The world’s number one terrorist organization, namely the USA has gone and done it again. The only thing the USA produces is death and destruction. And it matters not which brand of the corporate/oligarch UniParty is in power. I hate the country of my birth with every fiber of my being.
Trump and others in his administration and democrats as well, allow AIPAC to direct their decisions and although a few may set themselves free, most do not. What I find disgusting is the money AIPAC uses to bribe our elected official to do Israel's bidding. Adelson in broad daylight gives Trump a hundred million to take out the West Bank. Trump has got to go, but AIPAC really has to go. In the 1990's Netanyahu writes a book Fighting Terrorism and identifies the countries that need to be taken out, and Iran was on that hit list, but got a reprieve. However, Netanyahu, a genocidal SOB got his final dictate. To summarize you left out Israel in your rant.
While I agree with what you have written regarding Israel, I purposely left them out of my rant because this post by Hedges was in response to the USA directly attacking Iran. Yes AIPAC bribes our politicians, but the USA also in effect bribes Israel as well by giving them billions of dollars every year to do the USA’s bidding. Israel would not exist if it were not for their acting as an arm (pun intended) for the world’s number one terrorist nation (The USA) in the Middle East.
The USA would not have attacked Iran, or the other M. E. countries Americans fought and died in, in this 21st century if it were not for the lobby. They have a lot of control over our elected officials and American policy. Iran is no threat, but Israel made it one. It's not okay with me that a foreign country exerts that type of control. Netanyahu who is implementing a genocide which is against international law has the power to make a US president take out a country who poses no threat? Trump as they say is Netanyahu's biggest lapdog, but more importantly a genocidal killer can make him one. The USA may have directly attacked Iran, but at Israel's bidding which is far more significant to me.
I’m morbidly fascinated by the Congressional Democrats bleating, “But the Constitution…”. Not a doubt in my mind that they would have approved this. They’re just mad because they weren’t in the loop.
What an ironic joke. He defines terrorism and the cause for taking out countries who engage in it and in this century we accommodated him. Iran was always on his hit list. Nothing better define a terrorist state then Israel's repeated attacks on the Palestinians. Not to mention their genocide in Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Annotation
This paper presents and discusses definitions of terrorism and notes the increase in State-supported terrorist activity.
Abstract
The formal definition, adopted in Jerusalem in 1979, states that 'Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder, maiming, and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.' In its choice of targets and its demands for legitimacy, terrorism breaks down the distinctions that define the moral limits of war: noncombatants are the targets, and all society is viewed as the enemy on ideological grounds. Although terrorism has existed throughout history, it rapidly grew in the 1960's, sparked by the early successes of Middle Eastern and European terrorist groups. State support by the Soviet bloc and the Arab world have increasingly made terrorism global in nature and given it its ideological foundations in communist totalitarianism and Islamic radicalism. State-supported terrorism has, in an age dominated by the threat of nuclear war, become increasingly useful as a means of waging war by proxy. As such, it is a weapon of great temptation, and terrorist attacks, primarily against the West, have increased tenfold in the last decade. Terrorism constitutes a growing threat which the democracies have failed to handle adequately.
With empathy turned up to high, you might imagine what someone your age in Iraq...who lost two sons in the war let's say, and cares now for a disabled daughter and two grandchildren.......in relative poverty.......feels now as they watch America fund Israel's genocide against a people who look much like you.
Not only are you powerless to do anything to help.......if your country tried you fear it would be bombed into having more 'common sense' again.
That could be you or me my friend.........if fate had decreed we were born there instead of here. WHAT AMERICAN FORCES DID IN IRAQ WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY........time doesn't erase those crimes. The hatred and despair they fuel goes on for more than a quarter century.
White phosphorus used against Fuludja...which I can't either spell correctly....or forget until I die.
I'm an empath....give it a try....it changes your perspective considerably.
I know. But we the people should care.......and keep saying so.
It is a psychopathic kind of "CARE-LESS-NESS" that is running things now.
