Oh yeah, I remember that one along with Country Joe, Dylan and all the great antiwar music.. When I returned from the Vietnam games all I could listen to was "Universal Soldier". It's eternal.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss withdrew from UCLA’s Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture citing security concerns amid internal opposition from staff and anticipated student protests, reflecting broader controversy over her leadership at CBS, including criticism of her decision to pull a “60 Minutes” segment and ongoing tensions within the network.
I read as far as this, "Southern slavery was not only sanctioned by the Bible but, thanks to the patriarchal kindness of their wise evangelical masters, a positive, happy, and pleasant experience for the majority of southern blacks." then wondered how the black woman in charge of pardons in Trump's appearance at Black History Month could go on and praise this guy as not being a racist.
We are truly living in Orwellian times when double-speak reigns and the Ministry of "Peace" starts wars. Thanks to Trump, we are probably starting a new nuclear arms race after decades of work to the contrary. There are too many horrors to keep track. Thank you, Steve, for keeping us aware.
Meanwhile, the war at home rages. ICE has secretly set up headquarters all over California, according to an article in LA Magazine this week which was published based on leaked documents from DHS. One of these Gestapo Headquarters is based not far from my home, and today we take to the streets in protest. I admit to being scared, marching in front of ICE offices, but we must do it and united we stand. It is hard to focus on wars abroad when we are fighting one right here at home. November can't come fast enough!
May the instructional video offered by our congressional veteran heroes for american soldiers’ moral duty to disobey illegal orders, take deeper hold in the collective consciousness.
War is also the historical way to TRY to unleash the Patriotism of those that were in the streets protesting against you, while also deflecting other issues you are trying to escape from. Worked to turn Israel's attention from corruption and kneecapping their Supreme Court, to Hamas after Oct. 7. My fear is that Trump will keep poking Iran until they attack some base or ship and then try to use that as his last attempt to increase his approval ratings (we know he doesn't care about a few American suckers and losers who will be the collateral damage). Keep shining your light into this darkening tunnel.
There is a chance that Congress may step in to prevent Trump (founder of the Board of "Peace") from launching an attack against Iran. Let's hope that the one additional Republican vote needed to move this resolution forward will be forthcoming:
"Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plan to move next week to force a vote on a resolution to require authorization from Congress before President Trump can use military force against Iran.
'Trump officials say there’s a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t without Congress,' Khanna said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X. 'Rep.ThomasMassie & I have a War Powers Resolution to debate & vote on war before putting U.S. troops in harm’s way. I will make a motion to discharge to force a vote on it next week.'”
Trump’s movement of naval forces to the coast of Iran is very troubling. Iran is a theocracy controlled by Islamic fundamentalists likely to fight to the death against a developing Christian theocracy which they view as the Great Satan. Of course, we return the insult by calling them part of the Axis of evil. When will we ever learn that religious fundamentalism combined with the power of the state is the greatest threat to peace imaginable, at the same time terrorizing the population as the wealthy scamming "religious" elite uses them to their advantage with no concern for the "general welfare"?
frump has made himself dictator of America, with the help of his buddies and billionaires, being in complete control of everything that we thought of as American. Placing banners of himself all over Washington DC, renaming buildings after himself, tearing down the White House. Then he says that he is completely exonerated from the Epstein affairs. He has also said that he will change the voting rules, with or without Congress. The rule of law means nothing to him, Congress means nothing to him. He is invading countries, with or without Congress, putting our brave men and women in harms way, as well as innocent men, women and children. What next; will he ask all of the American Olympic winners for their metals? He has overturned all the good that we were doing to curb climate change. He and JFK, Jr. will kill innocent American children with their middle-aged ideas about health care.
I am in such deep despair, that when I go to sleep, if I sleep at all, I pray that I won't wake up! They need to move the "NO Kings March" to an earlier date-like tomorrow! U2 is releasing a song called "America's Obituaries". I only heard it once, but one of the lines says something like, "We the People have power over the ones with the power". God, how I hope that he is right!
