Bill Ayers

What Donald Trump did last week was order the assassination of a foreign leader.

Given today’s drone technology, it is clearly an easy thing to do.

It is a shame that some Democratic Party leaders and others need to first clarify that they believe that Qassim Suleimani was a bad actor.

The world is full of bad actors. None worse than the current President of the United States.

Only the most naive should believe that the United States hasn’t taken out government leaders they didn’t like before this.

Allende in Chile. Arbenz in Guatemala.

The 1953 Iranian coup d’état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d’état which resulted in the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, replaced by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, which was fully orchestrated by the United States.

So, when Democrat after Democrat first declare that Qassim Suleimani was a bad actor and agree with Trump that he was responsible for putting Americans in “harm’s way” they are defending the principle that we can assassinate or depose anyone we want.

So long as Congress is consulted first.

China 1945-46

Korea 1950-53

China 1950-53

Guatemala 1954

Indonesia 1958

Cuba 1959-60

Guatemala 1960

Belgian Congo 1964

Guatemala 1964

Dominican Republic 1965-66

Peru 1965

Laos 1964-73

Vietnam 1961-73

Cambodia 1969-70

Guatemala 1967-69

Lebanon 1982-84

Grenada 1983-84

Libya 1986

El Salvador 1981-92

Nicaragua 1981-90

Iran 1987-88

Libya 1989

Panama 1989-90

Iraq 1991

Kuwait 1991

Somalia 1992-94

Bosnia 1995

Iran 1998

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999

Afghanistan 2001

Libya 2011

Iraq and Syria 2014 –

Somalia 2011 –

Iran 2020 –

by Fred Klonsky

From Hillary Clinton to the late John McCain, the regime changers have had their eyes on Iran for decades.

Yesterday, Trump acted and essentially declared war on Iran by killing , Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who led the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

The justification was that Iran represented some immediate threat to the United States in Iraq.

This is ironic, given we are in Iraq based on claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that represented some immediate threat to the United States.

That was a lie.

And now again.

I agree with Bernie.

I was right about Vietnam.

I was right about Iraq.

I will do everything in my power to prevent a war with Iran.

I apologize to no one. pic.twitter.com/Lna3oBZMKB

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 3, 2020

Millions of people are on the streets, from India to Chile. Democracy is both their promise and it is what has betrayed them. They aspire to the democratic spirit but find that democratic institutions – saturated by money and power – are inadequate. They are on the streets for more democracy, deeper democracy, a different kind of democracy.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21013054

https://imeu.org/article/expert-qa-trumps-executive-order-on-campus-antisemitism

https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2019/12/what-saves-us-poems-of-empathy-and-outrage-in-the-age-of-trump.html

https://portside.org/2019-12-13/why-media-ignoring-afghanistan-papers

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/monday-s-segment-education-for-liberatio

Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest. So too the flagstones round old houses
Trodden by many feet, ground down
And with tufts of grass growing between them: these
Are happy works.

Absorbed into the service of the many
Frequently altered, they improve their shape, grow precious
Because so often appreciated.
Even broken pieces of sculpture
With their hands lopped off, are dear to me. They too
Were alive for me. They were dropped, yet they were also carried.
They were knocked down, yet they never stood too high.

Half ruined buildings once again take on
The look of buildings waiting to be finished
Generously planned: their fine proportions
Can already be guessed at, but they still
Need our understanding. At the same time
They have already served, indeed have already been overcome. All this
Delights me.

—Bertolt Brecht