Silence is agreement, Democrats. Call out Biden for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza

 Silence is agreement, Democrats. Call out Biden for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza

It’s dismaying to hear utter silence by many good Democrats to President Biden’s grisly support of genocide in Gaza. Facing likely the greatest moral crisis of their lifetime, they’ve punted, remaining silent while the utter destruction of Gaza and its 2,300,000 Palestinians goes on unabated for 202 days.

Why, fellow Democrats? Worried that any criticism of Biden’s genocide involvement will sink his reelection? The opposite is reality. Biden’s approval rating has sunk to 39% and heading south. Over half his 81 million voters in ’20 are demanding not another single genocide weapon to Israel.

College genocide protesters nationwide have given Republicans the same opening that the Vietnam protesters gave Nixon in ’68. Notice GOP House Speaker Johnson visited USC demanding their president quit for not corralling those imaginary violent demonstrators. Hello Law and Order issue 2024. It sank Hubert in ’68…it may sink Joe in ’24.

But if Biden weren’t enabling genocide in Gaza, nary a protester would be pitching a genocide protest tent on America's campuses.

Remaining silent while the Israeli genocide plays out on the media not censored by Biden and his mainstream media sycophants, may turn over the White House to a deranged authoritarian. But much worse will be the unrelenting genocidal damage that could neither have begun, nor continued to its likely completion without President Biden’s ghastly, wholehearted support.

Find your voice fellow Democrats.

Biden secretly escalating Ukraine war, costing Ukraine more territory

Biden secretly escalating Ukraine war, costing Ukraine more territory

 

With friends like President Biden, Ukraine does not need enemies.

 

Joe Biden has spent his entire 40 months as president ensuring Ukraine descends into a failed rump state of its former self. Half a million soldiers dead, millions fled to safer countries, economy on life support, all due to Biden’s lust to “weaken Russia.”

 

But the Ukraine destroyer in the White House pushes on, finally getting his $61 billion in weapons for Ukraine after 6 months of begging. They will do nothing but prolong Ukraine’s agonizing defeat.

Even worse, we’re now learning that last month Biden secretly gave Ukraine ATACMS, long range missile systems that can strike nearly 200 miles inside Russia. They were used to bomb a Russian base in Crimea.

 

Russia’s response?’ ‘We’re just going to take more Ukraine territory to ensure a sufficient buffer against long range attacks facilitated by Biden.’

 

The ATACMS are simply an extension of Biden’s deranged policy of putting weakening Russia above Ukraine sovereignty and independence. Even after Biden provoked the Russian invasion 26 months ago, he could have agreed to the Russo Ukraine peace deal negotiated to end the war within 2 months with no loss of Ukraine territory. But Biden said 'Nope...continue fighting Ukraine to weaken Russia.'

Now, he’s not only cost Ukraine roughly a quarter of its territory on Russia’s border, he’s ensuring Russia will take more territory to defend against Biden’s ATACMS.

 

And guess what weapon will be included in that $ 61 billion weapons boondoggle Biden is high fiving getting passed? Yep, more ATACMS to cost Ukraine more territory.

 

Forrest Gump might have had President Biden in mind when he noted “Stupid is as stupid does.”

My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

 My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

Sixth District Congressman Sean Casten, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, all cast their votes to spend $95 billion that will likely get hundreds of thousands more killed in Ukraine and Gaza. Since this massive tranche of wasted weapons dough has to be borrowed, it will help sour US debt past $35 trillion, representing 122% of US GDP.

To add to the unfathomable death and destruction of Ukraine and Gaza, their votes ramp up possible military confrontation with our imagined enemy China.

Casten, Duckworth and Durbin are not outliers in the Democratic Party. They joined nearly the entire Democratic ranks in the House and Senate to squander our treasure to further destroy two peoples who deserve better.

They know the $61 billion for Ukraine will not prevent Ukraine’s impending defeat with over a half million soldiers dead, no hope of victory, and economy and infrastructure in ruins. They know the $26 billion for Israel will further the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and likely the West Bank as well. They know China is an imagined enemy that may be provoked into a real enemy with the $8 billion in weaponry for Taiwan and other pretend US allies in the region.

Only Casten, Duckworth and Durbin know why they’ve sold their souls as public servants to promote endless war, carnage and genocide as core US policy. Money? Power? Political ambition? Belief in US empire and exceptionalism?

Whatever, they have disgraced themselves as public servants by ignoring the desire of the voting majority demanding peace, not war; investment in the Homeland, not wanton destruction worldwide.

