Thursday, March 2, 2017

CINDY SHEEHAN ON Loud&Clear WITH BRIAN BECKER: Radio Sputnik George Bush deserves no praise for criticizing Donald Trump


 
 
War criminal and former president George W. Bush took a rare step into the public spotlight to criticize Donald Trump for “racism and name-calling”. Cindy Sheehan, legendary anti-war activist who hosts the podcast Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox joins the show.
 
 

George Bush deserves no praise for criticizing Donald Trump





Listen to "George Bush deserves no praise for criticizing Donald Trump" on Spreaker.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

W. Returns: The Silver Foot is Back? by Anthony Freda

 Art by Anthony Freda
"'Poor George. He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
Ann Richards 


Former president George W. Bush is back in the news this week. He took a break from painting bad pictures in his bathroom to come out criticize president Trump on a range of issues.

He defended the mainstream media that Trump has labeled "fake news" with a series of hollow platitudes. He said to Matt Lauer on "Today"  "I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy," 

 "We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. I mean power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power. Whether it be here or elsewhere." 

I agree with W. I wish the press had held him accountable for abusing his power. Unfortunately, the mainstream media he defends was complicit in his abuses of power instead of doing their job and exposing his lies and crimes.

They enthusiastically helped him promote the lies that provided the pretexts to the invasion of Iraq. As Lauer's former co-host Katie Couric put it, "There was such a significant march to war, and people who questioned it very early on, and really as the war progressed, were considered unpatriotic,' 

Complaining of "strong-arm tactics," and "a lot of pressure from the Bush White House," Couric also said, "There was a sense, a pressure from the corporations who own where we work, and from the government itself, to really squash any kind of dissent."

Disgraced former NBC host Brian Williams put it this way, "I was in Kuwait for the buildup of the war,"

 "and yes, we heard from the Pentagon on my cell phone the minute they heard us report something that they didn't like."

Now, the former cheerleader, W. comes to the defense of his own war-cheerleaders and puppets in the mainstream press. What a shock.

Maybe he is just upset that the woman he calls his "sister-in-law", Hillary Clinton lost the election. After all, she helped him lie us into the Iraq War as well and his family has publicly disparaged Trump.

She was the true heir to his legacy. She promoted both the Iraq War and The Patriot Act. The two cornerstones of his tenure. The former a monument to chaos and needless slaughter and the latter a desecration of the Bill of Rights.

Bush also chimed in on the conspiracy theory that Trump is somehow compromised by the Russians. Apparently, he thinks his old pal "Pooty-poot" is up to something.

Bush called for investigations into Russia's alleged hacking and leaking of US internal political documents. "We all need answers," Bush said. "Whether or not a special prosecutor is the right way or go or not, you're talking to the wrong guy."
He added: "That question needs to be answered." 

Maybe W. has not heard that William Binney, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange and Ray McGovern All say that the story being told by the discredited, state/corporate fake news syndicate that Russia hacked US elections is not true. 
These experts and whistleblowers and even the F.B.I. say there is no evidence to back up the anti-Trump narrative being promoted by Obama and Hillary loyalists in the intelligence community.
Why is this hysterical Russophobic and NeoMcarthyistic narrative being promoted by Never-Trumpers and their minions in the corrupt mainstream media?

Well, according to Assange, the reason is obvious.
"They're trying to delegitimize the Trump administration. They are trying to say that President Trump is not a legitimate president." 

The same media and establishment that warns us of the dangers of alternative news are disseminating a fake news story that could provoke a nuclear conflict with Russia.

 Oddly, Democrats are all over social media quoting and fawning over this war criminal's latest ramblings because he confirms their bias against the one man they hate more than him, 
Donald Trump.

Bush also chided Trump about his immigration ban. Of course, W. (Along with Hillary and Obama) had no problem KILLING Muslims on a global scale, it's just the immigration issue that he finds so vexing.


"I think it's very important for all of us to recognize one of our great strengths is for all of us to be able to worship the way they want to or not worship at all," Bush said. "A bedrock of our freedom is the right to worship freely. I understood that right off the bat, Matt, that this was an ideological conflict and people that murder the innocent are not religious people. They want to advance an ideology." Bush said.

