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Preview: EXCLUSIVE Killings At The Canal:The Army Tapes

This is a preview of a story that will air on CNN's AC 360 tonight November 17, 2009 at 10 PM EST about the execution of 4... more

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Israel: The New Totalitarian State

On Under Current.... http://currentb.ning.com/video/not-so-cool-facts-about-israel

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United States to have 30,000 Pound Bomb by 2010

The United States is picking up the pace to have this 30,000 pound bomb completed by the year 2010. This new weapon penetrates... more

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On the Hunt For Roasdside Bombs

Roadside bombs can be as little as a pack of cigarettes.

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U.S. Funds Terrorism in Mob Ruled Afghanistan

Filmmaker Robert Greenwald explains and confirms a news report from The Nation that found Afghanistan is run by the Taliban mob... more

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WWll Heroes Visit Memorial

Reporting from Washington - On a day when Americans acknowledge the service of veterans past, President Obama today told members... more

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The Fort Hood Shock: Coincidence or Photo Op?

Someone clue me in here. Are the people in our intelligence agencies complete idiots?

It’s November 10th, 2009, the day before Veterans Day. President Obama visits Ft. Hood to mourn with those military families who lost friends and loved ones at the hands of a domestic “terrorist,” who just happens to be a Muslim and who committed this crime so close to Veterans Day and while Obama is on the brink of making a decision to send tens of thousands more troops to the war in Afghanistan (against Muslims) amidst very strong public opinion to get out of that war. Well it was strong, until this shocking “terrorist” act took place. http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com//?p=166

This is absolutely amazing. We have the most well equipped military and intelligence agencies in the world and yet they can’t stop known terror suspects with simple box cutters who even trained in U.S. flight schools - they can’t stop those guys from hijacking five planes and crashing into the Pentagon and the twin towers; and they can’t stop this guy Hasan, who they have known evidence on as well with his relations with a known terrorist sympathizer and they even employ him on a military base.

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There are those who question the whole legitimacy of 9/11 as a purely terrorist act. There were no aircraft engine parts found at the Pentagon on 9/11. Instead they found what appeared to be a hole in the building made by a missile. Some demolition experts believe the twin towers were destroyed with explosives by demolition experts - like our highly trained military who specialize in such things perhaps? There are questions about flight 93 that crashed in a farm field in Pennsylvania, supposedly headed for Washington D.C. piloted by U.S. military trained “Muslim terrorists” (Was it shot down by the military as is standard military policy when a hijacked aircraft becomes a threat, especially a threat to national security?). Why was there so much media analysis of what happened on that flight, which we couldn’t possibly know of for certain, to the point where a Hollywood movie was made depicting such nebulous speculation and conjecture in vivid high definition detail?

Now we have this highly suspicious terrorist act by Hasan, where we know he was thwarted and harassed to the breaking point, and we know he had an internal conflict between his ethnicity and people versus his military service, while working for a military that slaughters innocent Muslims with extreme ethnic prejudice (if you were a white guy working for an Arab army that did this to Americans, do you think you’d have a few internal conflicts too? How about a few dead collaterally damaged Texan babies? Want to work for those guys?).

Yet our military with its vast resources can’t figure this stuff out until after a great American tragedy happens, coinciding with Veterans day and on our American soil - all the talking points of making a case for war against a foreign enemy. What a great photo op for Obama at Ft. Hood the day before Veterans Day. Can you think of a better commercial for going to all out war?

Naomi Kline’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine), points out ever so clearly the history of the United states government in using disasters to make a case for war, not only in our country but first in South American countries which were the proving ground for this policy. And we see this happening over and over again. Here we are with Obama on the brink of sending ten’s of thousands more troops off to fight and die in vain for a war without end, without purpose, without strategy. A war that targets innocent civilians because our crack cutting edge military can’t figure out the difference between civilians and terrorists, and in the process of killing the innocent, proliferates more terrorism.

It is very highly likely, in light of this historical fact, that our intelligence agencies employed persons from the Muslim connections that Hasan had, to his neighbors that harassed him to his wit’s end, with the sole purpose of perpetuating and coercing him to commit these crimes, so that they would have an awesome ongoing news story (one that will now last for months since they went to extreme measures to keep him alive) to make a case for perpetual war in Afghanistan and to sway public opinion away from it’s current sentiment against staying in Afghanistan.Someone clue me in here. Are the people in our intelligence agencies complete idiots? It’s November 10th, 2009, the day... more

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U.S. Military Considers our own Muslim Troops a Great Asset

The BBC reports that Muslims in the U.S. military now fear more harassment above that which they already are accustomed due to the... more

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Iran Was an Easier Enemy Before We Saw Their Faces

The great U.S. tradition of dehumanizing entire countries of people calling them Hodgie (for Hajji), Gook, or Kraut is hitting the... more

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Ft. Hood Shooter was Mistreated

"Everyone else just sat down there and drunk their beer and looked at him and giggled at him," the woman said, starting... more

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Military Sexual Assualt Rate Higher than in the Population

Pascale Bourgaux talks about her film, Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within, recently screened in New York, as we see clips form... more

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Stephen Colbert Signs Campaign Letter to Close Gitmo

Rosanne Cash appeared on the Colbert Report to go toe-to-toe with Stephen Colbert on the use of music to torture at Guantanamo,... more

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Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port

A crew member aboard a U.S. Navy ship accidentally fired a machine gun into the Polish port city of Gdynia on Wednesday while... more

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Obama Does What Bush Never Did: Meets Fallen Troops

US President Barack Obama has paid his respects to 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, the first time he has honoured the fallen... more

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The Commander’s Duty Done

In his midnight mission to honor the returning war dead, President Obama did more than personally extend the nation’s condolences to grieving families gathered at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Without uttering a public word, Mr. Obama erased President George W. Bush’s shameful attempts to hide the pain of war from Americans and to shield himself from paying public tribute to the thousands who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The long-overdue display of national gratitude and regret by the commander in chief rekindled a note of most solemn ritual that the country owes sons and daughters in uniform sacrificed in war. The president was restoring a post-Vietnam tradition that included the graphic embraces and wrenching words personally extended by President Ronald Reagan to the families of the 241 soldiers, sailors and Marines who perished 26 years ago in the bombing of the Marines’ camp in Lebanon.

The Bush policy was to prohibit any news media coverage of the returning war dead and to never show the president within a camera-lens’ length of the dolorous homecomings. Under Mr. Obama, the Pentagon reversed the no-coverage policy in February. On Thursday, the president himself took the necessary next step.

He silently saluted in the morning darkness as the remains of 18 Americans killed this week in Afghanistan were transferred from a military transport. He spent close to two hours talking in private with stricken families. One of them gave approval for the news media to show the nation its loved one’s arrival before the president and assembled officers. Within minutes, of course, bloggers were reacting. Some were grateful. Others denounced Mr. Obama for photo-op exploitation even as they demanded he hurry up and decide whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan.

The true cost of war must never be denied by the nation or its leader. Mr. Obama’s visit was entirely appropriate as he faces the decision of what comes next in Afghanistan. The pity is President Bush never dared as much.In his midnight mission to honor the returning war dead, President Obama did more than personally extend the nation’s... more