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Dear Anti-War Friends,

        Thanks to Veteran For Peace member Gerry Condon for sending this email out to the VFP list (read below). I hope that the veterans and others o­n this list will take a good look at my website: www.addictedtowar.com - and then forward it to their own lists. What Gerry have said below is totally accurate. Ever since 2000, when I first put together my film: “WHAT I’VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMGhrkoncA – my mission has been to help to educate others to learn about the True and Barbaric Nature of U.S. Foreign Policy. It is THE BIGGEST LIE WE LIVE Here in The United States: www.addictedtowar.com/the-big-lie .

          In 2002, with the help of AK Press, I first published the excellent anti-war comic book titled: ADDICTED To WAR: Why The U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism” - by Joel Andreas. You can read the 2004 edition here: www.addictedtowar.com/read-book . VFP endorses this book right o­n the front cover. And VFP has been my biggest customer for all of these years. There is no other anti-war book like it. Since 2002, we have distributed close to 240,000 copies in English. The book was last updated in 2015.  Take a look at the incredible people who endorse the book here:  www.addictedtowar.com/endorsements-atw .  And here are comments from others who have read the book: www.addictedtowar.com/reviews . I’ll be handing out hundreds of copies of ATW when Roger Waters comes to Los Angeles o­n September 27^th and 28^th to do his THIS IS NOT A DRILL CONCERT at the Crypto Arena, where the Lakers play. We’ll also be handing out copies of PEACE & PLANET NEWS and KPFK Bumper Stickers.

         I was the Associate Producer of the fabulous anti-war film: “PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Brian Willson” - www.addictedtowar.com/about-paying-the-price - which came out in 2016. Take a look at the amazing people who endorse this film here: www.addictedtowar.com/endorsements-payingtheprice . This very important film has not been seen by that many people as yet. There are about 25 other well-known anti-war activists in this film besides Brian. It is narrated by Peter Coyote.

         And a little over a year ago, my daughter Emily, re-designed my website. She worked for CODEPINK for close to 3 years. Since then I have spent hundreds of hours adding to it. Here is the Film Page: www.addictedtowar.com/films-which features over 50 of the most important anti-war films that are available to watch o­n YouTube. Take a look at the new Talks & Interviews Page: www.addictedtowar.com/talks-interviews - which has close to 100 important speakers o­n it. Look at the Book Page here:  www.addictedtowar.com/books - which lists close to 100 excellent anti-war books, written by some of the best anti-war authors, many who are veterans.

         Also listed o­n my site are Anti-War and Alternative Media Websites: www.addictedtowar.com/sources-and-websites – Take a look at The Written Word Page: www.addictedtowar.com/written-word - Here is the Webinar Page: www.addictedtowar.com/webinars - The Israel-Palestine Page: www.addictedtowar.com/israelpalestine - The Climate Change Page: www.addictedtowar.com/climate-change . And here is the Anti-War Song Page: www.addictedtowar.com/antiwar-songs -

          And take a look at the four Picture Pages: www.addictedtowar.com/pictures .

This site is History 101 in Learning the True and Barbaric History of U.S. Foreign Policy. It is taught by some of the most important anti-war activists in this country.

          So please take a good look and then forward my website to people o­n your own lists. This is a great way to spread the information about what we in Veterans For Peace and the Anti-War Movement have been doing. And in the process, teaching others.

            People will not become anti-war activists until they see just how bad our country has been in implementing it’s lying, illegal and immoral foreign policy to hurt and kill millions of people in poor countries, all for profit and greed.

          As S. Brian Willson says: WE ARE NOT WORTH MORE: THEY ARE NOT WORTH LESS – www.brianwillson.com .

In Peace & Solidarity,

Frank Dorrel

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Culver City, CA 90231

Publisher: ADDICTED To WAR

Associate Producer: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Brian Willson

Producer: What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMGhrkoncA

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From:vfp-all@googlegroups.com   On Behalf Of Gerry Condon
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 11:12 AM
To: Gerry Condon: gerrycondon@veteransforpeace.org
Subject: [VFP-all] The Big Lie — ADDICTED To WAR

VFP member Frank Dorrel is passionate, thorough and committed to his mission of educating people about the true nature of US foreign policy. He provides many useful resources, including a list of excellent films.

www.addictedtowar.com/the-big-lie

23-08-22

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The Root Cause of America's Violence

~ The United States is ADDICTED To WAR ~

“What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy:

The War Against The Third World"

“What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy:

The War Against The Third World"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8POmJ46jqk

A 2-Hour 2-Minute Video Compilation by Frank Dorrel

Featuring the Following 10 Segments:

1. Martin Luther King Jr. (02:55)

2. John Stockwell, Ex-CIA Station Chief (06:14)

3. Coverup: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair (19:34)

4. School of Assassins (13:25)

5. Genocide by Sanctions (12:58)

6. Philip Agee, Former CIA Case Officer (22:08)

7. Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! (5:12)

8. The Panama Deception (22:10)

9. Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General (07:58)

10. S. Brian Willson, Vietnam Veteran for Peace (08:45)

www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html

This video has been seen by millions of people since 2000. It is an excellent & invaluable educational tool that reveals the true nature of U.S. foreign policy.

It’s been screened in many high schools, colleges, churches, homes, o­n cable TV, in theaters and shown by many Peace & Justice Anti-War Organizations.

Howard Zinn, S. Brian Willson, Blase Bonpane, Michael Parenti, Oliver Stone, Ed Asner, Father Roy Bourgeois, Ramsey Clark, William Blum, Kathy Kelly,

Medea Benjamin, Susan Sarandon, Chalmers Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Col. Ann Wright and Woody Harrelson have seen this film & have found it to be very informative and empowering. More than o­ne person has called: “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World": “TIMELESS”.

The Price is $12, Which Includes First Class Shipping.

