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Today's
Stories
January 5 /
6, 2008
Richard Rhames
Saddam
Who?
January 4,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
A
Good Night in Iowa
Jonathan Cook
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Paul Craig Roberts
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
Stan Goff
Ron Paul's Monkeywrench
Dave Lindorff
Clinton's Iowa Flop Exposes DLC Myths as Frauds
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
To Pindi Station
Allan Nairn
U.S. Elections Over Before They Began
Joshua Frank
The Failures of Sectarianism
Peter Morici
Economy on the Skids
Mary McInnis
Iowa Cocky-Us: How to be a Caucus Tease
Website of the Day
The Return of Obama Girl
January 3,
2008
Fatima Bhutto
Farewell
to Wadi Bua
Pam Martens
The
Free Market Myth Dissolves into Chaos
Joanne Mariner
The Presidential Candidates and Torture
Zoltan Grossman
Remember the '80s: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the
Web
David Domke
The Echoing Press and Huckabee
Norman Solomon
Edwards Reconsidered
Nikolas Kozloff
Return of the Faux Liberal
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Padilla Case and the Future of Habeas Corpus
Martha Rosenberg
Quit Picking on Huckabee's Son, Michael Vick
Russell Means
This Property is Condemned: a Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah
Lands
Website of the Day
WolfQuest
January 2,
2008
Jeff Taylor
The
Left and Ron Paul
M. Shahid Alam
The Life and Death of Benazir Bhutto: a Pakistani Tragedy
Gary Leupp
Madness Compounding Madness: Calls for Intervention in Pakistan
Paul Craig Roberts
Criminals with Badges
Heather Gray
Georgia's Racist Death Penalty
Fred Gardner
and Shobhit Arora
Dr. Strangelove's Nemesis
David Macaray
Labor Unions and Taft-Hartley
Benjamin Dangl
Fear and Loathing in Bolivia
January 1,
2008
Iain A. Boal
City
of Disappearances
B. R. Gowani
Benazir's Death in Crisistan
Shahid Mahmood
Bhutto and the Press
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Old Injustices Endure: From Crack Sentences to Racial Profiling
Harvey Wasserman
Taking Leonard Peltier to Iowa: the Moral Low Point of the Clinton
Era
John Ross
2008, Already a Year to Forget
Website of the Day
The Thrill is Gone: BB and Gladys
December 31,
2007
Alexander Cockburn
Goodbye
2007 and Good Riddance!
Tariq Ali
Pakistan, the Aftermath
Liaquat Ali Khan
The Perfidy of Pakistan's Rulers
Wajahat Ali
After Bhutto, a Nuclear Pakistan?
Robert Fisk
Who Killed Bhutto?
Ajai Sahni
Myths and Realities About Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan's Dark
Future
Marwan Bishara
You Say Talk, I Say Attack: The Middle East and the US Presidential
Election Campaigns
Uri Avnery
The Beilin Syndrome
Mark T. Harris
Does This Happen in Canada?
Brenda Norrell
Resistance and Censorship
Website of the Day
A People United Will Never Be Defeated
December 29
/ 30, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Options
in America: Kill Yourself or Have a Baby
Tariq Ali
Indignation and Fear Stalk Pakistan
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
My Encounter with Benazir Bhutto
Gary Leupp
The U.S. and Pakistan After 9/11: Blowback from an Unholy Alliance
China Hand
Pakistan Stares Into the Abyss
Jacob Hornberger
Stop Medddling in Pakistan
John Chuckman
Pakistan and the Failure of Quick-Fix Politics
Missy Beattie
Evaluating Bush with the Bhutto Corruption Standard
Ralph Nader
Who Will Take the Next Step?
