Tag: War

Abraham Accord: Experts Warn Trump Peace Deal a Precursor to War with Iran

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Abraham Accord: Experts Warn Trump Peace Deal a Precursor to War with Iran

The Abraham Accord, as it is known, is likely to expand the power of Gulf dictatorships and increase the number of devastating high-tech weapons in the Middle East, fueling further instability and bloodshed, a welcome prospect for neoconservative hawks and religious zealots who see the deal as fulfilling ancient prophecies about the end of the world. Above all, the deal can be seen as an attempt to present a united front against Iran for any potential future war — a conflict that would likely make Iraq and Afghanistan look mild by comparison.

What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 2, 2020 October 4, 2020

The vast majority of people who experience war directly, first-hand, rather than through Hollywood movies or politicians’ speeches, are the people who live where wars are waged. In wars involving distant wealthy nations on one-side, some 95% of those killed or injured or traumatized, and 100% of those bombed out of their homes are people against whom war is waged, most of them civilians and the rest of them people doing exactly what any Hollywood movie or politician would tell them — have told them — to do: fight back.

What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson

September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The rubble was still smoldering at Ground Zero when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to essentially transform itself into the Israeli Knesset, or parliament. It was 19 years ago, 11:17pm Washington D.C. time on September 14, 2001 when the People’s Chamber approved House Joint Resolution 64, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) “against those responsible for the recent attacks.” Naturally, that was before the precise identities, and full scope, of “those responsible” were yet known – so the resolution’s rubber-stamp was obscenely open-ended by necessity, but also by design.

September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel

No War But Class War!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

No War But Class War!

Trump, like President George W. Bush, received a medical deferment for alleged bone spurs to avoid enlistment in the Vietnam War. This is suffice to say, another example of the rich using their bourgeois entitlement to avoid having to personally participate in the wars they start.

And this is part of the problem with the sanctimonious response to Trump’s admittedly petty remarks. The truth is Trump is only saying out loud what most of the capitalist elite and the bourgeoisie really think about the American war dead. Indeed, they do consider veterans and those killed in the United States’ imperial wars — people drawn primarily from the poor and working class — “losers” and “suckers.” If the elites truly cared at all about the working-class Americans drawn into the military via the largely unacknowledged economic draft the country has maintained for decades, they would not risk their lives in wars for empire and conquest in the first place.

“The master class has always declared the wars. The subject class has always fought the battles,” Eugene V. Debs declared during his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 18, 1918. “The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose — especially their lives.