If there's a chant that unites protesters across America it is "FTP!" No matter the issue, from BLM to GMOs, excessive use of force by police against dissenting citizens is the common grievance. The UN has even condemned US human rights abuses, this time police violence and racial discrimination. Our emergant police state may be the business end of the New World Order, but its troubling conduct is directly traceable to US military rules of engagement. These violent cops are our vets! Stuck with PTSD, no marketable skills, and a taste for blood, American soldiers are transitioning to law enforcement jobs where they're already familiar with the militarized equipment and the shoot-to-kill MO. The irony of course is that many of America's homeless are veterans who could not live with the acts they were made to do in Afghansitan and Iraq and elsewhere. Those that could are the cops beating them! When American soldiers shot first and asked questions never, overseas, at vehicles or at civilians whose needs they did not understand, you shouted SUPPORT THE TROOPS. Now they've brought the war home with lethal force and indescriminate brutality. You asked for it, you got it.
Tag: US military
Have Americans overtaken the Nazis as the real benchmark for Godwin’s Rule?
Funny how Americans think the Nazis are still the ne plus ultra of evildom. Isn't it about time we stop pretending the cruelty of Hitler's machine exceeded ours? The US military has of course blown well past the benchmark of "Godwin's Rule" by any measure of war crime both in quality and quantity, the question is, for how long has this been true? The initiate might think Vietnam marked our trespass into the Ugly American of infamy, our ensuing exploits in Latin America cementing our ignoble national character, but US colonial possessions worldwide know we've applied American moxie to a Final Solution stratagem wherever we've roamed. Before our westward expansion domestically, we settled with genocidal intent under a crown's mentorship. America's plan for its indigenous populations was the model for the Nazi relocation and extermination system, so for the Germans we were the "Nazis". Odd how that perspective got lost in our history of WWII, our "Good War".
US military is poisoning the internet with its cyberviruses and its wars
As the Obama moves for more war against the Syrian government, it has also begun the war against Iran. Obama stepped up cyberattacks on Iran: report
US military working with Honduran dictatorship according to The New York Times
'Lessons from Iraq and the War Against Drugs in Honduras- The New York Times in its May 5th edition published an article that stated in its first paragraph: “The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war being fought in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country, constructing this remote base camp with little public notice... ...but with the support of the Honduran government.” The Iraqization of Honduras is more evident than ever: the induced failed state has a script fabricated in the U.S. Southern Command, having among other results, a Honduras submerged in violence to the point of occupying the denigrating first place in homicides in the world, in addition the unstoppable arms trafficking, an example of which is the Castaway Operation, promoted by the Department of Justice.' Complete analysis can be found at http://quotha.net/node/2256 where much good information about US military involvement in Central America can be found.
Collaborators, rats and pigs
I found this unsigned flier in Denver, a collage of the American eagle, globe in mouth, and Stars & Stripes over US misdeeds, clockwise from top left: race lynching, branding slaves, blindfolded Iraqi detainees, combatant corpse desecration, Hiroshima, torture of Viet Cong, My Lai, Columbus' mass burning of Taíno Indians, Filipino insurgents executed in trenches, the gruesome trophy pic, etc, framing this succinct condemnation: "The US military, intelligence operatives, and police are traitors to humanity. Those who work with them, those who friend them, and those who sleep with them are collaborators. They are rats and pigs."
