Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

CINDY SHEEHAN WITH CASEY'S GIFT IN HOLGUIN, CUBA When my son Casey was a newly formed solider, fresh out of boot camp, he was stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas. The first time he came home to visit, he gifted me with a golden necklace which looked like a shamrock and had a small diamond in the center. On the back it said, "For Mom, With Love." I loved it immediately and loved the gesture, but I said, "Casey, you can't afford to spend this much money on me," and I sent it back to the jewelry store in Killeen, Tx and told them to return his money. Casey came home that Christmas and re-gave me that necklace and said, "Mom, you have to take it, it's paid for now." After that dear, dear boy was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004, and I became a noted antiwar activist, I wore the piece all over the world, and found myself fingering it for comfort more than once. In fact, once during a protest in Washington, DC, my sister was holding it for me

        By Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA (bernie-sanders-franklin-nh-20150802-DSC02607) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 26, 2016 There's no shortage of righteous outrage on the Left ( sic ). Plenty of marches and manifestos to go along with the myriad calls to “occupy” this or “take back” that. Toss in the occasional fighting words and the intermittent flirtation with property damage and the left typically does just enough to accomplish nothing except get itself effectively demonized by the mainstream (thus making it that much easier for the Blue Bloc of law enforcement to get away with virtually anything at the next big protest).  So, here's my question: What would those who identify as leftists do if one of their high profile icons were openly removed from the scene? For the sake of argument, let's say the U.S. government (or one of

The Saudis are taking a much needed break from beheading dissidents, homosexuals and adulterers to greet Obama this week. “The American people send their greetings, and we are very grateful for your hospitality,” Said Obama to his criminal hosts. Obama will no doubt reassure the tyrannical regime that he will continue to arm them with the weapons they need to perpetuate mass slaughter in the region. Arms sales in general — and specifically to Saudi Arabia — have been a consistent element of Obama’s tenure. “Many Americans would be surprised to learn that his administration has brokered more arms deals than any administration of the past 70 years, Republican or Democratic,” said William Hartung, a senior adviser to Secure Assistance Monitor, a progressive group that tracks arms sales.

MSM spotlights Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. By DonkeyHotey Flickr/(CC BY-SA 2.0). Nightly News Coverage in 2015: Trump 234 mins, Clinton, 113 mins, Sanders 10 mins - Sag / Daily Kos. This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted from Creative Commons licensed images from Gage Skidmore's flickr photostream. This caricature of Hillary Clinton was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the East Asia and Pacific Media's Flickr photostream. The body was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the U.S. Department of State's Flickr photostream. This caricature of Bernie Sanders was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo by Nick Solari available via Wikimedia. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I am documenting our collective self-annihilation. I am not writing to change your mind.” ( Cory Morningstar ) I’d like to preface this article with a little story about Sept. 11. Not September 11, 2001. I mean Sept. 11,

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox April 17, 2016 GUESTS:  Members of National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC.org) TOPIC: War Tax Resistance Today, on The Soapbox, we replay a show about how and why some people refuse to pay income taxes to pay for Empire.

War Tax Refuser Cindy Sheehan with two others in Austin Texas PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 11, 2016 Contact: Ruth Benn, Coordinator National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee 800-269-7464 (718-768-3420 ) or nwtrcc@nwtrcc.org Tax Day Actions Include Protests and Refusal to Pay Individuals Divest From the Pentagon and Invest in People From traditional Tax Day, April 15, 2016 , through the final day to file in Maine and Massachusetts on April 19 , hundreds of people in communities across the United States will take public action to call for a change federal budget priorities away from military spending and to human and environmental needs. Individually and in groups, many of these concerned activists will divest from the Pentagon by refusing to pay some or all of their federal income taxes, which help to pay for war. Anne Barron, an urban farmer in San Diego, California, says, “ San Diego is a very militarized

