US militarism and perpetual war
CounterPunch
by Jeff Cohen
04/10/13
Today there s an elephant in the room: a huge, yet ignored, issue that largely explains why Social Security is now on the chopping block. And why other industrialized countries have free college education and universal healthcare, but we don?t. It?s arguably our country?s biggest problem, a problem that Martin Luther King Jr. focused on before he was assassinated 45 years ago, and has only worsened since then (which was the height of the Vietnam War). That problem is U.S. militarism and perpetual war...
http://tinyurl.com/cackn9p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Embargoes, Military Exercises and Other Acts of War or Why Peace-Mongering Is Un-American
By Ben Tanosborn
America, in its imperial role, has become accustomed to get its way, whether acting alone or accompanied by its entourage of friends and lackeys, in pronouncing what actions by other nations affect the interests of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34575.htm
Africa: Imperialism s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century
By Glen Ford
''Imperialism with a Black face has been fantastically successful, in Africa.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34591.htm
Killing You, For Your Own Safety
By Faisal Moghul
In trying to rid the world of evil using the tactics of evil, we unleash even greater horrors; we become what we seek to destroy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34604.htm
Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama s Betrayal of Social Security
By Dave Lindorff
Nobody in Congress is talking about slashing military spending and spending the savings on medical care, Social Security, education and other pressing needs. The public needs to demand this.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34609.htm
The War You Don t See
Video Documentary
By John Pilger
A powerful and timely investigation into the media s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34616.htm
Obama, Syria, and the Arrogance of Imperialism
By Ron Jacobs
Washington is an imperial nation. It does not have the best intentions of the Syrian people at heart. Indeed, when it comes to policy, it could care less about the Syrian people, just like it cared less about the Iraqis.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/03/obama-syria-and-the-arrogance-of-imperialism/
Perpetual War and Obama s Perpetual Con Game
By Glen Ford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35144.htm
Obama s Embrace of Militarism
Our Dystopian Present
By Tim Tolka
We are to believe that the persecution of the press is protection of national security, secrecy is transparency, debt servitude is opportunity, imprisoning the poor is correction, assassination is public relations, a militarized police state is public service.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35746.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Dr. King s ''Two Americas'' Truer Now than Ever
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: As American society s chasm between the superrich and poor grows wider and deeper, Martin Luther King, Jr. s words are as prescient as ever.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15688-dr-kings-two-americas-truer-now-than-ever
The Consensus Behind Militarism
Jeff Cohen, Consortium News: While the US media has some spirited debate over politics and social issues, there remains a broad consensus about foreign adversaries whose behavior is almost always cast in the harshest light, a reality that colors how America reacts to the world.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15701-the-consensus-behind-militarism
Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker, Truthout: The fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008 brings with it an outrageous reminder of how little the US government cares about its people and instead continues to bow to Wall Street bankers.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16372-cutting-social-security-and-not-taxing-wall-street
--------
Free Press and the National Security State
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/04/19-0
Terrorism' and the Perpetual Emotion War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/24
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): MLK vs. Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/23-0
--------
Making war: ''Wag The Dog''
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/spin-1/making-war.html
The Vietnamese holocaust
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/the-vietnamese-holocaust.html
Martin Luther King on war and those who support war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/the-truth-must-be-told.html#sthash.r0jhZyGp.dpuf
--------
War and the Messianic State
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1279.html
State Sponsored Terrorism: Another Anniversary
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/jonathan-goodwin/state-sponsored-terrorism-2/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=messianic
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collectivism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=security+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+government
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Africa
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hiroshima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+sponsored+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militari
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dystopia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=perpetual+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=act+of+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=embargo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=whistleblow
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Luther+King
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=super-rich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=healthcare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=press+freedom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Cohen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ben+Tanosborn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Winship
https://www.google.de/search?q=Faisal+Moghul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Pilger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Norman+Solomon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Jacobs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Goodwin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tim+Tolka
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by Jeff Cohen
04/10/13
Today there s an elephant in the room: a huge, yet ignored, issue that largely explains why Social Security is now on the chopping block. And why other industrialized countries have free college education and universal healthcare, but we don?t. It?s arguably our country?s biggest problem, a problem that Martin Luther King Jr. focused on before he was assassinated 45 years ago, and has only worsened since then (which was the height of the Vietnam War). That problem is U.S. militarism and perpetual war...
