Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The Tragedy of Iraq, Afghanistan
To be honest, none of the presidential candidates are going to do anything to change Iraq and withdraw troops. We all know that John McCain will keep American troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years. Of course, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton offered plans of withdrawing troops from Iraq soon after taking office, but they're very vague about the details.
This war, started on the basis of lies, has cost the lives of more than one million Iraqi citizens, the deposing and murder of its president in a fixed trial (controlled by the U.S. government), and the deaths of well over 4,000 U.S. troops. Journalists have been killed, Bush even made sure the al Jazeera building was bombed. Violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions have been and still is committed by U.S. forces and personnel with impunity.
I hope the people of the world are learning what real American morals, values and principles really are. War, torture, dehumanization, debauchery, rape, policies that crush and grind the poor peoples of the world is true American values. It's all about corporate capital and damn the expense in human lives. Damn the men, women and children who are killed by paramilitary death squads, trained and equipped by the United States.
In addition, we don't hear a whisper about Afghanistan at all. We hear no more reports about U.S. troops being killed and every now and then, we may hear about Iraqis and Afghans being killed by a car bomb or deadly shootout. In other rare instances, we may hear a report of U.S. planes "accidentally" bombing Iraqi and Afghan citizens.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us many years ago that the white man is the devil by nature. Democracy, is simply the rule of the devil. The United States government tells the American people that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power because he was a bad guy, after that lie about weapons of mass destruction did not pan out. Going into war, the Bush Idiocracy knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction there in the first place. These people came up with the al Qaida/Saddam connection to September 11, which the corporate media fed to the American public. We know that al Qaida is not even a real organization that is controlled by Osama bin Laden, it was made up by the Bush and his neocon war hawks.
The events of 9/11 was an inside job. No other nations took part or had their hand in it. This is all about wars for empire. You cannot fathom the depth of Satan. These people are wicked. You think they won't knock down their own buildings, with people inside them and place blame on a foreign country in justify attacking them? These are the same people that fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin lie as a means to bomb North Vietnam. Even before the Iraq invasion, which was an act of aggression, Bush and his cabal wanted to paint a U.S. spy plane in United Nations colors in an effort to provoke Saddam Hussein to fire upon it. Thereby, the U.S. would have their excuse for war via "material breach" by Saddam.
This is the same moron of a president who says that God tells him what nations to attack and he does it. Like that idiot really worships and pray. Please!
So two nations have been devastated by war and bloodshed and death on the basis of lies. This time, the wars are being brought to them by the good ol' U.S. of A. The white man has no regard for the rule of law nor do they respect the sovereignty of other nations where the people want to control their own resources and destiny. If these governments don't cater to America's corporate interests, their leaders are murdered or removed from power via coup d' etats. It happened in Chile, Guatamala, El Salvador, Iran, Peru, Paraguay, Haiti and even Jamaica.
The war on terror is bogus. And if there needs to be a war on terror, then the U.S. needs to start war with herself. It's no secret that the United States has a history of training, funding and equipping terrorists. Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines was bad, Suharto of Indonesia, Pinochet of Chile, the Shah of Iran, Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti, and Castillo Armas of Guatamala were all cool with the U.S. Pervez Musharaff of Pakistan is another. The so-called beacon of democracy will remove a democratically elected leader and put in his/her place a brutal dictator.
Human rights violations from torture to imprisonment was all supported by the U.S. The current military junta in Burma is alright with the U.S. As long as corporations have access to the natural resources of other lands, it don't matter who the leader of any country is and how brutal they are towards their own populations. This is reality. America has a history of doing this and you can look to Afghanistan and Iraq as a reference.
Bush said in his state of the union address, back in 2006 I believe, that "freedom is on the march. . ." It's fascism that is on the march. What we're seeing is the Third Reich all over again. This time the imperial power is the United States. Hitler would be very proud.
Until next time, this is Aquil Aziz.
This war, started on the basis of lies, has cost the lives of more than one million Iraqi citizens, the deposing and murder of its president in a fixed trial (controlled by the U.S. government), and the deaths of well over 4,000 U.S. troops. Journalists have been killed, Bush even made sure the al Jazeera building was bombed. Violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions have been and still is committed by U.S. forces and personnel with impunity.
I hope the people of the world are learning what real American morals, values and principles really are. War, torture, dehumanization, debauchery, rape, policies that crush and grind the poor peoples of the world is true American values. It's all about corporate capital and damn the expense in human lives. Damn the men, women and children who are killed by paramilitary death squads, trained and equipped by the United States.
