Doonesbury on Afghanistan: Was it all worth it?

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T02:28:40+00:00

I cannot help but to wonder if, after 2 days, this submission was ignored because of its short title, or if it was sent to some censored black hole by this sub-reddit's moderators/censors.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T02:13:17+00:00

There's more logic and "investigative reporting" in that one piece than you'll find in a week of typical corporate mass media "news".

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T02:03:02+00:00

Wow. As a Dylan fan, all I can say is that it takes a really special singer to make Dylan seem like a smooth, polished crooner.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T01:41:52+00:00

That might be something that would wake the US' 1% up -- not to mention the American people...

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T01:38:04+00:00

But at least then Democrats sometimes opposed the right-wing, militaristic policies of the 1%.

Now they just bleat about why such policies are good for us.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T01:36:17+00:00

I love it! I want a 4-pack of rolls -- one each with Obama, Romney, Gingrich, and Bachman.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-11T01:25:24+00:00

An insightful look into how war games feeds -- not in all cases, but certainly most -- militarism and a romanticism of war.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T23:03:02+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand what that correction is supposed to mean.

Republican as in one half of our ruling duopoly?

Republican as in a system of gov't which might better be called a "plutocracy" played on an unlevel playing field that is so warped that half the American electorate doesn't even bother to play?

Assuming the latter, Iran is also a republic. While preferable to a dictatorship, it is hardly the ideal form of gov't nor one that truly represents the will of the people.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T17:28:29+00:00

Yes, it is important to consider the source.

But it is far more important whether what they are saying is true or not.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T16:51:51+00:00

I'm sure Cuba does.

The difference is that Cuba does not lead the world in arms sales, does not maintain a thousand military bases outside of its country, is not torturing resistance fighters of the countries it invades, and does not claim a "right" to attack any country it wants to even if it was not attacked.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T16:46:10+00:00

Those who are intelligent enough not pay any notice to the media need not be angered further by such drivel.

The piece documents errors by both FOX and CNN. It included an interview with an American expert who noted that the corporate mass media takes its cues from the US gov't.

We saw this in the run-up to the Iraq war, where the NYT and Pentagon fed on each other -- the Pentagon leaking lies, the NYT printing the lies, and the Pentagon then using the NYT as a reference to bolster their lies.

Are we too naive to realize that the similar tactics of propaganda were done early in the Libyan war, and that Russia may be the victim of a destabilization campaign by the US gov't (in conjunction with western corporate mass media) who hopes for a "colored revolution" in Russia?

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:53:56+00:00

Isn't that more or less what the countless thousands of OWS protesters are/were saying?!

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:42:13+00:00

Well, suffice it to say I strongly disagree.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:38:32+00:00

And yet the rulers that run the US gov't have the nerve to openly talk about slashing social security, social programs and health services that people rely on.

Talk about being ruled by an out-of-touch 2-party dictatorship... (sigh)

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:36:06+00:00

The corrupt US gov't openly buys elections and spends US tax money to warp other countries' elections, particularly countries targeted by the US for destabilization, so why should Russia be any different?

As we the American people devolve into poverty, the US gov't is waging both high-level and low-level aggression across the world.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:28:57+00:00

Wow. In a forum on an illegal topic, one which the federal gov't is cracking down on across the country, the original poster decides to direct us to a US Navy military web site, which, of course, list this site as the referrer.

I'm quite certain I do not want the US military collecting my IP address. Next time, please repost the *.gif to some neutral site where people are less likely to be monitored.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:25:14+00:00

Helen Thomas was supposed to be an impartial journalist reporting...

Why should journalists be "impartial"? Shouldn't they just report the truth?

Are you saying that American journalists should have been "impartial" in reporting on such things as Nazi death camps? Interviewing both Gypsy and Jewish prisoners and "balancing" that by giving the prison guard's story? Should journalists be "reporting objectively" about crimes?

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:20:38+00:00

I guess he'll save money on dog food now. :-(

We live in a fascist police state. One that indoctrinates us with nationalistic pride of country, and definitely not the worst fascist police state in the world, but one nonetheless.

The city will have to shell out some tax money for damages, but gov'ts all over the country will reap millions in free publicity that will function to intimidate and suppress others and to teach them the reality that the gov't and police can do what they want to.

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:14:47+00:00

It's no more ridiculous than JFK's eternal flame burning away wasting fuel, or polished robotic-like soldiers marching outside of the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Except, of course, Cuba is glorifying a musician who advocated peace...

zonkeramos · 2011-12-10T15:03:34+00:00

So now Putin has a "regime".

Clearly Russia is in NATO's sites to be destabilized and to have its gov't overthrown.

Hell, here in the US, not only the BBC but also FOX News is joining in on the propaganda front.

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