Nu er det Libyens tur - de har mere olie end Bahrain, hvor sikkerhedsstyrkerne flytter sårede fra de almindelige hospitaler til et militærhospital og forhindrer læger og andet sundhedspersonale i at arbejde. Og Danmark er med i hykleriet. Jeg kan ikke undgå at tænke på Bent Pihl, der som AOFsekretær og DSUkredsformand fortalte mig - lille lokalformand i DSU i Sorø (5 medlemmer), at det ikke hed "Aldrig mere Krig" men "Aldrig mere en 9. april". Hykleriet og de skjulte dagsordener er det samme.
230311, Richard W. Vague Campaign For Liberty — Conservatives Got Us Out of Vietnam and Korea. Our conservative politicians are letting us down. At a time when we desperately need to cut the deficit, they are standing by while the Obama administration spends $119 billion per year in Afghanistan, which is a country with a GDP of only $16 billion per year. And yet the conservative public -- once they are given the cost numbers -- are coming to the correct conclusions. A poll we recently conducted showed that 71% of conservatives, and 67% of Tea Party conservatives, once they were shown the numbers above, responded they were worried that we were spending too much in Afghanistan. ... Conservatives fought tooth-and-nail against the healthcare program. which costs far less than our occupation of Afghanistan. .... In 2000, the U.S. military budget was $294 billion. For 2011, it is $710 billion. And that's before any unforeseen emergency upplements. And much of this is for a war where even a cursory review reveals that al-Qaeda is largely gone from Afghanistan — and where the underlying conflict is a civil war in which negotiation among all the relevant parties will get us further, faster, and at a much lower cost. .. we are now spending $330 billion per year more than the inflation-adjusted military spending rate of 2000. ... Instead Obama - acquiescing to the generals - has dramatically escalated troop levels in Afghanistan to a point where it can now rightly be called an occupation, Obama's Occupation. ... I only want to speak of this war with the proper respect and gravity, but the cost and benefit is egregiously out of balance, and the solution being pursued won't work. If President Obama and Gen. David Petraeus can't successfully handle a largely political problem in a country with a GNP of $16 billion for far less than $119 billion a year, let's find someone who can.
280211, Chris Hedges, No Other Way Out: I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling end over end hrough their small, delicate frames, appear to me almost daily like faint and sadly familiar ghost. .... Children die ... They are executed by the Taliban after being accused, sometimes correctly, of spying for the Afghan National Army. ... We will not stop the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we will not end this slaughter of innocents, unless we are willing to rise up as have state workers in Wisconsin and Citizens on the streets of Arab capitals. Repeated and sustained acts of civil disobedience are the only weapons that remain to us. Our political system is as broken and dysfunctional as that once presided over in Egypt by Hosni Mubarak. ... On March 19, the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I will join a coalition of U.S. military veterans from Iraq Veterans Against the War, March Forward!, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace who will gather in Lafayette Park across from the White House. The veteran-led action will result in numerous arrests, as did a Dec. 16 protest organized by Veterans or Peace. It will seek, because it is all we have left, to use our bodies to challenge the crimes of the state. ... Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who while flying saw the killings of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in what later became known as the My Lai massacre, landed in the village during the slaughter. He spotted a group of about 10 civilians, including children, running toward a homemade bomb shelter. Soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, C Company, were chasing the civilians. T"hompson, dismounting from the cockpit, put himself between the civilians and the soldiers. He ordered his gunner to open fire on the Americans if they began to shoot the villagers or him. Later, Thompson, who crusaded for justice after then-Maj. Colin Powell led the official whitewash of My Lai, received death threats. Mutilated animals were tossed on his doorstep. He was unsung for decades and forgotten until shortly before his death in 2006. He exhibited real courage, moral courage, the kind of courage the state detests, the kind of ourage for which they do not mint medals. Bradley Manning, who allegedly downloaded thousands of documents and videos that confirmed war crimes by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and passed them on to WikiLeaks, is being held in a military brig in Quantico, Va. He has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and denied exercise, a pillow or sheets for the last nine months. His prolonged isolation is designed to break him physically and psychologically. There will be a protest outside Quantico on March 20 in support of Manning, another soldier from another war whom Thompson would have understood. ... The documents lifted the veil on our undeclared, black war in Pakistan, including drone strikes that have killed more than 900 civilians in Pakistan since Barack Obama took office. .... The Obama administration, which has proved as efficient in serving the war machine and the corporate state as the Bush administration did, is attempting to destroy not only Manning but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The state seeks to silence anyone who practices moral courage. It does not want the truth heard.
Den nye START was signed in April by US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Men den skal godkendes i USAs Senat !!! 011210, PressTV - Putin warns US over arms treaty ... Russia has threatened to continue building up its nuclear arsenal if the United States fails to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told CNN's Larry King, "We've been simply saying that this is what all of us expect to happen if we don't agree on a joint effort there.' .... The treaty would restrict each country to a maximum of 1,550 deployed warheads over the next seven years, which is an approximately 30 percent cut from the 2002 limit The two countries would also have to comply with new rules for verification and monitering. ....At least eight Republicans in the Senate must now vote for the passage of the treaty, but if delayed until next year, at least 14 Republican votes will be needed from the new members of Congress.
Uniting the U.S. anti-war movement is crucial if current and future wars are to be stopped. A step in this direction will take place at the National Peace Conference, in Albany, New York, July 23-25. (http://nationalpeaceconference.org/Home_Page.html).
