George W. Bush is a War Criminal
John Boncore, aka Splitting the Sky, is currently on trial in Canada for his actions in attempting a citizen's arrest on war criminal, George W. Bush, during Bush's visit to Canada in March 2009. The...
View ArticleCan We End the Long War?
President Obama needs our help. He needs us to see through the propaganda and misinformation regarding Iraq, Afghanistan, and the entire Long War concept. Make no mistake, there are creatures among...
View ArticleI See Dead People
I read and research on the internet daily. I read books and watch videos. I see dead people all over. I see them in Iraq. I see them in Afghanistan. I see them in Somalia, Yemen, Rwanda, Darfur and...
View ArticleDammit! I have to write a check for U.S. Imperialism
I haven't done particularly well the last year addressing my tax obligations to the federal government. I've had the deductions coming from my paychecks, but not nearly enough because of a fluctuating...
View ArticleKeeping You Safe - From Applesauce
The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is filled with crack agents highly trained to spot any and every danger that could affect American citizens. We should be proud of the loyalty, common sense,...
View ArticleArizona Boycott - Will It Be Worth It?
The movement to boycott businesses in Arizona has spread like wildfire after that state's governor signed a new law giving the police the most draconian powers in the country to deal with illegal...
View ArticleGlad I'm not Tom. But Even So.
This is creepy. A Pennsylvania Tax Amnesty TV ad titled "We Know Who You Are." I really don't need this shit. It makes me envious of my ancestors who lived before this electronic surveillance...
View ArticleYou Can't Get There From Here
In an old skit performed by the Firesign Theatre, an American comedy troupe, one part involved a man trying to find the Old Same Place. When trying to find out where it was, he asked another man. Oh,...
View ArticleGoing Global. Citizens of the World Unite!
The choice seems clear. The citizens of the world can either succumb to the environmental, economic, and human devastation caused by the current world system of oligarchic, fascist, plutocratic and...
View ArticleAfghanistan - A Matter of Perception
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because...
View ArticleWhen I was Eighteen
I was in college, struggling to get by, and a friend from high school visited and asked me if I wanted to join the Navy with him. That was in early 1974, after nearly ten years of the Vietnam war. I...
View ArticleThe United States of Imperialism
Say it. I dare you. Say Imperialism. Good. OK, now say U.S. Imperialism. Come on. Good. OK, now say, the U.S. is an Imperialist nation. Ach, don't back off now, do it. Good! Now we're...
View ArticleCome On Man!
You're losing me man. I know that doesn't mean anything in the scheme of things and that no one will lose any sleep. But one thing I've learned in my life, and I'm no spring chicken, is I'm never...
View ArticleObama's Budget, MORE of the Same
The Military Industrial Complex, or the Military Industrial Congressional Congress as Ike would have preferred, is getting bigger and stronger during the Obama administration. The appropriated, or...
View ArticleLibya, Iraq, and Neverending War
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." Dwight D....
View ArticleAlan Simpson Hates Veterans
The former Senator from Wyoming inexplicably appointed in 2010 to co-chair President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and famous for callous one liners that would...
View ArticleConservatives are trying to get a piece of the Antiwar Racket
Sometimes it takes strange bedfellows.
View ArticleHeartwarming Bipartisan Support for the Libya War
The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the reincarnation of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), is coming out strong supporting the Libya war and the ouster of Gaddafi. As with their...
View ArticleWhen Will They Ever Learn
Where Have all the Flowers Gone is a folk antiwar song about the pointlessness of war and the need for more peace and goodwill on earth. Pete Seeger wrote the first three verses in 1955, the year of...
View ArticleOMG! WARNINGS sounded over "Precipitous" Defense Cuts
Warning American citizens. Pay attention dammit. We are being given warnings through our mass media about the potentially precipitous and perilous defense cuts our President is possibly...
View ArticleAntiwar Action
For information.A big part of the reason that our social services and entitlement programs are being brought down is because of the cost of U.S. imperialism. Citizen action could help if anyone is...
View ArticleThe Costs of War, Now We Pay
Good timing. The country is enthralled/disgusted at the current negotiations taking place between the Republican Party leadership and President Obama over how to reduce the budget and/or increase...
View ArticleCompromise My Ass
Man, the citizens of this country are being duped big time, again.Dupe: One that is easily deceived or cheated; delude, trick.President Obama quoted Thomas Jefferson in his nationally televised speech...
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Why Didn't They Tell Us This Stuff?
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...
View ArticleStandard and Poor's Threatening to Issue a Credit Rating of 576. WTF?
I noticed in the news that the credit ratings agency, Standard and Poor's, had issued a grave warning to the United States and the citizens of the Universe that the U.S. risked it's cherished AAA...
View ArticleAfter the Show, What's on Next?
There’s been more talk and discussion lately on what the American people can do to stop the country’s slide into madness. “Takin’ it to the Streets” is a common mantra referring to the idea that we...
