Tag: civilians
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#MorningMonarchy: April 30, 2018
Historic summits, progressive wars and withholding files + this day in history w/the abdication of Queen Beatrix and our song of the day by The Get Up Kids on your Morning Monarchy for April 30, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 3, 2016
Endless war, flying robots and a basket of currencies + this day in history w/Pope protest and our song of the day by Sylvan Esso on your Morning Monarchy for October 3, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 15, 2016
Supreme court martial, agency torture, civilian deaths + this day in history w/USS Maine and our song of the day by Working For A Nuclear-Free City on your Morning Monarchy for February 15, 2016.
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US Scrambles to Contain Fury Over Attack in Afghanistan
from nytimes.com: American officials scrambled Monday to understand why a veteran Army staff sergeant, a married father of two only recently deployed here, left his base a day earlier to massacre at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan. The devastating, unexplained attack deepened the sense of siege…
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New World Next Week: Episode101 – Drones for Peace, Scary Charts, Morality Pills
FAA delays new rules for operating small drones in US airspace // This Is Europe’s Scariest Chart // NYTimes Op-Ed asks “Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’?”
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2/18 Newspurge: Get Outta Yr Bed, You Gotta Wake Up
The depressing truth about anti-depressants: No better than placebos // Onion article on financial system actually reveals the truth // Mossad hit squad stole UK ID’s to kill Hamas leader // French soldiers used as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’
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geopolitiks: tiananmen anniversary, israeli terror drills & more
the tiananmen square anniversary will not be tweeted censorship on tiananmen anniversary cripples chinese netfrom threat level: June 4 isn’t just the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, it’s also known as Chinese Internet Maintenance day. That’s because many Chinese services are facing so much pressure from the government to keep their…
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100 Civilians Die In Botched US Airstrike On Afghanistan
from wikinews: Afghan officials warned that a United States raid had killed 100 people, “mostly civilians”, in the Afghani province of Farah. Among the dead was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and his family. “Twenty-five to 30 of them are Taliban, including from Chechnya and Pakistan, and the rest…
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ron paul: one million dead iraqis since invasion
from raw replay: Ron Paul cautioned against a hawking foreign policy while speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Paul noted the count of dead Iraqis. “So, yeah, we wanted to get rid of a bad guy in Iraq but it cost – it took another one million Iraqis got killed. Believe me, they…
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geopolitiks: occupation, colonization, assimilation
italians occupy site of proposed US military base in vicenzafrom global research: Opposition to what would be a major new hub for the U.S. military in Europe is not new. Protest marches have filled Vicenza’s streets. The Italian Prime Minister has lost his job. But now construction has neared, and protesters have occupied the site…
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blackwater’s license (to kill) being revoked in iraq
from afp: Iraq has ordered the cancellation of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP on Monday. Blackwater offers personal security to US officials working in Iraq. “The interior minister (Jawad al-Bolani) has issued an order…
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‘sorry we shot your kid, but here’s $500’
from information liberation/editor & publisher: For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftermath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation… Last…