Tag: war resisters
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warwhores: failure, funding & finding
global warfare USA: the world is the pentagon’s oyster* army sends infant to protective services, mom to afghanistan*US army arrests mother who failed to turn up for afghanistan deployment* army suicides set another yearly record*nato chief: quick exit from afghanistan will unleash ‘global jihad’*how the US funds the taliban* US unveils extended bagram prison* high…
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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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nau updates: borderwars, extradition & internment
mexican drug violence spills over into the USfrom ap: Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States. U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico’s murderous cartels. And to some policymakers’ surprise, much of the violence is…
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police state int’l: protests, paranoia & the persistence of resistence
video: police execute unarmed man in public; shot in backfrom mercury news: A BART police officer struggling to handcuff a 22-year-old man, stood up over the facedown Hayward resident and fired a single shot into his back while a handful of officers watched, a video taken by a train passenger apparently shows. The attorney for…
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war resister wins temporary stay in canada
from ap: An American Soldier who fled to Canada after learning his unit was being deployed to Iraq won a last-minute stay of deportation Sept. 22. Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled Jeremy Hinzman can stay in Canada while the court decides whether he can appeal his deportation order. “We’re elated,” Hinzman said moments after…
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nukeleaks, elites, awol, crisis, pope snake & anthrax
contaminated US site faces ‘catastrophic’ nuclear leakfrom new scientist: One of “the most contaminated places on Earth” will only get dirtier if the US government doesn’t get its act together – clean-up plans are already 19 years behind schedule and not due for completion until 2050. More than 210 million litres of radioactive and chemical…
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US soldier refuses to deploy to iraq
from afp: A month after US army reservist Matthis Chiroux publicly refused to deploy to Iraq, the former sergeant on Sunday set himself up for possible prosecution by failing to report for active duty with his unit in South Carolina. This video is from AFP, broadcast June 16, 2008.
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army desertion rate up 80% since 2003
from ap: Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. While the totals are still far lower than they were during the Vietnam War, when…
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US army desperately seeking joshua key
from quillblog: The Globe and Mail reports that the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has been trying to find and question Joshua Key, a deserter who took refuge in Canada and recently published an account of his tour of duty in Iraq called The Deserter’s Tale (House of Anansi Press) co-written with Canadian author Lawrence…
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news on the march
clinton sucks up to aipac with talk of iran warfrom raw story: At a speech Friday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said “no option can be taken off the table” when dealing with Iran… Clinton tempered her remarks by saying she’s advocated engagement with “our enemies and Israel’s…