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MAHER RACIST HATRED IS ON DISPLAY ON HBO FAR TOO OFTEN

MAHER RACIST HATRED IS ON DISPLAY ON HBO FAR TOO OFTEN

Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s Muslim Problem by Juan Cole Oct 7, 2014

Click for Source Article by Juan Cole on Maher’s Hate Speech

Bravo to Ben Affleck and Nicholas Kristoff = Correcting Maher’s chronic Muslim-hating

Maher and Sam Harris = Demonize Islam and therefore Muslims

Ben Affleck reversed their demonizing saying they want to eat and get through life.

Maher and Harris = Made cultural practices objectionable + said Muslims are unusually violent = Ridiculous charges

FACT = Islamic law clearly forbids terrorism

Maher and Harris = Neither one ever lived in a Muslim-majority society or knows the cultures = Anything they say of Muslims can be said of others — describing the human condition — far right wing white supremacist groups exist in USA + Chinese view 9ll as an anti-imperialist act — nationalism/ imperialism — Not religion/atheism.

Maher and Muslims — Maher puts himself in the company of “9ll liberals” who believe that Islam as a religion is different and decidedly worse than all other religions. + LIES hat 50% of Muslims say it is OK to murder anyone who insults the Prophet + Blames 9lll on mainstream Muslims when it was a Wahhabi political cult who spend their free time in strip clubs and Protects a Monarchical Dictator with overwhelming violence and murder.

Maher attacks all religions and promotes hate towards them, but he explicitly singles Islam as much more homocidal than other religions.

Maher = Personally unpleasant to Muslim guests, such as Keith Ellison.

Maher = Reacted to the youth of the Arab Spring gathering to overthrow their USA-backed dictator – “the Arabs are revolting” — Try substituting “Jews” to see how objectionable that is.

Maher joined an ISLAMOPHOBIC network funded by the Mellon Scaife Foundation and tied to the American Enterprise Institute = Made up of evangelical Christians, bigoted American Jews supporting Likud Party, and cynical GOP businessmen/politicians = Something to frighten working class Americans into FAKED WARS.

FACT: Maher = Donated $1 million to Obama

Maher = In Common with Islamophobic Right = Supports Bloodthirsty militant Zionism

Maher = Strongly supported Israeli MURDER of helpless little Lebanon in 2006 = Million cluster bombs on farms and homes.

Maher = Talks about NUKING Palestinians of Gaza = Interviews and fawns over Likudnik Israeli officials but combats other right wing guests.

Maher = Reacts to Muslims with his palpable hatred for them rooted not in religion but in national self-conception. = Key tactic of militant Zionism to demonize and delegitimize Muslims = Excuse for colonizing and imposing Apartheid on Palestinians

Maher = Palestinians “aren’t really human beings”

Maher = Sees the west as USA + EU + ISRAEL VERSUS Islamic fanatics ‘savages’

Maher = Knows the history of Judeo-Christian bloodthirstiness — Discounted past – Only Millions killed in last 50 years = Imperialism + Inquisition + Crusades

Maher = Unimportant, but his bigotry is widely put forward = Impacting real people

Maher = Anti-mosques = ‘fear’ Muslims are in a homicidal conspiracy

Maher = Singles out Muslims as a different and treats with discrimination

Maher = Tries to label Muslims as ‘murderers’

Maher = Uses on Muslims a centerpiece of classical Western hatred of Jews as blood libel — Allegation they stole babies of Christians and sacrificed them in secret rituals.

Maher = Argues some 3 million American Muslims are walking around like a grenade with the pin pulled out. = Same kind of Blood libel secret religious practices

Maher = Just despises Muslims – Blind Hate is so AWFUL!

Maher = Uses Crowd politics of Hate and YES a strong form of RACISM!

Maher = Lies in his accusations about American Muslims

FACT = IRAN is the least invasive nation in Modern history.

FACT = Vast majority of Muslims reject militant groups + 80% want a two-state solution on Israel and Palestine

FACT = Riots can be provoked and happen in every culture — Race-relations set off riots across America — St Louis and many others — In India Christians are killed by rioting Hindus for doing missionary work — because it is an insult to their god(s).

Maher’s Straw man = Muslims “would” kill people for insulting Muhammad. # such killings Where? When? = Singles out one theoretical motive for violence with no evidence.

FACT: Muslims are no more violent than Jews, (facts show far less violent) and have a similar semite heritage.

FACT: Muslims are sensitive to assaults on their Prophet in part because of centuries of Western colonialism and neo-colonialism that denounced their religion as barbaric = Defending the Prophet = Defending their post-colonial NATION = National Identity is common to Americans and Israelis

FACT: In Myanmar, angry Buddhists have attacked Muslim minorities — like lynchings in the Jim Crow South.

