The Brereton report about allegations of war crimes against Afghan civilians by Australian troops, mainly the Special Air Service Regiment, was met in November with gasps of shock by the capitalist media and the appointment of a special prosecutor to bring criminal charges. The prosecutor’s appointment, however, was also the signal for the issue to drop out of the media and normal service to resume in the area of propaganda glorifying the military. When trials eventually occur, it will be years after the report, when the military have fabricated a story to exonerate the institution, whatever the fate of the individuals mentioned.
Australia’s imperialist military and the governments that sent it to Afghanistan shouldn’t ge... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
I.
Time brings a better adjustment to the war. There had been so many
times when, to those who had energetically resisted its coming, it seemed the
last intolerable outrage. In one’s wilder moments one expected revolt against
the impressment of unwilling men and the suppression of unorthodox opinion. One
conceived the war as breaking down through a kind of intellectual sabotage
diffused through the country. But as one talks to people outside the cities and
away from ruling currents of opinion, one finds the prevailing apathy shot
everywhere with acquiescence. The war is a bad business, which somehow got
fastened on us. They won’t want to go, but they’ve got to go. One decides that
nothing generally obstructive ... (From: fair-use.org.)
ALLIES: The fairies of Democracy.
BARBARIANS: The other fellows.
CONGRESS: The valet of Woodrow the First.
CENSORSHIP: The rape of Free Speech.
CONSCRIPTION: Free men fighting against their will.
CIVILIZATION: In God We Trust.
DEMOCRACY: The voice of the Gallery Gods.
FREE SPEECH: Say what you please, but keep your mouth shut.
HUNS: Loyal patriots from Central Europe.
HUMANITY: Treason to government.
JUSTICE: Successful target shooting.
KAISER: A President's ambition.
LIBERTY BOND: A bone from a bonehead.
LIBERTY LOAN: The bread line of the Unborn.
LOYAL CITIZEN: Deaf, dumb, and blind.
MILITARISM: Christianity in action.
PATRIOTISM: Hating your neighbor.
REGISTRATION: Funeral march of Liber (From: Anarchy Archives.)
We know that war has over-population as its primordial cause. Consequently, a new object offers itself to our investigative spirit in the search for the true cause of war: the true cause of overpopulation.
Overpopulation, on one hand, results from the fertility of woman, which is expressed by the humanity’s capacity of reproduction in a geometric progression. On the other hand, the progression in multiplication of foodstuffs is much slower, from which is born the disequilibrium between population and subsistence goods, a biological situation that generates war. But this doesn’t penetrate deeply enough into the study of the causes of war. If we remain at this level we see only a superficial phenomenon. In order to attain t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
“The future is already here,” Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson once said; “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Over the intervening decades, many people have repurposed that quote to suit their needs. Today, in that tradition, we might refine it thus: War is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.
Never again will the battlefield be just state versus state; it hasn’t been for some time. Nor are we seeing simple conflicts that pit a state versus a unitary insurgent that aspires to statehood. Today’s wars feature belligerents of all shapes and sizes: states (allied and non-allied), religious zealots (with or without a state), local and expatriate insurgents, loyalists to f... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
1915
On 25 April, Australian and other troops of the British Empire stormed a Turkish beach. Amid nationalist propaganda, nine million troops died fighting for their country’s capitalists in a war of economic rivalry between the imperialist powers. The European ruling classes set out to re-divide the colonies, slave labor and raw materials in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. From the safety of their offices and palaces the politicians, the capitalists and the crowned heads of Europe plotted the war and unprecedented numbers of young men were sent to their deaths. It was a demonstration of the efficiency of capitalism at applying murder on an industrial scale.
2008
Today, Australian troops assist in the United States occupations of... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World
War II brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think
about it, would have seemed a sudden and surprising alteration in their habits of thought.
In times of peace, we usually ignore the State in favor of partisan political
controversies, or personal struggles for office, or the pursuit of party policies. It is
the Government rather than the State with which the politically minded are concerned. The
State is reduced to a shadowy emblem which comes to consciousness only on occasions of
patriotic holiday.
Government is obviously composed of common and unsanctified men, and is thus a
legitimate object of criticism... (From: bopsecrets.org.)
Citizens:
A bishop who is blind both morally and physically which doesn’t prevent him from preaching the virtues of the waters of Lourdes while not himself using them (laughter); who inundates France with insulting little pamphlets in which he attempts to soil the Republic, but which doesn’t prevent him from going to that Republic’s cashier in his position as canon of Saint Denis and guardian of the tombs of the kings of France – though there are no more kings in France (renewed laughter) – M. de Ségur, to not give his name, wrote an infamous work entitled: “The Freemasons, What They Are, What They Do, What They Want.”
We in turn will study together this question: the Jesuits, what th... (From: Marxists.org.)
No one ever made a more important observation in seven words than Randolph Bourne once did: “War is the health of the state” (Resek 1964: 71). War has been the main motor for the extension of state power in Europe for a thousand years (Tilly 1992), and not only in Europe. War enlarges the state and increases its wealth and its powers. It promotes obedience and justifies the repression of dissent, redefined as disloyalty. It relieves social tensions by redirecting them outwards at an enemy state which is, of course, doing exactly the same thing with all the same consequences. From the state’s perspective, there is only one thing wrong with wars: they end.
That wars end is ultimately more important than whether they e... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
February and March in Armenia saw a disputed presidential election (19/2/2008) followed by eleven days of demonstrations in the capital Yerevan, broken up by tanks, police attacks and the imposition of a State of Emergency (1/3/2008).
Eight people, including a child, were killed by police and around 100 were injured including 33 police. An apparently unrelated border fire-fight on 4/3/08 in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, disputed with neighboring state of Azerbaijan with whom Armenia is still technically at war, broke a ceasefire agreed in 1994, killing 12 Armenian conscripts.
But everything will be fine now because the great peace-maker John ‘Are you looking at me?’ Prescott is on his way to sort everything out. Prezza is... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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