I apologize to all.
I was in bed the first week of April...from
the 3rd throught the 8th of April, but it was slow
in getting out of my system. Mostly sinuses and a bit chest.
I have a problem in that my way to save money on doctors
bills is to avoid doctors until I know I have to go. The down
side of that is I would get better quicker if I just went to
see my GP. He's a great doctor.
I'm working on articles to get out in the next few days.
Also I've been back in Ireland since August 18th,
and I do not see much of my children, one is 28
(he's been the kindest and we used to have coffee
about once a week until December 22).
We will be having coffee again soon.
My other child hasn't spoken to me since March 2009.
I forgive and love both.
I'm divorced.
It is evil for a spouse to fill the hearts of your own
children with poison or hate by lies...so that they see you
(me) responsible for the dissolution of our marriage. If they
only knew!
Monday, April 18, 2011
"Five Objectives of the United States In Africa"
Hello,
This is one of the best analysis of what is happening in
Africa, and the effort of the United States to control
and expand it's sphere of imperial realm when in fact the
U.S. is losing its control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27894.htm
http://bit.ly/gc4u8G
"Five Objectives of the United States In Africa"
This is one of the best analysis of what is happening in
Africa, and the effort of the United States to control
and expand it's sphere of imperial realm when in fact the
U.S. is losing its control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27894.htm
http://bit.ly/gc4u8G
"Five Objectives of the United States In Africa"
Saturday, April 2, 2011
AN ITALIAN BOY'S CONFESSION
Hello,
This was not mine; someone sent it to me a while
ago, and while cleaning out mail from my email
account I came across this.
I went to Catholic school for my eight years,
or as we used to say I 'had an eight year sentence.'
But, it was way back then that I heard a variation
of this...so I am posting it.
Humour helped to keep me sane during the craziness
of Vietnam, and I have always had the ability to make
others laugh...it's important to me.
I hope no one is offended
AN ITALIAN BOY'S CONFESSION
'Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
I have been with a loose girl'.
The priest asks, 'Is that you, little Joey Pagano?'
'Yes, Father, it is.'
'And who was the girl you were with?'
'I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation'.
"Well, Joey, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later
so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?'
'I cannot say.'
'Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?'
'I'll never tell..'
'Was it Nina Capelli?'
'I'm sorry, but I cannot name her.'
'Was it Cathy Piriano?'
'My lips are sealed.'
'Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?'
'Please, Father, I cannot tell you.'
The priest sighs in frustration.
'You're very tight lipped, and I admire that.
But you've sinned and have to atone.
You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months.
Now you go and behave yourself.'
Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco
slides over and whispers, 'What'd you get?'
'Four months vacation and five good leads.'
This was not mine; someone sent it to me a while
ago, and while cleaning out mail from my email
account I came across this.
I went to Catholic school for my eight years,
or as we used to say I 'had an eight year sentence.'
But, it was way back then that I heard a variation
of this...so I am posting it.
Humour helped to keep me sane during the craziness
of Vietnam, and I have always had the ability to make
others laugh...it's important to me.
I hope no one is offended
AN ITALIAN BOY'S CONFESSION
'Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
I have been with a loose girl'.
The priest asks, 'Is that you, little Joey Pagano?'
'Yes, Father, it is.'
'And who was the girl you were with?'
'I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation'.
"Well, Joey, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later
so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?'
'I cannot say.'
'Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?'
'I'll never tell..'
'Was it Nina Capelli?'
'I'm sorry, but I cannot name her.'
'Was it Cathy Piriano?'
'My lips are sealed.'
'Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?'
'Please, Father, I cannot tell you.'
The priest sighs in frustration.
'You're very tight lipped, and I admire that.
But you've sinned and have to atone.
You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months.
Now you go and behave yourself.'
Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco
slides over and whispers, 'What'd you get?'
'Four months vacation and five good leads.'
Friday, April 1, 2011
Humanitarian Intervention: The cover of Aggressive War
Humanitarian Intervention: The cover of Aggressive War
The initiation of hostilities against Libya on 19 March 2011 represents the fourth
war of aggression launched by the United States against a sovereign nation that was at peace with the U. S.
Secondly, in all cases there was no imminent threat to the United States or its citizens. And, even if there had been a threat the United States has overwhelming superiority with the
biggest nuclear arsenal on planet earth.
These wars began on 7 October 2001 with the attack on Afghanistan. Then, Iraq, (20 March 2003); Drone warfare in Pakistan, which is an act of war began on 18 June 2004, and the attack on Libya 19 March 2011.
By their fourth military campaign in Europe the Nazi war machine had swallowed up Poland, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands (actually Belgium too in one swallow).