Fidel Castro
There Hasn't Been a Day in My Life When I Haven't Learned Something
Robert Fantina
The Sham of Homeland Security
Greg Moses
Beauty from the Heart of Texas
Catherine Lutz
What We Can Not See: Art and Bombing
Kristin Van
Tassel
Seeing in the Dark
Kim Nicolini
Redacted: Brian DePalma's Scream of Outrage
Phyllis Pollack
Keith Richards Runs With Rudolph Once More
Poets' Basement
Landau, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Driving Karachi in Search of the Perfect Naan
December 28,
2007
Farzana Versey
The
Complex Electra
Wajahat Ali
A
Pakistani Requiem
Binoy Kampmark
Death in Rawalpindi: Bhutto and Her Legacy
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Not Dead Yet: The Pakistan People's Party Still Survives
Anthony DiMaggio
Turkey's Bombing of Iraq
Ray McGovern
Creeping
Fascism
Jim Goodman
Biofuels, the Biggest Scam Going
Ron Jacobs
Transcending the Colonizer's History: Iran, a People Interrupted
Russell Hoffman
Mini-Nukes by Toshiba
John Murphy
Greens Gone Wild
Website of the Day
Guiliani Campaign Official: "Only Rudy Can Defeat the Muslims"
December 27,
2007
Dilip Hiro
A
Tragedy Foretold: Will Bhutto's Death be a Boost for Her Party?
Murtaza Shibli
Who Killed Bhutto?
Stephen Soldz
Fallujah,
the Information War and U.S. Propaganda
Bill Quigley
Locked
Outside the Gates
Paul Craig Roberts
The Great American Lock-Up
Omer Subhani
Killing Bhutto: What Happens Next in Pakistan?
Marjorie Cohn
The Torture Tape Cover-Up: How High Does It Go?
Allan Nairn
Cataclysm By Money Whim
Jacob G. Hornberger
Smearing Ron Paul: Shame on the NYT
Norman Solomon
Channeling Suze Orman
Patrick Irelan
Rumsfeld Spills the Ink
Ben Tripp
Pass the Razor Blades
Website of the Day
Quagmire, For What It's Worth
December 26, 2007
Charles Tripp
From
One Saddam to Fifty
Paul Armentano
No-Knock, You're Dead
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon in Search of a Government
Stanley Heller
Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson's War
John Walsh
Two Unreasonable Men
Martha Rosenberg
The Strange Career of Scott Gottlieb
Norman Madarasz
Bolivia Amends New Constitution and Faces Mutiny from Within
Website of
the Day
Cockburn at the Battle of Ideas
December 25,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Conscience
and Empire
December 24,
2007
Andrea Peacock
A
Dark Ride on the Border
Tariq Ali
Thinking of Edward Said
Uri Avnery
Help! A Ceasefire!
Jill Jameson
Burma is Not Back to Normal: A Trip from Rangoon to Mae Sot
Steve Melendez
Russell Means Goes to Washington
Mike Whitney
The Big Fix
Chuck Munson
Not Getting It About New Orleans
John Walsh
Clueless Crusaders
Farzana Versey
Tony Blair and the Hawking of Religion
Richard Neville
Dreaming of a White House Christmas
Website of the Day
Back in the USSR
December 22 / 23, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Mike
Huckabee's Ascending Chariot
Ralph Nader
Politics
and Profits: How the Oil Cartel Gets Its Way
Andy Worthington
Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons
in Afghanistan
Ahmad Faruqui
The Comedian of Pakistan
Bill Moyers
Society on Steroids
Rev. William
E. Alberts
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Timothy J. Freeman
From Kant to Lennon: Can War Really be Over?
Anthony DiMaggio
Democrats Continue to Capitulate on Iraq
Fred Gardner
Molecule of the Year, Cannabiodiol
Paul Krassner
Enhanced Hazing Techniques
Seth Sandronsky
17 Years of Meanness: Repealing California's Three Strikes Law
William Loren
Katz
Christmas Eve Freedom Fighters: Recalling the Battle of Lake
Okeechobee
Michael Dickinson
In the Dungeon of the Zabita
Ron Jacobs
Why Leon Russell Still Matters
David Vest
Doyle Bramhall's "Is It News?"