Everything is treated as some kind of potential trash, standing in the way of their monied utopias.
Only a movement of CARE will have the heart to stand against them.
For the 7 generations.....as the culture we tried to genocide out of existence is fond of saying. That kind of spiritual toughness might have a chance of prevailing.
Obviously, the Pentagon disagrees. Even if the politicians won't listen, they are not shy about getting their preferred agenda out through backchannels.
So why do we vote? Why do we feel patriotic under the guise of freedom? What a first class racket. Our elected officials pick $srael over US citizens every GD time. I take no pleasure watching this. It has served no purpose other than despair
We schoolkids were taught the U.S. won WWII. Especially in the '50s, but really during the entire Cold War, there could be no positive mention of the U.S.S.R. at all, let alone as crucial to the allied victory. Truth is U.S. power and might haven't "won" anything.
Is this addressed to me?! I certainly do remember the'50s, including when the :under God" was added to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 and when Sputnik went up in 1957. I've been active in politics since 1960 (the JFK election;) the Dem party was still New Deal and hadn't abandoned labor. Blue collar worker for close to 30 years. In the late '60s I was trained by people who'd been leftist union organizers for the C.I.O. in the '30s. Who told me: "liberals are the ones who leave the room when the fight starts." I'm both BIPOC and LGBT, involved in those causes since the '70s. Plus deeply rooted in and very knowledgeable about the local ecosystem and Indigenous culture. In Canadian terms, I'd be NDP; a fan of Dave Barrett, Lester (Mike) Pearson and especially Tommy Douglas. I'll throw down credentials and experiences with anyone any time. I won't be "late" for another decade, I hope.
Policies bad enough with the neolib Dems and their arrogant "meritocracy." They learned little, so the certainty of the Best and Brightest made famous by Halberstam's book on Vietnam persisted. Then in the Biden administration the neocons gained the State Dept. The domestic monoparty a foundation to pursue the neocon lust for a unipolar world and total control. The fantasy of empire--economic, territorial, or both. Very little of either part based on empirical evidence.
An aspect of those driven by certainty and control is they're sure they're right. The rate of Dunning-Kruger effect among them must be staggering. Especially in a Trump administration rife with incompetence because the main qualification is fealty to the Great Leader. Then add their alliance with extreme right wing Christians eager for end times.
Even with intelligent and informed administrators in charge, when has the might and wealth of the U.S. actually won a war? It could be the point is endless wars, but it should be clear even the U.S. cannot carry on fantastically expensive wars infinitely. How prepared is the military for the latest one? As the Colonel points out, the U.S. will not back down. Especially true for neocons and Christian fascists. They're fine with destroying half the planet to preserve their beliefs. Those end times may get here quicker than the overconfident have planned and in a very different form than their limited imaginations can possibly conceive.
Just till the Empire goes broke. My dream is the aircraft.carrier the.Gerald.Ford has to stop on the way to a.battle, mid-ocean, because it.rums.out of gas and no one will give them credit.
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.
... War accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society."
It will be a disaster...but Amerika loves disasters.........and making 'other people' pay the first price of them. All those innocent deaths on your big interferring paws....
You never do learn.....always in the final analysis, it comes down to bombs and bully boy demands for absolute surrender....
It's going to bankrupt you in the very near future.
The world’s number one terrorist organization, namely the USA has gone and done it again. The only thing the USA produces is death and destruction. And it matters not which brand of the corporate/oligarch UniParty is in power. I hate the country of my birth with every fiber of my being.
Trump and others in his administration and democrats as well, allow AIPAC to direct their decisions and although a few may set themselves free, most do not. What I find disgusting is the money AIPAC uses to bribe our elected official to do Israel's bidding. Adelson in broad daylight gives Trump a hundred million to take out the West Bank. Trump has got to go, but AIPAC really has to go. In the 1990's Netanyahu writes a book Fighting Terrorism and identifies the countries that need to be taken out, and Iran was on that hit list, but got a reprieve. However, Netanyahu, a genocidal SOB got his final dictate. To summarize you left out Israel in your rant.
