What we are witnessing in this hour is a New Imperialism. Iraq is reduced to rubble, and American corporations make a mint by rebuilding it. All of this, we are assured, is to benefit 'the People of Iraq. What we are witnessing in the shattered ruins of Iraq is the spoils of war; spoils that are the seeds of vast wealth. Of course, Administration officials are putting quite a different spin on this development. In a speech made several months ago before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, neoconservative thinker, Richard Perle observed, "What I think we have won on the battlefield is the right to try to establish consistent policies that are for the benefit of the people of Iraq." He hastened to add, "It's not that we are looking for anything for ourselves..." The U.S. role was described as a "stewardship" over the conquered territory. The U.S., of course, doesn't have to ‘look [...] for anything.' It already has what it wants. I guess you could make an argument that the administration is using the war as an opportunity to hand out more subsidies to American businesses (shutting out foreign bidders), but it's not like Iraq is all that great a prize as a market. Nor is Afghanistan. Yes, the war has been bullshit from the start, but someone does have to rebuild that country. hmmm...So all the Heroin and Opium in Afghanistan isn't big business. Billions in Oil and cheap labor in Iraq? Another Masterpiece. Well done!

This isn't just a War on Iraqis or Afghanis or even Arabs or Muslims. It is ultimately a war on us all. That's because the billions and billions of $dollars$ that are being spent on this war—the cost of tanks, rocketry, bullets, and yes, even salaries for the 125,000-plus troops— is money that will never be spent on education, on health care, on the reconstruction of crumbling public housing, or to train and place the millions of workers who have lost manufacturing jobs in the past three years alone. Mumia once again hits the nail on its head...not only is he telling the truth of the current but he does so with great grace. I wish I could communicate his message in the same eloquent fashion. I applaud the internet one will never hear such rhetoric on CNN/Fox/CBS...etc a.k.a. Corporate Propaganda. Sometimes the Truth is Stranger than Fiction…. Another Masterpiece. Well done!

"A nation that asks nothing of its government but the maintenance of order is already a slave at heart -- the slave of its own well-being, awaiting but the hand that will bind it. By such a nation the despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual. When the bulk of the community is engrossed by private concerns, the smallest parties need not despair of getting the upper hand in public affairs. At such times it is not rare to see upon the great stages of the world, as we see at our theaters, a multitude represented by a few players, who alone speak in the name of an absent or inattentive crowd: they alone are in action whilst all are stationary; they regulate everything by their own caprice; they change the laws, and tyrannize at will over the manners of the country; and then wonder to see into how small a number of weak and worthless hands a great people may fall." [From: de Tocqueville, Alexis, *Democracy in America* [2 vols.] (New York: Bantam Classic, 2004) [orig. publ. 1835] ]

But the Bush regime has used that fear, that anxiety, that sense of being under attack to stoke the fires of war and now the US is involved in building and protecting a colony in the heart of the Middle East. That's why. It isn't enough to simply say "bring the troops home" as some have said. For to do so only means bring them home today and unleash them on some other unsuspecting people tomorrow. That is the recipe for postponing war, not ending it. War is indeed big business, but it more than that. It is a social tool by which governments have always mobilized larger social forces for their political ends. The ends of government- what has this always been? Power Why do you think the Bushites have unleashed the somber Ashcroft upon the American people- a man who lost a senate election to a dead man is now the ultimate arbiter of who may exercise civil rights in this new era? one of my favorites...

the Latin American dictatorship gripes about American imperialism and threatens to invade the USA

The graduates of the SOA have proven relentless fighters to be sure; who are masters of the dark arts of torture, cruel interrogations, rape and mass murder. And who do they fight but their own people. To millions of people in Latin America the school is known by the popular name "La Escuela de Golpes"---the school of coups. There is scarcely an infamous massacre that can not be traced to its graduates. The Uraba massacre in Columbia. The El Mozote massacre, the rape and murders of four U.S. church women and the Jesuit massacres in El Salvador, the La Cantura massacre in Peru, and hundreds more. When the U.S. brays about a war on terrorism, there are millions in America to the south who snort in derision for they know another America which breeds state terrorism. While it takes a very narrow view, it does tell some hard truths. But to counter the typical leftist claims, the so called "war on terror" is about a lot more than oil. This way of over Simplifying is just as wrong as saying it all about Freedom and democracy… true true true.

