26th Sep 2022

Roger Waters brands Biden ‘war criminal’

PPEmpire: Biden is responsible for the destruction of Yugoslavia and Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and part of Syria. Biden has enabled Saudi Arabia's attacks on Yemen. Ukranie's attack on its former Russian provinces and Israel's destruction of Palestine.

In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the 1999 NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia. He and Senator John McCain co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on Clinton to use all necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milošević over Yugoslav actions toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

Biden was a strong supporter of the War in Afghanistan, saying, "Whatever it takes, we should do it."

In October 2002, he voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, approving the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Joe Biden has appointed warmongers, whose attitude to nuclear war is terrifyingly cavalier, to run the Pentagon, the National Security Council and the State Department.

The aims being pursued increasingly openly by the United States in this war inevitably involve the expansion of the conflict. There is nothing left of the fiction that the United States and NATO are not at war with Russia. In pursuit of regime change, the dismemberment of Russia and the plundering of its vast resources, America is risking nuclear war.

Roger Waters brands Biden ‘war criminal’ who is ‘just getting started’ 

NYPost: Pink Floyd mainstay Roger Waters is calling President Biden a “war criminal” during his latest US stadium tour — blaming him for “fueling the fire” of Russia’s war with Ukraine.

As part of his show, the 78-year-old rocker flashes a picture of the 46th commander-in-chief onto a giant screen behind the stage along with the words, “War criminal — just getting started.”

Asked about the display over the weekend by CNN, Waters said, “President Biden? Well, he’s fueling the fire in the Ukraine, for a start – that is a huge crime.”

In a testy, politically charged exchange, CNN’ host Michael Smerconish insisted the rock legend had “got it reversed” by “blaming the party that got invaded.”

“Well, any war, when did it start?” Waters replied, pushing a line that Russian President Vladimir Putin has used to justify his invasion.

“You could say it started in 2008 – this war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when [former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from the whole of Eastern Europe,” he said.

Waters shared a similar alternative view when Smerconish suggested China was “busy encircling Taiwan” with ongoing military drills in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governed island.

“They’re not encircling Taiwan – Taiwan is part of China!” Waters said emphatically.

“And that’s been absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948 – and if you don’t know that, you’re not reading enough. Go and read about it!”

Waters went on to further back Beijing, saying, “The Chinese didn’t invade Iraq and kill a million people in 2003. In fact … who have the Chinese invaded and murdered, slaughtered?”

When Smerconish said “their own,” the rocker snapped, “Bollocks. That’s absolute bollocks. Complete nonsense — you should go away and read!”

Smerconish reminding the rock singer that America was seen by most of the world as a liberator.

Waters, who has frequently chronicled the devastation of the war that killed his father in Floyd and solo music, also pushed back on that. “You got into World War II because of Pearl Harbor,” he said of the surprise Japanese attack on a U.S. naval base in Honolulu that drew America into the war. “You were completely isolationists [beforehand]. Thank God the Russians had already won the bloody war by then. 23 million Russians died, protecting you and me from the Nazi menace.”

Waters’ “This is Not a Drill” tour — which stops at Long Island’s UBS Arena this weekend and Madison Square Garden at the end of this month — also touches on the murder of George Floyd, abortion and gun control.

In 2019, he criticized a Live Aid-style concert for humanitarian aid in Venezuela, claiming it was a US-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government.

The show in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta aimed to raise millions of dollars to provide food and medicine for Venezuelans suffering widespread shortages.

Roger Waters named on far-right Ukrainian hit list 

The Kiev-based website Myrotvorets has accused musician Roger Waters, a founding member of rock group Pink Floyd, of “anti-Ukrainian” offenses. These alleged offenses include spreading “anti-Ukrainian propaganda,” collaborating in efforts to legalize Russia’s annexation of Crimea and challenging Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The site displays screen shots of an interview that Waters gave to Russian media in 2018, along with general information about Waters and remarks about the war in Ukraine that the musician has made in recent interviews. For example, it cites his comments about Crimea, the US State Department’s support for the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine, and the campaign of Russophobia. The site also quotes his characterization of Russians as “brave, steadfast and unyielding.”

At the bottom of the page, Myrotvorets calls for “law enforcement agencies” to intervene against Waters for his “deliberate acts against Ukraine’s national security, against peace, human security and international law and order, as well as other offenses.”