Securing the Colombia landing area for the US military CIC, Barack Obama
"Some are admitting (the women) were prostitutes, others are saying they're not, they're just women they met at the hotel bar," Mr (US House of Representatives) King said in a telephone interview. Mr (Secret Service Director) Sullivan said none of the women, who had to surrender their IDs at the hotel, were minors. "But prostitutes or not, to be bringing a foreign national back into a secure zone is a problem," Mr King added. Meanwhile, Mr Sullivan told the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee that the 11 Secret Service agents and officers were telling different stories to investigators about who the women were. So far, 11 secret service agents and 10 US military were said to be involved in this military 'landing' of Commander in Chief Barack Obama in Cartagena, Colombia and the collision with the Colombia whore-force. ***But what's the problem, Boss? The US military and its many divisions always need some exciting flesh when they 'secure' areas for US military use. Is it that we didn't check these several dozen Colombian whores for whether they are HIV positive or not? What's the big problem here? The men just wanted to have a good time, and as good a time as Hillary Clinton seemed to be having at the 'Havana nightclub' there, too. What's the scandal in that? We like those young Colombian whores! Oh YES we do, Boss!***
There is nothing noble about being in the military
'We could start by telling the nation’s young people, and our own children, that there is nothing noble about joining today’s military, when its function is imperialism, conquest, genocide and, frighteningly, perhaps soon even domestic repression. As for those “highly competitive career fields” they can get trained in? Many of these involve killing innocent men, women and children.' -- Thanks, David Lindorff, for being honest in your excellent commentary Trolling for Kids about the US military and the actual and real motives of the men and women GETTING PAID for by that government body. 'In the militarist society in which we live in these latter days of American Empire, all soldiers are “noble heroes” who have signed up at “great personal sacrifice” to “defend our freedoms,” and we are all expected to pay homage and a great deal of our hard-earned money to support them, both in their brutal efforts to subjugate people in desperately poor parts of the world, and (when they leave the service, either to take jobs in the private sector or to live out broken lives if they were wounded) as veterans. But let’s be honest about all this. Most of the men and women in the military didn’t join the US armed forces out of any noble motives.' David Lindorff justly condemns the ruling class's efforts to create a higher caste of workers that shall then be allowed to sit on top of the rest of us civilians. Thanks for being so honest about what's going on here, David. These soldiers being recruited today are not heroes at all, and they definitely are not freedom fighters! Increasingly, they seem much more like just plain, ordinary welfare recipients, though the ruling class treats them much better than that. The soldiers see themselves as being a privileged group of welfare clods. Let's not enable them and instead help them personally disconnect from the big government-military pork barrel.
US military created today’s monster terrorist drug trafficking gang alliance
The Zetas, Mexico's nastiest gang of drug traffickers noted for mutilating bodies and dumping body parts all over the place into cities and rural towns alike, and the Mara Salvatrucha, Central America's most notorious gang are joining forces together. See Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces and then let us examine some the history of how these two gangs now have ended up allied together, and who helped create them in the first place? --- In the case of the Mara Salvatrucha, it was the American war against the people of El Salvador, where our kindly, gentle US ex President 'Ronnie' Reagan, supplied the El Salvadoran military with US 'advisors' and billions upon billions of American tax payer dollars. This caused a wave of Salvadoran immigration into the US, with many of these young immigrants without papers joining Los Angeles gangs, out of which Mala Salvatrucha was formed. Who could have foreseen that good Ol' Ronnie was producing such a future catastrophe for so many? Perhaps almost anybody with half a brain? However, America's population seems to be rather short of brains.... and has been for quite some long time, too. Those Salvadoran gang members went back to El Salvador from California's prisons, and Mara Salvatrucha grew and grew and grew. The ZETAS of Mexico were formed by the US military at Fort Benning's 'School of the America', known also as 'School of the American military-trained Torturers' to help the Mexican military out with its own counter insurgency operations. These people later were hired as a unit by the Gulf Cartel and later split off that group to then form their own drug trafficking gang called the ZETAs. Their American military training background was found to be of great use in being able to gang fight against other cartels for control over Gulf Coast drug trafficking routes arriving up from Colombia, whose military was also trained by the US military. And now the Zetas are in cahoots joined together with Mara Salvatrucha, with both operating in Guatemala which is yet another country whose military has been consistently trained by the US military, and a country that has slaughtered off hundreds of thousand of its own population as well, all as the US government pretended not to know about. That was a lot of US military work to help create this new monster drug trafficking alliance, was it not? Our tax dollars hard at work! Get your taxes in quick, we only have a couple of days left.... Who knows what monsters we have yet to have our US military create? Some neo- Osama perhaps?
Is the US military now torturing the jailed children and three widows of Osama bin Laden?
The US government and its military have a long history of torturing and murdering POWs held by its soldiers and their allies, and 14 of Osama bin Laden's family are now being held incognito in a Pakistani military jail. Are these three women plus their eight children and the other three relatives being tortured at this time? Osama's wives, kids remanded in judicial custody for 9 days. I definitely would not rule it out at all as the US military consistently breaks international law in the commission of all its various foreign occupations and wars. Torturing the family members of Osama bin Laden, all done supposedly to gather vital information, is exactly the type of atrocity that one can expect from 'our' government's thugs.
