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Here are 4 Videos by
Ronnini LoBello,
Ronnini is known for his use
of music blended with the
action and interesting
transitions. Giving the
viewer a bit of a trippie
feeling except for Sara and
Sam's Wedding, this was
edited to provoke both
laughter and crying.
All 3 videos are worth
watching. Just click onto the
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decades.
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market and political forces that are
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multinational corporations seek to
control the world’s food systems but
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scale industrial agriculture, offering
solutions like organic and sustainable
agriculture as alternative food
sources.
farm fields and on the dinner tables of
America that is transforming the very
nature of the food we eat. This well-
researched documentary by Deborah
Koons Garcia, the widow of the
legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry
Garcia, takes an in-depth look at the
disturbing truth behind the unlabeled,
patented, genetically engineered
foods that have quietly filled U.S.
grocery store shelves for the past
decades.
This film examines the complex web of
market and political forces that are
changing what we eat as huge,
multinational corporations seek to
control the world’s food systems but
also explores alternatives to large-
scale industrial agriculture, offering
solutions like organic and sustainable
agriculture as alternative food
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
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| About the Gorilla in the Livingroom Should the World Bring Bush and Cheney to Trial? Vincent Bugliosi has expressed recent exasperation over the issue of torture being mentioned currently with greater frequency over what the former L.A. County prosecutor believes to be the key issue over which George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should face trial -- murder. Bugliosi's concern, through which he urges action from an American prosecutorial body to bring Bush and Cheney to trial, could be directly addressed through the international tribunal of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. A reputable source of keeping up to date about the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the initial "shock and awe"- attacks on Baghdad ordered by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prior to occupying that city and the nation of Iraq is Just Foreign Policy. This informative site provides international detailed analysis of significant events throughout the world. Just Foreign Policy publishes numbers based on the highly respected international medical journal The Lancet. According to The Lancet's detailed continuing study, supportive evidence of which is supplied by Just Foreign Policy, the current death figure is much higher than that reported by America's mainstream media on those rare occasions when any such information is presented. A current check of Just Foreign Policy reveals the Iraqi civilian death toll following the U.S. invasion to be 1,320,110. The continuing study of The Lancet reveals that 600,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed by July 2006 with the remainder of more than double occurring in the less than three years since then. A major area of misunderstanding arising even among progressives opposing the war has been the labeling within the mainstream media and elsewhere of the conflict as "pre-emptive war."- Under the rules that governed the Nuremberg Trials, the UN Charter, and other recognized international bodies, pre-emptive war is international legal terminology for legitimate self-defense and is permissible. The rule governing pre-emptive war is akin to the famous First Amendment principle enunciated in the Supreme Court by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of "clear and present danger."- Under the pre-emptive war concept a nation faces reasonable imminent threat from a foreign invader and under those circumstances possesses a right to attack based on a principle of self-defense. Bush-Cheney propagandists have been successful in being able to make the term pre-emptive war stick when in reality the issue is that of preventive war, which is clearly illegal under international law. The brilliant two hour opening presentation by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the main Nuremberg Trial involving the leading figures of Nazi Germany was centered on connecting German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler with specific plans to attack Poland and England. Jackson sought to link Hitler and his regime with European aggression through preventive war, that which is indefensible under international law. Recently there has been talk from certain UN sources that if after that body's own investigation concludes that U.S. leadership engaged in such aggressive preventive war along with unjustifiable torture tactics and the hunting down of victims without recourse to the law, then arrests could be made on U.S. soil. On this rationale such arrests could be made without the U.S. government being involved in any way, obviating any necessity of action on the part of congressional bodies or U.S. courts. Should George W. Bush be so approached in a specific effort to arrest him under international law, it has been noted that he is accompanied by armed U.S. Secret Service agents to protect him. To use a term from a sport President Barack Obama loves to play and watch, basketball, "The ball would be in his court"- and the crucial and ultimately decisive question of whether he would be willing under those circumstances to order Bush's Secret Service detail to "stand down"- in the interest of international law. Began in the journalism field in hometown of Los Angeles. Started as Sports Editor and Movie Writer at Inglewood Daily News chain after working in sportswriting of high school events at the Los Angeles Examiner. Received a bachelor's in (more...) |
