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Is the US Readying for More War?

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There is new work in the gallery! Check it out. And if you are an anti-war artist, please contact me using the contact form above. The world needs to see your art now more than ever.

Even as the Iraq occupation is ending, it seems the U.S. is preparing to start new wars. The disturbing news below comes from RT News, just in time to cheer us all up for the New Year. Of course, getting ready for a new war is anything but cheery news.  Unfortunately, it seems that whoever is the American “Commander in Chief” –  it hardly matters when it comes to invading, bombing and policing the world. The election next year will probably not change anything, since someone from one of the two War Parties is sure to be elected. The story from RT News:

“Without much media attention, thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel, and Iranian officials believe that this is the latest and most blatant warning that the US will soon be attacking Tehran.

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New Artwork and New Artist

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We have new artwork by Anthony Freda to announce and also a new artist has joined AntiwarArtists.com.

James Cianciaruso is from the UK and does intriguing digital art that makes a statement.

His regular website is here and you can find his gallery at AntiwarArtists here.

Anthony Freda is a regular contributor to AntiwarArtists.com and has recently added some new work to his gallery.

His most recent work is “Peace Prize” and can be seen here.

All artists here are welcome to submit  work as often as you would like.  Send me an email or use the contact form here.

Thanks to everyone for your submissions. Antiwarartists.com is also looking for environmental and other social justice issue artwork.

 

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New Work — Bad Moon Rising

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I’m including this in a blog post because the artist, Brynjar D., sent a pdf with details of this work, excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath, and news articles. It’s all in a pdf document you can download here. An excerpt from it  is below.

For a post featuring your work, send a new image for the gallery and a written article or essay to go along with it and it will be linked to your gallery.

“Better to join the army than to rot in a tent or sleep on the streets.  (Be All You Can Be – CANNON FODDER)”

Bad economy makes for more military recruits

Numbers rise; official says tough times create ‘opening to make our case’

The Associated Press  1/19/2009 3:44:16 PM ET

Uncle Sam wants you, and in a poor economy, you might want Uncle Sam, too.  The Pentagon is hiring, and having less difficulty doing so than in flush economic times. The Army and each of the other branches of the military are meeting or exceeding their goals for signing up recruits, and attracting more qualified people.

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Unwarranted Influence

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In this excerpt from “Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex” (Yale University Press), author James Ledbetter details the increasingly cozy relationship between military and big business in the 20th century. Here, Ledbetter explains how activists in the Vietnam era sought to use the tools of finance to punish companies whose products, like napalm, they found immoral.

Early in 1966 the world seemed pretty bright to the managers of Dow Chemical (DOW, Fortune 500). The company, based in Midland, Michigan, was the largest manufacturer of industrial and consumer plastics in the United States, and the growth of plastic was explosive; Dow was making more than a billion pounds of the stuff a year. Whether American housewives preferred Saran Wrap (first sold for home use in 1953) or Handi-Wrap (first sold in 1963), both put money into Dow’s coffers. In 1965, Dow was one of only a few dozen American companies to surpass a billion dollars in annual revenue, and it was throwing off profit at three times the rate of a decade earlier.

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Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

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This article is by the independent journalist Chris Hedges. Submitted by Brynjar D.

From Truthdig

A young protester with a painted face demonstrates in central Athens during an anti-war rally back in 2007 AP/Petros Giannakouris

Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no chance of winning. All polite appeals to the formal systems of power will not end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must physically obstruct the war machine or accept a role as its accomplice.

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Dear Afghanistan, A Global Listening Project for Peace

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By Mike Ferner

Note: The five boys I met in Kabul, Afghanistan, from the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers were young – the oldest only 20 – and as charming and well-mannered as teenage boys can humanly be. Their mentor, Hakim, displayed patience and tireless compassion. I found it easy to settle into a comfortable relationship with them for 10 days, but during the event described below, it became clear that these young men were a courageous lot, going against many cultural norms in Afghanistan and doing so publicly. People in places like today’s Afghanistan have been “disappeared” for less.

As I began to realize how dangerous the Peace Volunteers’ work could be, the global call-in project dubbed “Dear Afghanistan,” became much more than a chance for callers to meet a handful of charming, brave boys. It was the beginning of an international support committee that at some moment may need to quickly mobilize to demand governments intervene to protect these young men’s lives.

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KABUL – At four in the morning on New Year’s Day, 2011, a group of young Afghan peace makers and their much-older U.S. colleagues huddled around a laptop computer in this city, to begin a 24-hour conversation with people from all over the world. They called their project “Dear Afghanistan” and as phone-a-thons go, it, and a similar one they did December 19, 2010, may well be the first of a kind.

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Comments on War: John Pilger

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Submitted by artist BD:

Video:  The War You Don’t See

John Pilger says in the film: “We journalists… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.”

See the video here.

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