A Killing Nation!
What Has America Become?
Inside the U.S. Assassination Complex
U.S. Reaper Killer Drone
Let’s summarize: 4 million Muslims killed in U.S./NATO wars.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/four-million-muslims-killed-in-us-nato-wars-should-we-call-it-genocide/5470424
800,000 Iraqi children orphaned by conflict since 2003.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44588.htm
We could go on-and-on: $trillions spent on endless wars and militarism, a national security surveillance state that has bombed and conducted drone and Special Ops assassinations (even of American citizens) in 7, or is it 8, 10, or 12 countries in the last 15 years. In addition the U.S. plans to spend another trillion dollars to modernize its nuclear weapons over the next 3 decades.
A must read new book: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept, with a foreword by Edward Snowden and afterword by Glenn Greenwald, published by Simon & Schuster. In short, it is a book about what America has become – not hope and change, but unrestrained power.
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. is not about the business of “freedom and democracy” but rather global domination that benefits an economic corporate elite at the expense of nearly everyone else and the earth itself. Of course the domination is disguised and fueled by fear: war on terror, regime change, destroying Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. but increasingly the world is seeing through the disguise.
So what are we to do? It is an illusion and a fraud to say we can bring real change and put an end to U.S. imperial wars through electoral politics controlled by the very people and money system of empire. The solution is not a Trump, Hillary or even a Bernie Sanders. Any hope for real change must begin at a much deeper level. In the midst of empire, the task before us is to build communities, people’s movements, and take action of non-violent resistance for justice, peace, and the earth. Do it because it is the right thing to do.and it needs to be done. Then, keep standing and keep acting. It won’t be easy but never give up. As the late Father Dan Berrigan said: ”There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war.” The real question is – Are we willing to pay the price? To stop the violence, to stop the killing, the buck stops here!
The Wars Stop Here!
- 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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