Schlagwort-Archive: Iraq

Feb 24 2012

MEMBERS OF THE ICELANDIC PARLIAMENT NOMINATED MANNING THIS MONTH FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!


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Updated: Alleged US Army Whistleblower, Bradley Manning, Arraigned | Common Dreams.

Updated: Alleged US Army Whistleblower, Bradley Manning, Arraigned

Manning defers plea after being formally charged with aiding the enemy

- Common Dreams staff

UPDATE: (2:12 PM EST) Manning defers plea after being formally charged with aiding the enemy

 The Guardian reports:

Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of spilling a massive trove of military secrets to WikiLeaks, has been formally charged with aiding the enemy at the first day of his court martial on Thursday. …

Please read more there! Common Dreams

“If Manning had been a member of the U.S. Marine squad that admitted to systematically murdering two dozen innocent Iraqi men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, he’d be walking free today,” Obuszewski said in a release. “Instead, he faces the real prospect of life in prison for telling the truth.”

Members of the Icelandic parliament nominated Manning this month for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Dez 9 2011

“… bether than Lady Gaga”


Christmas in the post-War United States

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Maybe Leave the Governing to Sodomites and Infidels

by Abby Zimet

Memes growing in response to Rick Perry‘s latest wtf?!? ad, wherein he declares, “There’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.” The Partisans have the best answer, noting it wasn’t gay or atheist presidents that gave us Iraq, the financial crisis and mortgages turning into toilet paper.

“It took some God-fearing, vagina-penetrators to pull that off….I’m a godless heathen, and I approved this message.”

Videos and words:  Abby Zimet, Common Dreams….

Nov 9 2011

The War Against the Poor(est)


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The War Against the Poor

Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Financial Morality

By Frances Fox Piven November 07, 2011 “Tom Dispatch” – -

We’ve been at war for decades now — not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. You wouldn’t often have found the casualty figures from this particular conflict in your local newspaper or on the nightly TV news. Devastating as it’s been, the war against the poor has gone largely unnoticed — until now. The Occupy Wall Street movement has already made the concentration of wealth at the top of this society a central issue in American politics. Now, it promises to do something similar when it comes to the realities of poverty in this country. By making Wall Street its symbolic target, and branding itself as a movement of the 99%, OWS has redirected public attention to the issue of extreme inequality, which it has recast as, essentially, a moral problem. Only a short time ago, the “morals” issue in politics meant the propriety of sexual preferences, reproductive behavior, or the personal behavior of presidents. Economic policy, including tax cuts for the rich, subsidies and government protection for insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and financial deregulation, was shrouded in clouds of propaganda or simply considered too complex for ordinary Americans to grasp… please, read more there: Tom Dispatch & Information Clearing House

PR: Frances Fox Piven

Photograph shows Charles Dow who co-founded Dow-Jones & Company with Edward Jones & Charles Bergstresser  (Public Domain, Wikipedia)

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Okt 29 2011

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Libya‘s African migrants face harder life post-Kadhafi:

 

On the coast outside Tripoli, a squalid refugee camp shelters hundreds of African migrants who found work under Libya’s former regime, but are now jobless, discriminated against and unable to return home.

http://goo.gl/3kHZb

 

US Congress Hears Calls For Black Ops Against Iran

 

By Ismail Salami

 

Retired Army Gen. John Keane told a hearing, “We’ve got to put our hand around their throat now. Why don’t we kill them?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29544.htm

 

New Police Drone Near Houston Could Carry Weapons:

 

“We’re not going to use it to be invading somebody’s privacy. It’ll be used for situations we have with criminals,” Gage said.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/29619788/detail.html

 

Video of Scott Olsen Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland

 

Proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29543.htm

 

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Okt 5 2011


http://www.nationofchange.org/study-fifth-war-veterans-have-mental-health-issues-1317789340
 
DavidGoldstein
McClatchy/NewsReport
Published: Tuesday 4 October 2011
Veterans for Common Sense, a nonprofit, nonpartisan activist group for veterans’ interests, and health care issues in particular, compiled the statistics from a raft of government reports.
 

Nearly 20 per­cent of the more than 2 mil­lion troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suf­fer from men­tal health con­di­tions, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port.

They amount to more than half of the 712,000 vet­er­ans from both wars who have sought med­ical treat­ment since leav­ing mil­i­tary ser­vice. Nearly a third of those vet­er­ans may suf­fer from post-trau­matic stress dis­or­der, one of the sig­na­ture in­juries of the con­flicts…

Read more there or NationOfChange