Major General Smedley D. Butler (a Two-Time Medal of Honor Recipient- the highest military award for service in combat) once said “Wars do not occur. They are made by men…Lying propaganda is almost certainly necessary to bring nations to the pitch where men kill and women give their men and boys to be killed.... The object of war is to get something for nothing....”
In the case of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya it is oil!
We are in a historical period where it is only a matter of months, under a year before full scale war breaks out; World War III. It is up to us the people to do everything that we can to disrupt and eventually stop these wars, and the ability of the United States to go forward with its plans to eventually find an excuse, or without one to attack Iran, Russia and China.
The U.S. ruling class through their military and the CIA are preparing this greatest evil upon the people of planet earth since Hitler’s regime unleashed total war. It is important for anyone who knows people in the military to talk to them…to attempt to get them to see the truth. The purpose is to stop the machinery of death and destruction from both within and outside the military.
General Butler himself talked of the need to stop the moneyed interests from taking the nation to war. He said; “But what in the hell are we going to do about it? I’ve got something for you to do about it. I’m going to tell you in simple language so all of you can understand.
Let the world know that hereafter no American soldier is going to leave the shores of this country!....” And, he added “Soldiers never leave the country except to protect the moneyed interests.” There is a Three star General exhorting the population to stop war.
One little known factor that had a major impact on stopping the Vietnam War was the growth of resistance to the war within the military. Over 500,000 men and women (mostly men) went A.W.O.L. during the course of the war.
Resistance within the U.S. military reached such a point that the Pentagon commissioned a secret study to find out how bad it was. The report (http://bit.ly/gDvAWX) issued by Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. in the Armed Forces Journal of 7 June 1971 began this way:
"THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at anytime in this century and possibly in the history of the United States.
By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having _refused_ combat, murdering their officers and non commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.”
Fraggings:
"Frag incidents" or just "fragging" is current soldier slang in Vietnam for the murder or attempted murder of strict, unpopular, or just aggressive officers and NCOs. With extreme reluctance (after a young West Pointer from Senator Mike Mansfield's Montana was fragged in his sleep) the Pentagon has now disclosed that fraggings in 1970(109) have more than doubled those of the previous year (96).
Word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units.
In one such division -- the morale plagued Americal -- fraggings during 1971 have been authoritatively estimated to be running about one a week.”
Combat Refusals
“As early as mid-1969, however, an entire company of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade publicly sat down on the battlefield. Later that year, another rifle company, from the famed 1st Air Cavalry Division, flatly refused -- on CBS-TV -- to advance down a dangerous trail.”
The U.S. infantry troops refusal to conduct the war put an end to the ‘ground war.’ When that happened the Pentagon began massive bombing campaigns. In time more and more pilots
joined the resistance. See Hearts and Minds an award winning documentary on the Vietnam War (http://bit.ly/azhJhn) and also ‘Sir! No Sir! The Suppressed Story of The GI Movement to end the war in Viet Nam’ by David Ziegler (http://bit.ly/e0a58E).
‘During the early years of World War II, psychiatric casualties had increased some 300 percent when compared with World War I…even though the pre-induction psychiatric rejection rate was three to four times higher than World War I (Figley, 1978a). At one point in the war, the number of men being discharged from the service for psychiatric reasons exceeded the total number of men being newly drafted (Tiffany and Allerton, 1967).’
( THE ETIOLOGY OF COMBAT-RELATED POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS-DISORDERS’ BY: Jim Goodwin, Psy.D. http://bit.ly/hbFkxL)
General Butler said that the soldier pays the greatest price;
“And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.”
I would add that he is only speaking among the American people. Those in the countries invaded pay a massive price…lives and families shattered beyond belief, or the comprehension of those who have never been in a war zone.
The U.S. is also poisoning the soil, water and air of every country that it enters with depleted uranium; recycling their own radioactive waste.
Why have the cancer rates in Fallujah soared past those of post atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki? See:’Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' (http://ind.pn/cDiXeC).
The U.S. is committing genocide
History has shown that dominant nations have routinely perpetrated great wars to assert their dominance over other peoples and countries. In doing so they commit great crimes…torture, medical experiments, ovens and …genocide.
Since the U. S. leaders are engaged in wars to steal the oil and other natural resources in North Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan to Pakistan we must till our last dying breath do everything that we can to disrupt the smooth efficiency of the military killing machine, and to aid those
Within the military who are trying to stop these illegal wars. And, we must not stop until we truly ‘beat our swords into ploughshares.’
We must stop the killing of each other on earth.
We must stop the ravaging and raping of the earth by the moneyed interests to plunder its resources.
We must help to restore as much as possible the damage done to the peoples and nations that have been destroyed.
We must never allow weapons to be built again.
In America many people consider the right to own guns (the Second Amendment) as a sacred right. That thinking is a reflection of how poorly developed we are on a spiritual level.
