US Homegrown Terrorism!
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 13 Jan 2025
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service
10 Jan 2025 – Most people know by now that on New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks in the US by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets – one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas. The casualty figures could have been much higher if planted explosive devices in New Orleans had detonated.
A US Gulf War Vet carried out the deadliest domestic homegrown terrorist attack in US history on April 19, 1995. It involved a massive truck bomb explosion outside the Oklahoma City Federal Building by 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh that killed 168 people and injured 684.
The US has been using young people to wage military coups and imperial wars around the world for a very long time. The death toll, injury, and displacement figures are in the tens of millions. See:
U.S. Veterans: Major Source of Domestic Terrorists – TRANSCEND Media Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
It now appears that US imperial terror is tragically coming home to roost in homegrown Veteran terrorist attacks. It’s also tragic that every day 22 US Vets are committing suicide. That points to a lack of meaningful medical care for Vets to address the trauma of killing and war for the merchants of death.
17 Jan 2025 marks 132 years since US troops assisted Sugar barons in the 1893 illegal overthrow of the independent nation of Hawaii and Hawaii’s Queen Liliu’okalani. Hawaii has been under illegal US military occupation ever since and is now one of the most militarized and military-contaminated toxic places on the planet. It’s time the US stops sending young people to kill and die in US Imperial wars to enrich corporate war profiteers and billionaire oligarchs. The US needs to end its addiction to war and redirect military spending to address healing the planet from human-made climate catastrophe, and providing basic needs such as food, housing, medical care, education, etc. not more bombs and wars!
High Tech Billionaires have replaced Hawaii sugar barons. People like Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, and others have palatial estates in Hawaii while Hawaii’s native people are priced out of their homeland.
High Tech Billionaires have replaced Hawaii sugar barons. People like Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, and others have palatial estates in Hawaii while Hawaii’s native people are priced out of their homeland.
This must end!
Join the weekly Hilo Peace vigil on Fridays now in its 24th year, and join Big Island peace organizing meetings held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6 – 8 PM.
The next peace organizing meeting is Monday, 13 Jan.
Live Aloha!
Ground the Drones! Say No to War!
- Mourn all victims of violence
- Reject war as a solution
- Defend civil liberties.
- Ground the Drones! Say No to War!
- Oppose all discrimination: anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti- Russian, anti-LGBTQ, etc.
- Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai’i and around the world.
17 Jan 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1216– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office
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Jim Albertini is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, a former Catholic School teacher, and long-time social justice activist since the US war on Vietnam. He has done research on the use of depleted uranium at Pohakuloa Military Training Area and is the author of “The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World.” Jim is the founder and director of Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action, a spiritual community based on peace, justice and sustainable organic farming on Big Island, Hawai’i – P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai’i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: ja@malu-aina.org – website: malu-aina.org
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Tags: Cultural violence, Direct violence, Domestic Terrorism, Pentagon, Structural violence, USA
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