In his inauguration speech, President Obama said
"a decade of war is now ending". . . a cynical and monstrous lie which should not go unchallenged!
(Unless, of course, he just meant to say that one decade of war is ending and another is starting!)
(Unless, of course, he just meant to say that one decade of war is ending and another is starting!)
Obama's Overlooked Wars and Lethal
Presidency
By Jason Kottke
As Obama said that "a decade of war is now ending" in his inauguration speech, illegal drone strikes continue to kill innocent civilians as "collateral damage" in various countries.
By Jason Kottke
As Obama said that "a decade of war is now ending" in his inauguration speech, illegal drone strikes continue to kill innocent civilians as "collateral damage" in various countries.
"President Obama's second inaugural was supposed to sound
something like Lincoln's: the speech of a man tired of
war, and eager to move the nation beyond its bloody
reach. In truth, it was the speech of a man who has
perfected a form of war that can be written off as a
kind of peace...
... If George W. Bush were
doing this sort of thing, we'd be marching in the streets
about it. Why does Obama get a free pass? (And on Bradley
Manning? And on Guantanamo?) Anyone in the press want to ask
the President about the legality & moral stickiness of drone
strikes at his next press conference?"
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The New Law is Lawlessness
Is This Endless War on Terror The New Normal?
By TheYoungTurks
"That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism." Continue
Is This Endless War on Terror The New Normal?
By TheYoungTurks
"That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism." Continue
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Cornel West Exposes Obama Hypocrisy
Must Watch Video
“All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don’t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry."
Must Watch Video
“All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don’t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry."
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Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the
President's First Term
Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia
By Nicolas J.S. Davies
Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: "Why do they hate us?" Continue
Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia
By Nicolas J.S. Davies
Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: "Why do they hate us?" Continue
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"Beyond Vietnam"
A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King
By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic.
A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King
By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic.
In his "Beyond
Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April
4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the
United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world
today."
Ask yourself this question: If alive today, what would Martin Luther King say about the war crimes continuing under Obama?!
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MLK's Vehement Condemnations Of US
Militarism Are More Relevant Than Ever
By Glenn Greenwald
". . .One of the best decisions the US ever made was to commemorate King's birthday as a national holiday. He's as close to a prophet as American history offers. But the distance between the veneration expressed for him and the principles he espoused seems to grow every year. When it comes to King's views on US militarism, nothing more potently illustrates that distance than the use of King's holiday to re-inaugurate the 44th president."
By Glenn Greenwald
". . .One of the best decisions the US ever made was to commemorate King's birthday as a national holiday. He's as close to a prophet as American history offers. But the distance between the veneration expressed for him and the principles he espoused seems to grow every year. When it comes to King's views on US militarism, nothing more potently illustrates that distance than the use of King's holiday to re-inaugurate the 44th president."
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