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    It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.

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    Just a Reminder...

    The more things change the more they stay the same.

    Gates says we have to stop the Taliban in Afghanistan or they will be a problem elsewhere.

    Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon say we have to stop the Communists in Vietnam or they will be a problem elsewhere.

    Same thing just different bogeyman

    Please remember this is the real reason we [...]



    Return to the Gilded Age

    Bail out the rich.  Fail to regulate corporations.  Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements.  Do not facilitate unionization of workers.  Allow big corporations to control the media.  Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries.  Ignore environmental priorities.  Keep taxes low.  Deficit spend on the military.  Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures.

    And expect things to get better.

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    Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language and Politics

    Here is an hour conversation with Noam Chomsky.



    War is Hell and McNamara Belongs There

    as Joe Galloway points out.  Even though not even of draft age, I still vividly remember having a very bad opinion of McNamara.  He was the Rumsfeld of the Vietnam War and detested even more than Rumsfeld it seemed, perhaps because there was much more anti-war fervor in those times.  McNamara, unlike “Dumbsfeld”, did a much better job of convincing the silent majority that [...]



    Chomsky - Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

    Here is approximately 60 minutes of Noam Chomsky who just turned 80 years old speaking last month at Riverside Church in Harlem to approximately 2000 people.



    so hamas would be justified in assassinating israel’s top scientists?

    Another example of Israeli exceptionalism:

    Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its efforts to disrupt the Islamist regime’s illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence sources as saying. … The paper also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the Islamist republic’s illicit weapons program [...]



    this is why we can’t move forward without looking back

    Because young soldiers like Specialist Brandon Neely will be counting on us to make certain that they are never put into the position of being this government’s torture tools again.

    From Neely’s account given to the Guantanamo Testimonials Project of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas:

    …As far as the Geneva Convention, we were told the reason [...]

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