'Iraq doesn't exist'

Compassion.  Empathy.  Real feelings for many but for politicians -- and their wives -- just poses they try on to score political points.

Ralph Nader didn't fall for the con.

Ralph Nader‏Verified account @RalphNader Jun 22

Would be nice if Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had expressed similar heartfelt concern for the tens of thousands of children killed or seriously maimed by the wars of their husbands in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. -R

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All the children dead in Iraq for the war Bully Boy Bush started, for the war Barack Obama promised to end but never did.

Iraq is what?  A land of widows and orphans.

But Laura Bush doesn't give a s**t and Michelle Obama doesn't give a f**k.

But both suddenly care about children -- provided they can embarrass Donald Trump.  Certainly Michelle didn't care about separating Latino children from their parents when her own husband did it and put them in cages.

But now we're supposed to believe she cares. 

Now.

We're supposed to be that stupid. 

Maybe even stupid enough to waste on her 'book' when it comes out.  You're seeing her husband being paid millions by his corporate masters for what he did for the wealthy in his eight year presidency.  But that's enough for Michelle or Barack.  The two hustlers need even more money.

1. Bryan M‏ @b_mad_ 2h2 hours ago

   Republicans & Democrats voted for the Iraq war. Republicans & Democrats both went along in creating ICE & have created a deportation machine under Obama & Bush admin. Both parties voted more war spending. So when a Dem does it it’s ok. When a Rep does it it’s not. WTF?!

   

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TIME magazine encourages Barack and Michelle to believe they can lie and get away with it.  While the stupid and hyper-partisan will go along with it, the larger public will not.

But politicians love to lie and when they think someone else is getting away with lying, they push their way to the front of the line so they can have a go at it.

1. Sarah Abdallah‏ @sahouraxo Jun 22

   Sarah Abdallah Retweeted The Hill

   Children should not be sanctioned to death in their hundreds of thousands either like you did in Iraq Bill. So save us the crocodile tears.

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   The HillVerified account @thehill

   Bill Clinton blasts Trump over family separation: "Children should not be bargaining chips" http://hill.cm/7NwtyDW 

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No, it's not that easy, Bill Clinton.

In Iraq, the living don't just have to endure the losses of loved ones, they're often prevented from even returning to their homes.

Human Rights Watch‏Verified account @hrw 12m12 minutes ago

Iraq: Displaced Families Blocked from Returning

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Where are Laura Bush and Michelle Obama's crocodile tears over that?

Oh, right, click your heels three times and repeat "Iraq doesn't, Iraq doesn't exist, Iraq doesn't exist."  Right?  That's how it works?

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HAWAI’I - PUNA’S PEOPLE BEFORE THE ERUPTION Photoessay by David Bacon

