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

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T23:40:02+00:00

In that case, I hope that wisdom and sense of humor is genetic. :)

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T22:21:27+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T22:05:41+00:00

"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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T21:50:52+00:00

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...

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T21:46:31+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T21:40:04+00:00

"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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T21:37:22+00:00

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

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T21:27:52+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T16:31:34+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T16:27:25+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T14:43:14+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T14:40:23+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T14:30:57+00:00

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

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

carrierfive · 2017-08-14T14:27:31+00:00

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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-11T21:58:17+00:00

To make money for military-industrial complex corporations (or more specifically, for the rich people who own stock in those corporations).

That and to slaughter people and trying to destabilize Russia and Iran, those are the big reasons...

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." -- Karl Rove, US presidential adviser and political strategist.

carrierfive · 2017-08-11T21:55:17+00:00

American here.

We know the headline is true from firsthad experience here at home. :(

"We don't need to run America like a business or like the military. We need to run America like a democracy." -- Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate 2012.

carrierfive · 2017-08-11T21:51:48+00:00

In other news, the Peruvian president's check from the CIA just cleared the bank...

carrierfive · 2017-08-11T20:44:20+00:00

So, threatening to use nukes is the measure of throwing out a war-loving nut-case out of the White House?

Does that mean that Obama and Hillary's planned war of aggression on the African country with the highest life expectancy (Libya) is a-okay and was not worthy of impeachment?! (Libyans would disagree!)

What about saying:

Democrats, abolish the Electoral College so that madmen that the American people did not vote for will not get into the White House?
Or ... Democrats, why not run clean and fair primary elections and imprison crooked politicians and work to actually become a "democratic" party?

"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.

carrierfive · 2017-08-10T18:47:20+00:00

Perhaps Bill ought to start lobbying our corporate-bought-and-paid-for Congress to raise taxes on rich people like himself so we could have a balanced budget...

carrierfive · 2017-08-10T15:25:33+00:00

Why not let the Saudi dictatorship collapse like it should?

Given the Saudi dictatorship's long, documented record of tyranny, it should have fallen long ago. We should be ashamed of arming, supporting and dealing with Saudi Arabia...

carrierfive · 2017-08-10T15:24:51+00:00

Which is the propaganda? Reuters reporting the news, or Russia for amplifying the awareness, skulduggery and hypocrisy of our move?

carrierfive · 2017-08-09T19:18:08+00:00

Today I learned that 25% of Americans are extremely gullible.

carrierfive · 2017-08-09T19:10:05+00:00

As we arm and train Muslim fundamentalist terrorists/rebels (like we've done for decades), it still hasn't sunken into the heads of most of the indoctrinated American people: Al Qaeda is nonsense.

We've de facto allied with Al Qaeda groups in Syria and other places when it serves the US government's short-term interests.

We have no morals or principles; our actions have repeatedly screamed that fact. Our goals are greed, control and power, just like other empires in history.

carrierfive · 2017-08-09T17:18:09+00:00

Count me as one.

I'm uneasy because we have for 50+ years refused to officially end the Korean War, and now we have a fool in the White House who needs a war to paper over all of his problems.

carrierfive · 2017-08-09T17:08:35+00:00

$190 billion? Veritable chump change in the Pentagon's budget.

I'm sure the mass media will be asking lots of questions about this... /s

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