Maybe the man who killed a million people to advance his NeoConservative ideology should crawl back into his bathroom and atone for his own sins against humanity.





Anthony Freda

Anthony Freda is an activist, artist and professor of visual communication at F.I.T. in New York.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Next on The People Speak with Cindy Sheehan on BBS: Dr. Margaret Flowers


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.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO EMPIRE WITH DAN YASEEN (JANUARY EDITION)


On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Regis Tremblay, an independent filmmaker. He just completed his new documentary “”Thirty Seconds to Midnight”. A shocking documentary that traces the origins of American genocides, military interventions and wars from the 15th Century to the 21st Century that have humanity on the brink of extinction. His website is: www.registremblay.com

Speaking Truth to Empire with Dan Yaseen (February Edition)



On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Sarah Thompson, the Executive Director of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) since 2014. CPT is an international accompaniment organization that does strategic nonviolent intervention in areas of lethal conflict. CPT does not evangelize; they send small teams of people to physically work for justice at the invitation of grassroots leaders and community organizations who are nonviolently resisting the lethal and structural oppression that they face. CPT website is: www.cpt.org
 

Monday, February 20, 2017

WAR TAX RESISTANCE ON THE PEOPLE SPEAK with CINDY SHEEHAN (LINKS AND CALL IN NUMBERS)


February 21, 2017
6pm to 6:55 (Pacific time)


CALL-IN NUMBER FOR QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
FOR CINDY OR GUEST:

888-429-5471 

GUEST:  Sam Koplinka-Loehr

TOPIC: War Tax Resistance

In this tax season of paying tribute to the Emperor to mostly
pay for war and other oppression, The People Speak with 
Cindy Sheehan presents a conversation with

Sam Koplinka-Loehr who is an organizer with


Ever tire of your money being used for murder?

Ever wonder how these activists (including Cindy Sheehan)
do it without ending up in prison?

Cindy Sheehan after a tax hearing in Federal Court


Listen to this informative show live at the link above.
  

Russo-phobia: The Breakfast of Charlatans (SOAPBOX PODCAST; February 14, 2017)

February 14, 2017

The Soapbox Presents The People Speak with Cindy Sheehan




GUEST: Mike Whitney
TOPIC: Russophobia


Guest Occupation: 
Journalist
Guest Biography: 

Mike Whitney is a landscape contractor who veered into journalism following the attacks of September 11. He is a Project Censored award winner who writes on foreign policy, domestic politics and the economy. His articles can found at Counterpunch or the Unz Review. 

Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Jeffrey St. Clair (editor), Joshua Frank (editor)
The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration, as the president-in-waiting stocked his cabinet with corporate hacks, cut secret deals with Wall Street titans and plotted a bloody escalation of the senseless war in Afghanistan. Here is a scathing indictment of the Obama presidency from the best writers on the American Left. Hopeless is a view of Obama's policies from the trenches: the compromises, the backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From Obama's sell-outs to big oil and the nuclear industry to his continuation of savage Bush-era policies in the CIA's global network of secret prisons, this fast-paced chronicle will outrage the politically naive, delight the critical and inspire those looking for an alternative to the dismal politics of lesser evilism. As Emma Goldman famously quipped, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.
Contributors include: Mike Whitney, Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeremy Scahill, Joe Bageant, Marjorie Cohn, Brian Tokar, Linn Washington, Jr., Ronnie Cummins, Kathy Kelly, Tariq Ali, Ralph Nader, and more.
Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion

Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Soapbox Presents 'The People Speak' with Cindy Sheehan



On Tuesday, February 14, Cindy Sheehan will
begin hosting the live internet show


at 6pm to 6:55pm (Pacific Time)

Click the link above for information on how to LISTEN LIVE

and to CALL-IN with comments or questions for our guest or 

Cindy. 

Our first guest will be author/activist
Michael Whitney talking about current climate of 
Russo-phobia in the liberal world.

The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide



DON'T WORRY!

