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A look at the American ‘Peace’crat friends of the people of Zimbabwe
In an open letter to Barack Obama erroneously titled an Open Letter to the People of Zimbabwe, primarily members and close circles of the Workers World Party and some Black Democrats, too, have signed onto a letter that correctly spells out what economic sanctions promoted by Washington and London have actually done... 'These cruel sanctions for almost a decade have caused massive unemployment, malnourishment, hyperinflation, deeper poverty, lack of health care and fuel, the deterioration of the infrastructure and much more. A recent cholera epidemic that has claimed the lives of thousands could have been prevented if water purification chemicals had not been banned under the sanctions.' They go on to spell out that they are in fact war crimes and a form of slow genocide against the Zimbabwean Black population. Right on! However there is more to this petition than just meets the eye, and Glen Ford takes a look at that in his own challenge to the very signers of 'The Open Letter' mentioned above. A Challenge to ‘Radical' and ‘Pan-Africanist' Obamites who signed 'The Open Letter'. In it he discusses the character flaws of one section of the 'Peace'crats, the Black Community ones. We here in Colorado Springs see these exact same flaws in the local White Community 'Peace'crat people. Check out Glen Ford's commentary and see just exactly what I mean?
UN Ambassador speaks of the hidden genocide against the Somali people
The UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, has said there is a "hidden genocide" taking place in the country. Left unsaid is that it is the United States of America that is responsible for this genocide, but at least the reality of the massacre was broadcast to the world so that hopefully some action might be taken, Somalia facing 'hidden genocide' What does it say about the character of the American people what they have done to Somalia? Here in Colorado Springs, there is a group of pacifist liberal voters for the Democratic Party organized in the so-called Pikes Peak Justice and Peace commission. They have agitated through public rallies for more US military intervention into Africa despite being nominally a 'Peace' organization. They have done this saying that more US intervention into Africa was necessary to stop genocide from taking place! So one asks what have they said about this genocide against the people in Somalia where their own US government has been responsible for? What have they done to stop it? The answer to both these questions is that they have totally ignored what was going on. It has been of no interest to them. Something very similar to this has taken place on the national level at the United for Peace and Justice 'Peace'crat group, and all their local affiliates. What does that say about the character of the American liberal community? It really says to the general public that their supposed 'protestations' for 'Peace' should be taken with a big grain of salt. It also says that when these same people get onto the band wagon talking about genocide in regions of Sudan where the US government is itching to get further involved for multiple reasons all having absolutely nothing to do with stopping any sort of mayhem, that one should also weigh their inaction about not caring the least about people in Congo and Somalia, not to mention the continent of Africa as a whole. After all, the US government has been responsible for the destruction that is now causing this genocide in Somalia, but the liberal 'Peace'crat voice is on MUTE. The best we in the US can do to stop world genocides from taking place, is simply to understand the negative role ALL Us government intervention plays in creating world war zones. Their is not a positive role the US military has to play as long as we have a government run by the military-industrial-government complex. To call on this complex to do nice and decent things is just absolutely the worst thing to do. The call should be to eliminate this monstrous danger to the world, not advocate for its use somewhere or other. UN Ambassador Abdallah's voice will be ignored by the Powers that caused the hidden and silent genocide to
A quick look at the Pretend for Peace Donkeys- Barack, Jimmy, Al, and Dennis
The Republicans love war and that is all there is to it. But what about the Democratic Party crowd and their Pretend for Peace Donkeys? They got the US population snookered most of the time so what are they really doing to end the US government wars? Let's go visit the Carter Center and other sites of these donkeys and see what they have to say about the War Against the Iraqi people, which has been going on now for YES, some 17 years or so! Kind of a relevant issue one might think? Barack, perhaps the greatest Pretend for Peace donkey of them all, is setting up for continuing all the wars (and starting a few new ones, too), and all his Pretend for Peace donkey fans are temporarily tongue tied. 'nuff said. Let's move on (pun intended) now. Al Gore can't work the Pretend for Peace angle too well, since he helped kill off hundreds of thousands of Iraqis as VP while Slick Willie was being sucked off on. Shame on you Tip! So he's turned into Mr. Methane Gas Man instead. You won't hear a bleep out of this 'Man of Peace' about Iraq. No Sir..eee Al Gore Action Center That leaves us with the 'Far Left' of the donkey 'Peace'rats, Jimmy and Dennis. Surely they got something to say now on their websites about how opposed they are to this US government war of 17+ and counting years aginst the Iraqi people? After all, the result has been millions killed, millions turned into refugees, and a country that is now squashed like a bug. I bet they're calling for demonstrations to oppose this war?!!!!! After all, these folk are noted for their Peace activism! (sad joke it is, too) So let's head to the Carter Center that claims on its website that it is a place 'Waging Peace'! I bet you're getting excited now, after all this man has a rep of being so much a better donkey out of office than when he was in? What's the Grand Dame of Pretend for Peace Donkeys have to say in his issues by country section there at the Carter Center? I bet he has really highlighted the US occupation of Iraq and the need to leave now? After all, Jimmy, haven't 'we' (meaning you and your other donkey comrades) done enough yet? Carter Center Activities by Country United States Wasn't that impressive! Jimmy is really 'Waging Peace' here inside the country he is ex-President of! I mean isn't he? You saw all that about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia? He is just ever so deeply involved...NOT. So why does this prick always get such respect in