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Also Available:

The 2015 Updated Edition of:

ADDICTED To WAR:

Why The U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism

By Joel Andreas

Is Now Available at: www.addictedtowar.com

ADDICTED To WAR author Joel Andreas has added America’s Drone Wars (front cover), President Obama, Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning, Tomas Young, ISIS, Syria and has updated the number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have also added 6 new endorsements for the book: Ralph Nader, Medea Benjamin, Cynthia McKinney, Col. Ann Wright, David Swanson & Glenn Greenwald. ATW is already endorsed by Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, Ron Kovic, Bill Blum, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, S. Brian Willson, Father Roy Bourgeois, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Kathy Kelly, Susan Sarandon, Rev. James Lawson, Kris Kristofferson, Blase Bonpane, Fernando Suarez del Solar, Woody Harrelson, Michael Parenti, Cindy Sheehan and Ramsey Clark. It is being used in hundreds of high schools and colleges as an anti-war history book. ATW is o­ne of the most well-known & popular books in the Anti-War Movement. Since I first co-published ADDICTED To WAR with AK Press in 2002, we have distributed about 450,000 copies world-wide. About 240,000 copies havebeen distributed in English. It is in 14 other languages.

The more copies you buy, the cheaper the price. o­ne copy costs $15. This price includes first class shipping. 25 books cost $95.

And that price also includes first class shipping costs. Go to: www.addictedtowar.com/order.html to order copies of ADDICTED To WAR.

In Peace,

Frank Dorrel

PO Box 3261

Culver City, CA 90231

Publisher: ADDICTED To WAR

Associate Producer: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE

Producer: What I’ve Learned About US Foreign Policy

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www.addictedtowar.com

See: Gandhica:

Militarism is lethal for militarists

Rhetorical questions.

Is the United States an exception from the law of the world fall of empires (similar to Newton's law of universal gravitation) from the GHA “Global Peace Science”? Can the prevailing dominant US militarism save it?No, it o­nly accelerates the fall and favors its law.Salvation is o­nly in disarmament and “nonviolence law” as Mahatma Gandhi foresaw.

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The United States is ADDICTED To WAR:

Frank Dorrel

PO Box 3261

Culver City, CA 90231

Publisher: ADDICTED To WAR

Associate Producer: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE

Producer: What I’ve Learned About US Foreign Policy

310-838-8131

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Hi All,

Some great news: the city of Berkeley passed a resolution two days ago, barring investments in weapons makers. They used our model resolution from the coalition website: www.divestfromwarmachine.org/divest_your_city.

Go Berkeley! Feel free to use the attached shareable.

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Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela,
Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/elliott-abrams-venezuela-coup/

By Jon Schwarz

On December 11, 1981 in El Salvador, a Salvadoran military unit created and trained by the U.S. Army began slaughtering everyone they could find in a remote village called El Mozote. Before murdering the women and girls, the soldiers raped them repeatedly, including some as young as 10 years old, and joked that their favorites were the 12-year-olds. o­ne witness described a soldier tossing a 3-year-old child into the air and impaling him with his bayonet. The final death toll was over 800 people.The next day, December 12, was the first day o­n the job for Elliott Abrams as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs in the Reagan administration. Abrams snapped into action, helping to lead a cover-up of the massacre. News reports of what had happened, Abrams told the Senate, were “not credible,” and the whole thing was being “significantly misused” as propaganda by anti-government guerillas.This past Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named Abrams as America’s special envoy for Venezuela.

According to Pompeo, Abrams “will have responsibility for all things related to our efforts to restore democracy” in the oil-rich nation.The choice of Abrams sends a clear message to Venezuela and the world: The Trump administration intends to brutalize Venezuela, while producing a stream of unctuous rhetoric about America’s love for democracy and human rights. Combining these two factors — the brutality and the unctuousness — is Abrams’s core competency.Abrams previously served in a multitude of positions in the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, often with titles declaring their focus o­n morality. First, he was assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs (in 1981); then the State Department “human rights” position mentioned above (1981-85); assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs (1985-89); senior director for democracy, human rights, and international operations for the National Security Council (2001-05); and finally, Bush’s deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy (2005-09).In these positions, Abrams participated in many of the most ghastly acts of U.S. foreign policy from the past 40 years, all the while proclaiming how deeply he cared about the foreigners he and his friends were murdering. Looking back, it’s uncanny to see how Abrams has almost always been there when U.S. actions were at their most sordid.

Abrams, a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, joined the Reagan administration in 1981, at age 33. He soon received a promotion due to a stroke of luck: Reagan wanted to name Ernest Lefever as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, but Lefever’s nomination ran aground when two of his own brothers revealed that he believed African-Americans were “inferior, intellectually speaking.” A disappointed Reagan was forced to turn to Abrams as a second choice.A key Reagan administration concern at the time was Central America — in particular, the four adjoining nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. All had been dominated by tiny, cruel, white elites since their founding, with a century’s worth of help from U.S. interventions. In each country, the ruling families saw their society’s other inhabitants as human-shaped animals, who could be harnessed or killed as needed.But shortly before Reagan took office, Anastasio Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua and a U.S. ally, had been overthrown by a socialist revolution. The Reaganites rationally saw this as a threat to the governments of Nicaragua’s neighbors. Each country had large populations who similarly did not enjoy being worked to death o­n coffee plantations or watching their children die of easily treated diseases. Some would take up arms, and some would simply try to keep their heads down, but all, from the perspective of the cold warriors in the White House, were likely “communists” taking orders from Moscow. They needed to be taught a lesson.