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| Obama’s Drone Escalation War Crime? President Obama is pursuing a dangerous and reckless course of action in Pakistan hoping to get a lucky kill on a top level terrorist that he can turn into political domestic advantage. While the Obama administration is complaining about the Bush administration giving a few admitted terrorists some pain, his reckless policy of escalating drone attacks in Pakistan has falsely claimed to have killed many terrorists but instead has only inflamed the Pakistani population against the U.S. Ironically his decisions may put him at risk of being labeled a war criminal by the international community. Read complete story HERE! |
| Silent Screams: The Impact of U.S. Drone Attacks Silent Screams deftly interweaves exclusive footage of tribal villagers in Iran with families in neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan. Explicit scenes detail civilian suffering in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of bombardments by drones, 'unmanned aerial vehicles' controlled remotely by pilots thousands of miles away inside the U.S. Spotlighting the destructive costs of U.S. wars, this documentary adroitly binds the plight of civilian victims abroad with the countless Americans whose vital needs go unmet as a result of spiraling military spending. Silent Screams echoes the desperation around the globe for victims without a voice. Visit www.silentscreams.info for information and educational kits to cultivate action and demand real change in how your tax dollars are spen |
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| Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran by Brandon Smith Activist Post February 19, 2012 Let’s be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand. War is the ultimate tribally vicarious experience. Anyone, even pudgy armchair generals with deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy, can revel in the victories and actions of armies a half a world away as if they themselves stood on the front lines risking possible annihilation at the hands of dastardly cartoon-land “evil doers”. They may have never done a single worthwhile thing in their lives, but at least they can bask in the perceived glory of their country’s military might. This attitude of swollen ego through proxy is not limited to the “Right” side of the political spectrum as some might expect. In fact, if the terrifyingly demented presidency of Barack Obama has proven anything so far, it is that elements of the “Left” are just as bloodthirsty as any NeoCon, and just as ready to blindly support the political supremacy of their “side” regardless of any broken promises, abandoned principles, or openly flaunted hypocrisies. No matter how reasonable or irrefutable the arguments against a particular conflict are, there will always be a certain percentage of the populace which ignores all logic and barrels forward to cheerlead violent actions which ultimately only benefit a select and elite few. They do this, though they rarely openly admit it, because of unbalanced and irrational biases which drive their decision making processes. In the case of the wars in the Middle East, the common public argument boils down to one of “self defense”. “They are coming to get us!” At least, that is what we are constantly told. And I’m sure that some Americans out there truly believe this. However, in their heart of hearts, others instead relish the idea of imposing their world views and philosophical systems upon others, even if it means using cluster bombs and predator drones. Some people simply hate Muslims, for one reason or another. Some people believe that war will bring with it economic gain. Some are so afraid of what they do not comprehend that they only feel secure by attacking it. Some believe that the U.S. citizenry is morally obligated to become entangled with governments like Israel’s, and support them without question as if they are infallible, though they are often just as corrupt as the governments we are directed to despise. And yet others (for religious purposes), actually clamor for Middle Eastern destruction in the desperate hopes that their version of biblical prophecy will be vindicated. Ultimately, most Americans who support continued destruction in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter, do so out a selfish need for private absolution and elevation, not out of a sincere sense of patriotism, and not because nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or Iran present a legitimate danger to their safety. These men and women have invested their very identities into the mechanizations of collective war. They will not be swayed by evidence or honorable arguments. Any criticism of the actions of the collective will immediately be treated as a personal attack on their individual character, causing their minds to shut down completely. As far as Iran is concerned, I am not here to convince the war-drum pounding zombie hordes infesting the mentally impotent sewage-soaked wastelands of my country that their rationalizations for raining laser guided death on the Third World is a “reprehensible thing”. Given their impenetrable biases, which I listed above, that would be a complete waste of time. I could, indeed, point out how in 1953 the U.S. and Britain overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, because he refused to allow global corporate interests to exploit his country’s oil resources. I could outline how the forced CIA installation of the Shah in Iran and the creation of his secret