war
interviewed by Amy Goodman (linked to image above).
at 54:50 min:
i hate war, rather than people.__________ dirty wars carne ross rory fanning war on kids war on drugs ptsd wartorn the boy and the war noor peace law nika on war david on war kingdom is within you __________war makes everyone crazy.
– – – – please tell the people that people used to live here. war makes us crazy.
Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) tweeted at 1:26 PM – 5 Jan 2017 : Every US bomb dropped in 2016: https://t.co/aDIKZLFEcJ https://t.co/DuLYrx1doz (http://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/817104975763570688?s=17) Lauri Love (@LauriLoveX) tweeted at 3:21 PM – 5 Jan 2017 : @MicahZenko @democratise_lab sadly, this evidently doesn’t count the US bombs sold to other countries and then dropped on other countries… (http://twitter.com/LauriLoveX/status/817133885960179713?s=17) Liberty Peace Love (@LuvLibertyPeace) tweeted at 1:29 PM – 5 Jan 2017 : @MicahZenko @MicahZenko You forgot #Waziristan – there are more drone bombings there than anywhere!! (http://twitter.com/LuvLibertyPeace/status/817105808576184320?s=17)___________
Christine Petré (@christinepetre) tweeted at 3:49 PM – 29 May 2017 : Since 18 May, 2,845 migrants have been rescued at sea in eleven different incidents off western #libya https://t.co/95t28XcHVB (http://twitter.com/christinepetre/status/869309805097361408?s=17) Jodi Picoult (@jodipicoult) tweeted at 5:33 AM – 29 May 2017 : Once again, @TeenVogue is doing some of the most honest reporting these days. Why aren’t we talking about this? https://t.co/ZDBB4hGzo0 (http://twitter.com/jodipicoult/status/869154605837504512?s=17) Joseph Willits (@josephwillits) tweeted at 4:36 AM – 30 May 2017 : So depraved. ISIS bomb Baghdad ice cream shop. Men, women, children killed as they enjoy ice cream during #Ramadan https://t.co/i4VUpMiHfM (http://twitter.com/josephwillits/status/869502780842684418?s=17) Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) tweeted at 2:56 AM – 31 May 2017 : Harrowing images coming from Kabul, where at least 80 people have been killed by a truck bomb https://t.co/x8uHWLojnL https://t.co/GsOG7WZn11 (http://twitter.com/AnupKaphle/status/869839931266478086?s=17)___________
CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) tweeted at 7:28 PM – 20 Feb 2017 : U.S. sells white phosphorus bombs to Saudi Arabia, who, in turn, use them on Yemeni children. Here’s your tax dollars at work, America. https://t.co/lB3hEmMhgQ (http://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/833866024416006144?s=17)____________
Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) tweeted at 4:14 AM – 15 Jun 2017 : A 50-year occupation: Israel’s six-day war started with a lie https://t.co/0s7lSxia1S by @mehdirhasan (http://twitter.com/DanielWickham93/status/875295474340823040?s=17)___________
Anti-Media (@AntiMedia) tweeted at 5:25 PM – 15 Jun 2017 : The war is not meant to be won – it is meant to be continuous. https://t.co/QMYFKaZ07X(http://twitter.com/AntiMedia/status/875494391707836417?s=17) Gavin Date (@GavinDate) tweeted at 7:44 PM – 15 Jun 2017 : @AntiMedia Continuous war against manufactured enemies for the profit of the weapons industry who own most of the politicians. (http://twitter.com/GavinDate/status/875529365550882816?s=17)____________
Global Voices (@globalvoices) tweeted at 4:42 AM – 27 Jun 2017 : Mexico’s Drug War Makes Everyone a Target https://t.co/IQkx6O8IWT “Once journalists are murdered, the investigation stops” https://t.co/3F2cbtHLhT (http://twitter.com/globalvoices/status/879651040244715520?s=17)____________
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David Harris on war:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AH87HdcGps]
26 min – 4\ the war i still can’t say those words w/o a tremor.. goes right to the place in my chest where my outrage lives this was not a question of policy.. this was a crime who’s enormity was stunning.. a struggle over the very soul of the us.. pitting us.. a bunch of 19-22 yr olds.. who didn’t know any better.. against the most powerful institution in the world.. the us govt.. and ..that we struggled w/them.. was heroic 27 min – this war started w a lie.. was pursued w colossal arrogance.. in violation of everything the us was supposed to stand for .. from day 1 to day 4850.. it was a violation of all the precedents that had been set at the nuremburg war crimes trials.. every one of them.. there was torture.. carpet bombing.. forcible relocation of civilian populations.. chemical weapons.. concentration camps.. pillage as a matter of policy/strategy.. generating millions upon millions of refugees.. defending a govt that had no claim to existence other than american fiat.. and none of us would have accepted for 15 seconds.. when it ended.. 2 million people.. were dead.. for no good reason.. this is not something anybody gets to forget… there is no good side to it..____________ from john pilger the war you don’t see (found on John’s site): [https://vimeo.com/67739294]
