The Russians Control Our World and Minds!!! by Anthony Freda

 

 The Clintons received millions from Russia. Maybe They are Russian spies???

A Moscow-based technology initiative funded in part by the Russian government funneled tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of stateThe amount of money given to the foundation from “key” Skolkovo partners ranges from $6.5 to $23.5 million, according to Clinton Foundation data. Former President Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin, The New York Times reported in 2015. Why aren't the Clintons being investigated?

The NeoMcarthyistic witch hunt has become a full on hysterical Red Scare.

 

I know people personally who are now being accused of colluding with Russia. These accusations are not half truths, they are complete fabrications based on political motivations.

 

Obama and Hillary loyalists in the intelligence community are dedicated to using this false narrative to portray Tump as illegitimate to lay the grounds for impeachment.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-government-initiative-gave-millions-to-clinton-foundation/

 

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FACEBOOK CONFESSIONAL by Anthony Freda

 

 art by Anthony Freda

 

 

The Council of Trent made confession mandatory in 1541. It was used as a way to monitor heretical thoughts and actions by an establishment obsessed with defending ideological orthodoxy, controlling the narrative and punishing dissent.

 

It functioned as an intelligence operation for the inquisition. Dangerous information could be extracted with a little discreet and expert probing from the father confessor. It also became a vehicle for exposing the sins of your enemies as well as yourself through innuendo.

 

Is Facebook a digital confession booth? We expose our thoughts, bias, and actions to people behind a screen without a clear understanding of how our information can and will be used against us. Are we subconsciously looking for the forgiveness, punishment and promise of salvation penance provides?

 

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’The country is destroyed’: Gold star mom on Iraq war anniversary (Cindy Sheehan interviewed on RT)

Fake News by Cindy Sheehan

Fake News 

by

Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan and President Hugo Chávez

World Social Forum, VZ, 2005

Due to my antiwar camp outside of George Bush’s fake ranch/vacation home in Crawford, Texas (Camp Casey) in 2005, I have had more than the average amount of contact with the corporate media. The corporate media, which is owned by a handful of global media conglomerates (that do profit off of war) have demonstrated pretty thoroughly that they are experts in lies, half-truths, distortions, demonization, and passing on the agitprop of the Pentagon and “security” state verbatim, as gospel. No matter who says it, the corporate media are actually “enemies of the American people.” Of course, I would further expand that to include that the corporate media are enemies of all people.

I’ll briefly share two of the dozens of personal experiences I have had with the Mouth Pieces of Empire and Capitalism to illustrate my points.

The first one happened early in our encampment in Crawford, Texas. I was doing at least 20 interviews per day and I would go to bed with a raw throat around 2am every morning, to get up around 5 or 6am to begin all over. One of my major complaints since my son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004 was that the corporate media did not do their job as “Fourth Estate” to fully investigate and expose the lies that were being told by members of the Bush regime and other reliable warmongers on the Democratic side, like Hillary Clinton.

So, I was invited to be on CNN (remotely) with host Anderson Cooper. When I told him that I not only blamed the Bush regime for telling the lies that led to so much death and destruction, but also the media for not investigating the lies, he said, “Well, Cindy, we can only ask the same questions so often.” I don’t remember exactly what I said, but it was something like, “aren’t you supposed to investigate what politicians say, not just ask questions to keep getting the same lies back?” Well, he DID NOT like me challenging him like this and instead of investigating the lies that led to the war that killed my son, he personally came out to Camp Casey in Crawford to investigate and do a hit piece on me. My dear, recently departed sister, Dede Miller, was there and Anderson Cooper was lucky to escape Crawford fully intact.

