What Anti-War Movement? - Left/Right Politics and the War Agenda

JUSTIN RAIMONDO

Justin Raimondo at the University of Michigan, 10/25/10 from MIC4L on Vimeo.

GLEN GREENWALD ON SCOTT HORTON

Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the military’s formal charging of Bradley Manning for giving classified information to WikiLeaks, Wired‘s refusal to disclose the full chat logs between informant Adrian Lamo and Manning and why whistleblowers who embarrass government are typically subjected to the Daniel Ellsberg treatment.

Ten minutes from the incomprable Glen Greenwald, "...and you see that over and over again where the dirty work of the govt is done by the largest media outlets, that is their role ...when it wanted to spread war prop about Jessica Lynch's ...heroic rescue by the marines... all of those lies ...planted with the Wash Post...uncritical reporters simply repeat what they are told by gov t sources and do their dirty work for them"

SIR! NO SIR! THE GI REVOLT

CREATING THE NEXT BIN LADIN: THE COMING CRIMINALIZATION OF ANTI-GLOBALISM

(Adam Gadahn,"Azzam The American", is the first American charged with treason since 1952)

"Azzam The American" freeze frames Bin Laden and puts words in his mouth.

from: Booman Tribune

the video freezes at about 1 minute and 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.



"Azzam The American" identifies and targets a new enemy

from: Pepe Escobar

Al-Qaeda for its part, with or without a fake, recycled video-only bin Laden, will keep enjoying the fruits of its brand recognition.

Much more than the Middle East, al-Qaeda's special target audience is western Europe, where a legion of "white Moors" - second-generation, radicalized, born-again Muslims - eagerly accepts its new politico-religious anti-imperial message. The best antidote to this expansion would be the dawn of real representative governments in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Persian Gulf petro-monarchies. It won't happen - at least not in the near future.

American spy chiefs quickly name Bin Laden's replacement and the replacement quickly identifies the new enemy

from: US loner helps bin Laden to taunt Bush
Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph

American spy chiefs were quick to name Adam Gadahn, the head of al-Qaeda's English language media operations, as the author of large sections of bin Laden's broadcast.

A Californian heavy metal fan, who converted to Islam and became the first American to be charged with treason in half a century, has been fingered as the author of Osama bin Laden's latest video lecture - which left the terror chief sounding like an anti-globalisation protester.

a bizarre rant against America, with references to global warming, "insane taxes", the US mortgage market meltdown and rising interest rates.

What surprised analysts was his use of the language of Left-wing protesters, which showed detailed knowledge of the economic travails of middle America.

Bin Laden referred to "the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgage" and blamed "global warming and its woes" on "emissions of the factories the major corporations".

from: KEY QUOTES FROM THE BIN LADEN TRANSCRIPT

EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF THE ENEMY: HOW TO GO FROM BIN LADEN TO CHAVEZ

• And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war,

• to warn against waging the war and describe its true nature in eloquent terms like "no to spilling red blood for black oil,"

• And since the democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates, ... there shouldn't be any cause for astonishment - and there isn't any- in the Democrats' failure to stop the war.

• It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations...they are the real tyrannical terrorists.

• mankind is in danger because of the global warming ... from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations, ... the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord,

• the world is being dominated by the democratic system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their representatives.

• brazen attack on the people, ... Bush, Blair, Sarkozy and Brown- still talk about freedom and human rights with a flagrant disregard for the intellects of human beings. ... you should liberate yourselves from the deception, shackles and attrition of the capitalist system.

• The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of “globalization” in order to protect democracy.

• and the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; ... all of this is but one side of the grim face of this global system.

• So it is imperative that you free yourselves ... and search for an alternative, ... in which it is not the business of any class of humanity to lay down its own laws to its own advantage at the expense of the other classes as is the case with you, since the essence of man-made positive laws is that they serve the interests of those with the capital and thus make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

ST PETE FOR PEACE.COM

Threats are not objective, but are socially
constructed. The question to ask is, "Who is
constructing your threats and why are they doing it?"

