In every nation where we now have terrorism, we had first assaulted them. We overthrew their governments, installed dictators, undermined their economies — all to strengthen our business interests. America is under attack only because it is on the attack.
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(via anticapitalist)Even fanatics like al-Qaeda aren’t really aggressors. They’re fighting a defensive war, trying to force us out. The Western media never publish their demands because they are so reasonable. They basically come down to, “Go home and leave us alone. Pull your soldiers, your CIA agents, your missionaries, your corporations out of Muslim territory. If you do that, we’ll stop attacking you.” Nothing about destroying the West or forcing it to become Islamic. Just that the West should stay in the West.
If people knew this — knew how easy it would be to stop terrorism — they wouldn’t want to fight this war. That’s why the media ignore al-Qaeda’s demands. Western leaders don’t want people to see that the war’s real purpose isn’t to stop terrorism but to control the resources of this region. They actually want the terrorism because that gives them the excuse they need — the threat of an evil enemy.
(Source: televisionismypatronus)
White American males constitute only 33% of the population. Yet, they occupy approximately:
- 80% of tenured positions in higher education
- 80% of the House of Representatives
- 80-85% of the U.S. Senate
- 92%of Forbes 400 executive CEO-level positions
- 90% of athletic team owners
- 97.7% of U.S. presidents
And then they flip out when they’re not allowed in the Women’s Tent.
If you need the government to protect your culture, it’s already dead. It’s like if you need armed guards to keep your wife in your house, your marriage is already dead. If you need violence to protect your ideas, your ideas are worthless to begin with.
- Thinksquad (via thinksquad)
This is so absurd. Breastfeeding is good, war is bad. End of story.
If the former Marine captain quoted in this article as opposing breastfeeding in public is so concerned that male soldiers will lose respect for breastfeeding female soldiers, then the problem is not with the military moms, but rather with the misogynist, sexist, bigoted culture that prevails among the men who dominate the military apparatus.
Rather than advising breastfeeding mothers to hide in their car, we should be demanding that misogynist military men be the ones forced to go off and hide in shame.
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Photographs taken of military moms breastfeeding their babies in uniform are stirring up controversy on the Internet.
TODAY Moms reports it all started when professional photographer Brynja Sigurdardottir snapped unposed shots of breastfeeding service women assigned to Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state. The photographs were to be used on promotional base posters for National Breastfeeding Awareness Month in August.
But the photos, posted on Sigurdardottir’s website, began circulating on the Internet. And the two women photographed breastfeeding in uniform found themselves under fire.
Terran Echegoyen-McCabe, who is photographed breastfeeding her twin girls, told TODAY:
“There isn’t a policy saying we can or cannot breast-feed in uniform. I think it’s something that every military mom who is breast-feeding has done. … I think we do need to be able to breast-feed in uniform and be protected.”
In contrast, former Marine captain Emily Barton wrote on a military breastfeeding website:
“I don’t want my Marines to look at me any other way than as a Marine. When I am asking them to fly into combat with me and do a dangerous mission, I do not want them to have the mental image of a babe at my breast. I want them to only see me as a Marine… Trust me, I love the ease of breastfeeding, but not at the detriment of good order and discipline. Find a room, go to your car, ask someone for their office. It’s not hard.”
The host country usually does a kind if “story of the nation” presentation, like at the Sydney Olympics they had all the whole Captain Cook arriving, Ned Kelly doing his thing etc etc
I’ll be interested to see how Britain stages it’s national narrative. Are we going to have Britain’s conquest and…
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reuters:
In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.
Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”
“The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.”
Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen.
AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo
[Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]
A low point for humanity.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w35p459L1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.
Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”
“The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.”
Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen.
AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo
[Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]
A low point for humanity.
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
- Bell hooks (via kimikkomi)
1 in every 106 white males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 36 hispanic males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 15 black males 18 or older are incarcerated
http://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0
Institutionalized and colorblind racism FTL.
(Source: walkingthenarrowway)
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