I went to an OR party to see Bernie's live stream. He never mentioned war & the people there refused to talk about war. Yikes! This is the most important thing for the next administration & almost makes me think i should campaign for Trump! And how can anyone claim to care about the environment & not want to stop war?

Seriously, what can we do? And now Ds & Rs both want to have Assange assassinated because he's a "cyber terrorist". And the use of Russia as an enemy to deflect from the content & import of the wikileaks is so scary.

On a positive note, we'll be doing an education campaign against TPP at the annual labor picnic Sept 5 at Stewart Park in Ithaca, NY from 11-3:00. Maybe there will be local actions throughout the country? We need more people to realize what's going on.

Please post also if you know of actions against our endless wars. Thanks everyone.

Thanks Steven D. I guess this is also part of why long war:
Dawat Media

May 28, 2016
[...]
United States Geological Survey teams discovered one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of lithium there six years ago. The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft metal used to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for powering desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s.

The vast discovery could very well propel Afghanistan — a war-ravaged land with a population of 31 million largely uneducated Pashtuns and Tajiks, and whose primary exports today are opium, hashish, and marijuana — into becoming the world’s next “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” according to an internal Pentagon memo cited by the New York Times.[...]

In Silicon Valley and beyond, tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sony, and Tesla rely on continual, and uninterrupted, access to lithium, as lithium-based batteries are the primary power storage devices in their mobile hardware.

A Tesla spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.

Some of the Valley’s biggest and most powerful tech companies either declined to comment for this story or never returned calls. But they didn’t deny the importance of lithium-ion batteries.

The USGS did (sic) return multiple calls seeking comment. Nor did the Pentagon.

Sheesh, no comment much? Clearly nothing to see, move along?

Longing for Peace

Edit: Added (sic) to the copy pasta, think "not" was dropped.

of Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and Ukraine and Syria respectively, are to be regarded as merely the beginning of "the Long War". The Long War itself having no foreseeable ending, and no precisely defined purpose, is meant to be extended to the indefinite future. In the process of this continuation, the world is to be made safe for Democracy, large Corporations, and US politicians simultaneously. It will unfortunately not be made safe for anyone else... in the real world one cannot expect miracles. Entitlements like steady employment, health care, sustainable energy, clean water and the like may have to wait - be put on the back burner as it were - until the Long War is successfully concluded.

and you've lost it once you used the Hitler card

Hillary Clinton defends her policy of regime change in Libya and Syria. "You know, there's always these historical games you can play," she explained. "If somebody could have assassinated Hitler before he took over Germany, would that have been a good thing or not?"

Godwin's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

It's in order to control the energy resources. That is, profit. There is no imminent danger of the world running out of oil. Afghanistan is about the oil and gas in Turkmenistan. Brzezinski, who toiled in laying the groundwork to oust the pro-Soviet regime there in the seventies, was negotiating in the mid-nineties with the Taliban for the TAPI pipeline, TAPI being "Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India". Readers may recall that that was about the time Bill Clinton was laying the groundwork for moving American factories and jobs from the US to India. In 2001 Colin Powell was supplying the Taliban with money to control the opium crops there along with the pipeline. For some reason the Taliban stopped negotiating for the pipeline in the summer of 2001. Then the guy we had been giving SAM missiles to to shoot down Soviet helicopters, bin Laden, suddenly became international criminal #1. The rest, as they say, is history, albeit with some details left out.

The coup in Ukraine has been to interfere with Russia's gas pipelines which run across Ukraine to Europe. Qatar was negotiating to run a gas pipeline from their fields in the Gulf across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean and then Europe. When Assad decided to go with the Shia alternative gas pipeline, originating in Iran, all of a sudden weapons suddenly began flooding to Salafist military formations in Iraq and Syria, thus the corporate-backed "civil war" in Syria. Curiously, it's around this time that various Sunni governments got particularly big weapons deals with the US and donated large amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation.

Any connection? Of course not. Billionaires and regimes run by billionaires give money to the Clinton Foundation because the Clintons do good things.

Unfortunately, the whole peak oil story was yet another scam from the energy industry. What we will run out of is a breathable atmosphere.

It would be interesting for someone to go back to sixties and figure out how many US-backed coups had to do with controlling petroleum around the world, starting with the coup in the capital of the US oil industry, Dallas in 1963.