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Jack’s Liberty Underground Newsletter sent this out this morning. The images are fantastic; counter-culture heroes galore, and other great images. Note he doesn’t even feel the need to complete ‘The first casualty of war’…(is The Truth).
From Nash’s website:
“A companion video for “Almost Gone” – a new song by legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash and musician James Raymond (son of David Crosby) – is being released today in support of accused U.S. Army whistle-blower Bradley Manning.
The release is timed to Manning’s first judicial hearing scheduled for December 16th, following more than 17-months in custody, including a year in solitary confinement that Amnesty International has characterized as “harsh and punitive.”
Visually, the Almost Gone video is punctuated with bold graphics, disturbing images and harsh facts. Its release is scheduled to precede Manning’s pre-trial hearing on December 16, which is the day before his 24th birthday. The Bradley Manning Support Network has named the following day, December 17, its International Day of Solidarity (http://events.bradleymanning.org/). PFC Manning, an Army intelligence analyst who had been stationed near Baghdad, was arrested in May 2010 under suspicion of leaking classified information, including a video showing the killing of civilians, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.”
More information about the video is here. IMO, the song might have been more circumspect about *alleged acts*.
Kevin Gosztola has been live-blogging day 4 of Manning’s pre-trial hearing here.
DD reports that Lt. Dan Choi was wrestled to the ground at the courthouse, his rank patches torn off, and escorted off the base, banned for 24 hours…for heckling some asshole sergeant by asking, “Hey, Sergeant; how’s your dog?”
You may want to read Dan’s tweets after the incident; they’re pretty fine.
To Brad from all of us:
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied : and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Those truths are well established.”
~ James Madison
You and Julian Assange, my friend, have been *alleged* to have done more than any others in this nation to blow the lid off the lies our government has told us so cravenly and repeatedly in order to get away with executing multiple wars against constructed enemies for far too long. Stay strong, and don’t the bastards grind you down. They can’t touch the you in you.
[Update]: Glennzilla was on Democracy Now! speaking on: Bradley Manning Faces Life Sentence, While Criminals WikiLeaks Exposed Have Suffered No Consequences; he also thoroughly discredits Manning accuser (remember the alleged correspondence between the two Wired.com withheld for so long?) Adrian Lamos’s contentions in his interview with Amy. Amy, of course, asks all the right questions; Lamos can hardly look at her or the camera; watch his eyes for signs of deception…and maybe a bit of shame, hard to tell with my fuzzy teevee.
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Thanks, Wendy!
So much evil. So much destruction. So many men, women and children died for their greed. So many were tortured with their weapons. Over there, over there. The Yanks are coming; the Yanks are coming. It sure doesn’t mean what it once did.
He only wanted us to know the truth. They don’t. They’ll persecute him for that.
Allow me to share another Graham Nash tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czUx2gvjdJk
Welcome, my friend. And thanks for Military Madness; I was too lazy/busy/whatever to go huntin’ for it. Shamed me into it. ;o)
Destruction.Death.Torture.Wasted trillions.Creating infinte #s of enemies.Fucking up the world.Starving children.
Oh, You Masters of War:
“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death’ll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead.”
~ Bob Dylan
Wow what a powerful video. This diary should be front paged. I don’t know how to recommend that it be done but it has my vote. It shows me that it’s almost 1984. Great diary Wendy.
Shoot, popeye; all it took was a li’l bit of cuttin’ and pastin’, and gettin’ the damned videos to embed. They still kick my ass some days here, with no rhyme or reason, I swear. Still haven’t been able to reduce the top one; maybe I shouldn’t, let it have the Full Effect.
‘Almost 1984′. Purrfect.
[Ed. Note - unknown about the other sites at which you crosspostpost, but larger vs. smaller is site preference here at MyFDL. It eliminates white space and alignment issues, preferred here, and has zero impact on bandwidth.]