In addition, we don't hear a whisper about Afghanistan at all. We hear no more reports about U.S. troops being killed and every now and then, we may hear about Iraqis and Afghans being killed by a car bomb or deadly shootout. In other rare instances, we may hear a report of U.S. planes "accidentally" bombing Iraqi and Afghan citizens.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us many years ago that the white man is the devil by nature. Democracy, is simply the rule of the devil. The United States government tells the American people that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power because he was a bad guy, after that lie about weapons of mass destruction did not pan out. Going into war, the Bush Idiocracy knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction there in the first place. These people came up with the al Qaida/Saddam connection to September 11, which the corporate media fed to the American public. We know that al Qaida is not even a real organization that is controlled by Osama bin Laden, it was made up by the Bush and his neocon war hawks.
The events of 9/11 was an inside job. No other nations took part or had their hand in it. This is all about wars for empire. You cannot fathom the depth of Satan. These people are wicked. You think they won't knock down their own buildings, with people inside them and place blame on a foreign country in justify attacking them? These are the same people that fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin lie as a means to bomb North Vietnam. Even before the Iraq invasion, which was an act of aggression, Bush and his cabal wanted to paint a U.S. spy plane in United Nations colors in an effort to provoke Saddam Hussein to fire upon it. Thereby, the U.S. would have their excuse for war via "material breach" by Saddam.
This is the same moron of a president who says that God tells him what nations to attack and he does it. Like that idiot really worships and pray. Please!
So two nations have been devastated by war and bloodshed and death on the basis of lies. This time, the wars are being brought to them by the good ol' U.S. of A. The white man has no regard for the rule of law nor do they respect the sovereignty of other nations where the people want to control their own resources and destiny. If these governments don't cater to America's corporate interests, their leaders are murdered or removed from power via coup d' etats. It happened in Chile, Guatamala, El Salvador, Iran, Peru, Paraguay, Haiti and even Jamaica.
The war on terror is bogus. And if there needs to be a war on terror, then the U.S. needs to start war with herself. It's no secret that the United States has a history of training, funding and equipping terrorists. Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines was bad, Suharto of Indonesia, Pinochet of Chile, the Shah of Iran, Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti, and Castillo Armas of Guatamala were all cool with the U.S. Pervez Musharaff of Pakistan is another. The so-called beacon of democracy will remove a democratically elected leader and put in his/her place a brutal dictator.
Human rights violations from torture to imprisonment was all supported by the U.S. The current military junta in Burma is alright with the U.S. As long as corporations have access to the natural resources of other lands, it don't matter who the leader of any country is and how brutal they are towards their own populations. This is reality. America has a history of doing this and you can look to Afghanistan and Iraq as a reference.
Bush said in his state of the union address, back in 2006 I believe, that "freedom is on the march. . ." It's fascism that is on the march. What we're seeing is the Third Reich all over again. This time the imperial power is the United States. Hitler would be very proud.
Until next time, this is Aquil Aziz.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Economic Gangsters by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Economic Gangsters
[col. writ. 1/19/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
As Americans begin to taste the bitter dregs of recession; the economy spirals to the top of primary election rhetoric. Briefly displacing the issue of Iraq.
Both Republicans and Democrats join in rare bipartisan agreement on an economic stimulus package -- a government dole out of roughly $800 per taxpayer -- which, when received, will be spent, and this spending will stimulate, or boost, the lagging economy.
I don't want to be a downer, but I feel compelled to say, if the economy can be sparked by so modest a boost, are the problems really that serious, or are they far more serious than politicians are letting on?
It seems to me that politicians are skirting the obvious: U.S. economic problems aren't displacing problems in Iraq: in fact, Iraq -- its costs in blood and treasure -- are driving this period of economic instability, recession and job losses.
How? Well, while the defense industries, and related businesses of oil and mercenary-type outfits (like Blackwater) are making big bucks, this wealth is narrowly distributed. In past wars, workers were driven into factories to build the weapons of World Wars I and II, and so money was widely circulated, particularly among Blacks, newly arrived from the segregated South, or among women, who entered factories to work machines vacated by millions of white men who were Drafted to man the war front (remember Rosie the Riveter?)
This new so-called volunteer army is largely the product of an economic draft, of poor and working class youth hoping to get a leg up in the rat race of attending increasingly unaffordable colleges.
While this hope and dream is often unrequited, what are the economic prospects of tens of thousands of men and women who return legless, armless-- or mindless -- after repeated tours in Iraq?
And the Iraq war, which will cost perhaps upwards of trillions of dollars before all is said and done, is really designed to economically benefit few -- again, oil companies and their subsidiaries. And, of course, petroleum-based fossil fuels have their own ecological, and social costs - that we've not even begun to tally.