During the last 60 years one of the greatest and ongoing crimes against humanity on this planet has been the outright ethnic cleansing and the stealing of all of Palestine from its inhabitants. The massacres, rapes, murders and pillage that took place in 1948 and after is being completely ignored by all governments and their media.
These governments, like the U.S. are a part of the crime because, like the U.S. support the Apartheid regime of Israel. The U.S. provides the planes and the bombs and the ammo.
We the people have the right to rebel, and we must stop these wars.
Yours in Struggle
Paul Meuse
The initiation of hostilities against Libya on 19 March 2011 represents the fourth
war of aggression launched by the United States against a sovereign nation that was at peace with the U. S.
Secondly, in all cases there was no imminent threat to the United States or its citizens. And, even if there had been a threat the United States has overwhelming superiority with the
biggest nuclear arsenal on planet earth.
These wars began on 7 October 2001 with the attack on Afghanistan. Then, Iraq, (20 March 2003); Drone warfare in Pakistan, which is an act of war began on 18 June 2004, and the attack on Libya 19 March 2011.
By their fourth military campaign in Europe the Nazi war machine had swallowed up Poland, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands (actually Belgium too in one swallow).
Major General Smedley D. Butler (a Two-Time Medal of Honor Recipient- the highest military award for service in combat) once said “Wars do not occur. They are made by men…Lying propaganda is almost certainly necessary to bring nations to the pitch where men kill and women give their men and boys to be killed.... The object of war is to get something for nothing....”
In the case of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya it is oil!
We are in a historical period where it is only a matter of months, under a year before full scale war breaks out; World War III. It is up to us the people to do everything that we can to disrupt and eventually stop these wars, and the ability of the United States to go forward with its plans to eventually find an excuse, or without one to attack Iran, Russia and China.
The U.S. ruling class through their military and the CIA are preparing this greatest evil upon the people of planet earth since Hitler’s regime unleashed total war. It is important for anyone who knows people in the military to talk to them…to attempt to get them to see the truth. The purpose is to stop the machinery of death and destruction from both within and outside the military.
General Butler himself talked of the need to stop the moneyed interests from taking the nation to war. He said; “But what in the hell are we going to do about it? I’ve got something for you to do about it. I’m going to tell you in simple language so all of you can understand.
Let the world know that hereafter no American soldier is going to leave the shores of this country!....” And, he added “Soldiers never leave the country except to protect the moneyed interests.” There is a Three star General exhorting the population to stop war.
One little known factor that had a major impact on stopping the Vietnam War was the growth of resistance to the war within the military. Over 500,000 men and women (mostly men) went A.W.O.L. during the course of the war.
Resistance within the U.S. military reached such a point that the Pentagon commissioned a secret study to find out how bad it was. The report (http://bit.ly/gDvAWX) issued by Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. in the Armed Forces Journal of 7 June 1971 began this way:
"THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at anytime in this century and possibly in the history of the United States.
By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having _refused_ combat, murdering their officers and non commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.”
Fraggings:
"Frag incidents" or just "fragging" is current soldier slang in Vietnam for the murder or attempted murder of strict, unpopular, or just aggressive officers and NCOs. With extreme reluctance (after a young West Pointer from Senator Mike Mansfield's Montana was fragged in his sleep) the Pentagon has now disclosed that fraggings in 1970(109) have more than doubled those of the previous year (96).
Word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units.
In one such division -- the morale plagued Americal -- fraggings during 1971 have been authoritatively estimated to be running about one a week.”
Combat Refusals
“As early as mid-1969, however, an entire company of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade publicly sat down on the battlefield. Later that year, another rifle company, from the famed 1st Air Cavalry Division, flatly refused -- on CBS-TV -- to advance down a dangerous trail.”
The U.S. infantry troops refusal to conduct the war put an end to the ‘ground war.’ When that happened the Pentagon began massive bombing campaigns. In time more and more pilots
joined the resistance. See Hearts and Minds an award winning documentary on the Vietnam War (http://bit.ly/azhJhn) and also ‘Sir! No Sir! The Suppressed Story of The GI Movement to end the war in Viet Nam’ by David Ziegler (http://bit.ly/e0a58E).
‘During the early years of World War II, psychiatric casualties had increased some 300 percent when compared with World War I…even though the pre-induction psychiatric rejection rate was three to four times higher than World War I (Figley, 1978a). At one point in the war, the number of men being discharged from the service for psychiatric reasons exceeded the total number of men being newly drafted (Tiffany and Allerton, 1967).’
( THE ETIOLOGY OF COMBAT-RELATED POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS-DISORDERS’ BY: Jim Goodwin, Psy.D. http://bit.ly/hbFkxL)
General Butler said that the soldier pays the greatest price;
“And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.”