040111, ICH, Tom Engelhardt, War Is A Drug, The Urge to Surge, Washington's 30-Year High. New York Times reporters ... Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins ... front-page story ... you can sense just how addictive war is for the war planners. Once you begin down the path of invasion and occupation, turning back is as difficult as an addict going cold turkey. ... Gorbachev at October 1985, ... The Politburo had made a mistake and must correct it as soon as possible ... would keep the Soviets fighting on to 1989. ... The Reagan administration surge in Pakistan and Afghanistan had been profligate, involving billions of dollars and a massive propaganda campaign, as well as alliances with the Saudis and a Pakistani dictator and his intelligence service to fund and arm the most extreme of the anti-Soviet jihadists of that noment ~ "freedom fighters" as they were then commonly called in Washington. ... Now, it seemed, there would be something new under the sun, an arms race of one, as the U.S. prepared itself for utter dominance into a distant, highly militarized future. ... The 23 men and two women who signed the initial PNAC statement urging the United States to go for the military option in the twenty-first century would, however, prove something more than your typical crew of think-tank types. After all, not so many years later, after a disputed presidential election settled by the Supreme Court, Dick Cheney would be vice president; I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby would be his right-hand man; Donald Rumsfeld would be Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Zalmay Khalilzad, head of the Bush-Cheney transition team at the Department of Defense and then the first post- invasion U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, as well as ambassador to Iraq and UN ambassador; Elliot Abrams, special assistant to the president with a post on the National Security Council; Paula Dobriansky. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; Aaron Friedberg. Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs and Director of Policy Planning in the office of the vice president; and Jeb Bush, governor of Florida. (Others like John Bolton, who signed on to PNAC later, would be no less well employed.) ... the PNAC people .... We could, they insisted in a phrase they liked, enforce an American peace, a Pax Americana, for decades to come, if only we poured our resources, untold billions -- they refused to estimate what the real price might be - into war preparations and, if necessary, war itself, from the seven seas to the heavens, from manifold new "forward operating bases on land" to space and cyberspace. ... the U.S. military. They believed it capable of doing just about anything. As a result, they made a massive miscalculation, mistaking military destructiveness for global power. Nor could they have been less interested in the sinews of global economic power (though they did imagine our future enemy to be China). Nor were they capable of imagining that the greatest military power on the planet might be stopped in its tracks -- in the Greater Middle East, no less - by a ragtag crew of Iraqis and Afghans. To read "Rebuilding America's Defenses" today is to see the rabbit hole down which, as if in a fever dream, we would soon disappear.
260510 Det virker som om USA febrilsk arbejder på at få en ny krig, f.eks. med Nordkorea, Iran.
220910, Lew Rockwell, Karen Kwiatkowski, War Is Murder. Well, it sure is murder for our boys in desert cammy. Five of our finest are now charged with running an unauthorized hit team, targeting random Afghan civilians for a little stressrelieving target practice. What's the problem here? The CIA has been doing this for years with its own militarized groups. The DoD is doing this with its own special forces. Xe and other contractors do this with the holy blessing of both DoD and CIA. ... These nilitary enlistees, ... are doing not only the job they have been trained to do, but they are conducting themselves in the same spirit as their commanders. A spirit of brutality, righteous judgment, self-pity because we want so much to "do good" to the ungrateful, a spirit of hate, and a spirit of self-indulgence. That's American foreign policy in a nutshell, and it's not new. .... But today, we speak of murder. Coldblooded, just for fun, gangland-style, trophy-hunting, punch drunk, hilarious murder. And predictably - the Army cannot explain how the lack of a strategic or even clearly tactical mission in Afghanistan and Iraq has created a stagnant spreading cesspool where soldiering ethics are slowly churned and degraded until our own people don't know up from down. ... Thus, when the state throws down the "terrorist threat" strawman, and tells us that the soldier/murderers of the moment felt threatened and terrorized (even by so simple an act as an unarmed Afghan man walking alone along a street in his own neighborhood) most of the American public can only stare and mumble. ... This news-blip regarding murder and the collection of Afghan body parts leaves most Americans who see it with mild concern about our offensive policy around the world, and perhaps a vague sense of anxiety about what we will face as these soldiers come home to live in our neighborhood, to serve as our police forces and city inspectors, to marry our daughters and father our grandchildren. .... They [Afghans] are way ahead of us in terms of figuring out how to survive and deal with a brutal military and political occupation for the sake not of democracy or women's rights or "the children" but for the sustainment of the US military industrial complex, and expansion and stability of the US-centered commodities/currency dynamic, and as leverage for coming national defaults. We are murdering and warring for a Middle East that is safe for the complementary goals of Israel's economic expansion into and US military domination of the region. ... The reality is clearly that the West wishes to extend and cement its_control over the Middle East via military power. Even the upcoming war with Iran, if it comes to that, may be seen as an extension of this unstated but obvious policy."
170910, ICH, Michel Chossudovsky, Real Versus Fake Grises: Concealing The Risk of An All Out Nuclear War. We have reached a turning point in our history. The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war with devastating consequences. ... While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to assess or fully comprehend the devastation which would result from a Third World War, using "new technologies" and advanced weapons systems, until it actually occurs and becomes a reality. ... The media is involved in acts of camouflage. The devastating impacts of a nuclear war are either trivialized or not mentioned. Meanwhile, public opinion has its eyes rivetted on what might be described as "fake crises". ... In an utterly twisted logic, World War III is presented as a means to preserving World Peace. ... Realities are twisted and turned upside down. Iran is being accused of wanting to start World War III. Inherent in US military doctrine, the victims of war are often heralded as the aggressor. ... In a bitter irony, those who decide on the use of nuclear weapons believe their own propaganda. President and Commander in Chief Barack Obama believes his own lies. ... Instead, fake "crises" -- e.g. a global warming, a Worldwide flu pandemic, a false flag" nuclear attack by "Islamic terrorists"-, are fabricated by the media, the governments, the intelligence apparatus and the Washington think tanks. [!!!!!] ...