Poets' Basement
Orloski, Davies and Ford
Website of the Weekend
George W. Hates Santa
December 21,
2007
John Ross
New Massacres Loom in Mexico
Jacob Hornberger
Nothing Can Morally Justify the Invasion of Iraq
Dick J. Reavis
A
Way Out of the Newspaper Abyss
Jeff Cohen
and Norman Solomon
The 2007 P.U.-litzer Prizes
Peter Morici
Business as Usual as Recession Looms
Jack McCarthy
Let Us Now Praise Judith Regan (Even If She Did Sleep with Bernie
Kerik)
Raúl Zibechi
Sex and Revolution
Steve Early
How the Presidential Candidates Made Me an Atheist
David Macaray
Union Aftermath
Patrick Bond
Zuma, the Center-Left and the Left-Left in S. Africa
Lakota Freedom Delegation
A Declaration of Independence from the USA
Website of
the Day
Solomon v. Beck: Tale of the Tape
December 20,
2007
David Rosen
Mitt
Romney's Secret Life as a Pornographer
Alan Farago
The
Huckster and the Wreckage: Jeb Bush and the Subprime Mortgage
Crisis
Laura Carlsen
Standing Up to NAFTA
Ashley Dawson
The Return of the Bread Riot
Wayne Smith
and Jennifer Schuett
Cuba Changes, US Policy Stagnates
Website of
the Day
How to Talk to a FoxNews Reporter
December 19,
2007
Saul Landau
Is
the NIE Bush's Watergate?
Paul W. Lovinger
Hillary the Hawk
Norman Solomon
The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck
Dave Zirin
George Mitchell's Drugs of Choice
Marjorie Cohn
Bush Still Spinning Iranian Nukes
Sen. Russell
Feingold
The Iraq War is Exhausting Our Nation
Sonja Karkar
A Christmas Reflection on Palestine
Anthony Papa
Open the Drug Gulags
Christopher Ketcham
Pave the Holy Lands with Good Intentions
Davey D
Britney's Little Sister is Pregnant: Should We Blame Hip Hop?
Website of
the Day
When Republicans Use the F-Word on TV
December 18,
2007
R. F. Blader
The
Politics of Teen Pregnancy
George Wuerthner
Gunning for Wolves in Idaho
Steven Higgs
Can the NAFTA Superhighway be Stopped?
Vijay Prashad
Encounters with Ghadar
David Macaray
The Free Rider Problem
Ralph Nader
Nine Books That Make a Difference: a Reading List for the Holidays
Eva Liddell
Privatizing War Abroad, Invading Privacy at Home
Martha Rosenberg
While the Bodies are Still Warm: Drugs, Shrinks and Shooters
Dave Lindorff
When Impeachment is Out of Print
Peter Morici
The Consequences the Trade Deficit
Website of
the Day
Ron Paul: How Fascism Will Come to America
December 17,
2007
Mike Whitney
Staring
Into the Abyss
Tom Barry
Planning
the War on Immigrants
Uri Avnery
A
Gaza Masada?
Greg Moses
Crossing the Line in Texas
Allan Nairn
Terrorism; Counter-
Terrorism: Excuses for Murder
Patrick Bond
South Africa's Fight Between Hostile Brothers
Stephen Lendman
Police State America
Charles Jonkel
Grizzly Right of Way
Laray Polk
An Inside-Out Crisis in Gaza
Stephen Fleischman
Pawns in Their Game
December 15
/ 16, 2007
Peter Linebaugh
A
People's Penny for the Magna Carta
Howard Zinn
Bomb After Bomb
Standard Schaefer
The Greening of Big Tobacco
Raymond J.
Lawrence
Let's Take Christ Out of Christmas
Alan Farago
Down on Desolation Row: the Vultures and the Growth Machine
Saul Landau
Lord Byron and the Bad Tourists
Jenna Orkin
Lying to "Reassure" the Public: Bush's EPA and the
Post-9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up
Ahmad Samih
Khalidi
Why a Palestinian "State" is a Punitive Construct
Robert Fantina
Politics By Photo-Op
Missy Comley
Beattie
Resistance Amid the Ruins
Ramzy Baroud
Of Mormons and Muslims
James L. Secor
A Vision for China's Future
Elijah Wald
Ike Turner's Music Won't be Forgotten
Website of
the Weekend
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies Needs (and Deserves) Your Support
December 14,
2007
JoAnn Wypijewski
The
Dirty Cad: What Giuliani's Sex Life Tells Us About Him
John Ross
Iraqi
Refugees Return: One Cruel Hoax
Jacob Hornberger
Terror Suspects Belong in Federal Court
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: What Happened?
Allan Nairn
"Shoot Them on the Spot": Rewarding War Crimes
Dave Zirin
The Mitchell Report: Absolving the Owners
Dave Lindorff
The First Cut is the Deepest
Misty MacDuffee
Toxic Grizzlies
Ben Terrall
What Happened to Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine?
