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The U.S. has bankrupted itself via military expenditures, and it is late in the game to stop; however, we must stop the wars and heal our own country.The U.S. has bankrupted itself via military expenditures, and it is late in the game... more
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Are liberals finally starting to understand the real enemy – the two party monopoly?
When left-wing icon Naomi Wolf warned that America was heading towards fascism under George W. Bush, characterized by illegal surveillance, arbitrary detention of suspects, and paramilitary martial law, she was lauded, but when she continued to issue the same warning as a result of Obama’s failure to reverse any of those policies, many on the left abandoned support for her.
However, as Wolf’s recent interview with leftist website Alternet makes plain, liberals may finally be starting to understand that both political parties in Washington are part of the problem, not the solution.
Alternet writer Justine Sharrock seems to be struggling to come to terms with the fact that Naomi Wolf’s rhetoric now very much echoes that of Alex Jones and many aspects of the Tea Party movement, an uncomfortable quandary for leftist media outlets, many of whom have acted as obedient echo chambers for the corporate media in demonizing grassroots populists as extremists and even domestic terrorists.
“She speaks their language, referring to the Founding Fathers and American Revolution as models, admitting to a profound sense of fear, warning of tyranny, fascism, Nazism and martial law. When Glenn Beck warns of these things we laugh. When Wolf draws those same connections, we listen. How can both sides be speaking the same language, yet see things so differently?” asks Sharrock.
The reason, as Wolf outlines, is the fact that Obama has preserved, institutionalized, and even expanded the very same policies that led to the left comparing George W. Bush to Hitler, a comparison which now, when made with Obama, is taboo, racist and an example of “fringe beliefs” according to the establishment media.
“Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It is terrifying and the left doesn’t seem to recognize it,” responds Wolf, adding that making comparisons between Obama and historical dictators should not be off limits when he is following similar tyrannical policies.
“Obama has done things like Hitler did,” states Wolf. “Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn’t a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It’s what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now. The real fight isn’t left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.”
And that’s what the left-wing needs to understand if true freedom is ever going to be restored in America. As Wolf touches upon in the interview, the left is brilliant at going up against the tyranny of the state, but only when a Republican is in office. As soon as a Democrat gets in, liberals suddenly prostrate themselves in obedience and join the chorus in attacking any dissenters as radical-right wing extremists who should have their speech taken away, blissfully ignorant of the fact that those very same laws will then be used to silence their free speech when the oval office rotates back to a Republican once again.
Leftists are so prone to flip-flopping and becoming statists when a Democrat gets in office because they associate their own ego and political power with politicians, a foolish misjudgment in light of the fact that politicians stopped representing anything other than their own crooked interests decades ago. As Wolf emphasizes, “Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism….We look down on people we don’t agree with. It doesn’t serve us well.”
“I was basically saying don’t sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed by the rabble of all walks of life that got fed up and did risky things because they were captivated by the breath of liberty. There is a looming oligarchy and it is up to the people to organize a grassroots movement and push back,” states Wolf, outlining why she shares many of the same principles embraced by the Tea Party, while warning that huge chunks of the movement have obviously been hijacked by Republican operatives.
Wolf, who admits that her “cultural heritage is FDR and Medicare and federal government solutions,” now expresses her support for the logic behind the states’ rights movement, a grassroots project mainly driven by libertarians and Ron Paul supporters.
“If you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power. Take California’s challenge of the Patriot Act or states like Vermont leading the way with addressing the corruption of the voting system. It’s a good example of the Tea Party thinking out of the box on how to address a problem,” states Wolf.
The interview ends with Wolf warning of the fact that concerns about martial law are now more prescient than ever.
“I think we have gone very far down that road. I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That’s how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag. Why are we engaged in psychological denial that it’s not a concentration camp? In terms of martial law, my god. Since the book came out they deployed a brigade in the U.S. and suspended the Posse Comitatus Act. There is no question that it’s something to take seriously. People have a histrionic view of what martial law will look like.”Are liberals finally starting to understand the real enemy – the two party... more
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When Israel unleashed Operation Cast Lead in Gaza almost all Italian newspapers and tv showed a strong pro-Israel bias. When news show Annozero dared to dedicate an episode to the suffering of children caught in the war in Gaza, almost all political forces and journalists in the country wanted to crucify its host Santoro. Yet now there is a UN report that says clearly how things went.When Israel unleashed Operation Cast Lead in Gaza almost all Italian newspapers and tv... more
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This man fought for human rights his whole life.
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Logic dictates that more than 60 years after the conclusion of World War II, after tribunals and investigations of all sorts, we pretty much know all the gory details Hitler and his henchmen envisioned and inflicted on the human race.
But that sadly is not true. It’s not true at all. National Geographic Channel’s Hitler’s Hidden Holocaust uncovers still more atrocities – atrocities of vast proportions that until now have remained almost totally unknown outside of the areas in Eastern Europe in which they occurred.
By its very nature, any documentary about the Holocaust is grim. But few are as gut-wrenchingly horrific as this one.Logic dictates that more than 60 years after the conclusion of World War II, after... more
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Part two of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as the final surge by Sri Lankan forces against the Tamil Tigers killed tens of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians and left 300,00 displaced, locked in barbed wire refugee camps.
Part one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcbNG...
For a more indepth report: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2...
The film is also available on issue 19 of Reel News: www.reelnews.co.uk
This film is copyright (c) 2009 Jason N. Parkinson. All Rights Reserved.
For use please contact the author directly: jasonnparkinson@gmail.comPart two of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as... more
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Part one of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as the final surge by Sri Lankan forces against the Tamil Tigers killed tens of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians and left 300,00 displaced, locked behind barbed wire refugee camps.
For a more indepth report: http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/2009/07/film-tamil.html
The film is also available on issue 19 of Reel News: www.reelnews.co.uk
This film is copyright (c) 2009 Jason N. Parkinson. All Rights Reserved.
For use please contact the author directly: jasonnparkinson@gmail.comPart one of two films documenting the UK Tamil protests that spanned six months, as... more
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An early morning tipoff call led me to these scenes in Parliament Square. The Winston Churchill statue had been converted into a concentration camp - barbed wire, bloodied babies and bleeding injuries.
http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/An early morning tipoff call led me to these scenes in Parliament Square. The Winston... more
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President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-Holocaust creation.President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding... more
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