I thought Jeremy was very unfair in how much credit he did not give Barack and
how much he seemed to focus on him as a target giving anger itself too much
purpose and ending with an appeal to deciding on multi-party change instead of
just reporting without any grandstanding.
On May 20, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Richard Conrad wrote:
> 21 - Free Library of Philadelphia
> libwww.freelibrary.org › Programs & Services
> When: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:30PM Where: Central Library Cost: FREE No
> tickets required. For Info: 215-567-4341. Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning
> ...
> On May 20, 2013, at 7:31 PM, Glenn moyer wrote:
>
>>
>> "Obama in his first election campaign suggested that we would send ~ 10
>> helpers for every combat soldier... he needs to see, that isn't happening -
>> and hopefully before the Republicans get a chance to take over and make
>> Global WAR even SO much worse, as did Pres. Richard Nixon in Vietnam et. al."
>>
>>
>> Rick,
>>
>> You might want to see Jeremy Scahill on Tuesday night at the central
>> library. His new book, Dirty Wars, should be required reading for all
>> public school students, and might give you some important new information.
>> (I recently saw him speak at Harvard with Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman)
>>
>> One reason the corporate media completely ignores the truth about US global
>> policy is the bipartisan nature of our ruthless global empire. The workings
>> of the corporate military empire continue methodically, whichever wing of
>> the duopoly represents corporate America at the time. As Glenn Ford, The
>> Black Agenda report, noted; the Democrats are the more effective wing for
>> corporate domination.
>>
>>
>> The Republicans push the outer limits of corporate totalitarian ideology,
>> and the democrats implement the agenda with melodious platitudes, lies, and
>> misdirection. Obama has "double- downed" (Scahill) on the Cheney Rumsfeld
>> terror policy in almost every area, such as the persecution of whistle
>> blowers, secrecy, the police state, and international war crimes. Yet, his
>> base among the Democrat middle class remains silent.
>>
>> (Jimmy Carter tried to send me to kill in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Truman
>> used nuclear war to scare the Russians and escalated the century of Korean
>> genocide . Kennedy attacked Cuba despite Castro's entreaties, and
>> Kennedy/Johnson started and escalated Vietnam after the French empire, and
>> Clinton solidified Reagan/Thatcherism. The so called lesser evil is pretty
>> damn evil.)
>>
>>
>> I too voted for Obama during the first term, and was cautiously optimistic
>> for the first week or so. (He fooled me too with his book, The Audacity of
>> Hope.) I understood that the American middle class would need to stand up
>> and force hope and change, and of course that didn't happen. ( Wall St. was
>> brilliant in its choice of Obama for the Democrats.)
>>
>>
>> Gun people and gay marriage supporters all need to look past the lies of
>> their Republican/Democrat parties. We all need to recognize why the big
>> policies like wars, health, education, etc. are never covered in corporate
>> media, as they manipulate emotions, fear, and hate by focusing solely on
>> emotional/cultural issues. ("We does freedom and democracy" is the extent of
>> thoughtful comprehensive reporting and analysis in the bipartisan media.)
>>
>> The politicians don't give a damn about guns, abortions or gay marriage
>> because the 1% live above those laws anyway! And the Wall St. agenda of
>> global military totalitarianism proceeds uninterrupted decade after decade,
>> as the Democrats and Republicans do the bipartisan dance all the way to the
>> Cayman Islands. Money and power are the true bipartisan issues!
>>
>> (Do you know what Obama is trying to do with these secret, "trade
>> agreements?" It is nothing short of nullifying nation sovereignty under
>> multi-national corporations. If the US or any signatory country defies Wall
>> St. and passes worker safety, environmental laws, etc., the nations
>> taxpayers will be fined and the laws nullified!
>>
>> I wish there was a real difference between red evil and blue evil, but there
>> is only corporate evil and politician prostitutes. Without Dennis Kucinich,
>> Elizabeth Warren will be a lonely voice in that cesspool of corporate lies.
>>
>> Peace and solidarity,
>> Glenn, a human and citizen
>> PS: I hope you got to see the full Moyers and Co. I saw
>> corporate/university science from the inside, but the middle class needs to
>> learn the truth about the science of "safety" claims, behind corporate
>> chemicals and profits. People on the list will remember how RoundUp was safe
>> to drink, and that I was a liar for speaking up!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Conrad
>> Sent: May 20, 2013 4:32 PM
>> To: Glenn moyer
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [UC] military dictatorship announced, links
>>
>> Obama in his first election campaign suggested that we would send ~ 10
>> helpers for every combat soldier... he needs to see, that isn't happening -
>> and hopefully before the Republicans get a chance to take over and make
>> Global WAR even SO much worse, as did Pres. Richard Nixon in Vietnam et. al.
>>
>> On May 20, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Glenn moyer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Secret Police,
>>>
>>> I'm so happy that Lindsay Graham and the Obama pentagon revealed our
>>> beloved global military dictatorship. The war powers clause and the US
>>> Constitution were evil regulations. Global military dictatorship is good.
>>> It is very very good!
>>>
>>> http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/17/astoundingly_disturbing_obama_administration_claims_power
>>>
>>>
>>> Thousands of known and unknown military bases, as well as 75 US Wars are
>>> very profitable for corporations. 75 wars and corporate profits are good.
>>> These are very very good!
>>>
>>> http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/06/the-united-states-is-fighting-how-many-wars/
>>>
>>> http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/peps.2013.19.issue-1/peps-2013-0011/peps-2013-0011.xml
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJXUxHGL1Qc
>>>
>>>
>>> Here in upscale paradise, we celebrated the local death of the First
>>> amendment with a beer party in Clark Park. We demanded that freedom of
>>> assembly, free speech, and a free press be destroyed long ago. And now
>>> that damn freedom of the corporate press is gone too. Ending citizen
>>> rights and persecuting journalism is good. It is very very good!
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/obama-doj-james-rosen-criminality?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-4%20Pixies:Pixies:Position4
>>>
>>> http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/15/chris_hedges_monitoring_of_ap_phones
>>>
>>>
>>> Private prisons are cleaner and safer; and public schools are evil.
>>> Destroying public schools and building private concentration camps is good.
>>> It is very very good!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16406-education-reform-in-the-new-jim-crow-era
>>>
>>>
>>> Truthful science interferes with corporate profit. Corporate science
>>> always gives the right answers. Corporate science is good. It is very
>>> very good!
>>>
>>> http://billmoyers.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear glorious secret police. Totalitarianism and brutality are God! God is
>>> very very very good!
>>>
>>> Your devoted worthless slave until my torture and death,
>>> The human race
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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