NO WAR IN SYRIA: AMERICA IS A HYPOCRITE!

I wonder! How is it that Washington plans to go to war, yet it doesn't have the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria and it lacks the moral authority! Why? Because the U.S.A. has a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more horrific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad is dealing with from a warmongering Western military-industrial complex, hell bent on war.

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Americans and much of the world is not in the mood for war, as the British parliament has shown the last shred of democracy and stayed the hand of its Prime Minister, and polls suggest that some 63% of the US population is against a Syrian offensive. The UN has carried no solid proof, China and Russia oppose the move? Israel has nukes and has signed no treaty yet they are not bullied by Uncle Sam. Hilary Clinton has been quoted on TV and Newspapers as saying the US and Al Qaeda are on the same side in Syria. So it can be argued America supports terrorists. Hilary Clinton then lapsed and admitted America is waging and losing and information war. With that in mind check out Noam Chomsky's  book MANUFACTURING CONSENT. Chomsky is a noted intellectual and academic, a linguist in america who has present copious evidence to prove America is nefarious and sinister in its intentions and operations, particularly the industrial war complex. 

I and I chant Rastafari, I am definitely not a Christian, but I would like to quote Jesus to Christian nations, and ask, "Who among you has not sinned?" Yes, undoubtedly chemical weapons were used in Syria. Maybe it was the government; maybe it was the opposition; maybe no one knows for sure. But here's what I know for sure: America is no better... they have used chemical weapons on there own children... and ours... for decades! The chemical weapons used in U.S. Farming to wage a war on pests, weeds, and the greedy need for ever greater yields. While the effects of these "legal" chemical agents may not be immediate or direct, they are no less hazardous. Yet our mainstream media in Jamaica, in the region and otherwise fail to highlight these chemical dangers to our own food systems, nor are they willing to acknowledge the hypocrisy of Obama and Washington's Chemical Weapons Argument and stop the perpetuation of American propaganda politics and media blitzkrieg. In fact, the media locally and abroad encouraged it. As The Montegonian, a freelance journalist I am supremely disappointed in the profession.

How do Obama and the USA find any moral authority when a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians, can easily be produced, they are as follows:

1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 - 1971
   
   During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands of Vietnam and neighboring countries, deliberately destroying food supplies, shattering the jungle ecology, and ravaging the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. In 2012, the Red Cross estimated that one million people in Vietnam have disabilities or health problems related to Agent Orange.
   
2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 - 2009
   
   White phosphorus is a horrific incendiary chemical weapon that melts human flesh right down to the bone.  An Amnesty International team claimed to find "indisputable evidence of the widespread use of white phosphorus" as a weapon in densely-populated civilian areas. The Israeli military denied the allegations at first, but eventually admitted they were true.
   
3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004
   
   In 2004, journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq began reporting the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents. At the time, Italian television broadcaster RAI aired a documentary entitled, "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre," including grim video footage and photographs, as well as eyewitness interviews with Fallujah residents and U.S. soldiers revealing how the U.S. government indiscriminately rained white chemical fire down on the Iraqi city and melted women and children to death.
   
4. The CIA Aided Saddam Hussein Massacre of Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988
   
   CIA archived documents now prove that Washington knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons (including sarin, nerve gas, and mustard gas) in the Iran-Iraq War, yet continued to pour intelligence into the hands of the Iraqi military, informing Hussein of Iranian troop movements while knowing that he would be using the information to launch chemical attacks which hit a Kurdish village occupied by Iranian troops with multiple chemical agents, murdering as many as 5,000 people and injuring as many as 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died in the following years from complications, diseases, and birth defects.
   
5. The U.S. Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s
   
   In the early 1950s, the Army set up motorized blowers on top of residential high-rises in low-income, mostly black St. Louis neighborhoods, including areas where as much as 70% of the residents were children under 12. The government told residents that it was experimenting with a smokescreen to protect the city from Russian attacks, but it was actually pumping the air full of hundreds of pounds of finely powdered zinc cadmium sulfide. The government admits that there was a second ingredient in the chemical powder, but whether or not that ingredient was radioactive remains classified. 
   
6. U.S. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011
   
   The savage violence of the police against Occupy protesters in 2011 was well documented, andincluded the use of tear gas and other chemical irritants. Tear gas is prohibited for use against enemy soldiers in battle by the Chemical Weapons Convention. So civilian protesters in U.S. are not given the same courtesy and protection that international law requires for enemy soldiers on a battlefield?
7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993
   
   At the now infamous Waco siege of a community of Seventh Day Adventists, the FBI pumped tear gas into buildings knowing that women, children, and babies were inside. The tear gas was highly flammable and ignited, engulfing the buildings in flames and killing 49 men and women, and 27 children, including babies and toddlers.
   
