Status Updates From What We Say Goes

The Clinton Blunder Years: Erasing The Gorbychev-Bush Accord

Afghan War was a major War Crime

NATO has not had any function after WWII ended.

US using NATO as a Force around the world.

Starvation as Weapon ~ The Purposes of Starvation: Historical and Contemporary Uses
Bridget Conley , Alex de Waal
Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 17, Issue 4, September 2019,
Pgs 699-722

Some things never change.

Things I’ve learned this week: UNASUR and The “Georgetown Declaration”
Bolivias elections have been far more Democratic than anything the U.S. has staged in decades
…and…
n the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II by Yosef Grodzinsky. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2004. First published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, winter 2006.

Chomsky is always 100%. From references to David C. Korten’s 2006 “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community” to The Great Neoliberal Experiment this 2010 discussion is a Master Course in Cause and Effect going back a century.

Such a great work of Chronological History and insights.

talks about how the war on terror is actually a war on tribal Islam where every act must be avenged and honor is very important.

“today the word guilty means targeted for assasination by Obama and the word innocent means not yet accorded that status”

“insurgent math: for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies”

it’s so sad to read a passage from a decade ago inquiring if the US would finally threaten to withhold support to Israel if they start bombing Iran or threaten nuclear war…as an observer from the future I’m sorry to say we failed.

LOL @ “america is a one-party state, the business party, with two factions: democrats and republicans”

the belief that america is exceptional is necessary to believe we deserve the right to intervene, but not sufficient to suggest intervention. isolationism routed in america first is also an option, and a popular one at that.

Find it interesting that chomsky portrays the american international relationship divide as between american isolationism vs exceptionalism rather than isolationism vs interventionalism. especially in the quotes he picked, I find this to be erroneous.

“The best way to prevent future attacks is to not incite them”

Speaks about the Boston Marathon bombers being radicalized with an entire generation of civilians in places like Yemen where the US bombed civilians indiscriminately. Says these attacks could do in one moment what generations of Jihadists failed to do to radicalize the civilians, because they saw the lengths that the US would go to harm their innocent communities.

The CIA infiltrated a polio vaccination clinic to find Osama Bin Laden, leading to a full generation of people not getting vaccinated for Polio out of fear of being murdered by the American government at these clinics. Much like Tuskagee!