Dr. Mustafa
Barghouthi
Prerequisites for Peace
Website of the Day
Sen. Kit Bond: "Waterboarding is Like Swimming"
December 13,
2007
Paul Craig
Roberts
Shrinking
the Dollar from the Inside-Out
Mike Whitney
Dershowitz for the Defense--of Waterboarding
Ron Jacobs
Blank Check DemocratsL the Great War Funding Conspiracy
Norman Solomon
The USA's Human Rights Daze
Peter Morici
The Dragon and the Toothless Dog: China Doesn't Flinch
Sandy Mayes
Blocking the Strykers: 13 Days of War Resistance at Port Olympia
Franklin Lamb
The UN in Lebanon: Whose Mission Is It Fulfilling?
Jacob Hornberger
Don't Reform the CIA, Abolish It
Nadim Rouhana
An Interloper in My Own Land
Dave Zirin
On Pigskin and Petrol
Website of the Day
Rachel's Needs (and Deserves) Your Support!
December 12, 2007
Allan
Nairn
US Intelligence is Tapping Indonesian
Phones
Alan
Farago
How Sprawl Eats Its Young
Ray
McGovern
Torture, Lies and Videotape
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Phony Pentagon Budget Cuts
Evan
Jones
The Raid on Great Western: Why an Australian Bank Might Spell
Doom for the US Farm Belt
James
Petras
An Open Letter to Sarkozy on the Exchange of Political Prisonsers
Joel
Hirschorn
The Horserace Fiction: Clinton, Obama and the Democratic Machine
Joshua
Frank
Why Ron Paul Deserves Our Attention
Sherry
Wolf
Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul
Dan
Bacher
Survey of a Fish Graveyard
Website
of the Day
Men Eating Bugs
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Weekend
Edition
January 5 / 6, 2008
An Interview with
Naval Petty Officer Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
Antiwar
Soldier
By DONNA J. VOLATILE
"Those who start wars,
never fight them
and those who fight wars, never like them
and those who write laws, can recite them
and those who fight laws, they live and die by them...
But I know it's time, yes I
know it's time to go home..."
Michael Franti
and Spearhead (lyrics)
You may have seen him on 60 Minutes,
you may have read about him in the Washington Post, or the L.A.
Times but for those of you who don't know him, you are about
to meet Jonathan Hutto, Sr.:
Naval Petty Officer, third
class, stationed on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt, co-founder
of the Appeal For Redress Movement and author of the soon to
be released book, Anti-War Soldier. He has also recently decided
to support Congressman Ron Paul's (R-TX) candidacy for President.
I spoke with Jonathan, who is presently on leave, by phone and
we talked about the Redress Movement, ending the war and why
he is supporting Ron Paul.
The wording is simple but the
words ring loud and true:
As a patriotic American proud
to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political
leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American
military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not
work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to
come home.-
Mission Statement-Appeal For
Redress, October 16, 2006
How is the Redress movement
possible? It is possible because of DoD Directive 1325.6, guidelines
for handling dissident and protest activities among members of
the armed forces, which provides that:
DoD policy to preserve military
members' "right of expression ... to the maximum extent
possible, consistent with good order and discipline and the national
security." Members of the military may attend demonstrations
but only in the United States and only when they are off base,
off duty, and out of uniform.
And Dod 7050.6, the Military
Whistleblower Protection Act and it provides that:
4.1 Members of the Armed Forces
shall be free to make a protected communication to:
4.1.1- A Member of Congress
4.2-4.4- Military members are
protected against reprisals for such communication.
The Appeal for Redress Movement
should not be confused with those who refuse to fight, which
Jonathan views as "an extension or result of unjust government
policy", or those who claim conscientious objector status,
which every military member has the right to claim (and they
are protected legally as well).
In fact, the Appeal for Redress
Movement discourages both enlisted personnel and officers (fifteen
percent of all Appeal signers are officers) from going AWOL and
hopes that by providing this viable alternative, active duty
personnel will seek constructive ways to make their voices heard
and not give way to despair which quite often leads to suicide
or other (personal) destructive forms of behavior, which as Jonathan
points out: "Is an extension of unjust occupation of Iraq
by our government."
And it seems to be working.