IF YOU CAN'T LISTEN LIVE, THE SHOWS STILL WILL
BE ARCHIVED EVERY WEEK AT THE SOAPBOX 


 

http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/p/tax-deductible-donation.html
 
 

Friday, February 3, 2017

No Trump did not Make a Mistake in Yemen (GUEST BLOG BY DAVID SWANSON)

No, Trump Did Not Make a Mistake in Yemen
I gather these are the features people have concerns about in the recent U.S. raid in Yemen.

1. It was fought on the ground rather than from the air.

2. An American died.

3. The American was a Navy SEAL Team 6 member, more valuable than other Americans.

4. Trump approved it instead of Obama.

5. Trump didn't have "proper" "intelligence."

6. Trump had the wrong accomplices in the room.

7. Trump wasn't in the room.

8. The U.S. hasn't declared war against Yemen.

9. Trump, who is legally responsible for this crime, sounds like an intoxicated idiot.

10. Last and certainly least, a bit too many children and women were killed.

May I respectfully request everyone pushing these ideas to stick a "Make America Great Again" hat in their mouth and eat it?
What in the hell is the matter with you people?

War is a crime. War is murder. Murder is a crime. What if Trump were articulate? What if he had the right damn intelligence, as Obama supposedly did during the past 8 years of murdering men, women, and children? If you bomb them from on high are they less murdered than if you do it from the ground? How many dead foreigners are worth one American? or one member of the criminal enterprise called Navy SEAL Team 6? The United States hasn't declared war since 1941. Every war is criminal under Kellogg-Briand and under the United Nations Charter. Every murder of every human being in a war, regardless of age or gender, is an immoral and criminal murder.

Are you the same people who are starting to care about refugees from U.S. wars? Are you utterly incapable of caring about ending the wars that create the refugees by killing their loved ones?
I'm sure the sheets are comfortable, but as you sleep actual monsters are approaching your bed. Please, please, please -- PLEASE -- wake the fuck up!
--
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.
Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Brother Larry Pinkney: End of an (Obama) Error and Start of Another (SOAPBOX PODCAST 1/15/17)

CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX




JANUARY 31st, 2017

GUEST: BROTHER LARRY PINKNEY
TOPIC: THE OBAMA REGIME AND BEYOND

Brother Larry:

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox began in January 2009 after Cindy's historic campaign against then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco) and a few weeks before Barack Obama began is blood-caked regime.

Brother Larry Pinkney's first appearance on the Soapbox was right after Obama was inaugurated and the Soapbox has been honored to be graced with his trenchant analysis of The First Black President™ every January since then.

This week, the Soapbox presents Brother Larry as he looks back on the past eight years and ahead to Trump.

NOTE: This show was recorded shortly before my sister Dede Miller went into home hospice care, and after that, she declined rapidly and passed over on January 22nd.

 

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Obit: Christy "Dede" Miller

Dede and Cindy: Tour de Peace, 2013

Christy Anne “Dede” Miller

Christy Miller, known to all family and friends as “Dede” joined her parents, Dennis and Shirley Miller and beloved nephew, Casey Austin Sheehan in infinite peace on January 22, 2017, after a protracted illness.

Dede began this life on June 16, 1958 in Inglewood Ca. Shortly thereafter her family relocated to Bellflower CA where Dede loved to play softball and music and graduated from Bellflower High School in the class of 1976.

For 25 years, Dede worked at the Bellflower Kmart as Human Resources manager until she quit to work full-time for the peace and social justice movement after her nephew Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Dede will be remembered for her quick sense of humor and zest for life. She traveled the world with sister Cindy in her quest for peace and remarked “I’ve had a wonderful life” shortly before her transition.

Dede will be missed by many, but especially by those family members that survive her: sister Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville CA; brother Scott Miller of Bellflower CA; brother-in-law Patrick Sheehan of Fairfield CA; niece Carly Sheehan of Novato CA; nephew Andy Sheehan and niece Jane Henry both of Vacaville. In the final two years of her life, Dede found great joy and comfort in her great nieces and nephews: Jonah, Jovie, Jackson, Jillian Henry; and Cohen Sheehan, all of Vacaville. The friends and people she had a positive influence on and touched profoundly in her too short life are too numerous to list.

