14 Of Many Causes Of War
1. different religions' hatred for other faiths
2. racist hatred
3. nationalism
4. petroplutocracy
5. drug lords and kidnappers (within and outside of intelligence services)
6. arms sales and other war profiteering
7. loanshark capitalism
8. empire building.. land acquisition
9. generals and mercenaries attracted to violence
10. generals soldiers and mercenaries attracted to the ego of advancement in the ranks
11. revenge
12. lust (as with Helen of Troy)
13. conflicts over fishing rights
14. Nuclear possession nations unwilling to give up their own lethal weapons as they prevent others from having them
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12 OF Many Reasons THE US Antiwar Movement IS NOT Reported
The US government has bombed or invaded
at least 17 countries since 1980.
Why has the great opposition to these
wars not been as powerful as that against
the Vietnam War?
1. War profiteers worked to end the draft, replacing
it with an allvolunteer army (an army largely of the
children of the poor),, removing college students
and their networks from opposition.
2. The military's embedded journalist policy
prevents reportorial truth.
3. Unlike Vietnam, many of the later targets of the
US government have been Muslim nations. Many powerful
media corporations in the US cooperate with the objectives
of Benjamin Netanyahu.
4. President Cossiga of Italy, German cabinet minister Andreas Von Bulow, dozens of members of the Japanese diet, French scientists,
Anglican bishops, countless documentarians such as Loose Change, thousands of pilots, engineers, scholars and scientists are some of the millions around the world who have spoken and written about 911 as a CIA operation. Its objective
was both an erosion of 1st amendment liberties in the US, draconian new laws such as the Patriot Act, and the expansion of the security state as well as overriding the peace loving people of the US with a false flag operation in order to enter Afghanistan, ostensibly to kill Osama Bin Laden who was already near death from a constant need for dialysis which he underwent in Dubai. 20 years later, the media still maintain the lie. The CIA had spent many millions arming the Afghan people with shoulder held
missiles which drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. The 20 year Afghanistan war (as of Feb of 2021) began 6 weeks after the 911 bombing. Islamophobia, a presence near China,
the attraction of Afghan oil, poppies, and minerals
were all factors. http://911truth.org
5. Corporate media including CSpan, social media, and search engines are censoring the coverage
of the antiwar movement
6. There are almost no national tv talk shows. CSpan has almost eliminated open phones shows in which the caller speaks of whatever he or she wishes.
7. Over 90% of corporate radio in the US is
controlled by rightwing Republicans such
as IHart Radio (formerly Clear Channel).
8. The war profiteer industry has multiplied
since the 60's and 70's.
9. NPR affiliates such as WKSU of Kent State University
have been coopted by Republicans. The station management
ignores the anniversary of the May 4, 1970 murder of 4 students on campus by the National Guard, ordered to campus by a Republican
governor. The NPR network ended its 2 hour afternoon callin show.
10. The Pentagon has militarized the National Football League,
linking the violence of war to the violence of football Article It's time to end the militarization of the NFL
https://fee.org/articles/its-time-to-end-the-paid-militarization-of-the-nfl/
11. The CIA has had programs to militarize the pacifist religion of Christianity since 1947. The result has been that rightwing Christianity is pro-war.
12. Unprecedented varieties of Republican vote fraud with the help of billionaires, Karl Rove and others have eliminated peace voices in the US Senate, House and state legislatures.
Andrea Bernstein: The Trumps, The Kushners and American Greed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFd7-AbwwBA
Andrea speaks about Netanyahu as the defacto secretary of state during
the Trump years, his and Jared's roles in replacing Rex Tillerson etc.
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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviews Vicky Ward, author of Kushner Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9H0BHKTHw
I have been seeing a whole lot of deep religious poetry lately, maybe it's just that time of year...