While Bush and the Saudi princes do their sword-dance (ironic given the $20 billion Saudi-U..S. weapons deal Bush brings), the economy - and the ecology -burns.
Housing foreclosures are spiking; manufacturing flees to China; gas prices rise; neighborhoods decline into hellholes for survival; and schools resemble training camps for prison.
And prison? Perhaps they are America's lone growth industry.
Wars are poor replacements for ailing economies. For they produce nothing, but pain, loss and ultimately -- more war.
This war, started by neo con nitwits and the Texas/Bush Mafia, has produced pain, loss and death on an epic scale.
No politician now running has the barest notion of how to end the cycle -- for they too are trapped in an imperial web, spun by big business.
They promise no solution, just an extension of the same, elsewhere.
--(c) '08 maj
[col. writ. 1/19/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
As Americans begin to taste the bitter dregs of recession; the economy spirals to the top of primary election rhetoric. Briefly displacing the issue of Iraq.
Both Republicans and Democrats join in rare bipartisan agreement on an economic stimulus package -- a government dole out of roughly $800 per taxpayer -- which, when received, will be spent, and this spending will stimulate, or boost, the lagging economy.
I don't want to be a downer, but I feel compelled to say, if the economy can be sparked by so modest a boost, are the problems really that serious, or are they far more serious than politicians are letting on?
It seems to me that politicians are skirting the obvious: U.S. economic problems aren't displacing problems in Iraq: in fact, Iraq -- its costs in blood and treasure -- are driving this period of economic instability, recession and job losses.
How? Well, while the defense industries, and related businesses of oil and mercenary-type outfits (like Blackwater) are making big bucks, this wealth is narrowly distributed. In past wars, workers were driven into factories to build the weapons of World Wars I and II, and so money was widely circulated, particularly among Blacks, newly arrived from the segregated South, or among women, who entered factories to work machines vacated by millions of white men who were Drafted to man the war front (remember Rosie the Riveter?)
This new so-called volunteer army is largely the product of an economic draft, of poor and working class youth hoping to get a leg up in the rat race of attending increasingly unaffordable colleges.
While this hope and dream is often unrequited, what are the economic prospects of tens of thousands of men and women who return legless, armless-- or mindless -- after repeated tours in Iraq?
And the Iraq war, which will cost perhaps upwards of trillions of dollars before all is said and done, is really designed to economically benefit few -- again, oil companies and their subsidiaries. And, of course, petroleum-based fossil fuels have their own ecological, and social costs - that we've not even begun to tally.
While Bush and the Saudi princes do their sword-dance (ironic given the $20 billion Saudi-U..S. weapons deal Bush brings), the economy - and the ecology -burns.
Housing foreclosures are spiking; manufacturing flees to China; gas prices rise; neighborhoods decline into hellholes for survival; and schools resemble training camps for prison.
And prison? Perhaps they are America's lone growth industry.
Wars are poor replacements for ailing economies. For they produce nothing, but pain, loss and ultimately -- more war.
This war, started by neo con nitwits and the Texas/Bush Mafia, has produced pain, loss and death on an epic scale.
No politician now running has the barest notion of how to end the cycle -- for they too are trapped in an imperial web, spun by big business.
They promise no solution, just an extension of the same, elsewhere.
--(c) '08 maj
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Baseball Over Terrorism by Mumia Abu-Jamal
* Baseball Over 'Terrorism? *
* {col. writ. 12/13/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal *
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As the global news media salivated over charges of steroid use in professional baseball, what got lost in most of the sauce is the news emerging from the nation's chief Latin city: Miami.
There, 7 young Black men from Liberty City were either acquitted or received a hung jury in a case that ex-Attorney General Alberto 'Fredo' Gonzales described at the time as "homegrown terrorism."
The 7, known as the Liberty City Seven, were charged with plotting to bomb the famed Sears Tower of Chicago, as part of a broader Al Qaeda terror plot.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Gregorie argued to jurors, "These defendants came together with the sole purpose of waging war in the United States." According to federal prosecutors, these 7 guys planned to destroy federal buildings, and even to poison salt shakers in restaurants.
One of the men's defense lawyers, Ana M. Jhones, told the jury that this was more a case of a con job than terrorism, and that her client, Narseal Batiste, wanted to coax a Yemeni man lining in Miami into giving him money. The man, an FBI informant, held the keys to this alleged plot from the get - go. He bought and equipped the men with uniforms (which looked like jumpsuits in news photos) and boots. He also promised weapons and explosives, but delivered none.
Homegrown terrorism. indeed.