Voters in the IL Sixth District and throughout Illinois, must push back fervently against these out of control war enablers. We must hold their shame up to them at every opportunity. Those who remain silent become Ukraine and Gaza's silent executioners. 

Bipartisan Ukraine aid vote neither victory for Ukraine nor for functional American governance

 Bipartisan Ukraine aid vote neither victory for Ukraine nor for functional American governance

We in the peace movement knew the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board would be quick to celebrate the House Republican capitulation to Democrats in squandering another $61 billion on the lost war in Ukraine. For its entire 26 months, the Ukraine war has had complete support by the Trib for endless weapons for endless war, instead of negotiations that could have resolved it in its first month.

But to frame it as a harbinger of functional bipartisan governance is both surprising and preposterous. It simply represents Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson caving to the US war party which always gets its endless billions for war through bipartisan support. The six months of Republican delay were a welcome break from war bipartisanship when Republicans actually aligned themselves with the electorate which favors peace, not endless war in Ukraine.

The Trib correctly noted that a majority of House Republicans voted against this weapons boondoggle which will prolong the war to kill off the remaining Ukrainian soldiers, and further descend Ukraine into an ungovernable, failed state.

That 112 vote Republican majority, along with a majority of the American people, have infinitely more sense than the Biden administration and its partner in endless war, Speaker Mike Johnson.

The $61 billion cannot replace the hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers. It cannot prevent Ukraine eventually suing for peace, losing a quarter of its territory when negotiations early on would have kept it whole.

What will the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board write when that occurs? We in the peace community would like to know.

 

Rep. Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China

 Rep. Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China

My pretend peace loving, fiscally conservative Congressman Sean Casten is anything but. Yesterday he voted with almost all House Democrats to print nearly a hundred billion dollars to further America’s decline on the world stage from military adventurism.

Normally, Casten doesn’t support any measure proposed by conservative, Bible thumping House Speaker Mike Johnson. But when Johnson struck a devil’s bargain with House Democrats to goose our economy with endless more Ukrainian and Palestinian blood, Casten jumped right in.

Johnson and House Democratic leaders devised a brilliant plan to split Biden’s gargantuan $95 billion dollar giveaway to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan into 3 separate bills of $61, $26 and $8 billion. That made it more politically expedient for all 3 to pass. The gambit worked as House Democrats, including Casten, cast a total of 590 of their 661 votes for war, war, possible war. The first ensures the destruction of Ukraine. The second ensures the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The third makes war with China more likely. Casten voted aye on all three.

Congressman Casten knows Ukraine is being systematically destroyed by America’s refusal to negotiate its end. Congressman Casten knows the 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza are being devoured by US enabled Israeli genocide. Congressman Casten knows US provocations in the Far East put America on a collision course to war against China.

For my Congressman Sean Casten, loyalty to the Biden administration war agenda is more important than saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Biden’s words proclaim Two State Solution or Palestinians; Biden’s actions ensure One Apartheid State Solution

Biden’s words proclaim Two State Solution or Palestinians; Biden’s actions ensure One Apartheid State Solution

 

Every time he’s asked, President Biden asserts he seeks statehood for Palestinians decades long under Israel’s Apartheid regime controlling them in the region.  

 

But for his entire six decade career in public office he’s done everything possible to protect Israel’s inexorable dehumanization and removal of Palestinians from their historic land.

 

Now as president, with significant influence to promote Palestinian statehood, Biden is doing the opposite.  Last Thursday he cast the lone veto in the UN Security Council denying full Palestinian UN membership. The vote was 12-1 with 2 abstentions. It only needed 9 votes to pass but the US veto nullified the 12 vote approval.

Biden does much more that veto UN Security Council resolutions on Palestinian statehood. He remains in “ironclad support” of Israel’s government which fervently argues there will never be a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister pulls no punches.  “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control all territory west of the Jordan. This collides with the idea of (Palestinian) sovereignty. What can you do?” Everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our existence.” 

Biden’s ironclad support includes thousands of tons of weapons for Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Once the Netanyahu-Biden tag team finishes off those pesky Palestinians who want a state of their own, any further UN Security Council resolutions will become moot.

When Biden’s lips move on the issue of Palestinian statehood, he’s lying. But his thumbs up to the next load of 2,000 lb. bombs to level entire city blocks in Gaza represent the absolute truth of his commitment to a single Apartheid state solution for the Palestinian people.