Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Cheney in Iraq
The Washington Post reveals: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60497-2004Sep3.html
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
US and Somlia use children in "War on Terror"
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Why is President Obama so Deceitful; about US Chemical Weaponry Use?
Dear friends,
Last night, in his chronology of the use of chemical weapons by certain nations Pres. Obama conveniently skipped over the Vietnam War and our government's use of chemical warfare against the Vietnamese people from 1965 to 1970.
Of course, there would have been no reason to bother addressing the nation, if people were reminded of that horror. So why all of the dishonesty? He sure can't blame the Republicans for his being so deceitful.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://theweek.com/article/index/232816/agent-oranges-shameful-legacy
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Drones, Wars, and Money
"I guess having a personal God allows people to disregard their personal Good."
Dear friends, Just a few days ago, Pres. Obama ordered his umpteenth drone strike and murdered a bunch of people, many of them children, because the corporations who put him in office need to keep this country at constant war...even worse, many citizens - politicians and every day people alike, thinking of no one but themselves, go along with this carnage as long as they are able to keep their “jobs”. I guess having a personal God allows people to disregard their personal Good.
On the link below, is a 28 minutes long video about the history / evolution of the drone program.
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends, Just a few days ago, Pres. Obama ordered his umpteenth drone strike and murdered a bunch of people, many of them children, because the corporations who put him in office need to keep this country at constant war...even worse, many citizens - politicians and every day people alike, thinking of no one but themselves, go along with this carnage as long as they are able to keep their “jobs”. I guess having a personal God allows people to disregard their personal Good.
On the link below, is a 28 minutes long video about the history / evolution of the drone program.
G. Djata Bumpus
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Friday, August 12, 2011
August 13 Millions March in Harlem Stop the criminal bombing of Libya!
August 13 Millions March in HarlemStop the criminal bombing of Libya! U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq!
Jobs, Not War contingent Assemble at ANSWER Office Saturday, August 13, 10am2295 Adam Clayton Powell (near 135th St)March to Rally at 110th and Lenox Ave.In the name of "protecting civilians," NATO forces are carrying out a merciless air assault on the people of Libya. Just yesterday, 85 civilians were reportedly massacred in Zliten in a late-night bombing campaign. People of conscience around the world are coming to understand that the war is not a "humanitarian intervention," but a bid to control the country with the largest oil reserves on the African continent. This Saturday a very important march will be taking place in Harlem calling for an end to the wars and interventions against Africa.Click this link to sign up to participate in the "Jobs, Not War" contingent, and volunteer to do outreach in the days leading up to August 13.If you are unable to attend the march and rally this Saturday, please take a minute right now to make a much-needed donation to help subsidize transportation for a student or low-income passenger to get to the Harlem march. We need your support! Get on the buses from New Haven, Conn. Click for more information on the buses and to purchase your $25 round-trip ticket.We are facing the most serious economic crisis this country has seen in decades. Millions are out of work. Education and social services are being slashed. The government tells us there is no money.
Yet when it comes to funding the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, there is never a question of coming up with money. And now the Pentagon is launching a new war on the African continent with the bombing of Libya.
It’s time to fight back!
Download and distribute the flyerEnglish (1-sided) English-Spanish (2-sided)
The "Millions March in Harlem" event has been initiated by the December 12th Movement, and endorsed by a wide range of organizations, around the key demands:
Stop the bombing of Libya
End the sanctions on Zimbabwe
Stop Bloomberg’s destruction of our communities
For more information on the march, visit http://www.millionsmarchharlem.com or call (347) 737-3272
Jobs, Not War contingent
The ANSWER Coalition is actively mobilizing for Aug. 13 in Harlem, and will be joining with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and others for a “Jobs Not War” contingent.
Click this link to sign up to participate in the "Jobs, Not War" contingent, and volunteer to do outreach in the days leading up to August 13. Every little bit helps -- we need your support!
We are also organizing a bus to the march from New Haven, Conn. Click this link for more information on the bus and to purchase your $25 round-trip ticket.
If you are unable to attend the march and rally this Saturday, please take a minute right now to make a much-needed donation to help subsidize a student or low-income passenger to get on the bus to Harlem. We need your support!
All out for August 13th! U.S. Out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya!
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Military pay already cut in half - some Memorial Day
Dear friends,
While Michelle Obama and Biden's wife do commercials about supporting the troops and travel the country with that same message, their husbands and Congress have already cut military pay in half.
