Wednesday, March 10, 2010
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, in which Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests have commercially [...]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan War, Class Warfare, Congress, Conservatives, Corporate Welfare, Corporatism, Democracy, Democrats, Despotism, Healthcare, Hedge Funds, Iraq War, Liberals, Media, Militarization, Poverty, Reform, Republicans, Tea Party, Wall Street, Wealth
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Plumlee and other pilots have testified to Congress that they were working for a secret U.S. military intelligence operation that clandestinely sent them from the United States to bring back the so-called damaged and disappeared weapons for retrofitting and repair.
“When the weapons were repaired and tested at China Lake and Twentynine Palms, in California, they [...]
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Kavita Ramdas and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls discuss the militarization of society and how it hurts everyone, but especially women. - GRITtv with Laura Flanders
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About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: “The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being”; [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
“They are screwing these two guys,” the first U.S. defense official said of the field commanders.
“They were looking for heads,” the second American defense official said. “It’s a travesty.”
Penalizing the pair is even more egregious, the U.S. defense officials and the former NATO official said, because their plans to close the outposts were consistent with [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
KARL: … waterboarding, clearly, what was your…
CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that…
KARL: And you opposed the administration’s actions of doing away with waterboarding?
CHENEY: Yes.
He just admitted being an accomplice. To date approximately 100 detainees (at minimum), including CIA-held detainees, have died during [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan War, Caught on Tape, CIA, Crime, Detainees, Dick Cheney, Evidence, Guantanamo, Iraq War, JSOC, Torture, War Crimes, Waterboarding
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
“This is a policy,” Hutson continued, that was “devised primarily by men who, like me, were born in the ‘40s and grew up in the ‘50s, but was being imposed on people who were at that time born in the ‘70s and grew up in the ‘80s. Now it’s born in the ‘80s and grew [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
3. You present the question of the draft as a moral issue for society, and you trace it from the draft riots of the Civil War to the present day. Politicians today appear broadly to support a professional army as a way of avoiding the public controversy presented by the draft. It also means that [...]
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
A new investigation by journalist Anand Gopal reveals harrowing details about US secret prisons in Afghanistan, under both the Bush and Obama administrations. Gopal interviewed Afghans who were detained and abused at several disclosed and undisclosed sites at US and Afghan military bases across the country. He also reveals the existence of another secret prison [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
John McCain in 2006: “And I understand the opposition to it, and I’ve had these debates and discussions, but the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the military [...]
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, speaks in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee in support of President Obama and Sec. Robert Gates‘ review of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, saying, “It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.”
There is not one [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose “a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests.” They’re entitled to no charges, no trial, no [...]
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Also tagged Al Qaeda, Anwar Aulaqi, Assassinations, Barack Obama, CIA, Constitution, Due Process, Glenn Greenwald, Hit List, JSOC, Law, Murder, Terrorism, Yemen
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The Pentagon is stepping up internal discussions on how gay men and lesbians might be able to serve openly in the armed services, military officials said on Thursday, in anticipation of fulfilling President Obama’s campaign pledge to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.
The discussions, centered in a small group assembled by Adm. Mike Mullen, [...]
As of Saturday, the Navy had nine ships scheduled to support the people of Haiti through air, hospital and supply operations. The forces are creating a “sea base” for staging humanitarian operations to provide assistance as quickly as possible. A testament to the naval forces agile operational ability, these ships combined can produce more than [...]
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