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The Military Empire Will Continue
Now the debt ceiling “crisis” is over and the dust is settling. What about defense spending and the wars? "This is a good deal for defense when you probe under the numbers," said Lawrence Korb, a...
View ArticleCBO Letter to Reid and Boehner - War On Man!
Some information sharing. Enclosed is a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Mr. Speaker Reid and Mr. Leader Boehner, dated August 1st, that summarizes the estimated impact on the deficit of...
View ArticleTaibbi - The Fix Was In, Obama Did His Job
Matt Taibbi who writes for the Rolling Stone posits:"Is it possible that by "surrendering" at the 11th hour and signing off on a deal that presages deep cuts in spending for the middle class, but...
View ArticleThe Costs of War - Part Two. Stop the Madness
A couple weeks ago I posted a diary summarizing part of a new study, "Costs of War" led by Prof. Neta Crawford of Boston University and Prof Catherine Lutz from Brown University with contributions from...
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Pissed Off People Planning to Protest - October2011.org Led Protest. Can It...
WHAT the hell can we do?Many, many people in this country are fed up and very worried about where we’re headed. There are many calls for an “Arab Spring/Tahrir Square” type movement or a Spanish...
View ArticleAll You Need Is Love
I feel good today. The sun is out and it's a beautiful day. It's not that way everywhere, but it can be. It could be.What can I say man, let me have a moment here, I have an antiwar diary ready but...
View ArticleScrew You and Your Wars, All of Ya.
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five,...
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Power to the Lemmings!
Let's see. The U.S. is the greatest country on earth (just go with it) with a financial system and military machine that is threatening to bring down the entire planet. Citizens in other countries...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Wants U.S. to Stay in Iraq
We’ve been hearing reports for some time that the U.S. government wants the Iraq government to negotiate a new or amend the current Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to allow U.S. troops to remain in...
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TTFN - Beware Thy Neighbor, Especially if He's a Lone Wolf
UPDATE: For my friends, I've changed this diary to a TTFN. That's just how life is sometimes.President Obama says a “Lone Wolf” terror attack similar to the recent one in Norway is what he is worried...
View ArticleThe "Global" War on Terror, PNAC, FPI, and World Military Supremacy
Mission accomplished in Libya? That depends on your definition of mission accomplished. When Bush and his cabal got rid of Saddam Hussein and established a military foothold in Iraq, that was...
View ArticleLibya and NATO Bombs
The NATO humanitarian project to free Libya from the grips of it's tyrannical dictator and spread democracy is well into it's seventh month. The mission started on March 19, 2011. It won't be long...
View ArticleEnding the Global War on Terror Should be on the List of Demands
The Global War on Terror (GWOT) was authorized by Congress on 9/14/01 and enacted on 9/18/01 with the Authorization to Use Military Force Against Terrorists, Public Law 107-40. That is over ten years...
View ArticleIs It Finally Iran's Turn?
Following on the heels of the fabricated Iranian plot to assassinate a Saudi Ambassador among other things on American soil, a movie plot so bad Rotten Tomatoes wouldn't even bother to review, our...
View ArticleThe Neocons Want Obama to Show Some Spine and Bomb Iran
The warmongering neocons are at it again, not that they've ever stopped. The foreign policy "thinktank" Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the direct successor to the dreaded PNAC, Project for a New...
View ArticleHundreds Protest Bush in Canada, Thousands Cheer Bush in Texas
Hundreds protested in Surrey, British Columbia last Thursday against fomer President George W. Bush as he arrived at his five star hotel. Bush was in Surrey with his traveling buddy, former President...
View ArticleLibya NTC wants NATO to Stay
Amid more news of possible war crime atrocities commited by the Libyan rebels, the interim leader of Libya, Mustafa Adbel Jalil, says Nato should remain in the country for the rest of the year."We look...
View ArticleIran War Drums Still Beating
We've heard it before. The Iran government is evil and part of the axis of evil. We're talking really evil, more evil than average citizens can imagine. According to what we're told, Iran has...
View ArticleBenefactor, Love Ya Man
I'd like to thank the academy, my advisors, my lawyers, my nutritionist, my chef, and my yoga instructor. And most of all, I'd like to thank the wonderful person, that anonymous benefactor who gave me...
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American Enterprise Institute - Bomb Iran or Else
The Neocons are at it again on Iran. Although most of us know the Neoconservatives are warmongering psychopaths intent on ruling the world, it's best to not disregard their power when it comes to U.S....
View ArticleMaybe They Need Another Pearl Harbor, or Gulf Of Tonkin
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor"Project for a New...
View Article4/20 and the Global War on Drugs
Stardate - four twenty. Smoke it if you got it. The origination of the term 420 varies depending on who you ask but one of the more plausible and documented explanations goes like this:"We’ve all...
View ArticleThe National Debt and Austerity
Austerity for the masses is still in the air, like napalm in the morning. We've seen it happen in Europe and elsewhere and have wondered when it's really going to hit here at home. It's not like most...
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