LBJ's Road to War Who's Who of the Vietnam Escalation Debater (from Nov 20th)
here
And then maybe almost as interesting: the comments still coming in as of 28th
here
On Tuesday 24th first Update under "Worsening..." article, Greenwald said about the above Moyer's Journal: "And if you haven't seen or read Bill Moyers' amazing -- and obviously relevant -- examination this week of how and why President Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam, I can't recommend highly enough that you do so."
The number of comments are coming in on this topic of more war in Afghanistan on his site as well:
here
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By the way, have you yet found this important site from Pakistan? Note article on Blackwater:
here
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
TO US NOW: STOP Creating HELL Abroad
Both the US Left and the US Right (and all nations who participate in our Foreign Occupations) are are giving the name "OBOMBA" to US and history.
NO to All US Pro-War Policy-Makers: NO MORE WAR! End the US OCCUPATIONS!
DRONES DESTROY DEMOCRACY
BLACKWATER OUT OF PAKISTAN - BACK to US COURTS!
US ABUSING Afghan Teens?
here
UNVEILING: Huge New Prison in Afghanistan (Keep Watching Human Rights Watch, Tina Foster and International Committee of the Red Cross)
here
Why Is the State Department Speaking for JSOC? (Keep Watching Jeremy Scahill)
here
NO to All US Pro-War Policy-Makers: NO MORE WAR! End the US OCCUPATIONS!
DRONES DESTROY DEMOCRACY
BLACKWATER OUT OF PAKISTAN - BACK to US COURTS!
US ABUSING Afghan Teens?
here
UNVEILING: Huge New Prison in Afghanistan (Keep Watching Human Rights Watch, Tina Foster and International Committee of the Red Cross)
here
Why Is the State Department Speaking for JSOC? (Keep Watching Jeremy Scahill)
here
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Along with Occupation - Worsening Civil and Human Rights?
Excerpt/Summary:
***Many if not most detained in the "war on terror" by US authorities (including "Rendered" from Bagram)are being denied trials and face military tribunals or worse - "indefinite detention"
*** many of the policies once widely declared by Democrats to be a grave threat to the Constitution are now explicitly adopted by the Obama administration. And it's flatly inconsistent to invoke "the rule of law" to defend Obama's decision to give trials to a few Guantanamo detainees without pointing out that he's violating that very same precept by denying trials to so many.
***UPDATE: The Nation's Jeremy Scahill reveals that the U.S. military is using Blackwater -- as part of "a secret program in [Pakistan in] - including Karachi - which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives." McClatchy reports that Obama has made a decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan which, if true, means, as Juan Cole says, that "Gen. Stanley McChrystal has won the struggle for policy decisively." (ADD ON from oneheart blogger: now Obama is saying that his intention is to "finish the job" -
does this mean war without end or a scenario in keeping with the litany in the recent article at Consortiumnews dot com Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards
here
So, to recap: we have indefinite detention, military commissions, Blackwater assassination squads, escalation in Afghanistan, extreme secrecy to shield executive lawbreaking from judicial review, renditions, and denials of habeas corpus. These are not policies Obama has failed yet to uproot; they are policies he has explicitly advocated and affirmatively embraced as his own.
And if you haven't seen or read Bill Moyers' amazing -- and obviously relevant -- examination this week of how and why President Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam, I can't recommend highly enough that you do so. here Hearing History: Lessons from a Quagmire (Vietnam Views)
See Greenwald piece in full:
Glenn Greenwald: Greg Craig and Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
here
***Many if not most detained in the "war on terror" by US authorities (including "Rendered" from Bagram)are being denied trials and face military tribunals or worse - "indefinite detention"
*** many of the policies once widely declared by Democrats to be a grave threat to the Constitution are now explicitly adopted by the Obama administration. And it's flatly inconsistent to invoke "the rule of law" to defend Obama's decision to give trials to a few Guantanamo detainees without pointing out that he's violating that very same precept by denying trials to so many.