War waged on humanitarian grounds is considered a "solution" to a crisis rather than its cause.
Economic Depression is not mentioned because the economic recession is said to be over. In other words there is no economic crisis.
140910, latimes.com, Ralph Vartabedian, U.S. holding 324 metric tons of bomb-grade uranium, report says. The Obama administration, which is urging other nations to reduce their stores of the material, should declare part of the U,S. inventory surplus, a watchdog group [Project on Government Oversight] says. The Washington-based group wants ... [to] increase the amount that is blended down each year to commercial reactor fuel. ... The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, ... also said that it was not sending out a contradictory message by maintaining the surplus. It said that its facilities are secure from terrorists and that the agency provides technical assistance to other nations when they give up their bomb materials. ... 'The U.S. would be on higher moral ground if we clearly articulated that we are working to minimize our use of highly enriched uranium," said Joan Rohlfing, president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan group. "It should be the norm that every country with these materials jublishes their status."
030910, Al Jazeera, Fidel Castro warns of 'nuclear war' Former Cuban leader says US pressure over Iran's nuclear programme will lead to war, in first public speech since 2006. Castro, 84, said a nuclear conflict was inevitable if the United States, in alliance with Israel, tried to enforce international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
070810, ICH, Hiroshima And Nagasaki (PHOTOS): Never Before Seen Images From LIFE.com
280710, The Washington Times, Eli Lake - Nuke-smuggling network in demand. Agents seek to lure group 'out of retirement' Scientists, engineers and financiers involved in the A.Q. Khan nuclear-smuggling network are being contacted by several governments in an effort to lure these specialists out of retirement. The development is raising concerns among U.S. intelligence agencies about the revival of the proliferation network that was thought to have been shut down years ago. Two U.S. intelligence officials and other U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports said information compiled over the past seven months showed that agents from several foreign governments — including Brazil, Burma, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Sudan and Syria — pursued members of the network named after Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist considered to be the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. [Hvad er meningen/hensigten med den "nyhed", netop nu ?]
240710, TomDispatch - Andrew Bacevich, The End of (Military) History ? The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War. ... Today the West no longer looks quite so triumphant. Yet events during the first decade of the present century have delivered history to another endpoint of sorts. Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course. For Fukuyama, history implied ideological competition, a contest pitting democratic capitalism against fascism and communism. ... Yet from start to finish, military might had determined that competition's course as much as ideology. ... That was theory. Reality, above all the two world wars of the last century, told a decidedly different story. Armed conflict in the industrial age reached new heights of lethality and destructiveness. Once begun, wars devoured everything, inflicting staggering material, psychological, and moral damage. .... Pain vastly exceeded gain. In that regard, the war of 1914-1918 became emblematic: Even the winners ended up losers. ... Among nations classified as liberal democracies, only two resisted this trend. One was the United States, the sole major belligerent to emerge from the Second World War stronger, richer, and more confident. The second was Israel. ... The essential prerequisite for peace was for any and all adversaries, real or potential, to accept a condition of permanent inferiority. ...For both Israel and the United States, however, appearances proved deceptive. Apart from fostering grand illusions, the splendid wars of 1967 and 1991 decided little. In both cases, victory turned out to be more apparent han real. Worse, triumphalism fostered massive future miscalculation. ... Washington now sought to dominate the entire Greater Middle East. ... In both cases, presence provoked (or provided a pretext for) resistance. Just as Palestinians vented their anger at the Zionists in their midst, radical Islamists targeted Americans whom they regarded as neo-colonial infidels. [Det er såmænd endnu simplere - vi gør alle, selv danskere, modstand mod besættere, altså 10 % af os. OJ] ... So what? Events made it increasingly evident that military dominance did not translate into concrete political advantage. Rather than enhancing t the prospects for peace, coercion produced ever more complications. No matter how badly battered and beaten, the "terrorists" (a catch-all term applied to anyone resisting Israeli or American authority) weren't intimidated, remained unrepentant, and kept coming back for more. [Også Nazi-Tysklands modstandere blev kaldt terrorister, OJ] ... In Afghanistan and Iraq, George W. Bush's Global War on Terror began impressively enough, as U.S. forces operated with a speed and elan that had once been an Israeli trademark. Thanks to "shock and awe," Kabul fell, followed less than a year and a half later by Baghdad. ... Such claims of success, however, proved obscenely premature. Campaigns advertised as being wrapped up in weeks dragged on for years, while American troops struggled with their own intifadas. When it came to achieving decisions that actually stuck, the Pentagon (like the IDF) remained clueless. ... By 2007, the American officer corps itself gave up on victory, ... High-ranking generals shelved their expectations of winning -- at least as a Rabin or Schwarzkopf would have understood that term. They sought instead to not lose. ... Meanwhile, the People's Liberation Army stays home. China has stolen a page from an old American playbook, having become today the preeminent practitioner of "dollar diplomacy." ... In theory, the United States, sharing none of Israel's demographic or geographic constraints and, far more richly endowed, should enjoy far greater freedom of action. Unfortunately, Washington has a vested interest in preserving the status quo, no matter how much it costs or where it leads. For the military-industrial complex, there are contracts to win and buckets of money to be made. For those who dwell in the bowels of the national security state, there are prerogatives to protect. For elected officials, there are campaign contributors to satisfy. For appointed officials, civilian and military, there are ambitions to be pursued.
080710, Daily Telegraph, General who said it was 'fun to shoot people' takes over US Central Command. Det bekræfter kun det indtryk, at der er noget galt med kulturen i imperiets militær !!!