Of course, the media did not do its job after the incident on 9/11/2001. Even more than before, the media became stenographers for the Pentagon. This from Slate (A Christmas Gift for the Pentagon; Ackerman; 28 Dec, 2011):

“In response to Sept. 11, the Pentagon’s publicity department organized at least 161 ‘outreach’ meetings with retired military officers serving as television commentators on the war effort. The Pentagon provided this select group with high level briefings, showering them with talking points and otherwise equipping them to be media defenders of administration policy. The meetings were suspended in 2008 amid a first wave of reports alleging improprieties. The inspector general responded with a defense of the outreach program in 2009, but his initial report was so full of errors that he retracted it and went back to the drawing board.”

Not to mention the infamous and disgraced Judith Miller and the New York Times blatant and admitted lies to foster a climate of fear and then acceptance of a subsequent invasion of Iraq. Back in 2002 and 2003, it was impossible to avoid all the propaganda about Iraq and WMD and Saddam and his connection to Osama bin Laden and 9/11, etc. If you were a journalist in corporate media like stalwart Phil Donahue who did question the inevitable invasion of Iraq, you were likely fired. Not only was this Fake News used to support the unimaginable disaster of an invasion of Iraq, the Fake News outlets are complicit in murder on a massive scale. To call this episode “shameful” is far too nice.

After Camp Casey, I was invited to the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela in the winter of 2006. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend a lot of time with then president Hugo Chávez: someone who was the subject of a boatload of Fake News himself. Of course, the global corporate media had a field day with me meeting with and apparently also liking and admiring the “communist dictator;” “anti-American,” “Venezuelan strongman.”

A few months after my visit to Venezuela, I was invited to be on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, who actually only plays softball with the ruling-elite. This day, however, there was a guest host named, Norah O’Donnell.

I was allegedly invited to talk about a fast that I had just begun with hundreds of others called, “Troop Home Fast.” (During the interview there was a little caption that read, “Starving for Attention” under me). Anyway, Norah introduced me as the woman who “met with ‘communist-dictator’ Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.”

After the introduction, the show went to a fake break and I said, “Norah, Chávez is not only NOT a communist, he is not a dictator, he was democratically elected several times and survived a coup attempt because his people stood up for him.” I am not lying, or even exaggerating a little when I tell you her unabashed response to me: “We know that, but we had a meeting today and decided to call him that, anyway.”

Once the horse is out of the barn, it’s hard to get back in. I spent the rest of the segment defending Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, but people heard “communist dictator” in regards to a person who was really a populist only leaning towards socialism. So, that’s what most people believe, because it’s what the media told them to think and believe.

I had many other experiences with the media and, if it wasn’t friendly media, most of the experiences had a tinge or splash of lies or twisted truth. Why? How can a mother whose oldest son was sacrificed on the altar of Imperialism not be grateful or honored by that death? It’s so very un-American to oppose war and other police state oppression.

Now, the media in collaboration with the CIA, is foisting another huge lie on the very gullible USAian public: Russia/Putin hacked the elections in 2016 to insure a Donald Trump victory.

Why is this Fake News so important to propagate? First of all, the establishment really wants and profits off of increased hostilities with Russia. Thawing of the Cold War led to detente and the end of a ready-made enemy, the USSR! Consequently, the neocons had to work with the media to foment a fear and hatred of another “ism:” terrorism.

Secondly, Donald Trump openly criticized the US intelligence community even comparing it to “Nazi Germany.” I can’t recall any president EVER being so hyper-critical of the CIA and whether Trump is a super-moron, or just clueless, this is what one of the Senators from New York had to say about it:

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

I took on Fake News (among other things) and got slammed, Trump took on the deep state and is getting his buttocks handed to him by the Fake News.

Many “liberals” are passing on the Fake News about Russia and meddling in US elections and kind of conveniently forgetting the Clinton campaign was planting stories to its friendly media and Donna Brazile, who was at CNN at the time, was even giving debate questions to Hillary Clinton before the debates. Was that not meddling in elections to favor a certain candidate? By the way Wikileaks has repeatedly denied that it got the hacked Podesta emails from Russian sources and many well-respected and informed people are certain it was an “inside job” and someone from the campaign leaked them.

