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Commemorating Sixty Nine Years Of Terror Bombings
By Bob Higgins April 27, 2006
Today or yesterday is an anniversary of sorts, a day of commemoration, a day to reflect on what it is in man that dooms him to endless repetition of his mistakes.
Maybe it's just a day to spit on the sidewalk, hitch up your pants and say, "same shit, different day" and let man worry about himself.
Sixty nine years ago Hitler and Mussolini decided that propping up their soul mate Francisco Franco would offer them a great opportunity to test out all the new high tech military hardware they had amassed.
This was bad news for a Basque city called Guernica and 1500 or 6000 or 16,000 of it's inhabitants. The number is uncertain, record keeping tends to go out the window when the entire universe is a collage of blood and body parts.
For in a Republic, who is 'the country'? Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant, merely a temporary servant,it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood.
Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in, but this attempts a stride beyond the grave and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for."
"I hate flowers...I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
"I've been terrified every day of my life but that's never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do."
"The days you work are the best days."
Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. ...
Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
"...Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison, Federalist 47,1788
When voters are given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they'll vote for the Republican every time.
"I don't like bipartisans. Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know that he's going to vote against me."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix."
The Republicans believe that the power of government should be used first of all to help the rich and the privileged in the country. With them, property, wealth, comes first. The Democrats believe that the power of government should be used to give the common man more protection and a chance to make a living. With us the people come first.
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions.
Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell.
Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn
On a shelf above my computer is an old, very fragile, dog eared paperback copy of "A Peoples History Of The United States." The pages are turning yellow and the binding is dried out and broken. Every time I open it I have to make sure that I put the pages back in the correct order.
I bought it back in the early 80's and it has been with me ever since. I've read it cover to cover several times and referred to it on countless occasions over the years.
In the early nineties, I believe it was in the spring of ninety two, after the second or third reading I was moved to write the author a letter of thanks.
I thanked him for writing a book that I wished that I had the talent, insight and energy to write and for his struggles in the civil rights movement in the 60's as well as his significant struggle against the war in Vietnam.
Much to my surprise and delight, a few weeks later I received a two page letter of reply, thanking me in return and encouraging me to continue to write and remain politically active. We corresponded perhaps twice more and spoke on the phone once. He was very gracious and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with someone I admired so greatly.
There are many Americans that I have admired in my life, there are some that I have looked upon as heroes, but none more so than Howard Zinn.
Mr. Zinn is a true American hero. A young man who answered his country's call to arms in World War Two and took his personal knowledge of the madness and horror of war and inhumanity and turned it into a life that would become a fight for peace and social justice.
"Why?" Badriya Hussein asked as she surveyed the grim wreckage, the blanket covered bodies before her on the highway south of Baghdad last Wednesday. "Why?' she pleaded with US troops who had been riding in the convoy, traveling on the wrong side of the road, when one of its vehicles, a 36,000 pound MRAP, tore through a mini van carrying a dozen Iraqi civilians, five of them members of Badriya Hussein's family. All five were killed; seven other Iraqis were injured along with 3 US soldiers. "Why?"
Her relatives had been on their way to a funeral. Now the only funeral they would attend would be their own.
"Why," asked Helen Thomas a day later and 7000 miles distant, why do they hate us, what is their motivation for wanting to hurt us? She was pushing the two politicians; counter terror wonk John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano to explain the reasons why an educated, middle class, young Yemeni man would attempt to blow up a perfectly good airplane on which he happened to be riding. "Why?"
He had intended this trip to be his last; a flight that would end in his death and the deaths of many others.
The same question, asked by a grief stricken woman on a blood spattered, wreckage strewn road in Iraq and half a world away, was now asked by the grand old lady of the Washington Press Corps, in a press briefing.
They received the same answer, which was no answer at all.
I was listening to National Public Radio on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, and they brought on some nonentity from one of Rupert Murdoch's faux "magazines," who delivered himself of the remark that when he heard the news, he broke out laughing. He laughed at Obama. He is being paid by the Aussie media monopolist, the billionaire bully, to laugh at Obama.
