Libya, Fukushima, and US
Stop Waging Total War
on the Planet!
The U.S. – European attack on Libya in Africa to “protect civilian lives” is a bold face lie. The African Union opposed the attack. The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the bombing campaign saying: “what we want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.” Let’s be clear. Like the war on Iraq, the war on Libya is about oil, regime change, and the arrogance, and dominance, of global empire.
Back in 2007 Barack Obama acknowledged: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/
Libya does not pose an actual or imminent threat to the U.S. By attacking Libya, without Congressional approval, Obama violated his constitutional power and thereby committed an impeachable offense. But does anyone care? Where is the outrage?
The U.S. is openly at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Libya. It is covertly at war in other countries. It’s been called World War III — one country at a time. Who is next for U.S. “Shock & Awe” bombing? Syria, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela? And to “protect civilian lives” in Bahrain, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia as well?
Meanwhile, radiation continues to spread around the world in the air and in the ocean currents from the Japan nuclear power catastrophe. It’s been said that our earth, with its oceans and atmosphere can be compared to a fish bowl. What happens in one part of the bowl, effects the rest of the bowl.
Every aspect of nuclear power — from the mining and milling of uranium, to the enrichment process, to the operation of the power plants, to the waste, and to the making of nuclear weapons, poses serious problems to the health and safety of all life on this planet. The nuclear disaster of Fukushima should be a clear message to every nation on earth: Stop Waging Total War on the Planet! Turn away from nuclear power, our addictions to oil and war, and a way of life that disregards the imperative of living in harmony with the earth. We will either change our ways now, or our ARROGANCE OF POWER will be our doom.
No More War! No Nukes too!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, 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 AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@interpac.net http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (March 25, 2011 – 497th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