That means that Navy Seals 6 went on a murder mission for reduced compensation. They may have been paid more doing what FBI agents did in the Sixties, working for the Mob. Meanwhile, the troops in both Afghanitan and Iraq, as well as the other two million people in our armer services, are operating on less than a check-to-check basis.
On the link below, is a brief YouTube post that is sad.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy1PbDcAa-Q&NR=1
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Isreali and Egyptian armies love US taxpayer dollars
Corruption, endemic in Israel's political culture, has rapidly seeped into the military." - Jonathan Cook
Dear friends,
The enterprise called Israel that resides under the banner of political Zionism, in part, admits to its suspicious legitimacy due to its “peace” contract with Egyptian rulers. Consequently, the here-to-mentioned corrupt enterprise has great stakes in the outcome of the current revolt by Egyptian citizens.
Moreover, for all of the brave words of “freedom and democracy” that, particularly, North American politicians love to bandy about, it is, perhaps, instructive for us to ask: What role will the threat capability (i.e., the military) of Western governments play, along with their allies in Northern Africa and the Middle East, if there is any hope for democratic institutions to flourish in Egypt? That is an especially important question since the very essence of democracy is “non-violent conflict resolution”. Simply having a one person/one vote forum has nothing to do with democracy. Let’s face it. You can have the right to vote in a tyranny, and often do these days. After all, Iraqis had the right to vote under Saddam Hussein. Did they not?
Nevertheless, on the link below, the renowned journalist Jonathan Cook, at least to me, provides a clearer picture than traditional Western journalists do, regarding that whole mess. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Israeli-army-will-cash-in-on-Egyptian-revolution.html
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Dear friends,
The enterprise called Israel that resides under the banner of political Zionism, in part, admits to its suspicious legitimacy due to its “peace” contract with Egyptian rulers. Consequently, the here-to-mentioned corrupt enterprise has great stakes in the outcome of the current revolt by Egyptian citizens.
Moreover, for all of the brave words of “freedom and democracy” that, particularly, North American politicians love to bandy about, it is, perhaps, instructive for us to ask: What role will the threat capability (i.e., the military) of Western governments play, along with their allies in Northern Africa and the Middle East, if there is any hope for democratic institutions to flourish in Egypt? That is an especially important question since the very essence of democracy is “non-violent conflict resolution”. Simply having a one person/one vote forum has nothing to do with democracy. Let’s face it. You can have the right to vote in a tyranny, and often do these days. After all, Iraqis had the right to vote under Saddam Hussein. Did they not?
Nevertheless, on the link below, the renowned journalist Jonathan Cook, at least to me, provides a clearer picture than traditional Western journalists do, regarding that whole mess. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Israeli-army-will-cash-in-on-Egyptian-revolution.html
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
17 minutes-long Wikileaks video of US Army massacre of unarmed Iraqis (originally posted 12/1/10)
"Recently, I posted some comments, regarding Wikileaks that were based upon what I’d been both hearing and reading from the mainstream media..."
Dear friends,
Recently, I posted some comments, regarding Wikileaks that were based upon what I’d been both hearing and reading from the mainstream media. However, having been introduced to the video on the link below, I now must give some props to the Wikileaks people.
Moreover, after perusing the aforementioned video, I cannot understand, for the life of me, how any decent, much less sane, Iraqi does not hate the United States with great passion. After all, they (Iraqis) are actually experiencing what has been going on there – and in Afghanistan. It’s not just a video recollection to them. Eh?
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
Recently, I posted some comments, regarding Wikileaks that were based upon what I’d been both hearing and reading from the mainstream media. However, having been introduced to the video on the link below, I now must give some props to the Wikileaks people.
Moreover, after perusing the aforementioned video, I cannot understand, for the life of me, how any decent, much less sane, Iraqi does not hate the United States with great passion. After all, they (Iraqis) are actually experiencing what has been going on there – and in Afghanistan. It’s not just a video recollection to them. Eh?
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
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Monday, December 13, 2010
How Wikileaks does it - 30 minutes-long video
Please click on the link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCmjmDXp7TI
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
About the Presidential Address - August 31, 2010
"Last night's speech by President Obama covered all of the areas regarding the way that the war is being "managed". Yet, we were never told who now controls Iraq..."
Dear friends,
Last night's speech by President Obama covered all of the areas regarding the way that the war is being "managed". Yet, we were never told who now controls Iraq. It's certainly not the politicians there, whether interim or otherwise.
Additionally, the suggestion that politicians will run the show once the interim governemnt in Iraq is dissolved, as if elections are like foot races where the fastest person on that particular day will win, ignores, particularly, national elections where, for example, in the US, the whole outcome of any specific national political contest is determined by a stacked deck.