US corporations foist religious pacifism on Palestinians and not on Israelis
The US corporate community does big business annually with the Jewish Israeli military-industrial armaments crew to the tune of billions per year, but then turns around and funds religious pacifist values off onto the oppressed Palestinians! U.S. steers young Palestinians to pacifism by Karin Laub, Associated Press Now doesn't that just take the cake? You can bet, too, that the US 'Peace'crats just lap this stuff up, just like many do with their often playing along with the military's 'We're Green Campaign'. There is a long tradition of the rich and powerful funding religion and therefore religious pacifism off and onto the oppressed. Throw on a heavy dose of the salt of sanctimonious babble, ala the Pope, and you get a pacified community if the recipe is cooked right. Voila! Fait Accompli now being served!
The United Nations pushes war and starvation onto the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, and Haiti
Aid workers: Hungry kids dying in Haiti- At least 26 malnourished children have perished; scores others treated You saw that picture of the starving young girl in Haiti in the US media last week as they reported the rise of starvation inside Haiti post this year's hurricane season. They didn't mention though that the United Nations is overseeing this starvation on behalf of the United States government. This is more than a tragedy that somehow just fell out of the sky and the Haitians themselves are certainly not to blame. You can thank the United States government, the United Nations, and YES, you can thank the lazy, lazy, not-so-liberal 'Peace'crats here in the US, who think that the United Nations is the cure all of all problems instead of a major instrument of the US government's imperialism for sitting by and letting this happen. These 'Peace'crats are the folk to blame for helping let the United Nations rule over the peoples of these multiple countries through these US pushed 'UN mandates' and letting them starve to death. Yes, billions of dollars go into using United Nations troops and the people are starving in these countries. Why in the world are sincere, good hearted young people wanting the United Nations to intervene yet more? Can't they see what this US government directed, United Nations intervention leads to? Apparently not... It's time to call for the US and the UN to get out of all these countries once and for all. The UN does not bring in the economic support these people need, but instead are no more a Pentagon back up squad. The US antiwar movement needs to stop pretending that the UN is up to some good, since despite all the blather about world 'peace', the UN merely assists the US in spreading war and starvation across the planet.
‘Peace’crats refuse to be ‘United for Peace and Justice’
United for Peace and Justice is the national group that pretends to be the leadership for 'Peace' inside the US, yet they cannot even bring themself to speak out against the US war upon the people of Afghanistan! I call them 'Peace'crats because they talk about PEACE in the abstract all the time, yet remain totally tied to the Democratic Party and do not actively oppose the war of US occupation of Afghanistan or speak out forcefully against it! They don't want to embarrass Barack Obama and the Democratic Party and that is important to them above all else. Go to the UFPJ website and see what I am talking about? Didn't see the mention of Afghanistan there, did you? Go to their 'Ongoing Campaigns' link and then link again and check out their mealy mouthed, non-opposition to withdrawal from the US War waged against Afghanistan. Is this what you call an antiwar position? Peace? I call it their UFPJ Democratic Party apologist line of crap. On it, you will read this sort of BS... What is the US responsibility to Afghanistan? How have US interest over the past few decades, including support for the Taliban, contributed to the destabilization of Afghanistan? How do we best fulfill our obligations to the Afghan people? What is the role of the US peace movement in advocating US tax-dollars to be used in ways that promote peace, stability, and international cooperation? What nonmilitary solutions can we offer?' YES, and blah, blah, blah. No call for US withdrawal from Afghanistan here! Barack Obama is against it, that's why. Here on the local Colorado Springs scene the local 'Peace'crats are even worse. Most of them play so dumb they would not admit to being able to find Afghanistan on a map and be proud about that, too! Their folk do have the local police telephone # handy, in case anybody would like to bring the subject up? That would be trespassing! And at the national fan club for the 'Peace'crats, a website called 'CommonDreams', well they just target your computers ISP address and keep you from reading their comments, or commenting on what they are pushing. Afghanistan is best kept off the list of hot topics to discuss these days now that Barack Obama's Democratic Party team is in the process of taking over fighting the US War on Afghanistan away from the Dubya crowd. YES, the 'Peace'crats refuse to be 'United for Peace and Justice'. They're only united for the Democratic War Party when push comes to shove. Afghanistan? Please don't mention it!
