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    • Bipartisan Letter to President Obama on Turkey
    • INSIDE THE TIGER (13 February 2014)
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    • BAD TURKISH MOON RISING (29 January 2014)
    • TERRORIST TURKS, DOUBLE-FACED ARABS, MURDEROUS AMERICANS, HYPOCRITES EVERYWHERE, OPENING STATEMENT, GENEVA: Walid al-Moallem - SyriaN Foreign Minister (23 January 2014
    • RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN BURNS HIS REICHSTAG (16 January 2014)
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    • "Today, our nation is in crisis." Letter to President Gül (10 January 2014)
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    • LIARS (4 January 2014)
    • KİMDEN YANA OLMALI? (Türker Ertürk) 4 Ocak 2014
    • YÜCE ATATÜRK (8/12/2013)
    • TREASON TIME WITH TRAVIS (25 December 2013)
    • THE FETO SHOW (22 December 2013)
    • Naci Eriş: A Hero For These Times (15 November 2013)
    • Hello America, Obama's Best Friend Has Done It Again (25 October 2013)
    • FINAL CURTAIN (16 November 2013)
    • DIVINE WRONGS (8 November 2013)
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    • VERY LITTLE WOMEN (1 November 2013)
    • THE FIRE THIS TIME (29 October 2013)
    • Our Invisible Revolution (Chris Hedges) 28 October 2013
    • NOWHERE MAN (27 October 2013)
    • KILIÇDAROĞLU THE COLLABORATOR: Shaking Hands With Darkness (8 October 2013)
    • HALK TV'DE YILIN RÖPORTAJI: ESAD'IN ERDOĞAN HAKKINDA HİÇ ANLATMADIKLARI (10/05/2013)
    • ERDOĞAN MEANS "CATASTROPHE" IN ANY LANGUAGE (4 October 2013)
    • IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, IN ANOTHER WORLD (A Gezi Symphony-Prelude) 01-10-2013
    • FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP SAYING “INSHALLAH” (28 September 2013)
    • Din Hanesini Sildirdi (Kimlik): "BAŞBAKAN MÜSLÜMANSA BEN DEĞİLİM" 21.09.2013
    • The Ergenekon Verdicts: Chronicle of an Injustice Foretold (Gareth Jenkins)
    • TURKEY’S POOR PLAYER (23 August 2013)
    • DEMOCRATIC DEMONS (17 August 2013)
    • HAPPY DAY (3 August 2013)
    • UNDER OCCUPATION: A MANIFESTO (11 August 2013)
    • LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (28 July 2013)
    • “DEAR ERDOĞAN”— Letters from the World (26 July 2013)
    • IN OUR STARS (12 July 2013)
    • MY APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Admiral Türker Ertürk (Ret.)
    • The American Ambassador (20 June 2013
    • TURKEY’S DEAD MAN TALKING (1 July 2013)
    • Alain Badiou--Türkiye: Gerçek Bir Tarihi İsyan Mı? (19 Haziran 2013)
    • Alain Badiou--Turkey: A Genuine Historical Riot? (19 June 2013)
    • ERDOĞAN ON THE HORNS (18 June 2013)
    • GASSING WHILE BEING GASSED--A CONVERSATION
    • Ataturk Youth Earthquake Not A Turkish Spring (14 June 2013)
    • If They Are Not Turkish, What Are They (11 June 2013)
    • Fighting Words (11 June 2013)
    • A Montage: Taksim-Gezi Parkı Direnmiş (Resistance)
    • Barricade Defense
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    • What happens to a dream deferred? Ertelenmiş bir düş ne olur? 8 June 2013
    • Turkish Youth Cross Their Rubicon - 6 June 2013
    • ERDOĞAN: TURKEYS “MARGINAL” MAN (4 June 2013)
    • Ayranı Fazla Çekince (Bekir Coşkun-30 Mayıs 2013)
    • ÜMİT UMUTU VERİR 24 Mart 2013
    • Killer Democracy, a portrait
    • Letter to The Honorable Abdullah Gül, president of Republic of Turkey
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    • KILLERS! My last letter to Obama. (20 December 2013)
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    • OBAMABALL: an open letter to the President of the United States (2 August 2012)
    • Sinatra Dedicates One to Ataturk (17 May 2012)
    • As He Lay Dying (14 May 2012)
    • Viva 19 Mayis! Haydi gel! Bizimle ol!
    • It's 19 May...Know Your Enemy! (11 May 2012)
    • America,Turkey--Natural Born Killers
    • I'm as mad as hell... (2 April 2012)
    • ARAB SPRING=AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
    • General Asymmetrica (12 March 2012)
    • Happy World Women's Day in Turkey (8 March 2012)
    • Holy Terror 6 March 2012
    • Kusura Bakma Patron (Bekir Coşkun) 1 Mart 2012
    • The Second Coming of Mustafa Kemal
    • My e-mail note from Barack Obama (12/19/11) and my response
    • High Ground
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    • MEDIA ALERT: ATATURK SOCIETIES OF THE USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (6 June 2011)
    • BASIN BILDIRISI: AMERİKA VE İNGİLTERE ATATÜRK DERNEKLERİ (6 Haziran 2011)
    • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fascist Moustache
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    • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Wallace Stevens)
    • Epitaph on a Tyrant (W.H. Auden)
    • Ryan Interview: Kanal B, Bilmek Gerek, 28 March 2011
    • Ergenekon Headquarters (karargâh)
    • When the Nazis Came: 8 March 2011
    • Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
    • (Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
    • Letter to President Obama: 20 Oct. 2009
    • Letter to President Obama: 3 Jan. 2010
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    • Letter to US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 18 Feb. 2011
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    • Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future
    • Turkey-Slouching in Democracy- 25 March 2009
    • WHAT PERCENTAGE OF US ARE STUPID? 5 October 2009
    • The Bloody Streets of Populous Istanbul-17 December 2008
    • Headscarves, Turbans: The Ocular Proof-5 February 2008
    • Portrait of Ataturk-29 November 2006
    • Cool Turkey-7 December 2004
    • Making Hash of Turkish Democracy-16 September 2005
    • Today's Men-10 March 2003
    • Just Keep Saying No, Turkey-9 January 2003
    • Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
  • The Dead
    • AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
    • Bury My Heart At Heartbreak
    • "Adil" means "just" in Arabic (18 July 2012)
    • THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM IN DAMASCUS THIS LOVELY EVENING (14 June 2013)
