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My response to Juan Cole's ANSWER to Glenn Greenwald

WHAT GREENWALD WROTE WHAT PROF COLE WROTE What I write: Dear Professor Cole, The best way that you can support the so-called rebels in Libya is to raise a battalion to go and fight side by side with them. You say that getting rid of Qaddafi with be " worth the sacrifices in life and treasure." I think you have gone down the slippery slope of neoconservatism when you are willing to sacrifice other people's lives and other people's treasures in another violent war for oil and other natural resources. You also put yourself in service to NATO, which as I am sure you must know, is just another tool for in the US's quest for global hegemony over resources and economies, as currently in Afghanistan which has billions of dollars worth of precious minerals and natural gas. I used to have a lot of respect for you and I know for sure that you are not ill-informed or stupid, so I wonder how many pieces of silver you earned for this one.  

"A New Nightmare" SOAPBOX 92 GUESTS DENNIS KUCINICH AND THAD RUSSELL

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SHOCK AND AWE IN LIBYA (SOAPBOX #92) – Cindy welcomes  two notable guests.  Cindy’s first guest,  Thaddeus Russell , is an historian and cultural critic, author of  A Renegade History of the United States .  (And those are just his  introductory credits!)  A  true nonconformist, he has a  long list of public appearances.  Yes, previously, our “Bad Thad” had moved past the social/ethical conservatism of our historical “cultural leaders” to focus on the actual  people themselves.  He regularly argued that many white Americans envied slaves for good reason, since slave culture offered many liberating alternatives to the highly repressive and work-obsessed, anti-sex culture of the early United States.  He demonstrated that prostitutes, not feminists, won  virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted.  In short, this man is a truly creative &  revolutionary thinker.  It should come as no surprise the man today perceives himse

"'Humanitarian War is an Oxymoron," by Cindy Sheehan

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"Humanitarian War' is an Oxymoron" Dennis Kucinich on Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox March 23, 2011 Yesterday, I was scanning through the AM radio stations on my way to Berkeley to pick up something, when I heard a familiar voice, our old friend, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh)—and he didn’t sound happy. So I stopped the scan to listen. Surprisingly, Congressman Kucinich was talking to another old “friend,” Sean Hannity of Fox News—the only thing I have to say about Sean Hannity is that I was on his TV show in NYC once and he paid for my assistant and I to fly the next day to Cuba—Sean financed a Federal Crime, but at least I have something on him, now. Anyway, Dennis was talking to Sean about the recent US bombing of Libya and he was furious at President Obama for not consulting with Congress before this happened, (he consulted with the UN, he consulted with the Arab League, he consulted with Hillary Clinton—Secretary of State; Susan Rice—US Ambassador to the U

"SHAME ON YOU OBAMA!"

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"SHAME, SHAME, SHAME"

An Open Letter to War Loving (Democratic/Republican) Frauds by Cindy Sheehan

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Libyans Who Don't Want to be Tomahawked  Dear War Loving (Democratic or Republican) Fraud, I know many of you don't really care, but in exactly 15 days, it will be seven years since my oldest son (whom I  never "abandoned" and raised with his father and three siblings until he went into the Army when he was 21), Casey was killed in this Empire's insane War OF Terror. Was Casey the first, or the last?  No--but he was my first and the shock knocked me out of my quiet complacency--which was just as wrong as the Empire's unending wars. When I  began protesting, Bush was president and my protest and the energy that grew around it was used by you Democrats to regain political power in the federal government. Four years later and a change of Executive, this nation is still mired in Arab countries waging a war against Arabs of all, or no, faith. Now brought to us by the Blue Team. Three days after the current evil Emperor was installed by the oliga

Barack-a-lujah! I Have Seen the Light! by Cindy Sheehan

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  Thanks to the helpful feedback I have received over these past two, or so, years, I have seen the enormous error of my ways. I used to be against ALL wars and the use of violence, but (and I must admit a little confusion on this one, at first) now it seems that I am against wars, acts of war, and violence ONLY if a Republican is president. Now I understand with perfect clarity that it was good to protest Bush—and if the US-UN resolution against Libya was done when Bush was president, it would have been wrong—but now it’s “compassionate.” I must admit, I was a little shocked to find out that the US actually commits compassionate acts and, again, silly me—I thought most acts of war and war were for profit. I realize that only a jerk (or racist) would think that now. I have repented. I cringe with embarrassment when I think of the wasted years imagining that there could be any other way to solve problems without killing more innocent people! It’s okay to bomb Libyans t