The bottom-line is that I don’t want to get my information from the Fake News or from other sources, probably equally compromised, that Trump may approve of. I want my information to come from trusted sources that can be independently verified with other trusted sources.

It’s harder to become a responsible consumer of news and information and to not just gorge on and regurgitate Imperial Propaganda, but essential if one wants to be truly informed. Then if one is truly informed, I feel that then we are forced to take action against this vicious Empire.

One of the sources I recommend for truth and intelligent analysis is this one: The Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA, newsletter. It may only come out six times a year, but every issue is rich with timely articles and in-depth analysis by Ray Light, the editor.

 

This article first appeared in ROL, USA NL #101

 

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CINDY SHEEHAN

SPEAKING TRUTH TO EMPIRE WITH DAN YASEEN (MARCH 2017 EDITION)

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On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Mike Whitney. Mike lives in Washington State; he is a freelance writer, interested in politics and economics. His columns appear regularly at www.counterpunch.org.

VENEZUELA MUST BE RESPECTED from International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity

The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity categorically rejects the interventionist report from Luis Almagro, General Secretary of the Organizations of American States (OAS), against Bolivarian Venezuela and the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.

We repudiate Almagro's disregard of the will for sovereignty of the people of Latin America. Far from representing them, he only serves to undermine their independence. The people of the region ended colonization more than two centuries ago and have no intention of going back. Almagro has become a sad puppet for the interests of the Empire. We do not recognize his political and moral authority to judge the self-determination processes of Latin America. His arrogance and lack of respect is only leading towards intervention and a dangerous confrontation.

If he was left with just one iota of shame as a Latin-American Mr. Almagro should resign his post before the judgment of the people of the Americas descends on him; by then it will be too late.

Since its foundation the OAS has a sad history of being subservient to the designs of Washington, with its interventions and coups.

The people of the world remember the role of the OAS in the 20th century that continues in this century resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in  Brazil, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Grenada, Honduras, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti - these people will never be forgotten.  It is now  Bolivarian Venezuela turn to be humiliated by the OAS by pushing it back into the worst years of its history.

We issue this call to express our deep rejection of his plans and we unconditionally stand in solidarity with the people of Venezuela, its dignified Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and its President Nicolas Maduro.

The people of Latin America demand peace with justice and dignity, and respect that Latin America has been proclaimed a Zone of Peace by the nations of CELAC.

COMMUNIQUÉ

BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA MINISTRY FOR PEOPLE'S POWER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS 

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wishes to express its unreserved rejection of the illegitimate and illicit report about Venezuela presented by Mr Luis Almagro, who acts in his capacity as General Secretary of the Organisation of American States (OAS) without appropriate knowledge of the institutional processes and principles of that organisation.

Luis Almagro, who is renowned as an enemy of the people of Venezuela, has created a series of falsehoods against the Republic of Venezuela with the sole objective of promoting international intervention in our country and accentuating the economic war taking place against Venezuelan society. His actions at the head of the OAS have surpassed his powers, and have been marked by an abuse of power, directed solely on the basis of the hatred he holds towards Venezuela, and in collusion with the extremist, anti-democratic and coup-supporting Venezuelan opposition. The disdainful resentment that guides those who have converted to an extreme position is what motivates his actions, and his appalling writings will be lost in the depths of history, recorded as an example of how a subservient person is capable of destroying the workings of an organisation.