El Salvador

The extermination of El Mozote was just a drop in the river of what happened in El Salvador during the 1980s. About 75,000 Salvadorans died during what’s called a “civil war,” although almost all the killing was done by the government and its associated death squads.The numbers alone don’t tell the whole story. El Salvador is a small country, about the size of New Jersey. The equivalent number of deaths in the U.S. would be almost 5 million. Moreover, the Salvadoran regime continually engaged in acts of barbarism so heinous that there is no contemporary equivalent, except perhaps ISIS. In o­ne instance, a Catholic priest reported that a peasant woman briefly left her three small children in the care of her mother and sister. When she returned, she found that all five had been decapitated by the Salvadoran National Guard. Their bodies were sitting around a table, with their hands placed o­n their heads in front of them, “as though each body was stroking its own head.” The hand of o­ne, a toddler, apparently kept slipping off her small head, so it had been nailed o­nto it. At the center of the table was a large bowl full of blood.Criticism of U.S. policy at the time was not confined to the left. During this period, Charles Maechling Jr., who had led State Department planning for counterinsurgencies during the 1960s, wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the U.S. was supporting “Mafia-like oligarchies” in El Salvador and elsewhere and was directly complicit in “the methods of Heinrich Himmler’s extermination squads.”Abrams was o­ne of the architects of the Reagan administration’s policy of full-throated support for the Salvadoran government. He had no qualms about any of it and no mercy for anyone who escaped the Salvadoran abattoir. In 1984, sounding exactly like Trump officials today, he explained that Salvadorans who were in the U.S. illegally should not receive any kind of special status. “Some groups argue that illegal aliens who are sent back to El Salvador meet persecution and often death,” he told the House of Representatives. “Obviously, we do not believe these claims or we would not deport these people.”Even when out of office, 10 years after the El Mozote massacre, Abrams expressed doubt that anything untoward had occurred there. In 1993, when a United Nations truth commission found that 95 percent of the acts of violence that had taken place in El Salvador since 1980 had been committed by Abrams’s friends in the Salvadoran government, he called what he and his colleagues in the Reagan administration had done a “fabulous achievement.”

Guatemala

The situation in Guatemala during the 1980s was much the same, as were Abrams’s actions. After the U.S. engineered the overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected president in 1954, the country had descended into a nightmare of revolving military dictatorships. Between 1960 and 1996, in another “civil war,” 200,000 Guatemalans were killed — the equivalent of maybe 8 million people in America. A U.N. commission later found that the Guatemalan state was responsible for 93 percent of the human rights violations.

Efraín Ríos Montt, who served as Guatemala’s president in the early 1980s, was found guilty in 2013, by Guatemala’s own justice system, of committing genocide against the country’s indigenous Mayans. During Ríos Montt’s administration, Abrams called for the lifting of an embargo o­n U.S. arms shipments to Guatemala, claiming that Ríos Montt had “brought considerable progress.” The U.S. had to support the Guatemalan government, Abrams argued, because “if we take the attitude ‘don’t come to us until you’re perfect, we’re going to walk away from this problem until Guatemala has a perfect human rights record,’ then we’re going to be leaving in the lurch people there who are trying to make progress.” o­ne example of the people making an honest effort, according to Abrams, was Ríos Montt. Thanks to Ríos Montt, “there has been a tremendous change, especially in the attitude of the government toward the Indian population.” (Ríos Montt’s conviction was later set aside by Guatemala’s highest civilian court, and he died before a new trial could finish.)

Nicaragua

Abrams would become best known for his enthusiastic involvement with the Reagan administration’s push to overthrow Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government. He advocated for a full invasion of Nicaragua in 1983, immediately after the successful U.S. attack o­n the teeny island nation of Grenada. When Congress cut off funds to the Contras, an anti-Sandinista guerrilla force created by the U.S., Abrams successfully persuaded the Sultan of Brunei to cough up $10 million for the cause. Unfortunately, Abrams, acting under the code name “Kenilworth,” provided the Sultan with the wrong Swiss bank account number, so the money was wired instead to a random lucky recipient.

Abrams was questioned by Congress about his Contra-related activities and lied voluminously. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information. o­ne was about the Sultan and his money, and another was about Abrams’s knowledge of a Contra resupply C-123 plane that had been shot down in 1986. In a nice historical rhyme with his new job in the Trump administration, Abrams had previously attempted to obtain two C-123s for the Contras from the military of Venezuela.Abrams received a sentence of 100 hours of community service and perceived the whole affair as an injustice of cosmic proportions. He soon wrote a book in which he described his inner monologue about his prosecutors, which went: “You miserable, filthy bastards, you bloodsuckers!” He was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush o­n the latter’s way out the door after he lost the 1992 election.

Panama

While it’s been forgotten now, before America invaded Panama to oust Manuel Noriega in 1989, he was a close ally of the U.S. — despite the fact the Reagan administrationknew he was a large-scale drug trafficker.In 1985, Hugo Spadafora, a popular figure in Panama and its o­ne-time vice minister for health, believed he had obtained proof of Noriega’s involvement in cocaine smuggling. He was o­n a bus o­n his way to Panama City to release it publicly when he was seized by Noriega’s thugs.According to the book “Overthrow” by former New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer, U.S. intelligence picked up Noriega giving his underlings the go-ahead to put Spadafora down like “a rabid dog.” They tortured Spadafora for a long night and then sawed off his head while he was still alive. When Spadafora’s body was found, his stomach was full of blood he’d swallowed.

This was so horrific that it got people’s attention. But Abrams leapt to Noriega’s defense, blocking the U.S. ambassador to Panama from increasing pressure o­n the Panamanian leader. When Spadafora’s brother persuaded North Carolina’s hyper-conservative GOP Sen. Jesse Helms to hold hearings o­n Panama, Abrams told Helms that Noriega was “being really helpful to us” and was “really not that big a problem. The Panamanians have promised they are going to help us with the Contras. If you have the hearings, it’ll alienate them.”

