Category Archives: Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind

Time to end this war, NOW

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

FUX Snooze, as usual, gets it wrong. The shooter’s cousin sets them straight.When an army doctor busts in and starts shooting the place up in order to prevent the deployment of his comrades to Afghanistan (and himself to Iraq), what … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Memories of a Cold War gone by

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This one’s a bit dated now (and kind of overly sanitized if you’ve ever seen The Day After, which came out around the same time and scared the bejesus out of me), but it’s still effective, for all that; the … Continue reading →

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What a truly unworthy Nobel peace prize winner looks like

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This is an old film clip from 1977, included in a documentary called Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared). An Argentine reporter asks Henry Kissinger (Nobel peace prize, 1973) what he thinks of the general leading the Argentine junta:Kissinger’s reply is par … Continue reading →

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A giant joke on the whole notion of world peace

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“The Right to Live in Peace”, by Víctor Jara. He wrote this song in honor of Vietnam when the war there was still raging. For speaking out for the Vietnamese, and for his own Chilean and Latin American brethren, Jara … Continue reading →

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Two former US soldiers speak out for peace…in Venezuela

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Meet Benji Lewis, 24–US army vet, and now, because of what he went through at Fallujah, a peace activist.Eva Golinger has a knack for finding all sorts of interesting things that the government of the US would undoubtedly prefer that … Continue reading →

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Freedom and Democracy (TM), baby!

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This is what’s guarding the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, right now:These are “contractors” (read: MERCENARIES) from a private security firm. Yes, they really like to drink vodka out of the cracks of one another’s asses…among other things. Mother Jones … Continue reading →

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Why have we not heard of Marwa al-Sherbini?

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Sabina Becker

First, a bit of backgrounder, courtesy of al-Jazeera–the only major English-speaking network to have given this shocking murder story ANY coverage:And now, I weigh in. When I googled for Marwa’s story, to find out the particulars, I got this blog … Continue reading →

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Another nail for the imperial coffin

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Or should that be a screw? You know, the kind they put to people when torturing them?Moral high ground: guess who no haz it. According to the report, written by the CIA’s former inspector general, John Helgerson, one CIA interrogator … Continue reading →

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Colonel Benavides, terror of the Venezuelan oppos

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Meet my newest hero:His name is Antonio Benavides Torres, and he is a colonel in the Venezuelan national guard. Chavecito recently awarded him the country’s highest honor–the Medal of the Liberator. So what did Col. Benavides do to deserve it? … Continue reading →

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Shaming us all as Canadians

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Sabina Becker

I have this shirt, BTW. And there is a very good reason why I have it…As a Canadian, I am deeply ashamed. I am ashamed of how, for all that we pride ourselves on our multiculturalism, when push comes to … Continue reading →