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Thinking about War and Participation in War – "War poisons the soul of everyone who engages in it." — Howard Zinn. You Want A Real List? Directory Of Accurate Alt Media Sources On Syria. Ian56 DIA Emails: ISIS was deliberately armed and funded by Obama & Hillary Clinton. The terrorist threat has been deliberately manufactured and exacerbated by:- Invading Iraq and the resultant highly predictable sectarian civil war, that was deliberately encouraged by US actions following the overthrow of Saddam Using Al-Qaeda Extremists to overthrow Gaddafi in Libya and turning Libya into a failed State Attempting to overthrow Assad with Al-Qaeda and ISIS etc. and turning Syria into a failed State Recently released Defense Intelligence Agency emails from August 2012 reveal that the Obama admin knowingly armed, trained and funded Al-Qaeda and ISIS and expected a Caliphate to be set up in Eastern Syria.

Ian56  DIA Emails: ISIS was deliberately armed and funded by Obama & Hillary Clinton

TruthTheory - America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars. Editor's Note: Kudos to Giraldi for stating what everybody knows but nobody is willing to say in print, and to Ron Unz the publisher of the Unz Review.

America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Authoritarianism-making-comeback?akid=15786.1217547. Waterkeeper Alliance and the Catawba, Cape Fear, Yadkin, French Broad, and Waccamaw Riverkeepers banded together to expose coal ash pollution and file citizen suits against DukePhoto Credit: Waterkeeper Alliance.

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FWA. 75 Years After Pearl Harbor, We Now Know the Govt Knew the Attack Was Coming. The next day, President Franklin D.

75 Years After Pearl Harbor, We Now Know the Govt Knew the Attack Was Coming

Roosevelt denounced this “day of infamy” before Congress, from whom he secured an avid declaration of war. Up until then, however, Americans had overwhelmingly opposed involvement in World War II. Manuals. The World’s Largest Muslim Group Has Been Opposing Radical Islam for 90 Years. The Reality of War. Of course, war and the large military establishments are the greatest sources of violence in the world.

The Reality of War

Whether their purpose is defensive or offensive, these vast powerful organizations exist solely to kill human beings. We should think carefully about the reality of war. Most of us have been conditioned to regard military combat as exciting and glamorous - an opportunity for men to prove their competence and courage.

Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is criminal attitude. In fact, we have been brainwashed. Heartbreaking: Here’s What A U.S Soldier Said When Asked To Justify The War On Terror. "You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you.

Heartbreaking: Here’s What A U.S Soldier Said When Asked To Justify The War On Terror

" When a Reddit user posted an open question to U.S soldiers asking them how they justify their actions against innocent civilians abroad, he probably didn’t expect this candid response… ‘You kill. Watch friends die. Hitchens Hacker And Hitchens. Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist And, “We don’t Want Your Stinking War!

Hitchens Hacker And Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens owes me a big apology. I belong to a private email discussion group called Gulf2000. It has academics, journalists and policy makers on it. It has a strict rule that messages appearing there will not be forwarded off the list. It is run, edited and moderated by former National Security Council staffer for Carter and Reagan, Gary Sick, now a political scientist at Columbia University.

Amazon. Pentagon Admits that War is Illegal. Heroic Rats Sniff Out Landmines In Africa, May Save Thousands Of Lives Worldwide. These trained rats can effectively search 200 square meters in 20 minutes, saving plenty of time and thousands of lives.

Heroic Rats Sniff Out Landmines In Africa, May Save Thousands Of Lives Worldwide

Credit: APOPO Rats are a rodent you either adore or are can’t stand… But soon their stereotypical nature may be discarded, as a Belgian-based NGO is training the little critters to do a job that has potential to save thousands of lives every year, worldwide. APOPO, the Belgian NGO, has been training giant African pouched rats to detect land mines since 1997; and soon, they believe, the rodents will be put to work detecting explosives elsewhere around the world. Tea Party Congressman Went To Africa And Returned With This Stunning Defense Of Foreign Aid. By Scott Keyes Posted on Share this: "Tea Party Congressman Went To Africa And Returned With This Stunning Defense Of Foreign Aid" Share:

Tea Party Congressman Went To Africa And Returned With This Stunning Defense Of Foreign Aid

The Collapse of the U.S. Military (It’s Losing the Battle of Consciousness) Source: TruthNeverTold A discussion on the collapse of the U.S. military, which is beaten down after 13 years of senseless wars against 4th world nations.

The Collapse of the U.S. Military (It’s Losing the Battle of Consciousness)

Here are some of the key talking points: Military is having problems recruiting young people into the ranks.Army morale low despite 6-year, $287M optimism program.It’s not a battle of politics, military, money – it’s a battle of consciousness.The Kill Team is a documentary film is about the Maywand District murders during the War in Afghanistan. Birth of a nation? Czech pol claims to have established new country in no-man’s land - The Liberty Crier. Antiwar.com. The American Sniper You Didn't Hear About. Gibson writes: " Another American sniper became so disgusted by what he had done that he started the first-ever antiwar blog, and is actively encouraging his fellow soldiers to use their First Amendment rights to speak out against what he calls an 'illegal occupation' in Iraq.

" By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News 27 January 15. Prologue. Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down. Today Is the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Christmas Truce. That story—burnished in recent years by books, songs, music videos, a feature film, and an opera—is largely true. World Beyond WarThe New War, the Forever War, and a World Beyond War - World Beyond War.

Oath Upheld: Nashville Cops Refused Secret Service Request For Illegal Search Of Obama Critic. Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson recently sent a letter to Congress alleging that Secret Service agents asked Nashville police to falsify a warrant so that the agents could search the home of a Nashville resident who had posted about President Obama on Facebook. Following Secret Service Director Julia Pierson’s recent resignation over a major security breach at the White House, new allegations are facing the president’s embattled security detail. According to Phil Williams at News Channel 5, Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson sent ascathing letter last week to the House Committee on Oversight complaining that Secret Service agents asked Nashville police officers to falsify a warrant during an investigation into a local resident who allegedly posted “threatening” comments about President Obama on Facebook.

Oath Upheld: Nashville Cops Refused Secret Service Request For Illegal Search Of Obama Critic [continued] World Beyond War Calendar - World Beyond War. Good for every year until all war is abolished and sustainable peace established. National Guard should 'take a knee' in Ferguson.