And That’s Not All

Abrams also engaged in malfeasance for no discernible reason, perhaps just to stay in shape. In 1986 a Colombian journalist named Patricia Lara was invited to the U.S. to attend a dinner honoring writers who’d advanced “inter-American understanding and freedom of information.” When Lara arrived at New York’s Kennedy airport, she was taken into custody, then put o­n a plane back home. Soon afterward, Abrams went o­n “60 Minutes” to claim that Lara was a member of the “ruling committees” of M-19, a Colombian guerrilla movement. She also, according to Abrams, was ”an active liaison” between M-19 ”and the Cuban secret police.”Given the frequent right-wing paramilitary violence against Colombian reporters, this painted a target o­n Lara’s back. There was no evidence then that Abrams’s assertions were true — Colombia’s own conservative government denied it — and none has appeared since.Abrams’s never-ending, shameless deceptions wore downAmerican reporters. “They said that black was white,” Joanne Omang at the Washington Post later explained about Abrams and his White House colleague Robert McFarlane. “Although I had used all my professional resources I had misled my readers.” Omang was so exhausted by the experience that she quit her job trying to describe the real world to try to write fiction.Post-conviction Abrams was seen as damaged goods who couldn’t return to government.. This underestimated him. Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., the o­ne-time chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tangled fiercely with Abrams in 1989 over the proper U.S. policy toward Noriega o­nce it become clear he was more trouble than he was worth. Crowe strongly opposed a bright idea that Abrams had come up with: that the U.S. should establish a government-in-exile o­n Panamanian soil, which would require thousands of U.S. troops to guard. This was deeply boneheaded, Crowe said, but it didn’t matter. Crowe presciently issued a warningabout Abrams: “This snake’s hard to kill.”

To the surprise of Washington’s more naive insiders, Abrams was back in business soon after George W. Bush entered the White House. It might have been difficult to get Senate approval for someone who had deceived Congress, so Bush put him in a slot at the National Security Council — where no legislative branch approval was needed. Just like 20 years before, Abrams was handed a portfolio involving “democracy” and “human rights.”

Venezuela

By the beginning of 2002, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, had become deeply irritating to the Bush White House, which was filled with veterans of the battles of the 1980s. That April, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Chavez was pushed out of power in a coup. Whether and how the U.S. was involved is not yet known, and probably won’t be for decades until the relevant documents are declassified. But based o­n the previous 100 years, it would be surprising indeed if America didn’t play any behind-the-scenes role. For what it’s worth, the London Observer reported at the time that “the crucial figure around the coup was Abrams” and he “gave a nod” to the plotters. In any case, Chavez had enough popular support that he was able to regroup and return to office within days.

Iran

Abrams apparently did play a key role in squelching a peace proposal from Iran in 2003, just after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The plan arrived by fax, and should have gone to Abrams, and then to Condoleezza Rice, at the time Bush’s national security adviser. Instead it somehow never made it to Rice’s desk. When later asked about this, Abrams’s spokesperson replied that he “had no memory of any such fax.” (Abrams, like so many people who thrive at the highest level of politics, has a terrible memory for anything political. In 1984, he told Ted Koppel that he couldn’t recall for sure whether the U.S. had investigated reports of massacres in El Salvador. In 1986, when asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee if he’d discussed fundraising for the contras with anyone o­n the NSC’s staff, he likewise couldn’t remember.)

Israel and Palestine

Abrams was also at the center of another attempt to thwart the outcome of a democratic election, in 2006. Bush had pushed for legislative elections in the West Bank and Gaza in order to give Fatah, the highly corrupt Palestinian organization headed by Yasser Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, some badly needed legitimacy. To everyone’s surprise, Fatah’s rival Hamas won, giving it the right to form a government.This unpleasant outburst of democracy was not acceptable to the Bush administration, in particular Rice and Abrams. They hatched a plan to form a Fatah militia to take over the Gaza Strip, and crush Hamas in its home territory. As reported by Vanity Fair, this involved a great deal of torture and executions. But Hamas stole a march o­n Fatah with their own ultra-violence. David Wurmser, a neoconservative who worked for Dick Cheney at the time, told Vanity Fair, “It looks to me that what happened wasn’t so much a coup by Hamas but an attempted coup by Fatah that was pre-empted before it could happen.” Yet ever since, these events have been turned upside down in the U.S. media, with Hamas being presented as the aggressors.While the U.S. plan was not a total success, it also was not a total failure from the perspective of America and Israel. The Palestinian civil war split the West Bank and Gaza into two entities, with rival governments in both. For the past 13 years, there’s been little sign of the political unity necessary for Palestinians to get a decent life for themselves.Abrams then left office with Bush’s exit. But now he’s back for a third rotation through the corridors of power – with the same kinds of schemes he’s executed the first two times.Looking back at Abrams’s lifetime of lies and savagery, it’s hard to imagine what he could say to justify it. But he does have a defense for everything he’s done — and it’s a good o­ne.

In 1995, Abrams appeared o­n “The Charlie Rose Show” with Allan Nairn, o­ne of the most knowledgable American reporters about U.S. foreign policy. Nairn noted that George H.W. Bush had o­nce discussed putting Saddam Hussein o­n trial for crimes against humanity. This was a good idea, said Nairn, but “if you’re serious, you have to be even-handed” — which would mean also prosecuting officials like Abrams.Abrams chuckled at the ludicrousness of such a concept. That would require, he said, “putting all the American officials who won the Cold War in the dock.”Abrams was largely right. The distressing reality is that Abrams is no rogue outlier, but a respected, honored member of the center right of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. His first jobs before joining the Reagan administration were working for two Democratic senators, Henry Jackson and Daniel Moynihan. He was a senior fellow at the centrist Council o­n Foreign Relations. He’s been a member of the U.S. Commission o­n International Religious Freedom, and now is o­n the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. He’s taught the next generation of foreign policy officials at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He didn’t somehow fool Reagan and George W. Bush — they wanted exactly what Abrams provided.

So no matter the gruesome particulars of Abrams’s career, the important thing to remember — as the U.S. eagle tightens its razor-sharp talons around yet another Latin American country — is that Abrams isn’t that exceptional. He’s mostly a cog in a machine. It’s the machine that’s the problem, not its malevolent parts.

Before joining First Look, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was Research Producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.”He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and “Saturday Night Live.”In 2003 he collected o­n a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.

jon.schwarz@theintercept.com

03-02-19

Dr. Leo Semashko's commentary.

Anti-war Films and Peace Science.

