American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics
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If they don’t want Americans in their countries , why do they all want to come to America ?
The Espionage Act was specifically & blatantly enacted by the American government's right to cover up it's own dirty acts & war crimes. To promote & protect its ability to blatantly wage an assault on free speech, 1st amendment protection & the very heart of democracy itself. A free press & journalism is the foundation of democracy & the very first thing assaulted by Nazi Germany. This is why the American government is so rapid & vicious in its attack on whistle blowers...to keep under cover their own criminal acts...its creation of secret hit & kill lists. Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange, among many more are the latest prey of this terrible travesty of Democracy & the US Constitution! Our nation's enemies are not from outwards...but surely within. Muzzled journalism is the surest indicator of this! War crimes are the crime not the disclosure that they are occurring at the bloody hands of our own government. Wake up people the rape of justice & our democracy is happening before our very eyes & time...presently! - James Buik
What do you think you guys are in Afghanistan for, besides protecting the poppy crops and the pipeline that doesn't exist. Afghanistan ha some of the world's largest rare earth deposits. What do you think you guys are doing in Iraq? What do you think you guys were doing in Libya besides stealing Gadaffi's gold? Why do you think The Pentagon has a hard on for Venezuela and it's world's largest oil deposits? Why did the US take out the elected government of Peru and replace it with Pinche's brutal dictatorship or Iran's Shaw? Have you ever heard of "The Nation of Sheep" or "The Ugly American". Both books about US foreign policy.
What natural resources have we stolen, Cliffy?
You know why we didn't steal Iraq's oil? Because it's cheaper to buy it, you stupid hump. The profit is in refining and marketing it.
Yes, yes, I know you have hysterical fantasies about U.S. troops and mercenaries building and operating oil rigs in Iraq, completely untroubled by the locals and ISIS.
Because you're a stupid, hysterical old man.
Couldn't slip a poker card between you and Walter.
Unrational American hatred is a Canadian thing . When America doesn’t fit it is directed towards Alberta and/or Quebec .
Not at all . Only those who think they are superior to American sailors. C C is jealous his ship was under American command and protection .And it wasn’t his fault.
I honor all our women and men warriors who lost their lives in our endless wars. Sadly, this loss was not "to keep us free", it has been to keep our politicians and corporate tycoons in power. Let us end all wars and stop sacrificing the lives of our young men and women for corporate profits. - Two Eagles
We Need Memorial Day to Obscure the Unbearable Truth About War
If you’re anywhere near Washington, D.C., this Memorial Day, I strongly recommend a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. There may be nowhere where American history is more highly concentrated in all its kooky cruel splendor — and so there’s also no better place to ask questions about it.
For instance, the grounds and the mansion at the entrance of Arlington once belonged to Robert E. Lee’s wife. Did we just seize it all during the Civil War, like a normal country? Not exactly: Instead we created a transparent sham where she was required to show up in person to pay her $92.07 in property taxes for 1864, and when she didn’t it was sold off at a public auction, with the U.S. government as the only bidder.
What about John F. Kennedy’s grave: Is all of him in there? No, his brain was removed during his autopsy and his body was buried without it. (The brain then spent some time at the National Archives before vanishing in 1966.)
And are there any Wiccans buried at Arlington? Presumably there always have been. But in 2007 the military added a pentacle to its official list of religious symbols that can be engraved on headstones, so it now can be publicly recognized.
But of course if you spend time with the dead from the Civil War and the Boxer Rebellion and Iwo Jima and Apollo 1, you’ll also find yourself asking larger questions. Every time I’ve gone there, as I’ve looked out from Lee’s hilltop mansion at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers quietly feeding the freshly-mown grass, I’ve wondered why human beings just can’t stop fighting wars.
More: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/29/we-need-memorial-day-to-obscure-the-unbearable-truth-about-war
We Need Memorial Day to Obscure the Unbearable Truth About War
If you’re anywhere near Washington, D.C., this Memorial Day, I strongly recommend a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. There may be nowhere where American history is more highly concentrated in all its kooky cruel splendor — and so there’s also no better place to ask questions about it.
For instance, the grounds and the mansion at the entrance of Arlington once belonged to Robert E. Lee’s wife. Did we just seize it all during the Civil War, like a normal country? Not exactly: Instead we created a transparent sham where she was required to show up in person to pay her $92.07 in property taxes for 1864, and when she didn’t it was sold off at a public auction, with the U.S. government as the only bidder.
What about John F. Kennedy’s grave: Is all of him in there? No, his brain was removed during his autopsy and his body was buried without it. (The brain then spent some time at the National Archives before vanishing in 1966.)
And are there any Wiccans buried at Arlington? Presumably there always have been. But in 2007 the military added a pentacle to its official list of religious symbols that can be engraved on headstones, so it now can be publicly recognized.
But of course if you spend time with the dead from the Civil War and the Boxer Rebellion and Iwo Jima and Apollo 1, you’ll also find yourself asking larger questions. Every time I’ve gone there, as I’ve looked out from Lee’s hilltop mansion at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers quietly feeding the freshly-mown grass, I’ve wondered why human beings just can’t stop fighting wars.
More: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/29/we-need-memorial-day-to-obscure-the-unbearable-truth-about-war
If America is so rotten, what drives millions of people wanting in so desperately that they are willing to risk their lives dieing in the desert?
Where is the exodus?
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