290610, Granma - Fidel Castro, Warning Of War. Discovering The Truth In Time. I do not harbor the slightest doubt that as soon as the warships of the United States and Israel take up their positions - together with the rest of the U.S. military vessels located in the vicinity of the Iranian coasts - and attempt to inspect that country's first merchant ship, a rain of missiles will be unleashed in both directions. That will be the precise moment when that terrible war will begin. It is not possible to foresee how many ships will be sunk nor of what ensign. .... [when] Cuban troops ... were approaching the southern border with Angola, from where the racist South African forces had been evicted after the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, entrenchmg iemselves on the border with Namibia. ^ith the knowledge of the U.S. president, the Pentagon supplied the South African racists via Israel with approximately 14 nuclear weapons, more powerful than those launched on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as we have explained in other reflections. ... However, some things are still very unclear at the present moment; can the two most powerful nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, abstain from using their nuclear weapons against one another? What remains in no doubt whatsoever is that, from Europe, the nuclear weapons of Britain and France, allies of the United States and Israel - and which enthusiastically imposed the resolution that will inevitably unleash war, and a war that, given the reasons explained, will immediately become a nuclear war - are a threat to Russian territory, although that country, just like China, has tried to avoid such an outcome as far as the strengths and possibilities of each one allow. The economy of the superpower will collapse like a house of cards. The society of the United States is one which is the least prepared to endure a disaster ...
170610, Ralph Lopez, Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotational Fire" Against Civilians in Iraq
080610, ICH, Ken O'Keefe, I Helped to Physically Separate One Israeli Commando From his Assault Rifle, Please explain how we, the defenders of the Mavi Marmara, are not the modern example of Gandhi's essence? Har et Gandhi-citat, som jeg helt kan tilslutte mig.
Harris har nogle fornuftige ord om, hvad der skal til for at fjerne krigen.
070606, Agence France-Presse. "Malaysia's Mahathir warns World War 4 looming"
Det virker som om den bedste beskyttelse mod et amerikansk angreb er at have atomvåben.
American Conscientious Objectors look at: http://www.lawyers.com/klepplaw/index.jsp and http://oldamericancentury.org/index.htm
"Of course, nothing justifies the butchery of citizens of any country by those who disapprove of its government's policies - in peacetime or in war. That goes for New York City, where I live. It also went for Dresden and Nagasaki." John Zmirak.
It also goes for Falluja, OJ.
Howard Zinn: Just and Unjust War Reprinted from the book Declarations of Independence, also found in The Zinn Reader, and Howard Zinn on War. "After my own experience in that war, I had moved away from my own rather orthodox view that there are just wars and unjust wars, to a universal rejection ofwar as a solution to any human problem....War is too evil to ever be just."
Udover Kvækere, Amish og Jehovas Vidner er også Mennonitter gode, fredelige kristne.
The World Against War (http://theworldagainstwar.org/)
Jake Lynch, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Peace journalism for journalists www.iprasydney2010.org
It's very easy to invade other people's countries; it's very difficult to get out of them. Robert Fisk, 060306, ABC Australia
Rige landes problem: For meget militær - for lidt menneskelighed. James Rothenberg Information Clearing House, 160905
USAs trussel om at anvende kernevåben mod ikke-kernevåbenlande er en trussel mod menneskeheden
1800 fysikere vedtog sidste efterår en "petition", der fordømte denne politik: http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/
Jorge Hirsch, professor of physics, University of Califomia, San Diego, har skrevet 15 artikler herom for nylig: http://antiwar.com/hirsch/
og nu har 13 af de mest fremtrædende amerikanske fysikere skrevet et brev til Bush: http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/physicistsletter.html.
De beder Bush regeringen offentligt tilkendegive, at den mulighed er taget af bordet, og opfordrer det amerikanske folk til at lade sin røst høre.
Hvis USA efter 60 års ikke-brug bryder det eksisterende tabu mod anvendelsen af atomvåben øger det i uhyggelig grad risikoen for at en regional konflikt udvikler sig til en global atomkrig med risiko for at vor civilisation ødelægges, skriver de.
"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life." - Friedrich Nietzsche
hentet 010807, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, The Liberator. "Was it all 'bad intelligence'? Today we have the weapons manufacturers supplying the intelligence. An ad taken out by Lockheed Martin last year looking for intelligence recruits read: "on substantive intelligence matters involving terrorist groups and networks... Centcom experience is a plus." Raytheon, the other large defense contractor, is also supplying intelligence - to the point that corporate America, the weapons manufacturers, are capable of taking us to war. And war they want. Their stocks have gone through the roof "
Videospil, computerspil o.l er vidtgående lavet for at vende drengene til at slå ihjel. Le Monde diplomatique, JUILLET 2007, p. 27, Tony Fortin, Guerres à la portée de tous, Un chaos sans droit ni morale. giver eksempler.
061006, Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky: "Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia. "The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens the future of humanity." De folkelige bevægelser må se at komme igang. Det første behov er at bryde tavshedskomplottet, at udstille mediernes løgne og forvrængninger, at konfrontere den amerikanske ledelses kriminelle natur og de regeringer, der støtter den. Dernæst at bekæmpe opbyggelsen af politistaten. Her er der brig for den bredest mulige alliance af politiske, sociale og samfundsmæssige kræfter for at forebygge militære eventyr, der virkelig, bogstaveligt truer menneskehedens fremtid. Et særligt ansvar hviler på tyskere og franskmænd, fordi USA næppe en gang til vil agere uden de to landes regeringers støtte. Artiklen indeholder en henvisning til Chossudovskys bog: America's war on terrorism, kort over de russiske militærdistrikter og over det udvidede mellemøsten.
