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Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War?
This really lays it out. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 2, 2012
The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide – Health Supreme
How the world is starting to see us, due to certain choices our leaders have made, and are continuing to make. I had heard of our guys sitting on radioactive DU 50 caliber rounds for mounted machine guns, coming back with prostate cancer. Heck, we have tanks made out of the stuff we have guy's sitting in them all day! How is it our leaders are allowed to put our guy's in their own invisible 'harm's way'? This info is related to the nuclear scientist/activist Chris Busby's film he was trying to get out last week. The site kept being taken down with in hours by some force. It was about the havoc depleted uranium rounds are wreaking all around the world. Global radiation counts have increased since the US and NATO began using them in the middle east. Areas will be contaminated pretty much for the rest of everyone's lives. How can our leaders decide to do this to our planet and people......bill altmillerPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 30, 2012
Depleted Uranium Contamination: A Crime against Humanity
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 30, 2012Maddow Writes on America’s Love Affair With War
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 29, 2012THE PENTAGON’S SECRET NUCLEAR AGENDA: “Privatizing Nuclear War”
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 28, 2012US WAR ON IRAN: “THE WORST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY”: Fidel Castro
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 27, 2012NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
Muslim Brotherhood debating whether to run presidential candidate; As fighting returns to "secure" areas in Syria, even Russia and China agree to U.N. ceasefire, aid and transition plan; Libya defies ICC re Qaddafi trials; In Zimbabwe, light sentences (but sentences nonetheless) just for watching Arab Spring protest on TV.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, March 22, 2012
Towards a World War III Scenario: The Real Imperialist Agenda
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 21, 2012NYT Op-Eds (3)
"As Vizzini in 'The Princess Bride' (and later Bob Gates) warned: 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'" (Dowd); "To avoid being dependent on Persian Gulf oil, we should work with our neighbors to increase supplies closer to home" (Guest Op-Ed); "Long before Joseph Kony, people in northern Uganda were preyed upon" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Will singular incident in France change the elections the same way a singular incident in Spain changed theirs (and was it timed that way)?; Is the Syrian "war" a stalemate?Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Truthdig – Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 20, 2012NYT Editorial, Op-Eds, Letters (7)
"The anti-incumbent goals of a new super PAC are undermined by its methods and cannot produce a better government" (Editorial); "Despite some imperfections, the Affordable Care Act would do a lot of good and must be defended" (Krugman); "Here are five questions a president should ask before sending in the bombers" (Keller); "Neither Rick Santorum nor the Vatican speaks for most American Catholics" (Bruni); "It’s time for Zionists to boycott nondemocratic Israel — and support the democratic one" (Guest Op-Ed); "Civil rights statutes are being stretched to go after teenagers who acted meanly, but not violently" (Guest Op-Ed); "New Challenges Facing the Constitution" (Letters)Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Resistance Builds to NATO’s Threat of Permanent War and Nuclear Dominance
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, March 19, 2012Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers: Resistance Builds to NATO’s Threat of Permanent War and Nuclear Dominance
something new from a couple of MB's old adversaries ..Isolated and inaccessible, Camp David is where the “leaders” of the planet’s eight wealthiest countries belong - sequestered and remote, barricaded and cut off in every imaginable way. The Camp David move illuminates the elite’s isolation from the people they pretend to represent.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, March 19, 2012
NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (7)
"The N.Y.P.D. should not interpret its post-9/11 mandate as a license to run roughshod over the Constitution" (Editorial); "A rampage in Afghanistan calls attention to a potentially lethal combination of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury" (Guest Op-Ed); "Critics and defenders argue about how much of what Anonymous does should be treated as political protest — or strictly as crime" (Guest Op-Ed); "On Act Up’s 25th anniversary, its band of early AIDS warriors deserves thanks" (Bruni); "Mixed-race African-Americans have an ethical obligation to identify as black" (Guest Op-Ed); "We evolved to be tribal, and politics is a competition among coalitions of tribes" (Guest Op-Ed); "Are Elvis, Marilyn, Hitler, Anne Frank and 600,000 Holocaust victims trapped in a 'Spooky Mormon Heaven Dream?'" (Dowd)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, March 18, 2012
NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
What exactly IS happening in Iran?; Were Damascus car bombs opposition warning or false flag?; Young Belarussian executed for subway attack, despite possible innocence; Russian celeb becomes opposition leader; Two new books on Vladimir Putin.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, March 18, 2012
Syria: The Western Deception Over Regime Change Unravels. NATO Prepares for All Out War
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, March 17, 2012NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAR join Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in closing embassies in Syria, as Turkey advises its citizens to evacuate; A look at the new, young leader of 200 million Indians; Archibishop of Canterbury to step down.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, March 17, 2012
Massacres Are the Inevitable Result of Foreign Occupation
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 16, 2012NYT (6): Foreign Affairs
As U.S. claims GI "snapped" in Afghan massacre, Karzai "insists" U.S. pull back to bases; Are stiff sentences for protesters "payback" from Putin?; Pro-Assad rally may not be what it seemed; Cairo's top police official among 75 charges in soccer riot deaths; Despite some backlash, NFP reaction to Kony video is sheer envy.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, March 16, 2012
NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
Moderate Islamist is top challenger in Egypt; We support Yemeni opposition (quietly), Iran also supports them (with arms) - is this a good thing?; When Koran-burning is worse than mass killing; Ahmadinejad unfazed by rare, broadcast parliamentary grilling; ICC convicts Congolese warlord of using children in war.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Onion: Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America’s Reputation Worldwide?
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, March 15, 2012
WAR: Marching Toward Syria: Eyes Cast on Iran
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 13, 2012NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
Obama admin debates speedier pullout from Afghanistan, and even some hawkish GOP candidates agree; Outright massacre of civilians reported in Homs; Irael-Gaza fighting is "calmer" than usual; Rebekah Brooks is arrested in Murdoch scandal.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, March 13, 2012
NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
U.S. soldier loses it, massacres 16 in Afghan village; Will new Egyptian leader unilaterally undo nascent democracy?; Pentagon warns against intervention in Syria; Sarkozy moves to the right; Slovakia moves to the left.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, March 12, 2012