    • IN ISTANBUL A DOORMAN DIES (31 January 2014)
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    • "Terrorist Pietá"
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    • TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
    • AMERICA
    • Joe the Biden Eats the Bison (21/01/2013)
    • A poem by Etheridge Knight
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  • On Peace
    • A WAR ON WARMONGERS, A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION (April 4, 2016)
    • WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOCIALIST by Chris Hedges (21 September 2015)
    • THE YOUNG EURO CLASSIC PEACE ORCHESTRA
    • MY PLEA FOR JUSTICE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (14 January 2015)
    • Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 October 2014
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    • NO WAY OUT YOU NO GOOD PSEUDO-AMERICAN NEOCON NUDNIK APPARATCHIKS! CATCH ME IF YOU DARE!
    • WILLIE MAYS FOR PRESIDENT! (SEPTEMBER 24, 2016)
    • COUNT ME OUT, BERNIE! NO MORE $3 CONTRIBUTIONS! March 2, 2016
    • The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide (26 August 2015)
    • WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (25 August 2015)
    • KILLING RAGHEADS FOR JESUS (By Chris Hedges) (26 January 2015)
    • The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
    • THOMAS PAINE, OUR CONTEMPORARY (27 May 2014)
    • JAMES SALTER
    • BEFORE A SUMMER SUN >
      • Prologue
      • 4. Teaching Bloody Instructions
      • 8. The Doctrine of Discovery
      • 11. Crazed from the Cradle
      • 15. The Necessary Ending of the American Indian
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      • JFK: Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (12 September 1960)
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    • The CIA and the Media
    • The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
  • On War
    • DON’T CRY TOO MUCH FOR BELGIUM 29 March 2016
    • “COUNTERPRODUCTIVE?" Russia and the Warring in Syria (by Gary Leupp) (23 September 2015)
    • DEBATE: THE REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE (Press TV) James Ryan and Richard Millett (8 September 2015)
    • IT IS TIME TO ARREST THE WAR CRIMINALS, OBAMA AND ERDOGAN. NOW! (28 August 2015)
    • Neither Truth Nor Consequence - 21 Nov 2006
    • MACHIAVELLI VOMITS: Obama and Erdogan Wallow In It (6 August 2015)
    • DRESSED TO KILL SYRIANS AND TRUTH AND US (25 July 2015)
    • Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh (July 7, 2008) The New Yorker
    • THE CHILDREN OF GAZA (2 August 2014)
    • PINK FLOYD: “Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves” (13 July 2014)
    • THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE by Chris Hedges (22 April 2014)
    • THE WORLD AS SEEN FROM THE TOP OF A BARRICADE (22 February 2014)
    • Can It Get Any Worse? (9 September 2013)
    • WAR TALK by West Point Graduates Against the War (November 2006, a radio interview) posted 27 August 2013
    • GOOD MOURNING AMERICA (26 August 2013)
    • TURKISH DECEIT: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Allah's Boys
    • HIROSHIMA (6 August 2012)
    • AMERICA’S WAR WHORES' REWARD (30 July 2012)
    • AMERICA’S WAR-HORSE HARLOTS (29 June 2012)
    • Hillary the Hypocrite
    • "Hope" a speech by Chris Hedges
    • Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier (W.H. Auden)
    • Speaking French-1 April 2003
    • PALESTINIANS: "HUMAN DUST" (30 June 2003) >
      • More Foul Play-27 March 2003
    • A Day in the Life-25 March 2003
    • The Return of the Has-Beens and the Never-Was-3 March 2003
    • The True Enemy-23 January 2003
  • On West Point
    • WEST POINT TO HONOR DISHONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH
    • OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
    • West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
    • On West Point, War and Pizza - 6 May 2006
    • Now Is The Time - 12 May 2006
    • Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
    • Cadet Bush at West Point: Screw that chin in, beanhead! - 1 June 2006
    • Guantánamo: The Subject Was Linens- 15 June 2006
    • Impeach the President of the United States - 7 October 2006
    • Election Eve Daze--Hanging in There Together - 6 November 2006
    • Peace Award Remarks - 12 November 2006 - Syracuse, New York
    • George W. MacBush–Serial Murderer - 15 December 2006
    • Abolish It! - 9 Feb 2007
  • Literary Criticism
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    • Mrs. Ramsay's Wedge: A View of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
  • Paintings
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    • EQUAL RIGHTS! ... EŞİT HAKLAR!
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    • "Her Şey Ortada"
    • Resimler (7/8/2012)
  • Presentations-Papers
    • Boğaziçi University-Symposium
  • For Reasons Unknown
    • THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN KILLING MACHINE (19 July 2014)
    • I-THE FRAME-UP (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 8 January 2009
    • II-THE ARRAIGNMENT (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 9 January 2009
    • III-ATATÜRK APPEARS (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 26 January 2009
    • How Old Are You? 4 May 2009
    • İŞTE!!! Kurmay Albay Dursun Çiçek!!! (28 October 2009)
    • A. K. P-NESS: The Condition of Being A.K.P. (27 October 2009)
  • On Living
    • "Art, Truth & Politics" by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
    • The Power of Imagination (Chris Hedges-13 May 2014)
    • WE ARE ALL ONE
    • The Story of Stuff-What Needs To Be Done (10 May 2012)
    • An Arab Springtime? by Samir Amin
    • From Resistance to Revolution
  • Photographs
    • Istanbul
  • Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
  • New Page
Picture
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity
is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents….
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without
conscience. We know more about war than we know about peace,
more about killing than we know about living.