I would add that he is only speaking among the American people. Those in the countries invaded pay a massive price…lives and families shattered beyond belief, or the comprehension of those who have never been in a war zone.
The U.S. is also poisoning the soil, water and air of every country that it enters with depleted uranium; recycling their own radioactive waste.
Why have the cancer rates in Fallujah soared past those of post atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki? See:’Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' (http://ind.pn/cDiXeC).
The U.S. is committing genocide
History has shown that dominant nations have routinely perpetrated great wars to assert their dominance over other peoples and countries. In doing so they commit great crimes…torture, medical experiments, ovens and …genocide.
Since the U. S. leaders are engaged in wars to steal the oil and other natural resources in North Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan to Pakistan we must till our last dying breath do everything that we can to disrupt the smooth efficiency of the military killing machine, and to aid those
Within the military who are trying to stop these illegal wars. And, we must not stop until we truly ‘beat our swords into ploughshares.’
We must stop the killing of each other on earth.
We must stop the ravaging and raping of the earth by the moneyed interests to plunder its resources.
We must help to restore as much as possible the damage done to the peoples and nations that have been destroyed.
We must never allow weapons to be built again.
In America many people consider the right to own guns (the Second Amendment) as a sacred right. That thinking is a reflection of how poorly developed we are on a spiritual level.
During the last 60 years one of the greatest and ongoing crimes against humanity on this planet has been the outright ethnic cleansing and the stealing of all of Palestine from its inhabitants. The massacres, rapes, murders and pillage that took place in 1948 and after is being completely ignored by all governments and their media.
These governments, like the U.S. are a part of the crime because, like the U.S. support the Apartheid regime of Israel. The U.S. provides the planes and the bombs and the ammo.
We the people have the right to rebel, and we must stop these wars.
Yours in Struggle
Paul Meuse
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
this is not complete: INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS ARREST WARRANT
Theis is something that I have been writing thoughts
about, and will have the nakes of Bush Sr. to Obama...Cheney,
(for 9/11 Gulf War I and Afghanistan...Iraq, Rendition torture...
and the military leaders, ideologues and media persons
INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS ARREST WARRANT
THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS ARREST WARRANT
FOR THE ARREST AND APPREHENSION OF THE FOLLOWING
WAR CIMINALS AT-LARGE:
1. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH SR.
CHARGES: CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE
WAR CRIMES
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
(i) The Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i)…
On 19 December 1989 President George H.W. Bush ordered the U. S. military to invade the sovereign nation of the Republic of Panama to safeguard the lives of U.S. citizens in Panama, defend democracy and human rights, combat drug trafficking, and secure the functioning of the Canal.
The United States government and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
had long supported un-democratic regimes in the Republic of Panama.
George Bush Sr. as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCI), and later as Vice President 1981-1989 had knowledge of the drug trafficking as in both positions. President Noriega was had since the late 1950s through the 1980s had a working relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, and was known to be steeped in the drug trade, as the Cia also has been for decades.
about, and will have the nakes of Bush Sr. to Obama...Cheney,
(for 9/11 Gulf War I and Afghanistan...Iraq, Rendition torture...
and the military leaders, ideologues and media persons
INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS ARREST WARRANT
THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS ARREST WARRANT
FOR THE ARREST AND APPREHENSION OF THE FOLLOWING
WAR CIMINALS AT-LARGE:
1. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH SR.
CHARGES: CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE
WAR CRIMES
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
(i) The Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i)…
On 19 December 1989 President George H.W. Bush ordered the U. S. military to invade the sovereign nation of the Republic of Panama to safeguard the lives of U.S. citizens in Panama, defend democracy and human rights, combat drug trafficking, and secure the functioning of the Canal.
The United States government and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
had long supported un-democratic regimes in the Republic of Panama.
George Bush Sr. as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCI), and later as Vice President 1981-1989 had knowledge of the drug trafficking as in both positions. President Noriega was had since the late 1950s through the 1980s had a working relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, and was known to be steeped in the drug trade, as the Cia also has been for decades.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Libya: Why Are Some Dictators Okay, but Others must be Removed?
President Obama has justified America’s involvement in the attack on Libya by claiming
that the United States was replying to a request for intervention by the Arab League and the United Nations Security Council. Obama claimed that the military intervention was to put
“an end to the violence” by the Gaddafi regime against its citizens.
First, when they say the Arab League requested the No Fly Zone the question
That arises is who is the Arab League? They comprise 22 countries; nine of which were former British colonies (Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt and Yemen.
The benevolent French (ask anyone from Algeria) owned eight colonies;(Lebanon, Syria,
Tunisia, Comoros, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Dijbouti.
The Italians owned one, and that was Libya.
Portugal owned a bit of Oman, but Oman was mostly independent.
