This scandalous statistic is revealed by Nicholas D. Kristof in an op-ed for the New York Times:
Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own…
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by Gerald Nicosia
Information Clearing House
"The reason I am doing this," said former…
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By Robert C. Koehler
April 16, 2010 "Buzzflash" -- What I thought
of, straight off, as I watched that Wikileaks Reveals Video Showing US Air Crew
Shooting Down Iraqi Civilians"…
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March 10, 2010
Via YouTube:
A man named Splitting the Sky, tried to arrest former President George W. Bush for war crimes. He crossed police lines on one of President Bush’s visits to Canada and was arrested. He now faces criminal charges in court, the trial began…
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by Prof. Anthony J. Hall
Global Research, February 2, 2010
Professor Boyle's intervention with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute the Bush War Cabinet for international crimes is welcome news. Professor Boyle's meticulously documented charges come shortly after news of a reward being set up in Great Britain for those who…
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RT
Published 03 December, 2009
US Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Sandra Lee, who was raped twice while serving in Iraq, shared her story in an interview with RT.
According to a new study by the US Department of Defense, one in three women in the military is raped. Veterans for Peace add to those statistics, claiming 75% of raped women…
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The Smirking Chimp
by Robert C. Koehler
November 26, 2009
In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children.
This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004,…
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By Ted Rall
November 19, 2009 -- NEW YORK--American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.
The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts…
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Disinfo.com
Posted by majestic on November 19, 2009
Matthew Cole and Brian Ross break an exclusive story for ABC News:
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.
Where affluent…
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Challenging Our Thinking About Military Service And War
By Paul Rockwell
November 17, 2009 - "
BlackCommentator" -- There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place…
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Think Progress
Nov 13th, 2009
Last month, 30 Republican senators voted against Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment that would punish defense contractors “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” His amendment was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by…
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Empire Burlesque
Written by Chris Floyd
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Talk is cheap; actions speak volumes. And it seems Barack Obama is compiling quite a volume for himself at America's flagship concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. As Andrew Wander reports,…
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By Daniel Tencer
November 05, 2009 "
Raw Story" -- November 04, 2009 --- The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Craig…
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By Ted Rall
October 29, 2009 "
UExpress" -- NEW YORK--Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under international treaties, yet both carried the force of law.
They still do.
The first order grants the president (and other officials,…
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By Mike Ferner
October 28, 2009 "
Information Clearing House" -- In a statement directed to the U.S. House of Representatives, President Obama and its membership, Veterans For Peace urged its chapters to demonstrate opposition to the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan by doing two things:
1) Take the actions listed below within the next…
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009
The list of musicians is very impressive. Many of them are in the Rock&Roll hall of fame in Cleveland. Unfortunately this list and the artists’ music is associated with one of the blackest marks in American history- the torturing of prisoners at Guantanamo.
Their songs are played at ear bleeding high volume to prisoners there. Many of the artists, who have supported progressive causes throughout their…
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By Scott Horton
Special to the
Huffington Post
September 09, 2009
Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaciously to incorporate what is commonly known as the Nuremberg Defense into a new international convention addressing enforced…
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By John S. Hatch
September 01, 2009 "
Information Clearing House" -- Henry Kissinger once referred to military service people as ‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as tools of foreign policy. One wonders if this man of no regrets nevertheless wishes he had not vocalized what in fact has been the position of successive US governments including the present one?…
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Added by Marklar on September 2, 2009 at 2:08pm —
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Alternet
By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast.
Posted August 3, 2009.
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the [muzzle] of the rifle [and] the wood from…
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