November 10, 1948

General Omar N. Bradley
United States Military Academy at West Point

Class of 1915
CONTACT: James C. Ryan
jimryan62@yahoo.com


A WAR ON WARMONGERS

A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION



​NEW YORK--April 4, 2016
Ten years ago, appalled by the criminal violations and lying of the Bush administration, we came together as United States service academy graduates, first as West Point Graduates Against the War (wpgaw.org) later, more generally, as sagaw.org . We thought we could help redeem the honor of the United States. We stood opposed to the gross negligence and criminal behavior of the warmongering Bush cabal. We minced no words citing the Bush gang for high crimes and misdemeanors and called for impeachment and criminal prosecution. Everything worsened. Bush went, Obama came.
 
A president laurelled with the Nobel Peace Prize, educated as a constitutional lawyer, self-described as an agent for change and, at last, a force for negotiation and tolerance became a monstrous warmonger. The violations of international law continue. Our military is not so slowly being recommitted into the Middle East quagmire. World-wide war threatens mankind. The war crimes risks grow. For the United States, the agenda seems to be perpetual war against any and all comers. Nuclear weapons are profuse. The politicians snarl like dogs of war. The people despair. The American air is redolent with fumes of fascism and conquest.
 
What a sorry, murderous record of disaster and disgrace
 
 
  • The aftermath of the deceit-filled Iraq War Resolution passed by Congress on October 11, 2002 that continues.
 
  • The 2001 fiasco in Afghanistan that continues.
 
  • The Libyan debacle engineered by the CIA, the State Department and the bizarrely macabre secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
 
  • The CIA destabilization of Syria entailing the arming, training and supplying of Islamic fundamentalist head-choppers, courtesy of the above two culprits plus America’s criminal cabal with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan.
 
  • The inexplicable destruction of every secular state in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya and Syria.
 
When the media and heads of state wonder just what has caused today’s catastrophic refugee problem, it can just note the above shameful legacy.
 
Consider the appalling illegality of it all
The United States Constitution
Article VI, paragraph 2, makes treaties adopted by the U.S. part of the “law of the land.” Thus, a violation of the U. N. Charter, Hague IV, Geneva Conventions, etc. is also a violation of the Constitution.
 