police led to the torture and murder of thousands of innocent people. I could list similar covert activities over the past 100 years or so, in countries all over the world, which have created the now universal disdain the Third World has for the U.S. government. I could even show them a PBS special from 1987 which effectively details this history and warns of what is now going on today. The kind of mainstream news coverage that networks currently blacklist honest and daring journalists for: But what about all the nuclear talk being shoved down our throats lately? Doesn’t this supersede any historical concerns between Iran and the U.S.? What if the terrorists get their hands on “the bomb”?! On this issue, I could easily interject the fact that countries supposedly hostile to the U.S., like North Korea, have long had nuclear capability, and certainly the means to use infiltrators to deliver that technology, yet, we haven’t sent the Western war machine after them. I would also set the record straight by mentioning that the only country in the world that has used a nuclear weapon against another is the United States. I could educate these people on the exposure of secret Israeli nuclear weapons programs since the 1970s, and the fact that Israel even attempted to illegally sell this technology to Apartheid South Africa. (Source) I could try to clear the air by reminding the uninformed that Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, recently admitted that Iran has no nuclear weapons capability. And, that this fact was repeated by an Iranian nuclear scientist, Sharhram Amiri, who defected to the U.S. in 2010 with the help of the CIA in the hopes that he could be used to disseminate propaganda on “secret” nuclear weapons programs in his former homeland. Instead, he only reinforced the assertion that there are no such programs. (Source) With the CIA made to look foolish, they have now decided that Amiri is “peripheral” to the Iranian nuke programs, and is no longer a solid source of information. I could follow by pointing out how decidedly convenient this is…. What about all the similarities between the lies on WMD’ s in Iraq and the rhetoric against Iran today? What about the disinformation put forward by the IAEA and its cadre of foreign policy yes-men?What about the fact that back when Iran was run by our own puppet leader, the Shah, an iron-fisted sociopathic dictator, we were more than happy that the country was developing nuclear power plants. Sorry, but sharing this information with the warmongering percentage of our American culture is futile. None of this data means a thing to them. For these people, it’s not about facts; it’s about foggy perception, uncontrolled emotion, and false identity. Understanding the situation only complicates their pursuit of the next collectivist high; that frenetic freak frenzy that takes hold of a population and makes them swarm like mad bees, or hungry piranha, poisoning and devouring everything in their path. With this in mind, the only recourse I could possibly think of to wake them up to their philosophical and moral folly is to expose them to very real and debilitating consequences they will face in their everyday lives in the wake of expanded conflict on the part of the U.S. That is to say, you may hate Iran, you may hate Iranians, you may despise Muslims, you may be driven by a childish need to live vicariously through the exploits of your government, or, you might actually believe the hype that Iran is in league with Al-Qaeda, that they really are after nuclear weapons in a diabolical plot to harm Americans, and you might truly believe that Israel is that “beacon of freedom” in the Middle East and that all its neighbors must be pacified for the sake of democracy. At bottom, whatever your deepest intentions, and whatever you might think, this is irrelevant in the face of the inevitable costs of war. If you support such a war, here is how it will affect you when it breaks loose: Exploding Oil Prices The U.S. has had a ban on Iranian oil imports since 1979, however, Iran still supplies about 5% of the global oil market. This might not seem like much, but Iran also has the means and ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which is one of two major petroleum choke points in the world. Around 17 million barrels of oil per day are shipped through the Straight of Hormuz, or about 20% of all oil traded worldwide.In 2006, during the last major Iran war scare, experts predicted gasoline price increases in excess of $10 a gallon if Iran was invaded. (Source) This would devastate the U.S. economy, which is already hanging by a thin thread. Iran has announced this past weekend it will cease all oil shipments to Britain and France in protest of their support of economic sanctions. This alone is causing oil to spike today. A global energy crisis will financially decimate average citizens who will have their savings sapped by extreme price inflation, not just in gasoline, but in all goods that require the use of gasoline in their production and shipping. If you like this idea, then by all means, support an invasion of Iran. War Domino Effect In January of 2010, I wrote an article for Neithercorp Press entitled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War”. In that article, I warned about the dangers of an invasion of Iran or Syria being used to foment a global conflict, in order to create a crisis large enough to distract the masses away from the international banker created economic collapse. (Source) In 2006, Iran signed a mutual defense pact with its neighbor, Syria, which is also in the middle of its own turmoil and possible NATO intervention. Syria has strong ties to Russia, and even has a revamped Russian naval base off its coast, a fact rarely mentioned by the mainstream media. Both Russia and China have made