

Rose Brooks wants everyone to go along with the AUMF which, in her mind, doesn't really matter. She doesn't mean Congressional discussion because she slaps down Republicans and chides Democrats.Īnd she doesn't want one. If you're wondering what discussion, you're not alone. She felt it was great that it had spawned a 'discussion.' notes:īut Rosa, still the foot soldier for Barack, wanted everyone to know, the AUMF doesn't matter. And this month, she also penned a worthless column for Foreign Policy - a column wrongly praised by The Guardian newspaper because, as C.I. But Brooks is a Socialist who worked in the administration of Barack Obama, during his first term, and provided cover for The Drone War and other events. No, she's not famous for much of anything other than being the daughter of crazy Babs. He didn't name her, but he could have been referring to Rosa Brooks as one of the "significant numbers of the left." Permanent war has been accepted as a fait-accompli by the general public and even significant numbers of the left. It is as if the capitalist oligarchy’s strategy of Marginalized and shrinking left, the reports that the administration wasĬonsidering both of these courses of action were met with passing

Outside of a few articles written by some of us confined to the Sectors of what use to be the anti-imperialist and anti-war left. One would expect from the anti-interventionist liberals and significant Not generate the kind of muscular opposition and sense of urgency that

Possibly send more heavy weapons to its client government in Ukraine did The announcement by the Obama administration that it will seekĬongressional authorization to expand the war on ISIS in Syria and While it would have been great to see the topic discussed as a topic and not an update (and the topic is certainly worthy of a full hour of exploration by the program), we will give the radio show and hosts Michael Ratner and Heidi Boghosian credit for breaking the silence.Ījamu Baraka ( Dissident Voice) pointed out last week: Make no mistake, the illegal Iraq War was a rainmaker for Pacifica Radio. Host Michael Ratner observes, among other things, that, "When liberals want to vote for something bad but feel better about it, they say, 'Oh, let's put a sunset clause in it'." That is the only reason for the sunset clause - such a clause never really has real world meaning. This week, Law and Disorder Radio finally breaks Pacifica Radio's long silence on Barack Obama's AUMF request to Congress (so that Congress will convey legality on Barack's current wars on Iraq and Syria).