It is unfortunate that Mr Almagro should seek to revive the darkest pages of the interventionist and coup-sponsoring history of the OAS through the imposition of mechanism that blatantly violates the legal and constitutional order of Venezuela and the Charter of the OAS - the fundamental principles and strict rules which guide its actions. On June 15, 2016, the Foreign Ministers of the hemisphere met in the General Assembly, in order to express their worry surrounding such irregularities in conduct and decided to remit to the Permanent Council a review of Almagro's performance. Luis Almagro spearheads the live show of the fascist right-wing which relentlessly harasses, bullies and attacks Venezuela, without any scruples or principles, and which is characterized by the illegal and fraudulent use of falsehoods against our sacred Homeland.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will take the corresponding appropriate actions in due course, and denounces before the whole world the aggressive intentions from this wrongdoer against our unwavering decision to carry on living in peace, with independence and sovereignty, as is the right of all peoples throughout the world. The miserable and insurrectional conspiracies and actions that Luis Almagro seeks to promote through the OAS will not stop our Homeland and our People from pursuing the bright future mapped out by our Liberators.

Caracas, Venezuela, March 14, 2017

Obama: The Unlikely War Criminal guest post by Dakotah Lilly

Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was sixteen years old when Barack Obama, then president of the United States, and unofficial leader of the “free world” ordered he be incinerated by a drone strike. Al-Awlaki was an American citizen, although his extrajudicial murder would have you believe otherwise. To add insult to injury, his father was murdered by drone just two weeks prior; earning the unfortunate distinction of being the first American citizen killed by drone. Under Obama, seven nations were and continue to be, bombed. These nations include Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan, not to mention the nations affected by other forms of warfare such as sanctions and embargoes. In 2009 Obama and Biden, aided by a supermajority in the house and senate, arrived on a rainbow of hope, but for millions of working families, and counted more across the world, the last administration has been nothing more than rhetoric and political double speak in favor of the ruling class. Obama and the majority, if not all of his administration, should be tried for war crimes, and I believe, found guilty. 

    “I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism,” but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer, so, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following his path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters to work here with us, in the Libyan Jammohouriyah.” These are some of the last words of Libya’s last leader, Muammar Gaddafi. He was murdered by US backed rebels and sodomized with a bayonet shortly after. The NATO bombing and informal invasion of Libya will go down as one of the most embarrassing aspects of American foreign policy under the Obama regime. Thousands of civilians have died because of NATO intervention, social and physical infrastructure has been destroyed, and the African nation with the highest Human Development Index has been destroyed and made into a haven for wahhabi terrorists, including ISIS. When asked about the murder of Gaddafi, Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said only “we came, we saw, he died” with a giggle. Imagine if another nation had bombed the United States and then one of its leaders gloated and laughed about it clearly with a clear conscience. In Libya, healthcare, electricity and education were free, new mothers got $5,000, newlyweds $50,000. Libya was also home to the worlds largest irrigation project, providing clean water to its citizens, something the United States today still fails to do. Libya today has no national police, no military, its borders are closed with several nations, ISIS controls parts of the country, human trafficking is rampant and arms flow freely through the region. This intervention did not meet any of the three criterion for the use of force established under international law, yet nobody but the people of Libya have payed a price. 

    On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary and longtime leader died of natural causes. This was itself a victory for supporters of Castro, as he died of natural causes and not of a poisoned scuba suit, explosive cigar, or one of the 700 plus methods the CIA and US government employed to murder the leader of yet another sovereign leader. For the vast majority of the Obama administration, the international community through the UN general assembly had called on the US to rescind the embargo against the people of Cuba. The International community was unanimous, except of course for 3 states, the US, Israel, and Palau. Considering the fact that two of the three states are essentially satellites of the remaining one, it is safe to count the vote as unanimous. It has not just been Cuba that was been the victim of the Obama administration’s wrath in Latin and South America. From instructing European powers to violate international law that stipulates that presidential aircraft receive immunity in order to search the plane of Evo Morales, to categorizing Venezuela as a threat to the United States, to supporting a soft coup against the democratically elected leader of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. The Obama administrations hostility toward independent South American governments is not new American policy, however. From Chile under Allende, to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the United States has long cast a bloody shadow over the nations of the global south. 

