone objects to the fact that the bully is beating the smaller child with an iron rod, the bully exclaims, “Well, he tried to slap me, so I was forced to defend myself.” No, you can’t claim that you’re beating the smaller child with an iron rod in self-defense, especially when you can end the entire confrontation simply by getting off him. Back to the political reality, Norman Finkelstein put it best: “The refrain that Israel has the right to self-defense is a red herring: the real question is, does Israel have the right to use force to maintain an illegal occupation? The answer is no.”
US Abandons Troop Reductions in Afghanistan
The Obama administration is dropping its plans to reduce the amount of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by the end of the year, significantly altering the timeline which officials had said would see troops largely withdraw from the country by 2016, according to reports.
Torture is illegal, immoral and does not work…
“Torture is illegal, immoral and it does not work. This is not just a matter of the rule of law.
This is a matter of national security.”
The Rise of ‘Democratic’ Fascism
Fascism’s Nazi iconography is embedded consciousness: flickering footage of goose-stepping brown-shirts ~OO~