War Is A Crime .org - Obama Administration

Wackos in Washington:  Decapitating Heads of State is a Risky Business

dlindorff — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:53:31 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military

dlindorff — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:56:08 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Ryancare wreckage: Don the Con's Health Care Pushes Serious Problems Aside

dlindorff — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:19:59 +0000

fdsBy Linn Washington, Jr.

The desperate scramble of President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to salvage a cure for their ailing health care proposal to replace Obamacare completely ignores correcting a deadly problem plaguing the very heart of America’s health care system.

The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care

dlindorff — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:23:08 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Uh-Oh, there goes the Democrats’ 'Russia Did It' campaign: WikiLeaks’ Latest CIA Data Dump Undermines Case Against Russia Electi

dlindorff — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:34:39 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

The so-called Deep State and Democratic Party campaign to demonize Russia for allegedly "hacking the US election," and delivering the country into the hands of Donald Trump suffered a huge and probably mortal blow this week with the release by WikiLeaks of over 7000 secret CIA documents disclosing secret CIA hacking technologies.

Thinking, and Organizing, Big: The Left Needs to Be a Movement, Not a Bunch of Lobbyists

dlindorff — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:54:54 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

The War Horror Has Begun

davidswanson — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:37:06 +0000

Here we are on Day 5 of the Donald Trump presidency, and he's got "special" forces of the U.S. military in two-thirds of the world's nations. He's engaged in serious occupation and/or bombing campaigns in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. He just sent malicious robot airplanes armed with missiles to blow to pieces a bunch of vaguely-identified but never indicted "criminals" in Yemen. Their body parts were widely scattered and their loved ones devastated. The injured writhed in agony.

We made it through a presidential campaign in which a debate moderator asked if a candidate would be willing to kill thousands of innocent children, and in which Donald Trump promised to "kill their families" and "steal their oil." And here we are on Trump's very first Terror Tuesday, and he's already in possession of the most expensive and extensive military machine ever seen on earth. His speed is remarkable. Already he has troops in 175 nations (and announcers are thanking them for watching sporting events as if it were all just normal).

A "Terror Tuesday," for those who haven't yet heard, is a day on which a president goes through a list of men, women, and children and picks which ones to have murdered. Don't ask me where this tradition came from. The point is that it now belongs to President Trump, should he choose to make use of it. President Trump, need I remind you, is a Republican.

But various subordinates of the president have been authorized, or perhaps authorized themselves, to order drone murders. Those that occurred yesterday in Yemen were quite likely carried out without any involvement from Donald Trump, other than his responsibility under the Constitution for what his subordinates do.

Trump, in fact, was engaged in bombing the hell out of Mosul, Iraq, and parts of Libya as well, on the very day he was inaugurated, and even before he was inaugurated. He's got 8,000 troops plus mercenaries, contractors, and allied troops adding up to over 40,000 people occupying Afghanistan -- a war that his predecessor had ended. And he had this force in place even before inauguration. He's got a major war underway in Iraq, another war famously ended by the guy who came before him. And this war, too, he started even before showing up in Washington.

Trump even went in person to the CIA on Day 1 and announced that the United States should have somehow stolen all of Iraq's oil and might still do so. This created massive confusion among the journalists and approximately 8 members of the public who heard about it, because of course the U.S. military is in Iraq on the side of the Iraqi people (just don't ask them) and so it would be nonsensical for the U.S. to attack Iraq.

Trump and those around him have also threatened war with China over the South China Sea, although when a journalist tried to get Trump's press secretary to commit to it on Day 4, he declined.

Oddly, much of this new war horror show has passed without notice, as though it were somehow just a continuation of acceptable norms. What has horrified the press corps, however, is the danger that peace might break out in Syria, and further hostilities risking World War III with Russia might be delayed. Liberals are also quite upset that Trump might question claims coming out of the CIA.

So it's not as though the public is completely failing to react to the new horrors of war. One might even go so far as to say that wide swaths of the U.S. public are behaving on the model of a Nobel Peace laureate.

What could have been: Imagining a Sanders Presidency Beginning on Jan. 20

dlindorff — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:20:11 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Time’s running out: As his Last Act in Office, President Obama Should Right a Terrible Wrong and Free Leonard Peltier

dlindorff — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:46:53 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Democratic hysteria: Liberal Democrats Claiming a Russian Hack of the Election and Putin Control Over Trump are the New ‘Birthe

dlindorff — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:22:07 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

War Is A Crime .org - Obama Administration

Wackos in Washington: Decapitating Heads of State is a Risky Business

Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military

Ryancare wreckage: Don the Con's Health Care Pushes Serious Problems Aside

The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care

Uh-Oh, there goes the Democrats’ 'Russia Did It' campaign: WikiLeaks’ Latest CIA Data Dump Undermines Case Against Russia Electi

Thinking, and Organizing, Big: The Left Needs to Be a Movement, Not a Bunch of Lobbyists

The War Horror Has Begun

What could have been: Imagining a Sanders Presidency Beginning on Jan. 20

Time’s running out: As his Last Act in Office, President Obama Should Right a Terrible Wrong and Free Leonard Peltier

Democratic hysteria: Liberal Democrats Claiming a Russian Hack of the Election and Putin Control Over Trump are the New ‘Birthe

Wackos in Washington:  Decapitating Heads of State is a Risky Business