All cynicism aside, WTF is 'murka once again violently crashing and burning into another culture's countryside with ZERO impetus due to a national threat against said 'murka? Steve's chronicle of the winds of war as seen from inside a Hanoi jail is telling. Every deification of humanity by its self-anointed high priests, known as religious cultism, cannot survive without grotesque mayhem. It also cannot exist with that same horror. TFG allowed BB to commit genocide so BB could avoid the gallows, and TFG saw an imagined Med resort build atop the bodies of the dead as his reward for looking the other way. The Iranians, at least the old guard addicted to their own brand of cultism, had to witness the ancient idiocy of Koran/Bible/Talmud clashes going down close by, and they themselves could never resist their own fetishes as to who is closest to Allah. All of this stench is another replay of Lord of the Flies, a parody of human failures so vivid it cannot be re-created via movie media today. Even pedophiles and incestuous males would balk. But not the greasy, flaccid, grimy slime that is today's human world 'leadership.' We just cannot seem to escape the orgy of blood promised by prurient enslavement to sacrifice at the altar of hegemony. We have such a goon as this now, an inked Caligula whose moniker is ironically poetic -- Heg-emony-seth. If only there was an RFK-worm that could devour the serotonin/testosterone/norepinephrine bath that drenches the amygdala in sweet horror. But alas, the urge for dopamine bliss also creates a craving for bloodlust. It seems we are doomed whatever we do. If only there was a kill switch for that. But wait, what is the answer to this question - which group of humans is known to have the highest suicide rate? The combat soldier. Had damned Enough of Leadership YET?????
mere rules just waiting to be broken...... (how can there be any $$$ left, anyway? bailing out argentina, already suing the IRS and US Treasury for $10 billion for exposing some of his private info, billions to over-outfit and over-arm thugs running rampant through our streets, etc etc etc....)
Isn't frump already tearing down the "U. S. system"? He is has made billions of dollars since starting his second term, as president. He has bypassed congress, when he bombed boats out of the water, and "took over" Venezuela. He wants to invade Iran. He said that he will change the voting laws, with or without congress's approval. He is suing the IRS. He doesn't give a damn about the rule of law, or congress, or anything that will get in his way! He wants to be a dictator, and he probably is already!
I am the widow of a career military man who served two tours in Vietnam. He was a combat medic in the war and served in a military hospital when he came home.
Agolf Shitler, on the other hand is a yellow-bellied draft dodger who had his daddy pay a quack to say he had bone spurs. He cannot remember in which foot these mythical bone spurs were located and, I believe, thinks said bone spurs have somehow miraculously vanished. Those of us with real bone spurs, not imaginary ones, know in which foot they are in and know that they do not disappear, at least not without surgery.
As far as the Drunk at the DoD is concerned, all he's good for is plastering hair gel on his head and guzzling whiskey. Other than that he's as useless as teats on a boar.
There is absolutely no rationale for going to war with Iran. None. There is absolutely no rationale for waging war against Venezuela. All the saber-rattling amounts to is lame attempt after lame attempt to distract everyone's attention from the Epstein Files. Wag the Dog, that's what it is. Wag the Dog.
There was no way I could click on the heart button Steve, your first two statements preclude any liking on my part. As morally repugnant as it is possible for a human to be, and still draw breath, that’s who our commander in chief is, and that is just considering his impact on our future, it in no way addresses his quite literal stench, that accompanies him into every room he enters. The very idea of his cabinet members getting to breathe in his fumes every time they are around him, which is daily, makes my heart sing, which is the only thing about him that makes me feel that way. Not only does he have shit for brains, but he seems unequalled in creating more of it which his totally unsuitable cabinet secretaries get to lap up. Oh my, the very thought of it, brings a smile 😊.
On a serious side which your opening photo so clearly shows, we have to do everything in our power to oppose this madness. The Iranians and the IRG have the power to inflict a price to be paid for attacking them, and they will do that. This isn’t a video game with characters on a screen, as in any conflict there are real people on all sides, in the past our presidents were acutely aware of that fact, the insipid orange turd could care less. The Epstein files and what they contain about his behavior is his primary motivator, I’m convinced he would start WWIII if it would prevent their reveal. That is who he is 🤬🤬🤬
In any branch of service, Pete Hegseth would be referred to as a shitbird. Clearly amoral without mercy, compassion and remorse. This has to cease.
US Marine corps, RVN
"Yeah-yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Hoo, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Hoo, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"
It ain't me...
Oh yeah, I remember that one along with Country Joe, Dylan and all the great antiwar music.. When I returned from the Vietnam games all I could listen to was "Universal Soldier". It's eternal.
Draft-dodger wimp Trump is playing war games. From under his desk.
War crimes piled on top of all the other atrocities committed by the Epstein elites must be adjudicated and the guilty brought to justice..
Turns out that Bari Weiss is just another cowardly fascist. But you knew that.
Yep. It was obvious from the get-go.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss withdrew from UCLA’s Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture citing security concerns amid internal opposition from staff and anticipated student protests, reflecting broader controversy over her leadership at CBS, including criticism of her decision to pull a “60 Minutes” segment and ongoing tensions within the network.
