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Say ‘No’ to War and Media Propaganda
[font size=2](Mairead Corrigan Maguire won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland.)
Say No to War and Media Propaganda
Mairead Maguire
The iconic anti-war billboard message conceived of by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. (Photo: Corbis)
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While the United States, United Kingdom and NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war, resulting in the death of untold millions of people.
NATOs decision at its summit in Wales (September 4-5) to create a new 4,000 strong rapid reaction force for initial deployment in the Baltics is a dangerous path for us all to be forced down, and could well lead to a third world war if not stopped. What is needed now are cool heads and people of wisdom and not more guns, more weapons, more war.
NATO is the leadership which has been causing the ongoing wars from the present conflict in the Ukraine, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and others.
NATOs latest move commits its 28 member states to spend two percent of their gross domestic product on the military, and to establish a series of three to five bases in Eastern Europe where equipment and supplies will be pre-positioned to help speed deployments, among other measures.
We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war, resulting in the death of untold millions of people
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/12/say-no-war-and-media-propaganda
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Say ‘No’ to War and Media Propaganda (Original Post)
newthinking
Sep 2014
OP
daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R....
elzenmahn
(904 posts)2. K&R
...I'm not buying the pro-war bullshit this time, either.
2banon
(7,321 posts)3. K&R And Bookmarking
DavidG_WI
(245 posts)4. When I make the point
that we gave the Osama exactly what he wanted from us and then some I get attacked for "supporting the terrorists" by the pro war nutters on this site.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5523868
As I said, Osama played us like fiddle to goad us into destroying ourselves to get him.