Additionally, other than the military/industrial complex which includes major banks, "contractors"" like Halliburton, as well as the more traditional corporations like Boeing, General Dynamics, IBM, and many more, who really benefited from the invasion of Iraq? Moreover, when wars are initiated by technologically-advanced national governments like ours, what interests do our politicians have in seeking relations with other governments that are based upon mutual respect, much less peace?
Of course all of this is occuring at the expense of life and limb for American soldiers and the many ways of suffering that their families experience. Therefore, it seems, at least to me, that once Americans learn to create genuine communities with horizontally-structured, as opposed to, as they have been throughout human history, vertically-structured cultural institutions (which automatically includes its social, political, and economic components), we will then be able to decide whether or not we should send our young to war, instead of letting federal politicians who are sponsored by the exact same aforementioned corporations that benefit from war decide for us - a practice (i.e., corporate greed) that has now been officially endorsed by the US Supreme Court.
At any rate, on the next post, you will read about "tid-bits" of what's happening in Afghanistan, as more American soldiers are being set up to be killed or maimed in order to assure profits for the national politicians' bosses. Following that is a post that features my longtime friend and colleague Cornel West - a video interview, and another dear friend of mine, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer - print, as they provide two completely different, but relevant, views that many African Americans hold about El Presidente's performnce thus far. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
Last night's speech by President Obama covered all of the areas regarding the way that the war is being "managed". Yet, we were never told who now controls Iraq. It's certainly not the politicians there, whether interim or otherwise.
Additionally, the suggestion that politicians will run the show once the interim governemnt in Iraq is dissolved, as if elections are like foot races where the fastest person on that particular day will win, ignores, particularly, national elections where, for example, in the US, the whole outcome of any specific national political contest is determined by a stacked deck.
Additionally, other than the military/industrial complex which includes major banks, "contractors"" like Halliburton, as well as the more traditional corporations like Boeing, General Dynamics, IBM, and many more, who really benefited from the invasion of Iraq? Moreover, when wars are initiated by technologically-advanced national governments like ours, what interests do our politicians have in seeking relations with other governments that are based upon mutual respect, much less peace?
Of course all of this is occuring at the expense of life and limb for American soldiers and the many ways of suffering that their families experience. Therefore, it seems, at least to me, that once Americans learn to create genuine communities with horizontally-structured, as opposed to, as they have been throughout human history, vertically-structured cultural institutions (which automatically includes its social, political, and economic components), we will then be able to decide whether or not we should send our young to war, instead of letting federal politicians who are sponsored by the exact same aforementioned corporations that benefit from war decide for us - a practice (i.e., corporate greed) that has now been officially endorsed by the US Supreme Court.
At any rate, on the next post, you will read about "tid-bits" of what's happening in Afghanistan, as more American soldiers are being set up to be killed or maimed in order to assure profits for the national politicians' bosses. Following that is a post that features my longtime friend and colleague Cornel West - a video interview, and another dear friend of mine, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer - print, as they provide two completely different, but relevant, views that many African Americans hold about El Presidente's performnce thus far. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
More US troops in Afghanistan?
The name gives it all away: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. There can be no genuine “democracy” in a nation that is governed by religion, since religion, as a vertically-structured cultural institution, is based on privilege and intolerance. Hence, the notion of inclusion in decision-making is shunned, if not suppressed.
Dear friends,
The name gives it all away: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. There can be no genuine “democracy” in a nation that is governed by religion, since religion, as a vertically-structured cultural institution, is based on privilege and intolerance. Hence, the notion of inclusion in decision-making is shunned, if not suppressed.
So, about what is the real point being made, as well as the insistence upon the supporting of “democracy” – whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan, by the military/industrial complex of the United States government? At least to me, it is: those who possess the greatest amount of military puissance (might) dictate the rules. Please remember that the United States of America has only been a “world” power for six decades; that is, since it dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Besides, the essence of “democracy” is non-violent conflict resolution.
Nevertheless, on the link below is a concise, yet informative piece, by the always impressive Stephanie Kraft of the Valley Advocate that reveals continuing growth of the far-reaching tentacles belonging to the aforementioned United States’ military/industrial complex. Meanwhile, after the people of Afghanistan have been explopited, for centuries, by alien marauders, earlier this year (2009), the Embassy of Afghanistan, in Washington, DC boasted, "More than 70 American companies have registered in Afghanistan since 2003, representing $75 million in potential investment, and more than 15 foreign and domestic banks have opened their doors in Afghanistan...Ford, 3M, and Boeing are examining business opportunities in Afghanistan, and Coca-Cola has opened a $25 million bottling plant in Kabul."