The Right in the US objected to Obama getting the peace prize on the alleged grounds that he had not yet done anything to deserve it. But the Right in the United States is to peace as velociraptors were to vegetarianism. They don't believe in the ideal for which the award stands in the first place. And they find President Obama laughable, so they can't imagine him getting any awards. They have underestimated him badly and will probably pay a price for that. They misunderstand the Nobel Peace Prize and its history, and the Rupert Murdoch Right (he pays for a lot of this pollution of our airwaves) would not have agreed with any of the past awards.
The chicken hawks of Fox and the GOP have beaten the drums incessantly in the last few days for a major troop increase in Afghanistan. One of their agreed upon talking points has been to attempt to make the case that if we leave, the dread al Qaeda will once again have a safe haven in which to set up training camps.
For the last eight years whenever I hear the phrase “al Qaeda training camp” I look up at the television and there is the same old video. You know the one I mean, the video of 5 or 6 turbaned guys in black pajamas swinging hand over hand along twenty feet of monkey bars.
There have been other videos displayed, some more or less menacing and others bordering on comedy. But the “monkey bar video” has gotten the most air time by far. I saw it again this afternoon, broadcast on one of the non Fox channels following the obligatory "al Qaeda training" sound bite from yet another pasty faced flag waving warmonger with a hatful of Lockheed or Boeing stock or contributions.
It struck me again that these clumsily swinging, PJ clad yard birds aren’t even carrying weapons. No packs, canteens, ammunition or other gear necessary for anything more threatening than a gymnastics meet.
I found myself wondering how the display of this nonsense ever instilled the kind of fear in the American populace that caused them to meekly give up their freedoms, their fundamental civil rights and fall in line behind a gang of yahoos who in a sane world, would be found in the loony bin, not in leadership positions.
We are, and have been for years, training, and equipping a potentially far more dangerous force, the Afghan army, some of whom have already turned their weapons on our troops. We spent a great deal of time and treasure in the 50’s and 60’s performing the same function in Iran and then proceeded to make military alliance with Iraq and Saddam when Iran went bad.
There is some irony in the fact that many of the same Mujahadin that we armed and nurtured in their struggle against the Soviet enemy in the 80’s are now training Afghan and Arab recruits to throw us out of the same country.
Every stage of this, no matter who is shooting at whom, in no matter what country, the same interests in the defense industry, in the oil industry, in finance, banking and their investors reap enormous profit.
No profit attends at all to the troops we sacrifice or to their enemy counterparts in these insane resource wars. Their lot is pain and death and the eternal keening of their grief stricken families.
We, as a nation gained nothing in Vietnam, only public debt and private death. Our gains in Iraq and Afghanistan will be the same, public debt, private death and vast treasure for the profiteers.
Tomorrow I’m going out in the yard with a hack saw. I’m going to cut down my monkey bars. I seldom use them any more and I’ll sleep better knowing that the “terrorists” will be unable to get to me.
While the left despairs of Barack Obama's capitulation to K Street and Wall Street, the right continues to insist that he's a Marxist, socialist, communist enemy of capitalism. What could possibly convince the right that it's wrong - about that, or anything else?
Not the press. The right gets its facts from Fox News, talk radio, the screaming sirens on the Web and the mandarins of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. It maintains that the mainstream media is in the tank for liberals, which is hilarious, because the prestige press is so terrified of the right that it has substituted the diligence of he-said/she-said stenography for the challenge of refereeing disputes, and because the 24/7 chase for ratings and page-hits makes covering sex, celebrity and crime - and celebrity sex crime - way more important than figuring out what's actually important.
Not the political system. Demagoguery is fun. It wins airtime. Its plumage-ruffling signifies to the Beltway culture a mature appreciation for the virtues of pandering and partisanship. It's also profitable: polarizing plus demonizing equals fundraising. Whatever hopes the Founders had for the deliberative grandeur of our legislative system are mocked by the likes of Michelle Bachman, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and James Inhofe.
Bill Maher was Jay Leno's guest last night on his fledgling show, and while Leno is now in primetime, Maher brought a certain late night attitude to the program by suggesting the pair read the highly sexualized emails of Republican Governor Mark Sanford and Republican Representative Mark Foley. While Leno read the sugary love letters Sanford sent to his Argentinian mistress, Maher read the IMs Foley sent to his underage pages. Guess which were more disturbing.
