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"We don't do body counts,"General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, famously remarked, when asked about Iraqi civilian casualties. We do do body counts of our own -- though we don't talk about them much. (source)
The war to liberate Southeast Asia from communism resulted in the deaths of 3.5 million Vietnamese, 2 million Laotians & Cambodians, and 58,000 Americans.
Rather than raping and pillaging the lands for its resources, the American military napalmed its jungles, carpet bombed its cities, defoliated the jungles with 20 million gallons of herbicides (including Agent Orange) and slaughtered women and children (My Lai Massacre).
It was easy to rationalize these acts when referring to the inhabitants as gooks, dinks, tunnel rats, and Uncle Ben's boys. Racism makes it easy to treat human beings as objects and dehumanize your acts of horror. ~~Jim Quinn, Charlie Don't Surf, OpEd News, February 2009
Here's a little something Auntie Imperial lashed together for Memorial Day 2010. It's Dedicated to those who have fallen, and Americans still at risk, in our ongoing IMPERIAL wars.
That A/V montage was brought to you courtesy of Vietnam Vets Against War (historic footage), OuterNational (Tom Morello, Rage Against The Machine) and The Asian Dub Foundation with the credit music, Rivers of Dub, Adbusters: Live Without Dead Time CD (onebigtorrent.org, currently showing 4 'seeds')
Some photos pulled from various sources follow the Outernational creditsSource, PoP dEFECT Radio, Courtesy of Skidmark Bob Freek Radio Santa Cruz |
It is a graphic image of the harsh realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera. And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see.
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, pictured being tended by comrades in southern Afghanistan, died of his injuries soon after. Now the release of this record of the 21-year-old's last moments has divided America, prompting furious debate over the sanitisation of war at a critical time for the military offensive. [In Full]
I'm just surprised... stunned really, that it made it to copy at all in the current milieu of 'embedded' reporting and "'sanitized' for the discerning media consumer who doesn't want their conscience bothered" war reporting by the majors.
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If the Pentagon, and your peers at CNAS want to continue these worthless wars Tom... Better stop the lying, the dissuasion from the belief that we're not vulnerable to the mayhem and non-culpable for it.. and hiding our deaths (incl the mundane, such as the returning caskets @ Dover AFB) in these wars IS a particularly creepy, Big-Brotherish, semantically corrupt, way to lie to the citizens of the country.
I feel for this soldier and his family, but "War Is Hell", whether one wins OR loses, as a nation, and as an individual human.
Condolences from AP is in order... Maybe they should MAKE SURE that the soldier's family gets every single benefit due them, because the Pentagon sure won't.
But they DO NOT owe an apology.
The last so many presidential administrations INCLUDING the current regime owe his family that.
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([Should we] Publish this picture...) To a nation full of children raised on video game and fantasy movie violence?
Whose parents who often don't let those children out of their sight to the age of majority?
A nation who's media panders them and tells them they NEED the trinkets sold them ('trinkets' often produced by what amounts to 3rd world slave labor) at behaviour controlled shopping malls where they lose the ability to socialize or empathize with anyone besides people just like them (consumers of products we destroy countries like Afghanistan to obtain the extractive resources for..)
([Should we] Publish this picture...) YES! Absolutely.
[Read what Tom Ricks had to say, and other comments, at his Blog, The Best Defense]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 28 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Memorial Day Musings On The U.S. Military - The 'National Guard'... All Of A Sudden Things Ain't What They Used To Be [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 11:15 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 27 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Despite Criticism From The Media And Other Places It Appears The Obama Administration Is 'Winning' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 10:23 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 26 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Taking Their Orders From The 'Top'... Or Whoever's In Charge - What Has Become Of The 'National Guard' And 'State Militias' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 13:27 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
U.S. not accepting foreign help on oil spillHere's a history of other oil spills around the world: "How Bad Is Gulf Oil Spill? A Global Q&A on Offshore Oil Spills"
When State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley refused to tell reporters which countries have offered assistance to help respond to the BP oil spill, the State Department press corps was flabbergasted... [In Full]
Activists Mark 20th Anniversary of Earth First Car Bombing
And in Oakland, environmental activists gathered on Monday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the car bombing of Earth First members Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney nearly died when a bomb exploded in their vehicle. They were in the midst of organizing a major Redwood Summer action that brought thousands of activists to California to protest destructive logging practices. In what many saw as a deliberate smear campaign, the FBI arrested the two and accused them of being victims of their own misfired bombs. Bari and Cherney later sued the FBI and won over $4 million in damages. Bari died before receiving justice in the case — the attack had left her nearly crippled, and she lived in constant pain before dying in 1997 of breast cancer. [In Full]
SANTA CRUZ - A vandal cut the brake lines on the vehicle of a UC Santa Cruz researcher late Saturday or early Sunday, and the Police Department has called in the FBI to help investigate.The FBI has been called in to investigate again, despite the fact that this UC researcher is not involved in animal research.
About seven FBI agents were at the researcher's Westside home on Monday. Some agents peered under the sport utility vehicle to inspect the damage, while others canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses.