http://tinyurl.com/cackn9p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Embargoes, Military Exercises and Other Acts of War or Why Peace-Mongering Is Un-American
By Ben Tanosborn
America, in its imperial role, has become accustomed to get its way, whether acting alone or accompanied by its entourage of friends and lackeys, in pronouncing what actions by other nations affect the interests of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34575.htm
Africa: Imperialism s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century
By Glen Ford
''Imperialism with a Black face has been fantastically successful, in Africa.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34591.htm
Killing You, For Your Own Safety
By Faisal Moghul
In trying to rid the world of evil using the tactics of evil, we unleash even greater horrors; we become what we seek to destroy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34604.htm
Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama s Betrayal of Social Security
By Dave Lindorff
Nobody in Congress is talking about slashing military spending and spending the savings on medical care, Social Security, education and other pressing needs. The public needs to demand this.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34609.htm
The War You Don t See
Video Documentary
By John Pilger
A powerful and timely investigation into the media s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34616.htm
Obama, Syria, and the Arrogance of Imperialism
By Ron Jacobs
Washington is an imperial nation. It does not have the best intentions of the Syrian people at heart. Indeed, when it comes to policy, it could care less about the Syrian people, just like it cared less about the Iraqis.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/03/obama-syria-and-the-arrogance-of-imperialism/
Perpetual War and Obama s Perpetual Con Game
By Glen Ford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35144.htm
Obama s Embrace of Militarism
Our Dystopian Present
By Tim Tolka
We are to believe that the persecution of the press is protection of national security, secrecy is transparency, debt servitude is opportunity, imprisoning the poor is correction, assassination is public relations, a militarized police state is public service.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35746.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Dr. King s ''Two Americas'' Truer Now than Ever
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: As American society s chasm between the superrich and poor grows wider and deeper, Martin Luther King, Jr. s words are as prescient as ever.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15688-dr-kings-two-americas-truer-now-than-ever
The Consensus Behind Militarism
Jeff Cohen, Consortium News: While the US media has some spirited debate over politics and social issues, there remains a broad consensus about foreign adversaries whose behavior is almost always cast in the harshest light, a reality that colors how America reacts to the world.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15701-the-consensus-behind-militarism
Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
Dean Baker, Truthout: The fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008 brings with it an outrageous reminder of how little the US government cares about its people and instead continues to bow to Wall Street bankers.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16372-cutting-social-security-and-not-taxing-wall-street
--------
Free Press and the National Security State
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/04/19-0
Terrorism' and the Perpetual Emotion War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/24
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): MLK vs. Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/23-0
--------
Making war: ''Wag The Dog''
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/spin-1/making-war.html
The Vietnamese holocaust
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/the-vietnamese-holocaust.html
Martin Luther King on war and those who support war
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/the-truth-must-be-told.html#sthash.r0jhZyGp.dpuf
--------
War and the Messianic State
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1279.html
State Sponsored Terrorism: Another Anniversary
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/jonathan-goodwin/state-sponsored-terrorism-2/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=messianic
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collectivism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=security+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+government
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vietnam
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Africa
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hiroshima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+sponsored+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militari
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=dystopia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=perpetual+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=act+of+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=embargo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=whistleblow
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Luther+King
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=super-rich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=healthcare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=press+freedom
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Cohen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ben+Tanosborn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=moyers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Winship
https://www.google.de/search?q=Faisal+Moghul
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Pilger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Norman+Solomon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/north
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ron+Jacobs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dean+Baker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Goodwin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tim+Tolka
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