Robert Bales, US military war criminal, was a conman with a nasty background when he signed up as a soldier
Info is now beginning to leak out about the criminal background of Robert Bales when he signed into the US military to be put into a command position. See Afghan Murder Suspect Joined Army During Fraud Probe ...What a seedy guy this Sgt. Robert Bales is, defrauding a couple out of $1 and a half million and then running off to the military to join up to escape having to pay it back and/ or be criminally sentenced! Of course, the military itself is the bigger con, trying to pretend to the world that Robert Bales acted alone as US war criminal. Afghans are not buying this, even as most Americans seem to be now playing stupid about what happened. Does our country even have any sense of shame left as it occupies country after country with the troops of its 1%? That is the big question the rest of the world would like answered. 'Liebschner took his case against Bales and his firm to Wall Street regulators in May 2000, and an independent arbitrator later found that Bales engaged in fraud, unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments. In the midst of the pending case, Bales joined the Army and Liebschner said Bales could not be found after an arbitrator ordered him and his associates to pay more than $1.4 million.' Not exactly the Mr. PTSD guy the media tried to sell us on, after all. Bales is just an ordinary thug that the US military had doing its dirty work of terrorizing people in foreign lands.
Occupier vs The People, how they lie about ‘protecting Free Speech’ for us
Just the name Occupy Wall Street is an antiwar statement. The US military is an Occupier military against The People for the 1% Super Rich, and we are the exact opposite of such. We would Occupy the lands of the Rich and give to the Poor instead. The pro militarism people always say that they have 'served' to protect my 'Free Speech'. Does that occupier with the rifle look like he is protecting OUR 'Free Speech"? I doubt it. Remember Kent State and Jackson State!
ABC News previously showed film about US soldiers from Fort Lewis torturing & murdering Afghan civilians
Following is the link to an ABC News episode where they played the interrogation film of Corporal Jeremy N. Morlock, who 'is one of five GI's charged with pre-meditated murder in a case that includes allegations of widespread drug use and the collection of body parts and photos of the U.S. soldiers holding the Afghan bodies like hunter's trophies. All five soldiers were part of the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, of the 2nd Infantry Division, based at Ft. Lewis-McChord, Washington.' It also includes a US soldier relating how they planned to leave an Afghan man paralyzed and then kill his mother so as to further torture him. These US soldiers are really sick! How many like these folks are now running lose in Colorado Springs? It's anybody's guess as to that... Sorry, but this film that aired in 2011 is now cut into pieces with ABC's inserts of US corporate advertisements, which is an indicator of just how really sick American society as a whole has become. Confession Video: US Soldier Describes Thrill Kill of Innocent For more info about this case, see Jeremy Morlock, U.S. Soldier, Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison After Pleading Guilty To Murders Of 3 Afghans
US Occupation troops starve the children of Afghanistan half to death
'More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government.' The full responsibility for this lies with the US military Commander in Chief, Barack Obama. See AFP report Afghan child hunger among worst in world: report ....How many Afghan children have actually died from the hunger caused by the US government and its troops occupying Afghanistan? One hates to imagine the actual number.
Battle for Hearts & Minds of Afghan and Iraqi people has been lost by US troops
Does anybody in the US really believe that the American military has won over the Hearts and Minds of the people in Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone in other parts of the Middle East? Our government's military is a corporate modeled occupation army and not one fit to over Hearts and Minds of those whose lands they occupy. For example, read Just Plain Stupidity Or A Failure By Design? ... Burning the Quran; Urinating On Dead Bodies ... In that commentary the author talks about the 'brainless' behavior of the US occupation forces. But could it be any other way? Racist military men and women hardly are the best conduit for winning people over to supporting the US. They are just over there to do a 'job', make a 'career' for themselves in the US military, and then get back home and grab some of the extras that the military offers up to its hires.
Army “Revolutionary” XM25 weapon will revolutionize US people killing
The $35,000 rifle fires exploding ordnance, enabling US infantrymen to kill people behind walls or at distances of 2,300 ft. No indication that our soldiers can now SEE behind walls, or differentiate between combatants and noncombatants at such great distance. Meaning the XM25 will "revolutionize" killing, as military spokesmen say, probably the same innocents we're massacring now, but an order of higher magnitude. If the same braggarts had a hand in naming the XM25, it means times (X) a magnitude (M) of 25, which I'll bet is an arbitrary underestimation, where Collateral Damage approaches 100%. And get this, the Army assure us that the XM25 can be fired from the safety of distance and from cover, both of which the XM25 deprives of our adversary. "Revolutionary" pretends to reference the spirit of America's only defensible war for our independence, but it really means another leap in the arms race, use of disproportional power, further distorting our inhuman arm's length from war conventions, eliminating "cover" for our victims, but not for our own fighters because our opponents could never afford such a weapon. The DoD's own words. It's class war after all. The haves against the have-nots. Specifically have-not the means to defend themselves from foreign oppressors. Nothing revolutionary about the wealthy keeping down the people. And there's nothing technologically revolutionary about the XM25 either. Laser metering, exploding bullets, timed remote detonation, none of those is a new development. Putting all that into a rifle bore is just a matter of budgeting for sky-is-the-limit weaponry. We could make guns that launched miniature yellow submarines if defense spending wanted to bear the expense.