U.S. Federal Law
U.S. Federal Law 18 U.S.C. § 2441 (War Crimes Act of 1996) makes committing a war crime, defined as: “…a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party…” punishable by fine, imprisonment, or death.
 
U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3314
Defines the crime of aggression as “... the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State…or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations…” 
Article 3(g) states that “The sending by or on behalf of a State of armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State of such gravity as to amount to the acts listed above, or its substantial involvement therein.”
 
Furthermore, regarding the use of force to effect "regime change," popularly and loudly proclaimed to be the essence of US foreign policy in Iraq, Libya and now Syria, is barred by Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." 
 
Simply stated, everything done and being done in the Middle East by the United States and its “partners” is illegal.
 
One could easily project the threatening rhetoric now being used against China and Russia to be criminal activity by the United States government. Only a month ago the US Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work announced that the recent test of intercontinental ballistic missiles indicates that nuclear weapons would be used by the US in defending America. Such outrageously provocative rhetoric. Defend against whom?
 
A detailed listing and analysis of the gross legal violations of the Bush era appears on the WPGAW website at http://www.wpgaw.org/laws_and_treaties_violated_by_pr.htm . They apply in even greater measure to the Obama administration.
 
What a deplorable misuse of American resources. What disgraceful warmongering “pivots” of Barack Obama. Can the corrupt and criminal foreign policy of the United States of America continue to despoil our military, our children’s future, our nation’s honor and hope for the planet?
 
Please stand with the innocent victims of this fifteen-year political and human atrocity. Stand with and for the rule of law, both domestically and global—in the final analysis that is the only protection we possess.  
 
Peace is a human right
On June 10, 1963, John F. Kennedy made a pivot too. He decried collaboration with the military-industrial complex and spoke of the lunacy of war and the commonality of human needs. This signed his death warrant. In his commencement address at American University, he delivered a speech for peace. Kennedy spoke of peace as a “human right,” asserting that peace was “the necessary, rational end of rational men.” He spoke as a person not as a politician, as a humanitarian not as a warmongering huckster. He reached out to unite a terrified world saying:  

"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futires. And we are all mortal."

 
And so we come to today, another day of war and war planning. Another day of designing even more destructive weapons. Another day of body counts and strategic pivots. Death today, death tomorrow. Another day for killing. The strategy? Annihilation. That’s the best that these irrational men and women that conspire and aspire to power can do. That’s the best future that we “rational” men and women and children can hope for.
 
Consider the presidential candidates. Have any of them stood opposed, really opposed, to the horrendous future that faces us all?  Have any of them even mentioned the horrendous wars launched by the Obama administration’s catastrophic foreign policy?  Trump, Clinton, Sanders, all the others…they speak about more of the same, more dollars for more deaths and, in the final analysis, more despair. That the disastrous likes of Hillary Clinton has become the leading democratic party candidate for president says it all. And the current administration has even talked the Japanese into violating their own constitution, a constitution that had rejected war forever. And the fascist Trump? And the other warmongers around the Republican throne? Words fail.
 
Except to say that none of this is good enough simply because it is so monstrously evil. And so obviously criminal. Another gross misuse of America’s military power looms not far off. And it might kill all of us. Obama has led by poor “example” further tarnishing the reputation and honor of the nation he swore to lead in conformance with its constitution. He has managed to even transgress the sordid Bush, moving beyond moral adolescence to constitutional felony. 
 
Thomas Jefferson said it best:
 
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing,
and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

 
The danger is clear and present. The time is now to claim our right to life, our absolute right to live! To live in a world that includes the rest of the world, and not as targets either. To live free from devastation. To exercise our fundamental human right to live in peace. And for people everywhere to be free of devastation. True, it may take forever. There is no other way. We must begin now. And one way to begin is to exercise our right to elect people to office who long for these same human values. None of our self-appointed leaders speak of these things. It is time for new people and new political parties. It is time for new voices that speak the language of peace. It is time to begin the new, better world.
 
Are we, the people, mere commodities, so pathetically stupid and complacent that we accept the brutal electoral choice to vote for the least repugnant candidate?
 
If so, it is surely time to rebel.
 
 
James C Ryan
USMA, 1962
 
Founder:
West Point Graduates Against the War
Service Academy Graduates Against the War

 
Service Academy Graduates Against the War calls on all graduates of United States service academies to speak out against the continuation of the destruction of the honor of the United States and the dissipation of its military in illegal acts of aggression. Membership is open to all alumni of the United States service academies, their widows, widowers and parents. Children of deceased graduates are also warmly welcomed.
​Enrollment has grown steadily and now includes retired and active duty graduates.
 
 
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