Showing posts with label vietnam. Show all posts
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Friday, June 17, 2022

'Benign' Cancer: US as Global Policeman

The Warmonger's Legacy
Posted by CGTN: May 27, 2022

 

"When people show you who they are, believe them."
—Maya Angelou

In this CGTN documentary, the brutally cynical, cruel and chaotic legacy of the North American (USA) empire's crimes against humanity are laid out in the words of its prominent NATO/West; military, political, academic, NGO, and other insider figures.

Also presented are select heart-wrenching testimonials from the point-of-view of some of their innocent civilian or framed (planted false evidence and witnesses) victims* from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya to Yemen.

The warmongering pursuit of absolute power and control over the global economy and geopolitics is unrelenting.

* Surely, it is fair to count those leaders targeted for regime change as well, including Castro, Perón, Allende, Aristide, Hugo, Hussein, Gaddafi, Gbagbo, Assad... right up to Pakistan's Imran Khan among the victims of the globalist plutocrats?

And why not include the regime changes within the axis of evil; like Lincoln, Kennedy; and didn't Smedley Butler prevent the corporate coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Who else was targeted — Donald "Russian Asset" Trump? Did Trump pose a hinderance to the Ukraine proxy war agenda? If one wants to find it; there is good evidence of this.

 

Russia and China issued a joint statement in February (here).

The statement is the antithesis of United States hegemony, which wages endless wars, regime change operations, drone warfare, assassinations, weapons proliferation, funds bioweapons labs, and intervenes all over the world on behalf of banksters, corporatocracies, billionaire oligarchs, while never facing accountability for its crimes against humanity.

Not even the heavens are immune from the warmongers base motivations and nefarious operations: for they intend to level up their "policing" game to a "Star Wars" militarized operation.

Promisingly, The Sides are against the "Star Wars" agenda.

The Ministry of Truth (Kamala "Miss Information" Harris)

The Hill hilariously (!) imagines the "inevitably" unstable world if “empires of evil” China and Russia "prevails:"

"...what would India and Pakistan do, or Iran & Israel, in the aftermath of a shattered world order,bereft of the benign US as global policeman?"

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Born in the USA: Razed on Rage

Kim Phúc, Trảng Bàng, Massacre, War crimes, Vietnam
Nick Ut/AP

The other other elephant in the room that never gets addressed when discussing the prevalence of mass shootings in 'murica: the cowboy culture of violence; where the "exceptionalism" of the USA makes it A-ok to have different rules (no accountability) for their criminals and illegal actions in the world. Especially, in the proliferation of armed violence, weapons sales, preemptive wars, and mass genocide. Evidently, that topic is to be ignored, and by default is taboo.

Dr Mercola writes:

QUOTE:  

Antidepressants 

Thoughts, emotions and a variety of environmental factors play into the manifestation of violence, but mental illness by itself cannot account for the massive rise in mass murder — unless you include antidepressants in the equation. Yet even when mental health does enter the mass shooter discussion, the issue of antidepressants, specifically, is rarely mentioned. 

The fact is, depression per se rarely results in violence. Only after antidepressants became commonplace did mass shootings take off, and many mass shooters have been shown to be on antidepressants."
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Colin Powell Is No Hero

Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Sunday. All but a few are impressed by this "Powellful" endorsement. Some even see the endorsement has a "redemption" for Powell; in light of WMD lies at the UN in the prelude to the Iraq "war".

Revulsion and bitterness comes close to expressing my feelings. I haven't felt this type of emotion since I heard about how a South African who spoke at the "truth and reconciliation" sessions that were stage after the "end" of apartheid confessed that he held a "barbecue" with friends while a live Black African man was roasted on a spit as they chatted and carried on around the poor soul in careless disregard.

Until a truth and reconciliation session is held in regards to the crimes of the Bush administration, there are some who are not ready to give Powell "redemption."

In Haiti, Powell was the "Head Negro in Charge" of dismantling Haiti's democracy and installing the Bush administration's goon, Gerard Latortue.
Bush and his confederates lied in the faces of massed Black congressional representatives in the days leading up to Aristide’s departure (see “US House Members to Bush, Powell: Don’t Usurp Aristide’s Power,” February 26), with assurances from the President that, "We still hope to be able to achieve a political settlement between the current government and the rebels." We now know that the Bush men and France were even then seeking "perfect coordination" in removing Aristide. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice sat like bookmarks at Bush’s side as he lied to nineteen Black members of Congress.

Are these two conspirators fit to speak at any Black gathering, ever again in life? Who in the Black community will debase their organizations with the presence of such “role models?” An invitation to Powell or Rice should be viewed as proof of a moral deficit on the part of the inviter.
Fool me once... well it turns out that this is a pattern with Powell. He has the stain of Iraqi blood on his hands, no doubt; but there was a precedent for his immorality and blind ambition in his actions in Vietnam that foretold his lack of character.
...As the round-up continued, some Americans raped the girls. Then, under orders from junior officers on the ground, soldiers began emptying their M-16s into the terrified peasants. Some parents used their bodies futilely to shield their children from the bullets. Soldiers stepped among the corpses to finish off the wounded.

...Several months later, the American's brutality would become a moral test for Major Powell, too.

A letter had been written by a young specialist fourth class named Tom Glen, who had served in an American mortar platoon and was nearing the end of his Army tour. In the letter to Gen. Creighton Abrams, the commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, Glen accused the American division of routine brutality against civilians.

Glen's letter was forwarded to the American headquarters at Chu Lai where it landed on Major Powell's desk.

...After that cursory investigation, Powell drafted a response on Dec. 13, 1968. He admitted to no pattern of wrongdoing. Powell claimed that U.S. soldiers in Vietnam were taught to treat Vietnamese courteously and respectfully. The American troops also had gone through an hour-long course on how to treat prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions, Powell noted.

"There may be isolated cases of mistreatment of civilians and POWs," Powell wrote in 1968. But "this by no means reflects the general attitude throughout the Division." Indeed, Powell's memo faulted Glen for not complaining earlier and for failing to be more specific in his letter.

"In direct refutation of this [Glen's] portrayal," Powell concluded, "is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent."

Powell's findings, of course, were false, though they were exactly what his superiors wanted to hear.
This is the man that people respect and consider to be an American hero?

There are many Americans who tell the truth. They are the heroes. Cindy Sheehan, who's son Casey died in Iraq is one. Cindy is campaigning for Nancy Pelosi's seat in California.

The real military heroes are the men who have resigned in protest over the sham military courts that have been convened to find the Guantanamo detainees "guilty."

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Winter Pastor: Americans at War

The main stream media (MSM) aired America's dirty laundry non-stop yesterday. The focus was on Barack Obama's former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.

The story of the soldiers gathered to give testimony about the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions was ignored by the MSM. The event is called Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan. Hundreds of soldiers are gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland from March 13-16 in the time honored tradition of war protest as exemplified by the 1971 Vietnam hearings.

It was a very cathartic day for some and uncomfortable day for others.

Here is a preview of the Winter Soldier event from YouTube (Listen live here):




Here is a video of one of Barack Obama's appearances on the MSM:



The cynics say, "the soldiers, the pastor and the presidential candidate must hate America." The optimists say, "they must love it that much more because they care enough to speak the truth and isn't that the sign of a real patriot?" The pragmatists say "I wonder how this will affect the primaries in Pennsylvania?"