I've often heard, "Go ahead and protest the war, but remember that they are fighting for your right to do so." Is this really true? I have no doubt that some truly believe this; however, they are mistaken and/or misled. Often this response is nothing more than a disingenuous response to...
Posted to
Veritas
by
zsignal
on Fri, Nov 30 2007
Filed under: rights, free speech, war
Give Peace a Chance It is funny that a word like “Peace” automatically brands you a commie loving democrat to so many people. The idea of “perpetual war” and always having an enemy to fight is so engrained on the American Right that the idea of peace is a foreign concept. The real American Idol (at least...
Posted to
IrishOutlaw
by
IrishOutlaw
on Mon, Nov 26 2007
Filed under: nationalism, Terrorism, communism, war, Rothbard, neocons
I posted the following in response to a piece by Glenn Greenwald: War-profiteering is simply more Treasury-raiding by elites - at our cost and our children's. An economics professor at Drake (Ismael Hossein-zadeh, an ethnic Kurd from Iran, by the way) has some interesting and relevant thoughts in...
Good Lord. Check out this Vanity Fair article about the "$600 million massively fortified compound with 619 blast-resistant apartments and a food court fit for a shopping mall," paid for, of course, by you.
In Columnist Charles Reese's recent article No Money in Peace, about the privatization of American war, he correctly assertated that "w ar, as it is being fought in Iraq, is a highly profitable operation for the war service industry." He clearly understands that war is a racket. But he...