    Under Obama, the largest arms deal in the history of the United States too effect. The deal provides 60 billion dollars of arms to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Yes, the same nation that routinely invades, bombs, levels, and murders across the globe in pursuit of so called “democracy” and “freedom” has signed a weaponry deal to Saudi Arabia. The same Saudi Arabia influenced by Wahhabism, where it is punishable by death to be gay or to practice “sorcery”, where it is illegal for women to drive or leave the house without a man, where a common punishment for adultery is lashings with a whip. Perhaps the weapons will be used for good? Is that even possible? Not likely. More than likely these weapons were used to murder thousands in Yemen as part of the Saudi suppression of the Yemenis population. According to Reuters “A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has carried out attacks in Yemen that "may amount to war crimes," U.N. sanctions monitors reported to the world body's Security Council, warning coalition allies including the United States, Britain and France that they are obligated to respect international humanitarian law. The annual report by the experts who monitor sanctions and the conflict in Yemen, seen by Reuters on Saturday, investigated 10 coalition air strikes between March and October that killed at least 292 civilians, including some 100 women and children.” Did the Obama administration give any thought to this before signing a record breaking arms deal with such a deplorable regime? Probably not, as they also have voiced support for Israeli war crimes through historic aid deals, as well as support for Neo-Nazis in the Ukraine. Obama and his administration obviously have no regard for human rights in any capacity if they have the ability to turn a blind eye or materially support such atrocities. 

    I would love nothing more than to be wrong. I would love nothing more than to have a president that stands for international peace, reconciliation, cooperation and justice (hasn’t happened in my lifetime). When provided the facts, it is hard to argue that the administration of Barack Obama has been peaceful. This is not excusing the imperialist, colonialist, war mongering ways of any previous presidents or our current president, but the hope that people had for peace and change with the election of Obama and the democratic wave in congress just makes the disappointment of the same people even more disengaging. When asked if he would seek accountability for George Bush, Obama said we must look forward. If I go out and run down a few pedestrians with my car, can I plead that we must “look forward” now? If I can’t why can people who have broken international law, killed millions, injured countless, created widows and orphans, disregarded sovereignty, and violated the constitution plead such a ludicrous defense? Perhaps I need a friend in the oval office who can protect me the way Bush had Obama, and now Obama has Trump.


Bibliography
 
Fisk, Robert. "America siding with 'terrorists' like al-Nusra? It's not a conspiracy theory." The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 14 June 2015. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.

"Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You to Know." Global Research. N.p., 16 May 2014. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.

Nevradakis, Michael. "Brazil’s Manufactured Coup: The 'Shock Doctrine' Returns To Latin America." MintPress News. N.p., 18 Feb. 2017. Web. 13 Mar. 2017.

Blum, William. America's deadliest export: democracy: the truth about US foreign policy and everything else. London: Zed , 2014. Print.

Sheehan, Cindy. The Obama Chronicles. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

GOWANS, STEPHEN. WASHINGTON'S LONG WAR ON SYRIA. S.l.: IPG-ACADEMIC, 2017. Print.

Dakotah lilly is a 19 year old anti imperialist, revolutionary socialist. He is a co founder and organizer with students and youth for a new America and is a frequent guest on PressTv. Facebook: facebook.com/Dakotah.lilly.9
Twitter @dakotah4prez

 

 Dakotah

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This piece was originally a paper for an international law class that Mr. Lilly is taking.
Professors Cancevic and Andemariam

March, 13, 2017

Socialism or Bust: Soapbox podcast with Gloria La Riva (3/15/17)

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MARCH 15, 2017

GUEST: GLORIA LA RIVA

 TOPIC: SOCIALISM AND LEFT-WING POLITICS

GLORIA AT RECENT PROTEST IN SF

FROM WIKIPEDIA

Gloria Estela La Riva (born August 13, 1954) is an American activist associated most recently with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and in California with the Peace and Freedom Party, and previously with the Workers World Party. She was the PSL's 2008 presidential candidate, La Riva ran as the PSL's presidential candidate in the 2016 race, with Eugene Puryear and Dennis J. Banks as her running mate. 