Howard Fast lader i "Conceived in Liberty" figuren Allen Hale se på en række engelske soldater, der marcherer frem med en trommeslager for enden af rækken og officererne foran. Han siger så: " I say to myself, This is England - this is all of Europe. This is what we are fighting, this crass contempt of man, this laughing contempt of the life of man, of the soul of man, of man's right to live, to know simple things and to be happy with simple things, to have no man over him. I say to myself. This is what we shall be fighting always, time without end. The fight will go on, and there will be no rest We are life. Naked, starving, dirty farmers are life. They, out there, they are a laughing contempt for life. I tell myself that." Det gælder jo alle hære til enhver tid - og alle frihedsbevægelser !
300506, Michel Chossudovsky, Restoring the Draft: The Universal National Service Act of 2006. Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat (NY), introduced on 14 February 2006 a bill in the US Congress which requires: "all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a [two year] period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." Rangel er mod krigen i Iraq. Lovforslaget gengives i artiklen.
101106, Chris Shaw: "The corporate and economic reasons for war" "The story of our lives, the story of the serial wars since the end of the 19th century is but a narrative - a narrative that carefully avoids the underlying corporate and economic reasons for war. The details are hidden in plain sight but are never presented as a continuum. If the media did their journalistic duty, we would see that all the wars are but pieces of one continuous whole."
100906, www.iol.co.za, The Sunday Independent beskriver en ny Sydafrikansk lov, The Prohibition of Mercenary Activity and Regulation of Certain Activities in a Country of Armed Conflict Bill. Det forekommer at være en god ide til efterfølgelse.
040306, The Hindu, Arundhati Roy "Non-violent struggles are being ignored." Udtalelsen faldt ved en manifestation til støtte for Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leder Medha Patkar - som sultestrejker i protest mod et dæmningsbyggeri, der fordriver 35000 familier.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, british.
Vi har alle, hver for sig, et personligt ansvar for krig eller fred. Den israelske fysiker Daniel Amit er en af dem, der på flotteste vis har taget sit. Det samme kan man sige om Griffin og Kendall-Smith (150406, rinf.com.) SASsoldaten Ben Griffin (gennem 8 år) forlader hæren fordi han ikke længere vil slås sammen med amerikanske styrker, der er åbent racistiske og er skydegale og anvender ulovlige metoder. Onsdag startede en krigsretsproces mod RAFlægen Malcolm Kendall-Smith som har sagt nej til en ny tur til Iraq fordi krigen er illegal. Griffin fik sin afsked med en rosende udtalelse.
Johan Galtung: "Economic Boycott as Nonviolence" "Økonomisk boykot som ikke-vold".
Jeg mener ikke, at man kan forsvare et moderne samfund med militære midler - og da slet ikke med kernevåben. Jeg er helt på linje med The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Lund
ikke mindst de synspunkter, der optræder i Blueprint for alternative Defence og Security Politics is a Major Threat
Mest aktiv i den danske fredsbevægelse synes www.stopterrorkrigen.dk at være.
Krigstilhængerne må være ved at føle sig trængte - i det mindste i England - siden de dømmer demonstranter, der bare har plantet træer på Aldermaston Atomvåbenanlægget til 4 ugers fængsel og en erstatning (for hvad ?) på 201 GBP. (TFF, 2403069). Det passer jo meget godt til det amerikanske politis fremfærd overfor fredsdemonstranter, (Working for Change, 200306).
Danskerne massivt bag kravet om tilbagetrækning fra Irak
290507, Daily Kos, Cindy Sheehan "Good Riddance Attention Whore". Hun giver op nu. Det er ikke mærkeligt, men synd.
Propaganda er en stadig vigtigere del af krigen, Det belyser James Bamford i en artikel om John Rendon i Rolling Stone, 171105.
Og de opstillinger vi fik om den strategiske balance un der den kolde krig var meget bevidst manipulere(n)de. 180806, National Security Archive, William Burr, "How Many and Where Were the Nukes ? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During :he Cold War" Omtaler også (Document 3) et papir, der gennemgår, hvordan man kan opstille de samme tal, så balancen mellem USA og Sovjetunionen for så vidt angår strategiske kernevåben skifter. (Raymond L. Garthoff, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs to Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs Foy Kohler, "Subjective and Objective Strategic Balances," 31 March 1967, Top Secret. Extract fra Burr: ""the strategic relationship could be depicted as very reassuring or very dangerous, depending on how one selected the forces to be compared." That Garthoff prepared such a report was worrisome to senior military leaders because it showed how the data could be accurately presented to "undermine the rather alarmist comparisons that were used to support Defense budget programs." Burr nævner også problemer med afslappet sikkerhedskontrol og risikoen ved oplagring. Det fremgår også at Bushregeringens stadige forsøg på at overskride forfatningens græmser for præsidentens beføjelser, begyndte allerede i 1960erne. (afsnittet om Symington kommitteen).
Se også Sagt om krigen
271105, ICH. Rod Rees har 10 bud for hvordan USA kommer ud af Iraq, de ville sikkert virke. Et af dem gengiver jeg her (uddrag): " Apologize like the end of Terrorism depends on your apology...because it does."
James Madison: "Political Observations" 1795: Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most dreaded because it comprises and develop the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceeds debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Tænk over hvor hurtigt man kan bevæge sig
fra at være et land i relativ velstand, under opbygning af infrastruktur og boliger, med en rimeligt velfungerende samfundsorden
til at være et fattigt, sultent og forfrossent land, hvor intet fungerer. Endda i Europa.
