US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan
By Malalai Joya
As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23943.htm
The Cost of War Abroad and at Home
Video
Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, and co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, a group which had openly defied economic sanctions from 1996-2003 by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23949.htm
A Nation Of Destroyers
What You Didn't Know About The War
Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23944.htm
Remembering Veterans and the Dead
By Eamonn McCann
"I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23946.htm
Veterans To Obama: Do Not Escalate:
An Afghanistan War veteran will travel to D.C. to deliver this message to the White House. Make sure your voice is heard.
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?utm_source=rgemail#petition
From Information Clearing House
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Lack of Health Care Killed 2,266 Vets Last Year
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/11-6
Vets Battle Unemployment and War Injuries
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/11
The Violence Within Is The Veteran Without
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/11-1
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When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a mindset that resists any acknowledgment of injury and sickness, be it physical or psychological. As a consequence, tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or Afghanistan, despite persistent injuries. According to military records, over 43,000 troops classified as 'nondeployable for medical reasons' have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan nevertheless."
http://www.truthout.org/1111097
Veterans Day or Rulers Day?
Bob Richards, Truthout: "How is it that Veterans Day gets turned around into US Military Hegemony Day? The airwaves were buried under an avalanche of lip service about veterans, but the moving lips were all about the myth that the warfare decisions this country's rulers make have something to do with anyone's freedom. Just as soldiers and sailors are doing around the world today, I did in my time. I was there as a teenager, ignorant of the forces moving me, believing whatever line I was being fed. I grew up on the hundreds of war/propaganda movies that came out of WWI, WWII and Korea. Today we are deluged with more nationalistic propaganda than ever before in my lifetime. It can't be avoided. The TV spews the images nearly nonstop. Recruiters are in our schools, along with the pop machines."
http://www.truthout.org/1111091
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The evolution of the welfare-warfare state
Strike the Root
by Duane Colyer
11/23/09
The author presents a model in the form of a flow chart that briefly attempts to depict the evolution of the welfare-warfare state with an emphasis on the American experience. There is a wealth of literature available to support the elements of this model. The author has cited a few of the sources that informed him and offer the reader a fuller treatment of the subject...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/colyar/colyar2.html
The extreme secrecy of the federal courts
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
11/23/09
Once conservatives became embarrassed by their cowardly warnings that we would all be killed if we held a 9/11 trial in New York, they switched to a new argument: trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would help the Terrorists. … To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to do was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself...
http://tinyurl.com/yzgb8dp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deployment+of+troops
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+injuries
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recruit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=classified+information
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Voices+for+Creative+Nonviolence
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemploy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Malalai+Joya
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kelly
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cliff+Parker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matthis+Chiroux
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Duane+Colyer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