Who, What, When, Where, and Why War Crime Report Cindy Sheehan Who : The US War Machine: the diabolical Bush Regime at the controls What: Imperial war for profit based on manufactured evidence and nationalist propaganda. When: (This incarnation) March 2003 to present. Where: Iraq Why: Because the US War Machine needs perpetual war for perpetual profit and to subjugate the people of the world and suck the life out of those in the US. Every good crime report or newspaper article needs to answer these five questions and this is a war crime report. Twelve years ago at the writing of this piece, my son Casey, a soldier in the Imperial Army was killed in Iraq. April 4th, 2004 was a terrible day for my family, but our tears were like a drop in the ocean compared to what millions in Iraq have suffered, really for several decades, under the gunsights of US war profiteers. The US war against the people of Iraq was a major conspiracy to commit mass murder. There have been many exposés of

APRIL 10, 2016 PART ONE PART TWO   GUEST: David Talbot TOPIC: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government  CLICK TO ORDER, OR FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM AMAZON: An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures. Dul

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 9, 20116 “I am documenting our collective self-annihilation. I am not writing to change your mind.” ( Cory Morningstar ) I deeply relate to my friend Cory’s quote above -- but to take things further: I often wonder why any of us even bothers with the documenting. This line of thought reminded me of an e-mail I received in 2006 from a man who’d been following my work for quite some time. “Reading your writing makes me think that expressing your opinions is what helps,” he began, “but I now wonder if it actually does any good.” He states his belief that, yes, the pen is mightier than the sword, but quickly conceded that the pen “takes a lot longer to be effective.” His e-mail wrapped up: “In a world full of inequalities, I see your writing as an attempt to combat this situation but I wonder what provides the motivation in the face of such daunting odds. I might have it all wrong and that is not what motiva

Hillary promoted the lies that provided the pretexts to the Iraq War and she made impassioned speeches imploring her fellow Democrats (who controlled the Senate at the time) to vote for the war. https://www.facebook.com/ 747419318721729/videos/ 761269684003359/?__mref= message_bubble The chaos and mass death of Muslims caused by her war no doubt lead to the destabilization and anti-Americanism required to empower Isis. Does anyone believe her pathetic excuse to white-wash her war crimes by saying she fell for the cartoonish Neocon propaganda sold to the general public by a corrupt media? Let's say it's true that she "got it wrong". The fact that she was so easily deceived by the warmongers should disqualify her from high office. By spearheading the US/Nato lead overthrow of Libya, she oversaw the arming, training and funding of terror groups aligned with Al Qeda and Isis. By murdering countless innocent Muslims with drone bombings

One of the chicken hawks who lied to the world about why the Iraq War was launched, Dick Cheney, has no regrets about the debacle and says invading Iraq was "absolutely the right thing to do." In polls, 88% of Americans disagree with him. A Million dead, and the only weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq were bombs like the ones dropped on apartment buildings in Baghdad during the U.S. "Shock and Awe" campaign of death and destruction. The region has been so destabilized that terror groups now control large areas, many armed with U.S. provided training, weapons and funding, and the war continues. Mission-not-accomplished. Anti-American sentiment is more prevalent than it was before the invasion and we are still waiting for the candy and flowers Dick promised us the Iraqi people would shower upon us for bombing them. Of course, Dick is now free to boast about his failures and crimes against humanity,  confident the complacency

are fighting groups armed by the Pentagon. Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other   on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old [US-created] civil war. The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as   CIA-armed units and    Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other   while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.  In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east . Make sure you pay your taxes!!

Hillary Clinton. Photo by Joe Crimmings. Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 5, 2016 There's a disturbing dynamic that occurs on every Manhattan street corner, every minute of every day. Watch the typical New York City pedestrian as they reach the curb at a red light and you get a pretty good idea what it's like to deal with an overcrowded, rancorous metropolitan area on a daily basis: No one waits on the sidewalk .  Even if a thousand cars are racing by, practically every single New Yorker insists on stepping a few feet out into the street while waiting for the light to change. They'll even go as far as squeezing themselves past other impatient street-crossers just to get to the front of the programmed pack.  We’re so hyped up, so overstressed, so conditioned to do everything at warp speed that we can't even endure waiting 30 seconds for a damn traffic light. We'll risk death by stepping off the curb in orde