And the beat goes on...
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10881
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Dear friends,
The name gives it all away: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. There can be no genuine “democracy” in a nation that is governed by religion, since religion, as a vertically-structured cultural institution, is based on privilege and intolerance. Hence, the notion of inclusion in decision-making is shunned, if not suppressed.
So, about what is the real point being made, as well as the insistence upon the supporting of “democracy” – whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan, by the military/industrial complex of the United States government? At least to me, it is: those who possess the greatest amount of military puissance (might) dictate the rules. Please remember that the United States of America has only been a “world” power for six decades; that is, since it dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Besides, the essence of “democracy” is non-violent conflict resolution.
Nevertheless, on the link below is a concise, yet informative piece, by the always impressive Stephanie Kraft of the Valley Advocate that reveals continuing growth of the far-reaching tentacles belonging to the aforementioned United States’ military/industrial complex. Meanwhile, after the people of Afghanistan have been explopited, for centuries, by alien marauders, earlier this year (2009), the Embassy of Afghanistan, in Washington, DC boasted, "More than 70 American companies have registered in Afghanistan since 2003, representing $75 million in potential investment, and more than 15 foreign and domestic banks have opened their doors in Afghanistan...Ford, 3M, and Boeing are examining business opportunities in Afghanistan, and Coca-Cola has opened a $25 million bottling plant in Kabul."
And the beat goes on...
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10881
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Has the US Government, along with Multinational Corporations from the US, pulled a Hit and Run Money Grab on both US and Iraqi Citizens?
"...all of the money made by various banks and corporations like Dick Cheney's Halliburton, along with several other multinational companies, as they looted the coffers of our country with the excuse of 're-building Iraq'."
Dear friends,
After lying by claiming that there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, so they could have an excuse to invade a sovereign nation, the US government and its allies in the business community, unable to hoodwink most of the American public any longer, face a real dilemma. It is: all of the money made by various banks and corporations like Dick Cheney's Halliburton, along with several other multinational companies, looted the coffers of our country with the excuse of "re-building Iraq". Now, according to the article, on the link below, from the New York Times, apparently, the crooks here-to-mentioned are leaving behind hospitals, schools, and other facilities to a people who do not possess the wherewithal to use this conglomeration of new Iraqi institutions. Will the US Government now have to get American as well as workers from other countries to fill the void? Go figure.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/world/middleeast/21reconstruct.html?_r=2&hp
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Dear friends,
After lying by claiming that there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, so they could have an excuse to invade a sovereign nation, the US government and its allies in the business community, unable to hoodwink most of the American public any longer, face a real dilemma. It is: all of the money made by various banks and corporations like Dick Cheney's Halliburton, along with several other multinational companies, looted the coffers of our country with the excuse of "re-building Iraq". Now, according to the article, on the link below, from the New York Times, apparently, the crooks here-to-mentioned are leaving behind hospitals, schools, and other facilities to a people who do not possess the wherewithal to use this conglomeration of new Iraqi institutions. Will the US Government now have to get American as well as workers from other countries to fill the void? Go figure.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/world/middleeast/21reconstruct.html?_r=2&hp
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Response to "El Presidente and Afghanistan" piece from a friend
"Obama should disengage from Afghanistan. Why are we there? Where is Osama?..."
Greg Wright
Dear friends,
It's a little self-serving :-), but below you'll find an e-mail that was sent to me by a buddy, regarding the post called "El presidente and Afghanistan".
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Djata,
That was a very thoughtful blog post sir. I liked that very much. Bush got us into so much of a mess there -- he should have concentrated on Afghanistan-Pakistani border where Osama likely was but noooo he had to add Iraq to the mix.
I was a reporter and covered several funerals at Arlington. Every funeral you cover affects you deeply, especially when the soldier is fresh out of high school. A lot are just babies. Obama should disengage from Afghanistan. Why are we there? Where is Osama? Bush could have sent in smaller tactical forces to hunt him down. Instead he waged a war. Isn't that like using a jackhammer to do surgery instead of a scalpel.
Greg Wright
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Elmer Smith Reminds Us of War's Consequence
"At some point, we're going to have to assess this war in human terms, whether they are our children or not. "
ear friends,
On the link below, one of the nation's premier journalists, Elmer Smith of the Philadelphia Daily News, reminds us about the consequences of war.
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
ilynews/local/20090904_Elmer_Smith__Funeral_for_a_soldier_from_a_faraway_war.html
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