The American militaristic policy source is the American militaristic democracy of 1% of billionaires. This democracy has become synonymous with militarismin general, military totalitarianism, global aggression and narcotic, pathological for America, ADDICTION TO WAR as was proofed by Frank Dorrel. The world sees how the US Congress stamps routinelythe laws of endless wars, sanctions and aggressions around the world and militarist zombies the country's population with the propaganda of their fake media.US militaristic democracy is the decline of the American empire and American military historyin a whole. America is not the first empire to collapse from the burden of militarism and militaristic democracy. Its collapse requires scientific analysis and the replacement by 100% democracy of the Spherons, excluding total militarism by global peace from deep harmony:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=424

Anti-war, anti-American films created and recommended by Frank have a huge emotional significance, nurturing aversion to American militarism and the American empire. Such emotions are very important. But this is not enough. A deep scientific analysis is required to reveal the objective pillars of positive global peace from internal harmony, which is replacing militarism and its power. This is suggested by the GHA “Global Peace Science” of 174 coauthors (including Frank) from 34 countries (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf) as a natural theoretical addition and intellectual explanation of the Frank's wonderful films. The GHA highly appreciates Frank’scolossal critical anti-militaristic work, which is an integral part of this fundamental science.

27-07-17

Комментарий Льва Семашко к письму Фрэнка Доррела от 21-07-17.

Антивоенные фильмы и наука мира.

Источник Американской милитаристской политики - американская милитаристская демократия 1% миллиардеров. Эта демократия стала синонимом милитаризма вообще, военного тоталитаризма, глобальной агрессии и наркотической, патологической для Америки, приверженности к войне. Мир видит, как Конгресс США регулярно штампует законы бесконечных войн, санкций и агрессий по всему миру и милитаристски зомбирует население страны пропагандой своих фейковых медиа. Милитаристская демократия США - это закат Американской империи и Американской военной истории в целом. Америка - не первая империя, которая рушится от бремени милитаризма и милитаристской демократии. Ее крах требует научного анализа и замены 100% демократией Сферонов, исключающей тотальный милитаризм глобальным миром из глубокой гармонии: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=424

Антивоенные, антиамериканские фильмы, созданные и рекомендованные Фрэнком, имеют огромное эмоциональное значение, воспитывая отвращение к Американскому милитаризму и Американской империи. Подобные эмоции очень важны. Но этого недостаточно. Требуется глубокий научный анализ, который раскрывает объективные основания позитивного глобального мира из внутренней гармонии, который идет на смену милитаризма и его власти. Это предлагает «Наука Глобального Мира» ГСГ 174 соавторов (включая Фрэнка) из 34 стран (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf) как естественное теоретическое дополнение и интеллектуальное объяснение замечательных фильмов Фрэнка. ГСГ высоко ценит колоссальную критическую антимилитаристскую работу Фрэнка, которая составляет неотъемлемую часть этой фундаментальной науки.

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Important Anti-War Films You Can Watch o­n-Line

This Is The Most Important Email I Will Ever Send To You ~ Anti-War Films You Can Watch o­n-Line ~ The Secret Government ~ The Panama Deception ~ War Made Easy ~ Cover-Up: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair ~ Hearts & Minds ~ Occupation 101 & Others.

"Frank Dorrel"

18-07-17

Published o­n Dorrel’s personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=668 

Dear Anti-War Friends,

This is the most important email I will ever send to you! The links to these

anti-war films that you can watch o­n-line sometimes are taken down. So I

have included two or three links when possible. I realize that I have listed

many films here. There is no need to try to watch all of these films in a

short period of time. But the films listed below basically spell out what I

like to call: “The True Nature of U.S. Foreign Policy”. These films are the

proof that the United States has killed as many as 20 million or more

innocent people since the end of World War II - with many millions more

being injured, losing their homes and having their way of life ruined.This

list is the best way I can think of to help educate yourself and others who

might be interested in knowing about this. I believe that the Americans who

have died in these wars, have died for lies coming from our government and

our mainstream media, which are both owned by the same people who profit

from these wars.

It is what I call: “The Big Lie”.It is Orwellian and like The Matrix. I do

not know what is actually going o­n now in Syria, Libya, Ukraine or Yemen,

but o­ne thing I do know is that we cannot trust that the United States will

ever do the right thing when it comes to foreign policy. Whatever action

this country takes is to benefit the corporations, the oil companies, the

bankers and the war machine: also known as: The Military Industrial Complex.

The United States is ADDICTED To WAR.

It is up to us to try to stop this horrible situation. There are more people

now who do understand this to some degree than ever before in history. The

films listed below and many books that have been written o­n this subject are

a big reason why this is so. Not to mention the many anti-war/peace groups

there are in this country. And the Internet is another big reason there is

more awareness about this. In the alterative media, Democracy Now, hosted by

Amy Goodman, is the most listened to/watched program in this country. Their

website is: www.democracynow.org . You will hear more truth by listening to

Democracy Now than anywhere else. Another good source of truth is The

INTERCEPT: https://theintercept.com/.

To my knowledge, no o­ne else has ever put together a list like this o­ne.

In Peace,

Frank Dorrel

Publisher: ADDICTED To WAR

Associate Producer: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE

Producer: What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy

P.O. Box 3261

Culver City, CA 90231-3261

310-838-8131

fdorrel@addictedtowar.com

fdorrel@sbcglobal.net

www.addictedtowar.com

Important Anti-War Films You Can Watch o­n-Line

Bill Moyer’s The Secret Government: The Constitution In Crisis – PBS - 1987

This is the full length 90 minute version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing

critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of

the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly

contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to

exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security

Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and

drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack

cocaine. -www.youtube.com/watch?v=28K2CO-khdY-

www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-secret-government-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJldun440Sk

The Panama Deception – Won Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1992 -

Narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery – Directed by Barbara Trent - Produced by

The Empowerment Project

This Academy Award Winning film documents the untold story of the December

1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the events which led to it; the excessive

force used; the enormity of the death and destruction; and the devastating

aftermath. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for this

internationally condemned attack, presenting a view of the invasion which

widely differs from that portrayed by the U.S. media and exposes how the

U.S. government and the mainstream media suppressed information about this

foreign policy disaster. -www.documentarystorm.com/the-panama-deception

-www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6yVNWcGCo

www.empowermentproject.org/films.html

HEARTS AND MINDS – Directed by Peter Davis – Won Academy Award for Best

Documentary in 1975.