Who runs Colorado Springs?
Who runs Colorado Springs might be a funny question to ask if the answer wasn't so sad? Why the US military runs Colorado Springs and at the heart of it all is NORAD. See NORAD images Check them out at atomicbombs@cheyennemountain!com
Retired US Colonel Ann Wright tells it like it is!
Ann Wright was just in Colorado Springs and I got to admire her dedication and energy to The Cause of Telling The Truth. We need so many more folk just like her who will just get out and speak up! The Israeli Smashing of Gaza and International Silence
Somalia and the Pentagon Pirates of the Indian Ocean
It is a clear indication of how iron clad government controlled is the US corporate press that news reporting about Somalia in the last couple of weeks has been centered on the stoning to death of a young girl and 'pirates'. Never mind those millions of starving refugees in the country that the Pentagon has created, it's 'Indiana Jones' time here for the American media! And pirates are always fun to play with! But who are the real pirates off the coast of Somali in the Indian Ocean? Asia Times Online gives us some insight into just that question... NATO reaches into the Indian Ocean India was once a neutral player in the old Cold War, but not anymore these days and times. The US has captured another satellite government to use in its geopolitical warfare against China and Russia... and that country is India. That old ally of the US, Pakistan?... well let's just say that their new role is to be turned into a battlefield zone in Southern Asia for the Pentagon. The US based military industrial complex needs to get the Pentagon firmly into that region for more sales for them to be funded from US taxpayers. How better to keep the welfare system for them going? They need Federal 'bailout'! As to the Somali 'pirates' seizing ships inside their coastal waters? Look at it from their viewpoint? Nobody complained much about the US/ Ethiopian piracy in their homeland, now did they? How about those $300,000,000 of fish annually pirated from their coastal waters by international fisheries based in other countries? Who cares about fish piracy stealing from the starving Somalians? Did you even hear about it? Then why not Somali 'pirates' getting into the big game? The US government is into a big geopolitical play to corner the world's last remaining natural resources away from China and Russia. Southern Asia is the new zone of combat and the Indian Ocean sits strategically placed between Asia and Africa and most of all, the Middle East. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is now into piracy in the Indian Ocean in a big way, all under the direction of the USA, and that wonderful little building in Northern Virginia, the Pentagon! Peace Now, Y'all. I'm sure that Obama plans to deliver 'PEACE'... lol. He's going to fight the Big Bad 'pirates' in Africa!
Death of a Democracy
The domestic news is bleak across the board. Brother Jonah has already weighed in on the government's latest post-9/11 power grab. Here's a little more on the subject. From the Army Times: Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. IT STARTS NEXT WEEK ...this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. IT'S UNPRECEDENTED After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one. IT'S PERMANENT They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack. THE POWERS WILL BE UNLIMITED The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them. AND AIMED DIRECTLY AT US “If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said 1st BCT Commander, Roger Cloutier. IT'S POWERED BY THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE For the past 130 years, the Posse Comitatus Act, along with the Insurrection Act, has prohibited the government from using the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. However, the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill allows the federal government to deploy the military here at home basically whenever they feel like it. This new "federal freedom" will most likely be used to limit our Constitutional liberties and suppress dissent. Who's minding the store? How are these bills -- including one that throws out more than 100 years of American history with a single pocket veto -- passing without a whimper? Why don't we know? And why don't we care? In the words of Willy Loman, "Attention must be paid!"
The US government’s campaign of atrocities inside Ethiopia
The US is the prime backer of the Ethiopian dictatorship and its campaign of terror against native Somali people inside Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch now accuses Ethiopia of war crimes in Ogaden These crimes are Made in the US. Do you care? You should. The US has now degenerated into the world's leading source of terrorism. Thank you, Democratic and Republican Parties. Thank you, America. Aren't you proud, Joe America? Aren't you proud, Jane America? Aren't you proud, Church Goers? Ain't you...proud?