Friday, Feburary 25, 2022. Joe Biden delcares war on the people of Russia and some idiots applaud.
Starting with THE CONVO COUCH.
Fiorella Isabel: There is a tendancy on the left that's been exploited by the intelligence community where they exploit people's emotions and they exploit this need to feel good about being on the right and moral side -- which is a good thing: to want to be a good person. But what happens is, it's not coming from a place of actually wanting to get to the bottom of the situation, to get to the truth. It's coming from a place of wanting to feel self-righteous about this. And so what happens is the intelligence community has been exploiting that.
It's no exaggeration to say that the showdown between Russia and the
U.S./NATO bloc has profound dangers for the people of Ukraine. Millions
are already facing death and displacement from the immediate incursion
of the Russian military. Russia doesn't want NATO at its borders in its
mission to control Eastern Europe.
Many hundreds of millions
more are endangered by the U.S. missile launchers recently installed in
Poland and Romania, on the border of Russia. These are MK 41's, the same
weapon the U.S. used thousands of times on people of Iraq, Syria and
Yugoslavia. The U.S. wants to encircle Russia with NATO countries in its
mission to maintain imperialist dominance.
Claiming the "high ground" by imposing sanctions, as the U.S. is doing, is not done to avoid war. It's aggression, part of making war, with
potential devastating consequences, as we saw in years of deadly
sanctions on Iraq, when an estimated 500,000 children died of hunger and
lack of medical care.
Two of the major nuclear powers - the U.S. has 6800 and Russia has 7000 according to Time - are faced off in close quarters. Anything, accident or otherwise, could tip off a nuclear exchange.
We've recently learned more about how close nuclear war was in the 1962
missile crisis over Cuba due to misunderstanding, and then averted by
decisions of lower level commanders.
Democracy Now reported this morning that small groups and
single people with signs against this war are appearing in Russia, and
being arrested when discovered.
We should be as visible as possible in protesting the actions of both the U.S. and Russia. A protest has been announced Saturday, March 5 in Times Square, NYC. 3:00 pm. Look for protests near you or organize one. Contact us for help. Stay tuned!
GW Bush invaded Iraq and killed at least 500,000 people. Obama’s 2014 coup against the Ukrainian president set the disaster into motion. And let’s not forget what he did to Libya.
If you call Putin a thug, psychopath, or war criminal, you should say the same about those two.
Joe Biden is pushing a war that the US has no interest in. Corporations have an interest in it. And their lackeys do as well. I'm reading a pice by someone who is a big disappointment. It's all over the net and as shameful as Amy Goodman's 'coverage' this morning. A lot of whores have been paid off. Back to the awful column, the headline represents one thing -- a condemnation of war. The colum itself? Putin bad and evil -- that's what the whole point it.
I'm not into your bulls**t.
Every time you go off on Putin, you justify war against Russia. Stop pretending otherwise.
You think you're being 'fair'? No, I don't believe that you do. You know what you're doing. You're justifying war and you're actively making the decision to be a tool of war. That you're a member of CODESTINK shouldn't surprise us.
Not one bit.
Putin is Putin. Whatever that is. An dthe region can elect how to respond. The US has more than enough wars and shouldn't be pimping anymore.
I don't care what Putin is or isn't. I know he's a politician and I don't worship them. I don't think they're heroes. I think they're crooks, I think they're rapistst -- and I mean that literally -- and I think they destroy everything they touch.
US President Joe Biden is not drawing a line between Putin and the Russian people. In his blustering speech, he spoke of bringing Russia to its knees, of punishing the Russians.
Maybe Col Ann Wright could write about that next time instead of the dopey crap that she's passed off as anti-war.
All her grabage column is? A justification for war.
That's what she wrote, that's how it will be read, "Even CODESTINK's Ann Wright says Putin is evil . . ."
She's not that stupid. She knows what she did and she meant to do it.
I have no use for these people.
War is wong and war is unneeded. The US does not belong in what's taking place and we have neither the bodies nor the money to send.
Do not, Joe Biden, portray yourself as some benefactor who cares while, at the same time, you speak of bringin the Russian people to their knees.
Yes, this is a rushed vent in many ways and you don't have the comfort and the safety ofmonths and months of commentary to tell you what stand to take.
So use your own damn common sense. We'll be paying for the Iraq War -- the finanical costs -- for generations to come. It was a weekend bender that Daddy took and we're stupck paying the bill. Now someone wants Daddy to go blow off some steam on another bender?
