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Not only is Trump and other rich bastards/bitches above the law - but we aren't created equal, either! Here's another fairy tale: The USA isn't the greatest country on earth unless you equate greatness with wealth or military power. Unfortunately,...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 05:13 PM PDT
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Just a quick diary, since I’m not seeing much reported about this in the US. The Guardian is reporting that the UN is investigating claims that white phosphorus is allegedly being used by the Turks against the Kurds. The use of incendiary weapons...
by arsomniavincit
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on Fri Oct 18, 2019 at 02:41 PM PDT
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Though climate change policy and activism ought to be getting my full attention, every day I get up wondering what fresh outrage the squatter in the White House is up to. Wondering how much damage he will inflict on a broad range of domestic policies...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Aug 17, 2018 at 12:46 PM PDT
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According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam Hussein. Compared to ...
by waterstreet2008
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on Sun Jun 07, 2015 at 06:08 PM PDT
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Ramadi fell to ISIS in a battle that ran from early May 14th through into the 15th. Americans from the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter down to talk radio meth heads blamed the Iraqi soldiers: "I ...
by waterstreet2008
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on Mon Jun 01, 2015 at 06:51 PM PDT
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See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how many guns. How the attacks formed ...
by waterstreet2008
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on Sun May 31, 2015 at 06:17 PM PDT
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Warning-Graphic Images follow.
For the first time in history, the Brazilian government, through it's National Truth Commission, is investigating atrocities committed by the military dictatorship (...
by Pakalolo
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on Sun Nov 09, 2014 at 12:58 PM PST
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I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
I'm reading a terrific book by David Maraniss, " They Marched into Sunlight ," which traces two different-but-not-so-different events which occurred at ...
by PhilJD
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on Tue Dec 03, 2013 at 07:03 AM PST
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I have a question. I know that the U.S. allowed the use of chemical weapons in the Iran Iraq war by Saddam Hussein.
In Vietnam, the U.S. used agent orange and napalm.
Are these not chemical ...
by dcampbell
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on Sun Sep 08, 2013 at 09:53 PM PDT
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As part of the full-court press in favor to promote the illegal bombing of Syria, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was doing the rounds on the Sunday shows this morning. McDonough has a ...
by Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees
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on Sun Sep 08, 2013 at 08:14 AM PDT
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Chemical weapons and Syria: we need evidence-based, international justice: The history of chemical and biological warfare is riddled with false allegations, misinformation and propaganda by James ...
by CIndyCasella
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on Thu Sep 05, 2013 at 09:19 AM PDT
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by pfiore8
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on Sat Aug 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM PDT
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Sad to see what Assad will freely do his own countrymen and children.
Napalm?
A new video just shows what Assad will do willingly, while the UK and congress debate. Its a sad sad day .
I ...
by PeteInTx
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on Fri Aug 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM PDT
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It is amazing the response that North Korea is able to achieve from the world just by making threats. It is a very low cost investment to a huge result. Has the country been watching "The Mouse ...
by niccolo caldararo
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on Sun Apr 07, 2013 at 10:53 AM PDT
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I don't know if younger people today even know what napalm is. The more educated ones have heard the word, I expect -- the line in /Apocalypse Now/ about the its scent in the morning "smells like ...
by Seneca Doane
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on Thu Apr 19, 2012 at 06:45 PM PDT
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I recently came across this article on Daily Kos claiming that McCain indeed was involved in napalm runs in Vietnam. The author quoted an old New York Times article that was summarized in another ...
by healthfreedom
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on Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 03:03 PM PDT
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No one talks about napalm raids anymore. Only war heroes.
by pedestrianme
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on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:28 AM PDT
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This question still lingers after a 1997 "60 Minutes" interview with Mike Wallace.
by Urantian
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on Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 09:05 PM PDT
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WARNING: THE LINK CONTAINED IN THIS DIARY HAS SOME EXTREMELY DISTURBING, GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF THE RESULTS OF OUR MILITARY'S NAPALMING OF IRAQI CITIZENS, SPECIFICALLY CHILDREN
For those of you ...
by daveinchi
66 comments
on Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 10:44 AM PDT
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by Literacy
8 comments
on Sun May 28, 2006 at 01:30 AM PDT
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