Remember how he was all over the place saying Iraq has to be taken out since they are going to develop nuclear weapons?
While I agree with what you have written regarding Israel, I purposely left them out of my rant because this post by Hedges was in response to the USA directly attacking Iran. Yes AIPAC bribes our politicians, but the USA also in effect bribes Israel as well by giving them billions of dollars every year to do the USA’s bidding. Israel would not exist if it were not for their acting as an arm (pun intended) for the world’s number one terrorist nation (The USA) in the Middle East.
In other words, it’s a money laundering operation.
The USA would not have attacked Iran, or the other M. E. countries Americans fought and died in, in this 21st century if it were not for the lobby. They have a lot of control over our elected officials and American policy. Iran is no threat, but Israel made it one. It's not okay with me that a foreign country exerts that type of control. Netanyahu who is implementing a genocide which is against international law has the power to make a US president take out a country who poses no threat? Trump as they say is Netanyahu's biggest lapdog, but more importantly a genocidal killer can make him one. The USA may have directly attacked Iran, but at Israel's bidding which is far more significant to me.
Just got a post from Mate and it reads, "Trump’s attack on Iran is ‘unconditional surrender’ to Israel." Hell no!!!!!!
I’m morbidly fascinated by the Congressional Democrats bleating, “But the Constitution…”. Not a doubt in my mind that they would have approved this. They’re just mad because they weren’t in the loop.
ABSOLUTELY CRIMINAL - these people are just scum!
What an ironic joke. He defines terrorism and the cause for taking out countries who engage in it and in this century we accommodated him. Iran was always on his hit list. Nothing better define a terrorist state then Israel's repeated attacks on the Palestinians. Not to mention their genocide in Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Annotation
This paper presents and discusses definitions of terrorism and notes the increase in State-supported terrorist activity.
Abstract
The formal definition, adopted in Jerusalem in 1979, states that 'Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder, maiming, and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.' In its choice of targets and its demands for legitimacy, terrorism breaks down the distinctions that define the moral limits of war: noncombatants are the targets, and all society is viewed as the enemy on ideological grounds. Although terrorism has existed throughout history, it rapidly grew in the 1960's, sparked by the early successes of Middle Eastern and European terrorist groups. State support by the Soviet bloc and the Arab world have increasingly made terrorism global in nature and given it its ideological foundations in communist totalitarianism and Islamic radicalism. State-supported terrorism has, in an age dominated by the threat of nuclear war, become increasingly useful as a means of waging war by proxy. As such, it is a weapon of great temptation, and terrorist attacks, primarily against the West, have increased tenfold in the last decade. Terrorism constitutes a growing threat which the democracies have failed to handle adequately.
Not that that is going to get you an exemption, when the world's victims, who really hate America, come for the Empire.
2003 all over again with the corporate state all in supporting a war that will backfire on us...
As far as Israel is concerned, the War On Iraq was entirely successful. Iraq was turned into a failed state, no Israeli casualties.
You can only imagine how bad it was for Iraq's people when you see how silent they are now.
Not sure i understand what you are saying.
With empathy turned up to high, you might imagine what someone your age in Iraq...who lost two sons in the war let's say, and cares now for a disabled daughter and two grandchildren.......in relative poverty.......feels now as they watch America fund Israel's genocide against a people who look much like you.
Not only are you powerless to do anything to help.......if your country tried you fear it would be bombed into having more 'common sense' again.
That could be you or me my friend.........if fate had decreed we were born there instead of here. WHAT AMERICAN FORCES DID IN IRAQ WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY........time doesn't erase those crimes. The hatred and despair they fuel goes on for more than a quarter century.
White phosphorus used against Fuludja...which I can't either spell correctly....or forget until I die.
I'm an empath....give it a try....it changes your perspective considerably.
I am not arguing any of that, but the sociopaths who rule over us could not care less.
I know. But we the people should care.......and keep saying so.
