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Re: Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison

JCJ Bike — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:17:24 -0000

I imagine members of congress sleep better at night knowing hundreds of islamic fascists are locked up and not able to hurt innocent people around the world.

The irony to this laughable group "code pink" is the people they say they are standing up for in an effort to be public agitators, would put them all in burkas and tell them if they speak publicly again, they will be beaten or have their heads cut off.

But at least mentally unstable people here in America have their free speech rights like everyone else so keep up the good work code pinkers. The people who support you are much like those people on the streets who see a guy on the roof looking to jump. They are cheering you on to see you jump.

Re: Feminist War Hawks vs. Feminist Values

feministjockey — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:43:29 -0000

its rare to see double standards acknowledged in this way, if they would take responsibility for their actions instead of merely berating and blaming those they see as bieng out of line they might be able to achieve something positive.

Re: Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison

Anne G. Woodhead — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:16:27 -0000

Shut it down, Mr. President!

Re: Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial

Bob Rivers — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:00:12 -0000

According to the code pink website, their mission statement includes "to challenge militarism globally" - YET THERE IS NOT A SINGLE WORD ON SYRIA ON THIS ENTIRE SITE. However, I do see many anti-Israel, anti-US articles and actions, which leads me to believe that your org is biased and has no interest in really helping women or anyone save those who want to bash the US and Israel. You have no credibility, and I've decided not to donate a penny to you, nor will I speak positively of your group if asked.

Re: San Francisco Pride Gets Cold Feet over Gay WikiLeaker Bradley Manning

Bambic — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:21:44 -0000

"...instead of acting hastily, she would of learned that Manning’s nomination was not a mistake."
Well, once is once, but twice means this person is borderline illiterate.
"She would HAVE", not "of"...oy.

Re: San Francisco Pride Gets Cold Feet over Gay WikiLeaker Bradley Manning

Bambic — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:18:59 -0000

"She would of learned about his solitary confinement and his months spent in jail with a trial."
MAJOR typo/grammatical error alert. (It's this kind of thing that makes an article look really really bad...)

Re: DRONE WARS: How White Privilege Obscures Real Dialogue

Anne G. Woodhead — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:52:11 -0000

Thanks so much to both authors as well as al-Muslimi himself for personalizing and humanizing this. This is is the best article I have read on the hearing. May Peace Prevail for All of US On Earth.

Re: Israel and Palestine: Who is The Victim and Who Is the Aggressor?

beth reynolds — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:42:23 -0000

Much to my Jewish husband's annoyance (to put it mildly), I point all this out whenever the topic arises. However, let's imagine a scenerio where a community of women have penned up a community of men who are committed to imposing extremist sharia law. I think this belief would be relevant and worth mention when analyzing the "victim/aggressor" roles of both parties. Personally, I'd wish for them to slide into the sea, too. What would chafe my ethics would only be the consideration that there may be a number of good men in there, completely undeserving of this condemnation.

Re: DRONE WARS: How White Privilege Obscures Real Dialogue

Art Brennan — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:37:59 -0000

This is an important report and an accurate description of the arrogance and ignorance our our US "white male privileged" members of the Senate. This story brings a tear to my eye and makes me remember the testimony of a dear friend of mine, an honest Iraqi leader, who risked his life to come here and testify to the House Oversight Committee about the massive corruption and criminality of the Government of Iraq which was being supported by the negligent and reckless US foreign service officers of the Embassy in Baghdad. The Congress members were condescending and dismissive of a man whose courage and integrity put him head and shoulders above them all. Thank you Noor and Rooj.

Re: DRONE WARS: How White Privilege Obscures Real Dialogue

Lisa Savage — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:33:15 -0000

Thank you for this compassionate report on the treatment of Farea's valuable testimony. If the U.S. Senate invites such a witness, it is likely with the purpose of disparaging his truths. Thanks you for bringing his voice forward and for providing an intelligent context to help us fully understand his remarks.

Re: Why I’ll be Going to Dallas for the People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library & Institute on April 22nd

Marilyn Fayre Milos, — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:38:22 -0000

"What we do to children, they will do to society." Karl Menninger
"If we are ever to have real peace, we must begin with the children." Gandhi
"If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito." Bette Reese

Re: Why I’ll be Going to Dallas for the People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library & Institute on April 22nd

Karin Karejanrakoi — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:19:14 -0000

Doesn't Uncle Ronnie Raygun have a library named after him as well?

I sense a pattern here and can only think of Tacitus' comment that "They create a wasteland and call it peace."

PS: I'm aware of the irony of a Roman writer putting such words into the mouth of a man whom his own uncle had conquered, but the opportunity to use them was just too delicious to pass up!

Re: 10 years later, U.S. veterans and Iraqis demand the Right to Heal

Mister Jones — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:28:09 -0000

Veterans should not be there. I feel sorry for them that they were brainwashed. Was is hell, but you still continue to serve with honor even after discharge.

Re: Senator Harry Reid and Guns: Time to Take a Stand

Floyd McKinney — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:56:56 -0000

Then, if you must, use both hands.
That's the only gun control I am condoning because it will assist you in hitting what your shooting at.

Re: Pinkspired

Medea Benjamin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:11:48 -0000

Could there possibly be a more beautiful, inspiring, intelligent, fun, skilled and brilliant 18 year old??? You are so gifted at so many things, Liza, and I'm sure you'll excel at anything you do. We already miss you at CODEPINK and can't wait to hear about your college experiences. Thank you for gracing us with your presence.

Re: Who are those two Afghan children?

Andrea — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:34:16 -0000

This is so heartbreaking. Thanks for bearing witness to this tragic event. Blessings on all children around the world, no exceptions.

Re: CODEPINK Anti-Drone Week of Action: February 19 – 23

robertbluejacket — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:32:39 -0000

You guys are simpletons. Do you really think that Brennan is the issue. Your President and his AG, Holder, are asserting the right to murder Americans on American soil. Shame on you for not going after those two thugs. Politically correct to the Pink!

Re: John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old

disqus_qxvxPyiwS7 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:52:43 -0000

Medea,

I watched your heated exchange yesterday on Fox News with Juan
Williams( a center left journalist by the way). I must say I had two
huge surprises:
1- To hear of you again after so many years. I met
you back in 1981 when Susan Fanshell visited Cuba in a group I guided as
a Cubatur guide. Your husband or companion then was a Cuban gentleman
by the name of Jose Luis.

2- My second surprise, and certainly a much bigger one, was to hear you bitterly criticize your country's drone policy.

Let me be clear Medea, I harbor not one iota of trust for any
politician regardless of what ideology or "political liturgy"as I put
it, he or she claims to follow. Politics is dirtier than a Haitian
kitchen on a Sunday morning, and I respect and honor your right to have
whichever political views you choose to; however, having lived in Cuba
and not being a vociferous anti Castro fighter and instead devoting all
your strength to condemn your country's policies appears to me as a
blatant double standard, and it reminds me of Jane Fonda's pictures
seating in a North Vietnamese anti aircraft battery back in the sixties.
For all I know the drone policy may be the worst move any US
administration has made, but at least they're hurting OTHER people and
not their OWN people as the Castro brothers you seemed so firmly to
agree with have done for ever fifty years. You lived four years in Cuba
according to Wikipedia, even though I have the feeling your Cuban
"internship" lasted much longer than that. In the Code Pink website I
saw no mention of your brush with the "dictatorship of the proletariat",
the one party rule, democratic centralism and all that jazz. Moreover,
your rhetoric in the Factor last night was a 100% match with Linea y A's
talking points. I don't elaborate on what Linea y A means in Cuban
jargon since I'm sure you perfectly know what I'm talking about.

As the aware American you pretend to be it is your duty to condemn and
denounce all evil, wherever it comes from and enlighten your country's
public opinion. I have no beef if you think droning our enemies does
more harms than good; the trouble is that I haven't heard your
condemnation of Chavez, Evo Morales, Correa, and of course your former
hosts the good old Castro brothers. It's a shame Medea. You probably
have gone so much to the left that you have left America

Andres Alburquerque.
NOTE: This message will posted on my blog and my FB page

Re: John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old

disqus_qxvxPyiwS7 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:52:28 -0000

Medea, I tried to post a copy of the e-mail I sent you but this system won;t allow me to do that; your talking points seem taken out of the Cuban Intelligence doctrine, c'mom

Re: John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old

disqus_qxvxPyiwS7 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:49:15 -0000

This is a copy of an e-mail I sent to Medea, whom I met in Cuba during her "internship" in that communist nation and where I never heard her condemn Castro's dictatorship:

Medea,

Re: War Criminal of the Week: Condoleezza Rice!

Creoleleo — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:48:59 -0000

She should be in prison with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Re: CODEPINK: Veterans and Government Officials Sign Letter Rejecting Nomination of Brennan as Director of the CIA

Michael Hall — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:26:04 -0000

List of Children Killed by US (Drone Strikes) in Yemen and Pakistan

[The following list was issued by Drones Watch on 20 January 2013. The names were compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports.]

By Jadaliyya Reports

PAKISTAN

Name | Age | Gender

Noor Aziz | 8 | male

Abdul Wasit | 17 | male

Noor Syed | 8 | male

Wajid Noor | 9 | male

Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male

Ayeesha | 3 | female

Qari Alamzeb | 14| male

Shoaib | 8 | male

Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male

Tariq Aziz | 16 | male

Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male

Maezol Khan | 8 | female

Nasir Khan | male

Naeem Khan | male

Naeemullah | male

Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male

Azizul Wahab | 15 | male

Fazal Wahab | 16 | male

Ziauddin | 16 | male

Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male

Fazal Hakim | 19 | male

Ilyas | 13 | male

Sohail | 7 | male

Asadullah | 9 | male

khalilullah | 9 | male

Noor Mohammad | 8 | male

Khalid | 12 | male

Saifullah | 9 | male

Mashooq Jan | 15 | male

Nawab | 17 | male

Sultanat Khan | 16 | male

Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male

Noor Mohammad | 15 | male

Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male

Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male

Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male

Abdullah | 18 | male

Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male

Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male

Shahbuddin | 15 | male

Yahya Khan | 16 |male

Rahatullah |17 | male

Mohammad Salim | 11 | male

Shahjehan | 15 | male

Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male

Bakht Muneer | 14 | male

Numair | 14 | male

Mashooq Khan | 16 | male

Ihsanullah | 16 | male

Luqman | 12 | male

Jannatullah | 13 | male

Ismail | 12 | male

Taseel Khan | 18 | male

Zaheeruddin | 16 | male

Qari Ishaq | 19 | male

Jamshed Khan | 14 | male

Alam Nabi | 11 | male

Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male

Rahmatullah | 14 | male

Abdus Samad | 17 | male

Siraj | 16 | male

Saeedullah | 17 | male

Abdul Waris | 16 | male

Darvesh | 13 | male

Ameer Said | 15 | male

Shaukat | 14 | male

Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male

Salman | 12 | male

Fazal Wahab | 18 | male

Baacha Rahman | 13 | male

Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male

Iftikhar | 17 | male

Inayatullah | 15 | male

Mashooq Khan | 16 | male

Ihsanullah | 16 | male

Luqman | 12 | male

Jannatullah | 13 | male

Ismail | 12 | male

Abdul Waris | 16 | male

Darvesh | 13 | male

Ameer Said | 15 | male

Shaukat | 14 | male

Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male

Adnan | 16 | male

Najibullah | 13 | male

Naeemullah | 17 | male

Hizbullah | 10 | male

Kitab Gul | 12 | male

Wilayat Khan | 11 | male

Zabihullah | 16 | male

Shehzad Gul | 11 | male

Shabir | 15 | male

Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male

Shafiullah | 16 | male

Nimatullah | 14 | male

Shakirullah | 16 | male

Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN

Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female

Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female

Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female

Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female

Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male

Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male

Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female

Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female

Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female

Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female

Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male

Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female

Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female

Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female

Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female

Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male

Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female

Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female

Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male

Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male

Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female

AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male

Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male

Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male

Nasser Salim | 19

Re: CODEPINK: Veterans and Government Officials Sign Letter Rejecting Nomination of Brennan as Director of the CIA

Michael Hall — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:24:43 -0000

The White Letter from The White House smells not quite like a White Rose

by michael hall

First obama murdered children inside of foreign nations

the people shopped at walmart to show their displeasure

then obama assassinated children in countries we were not war with

so flags & troops were honored at every sports game in the land

Some lawyers screamed foul as did the few with conscience like Chomsky, Hedges & Blum

but their voices were drowned out by the silence of the bored & apathetic the meekly submissive

still the good loyal citizens did scream for more guns as their constitutional right

& american idol worship tonight is supposed to be a killer so guess which takes priority?