Myrotvorets reportedly was established in 2014 by Anton Gerashchenko, former aide to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs. It lists personal information such as addresses and phone numbers for some of the alleged “enemies of Ukraine” that it names. The site became infamous when several people that it had singled out were murdered. These figures include Ukrainian writer Oles Buzina, former Ukrainian legislator Oleg Kalashnikov and Italian freelance photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli.

Waters has long spoken out against nationalism and war in his music and in interviews. His own father was killed during World War II, and his grandfather during World War I. Among the themes of the legendary Pink Floyd album The Wall (1979), of which Waters was the main writer, is the menace of fascism. The Final Cut (1983) contrasts the patriotism that the British state promoted during World War II with what Waters saw as the country’s betrayal of its fallen soldiers. It also includes fierce statements against the Falklands War.

In his comments on the war in Ukraine, Waters has demonstrated an understanding of history and a healthy opposition to state authority. He has consistently distinguished between ordinary people and the states under which they live. Regarding the status of Crimea, Myrotvorets quotes Waters as saying, “I know that Sevastopol is very important for Russia and Russians. There are many contracts and papers according to which Russia has all the rights to this city.”

Waters has correctly argued that the war did not begin with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. “The change of power in Ukraine [in 2014], planned by Washington, simply provoked Moscow to take further action,” he said. In a recent interview with CNN that garnered significant attention, Waters flatly refuted the US State Department talking points that interviewer Michael Smerconish repeated. He emphasized that the eastward expansion of NATO, which was carried out in violation of diplomatic assurances that had been given to Russia, was a major contributing factor to the war.

Waters also has raised hackles by pointing out the hypocrisy of President Joe Biden’s insistence on respect for international law.

 Despite the way he has been depicted in various publications, Waters does not support Putin. In response to a letter from Alina Mitrofanova, a 19-year-old Ukrainian fan, Waters wrote, “I read your letter, I feel your pain, I am disgusted by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it is a criminal mistake in my opinion, the act of a gangster, there must be an immediate ceasefire.” He posted his response as an open letter on Facebook in March.

Waters added that “Western governments are fueling the fire that will destroy your beautiful country by pouring arms into Ukraine, instead of engaging in the diplomacy that will be necessary to stop the slaughter.” He also politely contradicted a statement that Mitrofanova had made about the political atmosphere in Ukraine. “Your ‘200 percent’ belief that there are no neo-Nazis in your country is almost certainly mistaken,” he wrote, mentioning the Azov Battalions, the National Militia and C14 as “well-known, self-proclaimed neo-Nazi groups.”

Waters is currently performing on his “This Is Not a Drill” tour.

Roger Waters Brings Stunning Visuals, Fiery Politics to NYC on This Is Not a Drill Tour

Billboard: Waters deserves credit for forcing 20,000 nostalgia-seeking Floyd fans to face uncomfortable realities that most concerts serve as an escape from. He reminded everyone that MSG (and all of New York City) sits on land stolen from the Munsee-Lenape people centuries ago. And during a thumping version of “Run Like Hell” that segued into an acoustic “Déjà Vu” from his most recent solo effort, Is This the Life We Really Want?, he made us Americans confront the bone-chillingly blasé footage of U.S. troops gunning down two Reuters journalists in a peaceful public space after they mistook cameras for weapons back in 2007. (After Chelsea Manning’s decision to leak the footage caused a reckoning three years later, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command said, “We regret the loss of innocent life,” although no one was ever punished for the deaths. A “Free Julian Assange” message accompanied the footage).

There were images branding everyone from Ronald Reagan to sitting President Biden a “war criminal.” There were claps, and even tears, when he ran footage of police officers mercilessly beating unarmed, nonviolent civilians along with the names of murder victims from George Floyd in Minneapolis to journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Palestine. All of that went down during a driving, funky take on “The Powers That Be” from his 1987 solo album Radio K.A.O.S., which sounds pretty dated if you’re listening to the studio version (the MOR ’80s rock production is strong on that one) but boasts a weightier urgency when delivered by his current touring band.

This Is Not a Drill it’s an arresting spectacle complemented by an equally immersive sonic experience that manages to be loud as hell without veering into head-splitting levels that have you reaching for earplugs. And when that inflatable sheep made the rounds above the heads of fans during, naturally, “Sheep,” there was a visible delight on everyone’s face.

Do yourself a favor. Think for yourself. Be your own person. Question everything. Stand for principle. Champion individual liberty and self-ownership where you can. Develop a strong moral code. Be kind to others. Do no harm, unless that harm is warranted. Pretty obvious stuff...but people who hold these things in their hearts seem to be disappearing from the earth at an accelerated rate. Stay safe, my friends. Thanks for being here.

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