We don't have the money for it.
We don't have universal health care, they say it costs too much. Well then we don't have money for a war with a country that's not invaded us. Daddy needs to go outside and walk around the blcok because that's about all the bender we can afford him to take right now.
In the US, we do not deal with the medical issues, we do not deal with homelessness and we ceratinly do not deal with poverty. Stop pretending that we have money to throw away on another war.
And stop applauding Elderly's Joe's attempt to prove to the world that he can still get his micro penis erect. He can't. He's an elderly fool who really should not be in the Oval Office.
Putin's bad? He's a politician, I'm sure he is. The corruption at that level is immense. But he's no exception, he is the norm.
And the Russian people do not deserve to suffer so that Joe Biden can pretend he's virile.
#MeToo was a joke. It never advanced beyond the hashtag. It never called out the masculine toxicity. Never. It never defined terms, it did nothing. It gave a bunch of sorry actresses a chance to whine that they would have had a career if . . .
If.
Keep pretending.
Maculinity by itself is not toxic. It becomes toxic when its perverted by the weak. That's male and female. They're bullies because they're weak. Joe's a weak old man and so he threatens the Russian people. I'm sure Putin's weak in many ways -- he'd have to be to post all those shirtless photos -- but at least he's not whining about body shaming like some American idiot who wants to whine that the photo of him shirtless was for his wife -- apparently they only communicate via social media? -- and it was so unfair for people to point out that at 57 his six-pack is gone and wah wah wah wah. Oh, shut up. You posted a photo of yourself to get attention. You got it. Just not the attemtion you wanted. Now you want to police what others can say. Boo-hoo.
A weak, little man didn't get his way and gets likes on the body he spends hour working out and so he lashes out and wants to control what other people say.
Toxic.
Keep him away from the nuclear codes.
Ware but players on the stage. People find that so hard to accept -- some. And they try to control and they to intimidate and they lapse into violence. And it's toxic. And it's men and women who suffer from toxic masculinity. As Ava and I long ago pointed out, the best example on a TV program of toxic masculinity was Ellen Barkin's Smurf on ANIMAL KINGDOM.
Joe Biden should be in a rocking chair. Instead, he tries to preside over the world and his inability to contorl it and his advancing age leads him to lash out.
We all suffer as a result. The Russian people -- not included in Amy Goodman's supposed 'fair' broadcast today -- do not deserve to suffer.
I don't get why that's so hard to grasp. A lot of Americans do not care for Joe Biden. A lot of Americans did not care for Donald Trump. People are not their so-called elected leaders. Those buffoons stumble around on the world stage and inflict great harm but they never pay the costs. Its the people of the countries that have to do that.
War is not needed. The US is not needed in that area of the world.
It's that simple. Ann Wright, grow up already.
The Iraqi people suffer daily because of the actions of the US government. Every corporate news outlet promoting war on Russia should be forced to broadcast several hours of reality from Iraq.
Criminal proceedings
were launched this week against Lt. Col. Omar Nazar, a senior Iraqi
officer accused of abuses connected to a crackdown on protesters in
2019.
The case, launched February 22 in the Nasiriyah Investigation Court, is significant not only because it is one of the few instances the authorities have pursued a senior security officer for crimes committed against civilians, but also because of the failure of previous governments to take action.
Nazar was a member of Iraqi Ministry of Interior’s Emergency Response
Division (ERD), which was deployed against ISIS and also in response to
widespread protests in 2019 and 2020.
In 2016 and 2017, Kurdish photojournalist Ali Arkady embedded with
ERD units, during battles against ISIS in Fallujah and in Mosul. In May
2017, after fleeing the country, Arkady published
photos and videos that apparently showed members of ERD units,
including Nazar, committing abuses. This is not the subject of the
current investigation.
Days after the publication of this evidence, Nazar appeared in a video
posted on YouTube and Facebook at the home of one man whose torture by
another ERD unit was captured in Arkady’s photos and videos, and had the
man deny the torture on camera. In statements to the media after the Arkady publication, Nazar did not deny abuses happened. He remained in a command position until now.
On February 11, Nazar was arrested and is now being prosecuted “on charges of suppressing demonstrators.”
This arrest is an important first step toward accountability, but
arrests for mass killings of protesters and other serious human rights
abuses shouldn’t stop here and should never be limited to cases where
leaked investigations are made public.
