SeriousCitizen's Comments

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iraq All Over Again?

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:46:19 +0000

Has anyone noticed that we are planning to bomb nuclear reactors and nuclear refineries? When nuclear reactors have leaked at Chernobyl and Fukushima, that caused large areas of geography to be off-limits to human activity. We are planning to use bunker buster bombs to blow the contents of reactors into the atmosphere. And what is the region that will be off-limits afterwards? The Persian Gulf from where comes half of the world's oil. As soon as you hear that we have started a war on Iran, 1) go fill your gas tank, 2) go to the ATM and get lots of cash, 3) go buy canned goods, dried foods, and water, and 4) tell your family that you love them. Our attack on Iran will be the last military action we ever do, because afterwards the USA will not be a coherent, functioning society.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Armageddon Network

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:00:37 +0000

The UN Charter, which the USA wrote and which we signed into law as a treaty, declares that it is illegal to attack a member nation or to threaten to attack a member nation. The US Constitution declares that treaties are the supreme law of the land. Thus, under US law, it is illegal to threaten to attack Iran. For Bush, or Rice, or McCain, or Obama to threaten Iran with "all options are on the table", that is a crime. Under US law. Unfortunately, the USA seems no longer to be a land with rule-of-law. This is one more example. If we must threaten Iran or actually attack Iran, then we should first withdraw from the United Nations. We should also withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, since there we already agreed that Iran has an "inalienable right" to enrich uranium and develop nuclear technologies. "Inalienable" means that its right cannot be taken away under any conditions. Our politicians, our media, and the general public should realize that our Constitution makes our international treaties legally binding under our own domestic law.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Finding Freedom In Handcuffs By Chris Hedges

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:35:47 +0000

Thank you. I am ashamed that I have not been arrested. Maybe all Americans should seek arrest, and thus arrest the war machine.

http://countercurrents.org/ : The Children Of Ralph And Ron By Niranjan Ramakrishnan

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:46:38 +0000

Thank you very much. I admire all three men that you have described: Byrd, Nader, and Paul. I am left progressive in most of my politics, and did vote for Nader twice. Paul is appealing to a progressive, mostly because of his goals of a) returning the USA to land with rule-of-law, and c) drastically down-sizing the Pentagon. And his whole demeanor is that of an honest person. His language lacks the polish and practiced phrasing of the marketing messages that come out of the mouths of most politicians. I would vote for Ron Paul. In any case, I am determined to vote for a third party, probably Green or Libertarian.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Tough Oil: Five Public Health Challenges Of Petroleum Scarcity By Mike Field

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 06:29:42 +0000

Thank you for this analysis. It should have added that anticipatory wars for oil, as we have been experiencing for 2 decades, most recently in Libya, are also unhealthy for the soldiers and for the civilians in the war zones. Then there will be domestic resource wars, as people within nations start waring on each other, in order to access the declining resources. For example, the tax structures of many developed nations are now skewed to divert resources from the majority to a small minority. These kinds of conflicts will shift from political and financial conflict to violent conflict. Fortunately, the violence industries also rely on oil.

http://countercurrents.org/ : American Fascism, Terrorism And Bin Laden By Diane V. McLoughlin

Mon, 23 May 2011 15:35:40 +0000

Now that bin Laden is dead, if we believe the news reports, maybe the USA should bring focus on trying to catch the persons and organizations who put the demolitions into the 3 World Trade Centers that completely collapsed, at free-fall speeds, as if by demolition.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Genocide-Ignoring Lies In Obama's Middle East Speech By Dr Gideon Polya

Sat, 21 May 2011 23:55:40 +0000

Yes, thank you very much for this. The US is now, at this time, waging war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and Libya. Five wars at once, killing people in their own communities, people who have not attacked the USA, have not threatened to attack the USA, and have no capability to attack the USA. Five optional wars. Five wars because we like to attack people. Five wars for fun and profit. And now Americans see this as "normal".

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette : Coleen Rowley

Wed, 11 May 2011 20:43:57 +0000

Thank you very much for this. Ms. Rowley is an American hero, as Scott Horton. To care about the USA and to have the courage to publicly criticize the government, that is heroic.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Defeat of the United States by al-Qaeda

Sun, 8 May 2011 08:18:09 +0000

One more. Osama bin Laden may or may not have been responsible for putting demolitions into the 4 World Trade Center buildings that completely collapsed into their basements in seconds. That cannot happen. The buildings are designed to withstand crashes and fires. If it looks like demolition and quacks like demolition, then it is probably demolition.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Defeat of the United States by al-Qaeda

Sun, 8 May 2011 08:11:45 +0000

Thank you for this. If the war we won against Spain made us into imperialists, then the war we won against Germany made us into fascists (patriotic militarists whose purpose is to control the population and its resources for the purposes of promoting the corporate state). It would be tempting to say that the USSR made us into communists, no, but they did get us into war in Afghanistan and they did teach us that "true" is what the government says is true no matter how obviously false. The USSR was a workers' paradise, and the USA is the land of the free and the brave. Nations that lose wars learn something and get a cleansing of their political system. We need that.

