Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And
Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel
Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In
U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,801 |
Number Of International Occupation Force
Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,275
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Cost of War in Iraq &
Afghanistan
$1,439,988,393,802
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"Next the statesmen will invent
cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man
will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study
them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by
convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." : Mark
Twain. The Mysterious Stranger 1916.
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"This film was absolutely WONDERFUL! It is inspiring and
maddening"
Smart and provocative young veteran,
Wray Harris, unlocks the sufferings served by the Iraq war.
"We live in a prisoner of war
camp, that's why they call it a reservation"
By Adam Curtis
A fake bubble of certainty
that has imprisoned us in the west - and is now preventing us from understanding
what is really going on in the world outside.
The Power of Nightmares
By Adam Curtis
In the past our politicians offered us
dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
Lifting the Veil:
Obama and the Failure of
Capitalist Democracy
This film explores the historical role of the Democratic
Party as the “graveyard of social movements”.
Surviving Progress
The
film connects financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with
the sustainability of mankind itself.
Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the
Machine
A brief and crucial history of the United
States
The Most Honest Three and a Half Minutes of
Television. Ever......?
Scene of the new HBO series The
Newsroom.
U.S. Helicopter Blasts
Afghan Man to Pieces...
As The Pilot Sings 'Bye,
Bye Miss American Pie'
It is the horrific moment an
Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile.
The Power
Principle
Simply brilliant. - This is probably the
best film ever made about American foreign policy.
Managing Public Perception - Psywar
The real battlefield is your mind.
The Century of the Self
How politicians and business learned to
create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
Why We
Fight
What are the forces that shape
and propel American militarism?
Norman Finkelstein: American
Radical
Probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist
Norman Finkelstein
Lives In The Balance : Jackson
Browne
"You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've
seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is
drifting to war "
How money, power and greed have
corrupted not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but an entire
government.
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Documentary of radical resistance to global
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Does the United States in fact keep Israel
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The story of great power behind its venerable
myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on
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| Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create
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Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading
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Poison DUst
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The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is
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Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US
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America Freedom to Fascism
Startling facts about our laws, raising critical issues that Americans must
consider if they are to be a free people.
Despotism & Democracy : Video
Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power
is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted.
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True Costs of Iraq War Whitewashed by Fuzzy
Maths
By Muhammad Idrees
AhmadThat the perpetrators of an aggressive war should accept
the lowest costs for their folly is unsurprising. What is less explicable is why
so many supposed critics of the war are crediting the same estimate. Continue
Pakistan: 18 Killed In Clashes :
Officials said that the soldiers and insurgents were killed in the remote
mountainous Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal district on Afghanistan's border,
where the Taliban have been battling a local pro-government militia since
January.
US Kills 4 People In Pakistan: :
State-run Radio Pakistan reported four persons were killed in the attack by the
CIA-operated spy plane in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Agency.
New Zealand withdraws Afghan troops: About 95 Afghan interpreters and their family members who worked with
the Kiwis will this month move to New Zealand, where they have been granted
residency.
2 attacks in Iraq kill 3 soldiers, 3
civilians: In the first incident Friday, a
police officer said attackers detonated a bomb as an army jeep was driving
through the western Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Ghraib, killing three
soldiers.
Putin urges peace talks to end Syria
`massacre': President Vladimir Putin said the
civil war in Syria has become "a massacre" that must be stopped through peace
talks between the government and the opposition, and repeated Russia's firm
rejection of calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster.
Jordanians and Turks Are Focus of Syria’s
Ire: Syria lashed out at Turkey and Jordan on
Thursday for what it called their duplicitous work in fomenting the Syrian
rebellion, accusing the Turkish prime minister of chronic lies and telling the
Jordanians they were “playing with fire” in letting insurgents arm and train on
their soil — a possible hint of retaliation.
Former American Soldier Charged With Fighting For
Al-Qaeda: Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old army
veteran from Phoenix, Arizona, is alleged to have joined a squad of guerrilla
fighters from the Al-Nusra Front, training to use rocket-propelled grenades
against Syrian government forces, the AFP news agency reported.
Hamas urges UN to resume Gaza food aid: "This is an unjustified step from UNRWA," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu
Zuhri said. "There is a right of peaceful protest for Palestinian refugees," he
said, adding: "We call on UNRWA to reevaluate its position and not to overreact
to residents' protest."
North Korea 'moves second missile to
coast': - North Korea has now moved two
intermediate range missiles to its east coast and loaded them on mobile
launchers, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Friday, citing a top
government official.
