{"id":694,"date":"2012-11-14T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-11-15T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:35:41","slug":"perpetuating-terrorism-through-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/perpetuating-terrorism-through-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetuating \u2018terrorism\u2019 through wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0November 14, 2012<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?\u201d\u2014Howard Zinn<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wars are nothing more than legitimized, government-sanctioned\u2014mass murder. Thus, the very expression, \u2018war on terror\u2019 is an insane contradiction in terms.<\/p>\n

Now that the smooth-tongued, war mongering, predator-drone missile, NDAA signing, \u2018Kill List\u2019 Barack Obama has been re-installed as head of the corporate owned U.S. Empire, the everyday ordinary people of this nation and world are in for more wars, increased economic austerity, and intensified subterfuge.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the fact that \u2018terrorism\u2019 by its very nature is both physical and psychological; the peoples of this nation and planet are in fact being terrorized by their respective governments which are, to one extent or another, subservient to a national and global bloodsucking corporate elite.<\/p>\n

The people of the United States are effectively terrorized and manipulated by the deliberately perpetuated two-party dictatorship of the corporate-owned Democratic and Republican parties. Thus, the resilience of the insidious \u2018lesser of the evils\u2019 myth that prevails to this very day due to corporate-government brainwashing and its concomitant corporate-stream media of incessant propaganda. Make no mistake about it: This two-party dictatorship, along with economic austerity and corporate hegemony, are all forms of deliberately maintained \u2018terrorism,\u2019 and the majority of people in this nation are still held hostage to it.<\/p>\n

Then of course, there is the blatantly bloody\u00a0international\u00a0terrorism of war\u2014with its missiles, drones, tanks, warships, land mines, and war planes\u2014which, in turn, ensures a savage reaction of additional individual and\/or state-sponsored terrorism that spirals into a never ending cycle of not only wars but also of rage and hatred. The national and global corporate elite financially benefits\u00a0enormously<\/em>\u00a0from this\u00a0unending terror or the fear of it,<\/em>\u00a0even as everyday people nationally and globally, continue as de facto cannon fodder for the elite bankers and war manufacturers, including the corporations of Lockheed, General Dynamics, Honeywell, and General Electric, etc.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u2018war on terror,\u2019 with its obliteration at home and abroad of civil liberties and human rights, is actually a war on the ordinary peoples of Mother Earth. Barack Obama and his Democratic and Republican party cohorts, through the use of subterfuge, misguided patriotism, and disinformation, will take this nation and world to the brink of annihilation if we the people do not put a stop to it\u2014NOW.<\/p>\n

To reiterate: Wars are nothing more than legitimized, government-sanctioned mass murder.<\/p>\n

Now, more than ever before, the ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this nation and world must understand that we are allowing ourselves to be pitted one against the other as the perpetual victims of national and global corporate-government terrorism.<\/p>\n

The next time you hear this nation\u2019s corporate-government misleaders invoke the so-called \u2018war on terrorism\u2019 as a rationale for more war, more economic austerity, and the destruction of civil liberties and human rights, remember who the real terrorists are and who the actual victims in this nation and throughout Mother Earth really are.<\/p>\n

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0November 14, 2012<\/a>
By\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?\u201d\u2014Howard Zinn<\/p>\n

Wars are nothing more than legitimized, government-sanctioned\u2014mass murder. Thus, the very expression, \u2018war on terror\u2019 is an insane contradiction in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}