Note: This is an archived site. All articles and sections were written for specific audiences, for particular purposes. Without the proper context, a given piece can be puzzling or off-putting. Please only read what is directly recommended to you. What’s below is UNEDITED.

Note: This is an archived site. All articles and sections were written for specific audiences, for particular purposes. Without the proper context, a given piece can be puzzling or off-putting. Please only read what is directly recommended to you. What’s below is UNEDITED. This was written primarily for U.S. citizens, for they have the power to deal with our horrid momentum, and — certainly — our war-related deeds. They must.

The Only Way to End These Wars of Yours
“O Bailan Todos O No Baile Nadie”
by Bue

“There’s not a single major issue in the U.S. which can be addressed properly as long as your unnecessary wars rage.” — Arundhati Roy

“The War on Terror is a scam. Like all wars. A costly war in every sense.” — the author’s son’s twelve-year-old friend (who has more sense than over fifty percent of the U.S. population), expressing a sentiment often expressed by Smedley Butler, the most decorated U.S. Marine ever (just prior to WWII). War Is A Racket, sadly, has been marginalized. [Pause.] How utterly ignorant are most U.S. citizens. Not YOU, of course.

“What does end wars? One side is annihilated, the money runs out, the troops mutiny, the government falls, or fears it will. With the U.S. war in Afghanistan none of these conditions has yet been met.” — from “Do Disclosures of Atrocities Change Anything?”

You say you are against Our War in Afghanistan? Against our “thing” in Iraq? Where the cancer rates and related horrors far exceed anything that came down the pike in Hiroshima. And where — although the monthly death rates are no longer 3,000 a month — 300 per month die unnecessarily, 10 a day… sucking up more money every day than the cost of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Maybe you’re down on our Faux War called The War on Drugs. I don’t know. I don’t know you. And I don’t want to know you unless you’re capable of caring a whole ton of shit about the abominable atrocities we’ve been spreading ’round the world forever. [Pause.] At least for the ones you’re paying for at present. The abominations that guarantee our downward spiral, our demise.

But let’s quiet me down for un mintuo, okay? Let’s return to our attitudinal set vis-a-vis Afghanistan… that George W. Obama creation. That “primary” war that you have a hands-off policy toward, one of the many you’re misinformed and hypnotized about. One that’s supposed to end soon, but won’t. One that you can permit to go on as you see to your personal immediate survival (exclusively?), fully atomized except for — perhaps — a token gesture here and there that follows an obsolete paradigm for protest/change. [Donating money and/or envelope-licking time to anti-war groups does no more to end wars than the other approaches touched upon below, no matter the good intentions which motivate souls.]

Again: “What does end wars? One side is annihilated, the money runs out, the troops mutiny, the government falls, or fears it will. With the U.S. war in Afghanistan none of these conditions has yet been met.”

1. We cannot allow “one side” to be annihilated. Can we? Can we? Can we? Can we? [That's one more question than you'd find in a cartoon... where stuff happens in threes.] Well, can we? Please, answer me.

2. The money will never run out? Not for wars or weddings for the elite. NEVER. Not in 21st Century U.S.

3. The troops will not be committing mutiny any time soon. That’s to put it mildly.

4. The so-called Government will not be falling any time soon either.

SO WHAT’S LEFT?

How ’bout the biz of fearing it will fall? That sense of being up against the proverbial wall. How ’bout them apples?

Well, you’re not going to instill that fear (or anything transformative) with marches in circles with placards, imprisonment, calls to representatives, petitions, or with articles and books and videos and conferences and summits and lectures and television appearances and the like… which politely follow the proscribed parameters. Not even with counterparts which do not follow such parameters… like a wild work of art.

No, you’ve got to follow a new paradigm for protest/change… with potential for creating institutional change.

And that’s what I have to offer. [Pause.] Unless, of course, you have a better idea.

I’d be honored to share it in confidence with you.

Contact Richard at 831-688-8038 at any hour in Aptos, California, or email him at tosca.2010@yahoo.com.
P.S. William Blum is a friend of mine. So is Paul Street. Neither one of them has “benefits” for the risky work they do. They’ve guaranteed themselves “low status” whilst foul-mouthing the mainstream media sources which feed you all their disingenuous, dangerous pap and crap on a daily basis. [Pause.] Who are your friends? And where do they get their information from? From reporters who have careers? From career politicians? What’s the source of your info? I want to talk to you about that. More importantly, I want to talk to you about what you’re doing about what you know. Remember, like Howard Zinn said, “If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.”

Personal note: I’d like Paola Igliori to help me make contact with Arundhati Roy — http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1003-09.htm and http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0116-01.htm — “so that a feasible strategy is worked out to mobilize the masses” (the last line in http://www.zcommunications.org/when-extremes-meet-by-girish-mishra, an article centered on India) within the U.S., for the purpose of impacting positively on the whole world. I have a decent plan for action.