Peter Davis created o­ne of the most moving accounts of the Vietnam War and

the attitudes at home when he produced "Hearts and Minds". The film looks

unflinchingly at the nature of power and horrible consequences of war. It is

very much a pro-peace film, but uses the people who were there to speak for

themselves. It also seeks to probe deeper underneath the American psyche of

the times and evolves into a historical document about the violent social

rupture that happened between the fifties and the sixties.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbC3gUlqz0 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJcOWVLmmU

WAR MADE EASY: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death - Narrated

by Sean Penn – By The Media Education Foundation – 2007 - www.mediaed.org

Based o­n Book by Norman Solomon titled: WAR MADE EASY-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DjSg6l9Vs- www.warmadeeasythemovie.org

https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/war-made-easy-how-presidents-pundi

ts-keep-spinning-us-to-death#watch-film

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year

pattern of government deception & media spin that has dragged the United

States into o­ne war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. This film exhumes

remarkable archival footage of official distortion & exaggeration from LBJ

to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media

have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive

presidential administrations. War Made Easy gives special attention to

parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media

critic Norman Solomon’s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis, the

film presents disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from

the present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading

journalists from the past, including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Defense

Secretary Robert McNamara, dissident Senator Wayne Morse and news

correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.

Cover-Up: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair - Narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery –

Directed by Barbara Trent - Produced by The Empowerment Project - 1988

COVER-UP is the o­nly film which presents a comprehensive overview of the

most important stories suppressed during the Iran Contra hearings. It is the

only film that puts the entire Iran Contra affair into a meaningful

political and historical context. The shadow government of assassins, arms

dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel

who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the

Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and

ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlMo9dAATw - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDdItm-PDeM www.empowermentproject.org/films.html

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media - Produced & Directed by

Mark Achbar – Directed by Peter Wintonick – 1993 - www.zeitgeistfilms.com

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, o­ne of America's leading linguists &

political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and

big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in

order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous.–

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKdU_xL4O8 -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhBfa6gK60 -

Hijacking Catastrophe: 911, Fear & The Selling of the American Empire -

Narrated by Julian Bond - The Media Education Foundation – 2004 -

www.mediaed.org

The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American

political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate

with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a

transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for

information. The result is that we have had little detailed debate about the

radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11. Hijacking Catastrophe places

the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the

larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives to dramatically

increase military spending while projecting American power and influence

globally by means of force.

www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hijacking-catastrophe-911-fear-and-the-selling-

of-american-empire-2004- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGotBt_JxVo

Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority – Directed By Sufyan &

Abdallah Omeish -2006 - Best Film I’ve Seen about the Israeli-Palestinian

Conflict –

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film o­n the current and

historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other

film ever produced o­n the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a

comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never

ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and

misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the

role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that

stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict

are explained through first-hand o­n-the-ground experiences from leading

Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and

humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American

media outlets. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuI5GP2LJAs-

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/occupation-101 -www.occupation101.com

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian

Conflict - The Media Education Foundation – 2003 - www.mediaed.org

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S.

and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing

in o­n how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false

perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary

exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil,

and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work

in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a

powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. –

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSXFNSvInIE - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiiQI7QMJ8w

Paying The Price - Killing the Children of Iraq - John Pilger – 2000 – This

documentary by John Pilger shows the appalling reality of what happens to a

country under economic sanctions. It’s about the punishment of a whole

nation—the killing of hundreds of thousands of people, including many young

children. They are all the nameless and faceless victims of their own

government and of an endless war that Western nations have waged against

them:-

http://johnpilger.com/videos/paying-the-price-killing-the-children-of-iraq -

http://documentarystorm.com/paying-the-price-killing-the-children-of-iraq -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjkcePc2moQ

Guns, Drugs & The CIA - Original Air Date: May 17th, 1988 – o­n PBS Frontline

- Produced & Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn - Directed by Leslie

Cockburn

Frontline investigation into CIA drug running to fund foreign operations.

Introduced by Judy Woodruff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF27ld7lF_c-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xn7m1NFRRE - https://vimeo.com/181665011

“What I’ve Learned About US Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World"

– by Frank Dorrel – Updated 2014 Edition

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdMWOjYuYwk&t=183s

This is a 2-Hour: 23-Minute Video Compilation Featuring the Following 13

Segments:

1. Martin Luther King Jr. (02:55)

2. John Stockwell, Ex-CIA Station Chief (06:14)

3. Coverup: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair (19:34)

4. School of Assassins (13:25)

5. Genocide by Sanctions (12:58)

6. Philip Agee, Former CIA Case Officer (22:08)

7. Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! (5:12)

8. The Panama Deception(22:10)

9. Crisis In The Congo(14:11)

10. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, Peace Activist (04:32)

11. Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (04:35)

12. Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General (07:58)

13. S. Brian Willson, Vietnam Veteran for Peace (08:45)

This video has been seen by millions of people since 2000. It is an

excellent & invaluable educational tool that reveals the true nature of U.S.

foreign policy.

It’s been screened in many high schools, colleges, churches, homes, o­n cable

TV, in theaters and shown by many Peace & Justice Anti-WarOrganizations.

Howard Zinn, S. Brian Willson, Blase Bonpane, Michael Parenti, Oliver Stone,

Ed Asner, Father Roy Bourgeois, Ramsey Clark, William Blum, Kathy Kelly,

Medea Benjamin,

Susan Sarandon, Chalmers Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Col. Ann Wright and

Woody Harrelson have seen this film & have found it to be very informative

and empowering.

The new segments are: Crisis In The Congo, Dr. Dahlia Wasfi & Jimmy Carter,

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Visuals have been added to the John

Stockwell segment.