Jessy Tolkan: Washington saying coal industry can be "clean" is pure fiction
Paul Jay speaks to Jessy Tolkan at the Tides Foundations' Momentum conference in San Francisco. They speak about Tolkan's coalition on climate change fighting Obama to establish a moratorium on all coal mining. Tolkan says that Washington's push for "clean coal" is not enough because the coal industry's and President Obama's argument that the production of coal can be clean is "an absolute, 100% lie." She also says that "the science is clear that if we don't address coal head on, it's almost "game over" for the planet."
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Jessy Tolkan is the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition, a group of 50 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada that organize on college campuses, high schools, and in local communities. Energy Action Coalition is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by advocating for green jobs, stopping new coal plants, and making young people's voices heard in the policy debate around global climate change. As state director for the New Voters Project, Tolkan helped register more than 130,000 young voters producing one of the highest youth turnout rates in the country. Tolkan helped plan Power Shift 2007 and 2009, conferences that brought together more than 12,000 youth representing all 50 states, and resulted in the largest single lobby day on Capitol Hill focused on global warming. She also spearheaded Power Vote, a campaign to mobilize 1,000,000 young voters on climate and energy issues. She's been featured in Time, Vanity Fair, and on Hard Ball with Chris Matthews. In 2006 she was named one of the Real Hot 100 Women in America.
Who Owns Congress? Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment. People lost their savings. People lost their homes. Now, despite the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street, there is a massive effort to make sure that Congress does nothing about it. You know what? That might end up being the result.
How does it happen that Wall Street was able to convince Congress to deregulate their industry, to be in a position to bring the economy down? How does it happen that they are able to fend off serious efforts in Congress to try to re-regulate the financial institutions to protect the American people? Here's the answer: In the last 10 years, Wall Street and big financial institutions have spent over $5 billion in campaign contributions and in lobbying activities. It doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican; if you have any influence they are going to go after you.
Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment. People lost their savings. People lost their homes. Now, despite the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street, there is a massive effort to make sure that Congress does nothing about it. You know what? That might end up being the result.
How does it happen that Wall Street was able to convince Congress to deregulate their industry, to be in a position to bring the economy down? How does it happen that they are able to fend off serious efforts in Congress to try to re-regulate the financial institutions to protect the American people? Here's the answer: In the last 10 years, Wall Street and big financial institutions have spent over $5 billion in campaign contributions and in lobbying activities. It doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican; if you have any influence they are going to go after you.
Repression ordered to the neighborhoods of the Honduran capital, forcing the poor to fight or starve As the anti-coup resistance approaches 90 consecutive days of civil disobedience, it counts itself a new international ally. The government of Brazil has replaced the United States as international organizer in bringing down the coup government of Roberto Micheletti. The Real News gets an update on the situation in the capital from independent journalist Sandra Cuffe, and a fresh analysis from Al Giordano.
Produced by: Jesse Freeston
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Al Giordano is an investigative journalist based in Chiapas, Mexico. He has spent most of the summer of 2009 reporting from post-coup Honduras. He is originally from the Bronx, New York. Since 2000 he has been the publisher of Narco News, which reports mainly on the US War on Drugs effects on the people of Mexico and Central America. He is also the founder of the School for Authentic Journalism and writes a blog called The Field which focuses on US politics.
Photo by Matt Nager Mark Williams speaking during a Tea Party Express rally at the Cape Buffalo Grille in Dallas, Texas, on Sept, 4, before heading to Washington, D.C.
The first nine years of the new century have yet to find a defining label, something as catchy as Tom Wolfe's "Me Decade" of the 1970s or the "Silent Generation" of 1950s men in gray flannel suits. Bookmarked by the horror of 9/11 and the history of a black president, the aughts certainly don't lack for drama.
But last week, lost in the commotion over the brat's cry of Joe Wilson and the shotgun blast of rage in the Washington protest, something definitive was released just as this decade nears its curtain call.
For average Americans, the last 10 years were a lost decade. At the end of President George W. Bush's eight years in office, American households had less money and less economic security, and fewer of them were covered by health care than 10 years earlier, the Census Bureau reported in its annual survey.
The poverty rate in 2008 rose to 13.2 percent, the highest in 11 years, while median household income fell to $50,303. Ten years earlier, adjusted for inflation, it was $51,295.