____________46 min – during ww1 – 10% of deaths were civilian, ww2 – 50%, nam – 70%, iraq – 90% – the killing of civilians and wilfully causing great suffering is a war crime – fourth geneva convention – 1949
Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) tweeted at 7:02 AM – 11 Nov 2018 : Thinking today, via the art of Paul Nash, of the grotesque waste of life of millions of young men from all nations in WW1 & how the hypocritical & sanctimonious forces that sent them to their deaths exist still https://t.co/tHl3CJ4ouLhttps://t.co/JZ6oXycQLE(http://twitter.com/Oniropolis/status/1061620098836754433?s=17)_______________
Justice Democrats (@justicedems) tweeted at 4:55 PM – 11 Nov 2018 : One of the best ways to support veterans is to stop sending them to war. (http://twitter.com/justicedems/status/1061769471042469888?s=17)___________
Democracy Now! (@democracynow) tweeted at 6:38 AM – 12 Nov 2018 : Now at https://t.co/Xup8cdtnFB: Journalist & author Adam Hochschild says Armistice Day must also recognize & celebrate activists like Jane Addams, Eugene V. Debs and Emma Goldman, who saw WWI as “madness” and worked to stop it: “They were patriots also.” https://t.co/se0yj5EbDn (http://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1061976510897291264?s=17)____________
The Intercept (@theintercept) tweeted at 6:28 AM – 19 Nov 2018 : It’s time for America to reckon with the staggering death toll of the post-9/11 wars https://t.co/gGhfyhYXLh by @mazmhussain (http://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1064510631997595649?s=17)___________
Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) tweeted at 4:01 PM – 20 Dec 2018 : Thought it would be a good day to remind liberals that just because you don’t like Trump, war criminals like James Mattis (who murdered civilians and children in Iraq) and mouthpieces of US corporate war profiteers like the New York Times are not our friends… (http://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1075888989406720001?s=17) jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) tweeted at 8:32 AM on Fri, Dec 21, 2018: 1. I support withdrawing US troops from all these wars, overt and covert. 2. Trump is an unstable authoritarian who cannot be trusted. 3. “Mattis was an adult” is bullshit. He’s a hawkish war criminal. 4. It’s very telling that the war party in DC is furious. (https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1076138229127172097?s=03) jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) tweeted at 8:35 AM on Fri, Dec 21, 2018: 5. This is an opportunity for progressive forces to assert an alternative vision for US foreign policy. 6. Trump is a crooked charlatan. But these withdrawals would represent a dent in the armor of the bipartisan war machine. 7. This chaos presents opportunity. (https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1076139215409299458?s=03)thread:
Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) tweeted at 10:11 AM – 20 Dec 2018 : When the Turkish army invaded Afrin, they and their proxies ethnically cleansed the Kurdish inhabitants and carried out looting, kidnapping, and torture. When the US troops leave Syria, the same thing will happen to the rest of Rojava on a far more massive scale (http://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1075800867008364545?s=17)____________
Les Milton (@LesterJMilton) tweeted at 3:56 PM on Thu, May 30, 2019: I’ve always loved and believed this quote. https://t.co/R9BmhV8tsK (https://twitter.com/LesterJMilton/status/1134217077454041089?s=03) frank zappa: politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex_________
Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky) tweeted at 0:31 PM on Wed, Sep 11, 2019: U.S. has spent $6 trillion on wars that killed 500,000 people since 9/11, a report says https://t.co/N4sc1YpDNW (https://twitter.com/nikadubrovsky/status/1171853909088002048?s=03)___________
Oz Katerji (@OzKaterji) tweeted at 4:59 AM – 9 Dec 2019 : Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan https://t.co/jKM01S1ahZ(http://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1204007533435924487?s=17) Louisa Loveluck (@leloveluck) tweeted at 4:37 AM – 9 Dec 2019 : Government documents obtained by @WashingtonPost show senior US officials failed to tell the truth about war in Afghanistan, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false & hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. https://t.co/hDaKknH1jI (http://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1204002174004613121?s=17)__________
Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) tweeted at 9:06 PM – 2 Jan 2020 : “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?” Thinking of Howard Zinn, who left us 10 years ago this month https://t.co/zMnAzjPTKZ (http://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1212948415711186947?s=17)_________