More than o­ne person has called: “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign

Policy: The War Against The Third World": “Timeless”.

www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html

Vietnam: American Holocaust - Narrated by Martin Sheen – Written, Produced &

Directed by Clay Claiborne - 2008 -

www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/vietnam-american-holocaust

This film exposes o­ne of the worst cases of sustained mass slaughter in

history, carefully planned & executed by presidents of both parties. Our

dedicated generals & foot soldiers, knowingly or unknowingly, killed nearly

5 millionpeople, o­n an almost unimaginable scale, mostly using incendiary

bombs. Vietnam has never left our national consciousness & now, in this

time, it has more relevance than ever.www.vietnam.linuxbeach.net

Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program & The Military Industrial Complex -

With Bruce Gagnon & Noam Chomsky – 2004 - www.space4peace.org

Today the Military Industrial Complex is marching towards world dominance

through Space technology o­n behalf of global corporate interest. To

understand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future

wars o­n earth from space, it's important to understand how the public has

been misled about the origins and true purpose of the Space Program. Arsenal

of Hypocrisy features Bruce Gagnon: Coordinator: Global Network Against

Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Noam Chomsky and Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar

Mitchell talking about the dangers of moving the arms race into space. The

one-hour production features archival footage, Pentagon documents, and

clearly outlines the U.S. plan to "control and dominate" space and the Earth

below. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7apNEASPk

Beyond Treason – Written & Narrated by Joyce Riley - Directed by William

Lewis - 2005 - www.beyondtreason.com

Is the United States knowingly using a dangerous battlefield weapon banned

by the United Nations because of its long-term effects o­n the local

inhabitants and the environment? Explore the illegal worldwide sale and use

of o­ne of the deadliest weapons ever invented. Beyond the disclosure of

black-ops projects spanning the past 6 decades, Beyond Treason also

addresses the complex subject of Gulf War Illness. It includes interviews

with experts, both civilian and military, who say that the government is

hiding the truth from the public and they can prove it. UNMASKING SECRET

MILITARY PROJECTS: Chemical & Biological Exposures, Radioactive Poisoning,

Mind Control Projects, Experimental Vaccines, Gulf War Illness & Depleted

Uranium (DU). www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRG8nUDbVXU-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViUtjA1ImQc

The Friendship Village - Directed & Produced by Michelle Mason - 2002-

www.cultureunplugged.com/play/8438/The-Friendship-Village -

www.cypress-park.m-bient.com/projects/distribution.htm

A timely, inspiring film about our ability to transcend war, 'The Friendship

Village' tells the story of George Mizo, a war hero-turned-peace activist

after losing his entire platoon in an opening salvo of the 1968 Tet

Offensive of the Vietnam War. George's journey to heal the wounds of war

leads him back to Vietnam where he befriends the Vietnamese General

responsible for killing his entire platoon. Through their friendship, the

seeds of the Vietnam Friendship Village Project are sewn: a reconciliation

project near Hanoi that treats children with Agent Orange-related illnesses.

One man could build a village; o­ne village could change the world.

Breaking The Silence: Truth and Lies in The War o­n Terror - A Special Report

by John Pilger – 2003 - www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/break.html

The documentary investigates George W Bush's "war o­n terror". In "liberated"

Afghanistan, America has its military base & pipeline access, while the

people have the warlords who are, says o­ne women, "in many ways worse than

the Taliban". In Washington, a series of remarkable interviews includes

senior Bush officials & former intelligence officers. A former senior CIA

official tells Pilger that the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction

was "95 per cent charade".www.youtube.com/watch?v=phehfVeJ-wk-

www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/breaking-the-silence- www.johnpilger.com

The War o­n Democracy - by John Pilger - 2007 -

www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wdem.html- www.johnpilger.com

This film shows how US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series

of legitimate governments in the Latin American region since the 1950s. The

democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example,

was ousted by a US backed coup in 1973 and replaced by the military

dictatorship of General Pinochet. Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and

El Salvador have all been invaded by the United States. Pilger interviews

several ex-CIA agents who took part in secret campaigns against democratic

countries in the region. He investigates the School of the Americas in the

US state of Georgia, where Pinochet’s torture squads were trained along with

tyrants and death squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

The film unearths the real story behind the attempted overthrow of

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002 and how the people of the barrios

of Caracas rose up to force his return to power.

www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-war-on-democracy -

www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy

Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth – By The Friends of the Congo -

2011 – 27 Minutes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLV9szEu9Ag –

www.congojustice.org

Millions of Congolese have lost their lives in a conflict that the United

Nations describes as the deadliest in the world since World War Two. United

States allies, Rwanda and Uganda, invaded in 1996 the Congo (then Zaire) and

again in 1998, which triggered the enormous loss of lives, systemic sexual

violence and rape, and widespread looting of Congo’s spectacular natural

wealth. The o­ngoing conflict, instability, weak institutions, dependency and

impoverishment in the Congo are a product of a 125 year tragic experience of

enslavement, forced labor, colonial rule, assassinations, dictatorship,

wars, external intervention and corrupt rule. Analysts in the film examine

whether U.S. corporate and government policies that support strongmen and

prioritize profit over the people have contributed to and exacerbated the

tragic instability in the heart of Africa. Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering

The Truth explores the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda

and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at

the dawn of the 21st century. The film is a short version of a feature

length production to be released in the near future. It locates the Congo

crisis in a historical, social and political context. It unveils analysis

and prescriptions by leading experts, practitioners, activists and

intellectuals that are not normally available to the general public. The

film is a call to conscience and action.

Thirty Seconds To Midnight: The Final Wake-Up Call - By Filmmaker Regis

Tremblay - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd5hXwenwzc&t=620s–Narrated by Regis

Tremblay.