Here is a couple of pictures that succinctly
demonstrate the difference between "real" threats and
"constructed" threats.

The money graph is misleading because it includes
money spent on Iraq only. But the "Iraq money graph"
is interesting because no "terrorist" threat came from
Iraq. 15 of the 19 "pilots" came from Saudia Arabia.
None came from Iraq.



Other Fact Sheets from St Pete for Peace.com

RED AS A BABOON'S ASS AND PROUD OF IT

By STAN GOFF

Fayetteville, North Carolina

...I'm speaking for myself as an unabashed leftist -- that's someone who opposes capitalism, in case this term is confusing. -- and we argue openly for our position: that capitalism as a system, and not some moral or intellectual failure, causes these wars.

EPIC's website claims is "was" against the war, but now... here's the uniform mantra among these fronts... WE cannot "abandon" Iraq. The caps are intentional, and the claim is mendacious. Their opposition was not to invading and occupying Iraq, but to the way in which the neocons went about it...

The other speciality of this "tendency" is to red-bait. So I might as well take that away right here. I'm as red as a baboon's ass and proud of it.

I don't have to put on a red hat, though, to talk about this WE business... this WE must not "abandon Iraq." ... support of ANY continuation of ANY imperial military occupation is NOT antiwar. If you support a military occupation, then you are supporting a war. Two plus two. This is not complicated.

... the US military is not in Iraq to do a damned thing for the Iraqi people. What particular brand of cheap magical-mystery acid does someone take when he implies that Pizarro should be nominated to help the Incas with reconstruction? WE are the barbarians here!

This benevolent force you are arguing to leave in Iraq has

• been used to enforce attacks and sanctions that are slouching toward a body count of 2 million,

• microtoxified the entire environment with a radioactive condiment that produces babies born without brains,

• slaughtered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children,

• trashed the social and economic infrastructure,

• imprisoned thousands of people in indiscriminate round-ups (including children, by the way),

• subjected detainees to sexual humiliation, beatings, rape, murder, and other methods of systematic torture,

• bombed whole neighborhoods, kicked in the doors of sleeping families and waved guns at their infants and grandmothers,

• surrounded a city (Fallujah, in case WE forgot), then blocked the exits against "military-aged males," who the US armed forces then exterminated, Warsaw-style, by the thousands.

...containment mission for the liberal bourgeoisie ... WE can't abandon the Iraqis, indeed!

There is no WE. There is a THEY. THEY are an imperial ruling class. THEY really do exist, and with about a month's dedicated research, it would be possible for a small staff to list them out with names and addresses...

THEY operate very like a mafia, and THEY rely very much on their US state to keep things running smoothly, including sending out hirelings to kill their enemies and victims. The difference is that the hirelings, who are vast numbers of working class kids, have been convinced all their lives by a zillion-dollar-a-year Orwellian brainwashing apparatus to believe that killing for bankers and currency speculators and politicians is some noble cause.

THEY want to establish permanent military bases there, and every day that they stay there puts them one day closer to that... or more likely to some humiliating denouement like Vietnam, ...

YOU and all the rest of the civil-societist gasbags in the alphabet soup of issue-policy NGO's are advising moderation in the face of a world that is already deeply in the grip of the very barbarism ... because what YOU are endorsing is nothing more nor less than the continuation of Wolfowitz's lethal Caligulan fantasy in Iraq to save capitalism from its own dirty, dangerous, and expensive messes.

So I am not going to be diplomatic with (those who) misrepresent the (anti-war) action ... as somehow being directed against those bewildered, economically caged-in workers in uniform we call "the troops."

The left in this movement is not "against" the soldiers. Speaking for myself, I am on the soldier's side, not as a soldier, but as a human being. I encourage all soldiers to resist. I won't conceal the fact that my encouragement of that resistance is aimed at utterly gutting the capacity of that institution to continue operations in the charnel house they've made of Iraq.

People can see Luxemburg's prediction of barbarism right in front of them. It's here, and this WE finds it unacceptable for future generations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Goff