It is a psychopathic kind of "CARE-LESS-NESS" that is running things now.
Everything is treated as some kind of potential trash, standing in the way of their monied utopias.
Only a movement of CARE will have the heart to stand against them.
For the 7 generations.....as the culture we tried to genocide out of existence is fond of saying. That kind of spiritual toughness might have a chance of prevailing.
Guess we're going to find out if Col. Wilkerson was right. Welcome to WW III everybody.
Obviously, the Pentagon disagrees. Even if the politicians won't listen, they are not shy about getting their preferred agenda out through backchannels.
So why do we vote? Why do we feel patriotic under the guise of freedom? What a first class racket. Our elected officials pick $srael over US citizens every GD time. I take no pleasure watching this. It has served no purpose other than despair
LOL no shit. The US hasn't 'won' a war since 1945.
We schoolkids were taught the U.S. won WWII. Especially in the '50s, but really during the entire Cold War, there could be no positive mention of the U.S.S.R. at all, let alone as crucial to the allied victory. Truth is U.S. power and might haven't "won" anything.
good points
You came in rather late as I remember.....sometime after the hard early years were past.
Likely deciding which side to be on by who was losing.
Is this addressed to me?! I certainly do remember the'50s, including when the :under God" was added to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 and when Sputnik went up in 1957. I've been active in politics since 1960 (the JFK election;) the Dem party was still New Deal and hadn't abandoned labor. Blue collar worker for close to 30 years. In the late '60s I was trained by people who'd been leftist union organizers for the C.I.O. in the '30s. Who told me: "liberals are the ones who leave the room when the fight starts." I'm both BIPOC and LGBT, involved in those causes since the '70s. Plus deeply rooted in and very knowledgeable about the local ecosystem and Indigenous culture. In Canadian terms, I'd be NDP; a fan of Dave Barrett, Lester (Mike) Pearson and especially Tommy Douglas. I'll throw down credentials and experiences with anyone any time. I won't be "late" for another decade, I hope.
The attack on Iran was illegal, having not been authorized by Congress. Why did the military follow an illegal order?
Rather reminds a person of Pearl Harbour does it not. Not at war with the USA but one night, they bomb the bJesus out of you?
Policies bad enough with the neolib Dems and their arrogant "meritocracy." They learned little, so the certainty of the Best and Brightest made famous by Halberstam's book on Vietnam persisted. Then in the Biden administration the neocons gained the State Dept. The domestic monoparty a foundation to pursue the neocon lust for a unipolar world and total control. The fantasy of empire--economic, territorial, or both. Very little of either part based on empirical evidence.
An aspect of those driven by certainty and control is they're sure they're right. The rate of Dunning-Kruger effect among them must be staggering. Especially in a Trump administration rife with incompetence because the main qualification is fealty to the Great Leader. Then add their alliance with extreme right wing Christians eager for end times.
Even with intelligent and informed administrators in charge, when has the might and wealth of the U.S. actually won a war? It could be the point is endless wars, but it should be clear even the U.S. cannot carry on fantastically expensive wars infinitely. How prepared is the military for the latest one? As the Colonel points out, the U.S. will not back down. Especially true for neocons and Christian fascists. They're fine with destroying half the planet to preserve their beliefs. Those end times may get here quicker than the overconfident have planned and in a very different form than their limited imaginations can possibly conceive.
Just till the Empire goes broke. My dream is the aircraft.carrier the.Gerald.Ford has to stop on the way to a.battle, mid-ocean, because it.rums.out of gas and no one will give them credit.
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.
... War accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society."
George Orwell in his book "1984"
how many wars has the u.s. "won" since ww2? (btw the nazis won ww2, since they just morphed into the u.s. government)
It will be a disaster...but Amerika loves disasters.........and making 'other people' pay the first price of them. All those innocent deaths on your big interferring paws....
You never do learn.....always in the final analysis, it comes down to bombs and bully boy demands for absolute surrender....
It's going to bankrupt you in the very near future.