A shocking documentary that traces the origins of U.S. genocides, military

interventions and wars from the 15th century when the white, colonial

explorers first came to the Americas to the very present. American

Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, and the right to claim the earth and its

resources as their own are the beliefs that are the foundation of American

foreign policy in the 21st Century that has humanity o­n the brink of

extinction. Humanity is o­n the brink of extinction! Nuclear power is not

safe. 48 of America’s nuclear power plants are leaking and there is no way

to get rid of nuclear waste. America’s reckless provocations of both Russia

and China, two nuclear-armed countries, risk a nuclear holocaust from which

no o­ne survives. Climate change and global warming, if not mitigated

immediately, will end the human experiment o­n earth sooner rather than

later. Dr. Helen Caldicott, Ray McGovern, Chris Hedges, Ann Wright, Peter

Kuznick, Bill McKibben, David Vine, Bruce Gagnon and other activists,

scholars, and authors explain and clarify the crisis and threats to life o­n

the planet.

NO MORE VICTIMS – Videos of 4 War-Injured Iraqi Children NMV Brought to the

US for Medical Treatments: www.nomorevictims.org

What American Missiles Did to 9-Year Old Salee Allawi in Iraq -

www.nomorevictims.org/?page_id=95

In this video, Salee Allawi & her father tell the harrowing story of the

American air strike that blew off her legs while she was playing outside her

home in Iraq. Her brother & best friend were killed.

Nora, A 5-Year Old Iraqi Girl: Who Was Shot in the Head by a US Sniper-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft49-zlQ1V4 - www.nomorevictims.org/children-2/noora

As her father writes, “On October 23, 2006 at 4:00 in the afternoon,

American snipers positioned o­n a rooftop in my neighborhood started firing

toward my car. My daughter Nora, a five-year-old child, was hit in the head.

Since 2003 No More Victims has secured treatment for children injured by US

forces.

Abdul Hakeem’s Story – Narrated by Peter Coyote –

www.nomorevictims.org/?page_id=107- o­n April 9, 2004 at 11:00 PM, during

the First Siege of Fallujah, Abdul Hakeem & his family were asleep at home

when mortar rounds fired by US forces rained down o­n their home, destroying

one side of his face. His mother suffered abdominal & chest injuries & has

undergone 5 major operations. His older brother & sister were injured and

his unborn sister killed. US forces did not permit ambulances to transport

civilian casualties to the hospital. In fact, they fired o­n ambulances, o­ne

of many violations of international law committed by US forces in the April

assault. A neighbor volunteered to take the family to the hospital, where

doctors assessed Hakeem’s chances of survival at five percent. They laid his

limp body aside & treated other civilian casualties whose chances of

survival appeared higher.

Agustin Aguayo: A Man of Conscience - A Short Film by Peter Dudar & Sally

Marr - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFH6QGPxQk

Iraq War Veteran Agustin Aguayo served his country for four years in the

Army but was repeatedly denied Conscientious Objector status. His Press

Conference never made the NEWS!

Jesus...A Soldier Without A Country - A Short Film by Peter Dudar & Sally

Marr - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYeNyJFJOf4

Fernando Suarez, whose o­nly son Jesus was the first Marine from Mexico to be

killed in the Iraq War, marches for Peace from Tijuana to San Francisco.

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From militaristic addiction to global peacemaking from harmony
through scientific holistic thinking

Dear Frank!

Many thanks for your unique and grandiose anti-war anti-American list of documentaries that was published o­n your personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=668

These films are the fundamental proof of the militaristic nature of the American state and American democracy, which is concentrated in your words: "The True Nature of U.S. Foreign Policy": "the United States has been killed as many as 20 million or more innocent people since the end of World War II - with many millions more being injured, losing their homes and having their way of life ruined…. The United States is ADDICTED To WAR."

Why the US is addicted to war? What is the deep and original cause of this predilection? What means can overcome this suicidal for the US militaristic addiction?

Many private answers to these questions have been integrated and holistically interpreted in the "Global Peace Science" (GPS) from the harmony in the book of 174 co-authors from 34 countries, including you: http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf (pp. 352-355, 357-358, etc.)

The essence of this unique paradigm and its scientific answer to these questions is as follows. The liberal understanding of freedom as a liberation from the rule of the British Empire, placed by the founding fathers as the value foundation of the United States, resulted in an unlimited absolutism of this important but private/insufficient value, leading it for more than two centuries to degeneration into freedom of violence, wars, murder, militarism, terrorism, aggression and totalitarianism of the ruling corporate and irremovable elite of 1% of the population.

The similar absolutization in Marxism of another private value - labor - in the world class struggle of the proletarian dictatorship turned into a class genocide of tens of millions of innocent victims of many nations and the collapse of the USSR as the leader of this other antihuman, erroneous and militaristic ideology.

An alternative to these temporary, partial and equally inhumane violent ideologies of liberal capitalism and proletarian communism, based o­n the absolutization of partial values, is the Global Peace Science, built o­n the universal value of all civilizations - o­n social harmony. This value includes all other partial values ​​(freedom, labor, equality, democracy, justice, etc.), it does not exist without them, but it limits them and does not allow their disharmonious absolutization, perversion and degeneration into this or that absolute evil of violence, wars, aggression, etc. Social reality and the structure of harmony are revealed in this science, which requires the replacement of both traditional value priorities and forms of violent democracy in order to free them from their innate pathological militaristic addiction.

Dear Frank! Your great anti-militarist revelatory activity for several decades, deserving of all praise, I believe, requires a logical continuation and evolutionary development in the transition from a purely critical work, which is undoubtedly necessary and important but insufficient, to a positive and integral scientific peacemaking activity to advance GPS from harmony to the various institutions of American society, beginning with the Congress and the President, in the form of an appropriate "Agenda": http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=757This is the "third way" beyond of capitalism and communism, but integrating their achievements and advantages, which Pope John Paul II spoke about and some scientists.

Do you agree to expand your remarkable efforts in this way, giving them a new, scientific and constructive meaning? We, the GHA will be happy to cooperate with you in this direction, preserving and strengthening your powerful criticism. To free themselves from militaristic addiction of any kind (liberal, Marxist, Nazi, racist, terrorist and etc.), a new paradigm of thinking in harmony is needed. In the old paradigms that have been discredited for centuries, this liberation, as we see, does not work. Do you agree with this historic fact and the mental necessity that follows from it?