It should be noted for the reader that the Colonial powers preferred the
term ‘Protectorate’ sounds so much nicer; kind of like a big brother.
But, it should be noted that these former colonies by their weapons that are mainly used against their own people from their former ‘Protectorate’s, and actually the United States.
There is not one of these countries that has democratic regimes; neither does the United States, nor Great Britain, or France. As Vladimir Lenin noted in capitalist countries:
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.”
I believe that this is an accurate description.
Almost all of the countries of the Arab League have leaders that do what the U.S. wishes them to do.
Secondly, the United Nations Security Council didn’t request the U.S. and other
countries to do this to Libya. The U.S. and its allies Britain and France, but especially the U.S. wanted a reason to get its hand in to Libya and do another ‘regime change.’ In reality it was the U.S. that went and asked the UN Security Council to authorize this violence.
So, all the U.S. and its friends are doing is what they asked the Security Council to recommend what it wished.
But, if the U.S., Britain and France are acting in a principled manner then why not
Request a No Fly Zone over Bahrain and Yemen for the leaders of these countries have been gunning down unarmed peaceful protesters in the streets. Ditto for Saudi Arabia.
And the biggest offender in the Middle East region, Israel; the country that guns down innocent peoples, and is now waging a war of Genocide the remaining Palestinians to get rid of the evidence of their theft of their land, homes, farms, fields and businesses.
And, if these governments are claiming to be principled and concerned about rulers murdering innocent Muslim peoples, then what about a No Fly Zone over every U.S. military installation, airfield and ship. I implore every U.S. soldier, sailor, Marine and airmen to take control of your duty stations and refuse to fight. More, disarm your leaders, withdraw all American troops from all those lands and come back home.
I believe that what is happening is that the U.S. government through the CIA is getting within these countries and fueling the discontent so that they may remove the leaders that they wish. It is too much of a coincidence that these movements are going from one country to another.
There is CIA involvement.
As for my government wanting democracy; my government never favours democracy.
Democracy may mean a peoples voting to ask you to get out of their country.
I went to Vietnam twice as a Marine Corps rifleman-a 'grunt' as we called ourselves, and I truly believed, at first that we were fighting to free the Vietnamese people.
But, in truth, I was part of a military force that was being used to enslave their countrty, but they fought bravely and won. I am glad
When I returned to the states and entered college I studied African-American history. My teacher was Chris Nteta an exiled freedom fighter of South Africa.
It was through his teaching that I saw the hypocricy of my country allegedly fighting to free the Vietnamese people whilst at the same time being the biggest supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel was the last regime to break ties with the Aposrtheid regime.
What is happening in Norht Africa is the involvement of the CIA. You do not
stop violence against civilians by blasting them with cruise missiles; that only ensures that the number of civilian casualties will soar.
Remember Nicaragua in the 1980s? The U.S. government aremed a group of murderers and rapist called the contras and called them freedom figthers!
that the United States was replying to a request for intervention by the Arab League and the United Nations Security Council. Obama claimed that the military intervention was to put
“an end to the violence” by the Gaddafi regime against its citizens.
First, when they say the Arab League requested the No Fly Zone the question
That arises is who is the Arab League? They comprise 22 countries; nine of which were former British colonies (Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt and Yemen.
The benevolent French (ask anyone from Algeria) owned eight colonies;(Lebanon, Syria,
Tunisia, Comoros, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Dijbouti.
The Italians owned one, and that was Libya.
Portugal owned a bit of Oman, but Oman was mostly independent.
It should be noted for the reader that the Colonial powers preferred the
term ‘Protectorate’ sounds so much nicer; kind of like a big brother.
But, it should be noted that these former colonies by their weapons that are mainly used against their own people from their former ‘Protectorate’s, and actually the United States.
There is not one of these countries that has democratic regimes; neither does the United States, nor Great Britain, or France. As Vladimir Lenin noted in capitalist countries:
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.”
I believe that this is an accurate description.
Almost all of the countries of the Arab League have leaders that do what the U.S. wishes them to do.
Secondly, the United Nations Security Council didn’t request the U.S. and other
countries to do this to Libya. The U.S. and its allies Britain and France, but especially the U.S. wanted a reason to get its hand in to Libya and do another ‘regime change.’ In reality it was the U.S. that went and asked the UN Security Council to authorize this violence.
So, all the U.S. and its friends are doing is what they asked the Security Council to recommend what it wished.
But, if the U.S., Britain and France are acting in a principled manner then why not
Request a No Fly Zone over Bahrain and Yemen for the leaders of these countries have been gunning down unarmed peaceful protesters in the streets. Ditto for Saudi Arabia.
And the biggest offender in the Middle East region, Israel; the country that guns down innocent peoples, and is now waging a war of Genocide the remaining Palestinians to get rid of the evidence of their theft of their land, homes, farms, fields and businesses.