These were poor men, living in a poor, neglected side of town.
To say that they has a beef with the well to do society around them is kind of like calling pig pork -- it's obvious -- but 'homegrown terrorism?'
It might be more apt to call it 'hyped up terrorism", for this was a classic case of government entrapment.
Poor men, without resources, can't wage war on cockroaches.
They claimed membership in the Black religious group known as the Moorish Science Temple, a community founded in 1913 by a man who came to be called Noble Drew Ali, in Newark, New Jersey. The MST spread up and down the East Coast, took root in several southern cities, but really took off in Chicago, which featured it's largest community.
Some have looked at the MST as a kind of Muslim vector through which Al Qaeda used its call to jihad to entice the men.
That only makes sense if one knew nothing about the Moorish Science Temple, which in belief and practice would be regarded by Mahhabis as anathema. For in the MST, followers read a Koran written, not by followers of the Arab prophet, Muhammad, but by Ali. It is a surprisingly slim, yet readable, philosophical and poetic work, that borrows more from Christian, Theosophical, and even Jewish influences than the Arabic.
That said, the jury took a while. But it is interesting that, in these post 9/11 times, a federal jury looked at the government's case, and most said, "Nah -- we'll pass."
In a time of the so-called War on Terror, isn't this case more important than guys bulking up for baseball games? Sport is, after all, entertainment.
What's more important- entertainment or war? The national, corporate media has answered that question, once again.
We shouldn't forget, the nation's premier sports channel is ESPN - which stands for /Entertainment/ Sports Network.
What's that tell ya? --
(c) '07 maj
{Source: Goodhough, Abby, "Trial Starts for Men in Plot to Destroy Sears Tower," New York Times , Wed., Oct. 3, 2007, p.A16}
* {col. writ. 12/13/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal *
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As the global news media salivated over charges of steroid use in professional baseball, what got lost in most of the sauce is the news emerging from the nation's chief Latin city: Miami.
There, 7 young Black men from Liberty City were either acquitted or received a hung jury in a case that ex-Attorney General Alberto 'Fredo' Gonzales described at the time as "homegrown terrorism."
The 7, known as the Liberty City Seven, were charged with plotting to bomb the famed Sears Tower of Chicago, as part of a broader Al Qaeda terror plot.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Gregorie argued to jurors, "These defendants came together with the sole purpose of waging war in the United States." According to federal prosecutors, these 7 guys planned to destroy federal buildings, and even to poison salt shakers in restaurants.
One of the men's defense lawyers, Ana M. Jhones, told the jury that this was more a case of a con job than terrorism, and that her client, Narseal Batiste, wanted to coax a Yemeni man lining in Miami into giving him money. The man, an FBI informant, held the keys to this alleged plot from the get - go. He bought and equipped the men with uniforms (which looked like jumpsuits in news photos) and boots. He also promised weapons and explosives, but delivered none.
Homegrown terrorism. indeed.
These were poor men, living in a poor, neglected side of town.
To say that they has a beef with the well to do society around them is kind of like calling pig pork -- it's obvious -- but 'homegrown terrorism?'
It might be more apt to call it 'hyped up terrorism", for this was a classic case of government entrapment.
Poor men, without resources, can't wage war on cockroaches.
They claimed membership in the Black religious group known as the Moorish Science Temple, a community founded in 1913 by a man who came to be called Noble Drew Ali, in Newark, New Jersey. The MST spread up and down the East Coast, took root in several southern cities, but really took off in Chicago, which featured it's largest community.
Some have looked at the MST as a kind of Muslim vector through which Al Qaeda used its call to jihad to entice the men.
That only makes sense if one knew nothing about the Moorish Science Temple, which in belief and practice would be regarded by Mahhabis as anathema. For in the MST, followers read a Koran written, not by followers of the Arab prophet, Muhammad, but by Ali. It is a surprisingly slim, yet readable, philosophical and poetic work, that borrows more from Christian, Theosophical, and even Jewish influences than the Arabic.
That said, the jury took a while. But it is interesting that, in these post 9/11 times, a federal jury looked at the government's case, and most said, "Nah -- we'll pass."
In a time of the so-called War on Terror, isn't this case more important than guys bulking up for baseball games? Sport is, after all, entertainment.
What's more important- entertainment or war? The national, corporate media has answered that question, once again.
We shouldn't forget, the nation's premier sports channel is ESPN - which stands for /Entertainment/ Sports Network.
What's that tell ya? --
(c) '07 maj
{Source: Goodhough, Abby, "Trial Starts for Men in Plot to Destroy Sears Tower," New York Times , Wed., Oct. 3, 2007, p.A16}
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