PPJPC office now only hoping for peace
COLORADO SPRINGS- They couldn't endorse Obama as the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, so the leadership closed their office and let the Obama campaign move in. The proverbial jury can now only pin its hope that the Democrats will promise peace, but the PPJPC office is no longer in the business. The staff and board have abandoned its membership, who represented a profound core of the local peace community.
PPJPC exits stage left, lily-livered left
COLORADO SPRINGS- Oh How Sad! After a long and storied legacy, the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission is closing its doors. Why now --a time of rising injustice and vanishing peace on every continent?! Technically they've only announced divestment of their goods in order to move into a tiny office, but the PPJPC is also postponing all activity until after the election. The next event planned is a victory celebration of "regime change" even though the presumptive new regime has promised escalations of war in Asia, Africa and South America, and continued economic class war at home. And it gets worse. The bastards, literally bastards not by coincidence I'm sure, have gutted the famed peace organization of its activities, of its participants, of its reputation, legacy and potential and now they're selling off its possessions. These include the group's "memorabilia," as if PPJPC's aims weren't still outgoing. Wouldn't you think the causes still cry out for those materials? All the tools and equipment gathered over the years are now being demobilized. The posters, banners, puppets, flags, props, costumes, made by activists, for the good fight. Are you kidding me?! And the PPJPC library, an extensive collection of books about social justice and nonviolence are being scattered to the wind of the same garage sale. These books, painstakingly assembled for the cause and donated by so many members so that the PPJPC office would have a permanent reference library are now being sold to defray the costs of moving. And keeping the staff. For what? Administrating the liquidation? Have PPJPC members been asked to contribute more and more, chiefly so that the organization can be dismantled and slipped into a coma? To keep the staff paid? When the PPJPC membership at large figure out that they've been subsidizing their own deliberately paralyzing iv-drip, they are going to invent their own choice words for these soft-spoken traitors. I'D SUGGEST someone attending the going-out-of-the-peace-making-business-sale if only to rescue the materials we'll need to keep up the fight. If it didn't mean giving more money to the usurpers! That's extortion, taking our money to reclaim what we donated already! What unmitigated passive aggressive violence. These paid staff manipulated the tendency of all small groups to take the road most traveled. Specifically, to hush up in the perceived interest of self-preservation. This manifests itself among a minority in the PPJPC who follow a cultish spiritual belief that the only way to stop a wayward wagon is to throw yourself under the wheel. Eventually it's hoped the driver will stop out of pangs of conscience. Other concerned passengers, who might want to gesticulate or address the driver, are scolded for not giving the sacrificial sheep the opportunity to incubate their guilt bomb in peace. These self-appointed arbiters of "pacifism" take the "peace" in J&P to mean a quiet, undisturbed, reverential, leave-me-in-peace, peace. It's the "nonviolent" dogma that has been used to defuse slave uprisings for millennia. It's the traditional disservice which religion deals in its role to make
America’s liberal ‘Peace Community’ remains apathetically pro-war
America's liberal 'Peace Community' remains apathetically pro-war, which explains why most are planning to vote for Pro-war candidate, Barack Obama. Far from being non-mainstream Americans 'liberals', are just as pro-war as their Republican counterparts are despite some occassional bleatings about 'Peace' in the abstract, and temper tantrums that the US has not won the invasion and occupation of Iraq just quite yet. Doubt this analysis? Then ask yourself why hardly any of these liberals turned out the last 2 weeks for the many US regional demonstrations to demand a stop to threatening a war against Iran? These demonstrations were national in scope and called by 2 separate coalitions, but nobody showed up! In Colorado Springs, the local yokel misleaders didn't even bother doing a local action, but that won't stop them from responding that they are committed to non-violence and yada yada yada. This week will find the 'Peace Community' going through the motions and holding candle light vigils in memory of the atomic bomb victims of Japan in 1945, but you won't find them demanding that the US and NATO get out of Afghanistan. That's because many of them plan to vote for a pro-war candidate that wants to fight that Afghan war forever if it takes that long to 'win' it? Or at least until some folk get mad about it... which most won't because they don't seem to care that much. Locally, this Friday we will find the liberal 'Peace Community ritually going out to Fort Peterson Air Base for their annual quick show 'picnic' there. What you will not see is any sign of a demand that the base actually be closed down. You will see many signs though with their abstract new age religious belief that war and violence are bad stuff! It is kind