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President Obama's Nobel Speech, Just Wars and just Stop It!
eileen fleming
On December 10, 2009, in Oslo, President Obama espoused the first heresy of Christianity in his Nobel speech when he cited the concept of a "just war" furthering the fallacy "that war is justified."
The first and greatest heresy in the Christian faith occurred in the third century when Augustine penned the "Just War Theory" which gave the church's OK to violence perpetuated by the empire and "our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."-Dorothy Day
Clement, Tertillian, Polycarp and every other early Church Father taught that violence was a contradiction of what Christ was about, but as Gandhi commented, "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent."
A NEEDED CRITICAL RESPONSE TO OBAMA'S NOBEL SPEECH
Allen L Roland
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
President Obama's explicit pro-war speech, while accepting the Nobel Peace prize, is a glaring indication of America's morally tainted priorities and deserves an equally explicit critical pro-peace response:
President Obama's saber rattling Nobel Peace Prize speech where he evoked the concept of "just war" and argued for the use of force that is "necessary" and "morally justified " ~ seemingly legitimizing our illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks on Pakistan as necessary Wars for Peace ~ begs for a critical response and Ramzi Kysia , an Arab-American essayist and an organizer with the Free Gaza Movement, is more than up to that task.
To the soul of my father
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
At the age of 80 my father passed away, after a long journey of suffering, and working hard to obtain us, his children decent life, a life that is better than his own. As many refugees my fathers’ life was not normal nor easy, he had to work harder than any body to change a reality that he has nothing to do with it, the reality of losing the home, the land, the reality of being a refugee, an adjective that stolen all his rights as a human being, the rights of having a home, and living in dignity and respect.
When my father passed away I felt so sad, overwhelmed with anger and pain that a person can hold, not only for loosing my father, but mainly because he passed away without fulfilling his main dream of seeing his homeland again for the last time. A wish that he was looking forward it, a year after a year, without any feeling of desperation or tireless.
‘Yes, I believe’ Speech of Mr Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2009!
Robert A. Verlinden
Mr. Barack Obama, Esq.
The President of the United States of America.
Dear Mr. President,
Please realize the slavery started in Africa was possible by the assistance of black elite as well as the holocaust could sprawl by the co-operation of the Jewish elite.
These examples show why we cannot trust on institutions and the elite, which means the representatives of the system of the invisible political powers[1].
Affirming WAR, DISPAIR – Pres Obama's Oslo peace speech
By Carolyn Bennett
U.S. President Barack Obama's speech formally accepting a Nobel Peace Prize was to me an alarming oration.
The "change" president proclaimed aggression and endless war in the world "as it is" - a world he accepts without offer of solution. At Oslo President Obama declared his acceptance of misery - often the result of U.S.-declared wars - as an unchangeable human destiny. In curious language falling unconvincingly from his mouth, the president termed oppression inevitable; war "just" and "necessary," the result of "human folly."
"We are at war," the president echoed his predecessor on page one of the White House transcript of his speech. From there, standing before the Nobel committee that handed him this windfall, he went often in religious nuance to wage and to justify acts of aggression.
The speech topped the alarm raised by his earlier promise to continue killing Afghans and Pakistanis. The Oslo speech unveiled an in-your-face militarist uncaring of the future or of any human being or institution of law domestic or international. It was a commentary dripping with despair for the United States and the world - and most particularly for the people of South/Central Asia (and the Middle East), Americans, society, soldiers and soldiers' families.
In light of the rise of Jewish fundamentalism Arabs are in dire need of a thorough Referendum, the main character, the state of Israel
Salim Nazzal
The disgusting view of the fundamentalist Jewish colonizer driving his car several times over the Palestinian young man Wasim muwasada has invoked extreme rage among Palestinians.
The criminal event is not an isolated event because the “defense” Israeli army was watching the dreadful act without any attempt to hinder it, and also because such crimes have become a normal thing in the Jewish religious culture towards Palestinians. For Palestinians the Zionist Jewish culture of baby killing and extreme brutality is not the act of a fanatic person, but, rather, the product of a culture based on murder and violence. The cultural mind which allowed, justified and instructed the murder of Palestinian children and pregnant woman in Deir Yasin in 1948 is the same cultural mind which permitted the murder Palestinian babies in 2009.
Official Lies about 911 Exposed
Dr. David Ray Griffin
Although John Farmer's "The Ground Truth" has attracted a lot of favorable attention, it is a deeply flawed book, containing misleading claims and providing an extremely one-sided account of 9/11.
Much of the attention received by the book has been prompted by misleading claims made by Farmer and his publisher. The book's dust-jacket calls it the "definitive account" of 9/11, but it actually deals almost entirely with only one question about that day: why the airliners were not intercepted.
Also, the book's subtitle calls it "the untold story" of 9/11 and its dust-jacket says that it "breathtakingly revises" our understanding of that day. In reality, however, it simply provides new support for the story told about the planes in "The 9/11 Commission Report," which appeared in 2004, and in two publications that appeared in 2006: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton's book "Without Precedent," and Michael Bronner's essay in "Vanity Fair."
Resisting An Underlying Moral Vacuum
By Emily Spence
Overview: Is our species, overall, mentally ill in some way? How could this not be the case when we, continually, have, along with many constructive ones, the same sorts of unconscionable, dysfunctional and destructive behaviors happening again and again through the centuries?
There are moment in life when one, seriously, wonders whether our species, overall, is mentally ill in some underlying ways. Then again, any definitive determination is likely relativistic since it largely depends on the standards that a given society and culture use to define mental illness, it would seem.
Welcome Home Soldier, Now Shut Up
Black Commentator
There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm's way. Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, the brilliant New York Times war correspondent who survived wars in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, "I rarely saw moral courage. Moral courage is harder. It requires the bearer to walk away from the warm embrace of comradeship and denounce the myth of war as a fraud, to name it as an enterprise of death and immorality, to condemn himself, and those around him, as killers. It requires the bearer to become an outcast. There are times when taking a moral stance, perhaps the highest form of patriotism, means facing down the community, even the nation." The Winter Soldier investigation was followed by the publication of COLLATERAL DAMAGE: AMERICA’S WAR AGAINST IRAQI CIVILIANS, by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian. Based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with Iraqi combat veterans, this pioneering work on the catastrophe in Iraq includes the largest number of eyewitness accounts from U.S. military personnel on record.
AFRICOM: Pentagon’s First Direct Military Intervention In Africa
Rick Rozoff
The 2009 World Population Data Sheet published by the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau states that the population of the African continent has surpassed one billion. Africans now account for over a seventh of the human race.
Africa’s 53 nations are 28% of the 192 countries in the world.
The size and location of the continent along with its human and natural resources – oil, natural gas, gold, diamonds, uranium, cobalt, chromium, platinum, timber, cotton, food products – make it an increasingly important part of a world that is daily becoming more integrated and interdependent.
Africa is also the last continent to free itself from colonial domination. South America broke free of Spanish and Portuguese control in the beginning of the 1800s (leaving only the three Guianas – British, Dutch and French – still colonized) and the post-World War II decolonization of Asia that started with former British East India in 1947 was almost complete by the late 1950s.
Sub-Saharan Africa was not to liberate most of its territory from Belgian, British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonial masters until the 1960s and 1970s. And the former owners were reluctant to cede newly created African nations any more than nominal independence and the ability to choose their own internal socio-economic orientation and foreign policy alignment.
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