Israa | ﮼إسراء (@IsraHazel) tweeted at 5:04 AM – 5 Jan 2020 : When you have someone from the region @OzKaterji write about it, you get a thoughtful balanced article like this one. | Qasem Soleimani brutalised the Middle East, but the bloodshed is far from over https://t.co/nMmmYS1xOV (http://twitter.com/IsraHazel/status/1213793374060322817?s=17) Jasmine El-Gamal (@jasmineelgamal) tweeted at 4:49 AM – 5 Jan 2020 : “#Soleimani was a tyrant, a terrorist and a mass murderer. His death has made the world a better place. It has also made the world a less safe place.” Hands down the best piece I’ve seen so far, from @OzKaterji . Caution, respect for gravity of situation + highlighting ppl of ME https://t.co/vjGeBnn9SE (http://twitter.com/jasmineelgamal/status/1213789636998418438?s=17)__________The brutality of Soleimani’s policies in Iraq was as responsible for creating the material conditions IS needed to flourish as Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq did (Obama doesn’t get off lightly here, either), and his forces carried out acts of unimaginable cruelty against civilians in IS-occupied territory in the process.
But the reality is that if a new war is on the horizon, it is unlikely to be Americans who will suffer the most. It will be terrified and trapped civilians across the Middle East, which would in a sense be a continuation of Soleimani’s life’s work
Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) tweeted at 4:11 AM – 7 Jan 2020 : This short piece, by a Kurdish feminist writer @hawzhin_azeez, on the assassination of Sulaimani sums it up for me. https://t.co/PAZfURNPswhttps://t.co/lO2IOp8G1e (http://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1214504747622977538?s=17)__________ jabiz on war and nationality:it is about time we started viewing such issues in all their complexities, realizing that multiple truths can co-exist and that a simplistic analysis serves no one but those hungering for war.
As an Iranian the American government doesn’t like my Iranianness. As an American the Iranian government doesn’t like my Americanness. As a human I don’t like either government and this is why I will never understand nationalism. #NoWarWithlran Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/intrepidteacher/status/1214815571981688832_________ climate and war
Paul Dawson (@PaulEDawson) tweeted at 6:59 PM – 25 Jan 2020 : “We cannot leave it up to our young people to fight this fight for us,” “The climate movement is a peace movement, because to stop wars is to stop the fossil fuel industry. And to stop the fossil fuel industry is to stop war,” #ActOnClimate https://t.co/bRy1RQ37T4 (http://twitter.com/PaulEDawson/status/1221251156988583937?s=17)_________ from Erich Fromm‘s the sane society:
let’s look at the facts.. in the last 100 yrs we in the western world have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call ‘war’..war et al
5 we live in an econ system in which a particularly good crop is often an econ disaster, and we restrict some of our agri productivity in order to ‘stabilize the market’ although there are millions of people who do not have the very things we restrict, and who need them badly.. right now our econ system is functioning very well, because, among other reasons, we spend billions of dollars per year to produce armaments.. economists look w some apprehension to the time when we stop producing armaments and the idea that the state should produce houses and other useful and needed things instead of weapons, easily provokes accusations of endangering freedom and individual initiative..we have to let go of money (any form of measuring/accounting) __________
“It’s extremely important to highlight the fact that we live in a post-war era run by the warlords of the war. That is not a small detail of the story. That is the entirety of the story.” @joeyayoub summing up our post-war history of state failure & neglect in just a few lines https://t.co/iPpMLw7pJE Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/warghetti/status/1304676725440286720__________
C4SS (@c4ssdotorg) tweeted at 8:39 AM on Fri, Sep 11, 2020: “Every year we’re subjected to another round of mawkish, smarmy 9/11 memorial ceremonies whose purpose is to maintain loyalty to the very national security state whose aggression brought the 9/11 terror attacks on us in the first place.” – Kevin Carson https://t.co/7f4ObJaizg (https://twitter.com/c4ssdotorg/status/1304429238557323269?s=03)__________ war‘s binary ness
“History is neither neat nor clean, especially when it comes to past wars. The first casualty of war is said to be truth, but really it is nuance. War presents stark, binary choices. Kill or be killed. One side or the other. The truth is more complex…” https://t.co/If211R2mFG Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/irasocol/status/1319217431932506112_________
When you consider war, consider this. When you weigh the cost, weigh this. When you remember, remember this. https://t.co/zw05sWCDqR Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CAFinUS/status/13261725644906864655 min video clip:
ordinary people who never would have thought to do any harm to anyone how did it come about that they were so cruel.. i remembered then that we were told that the good solider kills w/o thinking of his adversary as a human being.. the very moment he sees in him a fellow man.. he is not a good soldier anymorethurman interconnectedness law: when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying – Robert Thurman