Obama administration ‘cut off all negotiations over
North Korea’: The United States is interested
in the collapse of the North, as the US “can establish their military bases
right on the border with China, meaning an encirclement of that nation.” He also
added that America never “never tolerated a country that won’t put its economy
at the service of foreign corporations.”
U.S. Should Ponder over Grave Situation:
Spokesman: South Korea and waters around it are
turning into places for display of various types of nuclear strike means of the
U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and a dangerous hotbed of a nuclear war in the
true sense of the word.
This Might Be the Next American to Be Killed by
Drones: Born to a Syrian Muslim father and a
white Protestant mother near Mobile, Alabama, he came of age listening to music
like Nirvana, watching movies like Fight Club, hanging out with his friends at
Waffle House and going to school dances.
Egypt Is Perched on the Precipice of
Chaos: Egypt’s dilemma is this: it cannot
politically afford to stop providing the costly subsidies to the poor that
distort its economy. But unless it reduces these subsidies and adopts a
pro-growth budget, Egypt cannot secure the $4.8 billion International Monetary
Fund loan it needs to unlock
Egypt's Looming Famine and America's Grain
Bounty: Negotiations with the World Bank and
the IMF are foundering given the tax increases and subsidy cuts demanded by
these international institutions of an Egyptian government already struggling to
quell the ever mounting violent protests by its political rivals.
Lights go out in Jordan as energy crisis
bites: Jordan is considering wider electricity
rationing and is preparing a hike in electricity prices in June, a politically
fraught move in a country which saw street protests last year over fuel subsidy
cuts imposed as a condition for a $2 billion IMF loan.
Unable to pay rent, Italian couple commits
suicide: The bodies of Romeo Dionsi, 62, and
Anna Sopranzi, 68, were discovered by their neighbours on Friday morning at
their home in Civitanova, a small village in the central Marche region on the
Adriatic Sea.
US sequester
cuts treatment for thousands of cancer patients: Cancer clinics across the US have begun to turn away thousands of
Medicare patients as a result of the sequestration order signed into law by
President Barack Obama on March 1. The action is mainly due to cuts to Medicare
reimbursement for expensive chemotherapy drugs,
U.S. Job Growth Slows As Jobless Face Benefit
Cuts: The 11.7 million Americans searching for
work got Friday morning when the Labor Department said employers created only
88,000 jobs in March. The weak job growth comes at the same time benefits for
the long-term unemployed are shrinking.
April 04, 2013
Washington Escalates Syria Intervention
By Bill Van Auken After using al Qaeda
and similar forces as shock troops in a war for regime change, its intent is to
fashion a new dictatorial regime based upon the remnants of Assad’s security
forces. Continue
A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King - Audio and Text
"Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's
Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- A year to the day before he was murdered --
King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world
today." Continue
Canadian men said to be 'travelling
jihadists': The most alarming thing about the
CBC revelations that it was nice young men from London, Ont., who were allegedly
involved in the January terrorist attack at an Algerian gas plant is that
Canadians still have the capacity to be alarmed.
Arab League's part in Syria violence:
Op-Ed: I watched in utter amazement last week
as the so-called Arab League endorsed the external overthrow of a member state,
which involves not only other member states' funding of arms smuggling, but
their supporting terrorism against the Syrian people.
Clashes continue in Hebron for third day: A Ma’an reporter said a CNN cameraman was shot and injured by a live
bullet. Additionally, 21 Palestinians were hit by rubber-coated bullets, while
dozens of others suffered from tear gas which the soldiers fired extravagantly.
Abbas slams burning of Qatar emir
effigy: Students linked to Abbas’s Fatah party
hanged and burned an effigy of the Qatari emir in the city of Tulkarem on
Thursday in protest at the Gulf state’s foreign policy in the region.
South Africa to pull out troops after
coup: South Africa has decided to pull its
troops out of the Central African Republic (Car) because the deal under which
they were deployed has become void with the fall of the government there,
president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
S. Korean Puppet Army Incites War Fever: The warmongers are scheming to stage landing drill and tactical drill
targeting the coastal areas of the DPRK and an actual mobile firing drill of
motorized units in league with the U.S. Marines.
North Korea clears its military to attack US with
nukes: North
Korea warned Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the US using
"smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear weapons, while the US said it will
strengthen regional protection by deploying a missile defense system to
Guam.