I do like to have the choice, moderator. Some look too garish full-size, and the ones I use at the end need to be smaller, IMO. Hope it doesn’t harsh yer mellow; you are free to not left-page them, but I cannot think bigger is always better.
I get that it’s a matter of taste, but to me this is far more tasteful than full-size would be, even with a little bit of white space. The Nash video is sanely sized as is; some are gargantuan, and look ugly and a bit offensive to my eyes.
http://my.firedoglake.com/wendydavis/2011/12/16/seven-o%E2%80%99clock-newssilent-night-volume-iii/
Oopsie; guess we know who da boss is around these parts, LOL!
[Ed. Note - great content, so making it standard for promotion to FP @ MyFDL now.]
Astonishing! Powerful! The whole world should see and hear this. Great song, brilliant images. Fantabulous! What a breath of breath air.
Wendy this is brilliant!
“Shoot, popeye; all it took was a li’l bit of cuttin’ and pastin’”
See I told you it was a powerful video as do the other commenters. :)
A true patriot is in peril and there is nothing we can do.
Wish I could take credit for it, lol! But I really like it, too, ATH.
Be well and stay strong.
Congrats Wendy on being front paged. *g*
Thanks Wendy, great song
I never would have heard it had you not posted it.
Thanks Wendy! Excellent, powerful imagery so very appropriate to the song!
I’m from the UK & this is my first post. What I’d like to say is that Bradley Manning’s plight has long been very well-known here, and almost certainly everywhere else in the world. His treatment has obviously been utterly appalling and disgraceful, but at the same time it’s crystal clear it’s been very carefully calculated (“pour encourage les autres”) & can only have been authorised at the highest level. I assure you that the USA will feel the blowback for many years to come – this, truly, is “Evil You Can Believe In”.
Welcome to the Lake, Stuart C.; nice to see you here. ;o)
Et oui, il est bon de temps de temps,, but this nation is too big on examples too often, non?
I write at the Readers’ Diaries section, My.Firedoglake (there’s a separate tab above), so when you’re ready to post, you can. There are instructions for using the Word Press software.
Hope to see more of you, Stuart, and yes: we will feel the blowback from this and too may evil acts done in our names. God help us.
I oughtta cut and paste more often, eh, popeye? Save myself some long hours of research. ;o)
Maybe after the revolution, siosal.
Very nice, wendydavis! That is a great song and a powerful video to go with it, thanks for finding it and posting it here.
You know, there are still so many people who do not know who Bradley Manning is. Really sad.
Without question, PFC Brad Manning is a hero of both the GLBT movements and the GI and civilian antiwar movements.
He made history, altering and limiting the power of the US government, who are without question the main enemy of the people of the world. Because of what he’s alleged to have done the world is now better equipped to take up the fight against colonialism, genocide and capitalism gone berserk.
The war in Iraq cost over a trillion dollars and murdered over a million civilians, beginning with the draftees murdered by the USAF in the kill box of the first Gulf war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN6z5xr7EiI&feature=related Taht was followed by Bill Clintons murder of half a million Iraqi children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL And that was followed by George Bush’s invasion and occupation, a move fully supported by Democrats like Hillary Clinton, a rabid warmonger.
We owe Private Manning a lot, beginning with the inspiration we got from the courage and militancy of our brothers and sisters in Tunis, Cairo, Athens and Madrid. Without them Madison and the Occupation movements might not have happened so soon.
Now they want to kill Brad Manning.
We can’t let them do that. Have a Free Brad Manning picket sign ready for every demonstration you go to. Prepare a letter of support and take it to local celebrities, political figures, civil libertarians, union officials, even religious leaders. Get them signed and pass them on to http://www.bradleymanning.org/.
Brad Manning has been tortured for being himself and for serving his country and his fellow GIs. He need s and deserves all the support we can provide.
Thanks for the link, Bill Perdue. FDL is very activist on Manning.
Thanks, wendy.
Welcome, Dragon; nice Diner this mornin’.