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Lynne Stewart: A Love Story by Cindy Sheehan

Iris Baez, Cindy, and Lynne

I was dismayed to learn that my friend and hero Lynne Stewart had made her transition due to complications of treatment for cancer last week on March 7th, 2017.

I met Lynne in the flesh in 2005, about one year after my son Casey was killed in Iraq and a few months before I went to Crawford TX to try and confront George Bush there at his fake ranch.

Lynne was on a speaking tour to raise money for her defense (from charges stemming from her defense of the "Blind Sheik). I was invited to speak about the war alongside Lynne and Matt Gonzalez. At that point, I called Lynne: "Atticus Finch in the flesh."

Since that time, and getting to know Lynne better over the years, I know that she was far more than Atticus, who made a very unpopular choice to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman in the 1930s in the American South, but Lynne believed in the revolutionary causes of the unpopular people she defended.

As an attorney in New York, Lynne defended Black Panthers, poor people who couldn't afford to pay, and even a member of the Weather Underground. Lynne courageously opposed the philosophy of non-violence and was quoted once as saying about violence "directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism and sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and accompanied by popular support." Not a very popular position to hold, but revolutionaries aren't always well-loved, but,  especially in Lynne's case, very principled.

I wrote to Lynne frequently while she was unjustly incarcerated in prison in Texas (far from her husband, Ralph Poynter) and I always got a very upbeat communication from her. I marveled at her cheerfulness while being treated for cancer in a Federal Prison. I am even more in awe of her spirit after caring for my sister Dede who also suffered from breast cancer and the awful side affects of the treatment and Dede was in a comfortable home always surrounded by loved ones.

Lynne was able have several years with her family, friends, and comrades after she was given "compassionate" release from prison at the very end of 2013 and I am grateful (as I know many others were) for the time she had with them. Right after her release, she went on a tour to say "thank you" to her supporters and I was so happy to see her in Sacramento. Unfortunately, the time she had free coincided with the time I had to remain close to home here in California to care for Dede, or I would definitely have loved to see more of Lynne.

I send my deepest condolences to Ralph (who lost not only a spouse, but a comrade) and Lynne's other family at this time of profound loss.

It's one thing to observe a public figure and draw conclusions, but if you knew Lynne, you knew that her life and her activism (inseparable from her life) was motivated by love for the poor and oppressed. It is a cliché to say that a "bright light has been extinguished," but I can think of few people that this is more true of than our dear Lynne Stewart.

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Cindy Sheehan

“The thing about this, is that Donald has now done something I thought he would never do. I like — I like the fact that George Bush — I like George Bush now, is what I’m trying to say. I’m having trouble saying it.”

Joy Behar of The View 

The war criminal George Bush has been out on a media tour promoting his book of portraits with the subjects being US troops that his implementation of the war machine's policies during his regime wounded.

First of all, some are calling this book some kind of an "atonement." I disagree, the word "atonement" implies that there is some kind of regret for a person's deeds. I have never heard George Bush express any kind of regret for the disastrous invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq that violently continue to today. The fact that any of the troops agreed to have him paint their portrait only gives George additional validation that what he did was for "freedom and democracy."

I know this because I see commercials for such organizations as the Wounded Warrior Project (criticized for the fact that very little of the donations actually get to wounded warriors), where the permanently defaced and scarred veterans who have lost: "family, jobs, limbs, and their former lives" all say, "I would do it again." Sigh, there has been so much exposed about the lies and marketing that led the US to these unjust and criminal wars that I wonder "why" would anybody do that "again?" It was bad enough that they did it the first time.