DHS spying on Peaceful Demonstrations and
Activists: Government documents - reveal that
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency created after the September
11 attacks under the rubric of combating terrorism, conducts daily monitoring of
peaceful, lawful protests as a matter of policy.
Canada-EU Integration Moves Forward, U.S. and NAFTA
Next: The Canadian government and the European
Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal known
as the “Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement” (CETA). President Obama
announced earlier this year that his administration was also pursuing a similar
“free trade” package with the EU, which analysts say could pave the way for a
“Transatlantic Union” encompassing all of North America and most of Europe.
U.S. Private Sector Job Growth Falls Well Short Of Estimates In
March: Private sector employment in the U.S.
rose by much less than expected in the month of March, according to a report
released by payroll processor Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) on
Wednesday, with the data raising concerns about Friday's jobs report from the
Labor Department.
Class War and Labor’s Declining Share:
Op-Ed: The
financial impact of the Great Recession has had a devastating effect on many
people—with millions declaring bankruptcy, losing homes to foreclosure, or being
forced “underwater” (owing more than the worth) on their homes.
April 03, 2013
Global Paradox: Peace Not
Wars
By Mahboob A. Khawaja,
PhD.The neo-colonial rulers have helped the Colonial Masters to
make the Muslim masses helpless victim of their warmongering and inhuman
atrocities. Continue
Artificially Converted to Poverty
Imperialism
101
By Michael Parenti
It
was said that colonized peoples were biologically backward and less evolved than
their colonizers. Their "savagery" and "lower" level of cultural evolution were
emblematic of their inferior genetic evolution. Continue
Jail for Breathing While Brown in
Texas
By Courthouse News
Service
A Texas sheriff threw two Latino men into jail for 39
days "with no charges, no hearing, and no probable cause" and seized the $14,000
they had saved up to buy a new car, the men claim in Federal Court. Continue
53 killed as Taliban attack Afghan
courthouse: Officials say the fighting broke
out Wednesday after suicide bombers disguised as Afghan soldiers stormed a
courthouse in Farah province in a failed bid to free more than a dozen
Taliban.
Syrian "rebels" said close to chemical weapons
cache: Syrian opposition forces on Monday night
reportedly captured the northern city of Al-Safira, which is close to many
ammunition factories and what is believed to be the regime’s largest cache of
chemical weapons.
Syrian Christians Attacked in their Ancient Homeland
: With the Western-backed plan to overthrow the
current Syrian government and the regional and global support being given to the
Syrian opposition, including foreign hardline Jihadists who adopt Saudi Arabia's
ultra-conservative Takfiri version of Sunni Islam, this reality is
changing.
Saudi-funded UN cash to support Gaza
families: "A generous donation of $15.6 million
from the Saudi Fund for Development will enable UNRWA to provide urgently needed
cash subsidies directly to the affected refugee families," the statement said.
Kerry says US will defend S. Korea : “We’ve heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the
North Korean government in the past few days... the US will protect ourselves
and our treaty partner ally, the Republic of Korea" He said.
Chance of Julian Assange going to
US: A TOP Swedish judge has conceded it was
possible that his government may send Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US
if it successfully extradited him over a sex crime investigation.
Records Sought on Alleged Death Squad
Leader: New York Times reporter Julia Preston
sued the Department of Justice for records on retired Salvadoran Gen. Carlos
Eugenio Vides Casanova, who led the National Guard and Defense Ministry while
death squads murdered tens of thousands of people. "Upon retiring in 1989,
General Vides immigrated to the United States as a legal permanent
resident."
Hanford Nuclear Waste Tanks Could Explode, Agency
Warns: - Underground tanks that hold a stew of
toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a
possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of
confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.
Egypt to introduce property taxes: The International Monetary Fund has linked a multi-billion dollar loan,
to an increase in taxes. As a result, president Mohamed Morsi’s administration
is introducing property taxes.
Capital flight abounds in Eurozone – UBS: According to Research Analyst Gareth Berry at UBS, "We expect that the
theme of capital flight out of the Eurozone will continue to run for some time
in the wake of the Cyprus bailout."
U.S. Private Sector Job Growth Falls Well Short Of Estimates In
March: Private sector employment in the U.S.
rose by much less than expected in the month of March, according to a report
released by payroll processor Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) on
Wednesday, with the data raising concerns about Friday's jobs report from the
Labor Department.