Thank you, Steve. Outstanding post. The photo of Mary McHugh mourning her dead fiancé at Arlington breaks my heart. NO MORE WAR. ✌🏽🕊️
I read as far as this, "Southern slavery was not only sanctioned by the Bible but, thanks to the patriarchal kindness of their wise evangelical masters, a positive, happy, and pleasant experience for the majority of southern blacks." then wondered how the black woman in charge of pardons in Trump's appearance at Black History Month could go on and praise this guy as not being a racist.
We are truly living in Orwellian times when double-speak reigns and the Ministry of "Peace" starts wars. Thanks to Trump, we are probably starting a new nuclear arms race after decades of work to the contrary. There are too many horrors to keep track. Thank you, Steve, for keeping us aware.
Meanwhile, the war at home rages. ICE has secretly set up headquarters all over California, according to an article in LA Magazine this week which was published based on leaked documents from DHS. One of these Gestapo Headquarters is based not far from my home, and today we take to the streets in protest. I admit to being scared, marching in front of ICE offices, but we must do it and united we stand. It is hard to focus on wars abroad when we are fighting one right here at home. November can't come fast enough!
May the instructional video offered by our congressional veteran heroes for american soldiers’ moral duty to disobey illegal orders, take deeper hold in the collective consciousness.
waiting, waiting..........still bombing fishing boats.....disgusting.
Yes, may all who have innocent blood on their hands be held accountable, including those following illegal orders!
War is also the historical way to TRY to unleash the Patriotism of those that were in the streets protesting against you, while also deflecting other issues you are trying to escape from. Worked to turn Israel's attention from corruption and kneecapping their Supreme Court, to Hamas after Oct. 7. My fear is that Trump will keep poking Iran until they attack some base or ship and then try to use that as his last attempt to increase his approval ratings (we know he doesn't care about a few American suckers and losers who will be the collateral damage). Keep shining your light into this darkening tunnel.
They will die for a nothing that includes the entire Repugnican Party.
There is a chance that Congress may step in to prevent Trump (founder of the Board of "Peace") from launching an attack against Iran. Let's hope that the one additional Republican vote needed to move this resolution forward will be forthcoming:
"Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plan to move next week to force a vote on a resolution to require authorization from Congress before President Trump can use military force against Iran.
'Trump officials say there’s a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t without Congress,' Khanna said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X. 'Rep.ThomasMassie & I have a War Powers Resolution to debate & vote on war before putting U.S. troops in harm’s way. I will make a motion to discharge to force a vote on it next week.'”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5745037-khanna-massie-war-powers-iran/
Trump’s movement of naval forces to the coast of Iran is very troubling. Iran is a theocracy controlled by Islamic fundamentalists likely to fight to the death against a developing Christian theocracy which they view as the Great Satan. Of course, we return the insult by calling them part of the Axis of evil. When will we ever learn that religious fundamentalism combined with the power of the state is the greatest threat to peace imaginable, at the same time terrorizing the population as the wealthy scamming "religious" elite uses them to their advantage with no concern for the "general welfare"?
frump has made himself dictator of America, with the help of his buddies and billionaires, being in complete control of everything that we thought of as American. Placing banners of himself all over Washington DC, renaming buildings after himself, tearing down the White House. Then he says that he is completely exonerated from the Epstein affairs. He has also said that he will change the voting rules, with or without Congress. The rule of law means nothing to him, Congress means nothing to him. He is invading countries, with or without Congress, putting our brave men and women in harms way, as well as innocent men, women and children. What next; will he ask all of the American Olympic winners for their metals? He has overturned all the good that we were doing to curb climate change. He and JFK, Jr. will kill innocent American children with their middle-aged ideas about health care.
I am in such deep despair, that when I go to sleep, if I sleep at all, I pray that I won't wake up! They need to move the "NO Kings March" to an earlier date-like tomorrow! U2 is releasing a song called "America's Obituaries". I only heard it once, but one of the lines says something like, "We the People have power over the ones with the power". God, how I hope that he is right!
You (we) must get sleep or Evil wins, taking down one vulnerable person (or group) at a time: stay strong!
There may be a theocracy but it isn't Christian!!!!
They use the term Christianity to dupe the gullible cultists; but, of course, you are correct. It is decidedly not based on the New Testament.
