The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that we are all in deep do do”. In the name of peace and for the survival of the human race and all life forms on the third planet from the Sun in spacetime as of today a new way of thinking will begin”.

‘Tony Blair, prime minister when the conflict began in 2003, is due to join senior defence figures in attendance.’

Queen to honour UK Iraq personnel
About 120,000 UK service personnel and civilians served in Iraq.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are to lead the Royal Family at a service of commemoration honouring military and civilian personnel who served in Iraq.
Veterans and relatives of the 179 people killed will take part in the service at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Tony Blair, prime minister when the conflict began in 2003, is due to join senior defence figures in attendance.
British combat operations in Iraq officially ended on 30 April with a flag-lowering ceremony in Basra.
About 120,000 members of the UK armed forces and civilians served in Iraq.
Other senior royals, including Princes Charles and William, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Princess Royal are expected to attend the service, along with the leaders of Britain’s main political parties.
UK fatalities in Iraq: In images
Emotions as UK honours Iraq force

A candle will be lit on behalf of those who lost their lives by Tracey Hazel, mother of Cpl Ben Leaning, 24, from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, who was killed when his armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in April 2007.

She said she felt “privileged and honoured” to perform the task.
“The service is a fantastic idea. It makes me so proud to be British and a lot of other people should be,” she added.

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams will bless the centrepiece of the “Basra Wall”, built by troops in front of the 20th Armoured Brigade’s Iraqi HQ to honour fallen comrades.
The wall, with its brass plaques and marble centre stone, was the focal point of the memorial service in April to mark the end of the UK operation. It is to be rebuilt at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, with the help of a contribution from the Iraqi government…

http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/2009/10/poverty-and-conflict-faith-as.html

… Note that there is no mention of the Iraqi casualties in the BBC report above or anything about the effect of two savage wars and sanctions inflicted on the people of that country, the cradle of our civilisation.

This is no surprise. More than 90% of the voters voted for this during the last election. We need to stop blaming the government and start holding voters responsible. And about blaming the media – that’s a cop out. Voting has consequences.

I agree that marching and protesting are not effective. It’s either ballots or bullets. Take your choice.

I would like to second that.

i write having mostly in mind young people and with english that their mother speaks and understands. because that`s the only language they understand.
They don`t undertsand the language of clinton and obama; i don`t either!
It wld be ncie if kids from age ten wld read DV. We have to get to them before movies, tv, pols, cnn, `educators`, priests and other lyars get to them.

In my experience, one can`t talk to most adults about their business; it just isn`t their business. They don`t seem to follow u! tnx

that this is the time for dramatic change, but it is not going to happen by following any elected official, but demanding change from them — showing our anger, our organization and refusal to compromise. Of course the right wing responded to the Civil Rights, Vietnam and Environmental movements of the 60s

There an aspect of what Mr. Zeese is saying that I’m in disagreement. He says that we need to demand change from the elected officials. I disagree with that. What we needed is to forget about the elected officials and demand change from ourselves. We need to rethink the strategy and become much more militant in our demands and to encourage and produce “leaders” from within. In other words time to take a page from the old Black Panthers manual. Going back and relearning their forms of organizing I think has been long forgotten by the Left.

As an example the single payer health care issue is floundering because the demand is too weak and ISOLATED from other aspects that needed to be integrated for the attainment of good health. First off the system NEVER gives you want to demand you’ll always have to compromise therefore in order to get single pay you’ll have to THREATEN the system. A general strike is one way but since so many people are mired in DEBT and with a workforce lacking unionism it going to be difficult to use that as a tactic.

Therefore in order to tackle the health case issue HOUSING and DEBT repudiation MUST BE INTEGRATED into the demand for single payer with MILITANCY.

Take a listen to David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn in a discussion with Laura Flanders

Listen to Cockburn suggest DEBT REPUDIATION and how it can be done with militancy to make a huge IMPACT. Also debt repudiation is the only response to the bank bailout with no bailout for ordinary citizens. In addition it also provide strategies to protect from the courts which is used by Capitalist to maintain the immerseration of the working class. To DEFY the courts and these UNJUST LAWS is the core of MILITANCY.

Is the Left up to the task. I don’t think so because we still are hearing rhetoric about changing the politicians. Fuck the politicians. It’s time for PEOPLE to TAKE POWER and become our own leaders.

Absent critical thinking skills and factual knowledge on a sufficient percentage of the U. S. voting population, there can be no peaceful change here, only as Bozh puts it, “enserfment of lower classes.”

Do you recall the results of all of those protests in the Vietnam era? The Civil Rights bill of 1965? Clean Air and Clean Water?

The result was Richard Mellon Scaife and his pals, in 1976, deciding to put an end to the prattling of the rabble. Voila! Ronald Regan appeared as if by magic and the game was over.

having slavery, lynchings, segregation, 18o wars, nuking japan, reducing indigenous pop dwn to less than ?5% of original pop can be done only if there is one politico-educational system functioning on an interpretative writ called constitution; interpreters of it being the integral part of that system.
Only one party system can and does prevent the basic human rights such as healthcare, higher education, right to be informed, etc.

All members of US governance [one and the only; there ain't two]: constitution, judiciary, education, media, corporations, military, cia, fbi, city police, entertainment industry, pols work-think-behave in unison

US is not the only country that exhibits such a phenomenon: nazi germany, mussolini’s italy, and japan all had virtually the system that US had now for a few centuries.

In short, in US today we have a near-perfect structure of governance for enserfment of lower classes.
It can be changed in favor of low class [90% of americans] to some degree only by a political party. Of course, the new party wld not at first control to any degree corporate media, constitution, cia, fbi, miltary but as it wld grow it just might win over a general; a few cia agents, educators, et al.
And that is i do not at this time hyphenate the second party to education, cia, judiciary, etc. I call it now a second party that might unite leftists and the rightists to obtain the minimum: healthcare, right to be informed. tnx

I’ve been involved in third party politics for years. It is a frustrating and challenging process. The duopoly has put up barriers every step of the way, the media rarely covers third party candidates and the money-dominated elections favor parties big business likes. I appreciate people trying to breakthrough electorally.

But, we need a real mass movement to hold whoever is elected accountable. We know from looking around the world and in history what is needed — general strikes, shutting down the capitol so business as usual is stopped — efforts that demonstrate the people are organized and serious. We don’t have that yet in the U.S. and there are lots of challenges to achieving it. But, that is where we need to go — mass organization that is unwilling to compromise.

Obama actually did not lie during his campaign. He put forward a crummy health care plan that was a giveaway to the insurance industry. He advocated for big bailouts of Wall Street. He talked about clean coal and nuclear power. And, he talked about expanding the Afghan and Pakistan wars as well as not really getting out of Iraq. He was slick in his salesmanship always beginning with “I will end the war” and not discussing the details too much. The corporate media labeled him the peace candidate and proclaimed he would provide health care to all–neither was true then and neither is true now. He is a Wall Street Democrat who believes in American Empire. So, don’t expect to much change over the next four or eight years — just tinkering at the edges.

That was a comment on DV a few moons back. I forget her name who wrote that and she summed it up very well. To just see and hear knowledge the real thing just once from so called leaders but oh no still greed profit the whole power thing and just a game with strange rules. Again it looks like the next 6 months or so the status quo will happen. Then what? The Republicans here in the States back for another try in 2012, Nostradamus it looks like you were right and the low road is the choice.