***UPDATE: The Nation's Jeremy Scahill reveals that the U.S. military is using Blackwater -- as part of "a secret program in [Pakistan in] - including Karachi - which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives." McClatchy reports that Obama has made a decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan which, if true, means, as Juan Cole says, that "Gen. Stanley McChrystal has won the struggle for policy decisively." (ADD ON from oneheart blogger: now Obama is saying that his intention is to "finish the job" -
does this mean war without end or a scenario in keeping with the litany in the recent article at Consortiumnews dot com Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards
here
So, to recap: we have indefinite detention, military commissions, Blackwater assassination squads, escalation in Afghanistan, extreme secrecy to shield executive lawbreaking from judicial review, renditions, and denials of habeas corpus. These are not policies Obama has failed yet to uproot; they are policies he has explicitly advocated and affirmatively embraced as his own.
And if you haven't seen or read Bill Moyers' amazing -- and obviously relevant -- examination this week of how and why President Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam, I can't recommend highly enough that you do so. here Hearing History: Lessons from a Quagmire (Vietnam Views)
See Greenwald piece in full:
Glenn Greenwald: Greg Craig and Obama's Worsening Civil Liberties Record
here
US Law Students and Staff Call for Investigation
Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture (BAAT): Berkeley Law Students and Staff Call for Investigation of "Torture Memo" Lawyers
here
here
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
That OTHER Marketplace A Ghazal by Gilbert Webb
A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient...
Credit for the photo here
Tejas no longer goes to the that other marketplace to work,
he only deals in the currency of God.
What will become of him no one knows since he has given up
all the ways of the Western world?
The treasure within him is recognized only by him or the
mad lovers of God.
In the company of fools he is seen as a fool, in the
company of saints he is seen as a saint, but he knows he is
simply THAT and cares not for such titles or rewards.
His little toddy shop is always open, he gives drinks away
for no charge.
There is only Allah's mercy spoken of there, no talk of
apocalypse, crusade or holy war.
Krishna, Ram and Jesus provide the spit for the ferment of
the brew, the Divine Mother herself keeps up with the pots
and kettles and wipes the glasses clean with her shawl.
Tejas no longer goes to work in that other marketplace he
deals only in the currency of God
Credit for the photo hereTejas no longer goes to the that other marketplace to work,
he only deals in the currency of God.
What will become of him no one knows since he has given up
all the ways of the Western world?
The treasure within him is recognized only by him or the
mad lovers of God.
In the company of fools he is seen as a fool, in the
company of saints he is seen as a saint, but he knows he is
simply THAT and cares not for such titles or rewards.
His little toddy shop is always open, he gives drinks away
for no charge.
There is only Allah's mercy spoken of there, no talk of
apocalypse, crusade or holy war.
Krishna, Ram and Jesus provide the spit for the ferment of
the brew, the Divine Mother herself keeps up with the pots
and kettles and wipes the glasses clean with her shawl.
Tejas no longer goes to work in that other marketplace he
deals only in the currency of God
Peace Prayer of St. Francis (written 1915)
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The Story Behind the Peace Prayer of St. Francis
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis is a famous prayer which first appeared around the year 1915 A.D., and which embodies the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi's simplicity and poverty.
According to Father Kajetan Esser, OFM, the author of the critical edition of St. Francis's Writings, the Peace Prayer of St. Francis is most certainly not one of the writings of St. Francis. This prayer, according to Father Schulz, Das sogennante Franziskusgebet. Forshungen zur evangelishen Gebetslitteratur (III), in Jahrbuch fur Liturgik und Hymnologie, 13 (1968), pp. 39-53, first appeared during the First World War. It was found written on the observe of a holy card of St. Francis, which was found in a Normal Almanac. The prayer bore no name; but in the English speaking world, on account of this holy card, it came to be called the Peace Prayer of St. Francis.
More information about this prayer can be found in Friar J. Poulenc, OFM, L'inspiration moderne de la priere « Seigneru faites de moi un instrument de votre paix », Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, vol. 68 (1975) pp. 450-453.
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis
by an anonymous Norman c. 1915 A.D. Peace Prayer
Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, Joy.
O Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled
As to console;
To be understood,as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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