Global Crier

Today the United States has a global military presence that would not be tolerated by any other nation in the world. The United States global military operations and actions are similar to those of Israel in the Middle East. Both nations take on unilateral foreign military operations in the name of there own national security that no other nations could get away without a great global out cry. Both nations claiming to be for freedom and democracy while they unilaterally dictate their military policies onto other nations of people.

It is the hypocrisy of what the United States and the State of Israel are saying in what they are doing militarily compared to the political realities on the ground. Between the way we say things are and the way things are really there is too often a great difference. It is this gap where the miss-understandings are created taking our leaders down the wrong road that is going the wrong way too many times. With the single issue lobbies such as the military industrial complex, pro Israel, Banking, Oil, etc leading the way of our elected leaders in Washington D.C..

Our nation never heeded to the warning of former President Eisenhower about the threat of the Military Industrial Complex in his 1961 Farewell Address. Today the United States militarily has become almost everything we accused the former Soviet Union durning the Cold War. Just look at the number of nations and the number of countries the United States has a military presence and the amount of money we are spending in the name of military defense and security. The United States and Israel are trying to maintain foreign/military policies and actions that are not sustainable over the course of time. With many of these foreign/military policies and actions being at the root of so much of the great hatred and contempt of both nations by the international community of nations.

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex. - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

List of United States military bases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases

Military Maps Mother Jones
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Labels: Israel, Middle East, military industrial complex, United States, world

The polarity of the State of Israel and for that matter the United States is so out of balance between peace and war with those who they do not agree with. Both nations have been creating more enemies than friends with there overly aggressive military actions and policies. With the military industrial complex being a major part of both nation’s economy. The art of diplomacy, far too often falling into deaf ears.

The Palestinian people have been the guinea-pigs of the Israeli military industrial complex. The latest being the Israelis provocation of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Getting the Palestinians to fire more rockets into Southern Israel so they could test their new “Iron Dome” system. By all accounts the tests went very well according to the Israeli military spokesperson. The Iron Dome responded to 63 of the larger Palestinian missiles fired into southern Israel with Iron Dome intercepting 52 of them. At a cost of one-hundred thousand dollars a missile.

The Israeli’s unmanned military drones program has used the Palestinians as a testing ground with their targeting assassinations and spying on the Palestinian people. A whole host of other Israeli military products, programs, and military weapons have been tested on the Palestinian people. The Israeli military test results help them market and sell their products at the international military trade shows.

The question, one must ask themselves; Can the State of Israel and the United States economy be healthy in peacetime with so much of the economy being based in wartime manufacturing.?With the United States having the world’s largest military industrial complex by far and the State of Israel being in the top five. The negative polarity that is built up by such a large and overwhelming military industrial complexes of the United States and the State of Israel is leading us into a cycle of endless wars and conflicts. David Global Crier

Labels: Iron Dome, Israel, Middle East, military industrial complex, United States

The sane verses the insane with the insane extremists winning most of the time. Whether it is on Newsvine.com or in the mass media news on TV or in print the inflammatory extremists get the headlines with the highest ratings. Leaving little time and front page room for the moderates in the middle. Whether it is the rhetoric from the extreme right or the extreme left they get the most coverage that inflames the people in the middle as well as the people on the other side. This is true all around the world. It is part of human nature. It unites people and divides the people creating the different sides.

No where is this clearer than in the Palestinian/Israeli crisis, the issue of going to war, political campaigns as well as the moral issues. Generally speaking there will be one side of the establishment that is well financed with the other side that is challenging the status-quo that is running on a shoe-string budget. This is the part of the matrix of our system and human nature that makes it harder in solving our problems. Just look at what extreme the National Rifle Association (NRA) will go to defend the American peoples right to own and possess an assault rifle. Or the United States establishment’s campaign to going into war verses the peacemakers who are labeled as traitors and being anti patriots.

The military industrial complex has a vested interest in supporting the military State of Israel, the American people’s right to own an assault rifle and the pounding of the drums for more war. They are all good for more sales and higher profits. There is no way to peace with such great profits being monopolized by a few people and corporations by going to war. The candidates of the two major political parties in the United States cannot challenge the current status-quo without being politically destroyed and discredited as a viable leader. Just look at how fast and how high our federally elected leaders in Washington D.C. move up the ladder to powerful positions by being for more wars. Then look at our federally elected leaders that stand-up speaking out against more war. For the most part they are sidelined and shunned by the establishment often made out to being misfits. Just look at these members of Congress such as Senator Bernard Sanders, Congressman Denis Kucinich and Congressman Ron Paul as good examples of this. Then look at the Congressional leaders of the House and Senate and how much money they have received from the supporters of the military industrial complex and the militarization of the State of Israel as well as the Middle East region. David Global Crier

Labels: Israel, military industrial complex, Peace, politics, United States, war

If you want to know why we are not heading down the road to peace. Just read this Congressional Research Service report U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel of September 16, 2010

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

The United States government has pledged over three billion dollars a year in military aid to the State of Israel until the year 2018. This is on top of, well over a hundred billion dollars of United States aid to the State of Israel over the years. With two-thirds of it being military aid. It works out to over five-hundred dollars per every Israeli annually.

The military industrial complex in the United States and the State of Israel profit greatly from this military aid package. The State of Israel could not afford to maintain the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the imprisonment of the 1.4 Palestinian people in Gaza without the United States military aid package over the many years. While the United States gives the Palestinian a hundred or two hundred million dollars a year if they behave and do not try something stupid like trying to become a recognized nation in the United Nations. Yet the Israelis bomb the hell out of Gaza and more bombs and military aid is on the way from the U.S.A..

With a few people and corporations in the United States and Israel making so much money off of this military aid package. They are heavily vested in seeing that the military aid continues. Making it harder, to nearly impossible to get on the road towards peace with so much money pledge towards conflict. There is not one federal elected official in Washington D.C. that would stand up in front of their peers and or the American people and say: “Let us invest thirty billion dollars into the Arc plan A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State over the next ten years. It is a giant leap in the right direction into finding a peaceful solution in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.. It addresses many of the problems the people of Palestine face in forming a viable state. Only with a prospers Palestinian society that resembles the society of the State of Israel will the people of both societies have any real security. Yet almost in a single voice on both sides of the isle in Washington D.C. the United States government pledges over thirty billion dollars of military aid to the State of Israel over a ten year period. Global Crier

This is the link to an 8 minute and 35 minute video outlining the Arc.The Arc: A Formal Structure For a Palestinian State | RAND

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2008/08/26/the_arc.html

Here is a link to the Rand Corporation’s web page to the Arc Reach Brief. There is a link to the full outline version of the Arc at the bottom of the page.

The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State | RAND http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9119/index1.html

These are two links of Doug Sulsman presentation of the Arc at the J Street YMCA New York, NY.

THE ARC AT J STREET Part 1.mov - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DMHSDPLS4

THE ARC AT J STREET Part 2.mov - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztM-9O1KBQg&feature=related

Labels: Israel, Middle East, military industrial complex, Paletine