"That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop you will learn – or be forced – to accept.”
To the Anti-War Movement in the United States:
Barack Obama is sending a surge of 20,000 troops to Afghanistan.
An antiwar movement that does not move immediately to oppose the Obama doctrine of shifting the central front of the war on terror to Afghanistan, no longer deserves to be called an anti-war movement.read more...
The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. This direction cannot and will not be reversed by leaders who tell us to seek common ground with fascists, religious fanatics, and empire. It can only be possible by the people building a community of resistance - an independent mass movement of people - acting in the interests of humanity to stop, and demand prosecution, of these crimes.
The U.S. military, in league with South Korea, is planning to use a new naval base to be built on the beautiful Jeju Island just south of the Korean peninsula. Jeju is known as the peace island. My friend, Kyle Kajahiro, with American Friends Service Committee in Honolulu, writes that “Jeju … has beautiful volcanic peaks and semi-tropical weather, pristine waters abundant with sea food and a deeply spiritual and independent people who resisted the Japanese occupation as well as repression by the military government of South Korea. The famous women pearl divers have historically been the leaders of their struggles and embodiments of their tough, fighting spirit.”
Now, according to the plan, all that will be either destroyed or seriously endangered by a missile defense system with Aegis destroyer warships docked there. Although this is advertised as Korean and “eco-friendly”, the common wisdom is that it will be mainly used as the basis for the U.S. to contain China. (More on this below.) The base port will accommodate 20 warships and two 15,000 ton cruise liners. It will bring in submarines and nuclear powered ships, further destroying what the U.N. has called an environmentally pristine location.
Despite President Obama’s West Point war speech and Oslo “peace” speech, the glaring truth is that the U.S. is engaged in Afghanistan for less than the honorable reasons he tried to sell us. In addition to the overarching push for increased U.S. hegemony in southern Asia, there is an underlying and demanding need for energy control throughout all of Eurasia.
This week, Barack Obama announced at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tonight that he is escalating the war in Afghanistan by ordering 30,000 more troops to that beleaguered country. He says this is a plan for getting the U.S. out of Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. David Benjamin was born in South Africa but for the past 17 years he has been in Israel serving as a military advisor to their military. As such he was in violation of South Africa's Foreign Military Assistance Act. Perhaps even worse, he was one of the main people who planned Israel attack on Gaza and approved the use of the deadly white phosphorus.
On January 22, in a Bloomberg news interview, Benjamin stated that "The Gaza campaign was a long time in the works, and we were intimately involved in the planning. Approval of targets which can be attacked, methods of warfare ... it has all gone through us."
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade (the 1973 Supreme Court ruling granting women a constitutional right to abortion and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion.”
From the 2008 Platform of the Democratic Party
President Barack Obama was highlighted during his campaign last year in a way that made him appear to be almost separate from the Democratic Party. Nevertheless, he supported the party’s Platform, including the words above on abortion.
Obama has repeatedly stated that he is pro-choice, but that he would like to seek common ground with evangelical and Catholic anti-choice/anti-abortion groups by working together to reduce the number of abortions. But the truth is that such a compromise is morally impossible. If you cling to the "faith based" deception that abortion is murder, as religious conservatives do, how can you compromise with those who understand that a fetus is not human until it’s born?
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