Foreign Policy and Domestic Policy at a Glance
... I really am having it brought home that this government is sold out. We haven't had a representative government for quite some time. Agency members only care about protecting their precious positions. Personal selfishness is fertile ground for a dictatorship. The insecurity and myopia of this nation leads to people caring about only snagging their next bonus. People are allowed to be dehumanised and killed for the pursuit of happiness. It's clear people don't understand what was said in the book, All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. It said, "there's no freedom without responsibility."
Freedom is not sustained by buying products made from sweat shop labor. Soon, after the blue collar jobs are sent overseas, because the FTAA is up and running on the fast track, middle management jobs will be sacrificed. A few gun thugs are all that are needed to handle "human resource" issues in places like Indonesia. It will eliminate the need for all those conniving, labor sabotaging, middle-management crawlers. What goes around comes around!
-- An excerpt from an article entitled, "According to Nashau Aircraft Controllers an F-16 Was Sent to Shoot Down Flight 73" by 'webslave' on the Independent Newswire, December 14, 2001.
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The Council on Foreign Relations today runs the United States on behalf of global investment banking interests, always at the expense of the middle classes and [almost all] the poor who aspire to middle class living.
-- Dick Eastman, January 4, 2002
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If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11, please observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilian lives lost in the New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.
While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 30,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Snr. Take another moment here to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the streets.
Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by Iraqi soldiers using weapons and money provided to young Saddam Hussein by the American government, before the great eagle turned all its power against Iraq.
Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and 150,000 Afghans killed by troops supported and trained by the CIA. Plus10 minutes of silence for 300,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.
We've just kept quiet for one hour: One minute for the Americans killed in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout the world.
If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all those killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to admit. The U.S. went to another continent thousands of miles away and burnt tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants with napalm.
Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989,where American troops attacked poor villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead. Or for the millions of children who have died because of the USA embargoes on Iraq and Cuba.
Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered throughout the world by US-sponsored civil wars and coups d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador to name a few).
Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims otherwise, someone may remember the USA attack on Baghdad where 18,000 civilians were killed. Did someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was there even any retaliation?
We hope that Americans finally begin to understand their vulnerability and the attacks and other tragedies that they have caused around the world. The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of the Towers, maybe even more!
What about the 560,000 Iraqi children (as per current UN data) who have died as a direct cause of the US supported sanctions against Iraq? Are these the children of a lesser God?
What about a new generation of nearly one million Iraqi children who are currently having their lives being ruined by improper nutrition, lack of medicine and inferior education because of US supported sanctions.
Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?
Copright Osama Kawwa, New Year's Day
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