CIA Director John Brennan said Americans should expect the war on terror to continue as long as evil people have access to lethal technologies and mass communication.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Minneapolis-St. Paul: No Cold War with Russia! No U.S. Weapons to Ukraine

No New U.S. Wars and Interventions
Funds for Jobs & Housing, not the Pentagon!

Join the Weekly Peace Vigil
Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 4:30-5:30 pm
Lake Street/Marshall Ave. Bridge over the Mississippi River
between Minneapolis & St. Paul

Obama & the Pentagon are playing with fire:

Join the Wednesday, February 18 peace vigil to speak out against U.S. meddling in Ukraine, a new flashpoint with frightening global implications.

According to the United Nations, following the U.S.-inspired coup last February, the death toll from fighting in eastern Ukraine is more than 5,300. Another 1.5 million people have been displaced.

As fighting intensifies, the Obama Administration is now considering further escalation with $3.5 billion in heavy arms to the government in Ukraine. The U.S. is sending 600 troops to provide military training this spring.

More U.S. intervention could provoke a war with Russia which would have regional and global implications.

The weekly peace vigil is sponsored by: End War Committee of Women Against Military Madness and Twin Cities Peace Campaign

For more information 612-522-1861 or 612-827-5364.

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Happy Birthday, Dr. King - January 15, 1929

“The [Vietnamese] people read our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs….

At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called “enemy,” I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything else. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved. Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor. Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now.”

—From the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s historic 1967 speech expressing his opposition to the Vietnam War. 

Via Anti-Imperialist League

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List of Countries Supporting Terrorism

These countries are openly supporting terrorist groups, and have given them billions of dollars to date and  continue to train them. The USA actually created most of them and now today, Obama says he is thinking about putting North Korea on the terrorist list. Does Obama really think the world does not know that he himself is the biggest supporter of terrorism on the planet?

United States of America

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Turkey

France

Kuwait

United Kingdom

america-wakiewakie:

Instead of prosecuting torturers, Obama prosecuted the guy who revealed the program | Vox

The details in the Senate report on Central Intelligence Agency torture, released today, are shocking. But don’t expect anyone to be held responsible. The only person the Obama administration has prosecuted in connection with the torture program is a man who revealed its existence to the media.

Much of the information in the report is new to the public, but a lot of it would have been uncovered during a detailed torture investigation Attorney General Eric Holder conducted during President Obama’s first term. After carefully examining the evidence, Holder decided not to prosecute anyone for the CIA’s torture. “The department has declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt,” Holder said when he dropped investigations into two torture-related deaths in 2012.

That seems consistent with Obama’s own views on the subject. Asked about investigating CIA torture in 2009, Obama replied that “it’s important to look forward and not backwards.”Obama admitted that “we tortured some folks” earlier this year, but he didn’t call for those responsible to be punished.

But the Obama administration has had a different attitude when it comes to those who revealed the existence of the CIA torture program. In 2012, the Obama administration charged former CIA official John Kiriakou for leaking classified information related to the torture program to reporters. Threatened with decades in prison, Kiriakou was forced to plead guilty and accept a 30-month prison sentence. He’s in prison right now.

Obama has vowed to “use my authority as president to make sure we never resort to those methods again.” But prosecuting people who revealed the program, instead of the people responsible, makes it more likely that abuses like this will happen again.

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micdotcom:

The war on terror has totally backfired 

Not if your goal was to dominate an entire region by whatever means necessary, commit industrial scale murder, destabilize a people, strip them of their natural resources, fleece the American working class with xenophobic warmongering, and make shit tons of money for a few rich white guys and American corporations…

Because that’s been an enormous success.