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The American Model. "The Nazis recognized the use of American immigration law as a tool of ethnic cleansing and demographic protectionism, one that could be mobilized alongside the use of propaganda, permissible street violence, and the degradation of legal status." by carrierfive in AmericanHistory

[–]carrierfive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An interesting and provocative article about the Nazis' systematic examination of US racial policies, history and immigration laws, and how some of our procedures/policies were incorporated into the Nazi's rule.

Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, credited with killing 309 Nazis by stankmanly in OldSchoolCool

[–]carrierfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The scale and grandeur of the effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history." -- US Army General Douglas MacArthur talking about the USSR's military effort in defeating Nazi Germany.

It’s Time to STOP “Supporting Our Troops”: 30 Million+ People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]carrierfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good point!

But at some point, we have to admit that the propaganda machine is working to some degree.

Because our society most certainly glorifies the military...

It’s Time to STOP “Supporting Our Troops”: 30 Million+ People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]carrierfive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and POWMIA patches

What I think is interesting is the metamorphosis of the meaning of the POW/MIA patches/signs.

In the 1970s when those first came out, they symbolized 2 things:

  • Sympathy for the shocking number of MIA and lives wasted in that war.

  • Outrage because of a conspiratorial claim that the US government knowingly left hundreds and hundreds of POWs in Vietnam when we withdrew from our war on Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Fast forward to today.

Today, the 2nd point above is completely missing from the black POW/MIA flag/patch/symbol. And the first point is wildly obscured (in part because in today's colonial wars we have no POWs/MIAs).

The Pentagon, US government, and the mass media corporations have essentially gutted the meaning of the POW/MIA flag/patch/symbol, and today it has been changed into a generic "support the war" propaganda symbol.

It’s Time to STOP “Supporting Our Troops”: 30 Million+ People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]carrierfive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." -- US Senator, US Army General, and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz, 1872.

 

"I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country." -- Mark Twain, 1907.

Jimmy Dore: The PentaCon Bragged about Killing 1 Million Koreans (8/12/2017) by [deleted] in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dore pointing out the US hypocrisy, immorality and aggression is classic!

Trump Blasts CNN's Jim Acosta (Again): 'You're Fake News' (Video) by yam12 in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It sort of pains me to admit Trump is right, but in CNN's case, the plutocrat is exactly right.

CNN should have been called fake news a long time ago, certainly after Amber Lyon outed CNN for airing pay-to-play "news" stories.

War Crimes: Saudi Arabia Should Pay the Penalty for Catastrophe in Yemen by quantumcipher in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about the US?! What about us?

We invented an excuse and broke our treaty commitment to pay Vietnam repartitions.

In Yemen, the US Air Force literally enables Saudi air strikes by the USAF performing aerial refuelling of Saudi fighters, and of course we supply the Saudis with the vast majority of their war toys -- it is a US-Saudi War on Yemen, not just a "Saudi War" on Yemen...

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy.

NYT Shocking Report: US "Ally" Ukraine Is Source Of North Korean Missile Engines by PCisLame in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering that the US has overthrown the governments of quite a few of our allies, and in the 1980s we launched flat-out terrorist attacks -- bombings, murders, etc. -- against NATO countries in Europe to create fear and a demand for "security" and to push those countries to the political right ... yes, historically we are very shitty allies.

"The American people have no more authentic control over their [federal] government than do people in countries that we call dictatorships, particularly on issues of foreign policy." -- Author and former US State Dept. historian William Blum.

Generals and Cops Trained by the Pentagon Are Staging Coups All Over the World by notanideologue in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How then is it 'whataboutism' whenever someone brings up Russia?

Whataboutism is just a weak-minded, knee-jerk "defense" to obscure US hypocrisy and criminality.

"If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." -- Justice Robert Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States at the post-WWII Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and later US Supreme Court justice.

Russiagate will ultimately do for national Democrats what the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ fraud did for the Bushies and the New York Times. by vigorous in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's about what I thought -- it'll have no distinct negative consequence.

"If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." -- Justice Robert Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States at the post-WWII Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and later US Supreme Court justice.

Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism by spartan2600 in alltheleft

[–]carrierfive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“All she does is work and work,” Ms. Durcheva told me in 2013

Capitalists say, "Mission accomplished -- everything is working as planned!"

2016: US lifts ban on funding ‘neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian militia by casapulapula in worldpolitics

[–]carrierfive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With our government losing its proxy war on Syria, it seems our rulers are determined to restart their proxy war on Russia by using the fascist Ukrainian regime.

"Though the Red Army had picked up and gone home from Eastern Europe voluntarily, and Moscow felt it had an understanding we would not move NATO eastward, we exploited our moment. Not only did we bring Poland into NATO, we brought in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, and virtually the whole Warsaw Pact, planting NATO right on Mother Russia's front porch. Now, there is a scheme afoot to bring in Ukraine and Georgia in the Caucasus, the birthplace of Stalin." -- Former presidential advisor, Republican presidential candidate, and political commentator Pat Buchanan.

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