Category: corruption
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If you love America,
this is the most important video you will ever watch.
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- Labels: antiwar, corporations, corruption, death, deception, hate, military, mind control, profit, propaganda, terror, war
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 â June 21, 1940), nicknamed “The Fighting Quaker” and “Old Gimlet Eye”, was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. By the end of his career he had received 16 medals, five of which were for heroism. He is one of 19 people to twice receive the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only person to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
He became widely known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States.In 1935 he wrote the exposé War Is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902â1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” (read more)
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
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We have an obligation to every last victim of this illegal aggression
because all of this carnage has been done in our name. Since World War
II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians. 1/3 of them
children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to
Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their
murders are not collateral damage, they are the nature of modern
warfare. They don’t hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us
because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity.
The so-called “war on terror” is a cover for our military aggression to
gain control of the resources of western Asia.
This is sending
the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries.
This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, and to most of the
world, we are the terrorists. In these times, remaining silent on our
responsibility to the world and its future is criminal. And in light of
our complicity in the supreme crimes against humanity in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and ongoing violations of the U.N. Charter in International
Law, how dare any American criticize the actions of legitimate
resistance to illegal occupation.
Our so-called enemies in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, our other colonies around the world, and
our inner cities here at home, are struggling against the oppressive
hand of empire, demanding respect for their humanity. They are labeled
insurgents or terrorists for resisting rape and pillage by the white
establishment, but they are our brothers and sisters in the struggle for
justice. The civilians at the other end of our weapons don’t have a
choice, but American soldiers have choices, and while there may have
been some doubt 5 years ago, today we know the truth. Our soldiers don’t
sacrifice for duty-honor-country, they sacrifice for Kellogg Brown
& Root.
They don’t fight for America, they fight for their
lives and their buddies beside them, because we put them in a war zone.
They’re not defending our freedoms, they’re laying the foundation for 14
permanent military bases to defend the freedoms of Exxon Mobil and
British Petroleum.
They’re not establishing democracy, they’re
establishing the basis for an economic occupation to continue after the
military occupation has ended. Iraqi society today, thanks to American
“help” is defined by house raids, death squads, check-points,
detentions, curfews, blood in the streets, and constant violence. We
must dare to speak out in support of the Iraqi people, who resist and
endure the horrific existence we brought upon them through our
bloodthirsty imperial crusade. We must dare to speak out in support of
those American war-resisters, the real military heroes, who uphold their
oath to defend the constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic, including those terrorist cells in
Washington DC more commonly known as the Legislative, Executive &
Judicial branches.
“If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
Frederick Douglass said
“Those
who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people
who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its
many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical
one, and it may be both … but it must be a struggle. Power concedes
nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Every
one of us, every one of us must keep demanding, keep fighting, keep
thundering, keep plowing, keep speaking, keep struggling until justice
is served. NO justice, NO peace.
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Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 â June 21, 1940) was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps (the highest rank authorized at that time), an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I.
By the end of his career, he had received 16 medals, five for heroism. He is one of 19 men to twice receive the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. In his 1935 book War is a Racket, he described the workings of the military-industrial complex and, after retiring from service, became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s.
He became widely known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States. In December 1933, Butler toured the country with James E. Van Zandt to recruit members for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He described their effort as “trying to educate the soldiers out of the sucker class.” The VFW reprinted one of his speeches with the title “You Got to Get Mad” in its magazine Foreign Service. He said: “I believe in…taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up.”
In addition to his speeches to pacifist groups, he served from 1935 to 1937 as a spokesman for the American League Against War and Fascism. In 1935 he wrote the exposé War Is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from a 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” (read more)
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Propaganda is a form of communication, often biased or misleading in nature, aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause, position or political agenda.
Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (perhaps lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented.
Common media for transmitting propaganda messages include news reports, government reports, historical revision, junk science, books, leaflets, movies, radio, television, and posters. Less common nowadays are letter post envelopes examples of which of survive from the time of the American Civil War. In the case of radio and television, propaganda can exist on news, current-affairs or talk-show segments, as advertising or public-service announce “spots” or as long-running advertorials.
Propaganda campaigns often follow a strategic transmission pattern to indoctrinate the target group. This may begin with a simple transmission such as a leaflet dropped from a plane or an advertisement. Generally these messages will contain directions on how to obtain more information, via a web site, hot line, radio program, etc. The strategy intends to initiate the individual from information recipient to information seeker through reinforcement, and then from information seeker to opinion leader through indoctrination.
A number of techniques based in social psychological research are used to generate propaganda. Many of these same techniques can be found under logical fallacies, since propagandists use arguments that, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid.
Information dissemination strategies only become propaganda strategies when coupled with propagandistic messages. Identifying these messages is a necessary prerequisite to study the methods by which those messages are spread.
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
(Propaganda Techniques)
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Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media.
Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, and was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA.
The organization recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA’s views, and funded some student and cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts.
As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA. (read more)
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