Of course this reflects the ravages of a horrid recession. But the decline started before the collapse in the housing and financial sectors - and it was calculated, in the eyes of some.
Harvard economist Lawrence Katz called it "a plutocratic boom." If anything comes close to defining the era, that would be my nomination. President Bush cut $1.3 trillion in taxes - and the biggest beneficiaries by far were the top 1 percent of earners. At the same time, Wall Street was inflated by the helium of a regulation-free economy that eventually gave us Bernie Madoff and banks begging for bailouts.
Now consider the people who showed up in a state of generalized rage in Washington over the weekend. They have no leaders, save a self-described rodeo clown - Glenn Beck of Fox News - and some well-funded Astroturf outfits from the permanent lobbying class inside the Beltway. They are loosely organized under a Tea Party movement, but these people are closer to British Tories than 18th century patriots with a love of equality.
"A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican"
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican's would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home
He turns on a radio talk show, the host's keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I'm a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
The phrase "knowledge is power" is a cliché in our culture. Yet as often as we hear it from others or speak it ourselves, how often have we contemplated the process of acquiring knowledge? Is there a blueprint for obtaining knowledge and wisdom? Are we encouraging children to be intellectually curious or merely teaching them that every question has an instant and obvious answer?
It seems no matter which political party in America holds the majority, a Washington/Wall Street corporate centric axis dominates policy making. Indeed, Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin recently observed that banks, "Frankly Own the Place." Among liberal-progressive activists like myself, this condition has facilitated a confrontational mindset.
Our experience suggests that the power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few will not be voluntarily relinquished. Hence, everything from healthcare reform to bankruptcy protection for aggrieved homeowners is perceived by many of us as a high stakes pitched battle between struggling families and feculent corporate behemoths. Although activism has certainly facilitated important victories on behalf of working people, fighting for economic justice often seems analogous to climbing an endless wall.
According to theWorld Bank, almost forty percent of humanity lives on a daily income of less than two dollars per day. Another 1.1 billion scrape by on less than one dollar per day.
How can anyone possibly survive or raise a family with such a meager income? In New York City, two dollars per day won't even cover my daily Brooklyn/Manhattan round-trip subway commute. Yet billions of low skilled people put food on the table, educate their children, grapple with unexpected emergencies and even save money.
In the age of Barack Obama, both the Republican Party as well as the South appear marginalized and out of step with the rest of America. Yet it wasn't so long ago that the South represented the foundation of America's conservative hegemony. Starting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, the Republican Party prevailed in nine out of the next fourteen presidential elections with a reliable Southern base.
Specifically, the Republican Party exploited white Southern resentment against the cause of civil rights and integration. The "Southern strategy" as it was later called, enabled Republicans to end the Democratic Party's previous domination of the South following the Civil War. A key figure in that realignment was the renowned evangelist Billy Graham.
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, on Monday, May 18th.
Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has recently made news urging that we don't rush into appointing a special prosecutor to investigate crimes of torture during George W. Bush's presidency. In a provocative April 20th post entitled "Of Black Holes and Radio Silence," Ms. de la Vega wrote:
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal on Sunday, May 17th.
President Obama will soon announce his nominee to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. It's a critical nomination with long-term ramifications for civil liberties, executive power, management-labor relations, the environment and consumer rights. Hence, it is vital the public know whether the judicial philosophy and ideology of any prospective nominee to the court is compatible with their sensibilities and values. Ideally, all nominees would be forthcoming about their philosophy as the senate either confirms or rejects them with full knowledge of the sort of justice they're likely to be.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown aside with great force.
"Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Resume"
"And I'll stay away from Verlaine, too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound ??? if I can remember any of the damn things.
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ???cheque enclosed.???
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface. It is the story of her life, and it is called In the Service of the King, which title is perhaps a bit dangerously suggestive of a romantic novel. It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.
"Self Portrait Without Beard" By Vincent Van Gogh is number 7 on the list of all time most expensive paintings at a cool 71.5 million. A steal huh?
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Photo by Matt Nager Mark Williams speaking during a Tea Party Express rally at the Cape Buffalo Grille in Dallas, Texas, on Sept, 4, before heading to Washington, D.C.
