I read Jeremy Scahill's description in his book Dirty Wars of the aftermath of a USA missile strike on the Yemeni village of al Majalah. My problem is that the media does NOT publish war, not that it does publish it. Remember when the flag-covered coffins arriving at McGuire AFB were being broadcast, and then were terminated? No longer did we SEE the consequences to our own troops of the wars. Perhaps rubbing our noses in war would so sicken us that we would find alternatives to settle disputes.

"As soon as bin Fareed arrived in al Majalah, he was horrified. 'When we went there, we could not believe our eyes. I mean, if somebody had a weak heart, I think he would collapse. You see goats and sheep all over, you see the heads of those who were killed here and there. You see their bodies, you see children. I mean some of them, they were not hit immediately, but by the fire, they were burned,' he told me. Body parts were strewn around the village. 'You could not tell if this meat belongs to animals or to human beings,' he remembered. They tried to gather what body parts they could to bury the dead. 'Some of the meat we could not reach, even. It was eaten by the birds.' As bin Fareed surveyed the carnage, most of the victims he saw were women and children. 'They were all children, old women, all kinds of sheep and goats and cows. Unbelievable.'"

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So instead of censoring the images of the barbarism of war, I say play it over-and-over -- atrocities of all parties to the barbarity -- until we learn.

Where is the "Like" button for DAnneMarc's comment?

Considering FOX News contribution to the fear mongering and Neocon John McCain's face-to-face meetings with a group of their leaders, an ABC 20-20 interview can't be too far in the future !

In addition to creating ben Laden, remember Reagan funded his Central American "freedom fighters" who were transmuted into the current drug gangs after Reagan's Iranian money dried up.

The best reason for not drilling is that EVERY WELL LEAKS! THERE IS NO WAY TO SEAL THE WELLHEAD ! Drilling underwater makes it worse! But there are thousands of abandoned wells all over the old oil States that are not sealed at all and provide methane to the atmosphere and in some case's have seeped oil into aquifers1

ALL WELLS LEAK!!!

and they all know it and don't care!

Who is the Lone Idiot? The one who voted "no" on this one. Everyone should know that the Repugs in Congress would not pass a "Hope for World Peace" if it came from Obama.

Roland

Intermittent in..., Without well organized democratic organization, institution or union based in public consent, the dictates to politicians will remain in the hands of the well organized, well funded and deeply committed wealthy elites and their functionaries.

The news media networks mentioned are a few of what I used to call the "Seven Headed Dragon." In California, that would be channels, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. Of course they are members of the bigest corporations that are sucking the life out of the United States with their propaganda and favoritism for the bought and paid for criminal politicians within our government, (which seems hardly like our government anymore) along with anything from big pharma to big oil. Yes, folks, the people of the U.S. are in big trouble, and the only thing that whips up on big money is a big F-ing civil war. If things keep going the way they are, that is the inevitable future we will have to look forward to.

Thom, you are bringing up issues daily that by themselves are tragic. As you put together this puzzle of atrocities, are you beginning to see a pattern? If you think that there may be a bigger picture agenda behind all this, you may have hit the nail on the head. Chemtrails, aspartame, fluoride, GMO's, possible economic/banking collapse, Shall I go on? Okay, wars created to steal land and resources, banking bailouts, suspicious deaths of whistleblowers in the 1000's over the past few decades, TPP, the patriot act, half of our bill of rights being denied, shall I go on? The list is endless, and if you read about the Georgia Stones, Agenda 21, depopulation agenda, UFO disclosure being denied, you almost have to come to the conclusion that these issues may all be connected, and then you have traveled far enough down the rabbit hole to realize that some very powerful people/corporations have been pulling the strings for centuries.

The travesties and injustices you write about are for the most part being perpetrated by the same entities, in order to gain full control over the masses, and to dumb down society. An apathetic and ignorant public is much less likely to unite to demand change, and to throw these war mongers out of office. Time to WAKE Up people!!!

chuckle8 - re #20 - the good news is that many of that 83% are also likely in the 67% (or whatever) that doesn't even bother voting. Thinking that if people actually had something - a party, platform, agenda, movement, that they knew was working to advance their interests,.. (not just the "special" interests) ...they might get more involved... (???)

It seems that under TPP China can build a Factory in the USA with foriegn materials and LABOR, ignore all Codes, Electrical, Plumbing, structual or ENVIRONMENTAL Regulations, Staff the Factory with FORIEGN WORKERS! USE ALL THE WATER THEY WANT! POLLUTE THE LOCAL AREA ALL THEY WANT! and, when the plant blows up and kills people, THERE WILL BE NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT?

because our sovereinity has been sold out along with our human rights, just like Marx proposed as the ultimate result of capitalization.

I still don't get this "oil rush". From my sources, and they are not the major media, I read that, for instance, coal production is down in most countries, and in China of all places a region known for coal production that had four hundred mines is down to seventy, and . . . they are replacing it with renewable sources. What that tells me is that even "if" they use oil, it will likely be more of a backup source of energy, rather than a staple source of energy.

So much for China, but in the States, if the solar, and the hybrids catch on, as well as the bio-fuels, too, what is the point of drilling for more oil. The Dutch model is clear enough, where they have been replacing the oil they "import" by wind power from the North Sea. Can't see why wind power can't be used off of that Atlantic Coast, as the Dutch "farm" for their energy needs along the North Sea.

Then too, if the price is going down, where is the profit. Asssuming the American economy is not doing as well, and the average incomes are "less", how many cars, how many anythings will need as much the level of energy that requires all that fossil fuel?

Already, in the UK, there are "redundacies" aka layoffs on the off shore North Sea oil rigs. Yeah, the demand for fossil fuels is less. The trend it seems in major industrialized nations, perhaps including the United States of America is towards alternatives. Figure the Southwest with it abundance of sun, that solar battery powered cars might make sense enough for enough people, at least in the major urban concentrations that . . . Texas and Oklahoma fossil fuels might be less essential for getting around, even in Texas and Oklahoma, perhaps.

Indeed, maybe there might be layoffs of the personnel at oil fields in those states. Who knows. That Obama promotes these projects doesn't make sense to me, but so much of what the current president promots doesn't appeal to me anyway.

When I read about what is going on, from where I sit, I don't know whether to cry to shrug my shoulders.