And, if these governments are claiming to be principled and concerned about rulers murdering innocent Muslim peoples, then what about a No Fly Zone over every U.S. military installation, airfield and ship. I implore every U.S. soldier, sailor, Marine and airmen to take control of your duty stations and refuse to fight. More, disarm your leaders, withdraw all American troops from all those lands and come back home.
I believe that what is happening is that the U.S. government through the CIA is getting within these countries and fueling the discontent so that they may remove the leaders that they wish. It is too much of a coincidence that these movements are going from one country to another.
There is CIA involvement.
As for my government wanting democracy; my government never favours democracy.
Democracy may mean a peoples voting to ask you to get out of their country.
I went to Vietnam twice as a Marine Corps rifleman-a 'grunt' as we called ourselves, and I truly believed, at first that we were fighting to free the Vietnamese people.
But, in truth, I was part of a military force that was being used to enslave their countrty, but they fought bravely and won. I am glad
When I returned to the states and entered college I studied African-American history. My teacher was Chris Nteta an exiled freedom fighter of South Africa.
It was through his teaching that I saw the hypocricy of my country allegedly fighting to free the Vietnamese people whilst at the same time being the biggest supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel was the last regime to break ties with the Aposrtheid regime.
What is happening in Norht Africa is the involvement of the CIA. You do not
stop violence against civilians by blasting them with cruise missiles; that only ensures that the number of civilian casualties will soar.
Remember Nicaragua in the 1980s? The U.S. government aremed a group of murderers and rapist called the contras and called them freedom figthers!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
War, Revolution, and Imperialist Intervention and the CIA
War, Revolution, and Imperialist Intervention and the CIA
The United States is the dominant super power in the world and it is in
decline. The U.S. dollar is almost worthless, and the United States is heading
towards economic collapse; an implosion like 9/11. Whenever an imperial or
dominant power is in serious decline like the United States they are more dangerous.
Today, the country of my birth, the United States is like a wounded lion, or tiger or bear.
Wounded animals strike out.
After World War II the U.S. helped to create the United Nations to, as the Preamble
to the Charter of the United Nations states: ‘to save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind…’
‘To practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours,
and
To unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
To ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed
force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and’ were some of the stated aims
of the Charter.
However, the leaders of the U.S. through its military and the CIA sought to remake the
part of the world it controlled into dutiful subjects. Secondly, to expand the sphere of its influence.
So while U.S. leaders preached human rights andfreedom and democracy to the rest of the world
its actions did not match its rhetoric.
Thus even while France was recovering from the rubble of World War II the U.S. encouraged
and by 1954 was paying for 75% of the French war effort. And, Georges-Augustin Bidault, the French Foreign Minister in 1954 relates a story that in 1954 John Foster Dulles, the U. S. Secretary
of State met him privately and asked him “And if we were to give you two Atomic bombs?” The
U. S. was prepared to use them against the Vietnamese people, but they preferred that the French
do it as they had already vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
When the French lost Vietnam was split into two countries under the Geneva Accords.
But, it was really one country. So, the U.S. took over the war effort. The Geneva agreements
called for ‘free elections’ but President Eisenhower blocked them, for as he said Ho Chi Mihn
would win 90% of the vote in both the north and south.
So while the U.S. leaders told the American people and the world that they were fighting
against communist expansion they were launching a war of aggression. In a speech before Congress President Eisenhower was more candid about some of the reasons for our involvement when he said “If Indochina goes several things happen right away…the tin and the tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming.”
Wars are waged by the ruling classes of countries for resources, land and to expand the territory
It controls.
When a country intervenes in a civil war as America did in Vietnam, and now in Libya there is
a term for that; it’s called counter-revolution, and that’s what the U.S. and its allies are involved in.
The government of my country did everything it could to put down the Vietnamese fight for liberation. This included the spraying of millions of gallons of poison known as Agent Orange,
whose main ingredient is dioxin. I saw a place in Vietnam that was denuded of all vegetation and
full of bomb craters so cramped together that I could not walk there. I would have needed a bicycle
to ride rims of the craters.
But the Vietnamese fought and defeated the U.S. as it did the French before them. I learned
Later, after my time in Vietnam, that is, my service to Wall Street, the banksters, and corporations
that profit from wars that the Vietnamese people had waged a 1,000 year war against Chinese domination. They would not accept domination. In AD 40, the Trung Sisters (Hai Ba Trung) rallied the people, raised an army and led a revolt that sent the Chinese governor fleeing. This is the Vietnamese people that U.S. military leaders thought that they could defeat.