HAWAI’I - PUNA’S PEOPLE BEFORE THE ERUPTION Photoessay by David Bacon https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/06/hawaii-punas-people-before-eruption.html A couple of months before the eruption of the Kilauea volcano it was raining in Puna.  At the Saturday farmers’ market children pulled at their parents’ hands, asking for papayas or bananas, still wet from the downpour. In the bustle among the stalls, who was thinking of what was to come? Within a few weeks we were mesmerized by images of fountains of glowing lava.  Video shot by drones showed rivers of molten rock heading implacably toward the ocean.  They've both provided us a visual language for understanding the destruction and awful price of the eruption.  So many homes burned out and now under the lava flow.  Hundreds of people displaced. The people of Puna lived in a beautiful part of the Big Island, a district of many small farms.  People grow papayas and mangos.  Some produce in the stalls, like the taro, have local origins, while others, like Hawai’i’s giant avocados, came originally from the mainland. Orchids are sold in the stalls too, yet seem omnipresent throughout Puna's subtropical landscape.  The people here are very diverse.  Many are poor - this is one of the least expensive places to live on the islands.  Native Hawai’ians live beside African-Americans, immigrants from Asian countries across the Pacific, and white retirees from the mainland. In the Maku'u farmers’ market every Saturday you can see them all.  It’s not far from Pahoa and the edge of the eruption, just a few miles up highway 130.  The market must be having some hard times now, though.  Some of the farms have been overtaken by the lava.  Who knows whether displaced people can afford to buy fruit at the stalls of those farmers still able to come and sell what they’re growing? These images were taken a few months before the eruption started.  They’re just a way of looking at who lives in Puna, a community living on the side of a volcano.                         Los Angeles Times reviews In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte - clickhere   "Documenting the Farm Worker Rebellion" "The Radical Resistance to Immigration Enforcement" Havens Center lectures, University of Wisconsin, click here San Francisco Commonweallth Club presentation by David Bacon and Jose Padilla, clickhere   Exhibition / Exhibicion In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte Photographs and text panels by David Bacon documenting the lives of farm workers Fotografias y paneles de texto por David Bacon documentando las vidas de los que trabajan en el campo Arbuckle Gallery / Pacific Hotel History Park of San Jose, 1650 Senter Rd., San Jose, CA 10/26/2017 - 6/3/2018, 11A-4.30P, Tues/Martes - Sun/Domingo Video of the presentation at the opening of the exhibition, click here   In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte Photographs and text by David Bacon University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte 302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9” paperback, $34.95 order the book on the UC Press website: ucpress.edu/9780520296077 use source code  16M4197  at checkout, receive a 30% discount En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF: https://www.colef.mx   En los campos del Norte documenta la vida de trabajadores agrícolas en Estados Unidos - Entrevista con el Instituto Nacional de la Antropologia y Historia http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/6863-en-los-campos-del-norte-documenta-la-vida-de-trabajadores-agricolas-en-estados-unidos Entrevista en la television de UNAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSaBKZ_k0o David Bacon comparte su mirada del trabajo agrícola de migrantes mexicanos en el Museo Archivo de la Fotografia http://www.cultura.cdmx.gob.mx/comunicacion/nota/0038-18 Trabajo agrícola, migración y resistencia cultural: el mosaico de los “Campos del Norte” Entrevista de David Bacon por Iván Gutiérrez / A los 4 Vientos http://www.4vientos.net/2017/10/04/trabajo-agricola-migracion-y-resistencia-cultural-el-mosaico-de-los-campos-del-norte/ "Los fotógrafos tomamos partido" Entrevista por Melina Balcázar Moreno - Milenio.com Laberinto http://www.milenio.com/cultura/laberinto/david_baconm-fotografia-melina_balcazar-laberinto-milenio_0_959904035.html   EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE:  Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7 Entrevista sobre la exhibicion con Alfonso Caraveo (Español) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.beTHE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com Cat Brooks interview on KPFA about In the Fields of the North https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=263826  - Advance the time to 33:15 Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx Die Kunst der Grenze http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=24304Notruf für "eine andere Welt" http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=24087 Die Apfel-Pflücker aus dem Yakima-Tal http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23990 Other Books by David Bacon The Right to Stay Home:  How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration  (Beacon Press, 2013) http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328 Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008) Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008 http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350 The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004) http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244726 En Español: EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA  (Critica - Planeta de Libros) http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo) http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1 For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.org and http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com and https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums

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   Aaron Maté‏Verified account @aaronjmate 18h18 hours ago

   For those taking offense when I point out that the Manafort charges have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign or collusion, here's Mueller appearing to acknowledge that the Manafort charges "have nothing to do with" the 2016 campaign or collusion https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/robert-mueller-paul-manafort-trump-campaign-665898 …

   

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   Steven Salaita‏ @stevesalaita 14h14 hours ago

   Liberals have embraced George Will, David Frum, Max Boot, and George Bush but still detest Ralph Nader.

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3. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog 15h15 hours ago

   Why all the celebration because Michael Bloomberg is giving the democrats campaign cash? Democrats raise money. That is not their problem. The problem is that they refuse to campaign on the issues their voters want.

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4. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog 15h15 hours ago

   Dear everybody, Don't celebrate George Will endorsing democrats. It is just further proof that they are in fact republicans now.

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   Tee Mack‏ @tmack894 16h16 hours ago

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   Wow! My copy of Dawn, later edition, has black woman on cover, but NPR story today said Butler was told early on by publishers that her work would not sell unless whites were on the cover. Still true, however, w/films & other works today.

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   Ajamu Baraka‏Verified account @ajamubaraka Jun 18

   We are not going to be able to stop war and imperialism without confronting the psychopathology of white supremacy.

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   rich1047 #FreeLumpy #Free MG  🔇‏ @richten47 16h16 hours ago

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   I remember when the Star Trek comic book portrayed Lt. Uhura as a blond white woman. I was not happy about it.

