Militarism

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• Grannies To Toys R Us: War Is Not A Game

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  The Grannies performing in Times Square (Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — On December 4th the Ragging Grannies and the Granny Peace Brigade created a wonderful holiday peace event at the crossroads of the world, Times Square. The purpose was to send the message, no more war toys and no more war. They met ...
  14 hours ago

• Hope That Theres No Confrontration in Crimea...

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 673
  I dont understand how I had missed this: H/t Chet.
  21 hours ago

• Perpetual war in America - Part 1

  
  Opinione — Authority: 112
  Although the American military has been involved in many foreign interventions over the last thirty years in addition to the two major wars it fought after World War II, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, there is little evidence in American culture of the negative effects of this perpetual war. This can be ...
  21 hours ago

• Globalization: Drug Trafficking, Organized Criminal Networks, Militarization… all in Mexico

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  As we all know, despite very clear indicators of the global nature of many phenomena in the economic, political, social, cultural and criminal, talk of the demise of the nation-state has always been premature, and still is. Case in point, Mexico. Consider these three stories that zero in on the local, national and ...
  1 day ago

• Barack Obama : The Audacity of Imperial Hubris

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 538
  Famed graffiti artist Banksys statement on war and peace. Protest poster in Parliament Square, London.Imperial hubris:Barack Obama and Nobels preemptive strikeObama might have used the Nobel stage to mark a break from [the] geopolitical approach to U.S. hegemony through militarism... This was clearly the intention of ...
  2 days ago

• Molly’sBlog 2009-12-14 19:01:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  CANADIAN POLITICS: CANADA: WAR SPENDING BEATS THE ENVIRONMENT: There is a persist myth about Canada as "the peaceable kingdom", a myth hardly born out by the facts, especially as successive Liberal and Conservative governments have done their best to be good mercenaries in the American war in ...
  5 days ago

• Unprovoked

  
  Midnight Fire — Authority: 109
  One word is repeated in the comments from the bold protesters in Copenhagen these days: Unprovoked . The established media’s «reports» from the streets of Copenhagen and the police statements concerning their brutal actions against protesters are exposed as the usual lies and deceit. Protesters are brutalized ...
  5 days ago

• A Telling Example

  
  Vox Nova — Authority: 477
  Never having taken President Obama for anything resembling a peacenik such as myself, I wasn’t much surprised by his carefully crafted defense of perpetual war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. You don’t become the commander and chief by subverting the country’s military basic structures and policies ...
  6 days ago

• *Up Close And Personal- Afghan Commander Westmoreland (Oops!) McChrystal Sees The Light At The End Of The Tunnel, Part 2

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 144
  Click on title to link to a National Public Radio (NPR)/WBUR, December 10, 2009 story/interview about Afghan commander General McChrystals take on prospects for "victory" in Afghanistan. Markin comment: Heres MY take on this one, again. Obama- Immediate Unconditional Withdrawal Of All U.S./Allied Troops (And ...
  6 days ago

• *Up Close And Personal- Afghan Commander Westmoreland (Oops!) McChrystal Sees The Light At The End Of The Tunnel, Part 1

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 144
  Click on title to link to a "Washington Post", December 8, 2009 article about Afghan commander General McChrystals take on prospects for "victory" in Afghanistan. Markin comment: Heres MY take on this one. Obama- Immediate Unconditional Withdrawal Of All U.S./Allied Troops (And Mercenaries) From Afghanistan (And ...
  6 days ago

• Prussia in Palestine

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  A short historical quiz: Which state: Arose after a holocaust in which a third of its people were destroyed? Drew from that holocaust the conclusion that only superior military forces could ensure its survival? Accorded the army a central role in its life, making it "an army that [...]
  6 days ago

• Russia as Screaming, Spoiled Brat

  
  La Russophobe — Authority: 139
  Alexander Golts, writing in the Moscow Times:With the United States canceling its plans to deploy elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and with the imminent signing of a new nuclear arms control agreement between Moscow and Washington, Russia’s foreign policy is facing something of a ...
  6 days ago

• 2009 Nobel Peace Prize given to Commander in Chief and military industrial complex stooge- Barack Hussein Obama

  
  Opinione — Authority: 112
  The recent speech by President Barack Obama would have made George Orwell proud. Speaking before an international audience, with a straight face and the demeanor of a dishonest cars salesman, President Barack Obama had the audacity to declare to the world “the instruments of war do have a role to play in ...
  6 days ago

• A few quotes from Dorothee Soelle

  
  catholicanarchy.org — Authority: 106
  I was reading excerpts tonight from the late German feminist and political theologian and activist Dorothee Soelle —who coined the term Christofascism —and thought I would share just a few provocative passages. “I suspect that the post-Christians do not want to have anything to do with the dialectic of a ...
  1 week ago

• Women Lead Protest In Afghanistan

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 116
  Via RAWA : Several hundred women, many holding aloft pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, held a loud but nonviolent street protest today, demanding that President Hamid Karzai purge from his government anyone connected to corruption, war crimes or the Taliban. Afghan police, in ...
  1 week ago

• The Nobel laureate’s land war in Asia

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  Thoreau , with what has to be the best one-liner about Obamas Nobel: ...the Nobel Peace Prize was just accepted by a man currently escalating a land war in Asia.
  1 week ago

• The Nobel laureates land war in Asia

  
  Ra?ionalitate — Authority: 466
  Thoreau , with what has to be the best one-liner about Obamas Nobel: ...the Nobel Peace Prize was just accepted by a man currently escalating a land war in Asia.
  1 week ago

• TODAY in Afghanistan

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 573
  "Its gonna be a r-r-really big shew, a r-really big shew." -- Ed Sullivan Before Defense honcho Bob Gates had his first press conference with Karzai after the surge announcement -- in which Hamid tacked another 15-20 onto the U.S. timeframe (really an open-ended one, anyway, per Bob and the Generals) -- we see ...
  1 week ago

• Yule Tide

  
  BAGnewsNotes — Authority: 573
  The real White House Christmas tree. (From slideshow: West Point Speech: The View from the Stage (TIME/Christopher Morris - VII)
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• Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Obama’s “False Reading Of History”

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  A protester on Staten Island (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) NEW YORK — Last Tuesday, December 1, Obama told the world that anyone who compared Afghanistan to Vietnam was guilty of a “false reading of history.” It is true that history does not repeat, according to a number of prominent historians. However, it is ...
  1 week ago

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