http://countercurrents.org/ : 16- Year-Old Is Sueing The US Government Over Climate Change

Sun, 8 May 2011 07:52:46 +0000

Congratulations and thank you. In my experience, the left progressives are mostly old people like myself. It is refreshing to hear that new voices are coming. It is the future we are destroying, and it should be the people who inhabit that future who should be most concerned and active.

http://countercurrents.org/ : The Rhetoric Of A Staggering Empire By Maryam Sakeenah

Sun, 8 May 2011 07:47:01 +0000

Thank you for this. I too noticed that President Obama was pleasuring in death and glorifying it. But I thought that the essay would raise more issues of the costs of war and the expenses of empire. I have also been waiting for someone of prominence to say, "Now that bin Laden has been killed, we should find the persons who put the demolitions into the 4 World Trade Center buildings that completely collapsed into their basements in seconds." Fires cannot do that. Americans like to "get the job done", well, there is one more job to finish. Find the culprits who arranged the 9-11 events.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Unprecedented Campaign Ends Torturous Pre-Trial Treatment Of Bradley manning

Thu, 5 May 2011 21:08:38 +0000

Bradley Manning's new address: Bradley Manning #89289 830 Sabalu Road Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027

http://countercurrents.org/ : "Modern Times" Really Akin To The "Dark Ages" By Sherwood Ross

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:16:59 +0000

Thank you for this. But, from the title, I expected a catalogue of wars of looting, refugees fleeing, hiding and hoarding what resources they can, the destruction by barbarians of anything we cannot understand, mass hysteria based on religious beliefs, plagues sweeping the planet, etc., etc.

http://countercurrents.org/ : President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring Him Guilty By Kevin Ze

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:02:01 +0000

Thank you for this report and analysis. The USA really has become a nation without rule of law. The idea of "law" in the USA is now like that in Nazi Germany or Stalinist USSR: law is a system of rules for oppressing and killing people whom the government dislikes, but will never apply to the government nor its leaders and military. PS: Please remember to make a donation to CounterCurrents. It is money well spent.

http://countercurrents.org/ : US Blocks UN Torture Investigator From Seeing Bradley Manning By Naomi Spencer

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:15:23 +0000

Amnesty International often achieves better treatment of prisoners by wide-spread and persistent writing to prisoners and to the authorities who abuse prisoners. Everyone inside and outside the USA who opposes torture, who wants war criminals prosecuted, who favors freedom, democracy and accountable government, everyone should routinely, frequently, relentlessly, send postcards of support to Bradley Manning (since sealed mail will be opened). And express yourself routinely, frequently, relentlessly to President Obama. Post: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500 Email form: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Phone message: 202-456-1111 FAX: 202-456-2461 Bradley Manning c/o Courage to Resist 484 Lake Park Ave., #41 Oakland, CA 94610 OR (likely to be returned to sender, but Brig then knows he has support) Bradley Manning c/o Marine Corps Brig 3250 Catlin Avenue Quantico, VA 22134

http://countercurrents.org/ : Prison For Peacemakers In Tacoma, Washington By Bill Quigley

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:20:53 +0000

Thank you to the peace makers for their courage and care. Thank you to attorney Quigley for assisting their legal defense. We need millions more moral people if the US and NATO are to ever stop their addiction to war.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Revolt Against American Militarism By Timothy V. Gatto

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:22:57 +0000

Thank you for aptly asking the most crucial question. When will America get a government of the people, by the people and for the people? When? How? It seems an impossibility, other that following a complete economic collapse.

http://countercurrents.org/ : Darkness At Noon: Bradley Manning And Julain Assange By Tony Kevin

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:27:46 +0000

The US women's peace group, Code Pink, has mounted an online petition to President Bush, concerning Bradley Manning's imprisonment, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, sensory deprivation, social isolation, and other tortures, apparently intended to damage him psychologically prior to the trial that will decide whether or not he is guilty of any crimes http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/t/10579/...

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Army's Mafia Abuse of Pvt. Bradley Manning

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:22:16 +0000

Amnesty International often achieves better treatment of prisoners by wide-spread and persistent writing to authorities. Everyone inside and outside the USA who favors protection of whistle blowers, who opposes torture of prisoners, who wants war criminals exposed, tried, and convicted should routinely, frequently, relentlessly, send postcards of support to Bradley Manning (since sealed mail will be opened). And express yourself routinely, frequently, relentlessly to President Obama and VP Biden. Post: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500 Email form: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Phone message: 202-456-1111 FAX: 202-456-2461 Bradley Manning c/o Courage to Resist 484 Lake Park Ave., #41 Oakland, CA 94610