Jeg tænker selvfølgelig på Jugoslavien, som Tyskland, Vatikanet og USA pludselig fik for sig at ødelægge.
Tænk over, at når de nordiske socialdemokratier har skiftet holdning overfor USA siden murens fald, så kunne det skyldes den arrogante måde, hvorpå USA gennemfører sin verdensorden, illustreret f.eks. netop med Jugoslavien. Bl.a. derfor er der brug for at presse USA til international lov og orden.
Tænk over, hvor let det er at lamme et moderne samfund. Også uden at bruge letale våben. Hvis man f.eks. bomber med grafitstøv omkring transformatorstationer - anvendt både i Kosova og i Iraq - bryder elektricitetsforsyningen sammen. Gøres det et antal gange, kan man slå systemet ud, så det tager lang tid at genetablere.
Uden strøm
Ingen computer, så kan jeg f.eks. ikke hente nyheder, der er uafhængige af de store amerikanske nyhedsbureauer.
Ingen lys
Ingen varm mad
Jeg har jordvarme - den forsvinder også
Myldretidstrafikken i byerne bryder sammen, p.g.a. manglende lysregulering
Alt dette bare med et enkelt, ikke-letalt våben, f.eks. leveret med krydsermissil nogenlunde på adressen (de er ikke så præcise, som Pentagon vil have os til at tro).
I Sydsvenskan, 24.11.2000 advarer Petter Wulff fra Försvarets Forskningsanstalt om, at Sveriges deltagelse i EUs udrykningsstyrke (1500 mand af ialt 60.000) øger risikoen for terroristangreb f.eks. med raketter. Det er meget sandsynligt, at det er rigtigt. Men hans konklusion, at Sverige/EU skal opbygge et europæisk missilforsvar, er et godt eksempel på intellektuel dovenskab. Petter Wulff kan ikke være uvidende om
Vi skal altså forledes til at synes, at det er i orden at USA laver et sådant system ! Samtidig med, at det ikke omtales, at det aldrig kan komme til at virke 100 %. Det giver altså netop ingen sikkerhed mod terroristangreb. Men det skal nok give en stor stigning i forsvarsudgifterne - læs fortjenesten i den krigsmaterielproducerende industri.
En fornuftig konklusion af den sikkert korrekte trusselsanalyse ville være at undlade at deltage i udrykningsstyrken og omstille svensk forsvar til at være et forsvar altså afskaffe de aggressive våben og satse alene på et defensivt forsvar . Nordiske lande har ikke megen interesse i Balkan konflikter. Og EU-styrken tænkes også indsat udenfor Europa !!!
Det har jo nu aktualiserets efter angrebet på World Trade Center og Pentagon. USA vil helst have andre til at slås for sig. Og skal der ske en indsats på jorden kan man bruge selv de styrker man ellers har fordømt (Nord Alliancen i Afghanistan).
110105, Charles Merciera, professor emeritus, Alabama A&M University, Formand for International Association of Educators for World Peace skriver om republikanernes svagheder. Jeg citerer lidt fra hans artikel - der ikke nødvendigvis direkte har med artiklens titel at gøre:
"Og så vil de militarisere rummet, fordi, siger de, de så bedre kan kontrollere terrorismen derfra ! Hvis amerikanske regeringsembedsmænd ikke kan opdage selvmordsbombere på få meters afstand, hvordan skulle de så kunne opdage dem fra mange hundrede kilometers højde ?"
"Som for at føje spot til skade så betragtes de, der har mod til at demonstrere modden fortsatte fremstilling af ødelæggelsesvåben og mod unøvendige og overflødige krige, som oprørere, som kan forventes at opmuntre terrorisme. Faktisk er mange blevet arresteret, inklusive katolske præster og nonner og selv prominente personer som John F Kennedy Jr., søn af den tidligere demokratiske præsidentkandidat Robert F Kennedy, som engang var senator for New York."
"Når ledende demokrater udviser den samme tro på national forsvar og sikkerhed som den republikanerne fremfører så ser det ikke ud som om det amerikanske folk længere har noget politisk valg".
150805, samme Charles Merciera:" De amerikanske [militærindustri]koncerners yderste mål: at skaffe sig kontrol over universiteterne". Artiklen er grundig (men kort) og velargumenteret. Han omtaler også, hvordan univesitetspræsidenter udvælges og afskedigelsen af Ward Churchill. Læs articlen sammen med John Kenneth Galbraith: "The new Industrial State", afsnittet om det militærindustrielle kompleks.
170105, Miami Herald har en serie gode citater af Martin Luther King (fra en tale 040467)
230205, The Guardian gennemgår hvordan Blair manipulerede med den juridiske ekspertise for ikke at skulle forelægge parlamentet, at opfattelsen var at angrebskrig er ulovlig. Elizabeth Wilmshurst skrev i sin begrundelse for sin opsigelse, at hun ikke kunne være med til en militær aktion som var: "so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law".
020405, Paul Robinson gennemgår i The Spectator usikkerheden i verden. Antal krige, antal revolutioner, antal terroristangreb. Konklusion - sagligt velbaseret: ALDRIG HAR VERDEN VÆRET FREDELIGERE. Den resterende uro opretholdes kun for ikke at være nødt til at afruste.
100505, Information Clearing House, Mike Whitney har et udkast tl en strategi til at få slut på krigen:
1. Koordinering. Der er brug for at antikrigsbevægelsen kommer ind på alle de medier, der vil optage noget med en kort notits om referatet fra Downing Street og med link hertil.
2. Der er brug for en kort 2-3 ords titel til dokumentet - i stil med Bushregeringens mange nye ord og begreber.
3 & 4 så skal emnet eller bearbejdes og man skal stille spørgsmål til det og i højrefløjens medier.