That leads to all the people that cannot have an opinion about the criminality of these wars: the dead. Like my son and thousands of other US troops; or the over one million Iraq and Afghan civilians that are dead---or the babies being born right up until today with gross deformities; or all the children being diagnosed with leukemia and other cancers. If George really wanted to atone, he would go and set up a studio in Fallujah and paint the people of Iraq who are still paying for his sins. I would contribute to a Kickstarter campaign for that. Or, he can go do a book event in Kandahar--see how many come out to heap praise on him, there.

Stand by Your War Criminal

The most bizarre aspect of George's "rehabilitation" tour is the liberal Dem-bots who are now saying that he isn't such a bad guy because he has been mildly criticizing Donald Trump. The enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend, and is STILL a war criminal who is roaming free and earning money and praise from partisan hacks.

I hate (not really, I love) to burst your bubbles: George Bush is only out rehabilitating his name to make the Bush brand acceptable to pave the way for his brother Jeb. In 2015, Donald Trump used the scandal of George's regime to knock Jeb out of the primaries. George Bush is not a budding liberal, he is just following in the footsteps of his crime-family which has been harming this country and the world for generations.

The Bush regime, along with the Obama regime (and Clinton, to boot) should be on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity for all the wars and oppression in this country. Liberals who defend (and didn't oppose) Obama and now are praising Bush are part of the reason Trump is in office. Trump is just the current manifestation of imperialism and capitalism that has ruled in this country since day one, not an aberration.

George Bush is nothing but a thug in an expensive suit that got all the advantages that capitalism has to offer and turned into a mass murderer; a serial killer of nations: To see his image being softened up is not only personally hurtful to me, it says nothing good about the USA. Nuremberg was made for people like Bush and Darth Cheney, yet Bush is kicking up his heels with talk show host Ellen Degeneres when he should be rotting in a prison cell.

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Guest Biography: 

Ladonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian and activist. In April 2016, she founded the first resistance camp of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Sacred Stones, aimed at halting the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
Allard is an enrolled member of, and former historical preservation officer for, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her people are Inhunktonwan from the Jamestown Valley, Hunkpapa and Blackfoot.

While there are now multiple water protector camps at the Standing Rock, Sacred Stone, the first camp, is on Allard's private property. Out of this grew the global Dakota Access Pipeline protests. By December 2016, more than 10,000 indigenous people and environmental activists were camping in the area. This movement has become the largest intertribal alliance on the American continent in centuries, and possibly ever, with over 200 tribal nations represented.
Sacred Stone Camp founder Ladonna Bravebull Allard addressed the UN on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to request assistance in the struggle to protect Indigenous water and sacred sites from the Dakota Access Pipeline...

Ladonna Bravebull Allard:
Greetings distinguished representatives,

I greet you with a good heart today. I am Ta Maka Waste Win, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe I am speaking regarding the participation of the over 300 million Indigenous Peoples of Unci Maka Mother Earth. Within the United Nations system, we the Indigenous peoples request that our participation be granted at the highest possible level and that our representatives be legitimate and elected by Indigenous Nations and organizations in each region. This will secure that our participation and contributions on issues that affect us are addressed in a legitimate manner. Lack of this legitimate representation and contributions on issues that affect us are resulting in violations of our equal and inalienable rights as members of the human family. As such is the current and urgent situation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, my home, where the Dakota Access Pipeline has blatantly violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO 169, the Laramie Treaty of 1868, unresolved Ihunktonwana Land Claim Docket 74A and most importantly our Mother Earth.

The organization hereby invokes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO 169 to be enforced and brought to life to put an immediate stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We request that an observer and media team be sent immediately and permanently to Standing Rock until this issue is resolved to protect the water. This situation with Dakota Access has been going on for 6 months now. It has endured Spring, Summer, Fall and heads into Winter as we protect and defend our right to water. We demand immediate assistance and protection for our Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota sisters and brothers. Today we are here to formally denounce terrorism from transnationals agaisnt Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth, as such is our situation in Standing Rock and also the urgent situation of our Indigenous sisters and brothers in the Amazon and many other parts of the world. 

