Posts tagged war
“Christianity and War” with Pastor Laurence M. Vance
0Vance is a pretty impressive guy; holding degrees in theology, accounting, economics and history. His busting of “Bush Doctrines” politics is solid, although his speech does get a little “sales pitchy” at times for his book. Can’t blame the guy, hard to make a living as an author.
“War: Big Government’s Best Friend”
0Dr. Woods is one of the brightest and most entertaining political minds on the planet. Funny, humble, insightful and extraordinarily knowledgable. Although now a Ron Paul supporter and libertarian he used to be a major “neo-con” and was intensely pro-war and pro-State.
With an inspiring level of self-analysis and willingness to reject cognitive dissonance he discusses why the concept of war is repugnant, vile and crazed when viewed without our desire to worship our governments and countries above our fellow men, women and God.
Woods also shows how our concepts of national identity, righteousness and morality are manipulated by our media and government with the lever of fear and war—even in peace-time—so that we can be made to agree with the terrors of “big government.”
Lt. Col. Michael Hastings accuses U.S. military of vast Afghan deception
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Thanks RawStory.com and RollingStone.com
An internal report on the occupation of Afghanistan, penned by an active-duty military officer and published weeks ago — but not released by the Pentagon — was leaked on Friday by Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, who called the 84-page examination “one of the most significant documents published by an active-duty officer in the past ten years.”
The document, written by Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, explains there has been a 12-year-long cover-up of the reality on the ground in Afghanistan. Davis was the source of a New York Times feature last Sunday, which cited his report but did not release it.
The Pentagon has since launched an investigation of Davis for possible security violations.
Davis reportedly wrote two versions — one classified and one not — and briefed four members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat. Senior Pentagon officials also have the report, but they’ve decided not to release it. For that reason, the unclassified report was published by Rolling Stone on Friday afternoon.
“As I will explain in the following pages I have personally observed or physically participated in programs for at least the last 15 years in which the Army’s senior leaders have either “stretched the truth” or knowingly deceived the US Congress and American public,” Davis explains in his introduction.
“What I witnessed in my most recently concluded 12 month deployment to Afghanistan has seen that deception reach an intolerable low. I will provide a very brief summary of the open source information that would allow any American citizen to verify these claims. But if the public had access to these classified reports they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is actually true behind the scenes. It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified material in an open venue and thus I will not do so; I am no WikiLeaks guy Part II.”
He essentially concludes that America’s top generals should be placed under oath and questioned about incidents detailed in the report.
The report is available to read here (PDF).
So disgusted by war…
0Someday we will look back at our insanity and cry; it can’t come soon enough.
Another foreign policy expert endorses Dr. Paul
0Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor explains why Rep. Ron Paul’s defense spending plan is the most beneficial and the other candidates are dangerous, delusional and demagogues.
Stop the war mongering against Iran!
0A brilliant and definitive summary with premier experts in the field, precise data and enlightening translation corrections relating to the alleged “wipe Israel off the map” comments from Ahmadinejad. We the American people along with Mitt, Newt and Rick need to wake up and smell the propaganda.
Agent Giraldi
This time, the pro-war voices are exploiting a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report to assert categorically that Iran is building a nuclear weapon that allegedly poses a major threat to the US. But the truth is that the IAEA makes regular inspection visits to Iran’s nuclear facilities and has TV cameras monitoring those sites around the clock. While there is reason to question some of Iran’s actions, the situation and the alleged threat are not as clear-cut as some maintain.
Mohamed El Baradei, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former IAEA director-general, said recently, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger. All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.” And he is not alone: All 16 US. intelligence agencies concluded “with high confidence” in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that Iran had halted its nuclear-weapons program as of 2003. They reviewed the evidence again in 2009-10 and concluded that there was still no solid evidence that the program had been in any way revived.
We are seeing a replay of the “Iraq WMD threat,” which used false information and sustained innuendo to lead the United States into a war that did not need to be fought. As Philip Zelikow, Executive Secretary of the 9/11 Commission said, “The ‘real threat’ from Iraq was not a threat to the United States. The unstated threat was the threat against Israel.”
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0An amazing video. The quality of youtube productions is gaining by leaps and bounds. It is such a wonderful thing to see the power of technology used for things like this!
