If you do a web search for images of “Nazi salute” you find old photos from Germany and recent photos from the United States. But if you search for images of “Bellamy salute” you find countless black-and-white photographs of U.S. children and adults with their right arms raised stiffly out in front of them in what will strike most people as a Nazi salute.
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once, ‘The Unnecessary War.’” – Winston Churchill
NATO bases recklessly discard chemicals into Germany’s rivers. PFOS, used in firefighting foam, bioaccumulates in fish, posing a serious public health crisis.
So, right away we’re faced with the problem that the most popular justification for WWII wasn’t invented until after WWII.
A Conversation With Alice Slater and David Swanson, hosted by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Remarks followed by Q&A.
The giant corporations, especially the military industrial corporations, have been pushing vigorously for expanding and extending the role of NATO.
By waving all this through — refusing either to strike the new material out or grant an adjournment — Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser turbocharged the tradition written about long ago by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, where he described the Old Bailey as, ’a choice illustration of the precept that “Whatever is, is right”’.
Public criticism of the US nuclear weapons deployed in Germany bloomed into a vigorous nationwide debate this past spring and summer focused on the controversial scheme known diplomatically as “nuclear sharing” or “nuclear participation.”
Many organizations have signed this new manifesto.
