Seeds of Protest Growing on College Campuses
The speed of the antiwar mobilization has struck some longtime college presidents. “Students are engaging very, very quickly with Iraq,” said Nancy Dye, the president of Oberlin College. “This morning I was struck by a very large sign on top of an academic building, saying, `Say No to War in Iraq.’ A new student organization has gotten itself together, and I don’t even know if they have a name yet. There wasn’t anything like this during the first gulf war, when I was president at Vassar.”
Only the American people can stop Bush now
I hope we see some serious opposition there – strikes – demonstrations.
Caroline Casey’s Center for Visionary Activism: Home Page
Here it is with links to radio shows from the past. I am downloading them now. Real audio + Total Record. Will be interesting to see how useful this stuff is. A sort of Starhawk?
Un? American.
Scoop Images: Un-American Graffiti 
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It is a nasty observation, but not un American. There must be plenty of Americans who oppose the imperialist expansion, who see it akin to german expansion last century. What is American? We could say jazz and Elvis and pop-corn, and the world does somehow value the exported American culture. The image clarifies exactly which bit of the USA we are against. Important to be against the Empire not America as such. |
Plans to Occupy Iraq
U.S. Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials Report
Today marked the first time the administration has discussed what could be a lengthy occupation by coalition forces, led by the United States.
Officials say they want to avoid the chaos and in-fighting that have plagued Afghanistan since the defeat of the Taliban
Empire
This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the “American imperialists” that our enemies always claimed we were.
There is plenty of opposition to this war, but not all that much which reveals the imperialist motivation. The official line, the safety of the world, if true, might be a good reason for the war but it is not what it is about, the world will be safer without an American empire. The real task IS to make the world safe and opposing the US empire is part of that. To oppose it will have a price, it will not be an easy battle. It is a war that requires the unity, organisation and courage of the forces opposed to it.
All of these posts about the EMPIRE are related to the psychological explorations on my website that the empire is also at work exploiting the psyche. Psyche herself has been captured and occupied. To speak of opposing the US as an imperialist force has been psychologically damned, it no longer sounds a sane thing to say.
Robert Fisk: What the US President wants us to forget
In all of Bush’s 30 minutes of anti-Iraq war talk yesterday pleasantly leavened with just two minutes of how “I hope this will not require military action” there wasn’t a single reference to the fact that Iraq may hold oil reserves larger than those of Saudi Arabia, that American oil companies stand to gain billions of dollars in the event of a US invasion, that, once out of power, Bush and his friends could become multi-billionaires on the spoils of this war. We must ignore all this before we go to war. We must forget.
High on Daypop today… and most of the bloggers citing it are on the side of Robert Fisk.
http://www.finnern.com/
http://indc.weblogger.com/
http://www.electricedge.com/greymatter/
http://www.theplasticcat.com/
These sites are anti war, and some have links exposing the imperialism driving the war.
A voice for our side – Steve Earle
At times, Earle rightly makes no attempt at subtlety at all–as with his opposition to the coming war on Iraq. “We intended to go into Iraq before September 11, and we’re gonna go into Iraq, and that’s part of this big lie,” Earle argued in a recent interview. “Iraq had fuck all to do with September 11! John Walker Lindh had fuck all to do with September 11! It’s just scapegoating, and scapegoating is always about making somebody feel more than, by making somebody else feel less than–and that’s a really dark, dangerous, malignant thing to do.
What Price the American Empire?
What Price the American Empire?
Is the empire worth it? French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And nothing over there not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony is worth risking nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in America who loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my hometown. It comes first, and empire isn’t even a close second.
Strange to be quoting the RIGHT here, but he can see clearly that all this about imperialism. We are in for an new Empire that will take a lot to defeat.