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This post was so well written, that I wanted to share it in full: The Bloody Cruelty of Empires Posted by Lew Rockwell on April 13, 2011 06:58 PM When the Romans, in a series of wars, destroyed the great commercial civilization of Phoenician Carthage (Libya), they burned it to the ground and forced their new slaves to sow salt in the fields, to poison them, or so we are told. Today, the Americans (or, rather, their Nato running dogs) are doing something far worse: they are using depleted uranium ammunition, as they did in Iraq and so many other places, to poison the land and the people and the unborn. The number of malformed babies and miscarriages will be horrific. Here’s what they did to the people of Falujah for daring to resist the invading and foreign contractors. Say, isn’t it the pro-life Christianists who do this and cheer it on? (Thanks to Luis Almeida)

Ed Schultz claims to be a liberal, but he sounds like a neocon to me. Obama has been criticized for trying to compromise between parties, but it looks like he's unified them under one party, the War Party.

Whenever someone asks you to believe that war is good for the economy, he asks you to acquiesce in a conspiracy that murders to get gain.

He opposes the sanctions because they are detrimental to our national security. The rest of Congress puts our nation in jeopardy for political gain. Part 1. Paul reminds that the CIA instigated regime change in Iran back in 1953. We put in a dictator, and the whole thing blew up in our face. Al Qaeda wants us to go to war in the Middle East. It will hurt us financially, and help them recruit people against us. If we make preliminary attacks, we will as guilty as the Japanese during Pearl Harbor. Iran is not capable of attacking us. They are not a threat. They cannot even make enough gasoline for themselves. This policy will backfire and hurt us. Part 2. This is like our war with Iraq. We instituted sanctions and bombed them, killing thousands of children. If anyone thinks taking away gasoline from the common person in Iran, will make them want to get rid of the Ayatollah . . . it does exactly the opposite. These sanctions will only push them toward China, India, and Russia. They...

From Shine Canned Tomatoes The lining contains bisphenol-A, which acts as an estrogen. Men, it will shrink your balls . Eat fresh or from glass jars. Corn-fed Beef Cows should eat grass. By feeding cows corn, agribusiness created deadly E. Coli O157:H7, and made beef less nutritious. And our current system completely abuses animals . Paul McCartney Narrates this short film. Find out more at Meat.org . I think it's okay to eat animals. I think it is immoral to abuse them. They should be raised well, and killed as humanely as possible before consumption. Microwaved Popcorn It will ruin your lungs and give you cancer. Non-organic Potatoes They absorb too many pesticides. Farmed Salmon They are fed an unnatural diet and dosed with chemicals. Hormoned Milk Basically avoid any hormones your body doesn't produce itself. Apples They're full of pesticides. Our modern food system seems to be a miracle. We have literally bent our "swords into plowshares" by turning th...

Another voice preferable to Limbaugh. "An Afghan villager recently told a correspondent for the 'Economist:' 'We need security. But the Americans are just making trouble for us. They cannot bring peace, not if they stay for 50 years .'" "Listen, too, to Andrew Bacevich, the long-time professional soldier, graduate of West Point, veteran of Vietnam, and now a respected scholar of military and foreign affairs, who was on this program a year ago. He recently told "The Christian Science Monitor," ' The notion that fixing Afghanistan will somehow drive a stake through the heart of jihadism is wrong. …If we give General McChrystal everything he wants, the jihadist threat will still exist .'" "If our governing class wants more war, let's not allow them to fight it with young men and women who sign up because they don't have jobs here at home, or can't afford college or health care for their families. " " Let...

Yellow Cake from Nick Cross on Vimeo . Other war cartoons

I love it when he makes fun of neocons. "I think the #1 reason this all broke. . . is the very very powerful and most militant neocons are very worried about Obama and other countries meeting with Iran. . . and they want to see it stopped." "Of course they're[Iran] talking tough, it's a tough neighborhood." "Punish the people of Iran... and they'll throw out their ayatollahs and they'll be friends with the West. Quite frankly it does exactly the opposite." The Iranians have kept all international laws. "You know what this sounds like? It sounds like war mongering. This sounds like the same old stuff that we heard prior to the Iraqi war."

"One of the most important psychological prerequisites for war is that the enemy be made to seem less than human. One of the most important prerequisites for religious faith is that every single human being be seen as fully human—precious, sacred, a child of God. This makes war and faith incompatible at the most basic level, of course, but it makes an unnecessary war into a cardinal sin." — Robin Meyers I wrote about dehumanizing before. It reminds me of Hotel Rwanda, when the Hutu called the Tutsi "cockroaches."

I'm reading Robin Meyer's book . I recommend you read this entire speech. Read some of the bullets if you're in a hurry. There's a video below where he covers some of the same stuff. "As some of you know, I am minister of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open and Affirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest Oklahoma City, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages of the Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for six years, and hold the record for the most number of angry letters to the editor. Tonight, I join ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whose actions are anything but Christian. We've heard a lot lately about so-called "moral values" as having ...

