Tag: antiwar
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mlk day reminder: US govt guilty of ‘wrongful death’ in 1999 trial
from examiner: Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King…
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kucinich: US tax dollars help fund taliban attacks
more truth bombs from the man the dems should’ve nominated… from raw replay: Ohio’s Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a strident anti-war crusader, cited a report on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday which claims that US tax dollars used to bribe the Taliban in Afghanistan also help fund attacked “on our troops.” RAW…
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US military ‘spreading death’ & meeting its recruitment goals
from russia today: Death rather than nation building – that’s what the U.S. army brought to Iraq and is bringing to Afghanistan according to former army sergeant and anti-war activist Matthis Chiroux. He shared his views on the U.S. military campaigns with RT’s Marina Portnaya. bleak US job market boosts military recruitment from reuters: Aided…
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obamessiah updates: debts up, polls down & a mass vacation
obama raises 2010 deficit outlook 19% to $1.5t* obama vacations as poll numbers keep fallingfrom washington times: President Obama set out for a weeklong family vacation Sunday facing the first stiff headwind of his presidency, with public polls showing his popularity has dipped as he has attempted an overhaul of the nation’s ailing health care…
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resistance is growing against the new financial world order
people all over the world are starting to wake up & speak up against the wars & against the banksters… but is it too little too late? antiwar activist says obama’s war policies worse than bushfrom cns news: President Barack Obama’s war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan are criminal and worse than those of former…
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media/memes: travolta, groucho, oregon art & world events
scientologist john travolta’s son dies strangely from a ‘medical episode’ while on vacation in the bahamasfrom ap: John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home, police said Friday [jan2]. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning.…
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some good news: blackwater ends bid for cali camp
from ap: Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled its plans to build a training facility in a remote area about 45 miles east of San Diego… Potrero, home to about 850 people, found itself split by the plan, with environmentalist and anti-war factions ardently opposing those who welcomed the prospect of an economic boost…
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news on the march
american labs mishandle deadly germsfrom ap: American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. american lockdown: law enforcementout of control & beyond the palefrom carolyn…
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tasers and censors and god, oh my!
56yr old wheelchair-bound woman dies after being tasered 10 times from local6: A Clay County woman’s family said it’s seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police. The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police…
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de palma’s ‘redacted’ stuns venice
from reuters: A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears. “Redacted”, by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war…
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massive ron paul article in nytimes magazine
The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-DEA, Anti-Medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paulfrom new york times: Whipping westward across Manhattan in a limousine sent by Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Ron Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman and long-shot Republican presidential candidate, is being briefed. Paul has only the most tenuous familiarity with Comedy Central. He has never heard of…
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kurt vonnegut dies at 84
from afp: Kurt Vonnegut, the creator of wry science fiction and black comedy built on his experience as a World War II prisoner of war who survived the horrific Dresden bombing, died late Tuesday, the New York Times reported. Vonnegut was the author of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” widely rated as one of the finest American novels of…
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nypd spied broadly before ’04 convention
from raw story/ny times: “For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews,” the New York Times…
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the only antiwar candidate
from live leak: Ron Paul tells us why he is and always has been against the War in Iraq.
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9/11 myth is explicit basis of all the wars
from webster tarpley: Bush’s bedrock motivation for this pattern of lunatic escalation is the racist, militarist, and fascist offi cial explanation of the events of September 11, 2001, especially as codified in the discredited Kean-Hamilton 9/11 commission report. The premise of Bush’s argument in his escalation speech is this: “On September the 11th, 2001, we…