but i had in front of me.. the dead man.. the dead french soldier.. and how i would have liked him to have raised his hand.. i would have shaken his hand and we would have been the best of friends.. because he was nothing, like me, but a poor boy.. who had to fight .. who had to go in with the most cruel weapons against a man who had nothing against him personally.. who only wore the uniform of another nationnationality: human
who spoke another languageidiosyncratic jargon
but a man who had a father/mother and a family perhaps and so i felt. i woke up at night sometimes drenched in sweat because i saw the eyes of my fallen adversary of the enemy.. and i tried to convince myself what would have happened to me if i wouldn’t have been quicker than he what was it that we soldiers stabbed/strangled each other.. went for each other like mad dogs.. what was it that we who had nothing against them personally fought w them to the very end/death.. we were civilized people after alljensen civilization law
but i felt that the culture we boasted so much about is only a very thin lacquer which chips off the very moment we come in contact w cruel things like real war to fire at each other from a distance.. to drop bombs.. is something impersonal.. but to see each other’s white in the eyes and then to run w a bayonet against a man.. it was against my conception and against my inner feelingso great till the end.. sounds like he’s making the bombing and the shooting from a distance ok __________ as re re reading michael hardt and antonio negri‘s multitude:
imagine if we1\ war
1.1 simplicissimus 4 civil war gone global 5 not isolated wars.. but a general global state of war that erodes distinction between war and peace such that we can no longer imagine/hope for real peace..
6 common to realist political thinkers, most notably carl schmitt.. that all political actions/motives are based fundamentally on the friend-enemy distinction.. only real enemy is a public enemy.. that is an enemy of the state.. 7 war as state of exception (when need dictator et al) .. but.. state of exception has become permanent and general.. the rule p 12 (from italicized golem piece): they (the golem) are just asking to be loved and now one seems to understand.. (related this to frankenstein.. and how they become monsters.. via rejection).. perhaps what monsters liek the golem are trying to teach us, whispering to us secretly under the din of our global battelfield, is a lesson about the monstrosity of war and our possible redemption thru lovelove is the movement et al
war, that is to say, is becoming the primary organizing principle of society, and politics merely one of its means or guises. what appears as civil peace, then, really only puts an end to one form of war and opens the way for another.war
mao zedong – politics is simply war w/o bloodshed p 13 war has become a regime of biopower, that is, a form of rule aimed not only at controlling the population but producing and reproducing all aspects of social life.this does not mean that war has been domesticated or its violence attenuated, but rather that daily life and the normal functioning of power has been permeated with the threat and violence of warfare. war on povertypoverty ness
p 14 war on drugs.. war on terrorism a war to create and maintain social order can have no end. it must involve the continuos, uninterrupted exercise of power and violence. in other words, one cannot win such a war, or, rather, it has to be won again every day. war has thus become virtually indistinguishable from police activity.any form of democratic admin.. any form of m\a\p more on war on multitude page ___________ suicide.. and war
The suicide rate among active duty service members in the US military increased by 41.4% in the five years from 2015 to 2020, according to data provided in an annual report from the Department of Defense on suicide in the military https://t.co/T3T5GEDyTF Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1443718581158567938________ poem (found in newsweek i think) by ilya kaminsky – we lived happily during the war
and when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested.. but not enough.. we opposed them.. but not enough.. i was in my bed.. around my bed america was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.. i took a chair outside and watched the sun.. in the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money.. in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money.. our great country of money.. we (forgive us) .. lived happily during the war__________ from anarchists seeds beneath the snow [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-goodway-anarchist-seeds-beneath-the-snow]: 11 – alex comfort:
Wars are not deplorable accidents produced by the perfidy of degenerate nations – they are the results of calculated policy..they are the result of obedience, an obedience which forgets its humanity. ..the only way to stop atrocities is to refuse to participate in them..tzinn obedience law et al _________ from david graeber‘s anarchy in manner of speaking:
82 DG: There’s a military theorist called Martin Van Creveld who made the same point as Scarry, that Clausewitz’s position—that the reason why war is a contest specifically of violence is because a contest of violence is the only one that carries within itself the means of its own enforcement—can’t really be true.