Liberian women end war with non-violent resistance The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Leymah Gbowee www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum Liberia was founded by freed slaves from the U.S.

Israeli soldiers admitted abuses in the last Gaza conflict. "People were not instructed to shoot at everyone they see, but they were told that from a certain distance when they approach a house, no matter who it is - even an old woman - take them down." • Civilians were used as human shields, entering buildings ahead of soldiers • Soldiers fired at water tanks because they were bored, at a time of severe water shortages for Gazans Israeli troops and the people who justify their actions [the U.S] are "slid[ing] together down the moral slippery slope". Ghandi taught that nonviolent resistance should be used to oppose war. If we had taken his advice after 9/11, Bin Laden's influence would have been nullified, and our country would be in a lot better shape (and Dick Cheney would be a lot less rich). "A a SOFT b answer turneth away c wrath : but grievous words stir up anger. " —Proverbs

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich thinks we should change the government of Iran . "The former speaker of the US House of Representatives has said that the US should "sabotage" Iran's oil and gas infrastructure as part of its efforts to bring down the government." This proves that Newt Gingrich does not understand that the current regime is in power because the U.S. interfered in 1953. The CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister and had him killed. We then installed a shah, or king, who ruled in blood and terror for 26 years. In 1979 Iranians rose up and had him deposed. Ruhollah Khomeini hijacked the 1979 revolution and took the power of government unto himself. Now, imagine that the war of 1776 happened 30 years ago. How eager would you be to have England step in and rearrange our government for us? Newt's neocon warmongering shows he is w...

Monsanto wages war against farmers and patents life in this hour and a half documentary Interesting how "swords were beaten into plowshares" when nerve gas was turned into insecticide and bombs into fertilizer. It shows what great things we could accomplish if we didn't waste our resources on war. However, the concentration of so much money and power into the hands of so few, men who have no scruples against war profiteering, is dangerous. If they don't hesitate to profit from the death and violence of war, they will not hesitate to profit from destroying your health. Monsanto has instituted a new feudalism in America.

"There is no area in which Republicans have further strayed from our traditions than in foreign affairs," writes Paul. He dismisses neocon claims that "we have to either fight them over there or over here" as a "false choice. "America has no business policing the world. U.S. foreign policy is undermining national security, says Paul. From the Winnipeg Sun This in contrast to our current one-sided laissez faire policy of not interfering with wars that Israel starts in the Middle East , only those started by Iraq or Iran. If a Republican claims that he wants to cut your taxes, but wants to keep waging war as usual, then he means that he wants to tax you deceivingly through inflation, and tax your children through a larger national debt. Which makes this lady the ideal Republican voter, because she doesn't understand the connection between taxes and war. More Republicans should be stand up to our war policy

Vice President Biden said that Israel could bomb Iran, and that the U.S. wouldn't do anything about it, because Israel is a "sovereign nation." It's interesting that if Iran bombed Israel, we'd retaliate against that "sovereign nation." Entanglement in foreign alliances has muddled our judgment. Click over to see video From Al Jazeera and Crooks and Liars

Crazy Republicans wanted the same thing during the election ( here , and here ). Some in the government want us to be scared. A frightened populace is willing to exchange liberty for security, by giving the government more power. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Osama bin Laden Needs to Attack America thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Jason Jones in Iran Watch the full video here . Crazy quote at 6.55. I just read Human Smoke about World War II. Same things were happening then. Roosevelt and Churchill wanted the Japanese to attack the U.S. so that Roosevelt would have an excuse to enter the war. They provoked them to attack with economic warfare (depriving the Japanese of oil and gasoline), by putting America's navy as close to Japan as possible, by training and arming Chinese pilots to bomb Japan, and by planning full-scale attacks on Japan.

We helped create North Korea's nuclear program. Let's not give them any more money. In this older video, Paul lays out an enlightened foreign policy from our inspired founders:

"Thomas Paine came to America from Great Britain in 1774 when he was 37 years old. He burned with righteous indignation at the cruel tyranny of kings. Half a million copies of "Common Sense," his plainspoken call for rebellion, flooded this fledgling nation of three million people. His rhetoric so moved and persuaded George Washington that he read Paine's words to the troops at Valley Forge. After America won its independence, Paine found himself in another fight, the French Revolution, and wrote another best-seller, "The Rights of Man." But he got into trouble in France and was thrown into prison, narrowly avoiding execution. He returned to America in 1802, a prophet without honor in the nation he helped to create." Watch this video .

Click link to see the video. This guy spoke at BYU last year. Read his book . Iran is not a threat, don't let the media retards scare you with their cooked-up news.