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Media Ignores Pentagon’s Lies

By On April 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Since the New York Times published the story Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand media like CNN, Fox News, and others have completely ignored this serious scandal. Watch this great video from Matt Thompson of FreePress.net about how our main stream American media really isn’t on our side. (Video via The [...]

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Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier

By On November 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday I got an email from James Craven. He’s an Indigenous Leader, Radical Pedagogue, and anti-war activist. He sent me a link to a Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier by James Circello of Iraq Veterans Against The War. I found this writing intense and compelling. So I [...]

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Peace and the Military

By On October 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I met Erin Byrd today. She’s an economic and social justice organizer here in North Carolina. Ruby showed me this cool video Erin made called I am a Duality. Check it out. Its really eloquent and moving.

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Iraq civilians: 34,452 dead, 36,000 hurt

By On January 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

For a minute try really hard to visualize thirty five thousand people. Hard isn’t it? Next time you’re at a big sporting event try thinking about the life of every person in the space. Imagine how special and different each person is. How happy and full of life each person is. Try talking to a [...]

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End our dependancy on Oil

By On January 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good reason not to have permanent military bases in Iraq, besides the prevention of more needless death, is to help mitigate the United States dependency on oil. The Bush administration, and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle, want the US to stay in Iraq to secure Middle East oil all [...]

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Edwards and Permanent Military bases in Iraq

By On January 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A few months ago I was invited by Sen. John Edwards to attend a dinner with several local bloggers. It was a exciting and wonderful evening of good food and excellent conversation. I was nervous and wondered how I ended up there. I suppose its because of my blog post

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War is Over! If you Want it!

By On November 10, 2006 · Leave a Comment

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US out of Iraq now!

By On October 26, 2006 · Leave a Comment

In case I haven’t said it recently, the US military needs to leave Iraq now. Every single last solider, public or private, needs to leave Iraq. No permanent military bases. No covert military presence. No hired guns. Let Iraqis rebuild their country in peace with restitution paid by their former occupiers.

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654,965 Iraqi Civilians killed since US invasion of Iraq began

By On October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

via Bloomberg

About 600,000 people have died violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003, researchers found in a new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Gunshots were the most common cause of death, [...]

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Did Bush help fund North Korea’s Nukes?

By On October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I found a article from 2002 on the BBC website called US grants N Korea nuclear funds. (via Netscape News) Sound familiar? Remember that picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? Ah… when partners turn on ya.

Who knows if this deal went through but all that money the US Government [...]

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