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Comment by Tony Nuspl on March 8, 2009 at 11:25pm

There few TPF members at this month's regularly scheduled anti-war demonstration, at the corner of 41st & Yale, from 12 noon to 2pm, as per every month on the first Saturday of the month, since 2002

We need members to show up and brandish signs!

This month we held up signs such as:

"HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE"
(borrowing a slogan from the Progressive Democrats of America)

"U.S. Veterans commit suicide twice as often as Americans who have not served"
(hotline for Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, also displayed prominently this month, on one such placard)

"Educate your youth - Don't send them to war!"
(a good counter-recruitment slogan)

"100,000 Iraqis are dead, not free!"
(The exact number of dead among Iraqis is disputed, and may be as high as a quarter million dead, since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. There are also 4 million displaced persons, as a result of the illegal invasion of Iraq. Certainly the reality on the ground puts the lie to the neo-con justifications for invading Iraq.)

We were very pleased to have a new person spontaneously decide to join us, this week, for our demonstration.

Also, thank you to all of you who flashed us a peace sign, or honked your horns in support

Comment by Tony Nuspl on March 3, 2009 at 3:50pm

Op/ed from Chris Hedges
"It's Obama's War Now"

2009/03/02 - Combat troops are to be pulled out of Iraq by August 2010, President Obama said, but some 50,000 occupation troops will remain behind. Someone should let the Iraqis know the distinction. - It’s Obama’s War Now

Barack Obama, during the campaign, promised that he would pull out one combat brigade per month over a 16-month period from Iraq. But this promise has been scrapped. Obama has shown that he is as capable of doublespeak as any other politician when he announced an end to the war in Iraq.

The only hope now lies in renewed protests against the war and a reinvigorated anti-war movement. This time the movement should hold fast, as stalwarts like Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader have, to the moral imperative of peace and not the false hopes offered by the Democrats. They cannot be trusted.

Lies and deception, which launched the war in the first place, are being employed by Democrats to maintain it. This is not a withdrawal. It is occupation lite.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090302_its_obamas_war_now/

Comment by Tony Nuspl on February 20, 2009 at 3:48pm

"With his new order on Afghanistan, President (Barack) Obama has given substantial ground to what Martin Luther King Jr., in 1967 called 'the madness of militarism,'" Norman Solomon, executive director of the Washington-based Institute for Public Accuracy, told IPS.

"That madness should be opposed in 2009," said Solomon, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.

Reviews of his book:

"Norman Solomon is one of the bravest and best American journalists, especially when he is dissecting the topics of war and the media. War Made Easy exposes and explains the lies and deceptions that have misled our nation into vile and bloody disasters from Vietnam to El Salvador to Iraq; it reveals the frequent cowardice and culpability of the US media that often behaves as a propaganda arm of the Pentagon. War Made Easy is a sobering and essential book that Americans should read, share, and discuss."
—John Stauber, co-author of Weapons of Mass Deception and Banana Republicans

"If you don't have fun reading Norman Solomon's War Made Easy, you don't know how to have a good time. This exceptional book will drive our leaders bonkers and their mouthpieces in the US press crazier than they are already. Read one passage each night to your children to protect them from the brain-snatchers and dummy-fication zombies of America's news media of the living dead."
—Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

"If you want to help prevent another war (Iran? Syria?), read War Made Easy now. This is a stop-the-presses book filled with mind-blowing facts about Washington¹s warmongers who keep the Pentagon budget rising. It would be funny if people weren't dying. War Made Easy exposes the grisly game and offers the information we need to stop it."
—Jim Hightower, author of Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush.

"America's mainstream media didn't launch the war on Iraq, but the Bush administration sure couldn't have waged it without them. The great lesson of War Made Easy is that, alas, such journalistic malfeasance is nothing new; our media have a history of enabling Washington's foreign misadventures. Perhaps if enough people read--and act on--this book, it won't be so easy next time."
—Mark Hertsgaard, journalist and author of On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency.