"Is it possible that if your best tool is a gun, every problem looks like a target?" - Margaret Sanger

"Evil deeds will be the spark that sets the fire. Their evil works will burn up, and no one will be able to put out the fire." - Isaiah 1:31

"The power of the killing machine rests in the broad based popular support it receives through the investment system and the financial markets." - Catherine Austin Fitts

"The hegemonic system is bound to strive after the annexation of all independent states. The Reich of the Nazis and the commonwealth of the Marxians are planned as societies of undisturbed peace. They are to be forged by pacification - the violent subjection of all those not ready to yield without résistance." - Ludwig von Mises

"Suspension of international politics through hegemony has been the fundamental aim of US foreign policy since the 1940s. The US has assumed the responsibility for maintaining geopolitical stability in Europe, East Asia and the Persian Gulf, and for keeping open the lines of communication through which world trade moves. Since the end of the Cold War, the US has sought to preserve its hegemony by possessing a margin of military superiority so vast that it can keep any would-be great power pliant and protected." - Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz

"The historical record shows that in the real world, hegemony never has been a winning grand strategy. The reason is simple: The primary aim of states in international politics is to survive and maintain their sovereignty. When one state becomes too powerful - becomes a hegemon - the imbalance of power in its favor is a menace to the security of all other states. So throughout modern international political history, the rise of a would-be hegemon always has triggered the formation of counter-hegemonic alliances by other states." - Christopher Layne

DECLINE of EMPIRES:
The Signs of Decay

"The rot of imperialism, which is always incompatible with democracy, has seen the military and arms manufacturers monopolize $1 trillion a year in defense-related spending in the US even as the nation faces economic collapse." - Christopher Hedges 02/10/10

"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial, that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." - George Orwell

"Since 1945 neo-cons have insisted on acquiring and maintaining military supremacy. The US continues to expand its power and military reach. " - Robert Kagan

Neoconservatism, whatever its complex roots, has become indelibly associated with concepts like coercive regime change, unilateralism and American hegemony." -Francis Fukuyama

"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the USA became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions." - Frantz Fanon

"Transnational elite is indeed running the old world order, and they will for a while longer. Most empires are destined to implode. The overreach of the American empire (more than 700 military installations around the world in 120 nations), coupled with a defense budget of $1 trillion annually (all related "defense" expenditures) cannot be long sustained." - Mitch Paradise

"What can one say of a culture that makes everything a "war on this" or a "war on that"? Where the popular language, the national mindset, is seemingly fixated on the glory and necessity of conquest? I realize that this characterization of American political culture is just a reflection of the "false consciousness" of the elites on ordinary Americans. That's why antiwar.com exists - to counter this false consciousness, to expose the lies of the War Party and create a counter-culture of antiwar and anti-authoritarian consciousness. No matter which party is in power, this movement is growing and will grow beyond the power of States to tame or stop it - and that's the power our own rulers, and the rulers of States all around the world, fear the most ." - Justin Raimondo

Atrocity Enabling Harpies

"America is a homeland now under military surveillance and military control." - Gore Vidal

"I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give
up any freedom in order to be secure." Ron Paul

"I am a retired military officer who served his country for 30 years. In all that time, I never questioned my supreme duty to support, defend and bear true allegiance to the Constitution. All too often history proves that demagogues hide behind the mantras of national security and national interests." - Paul LaBonte

"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." - Edward Gibbon

The American Empire: Murder Inc.

Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called America

"Dirty Money" Foundation of US Growth and Empire

Nature Of US Foreign Policy

Who Needs Truth in Cartoon Amerika?

"We know the US sells more weapons abroad than any other nation, and we know it is war above all that makes the bankers rich." - Richard C. Cook

"Growing national debt to China is a national security issue. Countries that own our debt will soon be making our foreign policy." - Nancy Pelosi

"There is no doubt that constitutional freedom will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedom and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. The erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all out frontal assault, but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security." - Senator Robert C. Byrd

war

"The possession of power over others in inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised." -George Herron

"Without public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War, which projects an "arc of instability" caused by insurgent groups from Europe to South Asia that will last between 50 and 80 years. According to one of its engineers, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are just "small wars in the midst of a big one." - Tom Hayden 03/28/10

WikiLeaks' Collateral Murder:
US Soldier Ethan McCord

General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned
- Seven Countries In Five Years

The US will attack 7 countries in 5 years

US imperial military presence unprecedented

Scapegoating Iran

"Sometimes I wonder if we, Americans, can couch any issue except in terms of war. Americans have had the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on terrorism and, most recently, the cultural war, which pits us against ourselves. One Civil War was enough. It is time that we realized that 'war' is not the solution to any of the problems Americans seek to redress." - Richard E. Norred

"Children must be taught to answer the sadists who have coerced, shamed, flattered and lied us into believing patriotic service means murder on behalf of state power. Speaking Truth to power, the Quakers call it. - Andrew Tonkovich"

"The heart of America's problems rest with a corporate dominated public policy of perpetual military and class warfare. This has generated a gross and growing unequal distribution of wealth and power, growing indebtedness at all levels of government, a regressive tax system, suffering caused by cuts in funding and denial of vital public services. Add the deaths and wounding of thousands of America's soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians. The tragic reality is a hell on Earth of suffering, hatred and violence even in history's richest, most technologically advanced nation, leading to weapons of mass destruction and suicide of humanity. Unless Americans stop dodging the connection among local, domestic and global crises and our public policy of perpetual warfare treated as an unavoidable necessity, there is no hope for America." - Nicholas Seidita

John Yoo, American Enterprise Institute, was the principal author of Justice Department memos giving George Walker Bush the extraordinary power to prosecute a global "war on terror" while ignoring the Geneva Conventions regarding captured terrorist suspects.

(actual badge worn by military personel)
B-36 Titan IV launch from Cape Canaveral on September 8, 2003
(payload classified, went into geosynchronous orbit)

Rebuilding America's Defenses

Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century

"The US is the world's only superpower, combining preeminent military power, global technological leadership, and the world's largest economy. ... Preserving the desirable strategic situation in which the US now finds itself requires a globally preeminent military capability both today and in the future. ... The surplus expected in federal revenues over the next decade, however, removes any need to hold defense spending to some preconceived low level. ... This report proceeds from the belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the preeminence of US military forces."

[To do so America must:]

MAINTAIN NUCLEAR STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY

Basing the US nuclear deterrent upon a global, nuclear net assessment that weighs the full range of current and emerging threats, not merely the US - Russia balance.

RESTORE PERSONNEL STRENGTH

Of today's force to roughly the levels anticipated in the "Base Force" outlined by HW Bush, an increase in active-duty strength from 1.4 million to 1.6 million.

REPOSITION US FORCES

To respond to 21st century strategic realities by shifting permanently based forces to Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia, and by changing naval deployment patterns to reflect growing US strategic concerns in East Asia.

MODERNIZE CURRENT US FORCES SELECTIVELY

Proceeding with the F-22 program while increasing purchases of lift, electronic support and other aircraft; expanding submarine and surface combatant fleets; purchasing Comanche helicopters and medium-weight ground vehicles for the Army, and the V-22 Osprey "tilt-rotor" aircraft for the Marine Corps.

DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENSES

To defend the American homeland and Zionist allies, and to provide a secure basis for US power projection around the world.

CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL COMMONS"
OF SPACE AND "CYBERSPACE"

And pave the way for the creation of a new military service - US Space Forces - with the mission of space control.

EXPLOIT THE "REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS"

To insure the long-term superiority of United States conventional forces. Establish a two-stage transformation process which maximizes the value of current weapons systems through the application of advanced technologies, and, produces more profound improvements in military capabilities, encourages competition between single services and joint-service experimentation efforts.

INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING

Gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8% of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.

Engineering Empire

REBUILDING AMERICA’S
DEFENSES

This "Report of The Project for the New American Century" goes on to say that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."

"You will see what an evil,
bitter thing it is."
Jeremiah 2:19

(actual badges worn by military personel)

"Every time a State wants to declare war upon another State, it starts off by launching a manifesto addressed not only to its own subjects but to the whole world. In this manifesto it declares that right and justice are on its side, and it endeavors to prove that it is actuated only by love of peace and humanity and that, imbued with generous and peaceful sentiments, it suffered for a long time in silence until the mounting iniquity of its enemy forced it to bare its sword. Perpetual war is the price of the State's existence." - Mikhail Bakunin

"The management, then and now, truly believes America is the master of the Earth and anyone who defies us will be napalmed or blockaded or covertly overthrown. We are beyond law, which is not unusual for an empire; unfortunately, we are also beyond common sense." - Gore Vidal

"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not managed to solve any problems. We are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper-use of military force in international relationships." - Vladmir Putin 02/07

People fear death because death is an instrument of fate.

When people are killed by execution rather than by fate,

This is like carving wood in place of a carpenter.

Those who carve wood in place of a carpenter

Often injure their hands.

Lao Tze

"Just as the Soviet Union destroyed itself under the weight of its arms buildup, so will America collapse because of its looting of its exchequer by war profiteers, unless the patriotic antiwar movement is able to save America from that doom."- Omar Huda

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they." Jean-Jacques Rousseau