If the army recruiters thought before that we would go away and never come back…they were dead wrong.
Tomorrow is set to be one of the largest demonstrations against the army’s pilot program to gain new recruits – particularly young people –to join the military by utilizing a wide variety of first-person shooter video games and real-life scenarios to demonstrate the “enjoyment” that can be had fighting in wars. Unlike video games, however, life does not come with a restart button nor is it structured around a system of re-spawning.
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REVOLUTION calls for general strike, shoras and a constituent assembly to bring down the government!
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The imperialist government of the United States has demonstrated, once again, to all forces resisting is oppression and subjugation, whether direct or indirect, that there will be no let up of the slaughter so long as resistance to its position as the world’s sole superpower exists. All those who refuse to bow to its wishes will be destroyed as quickly and as gruesomely as possible, as the recent events surrounding this past Tuesday’s bombings in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan illustrate.
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Violent clashes erupted this past week between Islamist and government forces in Pakistan following insistence from the United States that the Zardari administration does more to combat “extremism” in the Swat District of the North-West Frontier Region of Pakistan. Since the government offensive began, upwards of 500,000 civilians have been driven from their homes while, at the same time, caught in a deadly cross-fire between Islamist and government forces.
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This coming Friday marks the 6th anniversary of that ominous date back in 2003 when US – led coalition forces, on the pretext of eradicating a “participatory” member of the “Axis of Evil,” invaded the country of Iraq. Since those initial stages, a great multitude politically has changed. The year 2006 witnessed the temporary defeat of Congressional Republicans in favor of a new Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate – the first such instance in over a decade. Millions of Americans were hopeful that with a Democrat-controlled Congress, the war in Iraq would be brought to a swift and decisive end. The only problem, however, was the current Commander-in-Chief was due to serve out his second term in office for another two years. The wait for most people would prove excruciating. The jubilance that followed the election of Barrack Obama last November attested to the rejection by millions of Americans of Bush-Cheney style militarism in the Middle East and around the world more generally. Barrack Obama, through his perennial slogans of “hope” and “change,” provided solace to those progressive forces by promising a timely end to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan along with a new course in general for American politics. It is now clear, however, that, by all accounts, such promises were nothing more than subterfuge on Obama’s part.
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Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14th, 1948 from British colonial rule was marked by worldwide celebrations. Palestinians, however, had a very different take on the situation; for the last 60 years they have referred to Israel’s creation as the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic). From 1947 onwards there were mass land grabs by Zionist settlers culminating most grotesquely in April 1948 with the Deir Yassin massacre. It was a small village on the path to Jerusalem where Zionist gangs (Irgun and Lehli) massacred upwards of around 120 unarmed Palestinian villagers. This was hardly an isolated incident, with villages and towns being blown up routinely across Palestine to make way for the new Zionist state. It is estimated that at least 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted and forced into permanent refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon, and, consequently, never able to return to their homeland. One could make the argument that for Israel to exist as it stands right now – as exclusively a Jewish state -the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is a necessary undertaking.
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With 27 confirmed casualties, mid-February marks the most recent publicized bombing of the Waziristan region by unmanned US predator drone forces. Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking on conditions of anonymity, believe the target of the attacks was a compound in the Northwestern region of Pakistan suspected to be housing prominent Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. Several Afghan and Uzbek militants were killed as well as an unknown number of civilians when the building was leveled.
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originally a circular by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, has become the first of any college or
university in the U.S. to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement
in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
This landmark move is a direct result of a two-year intensive campaign by the
campus group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The group pressured
Hampshire College’s Board of Trustees to divest from six specific companies due to
Human rights concerns in occupied Palestine. Over 800 students, professors, and
alumni have signed SJP’s “institutional statement” calling for the divestment.
The proposal put forth by SJP was approved on Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 by the Board.
By divesting from these companies, SJP believes that Hampshire has distanced
itself from complicity in the illegal occupation and war crimes of Israel
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As the war on Iraq showed to billions across the world, the real reasons behind the war was the US’s attempts to increase its world domination and get its hands on Iraq’s oil.
How much clearer can it get? We were told for before the war that the aim of the US and Britain was to “disarm Iraq” and “destroy Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction”. But not one shred of evidence has been found to support the idea that Saddam has “illegal weapons programs” or any “weapons of mass destruction”. The UN resolutions, the weapons inspectors and the record of Saddam’s regime were only smokescreens to hide the real aims of the war.
What are the underlying reasons for the war? Is it just because we had an “oil man” in the White House, or a bunch of power-hungry politicians hell bent on ruling the world? Or is it something more fundamental about how the world is run?
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Report from the International REVOLUTION site. Check it out here.