Nor the OT
All cynicism aside, WTF is 'murka once again violently crashing and burning into another culture's countryside with ZERO impetus due to a national threat against said 'murka? Steve's chronicle of the winds of war as seen from inside a Hanoi jail is telling. Every deification of humanity by its self-anointed high priests, known as religious cultism, cannot survive without grotesque mayhem. It also cannot exist with that same horror. TFG allowed BB to commit genocide so BB could avoid the gallows, and TFG saw an imagined Med resort build atop the bodies of the dead as his reward for looking the other way. The Iranians, at least the old guard addicted to their own brand of cultism, had to witness the ancient idiocy of Koran/Bible/Talmud clashes going down close by, and they themselves could never resist their own fetishes as to who is closest to Allah. All of this stench is another replay of Lord of the Flies, a parody of human failures so vivid it cannot be re-created via movie media today. Even pedophiles and incestuous males would balk. But not the greasy, flaccid, grimy slime that is today's human world 'leadership.' We just cannot seem to escape the orgy of blood promised by prurient enslavement to sacrifice at the altar of hegemony. We have such a goon as this now, an inked Caligula whose moniker is ironically poetic -- Heg-emony-seth. If only there was an RFK-worm that could devour the serotonin/testosterone/norepinephrine bath that drenches the amygdala in sweet horror. But alas, the urge for dopamine bliss also creates a craving for bloodlust. It seems we are doomed whatever we do. If only there was a kill switch for that. But wait, what is the answer to this question - which group of humans is known to have the highest suicide rate? The combat soldier. Had damned Enough of Leadership YET?????
Poetic description of human self-destruction.
Yet in the midst of hell, as in past holocausts, an eternal flame or spark alights in the dark that won’t be extinguished.
Can trump fund Board of Peace for $10 Billion?
Short answer: No — not by himself.
Even if Donald Trump wanted to give $10 billion to something called a “Board of Peace,” he cannot legally do that on his own.
In the U.S. system:
✅ What a president can do
• Propose funding in a budget request
• Support or sign a bill passed by Congress
• Redirect small amounts of existing funds if Congress already authorized that flexibility
❌ What a president cannot do
• Create a new program and fund it with $10B without Congress
• Spend money that Congress has not appropriated
• Bypass Congress just by executive order
Under the Constitution, Congress controls the purse (Article I, Section 9). That means:
No money can be spent unless Congress approves it.
mere rules just waiting to be broken...... (how can there be any $$$ left, anyway? bailing out argentina, already suing the IRS and US Treasury for $10 billion for exposing some of his private info, billions to over-outfit and over-arm thugs running rampant through our streets, etc etc etc....)
Isn't frump already tearing down the "U. S. system"? He is has made billions of dollars since starting his second term, as president. He has bypassed congress, when he bombed boats out of the water, and "took over" Venezuela. He wants to invade Iran. He said that he will change the voting laws, with or without congress's approval. He is suing the IRS. He doesn't give a damn about the rule of law, or congress, or anything that will get in his way! He wants to be a dictator, and he probably is already!
I am the widow of a career military man who served two tours in Vietnam. He was a combat medic in the war and served in a military hospital when he came home.
Agolf Shitler, on the other hand is a yellow-bellied draft dodger who had his daddy pay a quack to say he had bone spurs. He cannot remember in which foot these mythical bone spurs were located and, I believe, thinks said bone spurs have somehow miraculously vanished. Those of us with real bone spurs, not imaginary ones, know in which foot they are in and know that they do not disappear, at least not without surgery.
As far as the Drunk at the DoD is concerned, all he's good for is plastering hair gel on his head and guzzling whiskey. Other than that he's as useless as teats on a boar.
There is absolutely no rationale for going to war with Iran. None. There is absolutely no rationale for waging war against Venezuela. All the saber-rattling amounts to is lame attempt after lame attempt to distract everyone's attention from the Epstein Files. Wag the Dog, that's what it is. Wag the Dog.
Yet, the UK shows the way in this case with the Epstein stench: we’ll see where that leads!
Somehow that wave from across the pond will wash over us east.
Trump and Netanyahu with their cohorts shall overreach: it is not known when, but inevitable.
As bad as the Chinese government may be; their hegemony perhaps could be preferable as we continue to self-destruct.
There was no way I could click on the heart button Steve, your first two statements preclude any liking on my part. As morally repugnant as it is possible for a human to be, and still draw breath, that’s who our commander in chief is, and that is just considering his impact on our future, it in no way addresses his quite literal stench, that accompanies him into every room he enters. The very idea of his cabinet members getting to breathe in his fumes every time they are around him, which is daily, makes my heart sing, which is the only thing about him that makes me feel that way. Not only does he have shit for brains, but he seems unequalled in creating more of it which his totally unsuitable cabinet secretaries get to lap up. Oh my, the very thought of it, brings a smile 😊.
On a serious side which your opening photo so clearly shows, we have to do everything in our power to oppose this madness. The Iranians and the IRG have the power to inflict a price to be paid for attacking them, and they will do that. This isn’t a video game with characters on a screen, as in any conflict there are real people on all sides, in the past our presidents were acutely aware of that fact, the insipid orange turd could care less. The Epstein files and what they contain about his behavior is his primary motivator, I’m convinced he would start WWIII if it would prevent their reveal. That is who he is 🤬🤬🤬