their opposition clear in the case of any Western intervention in Iran or Syria. An invasion by the U.S. or Israel in these regions could quickly intensify into wider war between major world powers. If you like the idea of a world war which could eventually put you and your family in direct danger, then by all means, support an invasion of Iran. Dollar Collapse Make no mistake, the U.S. dollar is already on the verge of collapse, along with the U.S. economy. Bilateral trade agreements between BRIC and ASEAN nations are sprouting up everywhere the past couple months, and these agreements are specifically designed to end the dollar’s status as the world reserve currency. An invasion of Iran will only expedite this process. If global anger over the resulting chaos in oil prices doesn’t set off a dump of the dollar, the eventual debt obligation incurred through the overt costs of war will. Ron Paul has always been right; it doesn’t matter whether you think invasion is a good idea or not. We simply cannot afford it. America is bankrupt. Our only source of income is our ability to print money from thin air. Each dollar created to fund new wars brings our currency ever closer to its demise. This combination of disastrous economic policy and disastrous foreign policy has actually been used before. Great Britain once sat in the position of economic authority that the U.S. sits in today, and the pound sterling was once considered the world reserve because it was required in the global trade of oil, just as the dollar is now. However, British intrigues in the Middle East, and more specifically in Egypt, led them into extreme debt. In the 1940s and 1950s, international banks led by America and France threatened to dump British Treasury Bonds in response to their efforts to dominate Middle Eastern oil. Does any of this sound familiar? This ultimately led to considerable devaluation of the pound. In 1967, the death blow was finally delivered when Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, artificially reduced the British exchange rate by 14% overnight! Meaning, in the span of a single evening, British citizens lost 14% of their buying power, and every product they went out to buy the next day would cost them 14% more. It would be practical to mention that the move to destroy the British pound came right in time for the implementation of new programs for the construction of the European Union, and the Euro, the new supranational currency which would later become the standard. The EU and the Euro never could have come about while the Pound Sterling remained a world reserve. Just another amazing coincidence I’m sure, and one that couldn’t possibly have any relation to what is happening to the dollar in 2012, right…? So, if you like the idea of losing 14% or more of your buying power overnight, and having that financial loss blamed on the tides of war, rather than on the corporate bankers who actually created the mess, then by all means, support an invasion of Iran. Civil Liberties Destroyed Do you like being able to walk down the street without having to suffer through constant pat-downs by low- wage brain-dead cretins in blue gloves? Does it make you feel good to know that if you are ever arrested, whether you are guilty or not, you are guaranteed by law to receive a fair trial by your peers in a civilian court with a lawyer by your side? Do you enjoy taking a long drive with the family without facing checkpoints, and predator drones constantly overhead every time you put the top down to feel the wind in your hair? Don’ t get too comfortable, folks! These “luxuries” will soon be a thing of the past, especially as the U.S. financial situation deteriorates and war escalates. Think of all the new threats the elites in our government can use to rationalize the usurpation of Constitutional protections when war with Iran, or Syria, or Russia, or China, or all of them at once, breaks out. The term “terrorist” will take on a whole different dynamic. Great national dangers often facilitate broader definitions of who is and who is not an “enemy of the state”. Crisis gives wings to legislation like the NDAA. In this kind of despotic environment, no one, even those citizens who support the state in nearly all of its enterprises, is safe. Maybe you love the idea of war with Iran, but at the same time, hate the idea of having a TSA goon manhandling your wife or daughter in a train station or on a street corner. Good luck with that. Speaking out could be treated as disruption of national security measures. Off to the gulag with you! The “greater good” somehow always entails the dissolution of civil liberties for the common man. Invariably, the establishment in power favors no one, save a highly connected few. Being pro-establishment does not necessarily protect you from a government given free reign to do whatever it pleases in wartime. In the end, everyone is fair game. If this is the kind of America you want to live in, by all means, support an invasion of Iran. If You Can’t See The Big Picture, You Can’t See A Thing… The relentless drive for war in the Middle East is not about “spreading democracy”. It is not about terrorism. It is not about oil (at least for the most part). It is not about Israel (at least, not the Israeli people). It is not even about corporate profiteering by the Military Industrial Complex. War in the Middle East is about changing the way our country and our world operates, culturally, socially, financially, and politically. War opens doors to social re-engineering that could never be accomplished otherwise. War creates fear, panic, rage, and allows dystopian fallacies to reign supreme. War, unjust and dishonorable war, makes countries weak, and ripe for violent change. Iran is not a threat to our way of life, and never has been. But, war in Iran could easily upset