Anti-War Sentiment

Well, you can describe blow-back against decades of imperialism in the Middle East and adjacent areas as an unprovoked attack based
on a medieval hatred for your freedoms.

You can invade a country and kill anywhere from 50,000 to a million people (they couldn't be bothered to keep track) because they wouldn't turn over a suspect in the terrorist attack unless evidence of his guilt was produced. You can then impose a super-corrupt, oppressive government on that country's people and blame all resistance against it as being part of an evil conspiracy.

You can then attack a country with nothing to do with the original terrorist attack and cause the deaths of over a million people, through violence, sectarian warfare, civil war, torture and mutilation.

You can back dictators against their people in the "Arab Spring." Except for one dictator who you don't 100% control. Then, you can arm and train the same terrorists who are supposedly your worst existential enemy to topple that dictator and thereby bring down a nightmare of gangsterism and chaos upon that dictator's country.

But it now appears that the imperialist elites' bringing up the same old bullshit about WMDs and humanitarian intervention and the need to subsidize cannibalistic Al Qaeda fanatics in Syria has brought the world to the boiling point.

More people are catching-up with us on the lying nature of US-American elites' concern for world peace and human rights.

This video kept pausing on me but I think it'll be a good one:

What the Fuck Evah ...

Argle-Bargle

Hootenany!

Holy-fuck! But that so totally sums up my political activism at the moment! (Except I guess that I'd have a maple-leaf emblazoned across my manly chest.)

Nothing II

Hey twap! Didn't you just outline some bitchin' strategy for a campaign to bring down the government? What's with all these videos and whining and shit?

Ahem.

If you go back to the beginning of that, you'll see that it was to outline a plan that I've abandoned due to my complete inability to get it off the ground. No resources. No support. Even third-string lefty leaders were too busy staring at their navels to even give me a hearing.

Fuck it.

Watch this instead. I thought half of it was pretty good before I fell asleep:

Quality

Nothing

Pointlesssssss

happy labour day

Robert Jensen on US American Democracy

I agree with many of the sentiments here and think they apply to Canada as well.

Let me be clear: I’m not suggesting that there is nothing democratic about the contemporary United States, nor am I suggesting that we live in a fascist state. It’s important to avoid rhetorical overkill. Rather, I’m simply recognizing that, counter to the mythology of the United States, no existing nation-state is a democracy in any deep sense. The question is, to what degree are the features of a society—not just the formal political process, but the economic and social structures as well—truly democratic. Formulating the question that way opens up a more meaningful discussion of those realities.

Worth the read.