of a game they play... ...and almost all of these 'peacenics' will vote for the pro-war candidate, Barack, almost all of them. The thing liberals most fear is being considered somehow outside the mainstream American community which is still quite solidly pro-military and pro-war. Like the greater community at large, liberal 'Peace Community' folk mainly are angry because George W. Bush did not give the country a quick and easy victory in Iraq, so they are angry at him for it. Other than that, they are not that pissed off though. Afghanistan? What? Don't bother us! Why is the liberal 'Peace Community' so pro-war, even as they talk 'Peace'? It's because their conservatized neighbors are also very pro-war and they don't want to appear too oppositional or unfriendly to these people. They don't want to stand out and in fact never do (at least they never do in large vigils or protests against war and torture and inequality, etc. They often say it doesn't' work to participate in
Justice and Peace takes out its teeth
Time for bed. Purportedly to comply with the Pride parade organizers, and although antiwar slogans abounded in the progressive crowd, the PPJPC pushed a single message: themselves! Notice anyone paying attention? The self-congratulatory crew strode along Tejon Avenue like the lost battalion emerged like Rip Van Winkle. You'd thought they'd been victorious, but it was enough for them that they've stuck with it. I think it's sort of like the 100 birthday. You celebrate it, but it's not necessarily any credit owed the celebrant except for keeping their live stress free. Behind the scenes the undertone was very unbecoming, this was an old-timer backlash, the peace community old-guard wanting to represent for old-school. With the preponderance of public opinion against the war, these long-time peace advocates are saying something akin to "we were country, when country wasn't cool." Much as they proclaim wanting to attract members who don't wear dentures, the PPJPC has elected to stick to its less offensive passive ways. Now they've abandoned the signature green which had brought them to prominence, and they hold no banners advocating for anything. Their logo says they are "A Voice for Social Justice and Nonviolence." And to avoid trouble, it's feeble and unintelligible when it's not gagged. After the last bow, they go around the bend, the last leg, turning right! No kidding. With their holier-than-thou, nobody else's nonviolence is as pure as ours, they turn their backs on community bridge-building.
Should PPJPC be organized differently?
The PPJPC is not working out as it is presently organized. Currently it is organized as a non-profit corporation, has 3 paid staff members, and is run by a Board of Directors who are answerable to nobody other than themselves, because they the group as a whole simply has no membership meetings. That's right. The group has no membership meetings and is run from top down. Yes, there is one supposed membership meeting per year, but in reality the Board organizes itself beforehand and then presents its own decisions to the 'membership meeting', which is in fact a public event organized as a sort of pep rally with the office staff and Board in charge of arranging all of the show beforehand. All decisions are made prior to the membership meeting, and not during the year's one 'membership' meeting itself. During the rest of the year, the Board of Directors simply decides among themselves who is to replace any Board directors that might be necessary to add per vacancies. The group, as a whole, is completely absent from making these decisions, as it is absent from having any voice in choosing office staff. In fact, there is no group as a whole other than those who donate money, who are considered the membership, rather than those who might be doing the main volunteer work and active in protests against The War. In actual reality though, donors make no membership decisions and are not even consulted regarding them. So what has been the result of this form of organization? In one word, the result has been total disorganization and chaos. The group simply does not have a membership at all beyond its 'Board' and paid staff. The group is not run democratically at all, but rather as a group of volunteers that do what the office staff arranges for them to do, supposedly with leadership direction given by the Board of Directors. In fact, even that is not usually the case, and decisions on what to do usually are principally made by the paid staff, and them pretty much alone. How much does the paid staff take in salaries from the group? At $10/ hour for 3 people over one year, the amount is a whopping sum of over $50,000 a year! Yet, this same staff of 3 are most often missing from actions that are in protest of war in the city. That's right. They are no shows, over and over and over again! Well, do they do other things then? Not really. The PPJPC is a group that pays for a building, has three paid staff members, and then does not keep it open most hours of the week! How are these hours of business for you? The building is kept open from 10
UFPJ Iraq Moratorium bannering on I-25
The third Friday of the month has come around again. Time for the IRAQ MORATORIUM with a JULY message: DON'T BOMB IRAN. Meet on the I-25 pedestrian overpass at Monument Valley Park NOON to 1PM. Visit United For Peace & Justice for more info or check Iraq Moratorium about the other JULY 18th actions nationwide.
