On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

Obama Surrendered U.S. Dominance in the Western Hemisphere and Invited Our Enemies In

The message sent was that Mr. Obama is retreating from Latin America as he has retreated throughout the world. After all, we are not exceptional. We are exceptional as all the world’s dictatorships are exceptional.

In his speech, Kerry said the doctrine is a United States declaration about how and when it will intervene in affairs of other American states.” Kerry was completely inaccurate when he made that absurd statement.

The day of his speech marked the 190th anniversary of this declaration by President James Monroe that warned the European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere or face U.S. wrath.

Vatican: Obama’s Policies “Progressively More Hostile Toward Christian Civilization”…

Cardinal Burke, who heads the Apostolic Signatura, the highest court at the Vatican, said: “It is true that the policies of the president of the United States of America have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies.”

Chomsky: Grip of US, Canada on Latin America Is Loosening

No longer is region the reliable 'backyard' for both nations.

On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, to enter their airspace.

Morales was flying home from a Moscow summit on July 3. In an interview there he had said he was open to offering political asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former U.S. spy-agency contractor wanted by Washington on espionage charges, who was in the Moscow airport.

The Organization of American States (OAS) expressed its solidarity with Morales, condemned "actions that violate the basic rules and principles of international law such as the inviolability of Heads of State," and "firmly" called on the European governments -- France, Italy, Portugal and Spain -- to explain their actions and issue apologies.

An emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations denounced "the flagrant violation of international treaties" by European powers. Latin American heads of state weighed in, too. Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, expressed the country's "indignation and condemnation of the situation imposed on President Evo Morales by some European countries" and warned that this "serious lack of respect for the law...compromises dialogue between the two continents and possible negotiations between them."

Commentators were less reserved. Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron dismissed Europe as "the whore of Babylon," cringing before power.

Canada opts for isolation with US

With virtually identical reservations, two states refused to sign the OAS resolution: the United States and Canada. Their growing isolation in the hemisphere as Latin America frees itself from the imperial yoke after 500 years is of historic significance.

Morales' plane, reporting technical problems, was permitted to land in Austria. Bolivia charges that the plane was searched to discover whether or not Snowden was on board. Austria responds that "there was no formal inspection." Whatever happened followed warnings delivered from Washington. Beyond that the story is murky.

READ ON CJ, AS I KNOW AN OPEN MINDED, SEEK THE TRUTH AT ALL COSTS GUY LIKE YOU WILL

http://m.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/08/05/Chomsky-Grip-on-North-America/

The Vatican is hostile to children, especially altar boys.

Killing Children Is the All-American Way
by Finian Cunningham / December 22nd, 2012

Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador the United Nations, was asked on nationwide television in 1996 if the death of half a million Iraqi children from US war and sanctions on that country was a price worth paying. Albright replied: “This is a very hard choice, but the price – we think is worth it.

That was before the so-called Second Persian Gulf War that began in 2003 with American air force “shock and awe”, followed by nearly nine years of illegal military occupation – an occupation that included the use of nuclear munitions and white phosphorus on the civilian populations in Fallujah and elsewhere, and involved countless massacres of families and children by US helicopter gunships and troopers.

Since Albright’s infamous admission, the death toll of Iraqi children from American military crimes can be safely assumed to run into multiples of what she candidly thought was a price worth paying more than 16 years ago.

Earlier this week when President Barack Obama was offering condolences to the families of the 20 children shot dead in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, he said: “Whatever portion of sadness that can share with you to ease your heavy load, we will gladly bear it. Newtown, you are not alone.”

Indeed, Newtown is not alone. Children are slaughtered every week by Americans all over the world on the watch of Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama and his White House predecessors.

One study by James Lucas in 2007 put the death toll of civilians from American wars and sponsored conflicts in 37 countries since the Second World War at up to 30 million lives. The proportion of that figure corresponding to child deaths is not known but if the casualty rate of Iraq is anything to go by, we can estimate that the number of children killed by American militarism and covert wars since WWII is easily in the order of 20 million – that is, a million times the carnage last week in Connecticut.

The countries where these American-inflicted deaths occurred include: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. They also include Iran during the American-backed Iraq war of 1980-88. Every continent on Earth has felt the American hand of death.

But note the figure of 20 million child deaths from American militarism is bound to be a serious underestimate of the actual total. In the last five years, the world has seen an escalation of child mortality from the carcinogenic legacy of depleted uranium and suspected use of other nuclear weapons in Iraq. The above figures do not include the latest killings from American assassination drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and other suspected war theatres, such as Mali in West Africa. Nor do the figures include overt and covert American military action in Libya last year and currently in Syria – nor the ongoing imposition of crippling sanctions against Iran where an untold number of sick children are dying from lack of medicines due to Washington’s import blockade.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/12/killing-children-is-the-all-american-way/

“Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person.” – Socialism

I believe in the NSA... Proud of my government.

President Barack Obama once again sounded an ominous alarm for Democrats ahead of this year's midterm elections, lamenting at a fundraiser Thursday night the tendency for Democrats to get "clobbered" in non-presidential years.

At a fundraising dinner benefiting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Obama said it was imperative for Democrats to encourage constituencies to make it to the polls.

"The problem is not that the American people disagree with us on the issues," Obama said.The challenge is, is that our politics in Washington have become so toxic that people just lose faith and finally they just say, you know what, I’m not interested, I’m not going to bother, I’m not going to vote.