April 02, 2013
Syria is a Battle for
Palestine
By Nadezhda
Kevorkova
Bashar al-Assad didn’t turn away from the
Palestinians, and that was the reason that the West directed the wave of
militants against Syria and spread out the Islamic propaganda that Assad was the
root of all their troubles. Continue
The Staggering Cost of Israel to
Americans
By Pamela Olson
It
is critical to examine why we lavish so much aid on Israel, and whether it is
worth Americans' hard-earned tax dollars. But first, let's take a look at what
our alliance with Israel truly costs. Continue
America after Hegemony
By Cole
HarrisonThe organizing principle of U.S.
foreign policy since the end of the Cold War has been to ensure that every
nation in the world stays within a security structure managed and controlled by
Washington. Continue
Truth Is Offensive
By Paul Craig
RobertsMost americans go along with unaccountable
murder, torture, and detention without evidence, which proclaims their
gullibility to the entire world. Continue
The Great Cyprus Bank
Robbery
By Ron Paul
The
elites in the EU and IMF have openly talked about using Cyprus as a template for
future bank bailouts. This raises the prospect of raids on bank accounts,
pension funds, and any investments the government can get its hands on. Continue
Debt = Serfdom
By Charles
Hugh-Smith
The serf is never free of debt, i.e. he/she is
programmed to being indebted for life. Continue
Mullah Omar can run for president in Afghan elections:
Karzai: In the interview at the Kabul
presidential palace, Karzai said Mullah Omar could become a presidential
candidate, giving the Afghans the opportunity to “vote for or against him.” “The
Afghan constitution is valid for all Afghans and the Taliban should also benefit
from it,” Karzai said in the interview.
Militants kills 7, kidnap 4 in attack in
Pakistan: Dozen of Pakistani militants armed
with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station
killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said.The dead included
three policemen and four government power workers.
Five militants killed in SWA: -
As many as five militants were killed in a military offensive in the Baron area
of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Tuesday, a security official
said.
4 al Qaeda leaders executed in Iraq: Manaf Abdul-Raheem Abdul-Hameed al-Rawi, the leader of the so-called
Islamic State of Iraq in Baghdad, was among the four who were executed by
hanging Monday morning.
Two engineers killed in Iraq gas field
attack: Gunmen killed two Iraqi engineers,
wounded a third and kidnapped another, when they attacked a camp near a gas
field run by a South Korean firm in Iraq's western desert, officials said today.
Syrian Militants Have Access to Chlorine
Gas: Plant Owner: Radical Islamist militants
have access to large quantities of chlorine gas that might have been used last
month in a lethal strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo, Time magazine reported
on Monday.
Adviser to Libyan PM seized in Tripoli:
source: Mohamed Ali Ghatous, in his 50s, was
seized after passing a checkpoint into the eastern Tripoli suburb of Tajoura. A
source at Zeidan's office said Ghatous was a senior adviser to the prime
minister.
EU launches
military training mission in Mali: Less than a
year after Mali's military was heavily criticized for seizing power in a coup,
it will now start receiving advice from European experts on how to maintain
control of its vast territory.
US Navy shifts destroyer in wake of North Korea missile
threats: The USS McCain is capable of
intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire one
off, the officials said. Still, U.S. defense officials insist that there is
nothing to indicate that North Korea is on the verge of another launch.
Is the DOD
crazy enough to bring nukes to a cyberfight?:
The problem is that some in the Pentagon are threatening "deterrence" via
kinetic reprisals — including nuclear counterattacks in the most extreme cases —
that could actually encourage the very cyberattacks the government hopes to
prevent.
A sick joke: UN passes historic arms trade treaty by huge
majority: The treaty prohibits states from
exporting conventional weapons in violation of arms embargoes, or weapons that
would be used for acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes or
terrorism.
Another Torture Lover in Obama's CIA:
Video - John Brennan, Obama's CIA Director has
a history of being directly involved in the CIA's torture program, and is known
for being a huge drone supporter. Well, someone has to fill his old CIA
position, and who better than another advocate of torture, right?
Mexican drug cartels dispatch agents deep inside
US: If left unchecked, authorities say, the
cartels' move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than
ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal
enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money
laundering.
Cyprus finance minister resigns:
Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris has resigned citing his role as
chairman of Laiki Bank, whose failure was a major contributor to the island's
near financial meltdown, as one of the reasons behind his decision.
French ex-minister admits lying about bank
account: A spokeswoman for Paris prosecutors
said authorities filed preliminary charges Tuesday against Jerome Cahuzac for
alleged money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 5 years in prison and a
375,000 euro ($481,500) fine.
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