[Desværre virker det, som om de folk, der skal gøre det, er for dovne - eller bange, OJ]
160505, Howard Zinn skriver om nationalismens svøbe.
june 2005, World Policy Institute, Arms Trade Resource Center, Report: US weapons at war 2005: Promoting freedom or fueling conflict ?
Om den amerikanske hvervning ved hjælp af computerspil, Sheldon Rampton: "Was is fun as hell", Alternet, 020805.
180805, Information Clearing House, Brian Bogart. NSC-68, der blev underskrevet af Truman i 1950 forvandlede USAs udenrigspolitik til at være styret af militærindustrien behov [det er nok at tillægge det dokument og Paul Nitze alt for stor betydning - USA var vel med i bekæmpelsen af Sovjetunionen helt fra 1920erne, OJ]. Han mener, at Koreakrigen blev fremprovokeret af de kredse, der stod bag NSC-68 (Nitze, Dean Acheson og Paul Wolfowitz). Han gennemgår en del Pentagonfinansierede projekter i uddannelsessystemet og en del DARPA forskningsprojekter, hvoraf nogen ser meget uhyggelige ud. Ialt 300 amerikanske universiteter udvikler våben. Brian Bogart har en "Petition for peaceful priorities" og www.strikeforpeace.org. 250905 har ICH en "History of the War Machine" også den centreret om NSC-68 og Paul Nitze, men bedre argumenteret og med en mere rimelig rolle for George Kennan. [Jeg mener stadig, at Bogart overvurderer personers rolle, men der er megen solid viden at hente, OJ]
031105, Brian Bogart, ICH. De fleste mennesker er ikke klar over, at siden 1950 har USAs væsentligste industri været salg af våben. Den våbenbaserede økonomi har forsynet mere end 200 krige i 55 år og over 300000 selskaver og 400 universiteter er i Pentagons sold.
101105, Mike Whitney, ICH. Leverer kraftig argumentation for at nægte krigstjeneste i det amerikanske militær. Han gør også opmærksom på, at soldaterne sværger troskab mod den amerikanske Constitution, ikke mod præsidenten.
100306, VoltaireNet. Salim Lamrani "Venezuela in Washington's Sights". Chávez følger Cubas eksempel ved at bevæbne 1 million frivillige. (''Why did the gringos invade haif of the world except Cuba ?")
140406, USATODAY.com - The new breed of soldier: Robots with guns om yderligere en farlig udvikling i krigens teknologi.
Monde Diplomatique, Juin 2006. Har et supplement om handelen med "lette våben".
140806, Los Angeles Times, Richard K. Betts (Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University): "How Superpowers Become Impotent" Oldgammel guerillataktik og nye high-tech våben gør de store militærmaskiner magtløse. "The U.S. and Israel are perfectly equipped to knock out Iraqis, the Taliban or Hezbollah — as long as they act like good enemies and come at us in tanks, planes and ships." USA må vælge sine slag med større omhu. Præcisionsbombninger er en illusion. De mange civile drab spreder bitterhed og skaffer Hezbollah flere kæmpere, end der falder. Specialstyrker er et af svarene, men de er p.t. spredt for tyndt ud. Der skal ydes overvældende hjælp til genopbygning, "så vi kan slippe ud hurtigt".
030906, Boston Globe, Howard Zinn: "War is not a solution for terrorism". Historien siden 2. verdenskrig illustrerer nytteløsheden af storstilet vold. Hverken USA eller Sovjetunionen - med deres enorme hære - kunne klare modstandsbevægelser i små lande som Vietnam og Afghanistan.
201006, Asia Times, Ehsan Ahrari US turns space into its colony. Bush har underskrevet en executive order, der fastslår, at USA: afviser fremtidige nedrustningsaftaler der vil begrænse USAs fleksibilitet i rummet og at USA vil forhindre anhver fjendtlig interesse adgang til rummet.
241106, ICH, K Gajendra Singh, The US Empire -Beginning of the End Game. "Americans proudly call their state 'US Incorporated', which it has truly become, a mighty but a dangerous company; manufacturing, selling arms and using them recklessly all around the world (while experimenting with chemicals and depleted Uranium munitions) The Mongols, Turks and other wild tribes used arms for expanding empires but in US Inc, arms manufacture and its use has become an end itself, to hell with the US public interest....Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US President in his Farewell Address on Jan. 17,1961 said ,"[The] conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - But now this monster has imposed itself on USA and is expanding, going for more lethal and profitable means of destruction even against international treaties and conventions..."
281106, The Guardian, George Monbiot, Only Paranoia Can Justify The World's Second Biggest Military Budget.Britain's level of defence spending isn't related to real threats we face, but the needs of our military-industrial complex. 32 milliarder GBP/år. Even the MoD acknowledges this. In the white paper it published at the end of 2003, it admits that "there are currently no major conventional military threats to the UK or Nato...[T]he civil servants in the MoD write their own rules. Much of the time they seem to be defending not the realm but the arms companies... The real challenges, [A report published by the Oxford Research Group] contends, are presented by climate change, competition over resources, the marginalisation of the poor and our own military deployments.