UN Security Council sanctions against Iran are an illegal act of war
In a clear indicator that the UN Security Council is now a criminal conspiracy controlled by the US government and it's European imperialist allies, the 'Security Council' has committed yet another criminal act of war by earlier having passed economic sanctions against Iran. War is waged on many fronts, and economic boycotts called for from Washington DC is one of the most egregious ways of waging war. EU sanctions illegal, says Iran In fact, just like with Iraq, the economic war often times begins from DC as precursor to the actual shelling of any declared enemy of the US government. The United Nations is just rubber stamping the beginning of this war, rather than opposing it. Shame on you, United Nations! Because of your earlier sanctions passed in March this year (by the Security Council supposedly controlled by the UN as a whole), you gave the European and US governments the green light to continue to initiate economic warfare against Iran. The blood will be done in the name of the United Nations, and that is a set back to World Peace yet once again. The UN is not a sovereign world body of internationally legitimate government, but merely a pawn now in the hands of the US and its allies. Just like with Iraq previously, this war is about control of oil supplies, and has nothing to do with WOMD. Shame on the United Nations, a dead, dead hope for all.
Eugene Debs about Jesus Christ
The great American socialist Eugene Debs had this to say about Jesus Christ and those who would convince others that Christ was a turn the other cheek, milquetoast pacifist. 'I told my friends of the cloth that I did not believe Christ was meek and lowly but a real living, vital agitator who went into the temple with a lash and a krout and whipped the oppressors of the poor, routed them out of the doors and spilled their blood and got silver on the floor. He told the robbed and misruled and exploited and driven people to disobey their plunderers, he denounced the profiteers, and it was for this that they nailed his quivering body to the cross and spiked it to the gates of Jerusalem, not because he told them to love one another. That was harmless doctrine. But when he touched their profits and denounced them before their people he was marked for crucifixion. (Eugene Debs,Speaking to a reporter for Call from his prison cell in 1919 while serving time for making anti-war speeches.) Contrast this image of Jesus to the one that many in the so-called Christian 'Peace community' try to sell us on. Here, we have Jesus, The Living as a revolutionary, not some sort of dead, worshipped saint. We have a model to try to follow that is totally different than the one that is given to us so often. Jesus the Dead, or Jesus the Living? You choose.
Ped overpass UFPJ bannering 6/20 noon
This month's 3rd Friday IRAQ MORATORIUM will be held bannering on the I-25 pedestrian overpass at Monument Valley Park NOON to 1PM. Visit United For Peace & Justice for more info or check Iraq Moratorium about JUNE 20th actions nationwide.
