Thu 17 May 2012
Wed 16 May 2012
Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. (more…)
Wed 16 May 2012
Tue 15 May 2012
Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
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Bill Quigley Commondreams
US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds of those killed were civilians. (more…)
Tue 15 May 2012
Former U.S. officials, paid to advocate for a designated Terror group, are now on the verge of succeeding
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Glenn Greenwald Salon
A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians has spent the last two years aggressively advocating on behalf of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), an Iranian dissident group that has been formally designated for the last 15 years by the U.S. State Department as a “foreign Terrorist organization.” (more…)
Fri 11 May 2012
Nearly 5 million children died of preventable diseases worldwide in 2010
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A total 7.6 million children died in the first five years of their life that year, the authors said, and warned the world was not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. (more…)
Fri 11 May 2012
Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk
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America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics. (more…)
Fri 11 May 2012
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
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The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.” (more…)