A blog about a criminal enterprise
by Elliott Adams
I have a recurring nightmare. But this is a new recurring nightmare. This one only started after the fighting began in Ukraine, with the news of all the heinous and terrible things happening there, and my inability to do anything about it.
In my nightmare, we are fighting a house fire. There are screaming people. My firefighter crew is struggling to control the raging flames. It is hot,
Short talk at Poor People’s Campaign, Detroit, 26 Jan 2018
Let me talk about war.
How many of you believe war is bad? And I, after my time in war, totally agree with you.
War is not about conflict resolution it does not resolve conflicts.
War is not about national security it does not make us secure.
It is always a rich man’s war run on the blood of poor people. War can reasonably be visualized as a giant machine that grinds up the working people to feed the rich man.
We live in a world where North Korea presents the possibility of retaliatory strikes on the US main land and our Republican administration is throwing around wildly bellicose and recklessly threatening words that risk all of us having to pay the price of a nuclear exchange. It is time for congress to fulfill their constitutional responsibility (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11) to be the only body in the US that may start a war. Congress now allows the President an emergency exemption to take action
We now have a nuclear North Korea. Those in the know all agree that any attempt at “surgical strike” to eliminate their nuclear capability will result first in the annihilation of Seoul’s 10 million people and followed shortly by devastation in Japan and the rest of South Korea. And even so will not eliminate their nuclear capacity. And a “decapitation strike” to eliminate the Kim Jong Un leadership will have the same results. These are not a sensible choices.
So what