Thank You

Whistleblowers!

      Left to right: Edward Snowden who exposed massive NSA spying on Americans, etc.  Julian Assange of Wikileaks who publish documents of U.S. War crimes, etc. Chelsea Manning who exposed video of U.S. war crimes: helicopter gunship killing of innocent civilians and news reporters in Iraq. There are other known and unknown whistleblower heroes, who at great personal sacrifice, have exposed crimes of government being committed in our names. Our gratitude to all whistleblowers for releasing information the public has a right to know.

      Another anonymous whistleblower has recently released to the media group Intercept a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents expose the inner workings of Obama’s drone wars and the U.S. secret assassination complex working under the heading of “special operations.”

For more, see https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/ Also http://portside.org/2015-10-17/snowden-and-ellsberg-hail-leak-drone-documents– http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/15/drone-papers-leaked-military-documents-expose-us-assassination-complex?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

How to leak to The Intercept securely: http://interc.pt/1uAfPus  pic.twitter.com/EMrC9wecgq

Stop U.S. War Crimes!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org

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The Record

U.S. Military

Budget!

      President Obama has been responsible for the largest U.S. military budget since the Second World War. This is documented in the U.S. Department of Defense’s annual “Green Book.”   The U.S. military receives more funding than the rest of the 10 largest militaries in the world combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea).  For more details see http://warisacrime.org/content/record-us-military-budget

       These figures do not include additional military-related spending by the VA, CIA, Homeland Security, Energy, Justice or State Departments, nor interest payments on past military spending, which combine to raise the true cost of U.S. militarism to about $1.3 trillion per year, or one thirteenth of the U.S. economy.   

      In addition, over the next 10 years the U.S. is planning to spend up to a TRILLION DOLLARS (1,000 Billion dollars) to modernize it’s nuclear weapons arsenal that can already destroy the world many times over..

      Most people are unaware of a rapidly expanding part of the U.S. Empire called military “Special Operations.” These secret forces now number 70,000 and are deployed in an astounding 135 countries around the world. For more details see http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-secret-army-deployed-astounding-135-countries

     What United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler, said decades ago remains true today: “War Is a Racket.”  Butler said: “It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious… It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” 

End All Wars!   Save Dollars, Lives, & the Planet!  Fund Human Needs!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org

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