Michael Moore announces new documentary "Where to Invade Next" about America's need for infinite war.

Here's the 6-min video from the Periscope I just did regarding my new film, WHERE TO INVADE NEXT. #W2IN #TIFF15 https://t.co/lKhLhTPUpn

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) July 28, 2015

Courtesy of The Guardian:  

Michael Moore’s new film, Where to Invade Next, explores how the US government maintains a state of “infinite war”, according to the Oscar-winning documentary film-maker. 

He said Where to Invade Next, which was filmed across three continents, was “epic in nature”, but made quietly with a small crew. “There’s usually someone chasing us,” he said. It seems the film, which premieres at the Toronto film festival in September, will cover some of the same ground as his Palme d’Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11, a critique of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” detailing the various dictatorships that have been supported by the US administration in the interests of maintaining conflicts that profited America. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking close to $120m (£75m) at the US box office. 

“The issue of the United States at infinite war is something that has concerned me for quite some time, and provides the necessary satire for this film,” said Moore in the Periscope broadcast. 

“[There’s] this constant need it seems to always have an enemy – where’s the next enemy so we can keep this whole military industrial complex alive, and keep the companies that make a lot of money from this in business. I’ve always been a little bothered by that, so that’s where the comedy comes from.”

Sounds like a very timely film.

Gee I wonder how the Right Wing will respond to it?

Oh yeah, we already know that don't we?

The percentage of our lives, determined by our birth date, that our country has been at war. Perhaps the most depressing thing you will see today.

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So according to this my country has been at war just under 45% of my life, and just over 55% of my daughter's.

I think I'm just going to stay in bed today.

Did the Pope just call out the Military Industrial Complex?

Courtesy of Ansa:  

Pope Francis said Monday that "many powerful people don't want peace because they live off war". The Argentine pontiff made the hard-hitting comment in response to a question from one of the 7,000 children taking part in an audience held with the Peace Factory organisation. "This is serious," Francis told the children. 

"Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms. 

"It's the industry of death".

Damn! Good for the Pope!

You know it must be getting harder and harder for the conservatives to support this guy.

Of course it should be noted that the first person to REALLY expose this group, was perhaps the last great Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Nobody seems to have listened to him at the time, I wonder if people are ready to listen to the Pope today.

It's Memorial Day so that means war pimping, warrior bod birthing, Sarah Palin MUST make a statement. And if she can get a dig in at the President, all's the better.

Courtesy of Lady Liberal Libation's Facebook page:

Enjoy this long, glorious spring weekend, and please never forget the true meaning of Memorial Day. We set this time aside to honor the men and women who for generations have ensured our safety and our ability to spend a day like this in freedom and peace. They are more than just names on gravestones in national cemeteries and battlefields. They were someone’s child, sibling, spouse, parent, and friend. As President Reagan said, on Memorial Day we remember “those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.” 

Thank you, God, for instilling the passion for freedom in these patriots. Thank you for equipping America with the resources to defend the liberty You have given us. (Did she just thank God for the Military Industrial Complex? You know, the people who donate millions of dollars to politicians so that they will keep starting wars that allow them to sell their murderous products to the government.)

Please remember our active veterans today as well as those who have fallen. Every American should feel outrage at any injustice done to our veterans seeking what was promised them when they volunteered to defend the homeland. They are owed the health care they have already paid for. Friends, be determined to right the wrongs our vets face today. (Ah, gotta twist that knife buried in President Obama's back, don't you nasty?)

President Lincoln knew our military heroes as "those who gave the last full measure of devotion” for our freedom; let’s continue Lincoln’s legacy of respect and always keep faith with our veterans. They, more than any, deserve our country’s unending respect and gratitude.

 - Sarah Palin

Reagan, Lincoln, did you ever notice that Palin likes to mention the same American presidents that Barack Obama said that he admired in past speeches and comments? Calling Dr. Freud.

Yes today is a day to honor our fallen soldiers who gave their lives in service of our country.

However it should not be a day for half term governors, failed reality stars, and current D-list celebrities to attack the President of this country, while pretending to care about the deaths of the actual soldiers whose lives were put in the kind of jeopardy that her own political connections protected her own son from facing.

In other words this should be a day free from hypocrisy.

Maybe now is a good time to revisit President Eisenhower's 1961 warning about the Military Industrial Complex.

The man was way ahead of his time.

New Obama ad: "Rebuilding."

I think that this is a very powerful ad that will probably have a profound impact on those military members, and their families, that are sick and tired of the constant deployments to places that are becoming increasingly tired of our presence in their countries.

I have always felt that Obama was trapped by politics, and the  GOP's desire to paint him as weak on defense, into staying in Afghanistan far longer than he would have liked, and I am confident that he will get us out in his second term.

It is absolutely time to end these wars and bring our troops home, and let's face it, despite what he might say, Mitt Romney is married to the military-industrial complex that simply wants eternal strife around the world in order to keep selling weapons and driving up their profits. And the proof of that is found in the neo-cons he has advising him in his campaign.