"At present, there are over two thousand active duty personnel
who have signed on to the Appeal for Redress and that number
continues to grow. This number represents all branches of the
US Military, includes the National Guard and Reserves and Individual
Ready Reserves, those men and women having completed their active
duty assignment but are consolidated within a special emergency
reserve force", as Jonathan explains.
Organizations who support the
Appeal for Redress include: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans
For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, in addition to active
duty service members and their families.
Appeal for Redress co-founder,
Jonathan Hutto, Sr. is no stranger to controversy and crusade.
Since he joined the Navy in 2004, he has tackled issues such
as racism on board ship and is out spoken about many other issues
effecting enlisted personnel including sexual harassment, sexual
orientation, the rate of suicides and a wide array of enlisted
service members grievances and Veterans issues which will largely
be addressed in his forth coming book, Anti-War Soldier.
Who is Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
and how did the Appeal For Redress Movement begin?
Born and raised in Atlanta,
Georgia, Jonathan Hutto, the son of a small family business owner
and whose mother, a graduate of Clark College, who gave up her
teaching career to stay at home to raise her sons and who had
influenced Jonathan with the riveting stories of her upbringing
in the Apartheid South and her exposure to the Civil Rights Movement
, it seemed only natural that Jonathan would eventually follow
in her footsteps to pursue social issues such as racism, equality,
political corruption and the illegality of the war.
While working toward his degree
in political science, with a minor in history, at Howard University,
he attended the Million Man March, was politically active on
campus and his local community.
His heroes were Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and the
late Stokley Carmichael but it wasn't until he joined the Navy
and read a book called Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During
the Vietnam War by Dr. David Cortright that he fully recognized
his political path which would lead him to found the Appeal for
Redress Movement.
Jonathan joined the Navy for
the same reasons many do, he wanted to pursue his Masters degree
and needed financial assistance afforded by military programs
and he also felt the need to become more centered about his life
and believed that military service would aid him toward that
end. It did that and more.
The birth
of the Appeal for Redress Movement
The birth of the Appeal for
Redress was a result of a series of events. Jonathan had been
dealing with a steady stream of racism and xenophobia on board
ship, including an incident where a shipmate placed a hangman's
noose in front of his face, which he reported through the chain
of command. (His shipmate was eventually reprimanded, losing
one rank and restricted to the ship for a period of 30 days.)
The growing dissent, amongst
his military colleagues, concerning the illegality of the war,
the stop-loss policy (extending active duty tours beyond the
contracted agreement), Individual Warrior program (the back door
reserves effecting mostly Army personnel), and more recently,
the Pentagon program of Individual Augmentees which reassigns
Navy personnel and places them under the command of the Army
and Marines, in Iraq and Afghanistan (a kind of back door conscription),
and upon reading Dr. Cortright's book, Soldiers in Revolt, led
Jonathan to organize his first meeting to flesh out the possibilities
of a Redress Movement.
Jonathan Hutto, joined by Liam
Madden, a Marine Sergeant from Vermont, formed the nucleus of
the Appeal for Redress movement.
How much Congressional support
has the movement gained?
"The response from Congress
has been decent, considering the nontraditional approach of what
we are doing. It is not traditional, nor is it every day for
Congress members to hear from active duty service members. The
first member of Congress to endorse the Appeal For Redress, was
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, followed by John Conyers of
Michigan, Congressman John Lewis of Atlanta, Congressman James
McGovern of Massachusetts, among several others", says Jonathan.
He also believes that as the
movement continues to grow, so will political support for the
movement. Not all of the Appeal movement's Congressional endorsers
voting records reflect the level of commitment that Jonathan
would like to see, given the amount of funding the war continues
to receive from the politicians in Washington, "We need
to continue to hold them accountable", insists Jonathan.
How do you feel about the
anti-war movement's inability to be effective, in terms of stopping
the war, bringing the troops home, changing the direction of
Congress or even in terms of failing to unite with the anti-war
conservatives?
"I think what the anti-war
movement has been effective in doing, at the beginning of the
Iraq war, was mass mobilization and education of the populace
and also in connection with the mobilization that was happening
all over the world and also in terms of effecting change at the
ballot box, from the so-called war party to the party for perceived
change", says Jonathan, "But I think where the anti-war
movement has fallen short, is holding that party, which is now
in power in the Congress and Senate, accountable for following
through on the mandate it was given at the ballot box in 2006.