The researcher, who wasn't identified, called police around 11 a.m. Sunday to report vandalism to the SUV, which was parked in front of the researcher's house on the 1200 block of Laurent Street, according to Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Rick Martinez. [In Full]
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The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.
The teacher controversy comes amid an increasingly tense debate over immigration. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer this month signed the nation’s toughest law to crack down on illegal immigrants. Critics charge that the broader political climate has emboldened state education officials to target immigrant teachers at a time when a budget crisis has forced layoffs... [In Full]
Sensible Washington is the group whose marijuana legalization petitions were seized by the federally funded agents. The group is well on its way to let Washington State residents vote on legalization on the November ballot, but this raid can put it in jeopardy.
The intended effect of this raid is to put a chill on other citizens from signing the petition, who will fear having their names and addresses exposed to a drug task force. It's intimidation, pure and simple. And your tax dollars are paying for it.
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Where's The ACLU? On The Targeted Assassination Of American Citizens (Anwar al-Awlaki) [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 12:02 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Glenn Greenwald wrote earlier this week about how the founder of Wikileaks had his passport confiscated upon arriving in Australia. Julian Assange is perhaps the most noteworthy investigative journalist in the world today, and he has made a career out of dragging into the sunlight information that powerful people want to keep hidden. I personally consider this a rather noteworthy story but, as best I can tell, the US media has largely been silent.
As The Times reported:The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.How is this the slightest bit relevant to Russia? [Find Out Here]
Julian Assange, who does not have an official home base and travels every six weeks, told the Australian current affairs program Dateline that immigration officials had said his passport was going to be cancelled because it was looking worn.
However he then received a letter from the Australian Communication Minister Steven Conroy’s office stating that the recent disclosure on Wikileaks of a blacklist of websites the Australian government is preparing to ban had been referred to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Last year Wikileaks published a confidential list of websites that the Australian government is preparing to ban under a proposed internet filter – which in turn caused the whistleblower site to be placed on that list.
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: One Big 'ClusterScrew' - An Overview Of The US "Intelligence" Community's Culture And The DNI [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 15:08 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Neodymium is never found in nature as the free element; rather, it occurs in ores such as monazite and bastnäsite that contain small amounts of all the rare earth metals. The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia; and reserves of neodymium are estimated at about 8 million tonnes [In Full]It currently(sic)takes 2.2 pounds of Neodymium per Prius... If my calculations are correct, that means there is supply for 8 million electric cars... Considering the number of cars in use on the planet, there will be an insignificant amount of E-cars produced before the supply of Neodymium and many of the other materials needed to produce these vehicles runs out.
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 20 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: America's Crisis In Mass Incarceration - The US Educational System Is Turning Out "Dummies" And We Can't Afford To Pay For "Dummies" [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 17:19 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." May 19 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Different American Wars, Different American Social Problems - American Society's War Wounds [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 22:22] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Bangkok burns after military launches all-out assault on Red ShirtsWHY is this happening you ask?
The Thai military launched an all-out assault on the Red Shirt compound in central Bangkok today, arresting the movement's leaders but prompting rioters to turn the city's main shopping district into a flaming battleground.
After the government rejected a red-shirt ceasefire offer earlier today, the troops moved in using live ammunition to disperse the crowd. At least six protesters and an Italian news photographer were killed in the assault. The main Red Shirt leaders gave themselves up but supporters rampaged through the city setting fire to Bangkok's Stock Exchange, Electricity Authority, and largest shopping mall. Thousands of Red Shirt supporters have also reportedly attacked city halls in two provincial capitals.
The captured leaders urged their followers, to no avail, to end the demonstrations. “We cannot resist against these savages anymore,” said Jatuporn Prompan. "I beg you. We have to end this for now.” [In Full]
Thailand: Why Obama is silent on the Bangkok massacres
By Shamus Cooke
May 16, 2010 -- When the White House is quiet as protesters are butchered in the streets of Bangkok, suspicions are raised. Silence often equals complicity. One can only imagine what the US government's response would be to a Venezuelan government slaughter: the US media and US President Barack Obama would loudly condemn such an act, in contrast to the muted response to Thailand's bloodbath.
The history of US-Thailand relations explains why.... [In Full]
Tuesday, 18 May 2010Hmmm... STILL sounds like "Vietnamistan".
Afghan rebels hit US Forces
AFGHAN rebels have staged two spectacular attacks on the US-led occupation forces.
A night-time raid on the US Bagram military base followed a car bomb attack on a NATO military convoy (pictured).
Reports Al Jazeera: "Bagram, which is near Kabul, the capital, is one of the biggest military bases in Afghanistan and mainly holds US troops as well as a detention centre where al-Qaeda-linked fighters and 'terror' suspects are held.
"Wednesday's attack follows the Taliban's announcement that they would launch a spring offensive against the Afghan government and foreign forces in Afghanistan in response to Nato's plans for a military campaign on the group's southern stronghold of Kandahar.
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