   

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   Richard Estes‏ @oshima9 16h16 hours ago

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   Publishers and cover artists did the same thing with Ursula Le Guin's 1967 "A Wizard of Earthsea". The protagonist was the color of copper, his best friend was black.

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9. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog 16h16 hours ago

   So happy that google doodle honors #OctaviaButler. But I remember this edition of Dawn had a white woman on the cover when protagonist was black.

   

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10. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog 17h17 hours ago

    Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks | CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jogger-accidentally-crosses-u-s-border-from-b-c-gets-detained-for-2-weeks-1.4717060 … French woman visiting Canada accidentally crosses border while jogging. Ends up in U.S. immigration detention for two weeks. #thingsthathappenonlytoblackpeople

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    dr. gene☭ 🏴 ‏‏ @L_Gordito 20h20 hours ago

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    that's bcuz american educationis horseshit. and it's a scam. western capitalist imperialist propaganda.

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    Abolish ICE City‏ @holycity15 22h22 hours ago

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    Stalin begged the allies to open another European front but they instead focused on N. Africa and the Pacific. Churchill and Roosevelt were afraid of heavy casualties. To which I’m sure Stalin was like “I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN HENCE MY REQUEST”

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13. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog Jun 22

    Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on this date in 1941. More than 20 million people died there before the Red Army emerged victorious. I was never taught that the Soviets were most responsible for victory in Europe.

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    MAAH‏ @MAAHMuseum Jun 15

    This is the only known photograph of Frederick Douglass with one of his children. Here, he is pictured with his youngest daughter, Annie, who died in 1860 at the age of ten. #FrederickDouglassFridays IC: Southern University and A&M College

    

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    Schun‏ @SimoneChun Jun 17

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    More than 80% Koreans strongly support the summit, more than 51% Americans even in a very divided country support, President Moon supports, and, I've not met a single ordinary American who oppose.Yet,Washington elite, media and pundits oppose. Very sad...

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    Dr Marcus Papadopoulos‏Verified account @DrMarcusP Jun 21

    Naseh Shaker, a journalist with the Yemen Press Agency, has reported on the meeting, last night, at SOAS, University of London, where I and others discussed the depraved war which Saudi Arabia is waging against Yemen @Naseh_Shaker : http://www.ypagency.net/54001 

    

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    Dr Marcus Papadopoulos‏Verified account @DrMarcusP Jun 21

    Before my speech at SOAS, University of London, I spoke with Al Mayadeen about the reasons as to why British mainstream media is apathetic about the catastrophic Saudi war on #Yemen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgtOgOsaH8 …

    

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18. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog Jun 21

    Melania Trump is married to a maniac after all. Have pity.

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    American Values‏ @Americas_Crimes Jun 21

    On this day in 1943, a white mob of thousands attacked black residents of Detroit, pulling them out of cars & beating them unconscious. The mob set black-owned cars, homes & business on fire. Police assisted in the riots by opening fire on blacks, killing 25 & injuring 400.

    

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    Crimes of Britain‏ @crimesofbrits Jun 21

    So the British Museum has offered to loan stolen Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria. What an insult this is. Benin was actually razed by the British in 1897. The city was looted and most of the treasures remain in Britain to this day.

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    Ali Abunimah‏Verified account @AliAbunimah Jun 21

    I was very pleased to be on @ModerateRadio this week talking with @MaxBlumenthal and @BenjaminNorton about Gaza, censorship of Al Jazeera’s Israel lobby documentary, and Syria and the Palestine solidarity movement

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    Dissent Now‏ @Dissent_Now Jun 21

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    Lol, the fucking @USPS doesn't even require an ID - what are you @FedEx, your own country now?

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23. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog Jun 21

    White supremacists planning #whitecivilrightsrally in DC. Asked National park service for permit. BTW, Obama changed a rule and allowed fire arms in national parks. Just saying.

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    Elim Garak‏ @SamHolloway1 Jun 21

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    I wrote @amnesty a check once, years ago. Since I learned they’re just another liberal Western propaganda organ, they’ll never receive another dime from me.

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25. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog Jun 21

    Amnesty International and the rest of the human rights industrial complex assist imperialism again. Nicaragua is now a target.

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26. Margaret Kimberley‏ @freedomrideblog Jun 21

    #ElijahCummings cries for immigrant kids. Does nothing for his own constituents.

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