Dede was in home hospice care for her last days and was surrounded by love, peace, and her beloved family at all times.

 Dede loved animals and when she needed a distraction from the cancer "treatments" and pain, she spent many hours watching the antics of the Lone Star Dog Rescue Ranch.

In lieu of flowers, we request that you make a donation there in Dede's memory.

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Dede Miller's Remembrance Page

Dede being arrested in Crawford Tx in December 2006

Christy "Dede" Miller
June 16, 1958 - January 22, 2017
 (Passed at home from breast cancer and complications due to treatments)


 Dede Miller's family has been so overwhelmed with love and gratitude for all the warm wishes and wonderful remembrances we have already received about our dear Auntie/Sister. 

Please feel free to comment on this post with your good memories or condolences to the Sheehan/Miller family.

Thank you!  

For UPS mail:
Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, LLC

PO Box 6264
Vacaville, Ca 95696


Wednesday, January 11, 2017

SPEAKING TRUTH TO EMPIRE WITH DAN YASEEN (DEC 2016 EDITION)




“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California. Dan Yaseen interviews Jeff Brown, an author and blogger who currently lives in China. Jeff grew up in Oklahoma; he received a BS from Oklahoma State University and an MS from Purdue University. He has also lived in Brazil, Middle East, Africa and France. His latest book is, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations – The Truth behind Asia’s Enigmatic Colossus. In 2012, he took a solo trip through China for 44 days and wrote a book, 44Days: Backpacking in China.  His website is http://chinarising.puntopress.com/

Monday, January 9, 2017

1/20/17: End of an Error and the Beginning of Another by Cindy Sheehan

Elitist rogues out on the town.


Please, take a ride with me on Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to election night 2008:

I was rather busy that night, because for the prior 18 months, I had set up "camp" in San Francisco on Mission St. in a campaign to defeat then Speaker of the House and treacherous Democrat, Nancy Pelosi.

The first returns were bleak, I was getting single digit results, but we ended up with almost 17% and a second place finish--but, even though I think we did really respectably, this is not the focus of this recollection.

That night, I received a phone call on my private cell-phone, I still
Was it, really?
have no idea who it was, because I couldn't understand his name, but he was literally screaming, "we did it Cindy! We did it! We got rid of Bush and elected Obama!" 


First of all, "we" didn't do anything. I didn't support Obama in 2008 because I actually listened to what he said about promising more war and he voted for and made a full-court press for the bankster bailout and such horrible initiatives like NDAA, among other things.

Secondly, "we" didn't get rid of Bush--one of the oligarch's most brilliant ploys is a regular election for President of the United States that gives an appearance of a "peaceful and orderly" transition of power. In reality, the only thing that transitions is the personnel, the policies of empire and vampire capitalism stay firmly in place. 

I never gave Obama a "break" like I was constantly urged to do by people, I assume, who didn't want the truth pointed out to them.  No matter how some want to keep their heads in the sand, the barest reality is that Obama continued the imperial rampage through the Middle East; is aggressively, continually, and maniacally provoking Russia; passed a "health"care reform bill that was nothing but welfare for big pharma, HMOs and insurance companies; increased the police state and didn't prosecute killer cops; increased oil production and financially protected BP after the Deepwater Horizon gusher; prosecuted twice as many whistleblowers as all the presidents before him since Wilson, and etc, and etc.


Obama was the perfect foil and servant of Empire for the past two-terms because if anyone opposed him we could be smeared with the awful sobriquet of "racist," and many were afraid to oppose him for fear of even giving the appearance of being a bigot. Also, I have learned (the hard way) that many things considered evil during a Republican regime are not so bad to some when a Democrat is the prez. Partisan politics in the US will kill this earth if we don't realize this and struggle against it. Also, incredibly, if you didn't want Obama to be a stone-cold killer, you were tarnished with being a "purist," as if anything about waging mass-murder against civilian populations is positive, and only someone who is "pure" would be against it?

