in military spending in drone killings in creating more terrorists in small arms exports in oil consumption in gun ownership in energy use per person in death by violence in locking our citizens up in per capita health expenditures in student loan debt in obesity in breast augmentation in anxiety disorders.
America is Worst among Industrialized Nations in income inequality in unemployment rate in food insecurity in life expectancy at birth in prison population WHY? TWO-FISTED CORPOCRACY POWER
Corrupt Corporations & their Allies + Corrupt Government
US Industries and their Corporations Corrupting & Controlling Government Government Serves Industries and their Corporations, Not the American People The Corpocracy Always Wins. Democracy Always Loses and War Always Wins, Peace Always Loses "Peace through Strength"? When?
As corporate adversary and public figure, Ralph Nader observes, “America is becoming a third-world country.” Worse still, it is a war-making country solely for the corpocracy’s imperialistic expansion, never for defending freedom or spreading democracy. More worse still, most Americans, fooled by the corpocracy and its many allies, now approve of drone killings, even of children.
Corpocracy vs Democracy Scoreboard Democracy Down for the Count
The Corpocracy’s Opposition: Divided and Conquered
Millions of Americans Disconnected Grass Roots Movements Disconnected Unions Disconnected Thousands of Small Businesses Disconnected Thousands of Small Farmers Disconnected Thousands of Cooperatives Disconnected Hundreds of Socially Activist NGOs Disconnected Hundreds of Foundations Funding NGOs Disconnected Plus Apathy? Denial? Sense of Futility? Self Absorption?
BUT
A Better America is Possible Universal Health Care Thriving Small Businesses and Cooperatives Right to Join a Union and to Bargain Social and Economic Justice Healthy and Safe Products & Services Sustainable Growth & Environment No Drone Killings of Children or Anyone Else Peace, not Endless, Winless Wars No More Terrorism Not Becoming Like a Police State
New: America's Chronic War Habit ************************************ New Review of the Devil's Marriage The Library Page *************************** Quotes for the Time Being
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato ----war is nothing but an act of crime. Albert Einstein America the Foreign Terrorist Maker? “...what happens on the ground is for every one of those impacts you get five or ten times as many recruits for the Taliban as you’ve eliminated. The people that we’re trying to convince to become adherents to our cause have turned rigidly hostile to our cause in part because of bombing and in part because of other killing of civilians from ground forces.” Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon official and fighter aircraft designer Quoted in the article, War is a Crime, by Tom Santoni, War is a Crime, 26 February, 2009
"We are creating more enemies than we’re killing. We are doing things that violate international law. We are even killing American citizens without due process…” Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Quoted in the article Washington’s War-Makers Aren’t “in a Bubble,” They’re in a Bunker, by Norman Solomon, Dissident Voice, February 11th, 2013,
“We’re seeing that blowback. If you’re trying to kill your way to a solution, no matter how precise you are, you’re going to upset people even if they’re not targeted.”
Retired four-star Marine General James Cartwright Quoted in General Cartwright Warns of Drone 'Blowback.' Bob Dreyfuss March 22, 2013, The Nation
************************************************************ Kindness: A word the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
******************************************************** Get a college degree in drones? Yes, one can in the USA
****************************** Susan B. Anthony helped break a gender barrier Margaret Sanger helped break a sexual barrier Jackie Robinson, Rosa Lee Parks, & MLK, Jr helped break a color barrier Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
What small group of leaders will help break the peace barrier? What small group of leaders will help break the democracy barrier?
Test your humanity Do you feel compassion for families of people killed by U.S. drones?