the core of our entire country, and leave us wayward strangers in the land we were born. While much of the rhetoric of preemptive invasion that America has been awash in these past few months is carefully crafted and disseminated by government entities whose intentions are far from honest, its effectiveness is mute without the helping hand of a thoughtless subsection of the public. Every decade or so, a new generation of idiot spawn comes of age to be willingly sacrificed on the chopping block of globalist conquest. This new decade brings with it the promise of not just more of the same, but perhaps the most costly tithe to the gods of war ever made in our country’ s history. This is not our fight. This is a fight we are being conned into undertaking for the profit of others, and thus, it is a fight we cannot win. Perhaps when the blind mobs of this nation feel the abrupt sting of their foolishness in their narrow day-to-day existence, they will finally understand…. |
| WikiLeaks to release more than five million emails from intelligence firm Stratfor REUTERS The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor, which counts Fortune 500 companies among its subscribers. Stratfor in a statement shortly after midnight EST said the release of its stolen emails was an attempt to silence and intimidate it. It said it would not be cowed under the leadership of George Friedman, Stratfor’s founder and chief executive officer. It said Friedman had not resigned as CEO, contrary to a bogus email circulating on the Internet. Some of the emails being published “may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic,” the company statement said. “We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them,” the statement said. WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of internal and external correspondence of the Austin, Texas company, formally known as Strategic Forecasting Inc. Hackers linked to the loosely organized Anonymous hackers group said at the beginning of the year they had stolen the email correspondence of some 100 of the firm’ s employees. The group said it planned to publish the data so the public would know the “truth” about Stratfor operations. Stratfor describes itself as a subscription-based publisher of geopolitical analysis with an intelligence- based approach to gathering information. WikiLeaks and Anonymous maintain the emails will expose dark secrets about the company. Stratfor said in its statement it had worked hard to build “good sources” in many countries, “as any publisher of global geopolitical analysis would do.” In December, hackers broke into Stratfor’s data systems and stole a large number of company emails. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Reuters: “Here we have a private intelligence firm, relying on informants from the U.S. government, foreign intelligence agencies with questionable reputations and journalists.” “What is of grave concern is that the targets of this scrutiny are, among others, activist organizations fighting for a just cause.” Friedman, the chief executive, said on Jan. 11 the thieves would be hard pressed to find anything significant in the stolen emails. “God knows what a hundred employees writing endless emails might say that is embarrassing, stupid or subject to misinterpretation. … As they search our emails for signs of a vast conspiracy, they will be disappointed.” MEDIA PARTNERS People linked to Anonymous took credit for the data theft. “Congrats on the amazing partnership between #Anonymous and #WikiLeaks to make all 5 million mails public,” AnonSec Tweeted. AnonSec is one of several Twitter accounts used to promote and organize activities associated with Anonymous. It was not immediately clear what impact the release of the emails might have on Stratfor, its employees, clients and information sources. Previous releases from WikiLeaks, such as secret video battle footage and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in 2010 have angered the U.S. government. WikiLeaks’ disclosures also have raised questions about the safety of confidential sources quoted in previously secret documents. WikiLeaks said it was working with two dozen media organizations worldwide that have access to a database of the Stratfor emails. These include the U.S. newspaper publisher McClatchy Co.. “We have begun reviewing the emails and will publish as warranted,” McClatchy’s Washington bureau chief, James Asher, told Reuters. WikiLeaks said its other media partners include L’ Espresso and La Repubblica newspapers in Italy, the NDR/ARD state broadcaster in Germany and Russia Reporter. The group gave a sneak preview of the emails to The Yes Men, an activist group that targets what it views as corporate greed. The Stratfor emails discuss an elaborate hoax the group staged to criticize Dow Chemical Co’s handling of the Bhopal chemical disaster in India, according to Andy Bichlbaum, one of The Yes Men. “What is significant is the picture it helps to paint of the way corporations operate,” Bichlbaum told Reuters. “They operate with complete disregard for rule of law and human decency.” After Stratfor’s computers were hacked at least twice last December, the credit card details of more than 30,000 subscribers to Stratfor publications were posted on the Internet, including those of former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former U.S. vice president Dan Quayle. The FBI began investigating the matter in December. Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. © Thomson Reuters 2012 |
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This May, the military, financial and political leaders
who serve the 1% domestically and abroad will meet
in Chicago to scheme on behalf of the elites they
serve. The rest of us -- the 99% forced to bankroll
these elites’ agendas – have NOT been invited.