FACT: USA Murders Millions in faked Wars to profit the FEW ay the EXPENSE of the Many.

FACT: Israelis MURDERED 2,100+ Palestinians in five weeks = “MOWING THE LAWN”

FACT: Sri Lanka Buddhist attacks on Tamil Christians — A nasty violent police state

FACT: Militant Israeli Jews set fires at Muslim Mosques in Palestine + Israelis tried to “Lynch” 3 Palestinians in Jerusalem

Maher = Thinks only Muslims are thin-skinned, he should try publicly criticizing Israeli policy in America and see what happens to him. = NOW THAT IS VIOLENT!

USA = MURDERED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQI MUSLIMS based on Faked WMDs – Proven 10 years ago to NOT EXIST and even BUSH admitted the TRUTH!

Maher = Tut-tutting over riots in the Arab world = LIVES IN A HOUSE OF LIES

FACT: In most of the world, crowd actions are common over all kinds of issues – Even Wall Street Crimes. — Race, class, sports teams – certainly isn’t confined to Muslims

Maher = Uses his position as a comedic gadfly to promote HATRED of one-sixth of humankind, and that is wrong, any way you look at it.

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USA SMART POLICY ALTERNATIVES TO WAR AND BOMBS!

USA SMART POLICY ALTERNATIVES TO WAR AND BOMBS!

Why Obama Must Bomb ISIS(L):  Information Clearing House (ICH) by Steve Bremen, October 07, 2014

Click for Source Article on the Information Clearinghouse by Steve Bremen

Every national peace group opposes Obama’s war against ISIS(L).

Every national peace group opposes Congress-sanctioned arming of “moderate” Syrian rebels = $500,000,000

FACT: ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was brutalized in Abu Ghraib

The anti-war movements uses irrefutable historical, political, economic and cultural analysis focused on the past thirteen years of bloody, wasteful, failed wars.

FAILED WARS = Afghanistan + Iraq + Libya + Pakistan + Yemen + Somalia

  • The anti-war movement advance positive agendas with “better choices”:
  • Diplomacy and Real humanitarian assistance
  • Improved relations with Iran
  • United Nations to halt the flow of financing and weapons to ISIS(L) from Oil Monarchs
  • UN-directed negotiations to end the civil war in Syria
  • Mobilize to solve REAL problems in the region—poverty, hunger, drought, joblessness.

What to Do About ISIS(L) – A randomized List:

  • Recognize US policy has become little more than a New Enemy Creation Process
  • USA cracks down on those financing ISIS(L) and removes them from Allies List
  • USA can crack down on the banks that store the loot
  • Recognize thirteen years of failed experience, pain, shame and waste
  • USA War on Terror spawned new offices that restrict funding to terrorist
  • Strong paper regulations forbidding banks to service terrorists/organized crime
  • Hit ISIS(L) economically – Cut all funding sources
  • Crack down on ISIS’s weapons supply — Stop shipping arms
  • Address political grievances of local populations
  • Stop those with fantastical worldviews making/implementing US foreign policy
  • End US acting as world policeman and benign hegemon
  • Be skeptical of ALL humanitarian claims for war
  • Rein in presidential war making powers
  • Stop bombing – It creates more enemies and more radical enemies
  • Make restitution for damages inflicted on Iraq and Libya
  • US joins the International Criminal Court
  • Begin withdrawing US forces from overseas
  • Lead a multinational international response
  • Reduce the Power of the Vested interest in the Terror-Industrial-Complex
  • Provide humanitarian aid
  • Target Turkish, Iraqi, and other oil dealers who purchase Black Mkt OIL
  • Close routes along 750 mile Turkey-Syria-Iraq = smuggling routes
  • Negotiate end to Turkey’s war against Kurds
  • Restrict ISIS’s Weapons and Ammo Supplies
  • Reduce flow of weapons and foreign fighters across Turkey’s border into Syria
  • Stop sending arms+tanks+armored personnel carriers as ISIS(L) gets them
  • NOTE: Mosul invasion – ISIS(L) picked up USA WAR TOOLS left by Iraqi Army
  • STOP Obama and bipartisans in Congress = Want Saudis to Train MORE KILLERS
  • Avoid completely the deployment of “boots on the ground”
  • Stop training Killers — Formerly “moderate” Syrian killers now fight for ISIS
  • Stop justifying any level of violence and collateral damage in service to policy
  • Attempt to heal the wounds inflicted on Syrian and Iraqi Sunnis
  • Recognize and End Policies that gather momentum + lose flexibility over time
  • Reduce the recruitment and flow of Westerners to ISIS(L)
  • END conflicts that fuel “ISIS(L)’s appeal = ISIS(L) thrives on conflicts
  • Remove those who see US bombs as problem solvers
  • Focus War on Terror-Industrial Complex on reforming foreign policy
  • End trying to Maximize generating enormous sums for contractors
  • Include Iran in peace talks
  • Increase US+West+Big Oil food, water, shelter, medical aid – millions of refugees
  • STOP repeating same mistakes USA has made for 13+ years
  • Stop ‘declared war’ on a smallish bunch of brutal criminals elevating their status
  • Stop making ISIS type-organizations the choice for aspiring jihadis
  • Choose diplomacy and humanitarian aid over war