It has also failed to look at alternative strategies, outside
of traditional strategies that have been used. The Civil Rights
Movement had a strategy of non-violent, direct action but when
that strategy started to break down and when the strategy was
no longer effective, people were willing to look at other forms
of dissent such as mass refusal and militant action. A movement
has to be willing to debate all tactics and strategy."
How do you feel about the
Democrats failure to acknowledge the will of the people? The
people continue to struggle to end this war but they are continually
ignored or marginalized by the party?
"Somehow, the people of
this country have been oriented to believe politics is voting
and then they wait for the politician, whoever he or she is,
to deliver on what it is that you voted for. But you know, voting
is only meant to be an extension of the 'political process',
that you are already engaged in, the political movement. You
know you are organizing, you are mobilizing, you stop by the
ballot box and you vote, then you organize and mobilize to hold
the politicians accountable. When those things don't work, then
it's time to try something new, we move to potential mass refusal
which may lead to acts of civil disobedience, whatever it may
be but we have to make the government understand, you are not
going to govern, you are not going to occupy another country,
in our name and at our expense. We must continue to engage the
ballot process because, as flawed as it is, it still belongs
to us and I believe that ultimately if we are going to radically
change society and if in fact that process doesn't work, we have
to prove to people, practically and pragmatically that it doesn't
but until that process breaks down I think we must engage it.
Malcom X told us years ago it would either be the ballot or the
bullet. If politicians fail to respond in the streets, the masses
will take justice by any and all means in the streets. The recent
collective refusal of the 2nd Platoon in Iraq is a direct result
of no relief from politicians in Washington."
Recently you sent a letter
to Ron Paul endorsing his candidacy for President, tell us about
that...
"I believe Congressman
Ron Paul (R-TX) is serious about ending the war in Iraq and I
believe the anti-war movement should actually consider voting
for him, he's the only candidate representing us (the anti-war
movement) in the Republican party and I am personally going to
vote for him. As a person who doesn't agree with him on everything,
on the issue of the Iraq war, I'm with him ninety percent, as
far as his non-intervention and bringing our troops home. Supporting
Ron Paul is strategic in terms of what needs to happen. I hope
that other people will consider this too. The anti-war movement
needs to give him a serious look The anti-war movement, ninety
plus percent of it is supporting the democratic party and what
has the democratic party done for us on the question of war?
They have have consistently been complicit in funding the war,
that's what they have done. I also believe it is unintelligent
for the entire anti-war movement to be confined within one political
party, we need to be looking at it from a broader based perspective
and I'm glad that Ron Paul is running. The one thing I can say
about Ron Paul is that he is consistent. I think he is very courageous
to take the stands on issues that he does. It is very empowering.
I hope more active duty members and citizens in general will
take a better look at his candidacy."
"You know, we are patriots,
when I read the Constitution, when I read the Declaration of
Independence, these are beautiful documents, you know? They actually
give you instructions on what to do when your government is not
accountable to the people. The Declaration of Independence is
a radical document. I believe in it and I'm going to live it.
Not just talk about it."
Where do you see us in one
year or two years if we don't stop this war?
"Unfortunately, if we
do not stop this war, if this war is not stopped, if we're not
able to halt it, I see us losing more friends around the world,
I see more lives being in danger, I see more American lives being
lost, on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I see, sadly,
more terrorist attacks abroad and potentially here on our own
soil. I see more Imperialists wars, I see a potential, future
attack on Iran, I see the possibility of invasion of other sovereign
countries, perhaps in Pakistan, I see a sharpening rivalry with
Russia and China, in Latin America and other countries that dare
to stand in opposition to US Imperialism. I see more military
recruitment of so-called illegal immigrants in exchange for citizenship
and a lowering of military standards and a continued breakdown
within this country."
"At the same time, what
I see as a result of all of this, is that the people are being
forced, especially as things become worse at home, to make a
decision to become involved politically, I believe that if you
don't join the movement to end the war and to change the course
of this country, then the movement's gonna draft you, whether
you like it or not."
Jonathan, thank you for your
time and also for your service to our country. Thank you for
joining us in this struggle to end the war and also for joining
us in our struggle to regain our country and the principles upon
which it was founded.
For Jonathan Hutto and others
fighting in this illegal war, it is time to come home.
Donna Voltile can be reached at: djvolatile@windstream.net
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