8. The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003
   
   In Iraq, the U.S. military has littered the environment with thousands of tons of munitions made from depleted uranium, a toxic and radioactive nuclear waste product. As a result, more than half of babies born in Fallujah from 2007 - 2010 were born with birth defects. Christopher Busby of the Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, described Fallujah as having, "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied."
   
9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 - 1945
   
   Napalm is a sticky and highly flammable gel which has been used as a weapon of terror by the U.S. military. In 1980, the UN declared the use of napalm on swaths of civilian population a war crime. That's exactly what the U.S. military did in World War II, dropping enough napalm in one bombing raid on Tokyo to burn 100,000 people to death, injure a million more, and leave a million without homes in the single deadliest air raid of World War II.
   
10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945
    
    Although nuclear bombs may not be considered chemical weapons, they certainly disperse a lot of deadly radioactive chemicals. They are every bit as horrifying as chemical weapons if not more, and by their very nature, suitable for only one purpose: wiping out an entire city full of civilians. It seems contrite and hypocritical that the only regime to ever use one of these weapons of terror on other human beings has busied itself with the pretense of keeping the world safe from dangerous weapons in the hands of dangerous governments.

Bearing Americas Chemical HISTORY in mind, then look at Chemical companies like Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Bayer Crops Sciences, and others who go about poisoning children and the environment all over the world with Obama's support. Obama who received the Nobel Peace Prize contemplates another war, after he sanctioned depleted uranium in Libya. 

Syria and its refugees definitely are in dire straits and urgent need of the World's help, not America's help, THE WORLD'S HELP. And I am certain that a violent military strike won't provide the results you are looking for. Children the world over and in Syria deserve the chance to grow up free from chemical contamination and warfare. 

Sounding the War Trumpet... Hmm that is a well-worn tactic, road, trod, tradition that is littered with the bodies of children and soldiers, civilians and suicides, military and nonmilitary. It is a classic thought, where ego and history seemingly say a president must travel as some sort of rite of honor. It's also a path that leads to more grief, grudges and grievances, bitterness, more angst and anger, endless tragedy and infinite sorrow.

It is a decision that credits an old, outdated worldview that will try to justify the logic that, "any attack, any war is worth winning... even though there is no such thing as winning." Each war "won" sows the seeds of sorrow for only future wars will be reaped. Each attack leads to a counterattack. Each "win" sets the stage for which future generations of terrorists can perform some new horror: in the frail minds of children who have lost parents and homes, in the spirits of person, some of whom have felt betrayed by their governments, leaders and their neighbors, and in the wounded bodies and hearts that shall forever fester with hate.

I am no pacifist as such but at the stage of mankind's conscious evolution, we cannot envision a better solution, in an age where we roam Mars remotely and survey the moon as hobby, we cannot imagine a world without war, where America does not need to be a bully. It is time we took the less beaten path. For the future of humanity collectively,There's no clear map, but the rewards of the journey are much greater. It's the road of heroes like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.  And many others whose names have been lost to history and the many more whose name echo on. These are people who were able to effect change by speaking the truth from the heart and refusing to engage in more violence. And through them, not only has change happened, but now is a time on Earth when the human spirits of the whole world, the anima mundi have to be lifted, our collective consciousness must be raised. This is the only beacons of inspiration left for mankind!

Reggae Sumfest 2013

Reggae Sumfest...

This year, the 21st year of Reggae Sumfest will take place July 21 to 27, 2013. Dubbed The Greatest Reggae Show on Earth, the Festival is expected to again attract thousands of patrons from Jamaica and the rest of the world to Montego Bay. Music lovers from all over are invited to come to the Festival and celebrate this milestone in Jamaica's musical heritage!

Montegonian Editorial Exclusive: Jamaica, Black Leadership and the Future!

It's been almost one year since Jamaica 50 and sometimes I wonder have we forgotten who we are as a people and has the media forgotten who we are! 

There was a time when PanAfricanism was ripe in the island, with the likes of Walter Rodney and Rastafari played a role as the memory of the people, when people remembered their Africaness. There was a time when Michael Manley was in dialogue with Kwame Nkruma and Julius Nyrere. 

Oh come on, for goodness sake! We were a people that inspired Haile Selassie to come here, a man so revered he was on the cover of Time several times and featured in the national geographic and is even spoken of highly still today in modern literature such as Robert Greene's Strategies of War and Laws of Power, as well as Wings to Freedom by and Indian Yogi named Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath. Jamaicans are a people that inspired Nelson Mandela to come here. We produced Marcus Garvey one of the greatest black icons and PanAfricanist of all times. We produced Bob Marley who not only the world loved but Africans.