The Vietnamese people, who were mostly farmers, defeated the most formidable army in the world at that time the United States military. There was a precedent for this. From 1776 to 1783 an army of small farmers defeated the greatest military power on the planet; the British Army and their Hessian mercenaries. That war was called the American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence.
One middle aged Vietnamese man, Mui Duc Geing was a coffin maker for infants and young children during the Vietnam War. He had this to say at the time ‘No matter how many decades America fights it will never conquer Vietnam. Never! Over here as long as there is rice to eat will keep on fighting. And if the rice runs out, then we’ll plow the fields and fight again.”.
He also said this “I have lost seven children myself....Poison. Poison. It seems to destroy their interestines. With all this spraying and bombing, so many have died." It’s called Agent Orange.
He estimated that he made between 800-900 coffins for children each week year in and year out.
That is war.
And yet the Commanding general at the time Gen. William Westmoreland had this to say “The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient.”
Before any war the plans are made. The only thing that is needed is a reason. So, there is a process of demonization on the other peoples or their leader. In this case it is Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
The revolutions that are taking place in North Africa and Bahrain and Yemen are not, I believe just the result of popular uprisings by oppressed peoples. They are uprisings, or expressions of long simmering discontent by the people.
But, it takes place within a context of a global war being waged by the United States with the excuse of the 9/11 terrorist attack. It was a terrorist attack but it came from within, and Mossad was a part of it (Google: ‘Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11’ http://bit.ly/15mruN)
The government of the United States supported the Mubarak and the Ben Ali regimes until there was a popular revolt; then all of a sudden the U.S. was on the people’s side. If we swallow this, then we are truly gullible. For at the same time the U.S. supports the Saudi regime, and though the regimes in Bahrain and Yemen have been murdering people in the streets the U.S. government says that we must treat those countries different. Bullshit.
And if that is not enough the U.S. does not just turn a blind eye to the on-going genocide of the Palestinian peoples; the U.S. is part and parcel of it. It is the U.S. which gives Israel the planes and bombs to bomb innocent people in Gaza. The U.S. supplies the ammo and strikes down every UN Security Council decision with its veto.
The role of the CIA is to get into countries that the U.S. rulers want to overthrow, and to forment discontent, and to spread the flames. In Central and South America during the 1960s and 70s the CIA had the ability to cause mass demonstrations against legitimate democratic regimes. Then, a coup would take place. Ask the people of Guatemala, Chile, or other countries.
Libya represents another coup. If it is a civil war, then it is up to the people of that country to
find a solution that is to their liking. When there was armed conflict between the Apartheid government of South Africa and the Black majority of African people fighting against that regime
the U.S. government supported the white racist government just as it now supports the racist Zionist government of Israel.
So, if such a government is waging wars against the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian peoples are we to believe that their West’s intervention in Libya is due to humanitarian concerns?
Bullsheet.
We must make every place the empire sets foot in a bed of quicksand, and may the troops rebel.
Footnote:”Navy Adm. Gary Roughead told the Defense Writers Group that having Navy ships and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea enabled a quick response to the order that began Operation Odyssey Dawn. “The need, for example in the opening rounds, for the Tomahawk strikes, the shooters were already in place,” Roughead said. “They were already loaded, and that went off as we expected it would.” Ships Were in Position for Odyssey Dawn, Roughead Says.” http://bit.ly/hszf52
The United States is the dominant super power in the world and it is in
decline. The U.S. dollar is almost worthless, and the United States is heading
towards economic collapse; an implosion like 9/11. Whenever an imperial or
dominant power is in serious decline like the United States they are more dangerous.
Today, the country of my birth, the United States is like a wounded lion, or tiger or bear.
Wounded animals strike out.
After World War II the U.S. helped to create the United Nations to, as the Preamble
to the Charter of the United Nations states: ‘to save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind…’
‘To practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours,
and
To unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
To ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed
force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and’ were some of the stated aims
of the Charter.
However, the leaders of the U.S. through its military and the CIA sought to remake the
part of the world it controlled into dutiful subjects. Secondly, to expand the sphere of its influence.
So while U.S. leaders preached human rights andfreedom and democracy to the rest of the world
its actions did not match its rhetoric.
Thus even while France was recovering from the rubble of World War II the U.S. encouraged
and by 1954 was paying for 75% of the French war effort. And, Georges-Augustin Bidault, the French Foreign Minister in 1954 relates a story that in 1954 John Foster Dulles, the U. S. Secretary
of State met him privately and asked him “And if we were to give you two Atomic bombs?” The
U. S. was prepared to use them against the Vietnamese people, but they preferred that the French
do it as they had already vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
When the French lost Vietnam was split into two countries under the Geneva Accords.
But, it was really one country. So, the U.S. took over the war effort. The Geneva agreements
called for ‘free elections’ but President Eisenhower blocked them, for as he said Ho Chi Mihn
would win 90% of the vote in both the north and south.