The organization remains committed to solving the challenges faced by our generation which is to protect life and clean water for the future generations and so that all that exists can continue to exist. The Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is the only path remaining to heal the unsustainable pattern of production and consumption that is destroying our lives and the world around us. Agenda 2030, without our legitimate representatives and inclusion of Indigenous Peoples Traditional Knowledge will fail.  Our knowledge can help heal Mother Earth. Without it, great and irreparable damage will lead us to destruction. We must unite to protect the Water and our Mother Earth. We, the Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth walk to the future in the footprints of our ancestors

Cannonball, SD – On April 1st, 2016, tribal citizens of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation and ally Lakota, Nakota, & Dakota citizens, under the group name “Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po” founded a Spirit Camp along the proposed route of the bakken oil pipeline, Dakota Access. 

This Spirit Camp is called Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí, translated as Sacred Rock, the original name of the Cannonball area. The Spirit Camp is dedicated to stopping and raising awareness the Dakota Access pipeline, the dangers associated with pipeline spills and the necessity to protect the water resources of the Missouri river. We reject the appropriation of the name “Dakota” in a project that is in violation of aboriginal and treaty lands. The word Dakota means “the People” in the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota language and was never intended to be used in a project which violates traditional ceremonial areas.

Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po is a grassroots group with the following mission statement: “They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.” – Chief Sitting Bull. His way of life is our way of life–standing in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline is our duty. Group: Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po translates as People, Stand with a Strong Heart! 

The Dakota Access threatens everything from farming and drinking water to entire ecosystems, wildlife and food sources surrounding the Missouri. The nesting of bald eagles and piping plovers as well as the quality of wild rice and medicinal plants like sweet grass are just a few of the species at stake here. We ask that everyone stands with us against this threat to our health, our culture, and our sovereignty. We ask that everyone who live on or near the Missouri River and its tributaries, everyone who farms or ranches in the local area, and everyone who cares about clean air and clean drinking water stand with us against the Dakota Access Pipeline!
We will not allow Dakota Access to trespass on our treaty territory and destroy our medicines and our culture. From the horse ride that established the Camp of the Sacred Stones, to the 500-mile Run for Our Lives relay that delivered our recommendations to the Army Corps of Engineers, with the hundreds of community members who met with Army Corps Colonel Henderson on April 29, and the ongoing vigilance of our prayers, we are committed to stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Healthcare, not Deathcare (SOAPBOX PODCAST 2/28/17)

February 28, 2017

GUEST: DR. MARGARET FLOWERS

TOPIC: DEPLORABLE STATE OF "HEALTHCARE" IN THE USA TODAY AND GREEN PARTY POWER

Guest Website: 

http://clearingthefogradio.org

Guest Occupation: 

Pediatrician/Social Activist

Guest Biography: 

Margaret Flowers, co-director of Its Our Economy, is a Maryland pediatrician. After graduation from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1990 and completion of pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Flowers worked first as a hospitalist and then in private practice. She left practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for a single payer health care system at both the state and national levels. 

Flowers co-hosts, Clearing the FOG radio which airs on We Act Radio, 1480 AM. Her twitter is @MFlowers8.
Flowers served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program during the 2009-2010 national health reform process. She organized briefings, lobby days and testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in June, 2009 and before the National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in June, 2010. She was co-founder of the Mobilization for Health Care Reform. She is currently a spokesperson for PNHP and is on the board of Healthcare-Now. Flowers serves on the coordinating committee of the Health Care is a Human Right Campaign-Maryland.
Flowers views the struggle for health care as part of a broader social, economic and environmental justice movement. She joined Zeese in March, 2011 as co-director of ItsOurEconomy.us in order to educate, organize and mobilize around social and economic justice issues. She serves on the steering committee of October2011.org which organized the Occupation of Washington, DC on Freedom Plaza and continues to report on and help organize Occupy events around the country.