“Many have been regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens—and in some cases hundreds—of appearances.”
“They care only about staying in office indefinitely if not forever”
One reason the U.S. is continuously at war is that its leaders “are never held to any criminal responsibility for their actions,” a law school dean writes
“The transformation of media has not only undermined the imperial institutions of the mainstream media; it has undermined the imperial Presidency.”
The “largest lie,” wrote Zinn, is that “everything the United States does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’”
Howard Zinn believes he is headed toward a “mediocre” presidency. And he adds that “mediocre” means “dangerous.”
“There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world,” he said.
Even though Barack Obama, the candidate, pledged to end “the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries,†his FBI has been rendering kidnap victims to the U.S. The practice is still kidnapping, however; and it’s still illegal.
“The truth is that the state is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.â€
“When those who do evil get away with it because nobody wants to think about what was done, and people instead want to focus on ‘moving forward,’ the door is open, both ideologically and practically, for recurrence of the same evil in the future,†Velvel warns.
Nations opposed to the aggression could be urged to shut down their ports and airports to people from the aggressor state. Its citizens could organize sympathy rallies and marches.
In addition to new weapons and war fighters, the Pentagon’s budget “now underwrites a cluster of special funds from which it can train and equip foreign armies—often in the service of repressive regimes—as well as engage in aid development projects in pursuit of its own tactical ends.â€
It gives a shoot-to-kill pass to privateers such as Blackwater, whose operatives on one occasion are said to have gunned down 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians.
“If we cannot recognize the dangers of police power united with technology’s intrusive capabilities, or do not care that they have mated, it must be that we expect of law some wisdom that will separate the liberties of the good person from those of the bad,†Starkey writes
Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign mercenaries, even when their own tax dollars are being squandered to fund it.
By Sherwood Ross~Puppetgov
It has become commonplace for Congress to ignore the public’s yearnings for peace and to support the Pentagon’s now habitual wars of aggression. Last November’s anti-war vote illustrates this disconnect between public opinion and public policy. War-weary Americans went to the polls believing they were voting for peace but President Obama has instead [...]
By Sherwood Ross~Puppetgov
CIA Director Leon Panetta says he is not going to penalize agents who tortured prisoners if they “were doing their duty,†explaining, “If you have a President who exercises bad judgment, the C.I.A. pays the price.â€
In an interview published in the June 22nd issue of The New Yorker magazine, Panetta acknowledged [...]
