Image by Jayel Aheram via FlickrThe Dark Underbelly of Occupation: Iraq
"Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can't stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there."
"It was Week 7 of basic training ... eighteen years old and I was preparing myself to die," said Michael Anthony in "Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq." The book is more than a simple memoir about a difficult experience. It is an insider's scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US. Perhaps, this fresh account will raise some outcry over an issue that has all but dropped out of the American public's radar.
The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza
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BTselem Campaign on Security Forces Violence
B'Tselem Campaign on Security Forces Violence
From: btselem | December 09, 2009 | 707 views
to the full campaign - btselem.org/Campaigns/violence/ [btselem.org]
In Hebrew with English subtitles -- only 48 seconds long, so view it and favorites it, etc....
Video, B'Tselem, Activism, Palestine, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Zionism, Racism, Ethnic Bigotry, Cover-up, Censorship, Israel, IDF
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Solutions To Tyranny?
Solutions To Tyranny?
From: wearechange | December 23, 2009 | 5,071 views
Please comment your thoughts and ideas, we need everyone to contribute in order to go down the right path in history.
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Martin Sheen supports his son Charlie Sheen in questioning the official story of 9-11
From: wearechangela | December 07, 2009 | 5,690 views
At a recent Peace March in Los Angeles, Steve Wright of WeAreChangeLA asked Martin Sheen if he supports his son Charlie Sheen in promoting 9-11 [Truth].
"I know he had some serious questions, and I think all of us should be inquisitive about that. We should know what really happened. I don't know. There are some very troubling unanswered questions, and I think that's all Charlie is wanting to explore. So I support that." - Martin Sheen
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Video, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, 9-11, wearechangela, Peace March, Los Angeles, Steve Wright, 9-11 Truth, Activism, Alternative News, Politics
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Afghanistan and global dominance
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TomUsher • activism, alternative news, politics, video, afghanistan • youtube.com Afghanistan and global dominance
From: TheRealNews | January 03, 2010 | 2,578 views
F. William Engdahl: US China strategy driving Afghan war, but no real long range thinking in place
He's wrong about that the U.S. is mostly reacting, but he's right that the long-term strategy is bankrupt.
Video, Alternative News, Activism, Politics, Afghanistan, F. William Engdahl, China, Paul Jay, Imperialism, Empire, U.S., World Politics, Militarism
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Inside Iraq - Cancer fears - 1 Jan 10
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January 02, 2010
Doctors in Iraq are recording a shocking rise in the number of cancer victims south of Baghdad. Sufferers in the province of Babil have risen by almost tenfold in just three years. Locals blame depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion. Many Iraqi doctors say its radiation causes an alarming rise in cancer rates and birth defects among Iraqi children. All over Iraq 300 sites are said to be contaminated by depleted Uranium.
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Israeli Racism &Hate?
Israeli Racism & Hate?
From: bigsoundz | July 14, 2009 | 2,327 views
Israeli racism, hate, apartheid, & bigotry. Prejudice in Israel by Israelis
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Green Zone Pt.1
Green Zone Pt.1 [with English subtitles]
From: tigerstailfilm | January 06, 2010 | 21 views
pathofmostresistance.org [pathofmostresistance.org]
icahd.org/eng/ [icahd.org]
Green Zone - is a 20 minute long documentary, exploring Israel's discriminatory policies in occupied East Jerusalem. Since 1967 urban planning has been used by the Israeli establishment as a tool to contain the growth of the Palestinian population in the mixed city. The impact of these policies has been catastrophic for many Palestinian residents, resulting in an average of 100 house demolitions every year. The film incorporates interviews with Israeli and Palestinian residents, architects, journalists and politicians, in an attempt to present this complex situation, which has significant ramifications to the whole peace process.
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Reflecting on 10 Years of FIRE
Reflecting on 10 Years of FIRE is worth the watch for anyone who is anti-fascist. If you don't know what being fascistic is, watch the video and understand that all those who are opposed to that for which FIRE has stood up are fascistic.
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Noted :
A pamphlet of prominent thinkers exploring key questions about ethics today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/20/citizen-ethics-time-of-crisis
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http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/24/in-defence-of-brainwashing
It is unusual for the details of an academic course to become a hot topic of conversation in the blogopshere, but over the last week or so a paper offered by Mohsen al Attar at the University of Auckland’s Law School has engaged the attention, if not the intellects, of scores of commenters at New Zealand’s most popular blog.
After Kiwiblog proprietor David Farrar posted a link to the outline of Mohsen’s paper, which is called ‘Colonialism to Golobalisation’, comments boxes quickly filled with denunciations of the propagandists for communism, political correctness, civil unions, and similar abominations who supposedly dominate Kiwi campuses.
http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/03/kvetcher-in-the-rye
After Kiwiblog proprietor David Farrar posted a link to the outline of Mohsen’s paper, which is called ‘Colonialism to Golobalisation’, comments boxes quickly filled with denunciations of the propagandists for communism, political correctness, civil unions, and similar abominations who supposedly dominate Kiwi campuses.
http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/02/03/kvetcher-in-the-rye
All adults were phonies, even the nice ones, who took jobs they hated, taught textbooks and catechisms they didn’t believe and lived lives of self-inflicted disappointments, while pretending it was all OK. Then with phony grins, they’d demand that you join their painful parade of delusion and decay.
A bullet through the skull replaced Kennedy with Nixon. We shall overcome was replaced with the vicious “Southern Strategy;” the Cold War exploded in hot jungles; then came the idiot wasteland of the regimes of Ford and Carter and Reagan and Clinton and Bushes, a degenerative march as the machine of America rusted and died.
And here we are today, begging for spare parts from China and my daughter glued to YouTube videos of Lady Ga-Ga’s crotch, and my son slicing off a cop’s head in Grand Theft Auto and a President, telegenic and painfully hollow, playing the lost and ineffectual shepherd over an electorate divided between the terrified and the greedy. In place of prophets, we are offered a caravan of kvetching clowns piling out of the Volkswagen on MSNBC.
There’s no way to wipe the fuck off this smeared planet.
And here we are today, begging for spare parts from China and my daughter glued to YouTube videos of Lady Ga-Ga’s crotch, and my son slicing off a cop’s head in Grand Theft Auto and a President, telegenic and painfully hollow, playing the lost and ineffectual shepherd over an electorate divided between the terrified and the greedy. In place of prophets, we are offered a caravan of kvetching clowns piling out of the Volkswagen on MSNBC.
There’s no way to wipe the fuck off this smeared planet.
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During recessions unstable economies leave banks scared to lend, and businesses scared to borrow. Fear of lending leads banks to raise their interest rates so that they don't lose money on their loans in case of loan failures. This makes it even more difficult for businesses to borrow.
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