Then obama & the exalted mighty military murdered an unarmed american across the pond

so what did the people then do you ask?

they swallowed a blue pill sunk their head deeper into the rabbit hole and breathed patriotically

hush hush now little children its all a transparent secret nothing to see here just move along

While a american teenager with his cousin out looking for his murdered father

stopped along a dirt road in the middle of a vast desert depressed praying for his dad

in the middle of a cookout sitting around the fire alone these two american kids

without warning silence was broken by terrorism & they were subsequently droned to smithereens

Ah but some fires did light up more intensely this time

so obama & his bunch of hooligans had to reluctantly crawl out of their dark dungeon

they argued with legal thickets of sharpened stakes, moats, pickets, shielded by secrets & lies atop turrets no one could reach

through a tapestry of intricate semantics innuendos & bizarre definitions they claimed they were upholding the constitution oxymoronically tagging this odium as wise and ethical

Claiming the research was so sensitive & so secret that it could not be revealed

our heroes would then be exposed to violence & that would be quite unamerican

if that happened whistleblowers then would be scapegoated & we know what happens to them

do you really think that renditions & retaliatory vengeance are deeds of the past?

Cattle mooed

sheep bleated

the superbowl was a commercial success & beyonce lip-synced flawlessly again

& the flags, ah, the flags flew so high & piously, almost above it all, but did i see, a bloodstain, a tear or was it smoke?

Re: CODEPINK: Veterans and Government Officials Sign Letter Rejecting Nomination of Brennan as Director of the CIA

Michael Hall — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:24:13 -0000

The Slaughter of the Children Drones On & On & On & On

When the drones are slaughtering innocent children in your name

do you bother to get concerned even when on your knees on Sunday?

or do you just stick your head in the sand blindly support the troops & just not think about whose to blame

if you care i have list of their names and ages i could give you from the depths of an odious jingo game

Do your wonder if your joystick violence is really doing any good

or do you get the feeling that something is very wrong & your getting spun & fooled

how can you support exported terrorism when your sworn to defend against it

how can you donate freedom &democracy when its getting stolen from under you by E/O

Every bullet bought is a loaf of bread stolen from the belly of the hungry

& your self-praising charity checkbook fad doesn't seem to dent the starvation

if you spent 2.2 million everyday since Jesus was born

you would have spent what your nation purchased on the military just last year

Do you wonder why your schools don't have books & pencils

why your bridges are crumbling down & the roads are potholed like Swiss cheese

while your politicians live in mansions with 5-star chefs lapping at life-long luxury

then again today they announced another bone-cut to the needy, homeless and disabled

How could anyone with a shred of conscience bow before a flag without bending over with nausea

knowing underneath it the killing of the innocent is a weekly act in nations we are not at war with

that after a hit. the gang fires off another drone when medics & rescuers come to the scene of destruction

we've forgotten what we stand for by the very deeds we toe-tag and their is no rationalization

Now we know by special executive decree memo called a 'white paper'

the Nobel Peace prize holder president has the power to murder americans beyond the law

it is solely up to the president when it comes to life and death and it is all a hush-hush secret

change we can be deceived has shown the articulate sheep to be but a child-eating wolf

Anyone who murders children by drone and then jokes about it is a sociopath

a leader who becomes a serial killer justifies by secret edicts he wont share with his employers is a despot

expansion and consolidation of extreme power will one day target you and yours

For what goes on abroad in your name will backblow as it comes around to get you tomorrow

Just south of key west at Guantanamo every law, principle and value you hold dear is smashed

across the pond the most nefarious crimes are done in your name with your support

and yet at home you bury your head deep in the sand far from the massive contradiction

your heart bleeds for Newton yet when your troops do the exact same thing you raise a flag & a stiff arm

For what profits an empire when they can envelop the world and dominate it

yet in the process they loose their values, principles and in so doing their very soul

still atonement must be rectified somewhere at some time

and this is the dream that i dream someday will be;

For all the innocent children who've been the victim of the american military machine

i would gladly see each and everyone of them walk by in front of every war supporter and soldier

to deeply gaze into their eyes and say with conviction, question and horror;

Why did you murder me?

Re: CODEPINK: Marie Denis, President of Pax Christi, Warns Against Brennan’s Nomination as Director of the CIA

cupcakeking — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:00:55 -0000

real popular site I see.....yawn.....