Giv en mand et gevær i hånden - og han blæser selv straks hjernen ud - desværre uden at anvende geværet dertil. Det er svært at uddanne soldater. Ikke en gang det fredelige Sverige med dets lange tradition for at militæret anvendes i fredsbevarende opgaver klarer det. Det er senest dokumenteret under - den NATO inspirerede - nyligt afholdte øvelse Combined Challenge. Her referet fra SYDSVENSKAN, Söndag 3 juni 2007, "Pluton från Boden tappade kontrollen under skånsk storövning. En jägarpluton från I19 i Boden anställde en massaker på milismän i den stora slutövningen Combined Challenge. Soldaterna "sköt" sina fångar i huvudet och gjorde sedan v-tecken till varandra inför de häpna övningsledarna. I ett verkligt läge skulle det ha kunnat vara ett brott mot folkrätten, säger brigadchefen, överste Stefan Andersson, som är utbildningsansvarig vid I19. Plutonen leddes av två yrkesofficerare, en löjtnant i 20-års-åldern och en major i 35-årsåldern. ....Erfarna officerare. De två plutonbefälen var erfarna officerare, en av dem har tidigare varit i FN-tjänst. Den äldre av dem ska enligt uppgifter till Sydsvenskan ha varit inblandad i en utredning av en händelse där värnpliktiga fick köldskador i samband med en vinterövning....Men det är uppenbart att man bör lägga mer kraft på att lära ut soldatregler, och att det bör vara ett lika vanligt inslag i verksamheten som maten. Särskilt nu när Sverige ska bidra till den internationella styrkan Nordic Battle Group." Det svenske forsvar har et "Totalförsvarets folkrättsråd", som har udgivet en glimrende samling af folkeretslige konventioner i svensk oversættelse "Krigets Lagar" min udgave er fra 1996. De teoretiske forudsætninger for, at den pågældende gruppe soldater skulle kende reglerne er altså på plads. Det er klart, at der er tale om svigt i uddannelsen. Der er ikke lagt den fornødne vægt på folkeretten og den enkelte soldats pligt og ret til i enhver given situation at konsultere sin samvittighed. Det mest alarmerende er, at de 2 officerer beskrives som erfarne - den ene endda med FNtjeneste i sin baggrund. Beskrivelsen i Sydsvenskan antyder, at den ældste af dem er en macho-type (kuldeskaderne). Det er vigtigt, at folk med den slags holdninger holdes borte fra 1. uddannelse af soldater, 2. FNtjeneste. Den uddannelsesansvarlige virker også i avisens fremstilling lidt for villig til at finde undskyldninger. I en situation, hvor herrefolket spreder disrespekt for Krigens Love (og andre internationale regler), er det særligt vigtigt, at lande med tradition for lovlydighed, hævder overholdelsen af disse regler.
The World Revolution har en State of the World. Der har været over 250 egentlige krige siden 2. verdenskrig. 23 millioner mennesker er dræbt i disse. Der er 35 større igangværende konflikter. Siden 1945 har 90 % af ofrene været civile. 3/4 kvinder og børn. Der er 300.000 barnesoldater i verden.
170607, ICH, Ramzy Baroud, War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Our Race. ""Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after the process of grotesque self-deception....Who gets a profit out of it? Nobody but a parcel of usurping little monarchs and nobilities who despise you." Fra Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger".
The Reagan/Bush Sr. Administration [started a] War Against International Law, continued by the small Bush (and Obama ?)
Nyttige links i øvrigt
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc Bradford SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project
World Policy Institute, Arms Trade Resource Center
Krigsforbrydelser nr 2/99
International Crisis Group , hvis analyse af Algeriet er så primitiv, at alt hvad de laver indtil videre må vurderes med stor skepsis
International Campaign to ban Landmines Landmine Monitor
Nyttige links i øvrigt findes hos TFF, Conflict resolution , Peace Research og Non-violence
Jan Øberg: Conflict - mitigation - Lessons and challenges
Fra TNN finder man vej til alle mulige politisk alternative medier
Education for Peace in Iraq Center
International Relations and Security Network - Welcome to ISN
Jane's Defence Discovery Search
Palestinian National Authority
Welcome to the UN. It's your world.
Federation of American Scientists om CBU-89
Joint operations and the landmine treaty
Crisisweb the International Crisis Group's on-line system, http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
ICSSA, The Independent Center for Strategic Studies and Analysis. Baseret i Canada. En tænketank og forskningsorganisation, som analyserer væsentlige økonomiske, politiske og sociale spørgsmål, der påvirker den muslimske verden. Bygger på forskere, der har levet i den muslimske verden og i Vesten.
050105, Et godt indlæg om en US Army sergeant, med hans begrundelse for at søge status som militærnægter.
040105, Texans for Peace anbefaler åbenbart skattenægtelse, der er en Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation og en National War Tax Resisstance Coordinating Committee.
130505. SocialistWorker. "The People vs. Bush's war". Der er et antal absolut læseværdige indlæg.
110606, Monde Diplomatique, eng. skriver om Amnestys rapport. EU er en af de større deltagere i handelen med våben med næsten en tredjedel af markedet. 5 EU medlemmer (Frankrig, Tyskland, Italien, Sverige og England) er med blandt de 10 største leverandører. Fra 1994 til 2001 eksporterede EU våben for 10 milliarder USD til udviklingslande !!! - [som vel havde bedre at anvende pengene til, OJ]. Våbnene bruges bl.a. til undertrykkelse af befolkningerne. EU har en code^of conduct on arms exports, men den overholdes ikke. Dels er den ikke et juridisk bindende dokument, dels er der smuthuller, bl.a. i form af at formuleringerne ikke er klart definerede. Og der mangler bestemmelser om transithandel og handel med overskudsvåben. [Og så mangler der en registrering af de individuelle våben i et centralt serienummerregister, som a jourføres ved hver handel, OJ].
Pablo Peredes, i flåden. Dom 120505 (?), referat 130505, ingen fængselsstraf. Degradering til laveste rang, 2 måneders husarrest, 3 måneders hårdt arbejde.
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