BDS Perspectives

Words to Remember: Truths; Wisdom; Insight How Others Think(beware some of these people)....

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

. At the Nuremberg war trials, Herman Goering, head of the German Air Force, gave one of the most lucid explanations of how this process worked (as quoted by Howard Zinn):
"Naturally, the common people don't want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

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Key Bush adviser Henry Kissinger's view on US supported Chilean military coup of democraticaly elected Allende government:
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." ', as sourced in Ask Kissinger About Pinochet's Regime.                               _______________________________

When you know history, you know that governments lie, as I.F. Stone said. Governments lie all the time. (from talk by Howard Zinn on "..The Uses Of History ...")[buy Bill Moyers PBS DVD Buying The War]
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' "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Here is US General Thomas Power speaking in December 1960 about things like nuclear war and a first strike by the United States: "The whole idea is to kill the bastards! At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win!" The response from one of those present was: "Well, you'd better make sure that they're a man and a woman."  ' from Willam Blum article

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your governmant when it deserves it....Mark Twain

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The Zion-Cons follow the Goebbels principle

"The Big Lie repeated often enough can convince the stupid masses." From Iran War:US Military vs Israel Firsters


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BUSH Legacy: Still glad to be American (economics,freedoms) but no longer proud. A philosophy professor summarizes why. ...... (another similar perspective) ... America's Blinders  ... View1 ... View2   View3

IRAQ WAR: Illegal, Immoral, Unnecessary. WMD/9-11 Link   lies to stoke public support for plan for regime change in IRAQ. No US intent to withdraw from IRAQ, just to calm US public and install compliant IRAQ pro-US regime and docile IRAQ public. Goal is permanent US bases in Middle East to support Israel and US corporate oil interests.Best road forward: no good choices for IRAQ or US; bring all US troops home --NOW! Assemble a UN force under UN control to aid IRAQ in whatever capacity emerges.US to admit errors and fund UN at same current $200 million per day (!) being spent on Iraq war, for years. View1 ...  View2   All Government's Lie

BUSH (George the Bastard): Revealed Enron type corrupt mentality when a corrupted Supreme Court installment dashed respect for true democratic principles in 2000. Skillful administration manipulates disparate public sectors on key issues while policies are failing in almost all areas when viewed clearly. A failure in all key respects; the worst President in US history;  (Jimmy Carter:Bush Administration is Worst in US History) :No one has done more to discredit US moral imperatives, world respect, US self-respect, civil liberties, the environment, long term security .... Deception and lies promoting IRAQ war to Congress, UN, US citizens makes him guilty of treason and a war criminal ,Let's stop there---you can only be hanged once. (War criminal associates:Tony Blair; Wolfowitz;Bolton; Rove; Rice; Powell, Ashcroft, Cheney,Rumsfeld ...) View1 Ohio-2004-A-2000-Repeat View2 View3 View4 VIew5 View6  View7

BDS View on Iran Fiasco ! , Sept 2005 ...View1 View2 View3 View4 View5 View6

BDS View on North Korea (DPRK) and Nuclear Standoff ,Sept 2005 AnotherView1

BDS View of Israeli / Palestinian Conflict ,Sept 2005 View1 View2 View3 View4    Cause:Israeli's Stealing Palestinian Land:See President Jimmy Carter's new book:"Palestine,Peace Not Apartheid", Why the US and Israel Should Lose Middle East Wars   Zion-Power and War    Endless Israeli War Chronology   Univ Tel Aviv Professor Shlomo Sand's Book: The Invention Of The Jewish People     Does Israel Really Have A Right to Exist?

BDS View on What a Real Alternative to Current Administration Would Be Like ,Not BDS words ,but we cannot say it better. Another View.

Supreme Court :Roe vs Wade Lost; Time to abandon "Lesser Evil" strategy and Wishy-Washy Democrats But ..My 2008 vote for President will not be for Russell Feingold ,Dem Senator from Wisconsin;although he voted against the Iraq war, against the Patriot Act(and Renewal); for Bush censure/impeachment review for domestic spying ....because he is still another "Lesser Evil" vote..... Feingold embraces the doctine of pre-emptive war to prevent countries like Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability (while the US threatens the world with nuclear stikes as a "birthright"); and, supports a US war to protect the ethnic-cleansing pariah nation Israel.I am convinced nothing fundamental will change (in foreign pocicy especially) without the emergence of more significant parties to break the stranglehold of big-money on a two-party system.I will vote the "Peace and Freedom" party in 2008; I suggest you pick any third party close to your views.At this point it doesn't really matter which one,we just need to break up the political monopoly.View1 View2  Kucinich-Most-Gutsy-Democrat View3 View4 View5  USA-Fascism   The Axis of Lesser Evilism

M ... The illusion of a woman (Clinton) or black (Obama) president is but a shadow of real change. Either just shows that "minorities" have (finally) been fully integrated into the US typically white ,male power structure. Arguably even that is cause for patriotic pride. But I require more from my country that is responsible for over a million unnecessary Iraqi deaths, destruction of a country, wanton pursuit of a new generation of nuclear arms,threatening further international aggression on pre-emptive strike principles, inhuman torture, undermining of confidence in international justice (and UN) by unprincipled support of Israel in stealing Palestinian lands and apartheid,starting a new nuclear race by trying to develop a defensive missile system that could protect it even if it engaged in unlawful international aggression,continued stupid self-defeating policies toward Iran,DPRK,Cuba,Venezuela ....,waffling on global warming,International Criminal Court,un-American domestic spying (bypassing FISA),Guantanamo,unlawful rendition,Patriot act,...,(despite Democratic incremental prospects on universal healthcare,taxation-balanced budget-social welfare net, overemphasis on immigration red herring) ....(See Helen THomas) "Democrats Need to Take A Stand

So I still will vote for Kucinich (Primary) Peace & Freedom (general election) and not Obama ... (not lesser evil) ... B

PS: I suppose one could vote for Obama in the hope that he is pursuing a public campaign necessary to get elected ,and will pursue a more real change ala the above if elected. However that prospect is so unlikely as not to get my vote.

[28 Jan 2008....Kucinich has dropped out....so I am considering voting for Obama in primary....but I doubt he will get the democratic support to implement real change...so I expect I will still vote third party...Bill]

June 2008: I plan to VOTE For Obama; I will give the man a chance.

The Most Important Book I Ever read; Exposing the Fairytale: Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of the United States;1492-Present",2003

(This book should be required history reading in our schools. If you do not accept this book you will become the fodder of today's and tomorrow's repeating history---Vietnam and Iraq are examples and nothing new ....what is new, is that perhaps a critical proportion of people might actually become aware of the situation and effect a change...(... see Amrica's Blinders ...) . my opinion/Bill Rowe) (After being awaken,be sure to read:"Overthrow:America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq", by Stephen Kinzer) View1

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.
Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."

If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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