W.J. Astore
Woke Bombs Are No Better than MAGA Ones
This image stays with me:
The people on the receiving end of American bombs don’t care if those bombs are from a “woke” B-52 or a MAGA one, or whether the crews of those planes are diverse. Is it better to be bombed by female or gay or Black air crews?
The comedian Jimmy Dore did a recent segment on the CIA’s celebration of Gay Pride Month. Am I supposed to trust the CIA when they wrap themselves in a rainbow flag?
Regardless of who’s been president and which party he’s been from, U.S. military spending has continued to soar. And while Joe Biden finally ended the disastrous Afghan War, the military-industrial-congressional complex is profiting wildly from the new Cold War with China and Russia.
Americans should be deeply concerned with the increasing likelihood of nuclear war, together with the government’s great affection for building even more nuclear weapons. Yet we are actively discouraged by our government from thinking about the unthinkable, i.e. genocidal nuclear weapons and war. “Trust the experts” is the implicit message, along with “pay no attention” to the trillions being spent on new nuclear bombers, ICBMs, and submarines. After all, they’re job-creators!
Reelecting Trump or Biden, or electing younger tools like Ron DeSantis or Pete Buttigieg, isn’t going to change America’s imperial, militaristic, and rapacious foreign policy. I’d like to elect a president who prefers not to drop bombs, a leader who knows that bombs remain bombs whether they’re “woke” or “MAGA” or decorated with rainbow or “blue lives matter” flags.
Is that too much to ask?
Bracing Views 
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Raymond G. Wilson, Ph.D. Emeritus Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
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THE DAY AFTER movie about Kansas City incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust is prescient concerning what’s increasingly possible in this World in the short term.
If the General Population pays no attention to what’s unfolding TODAY, our silence will ensure it happens.
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Try Robert Kennedy Jr. He will be better.
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Not necessarily. Conforming to the prevailing WAR narrative, he falls in line with US Power by also referring to President Putin as a thug.
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This is an excellent dissertation by Jeffery Sachs on the State of the World this morning on The Duran. Well worth listening to.
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This is President Kennedy’s Peace speech Jeffery Sachs is so impressed with. In the video linked above, he says Kennedy did not make known the substance of it until the Day before he delivered it.
Listening to it, the Military-Industrial Complex would see Kennedy’s thinking as a threat to their expansion. Kennedy was eliminated shortly thereafter.
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Critically important speech that all Americans should listen to and think about.
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