«GROSS: Do you think that ISIS would have existed if not for the American invasion of Iraq? ARANGO: No, absolutely not.» War is never over, because political violence is cyclical, self-perpetuating, and never accomplished without blowback or unintended consequences. #USOut

Hey everyone: anyone know whether there’s going to be (1) an Austin Anarchist Bookfair, or (2) a Houston Anarchist Bookfair, in Fall 2014? (If so, what the right URL or who the right people to contact for information would be?) #LazyWeb #ALLDistro

My favorite part is the part where they say no, of course they are not a branch of the party, but they are “given guidance by” the RCP and Chairman Bob Thought.

” In June, I deployed several hundred American servicemembers to Iraq to assess how we can best support Iraqi security forces. Now that those teams have completed their work –- and Iraq has formed a government –- we will send an additional 475 servicemembers to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission –- we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment. We’ll also support Iraq’s efforts to stand up National Guard Units to help Sunni communities secure their own freedom from ISIL’s control.” – Obama’s War Speech Oh, well, they’re just military advisors. Clearly there is no way that could escalate into a land war in Asia.

Literally every president of my lifetime, except one, has started at least one new war against Iraq. Every damned one of them except Reagan. And the only reason Reagan didn’t start a new war against Iraq was because he was too busy helping the Iraqi government get chemical weapons so that they could fight a proxy war for him against Iran.

http://ift.tt/1pR8sLg “. . . Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. Working with the Iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions, so that we’re hitting ISIL targets as Iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. . . .” These exact words, without change, could have been uttered by George W. Bush. They could have been spoken, exactly as they are, by William Jefferson Clinton. They read exactly like every war speech that George H. W. Bush ever gave. The dates change, but the war rhetoric is always the same. Every President is a war President, and in war every President talks in the same voice from the same mouth with the same lies for the same ultimate purpose: to legitimize politically-organized mass murder. If you elect a “humble foreign policy” conservative, he will govern as a President anyway. If you elect a Progressive President, the fact that he is President will always be far more relevant than the fact that he is a Progressive. No matter who you voted for, the winner always becomes the Government. #USOut #WarIsTheHealthOfTheState

U.S. soldiers are being sent back into Iraq in order to fight the Global War on Terror. U.S. soldiers will be stationed in Saudi Arabia for the sake of regional stability. Everything old is new again. #USOut

“. . . If in some stumbling dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come the gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,− My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for soem desperate glory The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” − Wilfred Owen (1917-1918)*

“restraining” #AbolishThePolice