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Camillo “Mac” Bica> Remembering the Context of War Crimes: The Crime of War Itself

Remembering the Context of War Crimes: The Crime of War Itself by Camillo “Mac” Bica    25 February 2012      Truthout | Op-Ed (Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted:hans van den berg, The U.S. Army) One would think that, by now, America would have made the connection between war and atrocity. Or, are we too obsessed with [...]

How the Media Is Taking Us Toward War With Iran

Media lies and the onset of war. Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget. Robert Parry | Slip-Sliding to War with Iran davidswanson, War Is a Crime .org Submitted by David Culver Media lies and the onset of war. More (video)… Related: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. [...]

American Spring> National Occupation of Washington DC (NOW DC) | October 2011

National Occupation of Washington DC (NOW DC)>   March 30, 2012    Join together in Washington, DC for an Occupied American Spring By Kevin Zeese – Posted on 09 November 2011 “We the People” are calling Occupations from across the country to join together for an American Spring in Washington, DC.  The National Occupation of Washington DC [...]

Deal With It: They Died in Vain, by Ray McGovern

Deal With It They Died in Vain By Ray McGovern   Counterpunch   August 8, 2011 Thanks to Coleen Rowley for recommending this article. Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as “heroes” the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission [...]

A Secret War in 120 Countries The Pentagon’s New Power Elite

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military Posted by Nick Turse at 6:21pm, August 3, 2011.  tomdispatch.com In “Getting bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker report on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, here’s the money sentence, according to Noah Shachtman of  Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog: “The Abbottabad raid was not DEVGRU’s maiden venture into Pakistan, [...]

The price of war for Minnesotans

The price of war for Minnesotans Article by: JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER and BILL HILTY Updated: July 25, 2011 – 7:02 PM   Star Tribune.com Budget gap could have been easily closed with the money we send away.   MinnesotaASAP@gmail.com U.S. soldiers in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Photo: David Goldman, Associated Press Citizens in Minnesota are being encouraged to see scarcity [...]

Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism? by Ralph Nader

Counterpunch    Weekend Edition      July 22 / 24, 2011 If They’re Not Loyal to Us, Why Should We be Loyal to Them? Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism? By RALPH NADER The fireworks and celebrations that mark Independence Day are over. But the need for a national conversation on corporate patriotism has never been more [...]

Videos from the amazing Peacestock 2011: Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, along with Daniel Ellsberg

If you run the stream from this link, you will get all the videos, plus a video of Obama speaking on the budget deficit, and at the end of the stream some others of Obama and a Minneapolis press conference and rally in support of Carlos Montes. On July 9th, 2011, the 9th Annual Peacestock: [...]

Video: “Sometimes we may hurt like the Afghan dove”

Uploaded by ourjourneytosmile on Jul 4, 2011 Dear friends in an antagonistic world, In the face of a broken Afghan dove, what can the people ask for? In the face of possible ‘doom’, what can we ask for? Y Not listen? Y Not Converse? Have conversations between the People and world leaders become so impossible in these ‘democratic’ [...]

Press coverage: Committee to Stop FBI Repression–links to articles

Press coverage:  Committee to Stop FBI Repression and Carlos Montes Committee to Stop FBI Repression:  StopFBI.net We’ve received a great deal of press coverage in the last two weeks, most of it focused on Carlos Montes’ case. A list of all our media coverage is available on the Press Coverage page of the StopFBI.net website. 7/9/2011 Being Anti-War [...]