Includes: 5-point program ”To Combat ISIS Without Bombs” — Win Without War (WWW)

WHY DOES USA NOT DO ANY OF THIS?

USA spends $1.4 Trillion per year on War and Home Security – Motivates WARS

  • For USA Airstrikes are always the FIRST THING TO DO!
  • ARMING Mercenaries are the NEXT THING TO DO!
  • Structure of USA national security policy — institutions, practices and think tanks
  • USA Allied with Authoritarian/Dictatorial Regimes
  • Stop Repeating past mistakes over and over
  • USA ‘policy momentum’ = War is always the FIRST CHOICE
  • USA MULTINATIONAL Corporate Power — Super-Rich on Wars
  • USA and Foreign ideologies promote wars
  • USA officials worldviews promote wars
  • USA stepped right into the trap set for them by al Baghdadi
  • Politicians love funding Cruise missiles+boondoggle F-22+outdated Tanks
  • USA lack of genuine American democracy
  • Blinders restricts decision-makers’ options to war, and more war
  • All peace and negotiations run up against deep-grained US foreign policies
  • USA standard operating procedures
  • USA completely ignores non-military solutions

BUT Obama convinced UN Security Council to criminalize participation in armed jihad + John Kerry engineered replacement of Nouri al Maliki by Haidar al Abbadi.

ISIS(L) FUNDING SOURCES:

WASHINGTON POST = 2013 “…the tiny, oil-rich country had put as much as $3 BILLION into funding anti-regime Syrian rebels. Many people believe a good chunk of that money has made it into Islamic State hands.” = ISIS(L) = HIGH QUALITY MEDIA PRODUCTION BY COMPANY RUN BY EX-ISRAELI AGENT IN Washington, DC + Get Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil sheikdoms to shut down the money funnel to ISIS(L)

Click for Source Article in Washington Post

  • Big Oil Monarchs provide the most funding of ISIS(L) and similar AQ groups
  • Individual citizens some part of Dictatorships fund ISIS(L)
  • STOP sales of Oil ISIS via Turkey — ISIS(L) self-financing
  • USA is #1 Petroleum Producer in World = Presidents end OIL MONARCH relations
  • ISIS(L) = Worth $3+ Billion from Big Oil Monarchs + whatever they steal and sell
  • ISIS(L) = Demands 10-20% of receipts from businesses in cities it controls

See Also this link to the USA Terror-Industrial Complex:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/09/isis-and-the-american-way-of-war/

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WAR-MONGERS THE MOST HATED = USA IS NOW HEZBOLLAH’S AIR FORCE

WAR-MONGERS THE MOST HATED AROUND WORLD = USA IS NOW HEZBOLLAH’S AIR FORCE

USA Becoming Hezbollah’s Air Force by Chris Hedges Sept 28, 2014 on TruthDig

Click for Source Article by Chris Hedges on TruthDig

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

FACT:  Those who use violence to shape the world, as USA have done in the Middle East, unleash a whirlwind.

Our IRAQ “WMD” WAR = Cost hundreds of thousands dead + $3+ Trillion in Cost to Middle Class + Ravaged Iraq’s infrastructure + Created a cataclysm of violence.

13 Years of war = Rise of enemies we Never had

Now Hezbollah fighters inside Syria and Iraq + Iran into Our tactical Allies against ISIS(L).

USA = Is intervening in a Syrian civil war to assist a regime we sought to overthrow.

USA = Promised to save Iraq and now is helping to dismember it into 3 smaller and likely FAILED NATIONS.

USA = Spent $HUNDREDS of BILLIONS training and building military facilities for Iraq and the ARMY undresses and runs for cover or worse yet joins ISIS(L) taking along their USA supplied weapons.

USA = Delivered Afghanistan to drug cartels and warlords who preside over a ruin of a nation where 60% of the Children are malnourished.

USA =  Stuck with 10,000 Troops forever in Afghanistan = Perhaps one of the poorest nations in the world leaving the Taliban still in control.

USA = Entirely misguided enterprises = Fiasco of gross mismanagement and wanton bloodletting.

USA = Doesn’t stop but DOUBLES DOWN with more violence to rectify the damage the USA has done with Violence.  Violence on top of violence makes failure assured and life becomes worse for everyone.

