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Article by John on September 6th, 2009 at 10:35 pm Obama’s speech is over here. How come few complain about this which IS indoctrination? Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens Transcript of the above is here. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gDqQJuGAC0Xb5hUlwfuOZ-0hr5_gD9AIL5680","http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/9\/4\/back_to_school_military_recruiters_increasingly"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2VkdWNhdGlvbi9vYmFtYXMtc3R1ZGVudC1hZGRyZXNzLWluZG9jdHJpbmF0aW9uLzx3cHRiPk9iYW1hJiM4MjE3O3MgU3R1ZGVudCBBZGRyZXNzICYjODIxMTsgJiM4MjE2O05vdCBJbmRvY3RyaW5hdGlvbiYjODIxNzs8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmRlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmc8d3B0Yj5EZW1vY3JhY3kgZm9yIFZhbmNvdXZlcg%3D%3D”;
Article by John on July 7th, 2009 at 7:56 pm 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 the [...]
Article by John on June 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm to or about us, that is. Why is it that you have to turn on a comedienne these days to hear advocacy for progressive values that the majority of Americans want. As Maher says: Cutting the Military Budget
Gun Control
Gay Marriage
Higher Taxes on the Rich
Universal Health Care
Legalizing Pot
Steep, Direct Taxing of Polluters. These aren’t radical ideas. The majority of Americans are either already for them or would [...]
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Article by missy on March 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am As the mother of an only child, a son, this was a heart-wrenching piece to read. But every American needs to, because more than 4,000 sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, lovers, brothers and sisters have come home dead from these wars. For what? What have we accomplished? How cruel is life when your comfort lies in hugging your loved one’s casket? var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/portagedailyregister.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/editorial\/9\/05\/b49\/905b49f6-0823-11de-861b-001cc4c002e0.image.jpg","http:\/\/portagedailyregister.com\/news\/local\/article_5b263c4a-0883-11de-861c-001cc4c002e0.html"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var [...]
Article by missy on February 16th, 2009 at 3:52 pm 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 we had to [...]
Article by missy on January 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm Nir Rosen in The Guardian: An American journal once asked me to contribute an essay to a discussion on whether terrorism or attacks against civilians could ever be justified. My answer was that an American journal should not be asking whether attacks on civilians can ever be justified. This is a question for the weak, for the Native Americans in the past, for the Jews in [...]
Article by missy on December 12th, 2008 at 11:37 am If you can’t unshit the bed, just wash your hands, walk away and pretend it never happened: MAJURO (AFP) — The US has refused a request by the Marshall Islands to use grant money to compensate victims of the American nuclear weapons testing programme in the western Pacific atoll nation, officials said. The US tested 67 nuclear weapons at Bikini and Enewetak atolls from 1946 to 1958 [...] | |
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