So while the U.S. leaders told the American people and the world that they were fighting
against communist expansion they were launching a war of aggression. In a speech before Congress President Eisenhower was more candid about some of the reasons for our involvement when he said “If Indochina goes several things happen right away…the tin and the tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming.”
Wars are waged by the ruling classes of countries for resources, land and to expand the territory
It controls.
When a country intervenes in a civil war as America did in Vietnam, and now in Libya there is
a term for that; it’s called counter-revolution, and that’s what the U.S. and its allies are involved in.
The government of my country did everything it could to put down the Vietnamese fight for liberation. This included the spraying of millions of gallons of poison known as Agent Orange,
whose main ingredient is dioxin. I saw a place in Vietnam that was denuded of all vegetation and
full of bomb craters so cramped together that I could not walk there. I would have needed a bicycle
to ride rims of the craters.
But the Vietnamese fought and defeated the U.S. as it did the French before them. I learned
Later, after my time in Vietnam, that is, my service to Wall Street, the banksters, and corporations
that profit from wars that the Vietnamese people had waged a 1,000 year war against Chinese domination. They would not accept domination. In AD 40, the Trung Sisters (Hai Ba Trung) rallied the people, raised an army and led a revolt that sent the Chinese governor fleeing. This is the Vietnamese people that U.S. military leaders thought that they could defeat.
The Vietnamese people, who were mostly farmers, defeated the most formidable army in the world at that time the United States military. There was a precedent for this. From 1776 to 1783 an army of small farmers defeated the greatest military power on the planet; the British Army and their Hessian mercenaries. That war was called the American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence.
One middle aged Vietnamese man, Mui Duc Geing was a coffin maker for infants and young children during the Vietnam War. He had this to say at the time ‘No matter how many decades America fights it will never conquer Vietnam. Never! Over here as long as there is rice to eat will keep on fighting. And if the rice runs out, then we’ll plow the fields and fight again.”.
He also said this “I have lost seven children myself....Poison. Poison. It seems to destroy their interestines. With all this spraying and bombing, so many have died." It’s called Agent Orange.
He estimated that he made between 800-900 coffins for children each week year in and year out.
That is war.
And yet the Commanding general at the time Gen. William Westmoreland had this to say “The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient.”
Before any war the plans are made. The only thing that is needed is a reason. So, there is a process of demonization on the other peoples or their leader. In this case it is Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
The revolutions that are taking place in North Africa and Bahrain and Yemen are not, I believe just the result of popular uprisings by oppressed peoples. They are uprisings, or expressions of long simmering discontent by the people.
But, it takes place within a context of a global war being waged by the United States with the excuse of the 9/11 terrorist attack. It was a terrorist attack but it came from within, and Mossad was a part of it (Google: ‘Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11’ http://bit.ly/15mruN)
The government of the United States supported the Mubarak and the Ben Ali regimes until there was a popular revolt; then all of a sudden the U.S. was on the people’s side. If we swallow this, then we are truly gullible. For at the same time the U.S. supports the Saudi regime, and though the regimes in Bahrain and Yemen have been murdering people in the streets the U.S. government says that we must treat those countries different. Bullshit.
And if that is not enough the U.S. does not just turn a blind eye to the on-going genocide of the Palestinian peoples; the U.S. is part and parcel of it. It is the U.S. which gives Israel the planes and bombs to bomb innocent people in Gaza. The U.S. supplies the ammo and strikes down every UN Security Council decision with its veto.
The role of the CIA is to get into countries that the U.S. rulers want to overthrow, and to forment discontent, and to spread the flames. In Central and South America during the 1960s and 70s the CIA had the ability to cause mass demonstrations against legitimate democratic regimes. Then, a coup would take place. Ask the people of Guatemala, Chile, or other countries.
Libya represents another coup. If it is a civil war, then it is up to the people of that country to
find a solution that is to their liking. When there was armed conflict between the Apartheid government of South Africa and the Black majority of African people fighting against that regime
the U.S. government supported the white racist government just as it now supports the racist Zionist government of Israel.
So, if such a government is waging wars against the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian peoples are we to believe that their West’s intervention in Libya is due to humanitarian concerns?
Bullsheet.
We must make every place the empire sets foot in a bed of quicksand, and may the troops rebel.
Footnote:”Navy Adm. Gary Roughead told the Defense Writers Group that having Navy ships and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea enabled a quick response to the order that began Operation Odyssey Dawn. “The need, for example in the opening rounds, for the Tomahawk strikes, the shooters were already in place,” Roughead said. “They were already loaded, and that went off as we expected it would.” Ships Were in Position for Odyssey Dawn, Roughead Says.” http://bit.ly/hszf52
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