<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Death squads are now called "Special Operations" and are the principal tactic employed by the US in Obama's expanded wars in Asia and Africa. The US military's murderous mind-set is described most recently in Michael Hastings' book, just out, "The Operators."<div><br></div><div>Assassinations are also the tactic of choice in Obama's expansion of the war into Asia and Africa with his "secret" (and illegal) drone strikes, which have appalled the world. He hasn't hesitated at even the summary execution of Americans (Anwar Alawlaki, his associate, and his teen-aged family members - all US citizens.)</div><div><br></div><div align="">Today the US government
is threatening, invading, and occupying countries from the Maghreb to the Subcontinent, and from Central Asia to Central Africa - a vast circle
with more than 2,000-mile radius, sometimes called the Greater
Middle East: the US military calls it "Central Command." This region has the
world's greatest concentration of oil and natural gas, and our
government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars, month after
month, to control it. Control and not just access to these energy
resources is what the USG wants: we in fact import very little oil
from the Mideast, contrary to what you've heard, but control gives
the USG an unparalleled advantage over its oil-hungry rivals in
Europe and Asia.</div><div align=""><br></div> <div align="">We're killing
people in the Mideast and North Africa because China needs oil, and
our government wants to control where they get it. Our government
says that we're conducting these vastly expensive wars to stop
terrorism and protect civilians; but we can see that, instead, we're
killing civilians and creating terrorists. These wars are in the interests of the 1% - and against the
interests of the vast majority of Americans, as well as people in the
rest of the world. </div><div align=""><br></div><div align="">The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called the waging of aggressive war
"essentially an evil thing ... to initiate a war of aggression ... is not
only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime,
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." Barack Obama and his associates should be in cells at The Hague, awaiting trail on those charges. (Unlike him, international law doesn't countenance indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial.) --CGE</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 23, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Roger Helbig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">You seem to have not gotten beyond being a radical in the 60's - death squads and assasinations - where?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cge@shout.net">cge@shout.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto; " class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Obama is killing people every day with his expanding wars in Asia and Africa, his drone strikes, his death squads and assassinations. To say that one will countenance that, because it's possible that an opponent's views on climate change, if acted upon, might have a catastrophic effect, is mad. "Go ahead and kill people, Barack, because the only candidate opposing your crimes doesn't believe in global warming, so we'll give you a second term..." <br> <div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jan 23, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <span> </span> <div> <div> <div><p>Most of us already know that Ron Paul is a reactionary on economic policies, essentially isolationist in foreign policy (although I'm not sure about how he would treat oil and resource extraction corporations, e.g., how to protect them for our national interest), and a "libertarian" on certain civil rights, (excepting women's choice issues)—i.e., let anyone do mostly what they want, discriminate, carry guns wherever, get rid of public education, any social or health safety net, …. On the other hand, It might not be a bad idea to advertise/promote his anti-war foreign policy statements vis-a vis Obama and the other Repubs in the interest of popular education, but how could anyone with a humane social concern domestically ever vote for him? The havoc and misery his domestic policies would entail is inestimable. As Carl's opponent, John Reimann, in Dave Johnson's program noted, a dying off (call it murder?) of large segments of our populations could be expected in such an advent. Like in Russia after the USSR was dissolved. If you look at the details, it is simply crazy. </p> <div><br></div><div>My impressions from that fascinating program. </div><div><br><div>--mkb<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <span> </span> <div><p>And here's an account of what John was upset about: <<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challenges-liberals.html" target="_blank">http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challenges-liberals.html</a> <br> >.<br> <br> On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:43 PM, C. G. ESTABROOK wrote:<br> <br> ><br> > On Saturday 21 January, David Johnson, Bob Paleczny, Bill Gorrell, <br> > and Tom Thomas hosted a debate - "Ron Paul, Electoral Politics, and <br> > the Workers' Movement" - between Carl Estabrook of News from Neptune <br> > and labor activist John Reimann on the Illinois World Labor Hour.<br> ><br> > Thanks to David who arranged it, and Bob, who made it available <br> > online. The first hour of the show is at <<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57180" target="_blank">http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57180</a> <br> > > - the debate begins in the last third; the second hour, containing <br> > the majority of the debate, is at <<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57182" target="_blank">http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57182</a> <br> > >.<br> ><br> ><br> > --CGE<br> ><br> </p> </div> </div> </blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>