Original from 1985. Shrouded I've had a notion since I was three, the devil's been after me I saw him on a billboard, and in the eyes of a snarling dog He knew when I was weak, had a way of making things look bleak and he'd love to see the sun shrouded by a blinding fog Chasing my shadow he moves in the dark fouling every rule to take hold but then when I ask to see the face of my enemy, wouldn't you know he wouldn't show It struck my funny that he would pass up a chance to sell his sickness to me and then I felt his fear and it became quite clear he's afraid of anything that's free he's afraid of my mind, he's afraid of me

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. Albert Einstein. Possibly your interests blind you... Lincoln As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Abu is right! Greetings from old Europe.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service. Albert Einstein. "There is one powerful reason why the judicial system should not permit the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The evidence is now overwhelming that there have been deadly errors made in sending prisoners to the death chamber. Again and again, it has turned out that prisoners pronounced guilty and sentenced to death have proved later to be innocent. In the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the evidence is conflicting, and there is certainly more than a reasonable doubt of his guilt. The history of executions in this country shows the system biased against poor people, people of color, and political activists. Mumia Abu-Jamal fits all three categories. To allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to die at the hands of the judicial system would be a terrible commentary on a system that claims to dispense "equal justice before the law." The whole world is watching to see if our country will live up to that claim." This is truly a Great job you've done here on spreading many of Mumia's cause's. I to have taken it upon myself in spreading this man's work to break any and all ill conceived ideas of who he is and what stands for. Another Masterpiece. Well done!

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. Truly his videos are very informative. Thanks

This is statecraft (or should I say, stagecraft?); the use of illusions to keep the rabble in line. In biblical lore, the Pharaoh did the same thing when he ordered his priests to hurl down their staffs, to transform them into vipers. Princes, since antiquity, used stagecraft to calm the People, to reassure them of the power of the State. What State? -- When the lives of so many slides deeper into debt and despair? What Union? -- When the government acts as a collection agency for the ruling corporate class?

Run it like this and LIVEVIDEO will find itself GREGLIONS gone. Is that what you want? Let me know.

The Midnight Special. Leadbelly. Iconic chaingang/slavery song.

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Fascism. The very word evokes dark, menacing images of troops, marching in lockstep, in support of a terrible, malevolent ideology. In a word, it suggests the followers of Mussolini in Italy, or Hitler in Germany. To most of us, its very mention suggests its foreign nature; its Otherness. Therein lies its danger. For, because it is seen as a foreign ideology, the inevitable idea arises: "It can't happen here." Those who say this, either don't know, or don't want to know, American history. They prefer the safe myths, to the ugly truths of how this country came to be what it is. What is fascism? In short, it is the merger of state and corporate interests. Fascism is more than a funny-sounding word; it is dyed deep into the fabric of American life; and creeps forward today, under cover of 'Law.'

Things get worse than this for Winston, but this is all you need to see. So, Winston, did any planes crash on 9/11/01? http://www.coffinman.co.uk/beginning_of_the_end_of_freedom.htm

One WTO bigwig admitted as much in an article for the *Financial Times* newspaper, saying the WTO "is the place where governments collude in private against their domestic pressure groups." [Guy de Jongvieres, "Network Guerrillas", *Financial Times*, (4/30/98), p. 12.] By 'domestic pressure groups', he meant labor unions, environmentalists, human rights activists, public health advocates, and any community or citizen's organization which tries to hold the feet of corporations to the fire of public safety, health, good wages, or the protection of the environment. Down with the WTO! It seems he covered all bases man. Great job!

We are but an echo of what came before, with recycled lies used over and over again, to pull the young into service of the Empire, in defense of mass murder and government-industrial corruption.

The Pioneers of a Warless World are the Young Men (and Women) Who refuse military service. Albert Einstein. Possibly your interests blind you... Lincoln This is a class-draft; a draft by another name of those who are unable to navigate the civilian economy. When you really look at it, the War in Iraq is ultimately a class war. Except the class that fights it didn't decide to fight, and isn't fighting in their class interest. While doubtless some kids are motivated by slick commercials and calls to patriotic duty, it is virtually assured that for many young folks, if they were born into a family of means, their patriotism would be displayed by flags unfurled in their dorm rooms, or fluttering on the breeze outside their windows. If just more American people could see how there government lie and use your stupid people to go kill people and conquer other lands... well then we might see a nice world. As long USA goes hand in hand with Israel and trying to curve everyone .... it will be war in the world

Dr. Sandra tallks with her guest about the Spirit of Jezebel. Talkshow about controlling powers - The spirit of Control (part 2)