Psalm Sunday: The Drones Are Coming!
A U.S. Navy QF-86 Sabre drone of the Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California (USA), in 1980. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
PSALM SUNDAY:
THE DRONES ARE COMING
By Grant Marcus
one in a series of political posts for peace
Today is Sunday, and when you think about it,
no greater day for freedom in America. For some,
it is a day of spiritual commitment. For others,
a day of spiritual enlightenment or discovery.
For some, it’s a day of relaxation, a day to test one’s wings for a variety of explorations. But whoever you are, or whatever you’re into, Sunday in America is still, for most of us, that sacred time to express who we are as individuals. Gender, religion, color, age, or sexuality does not matter. It is a day of American freedom. Read more…
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
DRONE WARFARE COMING TO
VENTURA COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
By Grant Marcus,
one in a series of political posts for peace
Just when you think that it could only happen
to wedding parties in Pakistan, Jeff Gorell, As-
semblyman, Ventura County, has designed two
bills for unlimited drone production here in the
county, and these drones will be first used on
Ventura County residents. Read more…
Why We Are No Longer Prosperous
united states currency seal – IMG_7366_web (Photo credit: kevindean)
TURNING A NATION OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY INTO A NATION
OF CORPORATE WAR-MONGERING AUSTERITY.
By Grant Marcus, guest blogger
one in a series of political posts for peace
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more
money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Read more…
Why It’s Time to End the War in the Middle East
IT’S TIME TO END OUR COMPULSIVE CRUSADE
AGAINST THE MIDDLE EAST
By Grant Marcus
one in a series of political posts for peace
When it comes to U.S. policy of war and peace,
wisdom is quintessential. But these days, decisions
are made more often from political bias without
compromise. Great power and money interests win
out and reflex decisions without public interest
in mind. And these decisions come from deep-
seeded anger, hatred, and racial/ethnic bias, rather
than sound information.
Worse, the act of war is determined by our ene-
my’s resources and the profits they can generate,
while sacrificing the general welfare of our demo-
English: Halliburton Annual Revenue (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
cracy. We end up with a diaspora of victims at
home and abroad.
While addressing the issue of war, Nobel Laure-
ate Albert Einstein stated that “Everything has changed
except for the way we think.” If Einstein was alive
today, he may have quipped, “Everything has changed
including the way we think, which is much worse.”
English: January 10, 2009 Veterans for Peace members protest against Israel invasion of Gaza at Lafayette Park, between White House and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s temporary hotel residence. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
REFLECTIONS FROM
A PEACE ACTIVIST ON
THE 10th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE WAR IN IRAQ.
By Grant Marcus
one in a series
of political posts for peace
3/20/2012
Where was I on the 19th of March 10 years ago?
I remember
watching “Shock and Awe,” in the wee hours, a fireworks phenomenon gone awry as buildings exploded with American power .
As the
“journalist” talked about “smart bombs” on CNN,
I noticed how media cameras gave us shots just close
enough for the show, but also just distant enough to
avoid the human drama and bloodshed on the ground.
Just a week earlier I, along with 10-15 million
other people around the globe took to the streets to
beg our government for patience and common
sense, to beg our leaders not to go to war. Read more…
Friday Fictioneers: An American Diary
A Glimpse Into an American Diary
guest post by Grant Marcus
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Day 1
Without warning, Mother sits up, closes her book.
She is the proverbial hound sensing something in the air.
We watch her in silence as she places her palm
ever so lightly, caressing the wall
as if she were taking our temperatures.
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“They are here,” she says. “I can feel the
infrared.” She makes the sign of a hush
so she can listen to the faintest drones overhead. Read more…
Democracy or Corporacracy? A People’s History
The Four Freedoms engraved on a wall at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Democracy or Corporacracy? A People’s History
By Grant Marcus, guest blogger
one in a series of political posts for peace
WE NO LONGER HAVE A TWO PARTY SYSTEM, JUST ONE BIG
CORPORATE PARTY HELD AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OF US
It’s so important, let me repeat that again:
We no longer have a two party system. We
just have one big corporate party held at the
expense of all of us. In other words, we have
a government of, by, and for international cor-
poratists, their lawmakers, and their lobbyists.
The voting public, our democracy, matters
least to these vipers of Capitol Hill.
The problem is severe, but not new. The
first time it happened began a revolution. You
see, our country was founded by corporatists–
in a way. Or at least corporate power made us
so angry, it created heroes like Paul Revere,
Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas
Jefferson…who stood up to it. Read more…
How To End Your Affair With That Corporate America Person
“The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor”, lithograph depicting the 1773 Boston Tea Party (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
IT’S TIME WE THE PEOPLE END OUR SUBSERVIENCE
TO CORPORATE AMERICA
By Grant Marcus, guest blogger
one in a series of political posts for peace
Supremacy through money,
great wealth at all cost,
greed at the expense of
indigenous peoples
throughout the world,
a government of, by, and for corporations–
with fictitious wars for fictitious reasons–
this has become our country.
In so doing, we have become no better than Nazi
Germany, killing by the millions–over a million in South
America, 3.5-4.5 million in Vietnam, over a million and
counting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yeomen, and
Libya. Our killings focus on race and minorities, be-
cause the old men, with old values, who run our country,
are racist.
Yes, our snot-nose is in everyone’s business. Why?
because for war corporations, for oil, for auto, for insur-
ance companies, and banks, for manufacturing soilent
green stores like Wallmart, war is a windfall business. Read more…
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace.” Jimi Hendrix
WAR: JEOPARDIZING OURSELVES, OUR LAWS, OUR PLANET
Psalm Sunday
by guest blogger Grant Marcus
one in a series of political posts for peace
War aborts the lives of youth, it destroys, defiles
and discards our finite resources, and it pollutes
and heats up the planet. Militarism around the
globe is responsible for 60% of our carbon foot-
print.
It is really simple arithemetic when you think
about it. Or as Dwight D. Eisenhower once
said, “Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final
analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
In effect, war is the bad economy, and de-
prives its citizens of a life of quality. War may be
an investment for the privileged, but it is a costly
obligation for the poor. Or as General MacCarth-
ur instructed, “war in many ways is as materially
destructive as war itself.”
Chief Seattle put it in more profound terms: Read more…
The 12 #TicketToChile Finalists…and the winner is…
Well, I guess I’m not going on this trip to Chile. Simply Budgeted, Brian Mellot, (not the Wine Predator!) won the Foods From Chile #TicketToChile contest and will be heading out to Chile in April. Instead of 10, judges actually selected 12 finalists, including myself, to submit a video. Interestingly, a number of the finalists are wine bloggers!
While I am really curious to see those videos, a quick perusal of the following links to the winning bloggers didn’t easily reveal anyone’s videos. It was fun to check out the competition and you might enjoy reading some of these blogs too: Read more…
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