Creveld makes the trenchant point that if you look at history, war is anything but an unlimited contest of power; there are always rules. Often very elaborate and intricate ones. There are rules about who is a combatant and who isn’t, what you can and can’t do with prisoners, messengers, medics, what kinds of weapons and tactics are permissible and what aren’t. Even Hitler and Stalin, for instance, agreed never to use poison gas against each other’s troops. Part of this is just an extension of the principle of discipline—an army that fights without rules is just a rampaging mob, and when a rampaging mob meets a real army, they always lose. But even more there have to rules because otherwise you don’t know who won. Often these rules are very specific: in ancient Greece the battle wasn’t over until one side has to ask the other for their dead; in medieval Europe apparently, an army had to stay on the field for three days after the battle so the other side could come back and try again. So the victor was in no sense simply determined by de facto preponderance of force. In fact the only people who systematically broke the rules—Attila the Hun, or Hernán Cortés—tended to be remembered as monsters for centuries after for that very reason.
At the time I read Van Creveld I was involved in the alter-globalization movement and taking part in lots of large-scale direct actions, in Quebec City, Genoa, Washington, New York … It made sense: what I’d been seeing on the streets in many cases exactly resembled ancient warfare, with feints, charges, flanking maneuvers, even helmets and shields. It was just that the rules of engagement were far more limiting. And it suddenly occurred to me, wait a minute, cops break almost all those rules all the time. If you try to negotiate with them, half the time they arrest the go-between. They attack medics all the time. If you declare a “green zone,” where no one will do anything illegal, so as to make a safe space for old people or children, the cops will almost invariably teargas or attack it. They act like totally dishonorable opponents. It’s not just that all cops are bastards though. There’s a logic. After all, if police were to treat you honorably, that would be recognizing you as an equal party to a conflict. But they represent the state. They’re not going to recognize you as the equivalent to the state. That would be recognizing a legitimate dual power situation. That’s the last thing cops are going to do. But they can’t just kill you, either—especially if you’re white. So the solution: systematically break all the other rules. One corollary of this is that all the most brutal, the most truly vicious wars that have been fought in recent memory are ones which aren’t wars at all in the eye of those commanding the largest forces, but police actions. Like Vietnam, or Algeria, or Angola, Syria, Iraq. Not only are they called “police actions,” they actually do follow the logic of police, which is to fight a permanent war—the “war on crime”—between the state and an intrinsically dishonorable enemy, one that can never be fully defeated. In part it can’t because the “war on crime” itself is a transposition of the underlying war that constitutes the nation to begin with, the permanent war between sovereign and people, which I would argue is prior even to Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction. One could even say the cosmic war that marks the imagination of free societies is brought down to earth. In a way the modern nation-state is just a truce, a “social peace” established between two warring parties, sovereign and people. It’s transposed onto a “war on crime,” and then of course the “war on drugs” (the first to go international) and “war on terror.” All of them are permanent wars against an inherently dishonorable opponent that cannot, however, be defeated. Because it’s not like crime, or drugs, or terror, are going to surrender and cease hostilitieswar.. david on war.. nika on war.. et al ________ _______ __________ __________
be you. 