20 August 2011. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. Images of the American “Victory” in Afghanistan…

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One of my fave Russian websites had a series of images taken from attacks by patriotic Afghan partisans (vilified as “al Qaeda” and the “Taliban” in the US Corporate Media) on American-sponsored road convoys. These attacks are happening in the countryside, in the mountains, in towns, in cities, in villages… they’re happening everywhere… the USA has NO secure road links whatsoever. It’s time to cut our losses and get out of this blood-soaked quagmire… it contributes nothing to the defence of the homeland nor does it weaken any potential enemy to any extent whatsoever. Do you know where the partisans get most of the money that they need? They get it from corrupt government officials and contractors… that is, the US is subsidising the very guerillas that they’re fighting against. If that’s not a clear signal to get out, I don’t know what it is. Look at the images… none dare call it “defeat”… why, the Pentagon and the Corporate Media would say it’s just a form of “victory”, turned inside out!

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19 July 2011. Politics Through a Cartoonist’s Eyes…

Note well that the Tea Party screams about invasion of privacy via government regulation, but says NOTHING about the shredding and meltdown of our freedom under the Patriot Act and the police-state Department of Homeland Insecurity… rather, they wish this pointless hellishly-expensive agency and this nakedly repressive act to continue… one wonders why…

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The present tax rates on the wealthiest are HALF of those levied in the Nixon era… there were plenty of rich folks then, I seem to remember… what’s WRONG with that picture?

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It’s quite simple… as Nobel Prize laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz pointed up, if the “deficit hawks” have their way, it’ll start a downward and perpetual cycle… less spending would mean lower profits for business… the Five Percenters would shed workers rather than decrease their rapacious appetites… which would lead to more spending cuts… ad infinitum.

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America has to sacrifice, dontcha know… that is, everybody EXCEPT for the Five Percenters! I seem to notice that none of the loudest Neoliberal Free Marketers offer to take the slightest pay cut to save jobs. NONE. Certainly, it puts a new spin on the rants of Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, and Tim Pawlenty, doesn’t it?

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We HAVE to cut education… we have Congressional junkets (that Michelle Bachmann takes advantage of), a generous Congressional healthcare plan (defended by John Boehner), three pointless wars (and a fourth “war-in-waiting” in Yemen), and the Department of Homeland Insecurity to pay for. We NEVER needed a “Department of Homeland Security” in the Cold War… why do we need one now? There’s no visible enemy… al Qaeda is nothing but the rightwing’s bogeyman, anyone who believes in the nonsense about the “War on Terror” deserves a long stay in a home for the feebleminded.

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15 July 2011. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… Yemen is STILL Boiling Over…

As you can see from the above image taken from a Russian website, Yemen is far from placid. By the way, don’t listen to New GOP/Fox News propaganda that these people are “al Qaeda” terrorists. No… they’re patriots who want the American hegemonists out of their country. In any case, whenever you hear rightwing lies about al Qaeda, remember that the USA founded, funded, and armed them… and, then, supported their campaign against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan after the Sovs left. I’ve heard that “payback’s a mutha”… but this is “payback” in spades.

Let’s go home and attend to our own many problems. In any case, there’s no more money left. George W Bush blew it all on two unwinnable wars. Remember, the old military maxim, “If you try to defend everything, you defend nothing”. If that’s so, it’s time to contract our commitments to our actual no-retreat lines (the Central Pacific (AUSNZ-Guam–Aleutians) and the GIUK Gap) and rebuild our economy after the ravages caused by thirty years of Neoliberal Laissez-faire rapine (as it’s easier to destroy than to build, that’s the work of at least two generations). Then, maybe, the world would see us for what we truly are…

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13 June 2011. A Russian POV… Freedom Fighters in Yemen

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This is an image of the pro-freedom anti-government fighters in Yemen. The USA is bombing them under the cover of “attacking al Qaeda“, for the present régime favours the USA. The extreme rightwing uses al Qaeda as a phantasmal boogey-man “scratching at the window” in order to justify and excuse all sorts of nasty and unseemly doings in foreign parts. Don’t forget… Osama bin Laden was a creature of the CIA… his “godfather” was Zbigniew Brzeziński (whose father was the Polish Ambassador to Canada for the OZN Fascist junta of the “colonels” in the ’30s)… the USA armed and funded the Talibs and al Qaeda in the ’80s. Puts a different face on the situation, no? NEVER buy “a pig in a poke”…

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