USA = But violence is all we ARE ALLOWED TO CONSIDER.  It is a habitual USA response to every dilemma. War is made impersonal and unquestioning mechanism to impose American power by spending MANY $TRILLIONS of Middle Class money per decade on WAR and VIOLENCE and CIA COUPS.  The thought of an IDLE $TRILLION Military is unacceptable to Congress and AIPAC-Wall Street-MIC-BIG OIL that own them = A Massive Momentum for explotations.

A few courageous souls may rise up within the apparatus to protest war’s ultimate absurdity, but they are rapidly discarded and replaced. So the kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill mantra continues EVEN WITH EACH GREATER AND GREATER SETBACK AND FAILURE in the Middle East.

USA = We rejoice at the murder of those we demonized—Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and dozens of others.

USA = As soon as one hunt for the fountainhead of evil ends, another begins. Those we kill are swiftly replaced. Fresh terrorist groups take the place of the old. Sometimes it is a made up group out of thin air — like the quickly made up Khorasan Group — Supposedly worse that ISIS(L) a more sinister and deadlier version and far worse than AQ Contract Murders.

USA = Cannot extinguish our enemies as they spring out of the ground like the legion of hostile warriors that rose up when Cadmus sowed his dragon’s teeth.

USA = Violence that spawns violence and never-ending configurations of enraged militants. A cycle of increasing rage until we stop occupying the Middle East.

USA = Endless wars result in endless terror and LIES. But leaves the arms manufacturers and generals giddy with joy as they transfer Middle Class wealth into their pockets using OVERCHARGING SCAMS and OUTRIGHT ROBBERY to FILL their pockets with GOLD.

USA = At home War is a boon to the state, which uses terror as an excuse to extinguish what few liberties we have left.

USA = USES the barbarism of modern industrial warfare “The soul that is enslaved to war cries out for deliverance,” Simon Weil observed.

WAR = Kills all purpose including its own ‘war aims’ and leads to never ending war.

WAR = ENDLESS Enemies = “GOTS TO USE MY $TRILLION WEAPONS!” = WAR TRAP = Violence and Murder are byproducts!

WAR = The fight goes on to ROB the Middle Class and Enrich the SUPER-RICH!

WAR = So the intolerable sufferings by the force of war and armies GOES ON AND ON!

WAR = Consumes all including those at HOME who lose their Wealth and Freedoms

WAR = Violence becomes the dominate and primary form of communication.

WAR = Democrats are as infected as Republicans.

WAR = The war machine is impervious to election cycles and bombs, kills, maims, tortures, terrorizes and destroys as if on autopilot.

WAR = Eliminates humans around the globe as if they were insects.

WAR = NO one dares lift his or her voice to protest against a war policy that is visibly bankrupting the United States and evaporating the Middle Class.

WAR = No hope of ENDING the continuous FEAR and WAR MONGERING by GOV and MSM!

WAR = Successful = Means more Saudi Arabian Funded 9ll type attacks.

WAR = USA surrendered our foreign policy to the FOREIGN masters of war.

WAR = “It seems to me that nearly the whole Anglo-Saxon race, especially of course in America, have lost the power to be individuals. They have become social insects like bees or ants.” — Artist Roger Fry

WAR = Søren Kierkegaard in “The Present Age” = GOV eradicates conscience and shapes and manipulates the public into a “monstrous abstraction”…we became part of a herd never united in an “organization—and yet are held together as a whole.”

WAR = Those who question and denounce endless war, are dismissed as freaks.

WAR = Endless war does NOT care who we fight and what the cause — Just Endless battles. It is an end in itself.

WAR = In George Orwell’s novel “1984” Oceania is at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia. The alliance then suddenly is reversed. Eurasia becomes an ally of Oceania and Eastasia is the enemy.

WAR = The Point is maintaining a state of fear and the mass mobilization of the public and The Point of that is war itself.

WAR = And national security are used to justify the surrender of citizenship, the crushing.

WAR = Results in expanding the powers of the state over its CITIZENS.

WAR = USA air cover to Hezbollah fighters in Syria, the goals of endless war remain gloriously untouched.

WAR = Endless war is not sustainable = States waging endless war always collapse by draining their treasuries = Roman Empire for example.

WAR-MONGERS = Are seduced by what Sigmund Freud called the “death instinct” — THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME IS DEATH and the only question is when it will unravel.

WAR-MONGERS = Edward Gibbon observed about the Roman Empire’s own lust for endless war: = “… [T]he decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted for so long.”

WAR-MONGERS = Are the most hated by the wretched of the earth strangling their political, social and cultural lives, while also impoverishing and repressing their OWN populations.