Civilianism

Leaked Afghanistan War Logs Reveal Lies and Corruption

S. T. — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:53:34 +0000

Here’s a good page to use for browsing the leaked war documents.

Pakistan border region. Anjum Naveed/Associated Press

It’s amazing how CIA experts and government officials go on CNN and other talk show networks and say that the 91,000 documents leaked by Wikileaks really don’t tell us anything new. Oh really? Most organizations [...]

Defund the Afghanistan-Pakistan War Now

S. T. — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:15:42 +0000

Photo credit: Photograph: Abdul Qodus/Reuters, June 2007

Politicians, and our President, continue to argue for the investment of millions and billions of $$$ for the war in Afghanistan, at the same time the politicians here are defunding health care, trying to deny unemployment insurance and investigating how to end Medicare and Social Security. Yes, [...]

Kill TV and the Real Threat to Peace

S. T. — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:26:05 +0000

Repost from June 27th. In this video, Tom Engelhardt argues that most of the American public is oblivious to how the US government is garrisoning the planet, how we have long been in a perpetual state of war and other topics from his new book “The American Way of War.”

‘Kill TV’ [...]

What Afghanistan is Doing to Us

S. T. — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:09:47 +0000

1st Lt. Christopher Goeke of Apple Valley, MN. Died at the age of 23 in Afghanistan, July 2010. Photo by AP

It’s a tragedy that young people have to die because their government lies to them. The young man at left, Christopher Goeke, was killed last week in Afghanistan at the age [...]

The Mark Williams Letter

S. T. — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:54:13 +0000

Racist Tea Party Sign

For anyone who has any remaining doubts that the Tea Party is fundamentally racist, this letter came out last week from one of the leaders of the Tea Party. I think it will be easy enough for progressives to use this through the 2010 and maybe even the 2012 elections. Any [...]

Israel Back to Destroying Homes and Stealing Land

S. T. — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:40:47 +0000

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. — Hans F. Sennholz

If only that quote was true. Lately people are going out of their way to keep the wars going, where ever they may be. A nice little visit with Obama last week and a promise to [...]

The Company They Keep

S. T. — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:19:47 +0000

The video below shows the political movement proudly supported by MICHELE BACHMANN, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rand Paul, Dick Armey, FOX News, and others on the far-right.

(This is an updated video. The previous video contained footage of an immigration rally and Think Progress replaced that video with the one above, which [...]

Tea Party Racism Called Out

S. T. — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:48:11 +0000

Photos from NAACP, who got them from ThinkProgress.org

It’s about time! It’s obvious to just about everyone with functioning senses that the Tea Party (‘tea bagger’) movement has been racist from the beginning. They have continued to be racist (although perhaps not as much as they used to be, in such a blatant manner) this [...]

BP Supressing All the Evidence They Can

S. T. — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:32:25 +0000

Today BP starts attempting to bolt a better cap on the gushing oil well a mile below the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone will hold their breath and hope it works, but it will be 4-7 days until we know. We also have to be prepared for the possibility that it may not work [...]

BP Hiding Sickened Clean-up Workers

S. T. — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:06:48 +0000

BP is hiding the fact that many of the oil clean-up workers are getting sick from oil clean-up work and some are being told to go to BP clinics on an island, instead of to regular area hospitals.

BP is still telling the media and its own workers that there is no reason to wear a [...]