Torture by America, Mayor Lionel Rivera, and the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission
The issue of how the US government under the Bush Administration, with the help of its Democratic Party and Republican Party collaborators, has legalized and openly allowed the use of torture despite it being internationally illegal is a big issue in our country. Many Americans are up in arms about this, and rightly so. One of the first duties that the pro-Peace/ antiwar community must do is to fight to end governmental use of torture on prisoners held. Common sense guides us on this one. We have to stop open US governmental use of torture NOW. So where is the local Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission on this one? This is a group that has a pastor leading it at this time, and that also has 3 paid staff members working in its office. What are they doing to fight governmental use of torture against captured prisoners? It has been months now when I first brought up the need for the PPJPC to demand that the city government pass a resolution against governmental use of torture. After all, Colorado Springs is a part of the USA, so governmental torture of prisoners is something done in our name. Yes, they do claim that we have a democracy here in the US, so it is claimed that our government represents all of us when it makes policy decisions. Certainly a local peace group then should be demanding that government make the right policy decisions. At the time it was proposed by me that the PPJPC make it our mission to go to the city government meetings held down at City Hall to try to get a resolution passed demanding an end to governmental use of torture, it was agreed that this was a good idea. It was agreed that the group would move on the issue. Sad to say, the PPJPC has done absolutely nothing to bring any measure or resolution proposal to the mayor, Lionel Rivera, nor to the Colorado Springs city council. Nobody has ever in this group mentioned any reason to why it should not proceed with this campaign, but the paid office staff and pastor board director have merely chosen to silently do nothing. These same people do often go to meetings arranged by the city police, where they then proceed to take their marching orders as to how to proceed with their 'protests', or not to proceed???, as spoon fed to them by Colorado Springs city attorneys. But they have not found the time to take a measure to the city government to demand that a resolution against the use of governmental torture be passed and sent to Washington DC. Do they really have any excuse for their inaction? I think not. It is time that the PPJPC begin to carry out its mandate to oppose war and promote justice.
Join international fast Sunday 22 JUNE
Global Network activist Jan Tamas began a hunger strike against the plans to put NATO missiles in the Czech Republic. His action has precipitated an international day of fasting on June 22. Join us. (Diet for one day!) Notify Space 4 Peace. Sign Jan's petition at Nenasilli.cz.
Unearthing the 70,000 Peruvians killed by the US counterinsurgency
Americans don't like to look at their bloody history, their bloody leaders, their bloody genocides. In fact, many liberals think it their calling to ask for even more bloody military interventions, all in the name of our supposed national goodness. Instead of building a real Movement to end US militarism, they tell us the problem is that we merely need to make our interventionism 'humanitarian' oriented, as if that would be a solution to the world poverty, misery, and chaos our corporate, government, and military leaders preside over! They forget about places like Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Vietnam, to name just a few locales that we as a people have helped our elites torture and occupy. Over at the local idiotic Justice and Peace Commission's HQ, the paid staff and preacher jefe on top are all busy with building something they call a summer 'Peace Camp' for children (Vacation Bible School). There, they plan to preach the mantra they call 'nonviolence' to a very select few kids. This is inactivity they substitute for real activism, where they would have to talk to the general public about places like Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Haiti. There at 'Bible School', the kids will never hear of places like Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Peru, sites of bloody US atrocity and torture. The liberal 'peace' salaried workers will help blab on to the kids about turning the other cheek, etc. Why won't the Peace and Justice group tell the kids the real story? Why won't they tell the kids about the unearthing of thousands of graves of other children, all murdered by a US campaign to terrorize an entire country... Peru? What a moral failure these 'peace' people are! They not only do not speak truth to power, they do not even speak truth to their own kids! Yes, the US government-Peruvian government killed tens of thousands in the '80s. Yes, Kids, your moms and dads paid the taxes for these massacres to happen, and voted for the Democrats and Republicans that authorized it. The blood of these dead kids, just like the dead kids of Gaza, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq are your responsibility, and the responsibility of your sheep-like parents. Are you going to let these atrocities continue without trying to do something to stop them? Peruvians seek relatives in mass grave Our tax dollars should go to help these people find their relatives killed by the Pentagon. Shame on us as a society for playing dumb all the time. And shame on the liberal Democratic Party voters for being some of the worst offenders in that regard. You know that your party is a war party alongside the Republicans, yet all the time you mouth to us the necessity of voting for them. Shame on you.
American liberalism lost in La La Land
American liberalism is lost in La La Land. Just look at the issues for them. 'Anybody but McCain'; Send in the Troops to Punish China; We Love Al Gore! Without a Socialist Left anymore, lumpenized middle class liberals cannot focus on anything beyond what the corporate media focuses for them to focus on. As one example, here is Common Dreams once again pushing corporate preaching by Al Gore on being green and clean, blah, blah, blah. Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate To the lumpenized American liberal, this is big news to have the illustrious --NOT-- Al Gore preaching to them and the world. It's like they long for Jimmy Carter to be resurrected on Easter, or some such other liberal Christian Miracle. This just is not an alternative vision at all. Somehow, the world needs to create a New Left, one that moves way beyond and in advance of the traditional Left Guard, composed of Imperialist Social Democracy, Academic Left Libertarianism, and Stalinoid Old Marxism. It's just plain obvious that the liberals will not ever get anything done on their own. We need a New Left.