Marines ignore Afghan opium so as not to upset locals

Associated Press
Published: Wednesday May 7, 2008
From: Raw Story
 GARMSER, Afghanistan — The Marines of Bravo Company’s 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant’s gooey resin smile and wave.
Last week, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit [...]

The Last Roundup

Source: Radar Magazine

“The technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,” Church pointed out in 1975. “And there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately [...]

U.S. Airstrikes on Somalia to Control Vital Waterway, Not to Combat Terrorism

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Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, argues for a more humane foreign policy and explains why American airstrikes in Somalia and elsewhere are about more than terrorism.
…So the end result has been Somali civilians killed as the U.S. pursues its so-called war on terror. Essentially, the rhetoric of the Bush administration [...]

Unbelieveable! “al-Qaeda” Dismisses Conspiracy Theories, Defends Israel, Attacks Iran and Hizbollah!

Full Story: sott.net
By Joe Quinn
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, Sott.net, along with many others commentators (including US government officials), have repeatedly stated that “al-qaeda” is a fabricated enemy. That it is used to justify the Ziocon’s military rampage though the Middle East while simultaneously terrorising the folks back home.
In the past 7 years the world [...]

New Doubts About Health Care for US War Vets

Source: commondreams.org

Published on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by One World.net
By Aaron Glantz

SAN FRANCISCO - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions [...]

More War - 6 Months at a Time

Source: MoveOn.org
Dear MoveOn member,
No matter what happens in Iraq, the Bush administration and John McCain always have an answer: 6 more months.
When the “surge” began a year ago, they told America things would get better by September. In September, they said we’d know more by spring. And this week, General Petraeus is on Capitol Hill [...]

The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th

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The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th
By Jeremy Baker
Former Air Traffic Controller Robin Hordon speaks out on 9/11, NORAD and what should have happened on 9/11.

Within three hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Robin Hordon knew it was an inside job. He had been an Air Traffic Controller [...]

Orthodox Jew pretends to be “Muslim terrorist”!!!

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How obvious do they have to get before people wake up? They are running out of muslim shills so now they are “converting” to “radical Islam” and then scaring people with mainstream media. Just like Adam Gadahn.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341811,00.html
NEW YORK, N.Y. — On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host [...]

9/11 Ted Olson and Barbara Olson

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Ted Olson’s Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials
by David Ray Griffin

Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday [...]

I am Not a Conspiracy Theorist: 9/11 Facts of Fictions?

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I am Not a Conspiracy Theorist: 9/11 Facts of Fictions?
Source: crazycomposer.blogspot.com

Living in the world today can be quite difficult, especially if you feel the need to avoid the moral and intellectual pitfalls that “modern” life provides. However, this is something that only becomes difficult if you feel a need [...]