Vets Ask “Mourn For Those Killed By Americans in Battle in US Wars of Aggression!”

by jay janson

For the Memorial Day 2012 celebrations the Veterans For Peace web site features a posting by VFP President Leah Bolger titled Memorial Day: Pick Your Perversion.The final paragraph is highlighted in bold print:

“On this Memorial Day, Veterans For Peace asks you to mourn not only for Americans killed in battle, but also for those killed by Americans in battle. We ask you to be willing to accept the fact that these war deaths did not have to happen—that they are actually in vain. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died in American wars of aggression. That is a tragedy and is a truth that must be accepted and for which we must take responsibility.”

“For which we must take responsibility” sounds like Martin Luther King Jr.’ outcry in his world shaking 1967 sermon “Beyond Vietnam – a Time to Break Silence. King demanded that we take responsibility for and bring to an end

US/NATO to Stop Killing Taliban in 2014 US Stopped Killing Vietcong in 1975

Chicago, May 2012 – NATO’s top military leaders, representing the now centuries old world rule by private investment banking, make a pathetic and pompous photo-op show of a supposedly tactical decision, to give up murdering Afghani citizens in their own country’s homes, villages, cities and countryside after 2014.

A smiling Quisling Afghan president Karzai, installed with phony elections under murderous occupation of his country by the high-tech military of almost the entire industrialized (white) world is prominently seated along side NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Supreme Allied Commander Europe.[ New York Times]

One can’t forget that CNN video of the NATO Secretary General explaining to us so clinically and chillingly reminiscent of SS officers portrayed in World War Two movies, that the tens of thousands of NATO bombing sorties in Libya caused little or no civilian casualties.

Vets hurl their medals at the NATO ­ imperialist – leaders in Chicago

by Alan Gilbert of Democratic Individuality

The occupy and anti-war movements swept together in Chicago to battle NATO. NATO is an agency of war in Afghanistan, and which takes some of the financial heat off American militarism. The news covers the President’s view, Obama trying to get others to do “their share,” Merkel to back off austerity a little, not drive Greece into the ground, out of the Euro (and as it fails to add, producing bank runs, further economic collapse and shock waves that would engulf America and the world). The media try again to talk down Occupy, even Andrew Sullivan and his blog (Andrew is quite reactionary about movements from below).

But the march Sunday was of some fifteen thousand. While there was a brief clash with police – Chicago under Rahm Emmanuel is an armed camp, a police state on behalf of the 1/10 of 1% – the most significant anti-war action was carried out by some 40 soldiers from Iraq Veterans against the War. They marched as a unit, then spoke briefly, each dedicating throwing away the war medals with which she or he had been decorated, to, for example, the Afghanis occupied and routinely slaughtered by the US/NATO – 2 women from Afghanis for Peace were there – murdered and displaced Iraqis, women sexually abused in the army, and Americans misled about what each war the US engages in is about. Take a few minutes to listen to their wordshere.

WWII Film on Psychological Wounds of War Restored & Released

A brief note from our director Kevin Zeese:

A John Huston documentary about soldiers coming home from WWII that was suppressed by the army for 65 years has been restored and released by national archives:

http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.35924.b

 

Obama’s Plan for Afghanistan NOT “Good Enough” #AfghanistanTuesday

Stolen directly from activist Joe Scarry’s Scarry Thoughts blog.

Part of the campaign among U.S. elites to soft-peddle the failure of U.S. warmaking in Afghanistan in general and the latest Obama/NATO “solution” for Afghanistan in particular — which I’ve been discussing for weeks – is a paper from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) calledTime to Focus on “Afghan Good Enough”.

The whole “Afghan good enough” concept was discussed in the New York Times on Friday, May 18: U.S. Redefines Afghan Success Before Conference. The basic idea seems to be, “We’ve failed miserably at forcing Afghanistan do what we want it to do. It can’t possibly be that we and our methods are flawed. It must be because Afghanistan is a fundamentally f*cked up place, and so let’s not get down on ourselves as we walk out on the mess we’ve made.”

Again US Armed Forces Day Pride in the Mass-Murder of Millions

by jay janson

 

“Presidential Proclamation — Armed Forces Day, 2012 

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
A PROCLAMATION 

With every assignment and in every theater, America’s men and women in uniform perform their duties with the utmost dignity, honor, and professionalism. Through their dauntless courage and dedication, they live up to our Nation’s highest ideals in even the most perilous circumstances. On Armed Forces Day, we pay tribute to the unparalleled service of our Armed Forces and recall the extraordinary feats they accomplish in defense of our Nation.”

At least a billion people in the so called undeveloped or developing world sustaining overwhelming US military attack since 1945 as they  attempted to liberate themselves from colonial and neo-colonial exploitation and being plundered same as before World War Two by the empires of the Europe and the US, will be reading or listening to President Obama’s heartless words with their own thoughts reverberating in between his phrases.

Kevin Zeese Talks #StopNATO on RT

Come Home America director Kevin Zeese on the upcoming NATO summit.