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Memorial Day: Pick Your Perversion Leah Bolger May 25, 2012 Veterans for Peace Memorial Day, originally known as “Decoration Day,” was created in the aftermath of the Civil War as a day to honor the memory and sacrifice of Union soldiers who had died in battle. It later broadened to include the theme More
Memorial Day: Pick Your Perversion Leah Bolger May 25, 2012 Veterans for Peace Memorial Day, originally known as “Decoration Day,” was created in the aftermath of the Civil War as a day to honor the memory and sacrifice of Union soldiers who had died in battle. It later broadened to include the theme More
Tom Morello Walks Out Into Audience When Sound System Goes Out in Chicago By CR - Posted on 21 May 2012 Justice Through Music [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZL4qbo7ImA&w=560&h=315] MAY 21, 2012 - The top activist musician today, Tom Morello, was out in Chicago amongst the activists who were protesting NATO bombing and unnecessary wars, and was playing a concert when More
Update: Shaymaa’s Story Continued By Marie Braun and Mary Beaudoin WAMM Newsletter March 2012 The end of the Iraq war occasioned few reflections on the scale of destruction we have wrought there. As is our habit, the discussion focused on the costs to America in blood and treasure, the false premises of war More
Silencing The Critics The western media continually lies. On the rare instances when the lies are corrected, it is always long after the event and, therefore, the crimes enabled by the media have been accomplished. by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts February 20, 2012 Global Research In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of More
The Price of War> Estimated U.S. cost: $4 trillion | FROM EXPLORATIONS | BY SUSAN SELIGSON Bostonia> Boston University Fall 2011 “These wars have been financed mostly by borrowing, so they are like no other war in U.S. history,” says CAS’ Neta Crawford. Photo by Cydney Scott Neta Crawford hopes to deepen the public’s understanding of the More
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch JUST PUBLISHED: 2007 second edition with a new preface and an afterword on how America’s “victory culture” returned in the George W. Bush era, only to crash and burn in Iraq. An updated analysis of the More
Blood on Whose Hands? Bradley Manning, Washington, and the Blood of Civilians By Chase Madar January 19, 2012 TomDispatch Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about… civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as More
Ethnic Media Takes a Sober Look at U.S. Intervention in Iraq New America Media/News Analysis Thursday 22 December 2011 Nation of Change In the wake of the end of the Iraq war, U.S. ethnic media are taking a sober look at the last nine years of American military intervention in Iraq, and More
The Big Lie Marches On> We must have an honest accounting of the Iraq War Robert C. Koehler Wednesday, December 21, 2011 CommonDreams.org The war is over, sort of, but the Big Lie marches on: that democracy is flowering in Iraq, that America is stronger and more secure than ever, that doing what’s right is More
Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning Has A Court Date: 569 Days After His Arrest Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff 11/21/2011 Forbes One year, six months, and three weeks after he was first jailed in a military brig in Kuwait, alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning will have his day in court: According to a blog post Monday More