Empire Means Never Having to Mean it's Sorry by Cindy Sheehan

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NEXT VICTIMS? OR ALREADY VICTIMS? “The US is deeply sorry…these deaths shouldn’t have happened,” General David Petraeus after nine Afghan children gathering wood were slaughtered by the US.   On 3 March, occupying forces in Afghanistan killed nine children gathering wood in Kunar Province. This time, instead of despicably accusing Afghan parents of killing their own children to laughably cast the US in a bad light (we don't need any help), according to the L.A. Times, Petraeus “swiftly” apologized. Well, as someone who has had a child killed in this Imperial insanity, I know that apologies and blood money are just not enough to assuage the overwhelming grief one feels when a child precedes a parent to the stone-cold permanence of death. If there is any worse thing than burying a child, burying one so that others can realize vastly improved bottom-lines has to be way up there. Having a child killed in needless and senseless wars is as needless and senseless as having o

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TV Interview with Cindy Sheehan from Media Roots

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PREVIEW AND ORDERING INFO FOR REVOLUTION, A LOVE STORY BY CINDY SHEEHAN

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  Dear Friend, I am working very diligently on the internet book: Revolution, A Love Story, based on the footage and finished product that was hijacked from me by an ex-colleague. I had thousands of dollars invested in the project and instead of having all that money go down the drain, I decided to write this book. I am offering a chance to pre-order the PDF of the book for $10 (US) and if you would like an autographed copy of the cover page mailed to your physical address the price is $20 (for book and signed cover page). If you already ordered a copy of the DVD documentary, you will get the PDF and autographed copy of the cover page automatically. If you gave a $50 (or higher) sponsorship, your name will be in the acknowledgments in the book. This entire episode has been so educational for me in so many ways and I am excited to offer this book as my thanks for being able to be exposed to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, its charismatic and compassiona

ORDER YOUR PDF COPY OF REVOLUTION, A LOVE STORY!

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TO ORDER YOUR PDF COPY OF   REVOLUTION, A LOVE STORY, CLICK  THE LINK BELOW AND CHOOSE  WHETHER YOU WANT THE PDF ONLY  (DELIVERED TO YOUR EMAIL INBOX) OR IF YOU WANT  THE PDF DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX AND AN  AUTOGRAPHED (BY CINDY) COPY OF THE COVER PAGE  MAILED TO YOUR STREET ADDRESS. WITH/WITHOUT AUTOGRAPHED COVER SHEET PDF ONLY (NO SIG) $10.00 MAILED SIGNED COVER SHEET $20.00 You can also mail a check/money order (for 10.00 or 20.00) to  Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, LLC PO Box 6264 Vacaville, Ca 95696 (MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE YOUR--LEGIBLE--EMAIL ADDRESS, IF YOU SEND A CHECK) THANK YOU! CINDY

The Tables Get Turned: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Raymond Davis by Cindy Sheehan

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Turn about is fair play. American Proverb In February of 2010, based on the flimsiest of physical evidence and rampant anti-Muslim bias, a Pakistani woman, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, was convicted in US Federal Court in Manhattan for ATTEMPTED "murder of an American" and sentenced to 86 years plus life in prison. The terms “kangaroo court” and “railroaded” spring easily to mind when I think about the case of Dr. Siddiqui. I wrote extensively about the case in an article called: Injustice in the Age of Obama. The final chapter has not been written in the tale of Dr. Siddiqui and just recently a bold Senator from Pakistan has offered to come to the States to meet with everyone concerned with the Siddiqui case, as Senator John Kerry recently did in Pakistan in reference to the case of Raymond Davis. Raymond Davis is a confirmed CIA asset who apparently was given diplomatic credentials who shot and killed two Pakistani (one in the back as he was fleeing) men in Lahore in January,