Mystic Politics

5 Ways US National Security Policies Will Erode Civil Liberties in 2012

‘By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and the threat of al-Qaeda so diminished that it should hardly move the needle on the national worry meter. You might think, in fact, that the moment had arrived to turn the American gaze back to first principles: the Constitution and its protections of rights and liberties.’

Military Intelligence Complex: Throwing Money at the Pentagon

‘If you’ve been fretting about faltering math education and falling test scores here in the United States, you should be worried based on this campaign season of Republican math. When it comes to the American military, the leading Republican presidential candidates evidently only learned to add and multiply, never subtract or divide.’

Noam Chomsky: Are We About to Get Embroiled in a Nightmare War With Iran?

‘Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace. In the Arab world, Iran is disliked but seen as a threat only by a very small minority. Rather, Israel and the U.S. are regarded as the pre-eminent threat. A majority think that the region would be more secure if Iran had nuclear weapons: In Egypt on the eve of the Arab Spring, 90 percent held this opinion, according to Brookings Institution/Zogby International polls.’

#Kony2012: Youth Movement Promotes US Military Presence in Central Africa

‘KONY 2012 is produced like any other sleek marketing campaign – instead of stimulating elements of self-satisfaction like advertisers would do to promote a product, US military intervention is justified to end an atrocious humanitarian catastrophe. The film also plays on an underlying theme of the White Man’s Burden, a notion that persons of European descent inherit a quality of guilt for their ancestors’ inclination for slavery and colonialism, requiring an activist response to finally correct the situation by “saving Africa.”’

Conservative Conspiracy Craze: Who Killed Andrew Breitbart?

‘Only a couple of days after the repulsive drive by media assassin Andrew Breitbart dropped dead on the sidewalk in front of his house, at least according to his father in-law the actor Orson “Me and the Orgone” Bean, the right wing conspiracy saw is buzzing away.

An article on the conservative World News Daily suggested that we will know if Breitbart was whacked„ most likely by an Obama death squad, if the tapes don’t come out.’

Andrew Breitbart’s unexpected death sparks wild conspiracy theories

‘Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death has sparked wild conspiracy theories that the publisher was murdered on the President’s orders.’

Aerial Surveillance, Snipers, Face Masks: Chicago’s Newest NATO/G8 Anti-Protest Measures Revealed

‘Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch. The latest news comes in the form of reports that Chicago has purchased face shields, and may be considering the implementation of airborne surveillance technology.’

How Obama should fight the ‘war on religion’

‘It seems far-fetched, from my perspective, to think that God should have any opinion at all about contraceptive technology, let alone about which corporate entity should pay for it. Yet that is the argument the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops made last week. God doesn’t like birth control, they said. To force Catholic organizations to pay for birth control goes against God and so against the consciences of right-minded Catholics who believe in God.’

French far-right turns to halal meat as next political wedge issue

‘A TV documentary’s revelation that slaughterhouses around Paris have switched meat production entirely to halal methods has stirred a political storm in France, where attitudes to Europe’s largest Muslim minority are a subtext in a presidential election campaign.’

Israel’s newest politician breaks his silence, attacks ultra-Orthodox and political corruption

“The Palestinians don’t need to battle us,” Lapid said. “They can make a cup of coffee, light a cigarette and wait 12 years and the Zionist country will crumble from within.”