“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.“
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A Iraqi girl in an orphanage - missing her mother so she drew her and fell asleep inside her. This is America’s democracy
This picture always gets me.real tears
Oh my god
Damn..
Omg
Wave the flags
as they march off to war.
The body bag count
doesn’t matter anymore.
How quickly we become uncivilized when the dirt kicked
is kicked in our eyes.
A world away they drop bombs
while back at home
every car has a flag sticker on.
And they sing patriotic songs.
And no one knows
what’s really going on.
Open your eyes.
They’re killing kids.
We’re supposed to be the better man. We’re doing the same things they did. We bomb a wedding,
we bomb our allies,
we bomb and we bomb.
Let the bombs decide!
Let the bombs decide.
Don’t get me wrong,
I love my country.
But killing innocent people is something I don’t want to see.
Would it be so easy
to turn the other cheek,
if the kids that were dying lived just down the street.
Open your eyes.
They’re killing kids.
We’re supposed to be the better man. We’re doing the same things they did. We bomb a wedding,
we bomb our allies ,
we bomb and we bomb,
Let the bombs decide!
Let the bombs decide!
The Gulf War was a war from 1990 to 1991 between the United States and Iraq. American pilots bombed an Iraqi convoy. Many US media declined to publish the photograph above. War is often romanticized in media. In reality, it is brutal. Here’s a thread where people have commented with their experiences in war or a relative’s experiences. (Thread)
The immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, in Saigon in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support for Ngô Đình Diệm’s government.
Watch America’s last 4 presidents each announce that they’re bombing Iraq | The Week
It’s déjà vu all over again as President Obama becomes the fourth consecutive President to announce a bombing campaign in Iraq. Watch Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Obama make their statements over the span of two decades.
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MLK, Jr.: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. For the sake of those hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
Wars from Syria to Ukraine Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Record Highs
By Richard Clough, Bloomberg
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at recordprices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world.
Investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Chicago-based BMO Private Bank. President Barack Obama approved open-ended airstrikes this month while ruling out ground combat.
“As we ramp up our military muscle in the Mideast, there’s a sense that demand for military equipment and weaponry will likely rise,” said Ablin, who oversees $66 billion including Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC) and Boeing Co. (BA) shares. “To the extent we can shift away from relying on troops and rely more heavily on equipment — that could present an opportunity.”
Bombardments of Islamic State strongholds added to tensions this year that include U.S.-led sanctions on Russia for backing Ukrainian rebels and China’s feuds with neighbors over disputed South China Sea islands. The U.S. also is the biggest foreign military supplier to Israel, which waged a 50-day offensive against the Hamas Islamic movement in the Gaza Strip.
A Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of the four largest Pentagon contractors — excluding Boeing, whose civilian airplanes business is larger than its military unit — rose 19 percent this year through yesterday, outstripping the 2.2 percent gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Industrials Index.