So why is it then that as Africa is now being looted and plundered by Europe and America, commercially colonized by China with a renewed 21st century thrust... Why is no one speaking out about it? Europeans are streaming into northwest Africa en masse, the huge U.S. airlift capacity may soon be necessary to keep the “Crusaders” supplied and the military industrial complex oiled and firing. African militaries are being cobbled to do the Caucasian’s bidding. 

The U.S. has almost practically establish a Somalia-like operation on the near side of Africa – with Americans at the helm. A sentiment echoed by even republican politician in the states Ron Paul who said "U.S. Action in Mali is Another Undeclared War".

All this while in America itself under the Obama administration the plight of Black Americans has worsened:  A recent interview on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,” NAACP CEO and president, Ben Jealous, told the show’s host that black Americans “are doing far worse” than when President Obama first took office. “The country’s back to pretty much where it was when this president started,” Jealous told show host David Gregory. “White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing far worse.”  Dr. Julianne Malveaux of Your Black World recently wrote that the Obama Administration needs to speak out more about existing racial disparities and persistent problems in black unemployment.

The Black Diaspora has seen the US elect thousands of African American local and state officials and re-elect the first black president. But Obama seems to have proven just a symbol, symbolic and nothing more. Nothing real, nothing substantial, nothing progressive as it pertains to the plight of blacks.

The media is slow and unwilling to note that our black leaders are dithering. Floundering. Flailing... failing and falling even. Symbolism supersedes the fact that black leadership has few or no victories to boast for the seventies, the eighties, the nineties or the new century, apart from their own illustrious careers. 

No black leader is man enough to speak to or look at the fact that the war on drugs and the prison state sprung up in north America. The symbol of Obama over rides the fact that black unemployment remains at record levels, that US wages have not risen in thirty years and that the first black president apparently forgot his campaign promise to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour almost as soon as he made it. And what has been done for the Caribbean? Nothing. He continues an illegal international embargo on Cuba, he continues Gitmo torture in our territory, and turned down our request to exonerate Jamaica's hero and Rastafari Icon Marcus Garvey. 

Obama seems a symbol used to nullify and quiet the analytic black mind and voice. "Nigger shut up we got a black president now!" 1 black President... and 10 million  black persons still suffering. And let us not examine his neglect of his black family in Kenya, or his brother that lives in a Shanty Town.

Who in Jamaica or the media is willing to look past the fact that he is JUST a black president and willing to examine the fact that the black role model president conducts weekly “Terror Tuesday” meetings in the White House basement at which he dispatches drones to murder and special forces to kidnap and torture in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and across the African continent. It matters not at all that the First Lady is a poster girl for Wal-Mart, attacking child weight, rather than bolstering education, that the Department of Justice prosecutes whistle blowers instead of war criminals, or that black military and diplomats like Susan Rice are up to their armpits in African blood.

The black political class at home and abroad is utterly self-interested. It cannot begin to mobilize black communities to demand higher wages, a massive jobs program to relieve unemployment, a new paradigm of urban economic development that isn't just moving poor people out of neighborhoods and richer ones in. It seems our egotistical black intelligentsia can't begin to make these things happen because foisting itself and its own advancement off as “representing” the black oppressed masses is the beginning and the end of who they are and what they do. They are not truly about the black diaspora and its plight, they do not truly care to ease the existential condition of his brothers, neighbours and friends.

For them, the election and and re-election of Barack Obama is the end of black history. The be all and end all of our history. Addressing black unemployment, pervasive economic injustice, opposing the neo-liberal,capitalist, globalist, transnational agenda of privatization and austerity put forth not just by the black president, but by an entire layer of black thinkers are, in their language not pragmatic or “realistic.”

So if our black leaders have anything to say about it, more years of Barack Obama means more years of black silence and irrelevance on the issues that matter most to our communities; on jobs and economic injustice. It means black leadership will wring its hands and do nothing as American federal policies drive the militarization of Africa. Our politicians will continue to philander and spinelessly acquiesce to whatever old might Uncle Sam says, we will genuflect at his very whim. We will not be the bold humans, bold leaders that stood down injustice and untruths in the past we will be the bandwagonists of a new age much to our demise!

Baphomet in Montego Bay

Look out for ruler and the compass...

Babylon can't take me fi nuh punk Ras...

Illuminati...

Cyah hold di Natty...