So, for the prior eight years, I have been waging this struggle against Obama, not because I think Obama is even a little bit in charge, but because this nation puts so much stock in "personality" and Obama was putatively in charge. How can one highlight the hypocrisies of this demented system without knocking down the icons that support it? 

I will not give Trump "a chance" either. I will be in the streets as much as possible, when possible, and I will be using The Soapbox to tell the truth as always, but the irony is, the people who thought I turned into a dimwit when Obama was president, will once again agree with me and think, maybe, I have wised-up again.

I do want to give fair warning though. 

I believe that the Republicans are a sordid lot of rightwing reactionary fascists. I think that most of you reading this piece will be simpatico with that view. However, I believe the treachery of the Democratic Party is far worse and I will be keeping a close eye on Pelosi/Schumer and their minions in the months and years to come. I know I will hear, "Obama is gone Cindy, get over it." The world will not be able to "get over" Obama's legacy, as we still suffer from many past presidents who slunk off to peace and comfort after their destructive presidential behavior came to a Constitutional end.

It's laughable to think that a nation that was built on genocide and forced slave labor which has NOT been at some kind of overt or nasty covert war for about 20 years of its existence can be made "Great" AGAIN. How about joining together in solidarity as workers, peace advocates, and social justice advocates to make this nation "Great" for once?

Will it really?


"Errors" cannot end when they are foundational and institutional. The "Powers That Be" have long waged class war against us and when we only vent our rage against 1/2 of those criminals, we do ourselves and the world a great disservice. True revolution will only come when we are repelled by and reject the intolerance and oppression of empire and capitalism.We are not each others' enemies--we need to "shoot" up, not sideways, or down, to hit the ones who torment us all.






 

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Russian Scum!!! by Anthony Freda

Four prominent activists and truth-tellers are debunking the Russian Hack conspiracy theory.
 
WIlliam Binney, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange and Ray McGovern All say that the story being told by the discredited, state/corporate fake news syndicate that Russia hacked US elections is not true. 
 
These brave experts and whistleblowers say there is no evidence to back up the official narrative.
 
Why is this hysterical Russophobic and NeoMcarthyistic narrative being promoted by Obama, Hillary and their minions in the corrupt mainstream media?

Well, according to Assange, the reason is obvious. 
"They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House. They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate president." 

The same media and establishment that warns us of the dangers of alternative news is disseminating a fake news story that could provoke a nuclear conflict with Russia.

Binney was a RUSSIA specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as a Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence.
 
Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability), Binney has been described as one of the best analysts in the NSA's history.
(But what does he know?)

Greenwald has exposed illegal surveillance and the inner workings of the drone assassination campaign and kill chain as editor of The Intercept.
 
Greenwald is critical of actions jointly supported by Democrats and Republicans, writing: "The worst and most tyrannical government actions in Washington are equally supported on a fully bipartisan basis."
 
He is highly regarded as an independent investigative journalist and lawyer.
(But let's just say he is working for Putin)

Julian Assange has been exposing the crimes of the powerful via his non-profit organization Wikileaks since 2009.
 
He has exposed evidence of corruption and criminality of the Bush administration, Hillary Clinton and many more power-brokers.
His information has Never been disproven or discredited and is authentic. He is literally risking his life to bring us the truth.
(But let's trust the same media that lied us into the Iraq War and just say he loves Russia)

Retired CIA Sr. Analyst Ray McGovern, who gave presidents going back to Ronald Reagan the CIA’s daily briefing, and who co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) calls the Russian Hack conspiracy theory  “a crock” — He says the claim that Russians and Vladimir Putin were behind the release of Democratic National Committee and Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails, in an effort to give the election to Donald Trump is not backed up by any evidence.
(But let's call him Russian Scum)

None of these men are supporters of Trump or the Republican party, and neither am I.
 
Each of these men have a track record of honesty, credibility and objectivity.
 
The intelligence agencies, media and politicians who are promoting this Russophobic campaign have a record of mendacity and failure.
 
The same dark forces who fabricated the pretexts to bring us to war in Iraq are now engaged in a Neo-Cold-War-Red-Scare game.


https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/




Anthony Freda
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.


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