At the behest of the White House, Chicago agreed
to host two international summits from May 19-21 at
McCormick Place: NATO, the 28-nation, U.S.-
commanded and largely U.S.-financed North Atlantic
Treaty Organization; and the G8, a forum for the
governments of eight of the world's largest
economies -- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the
United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and
Russia.
While the Obama administration decided to 'move'
the G8 meeting to secluded -- and barricaded --
Camp David in March, these meetings remain
deeply entwined. These same G8 ‘leaders’ are
imposing harsh austerity measures on working
people across the planet, from Spain and Greece to
Egypt and the United States. Their agenda? To
expand the neoliberal assault on economic and
social safety nets, public health care and public
education, the right to collectively bargain –
anything that might impede big corporations’ ability
to maximize profits at the expense of the rest of us.
Those corporate interests have a military wing, too:
NATO, which is bankrolled largely by G8 dollars,
particularly U.S. taxpayers. NATO’s military muscle
imposes the G8 agenda – from Iraq and Afghanistan
to North Africa and Iran. The beneficiaries? Big
corporations that can access the oil and mineral
wealth of nations like Iraq and Libya. The losers are
inevitably ordinary people in these countries, who
are bombed, starved, maimed and murdered as part
of NATO military campaigns.
This May, thousands of people will gather in
Chicago -- and wherever the NATO/G8 elites meet --
to oppose the tyranny of the banks and the
corporate elites – to oppose the corporate war on
our wages, our homes, our health care, our
education and our right to speak out and protest. In
meetings, marches, teach-ins, pickets, protests –
the host of ways people organize – we’re gathering
this spring to oppose the 1% agenda at home and
abroad, and to affirm that another world is possible.
We are uninvited, but we will not be dispossessed.
Join us.
who serve the 1% domestically and abroad will meet
in Chicago to scheme on behalf of the elites they
serve. The rest of us -- the 99% forced to bankroll
these elites’ agendas – have NOT been invited.
At the behest of the White House, Chicago agreed
to host two international summits from May 19-21 at
McCormick Place: NATO, the 28-nation, U.S.-
commanded and largely U.S.-financed North Atlantic
Treaty Organization; and the G8, a forum for the
governments of eight of the world's largest
economies -- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the
United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and
Russia.
While the Obama administration decided to 'move'
the G8 meeting to secluded -- and barricaded --
Camp David in March, these meetings remain
deeply entwined. These same G8 ‘leaders’ are
imposing harsh austerity measures on working
people across the planet, from Spain and Greece to
Egypt and the United States. Their agenda? To
expand the neoliberal assault on economic and
social safety nets, public health care and public
education, the right to collectively bargain –
anything that might impede big corporations’ ability
to maximize profits at the expense of the rest of us.
Those corporate interests have a military wing, too:
NATO, which is bankrolled largely by G8 dollars,
particularly U.S. taxpayers. NATO’s military muscle
imposes the G8 agenda – from Iraq and Afghanistan
to North Africa and Iran. The beneficiaries? Big
corporations that can access the oil and mineral
wealth of nations like Iraq and Libya. The losers are
inevitably ordinary people in these countries, who
are bombed, starved, maimed and murdered as part
of NATO military campaigns.
This May, thousands of people will gather in
Chicago -- and wherever the NATO/G8 elites meet --
to oppose the tyranny of the banks and the
corporate elites – to oppose the corporate war on
our wages, our homes, our health care, our
education and our right to speak out and protest. In
meetings, marches, teach-ins, pickets, protests –
the host of ways people organize – we’re gathering
this spring to oppose the 1% agenda at home and
abroad, and to affirm that another world is possible.
We are uninvited, but we will not be dispossessed.
Join us.
