World-News

''He killed my man,'' their neighbor s wife cried as she ran into their home. Sadiqullah, 13, hid behind a curtain. His older brother, Quadratullah, shouted ''We are children! We are children!'' only to see the soldier shoot his sister.

http://is.gd/J7JBD9



Outrage Over Children Killed in Cold Blood

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33333.htm



An Afghan Mystery: Why Are Large Shipments of Gold Leaving the Country?

Last year alone, Afghanistan's central bank says, roughly $4.5 billion in cash was spirited out through the airport.

http://is.gd/DDojDt


From Information Clearing House

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Afghan ''War'' reality check
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/afghan-war-reality-check.html

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Nobel Laureate Goes to Afghanistan to Demand Ceasefire and Negotiation

Mairead Maguire, War Is A Crime: ''I say, 'Sorry to the Afghan people for what the governments of the US and NATO and other governments have done to the Afghan people, and I say, 'Not in my name.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13357-nobel-laureate-goes-to-afghanistan-to-demand-ceasefire-and-negotiation



The Second Amendment and Killing Kids

Robert Parry, Consortium News: As Americans reel in shock over the slaughter of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut, defenders of ''gun rights'' insist, in effect, that such deaths are part of the price of ''liberty'' enshrined by the framers of the Constitution in the Second Amendment. But this was not what James Madison had in mind.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13392-the-2nd-amendment-and-killing-kids

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A Culture That Condones the Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/15-3

Why America Lets the Killings Continue
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/15

Remember All the Children, Mr. President
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/17-3

Will the US Ever Change Its Gun Laws?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/18

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The babies will haunt us

Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/18/12

Donna Mulhearn is a name we need to remember, as she is one of a small but dedicated group of citizen activists who, after most of us have said the long goodbye to Iraq in the rear-view mirror, are taking on the environmental and humanitarian legacy of the Iraq War as a personal cause. Right now, she is doing what the western mainstream has so far failed to do, which is report on the horrifying number of miscarriages, deaths, birth defects and congenital illnesses among babies in urban Fallujah, the site of some of the most intense U.S bombing (2004) during the war...

http://tinyurl.com/c892q46


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Madison
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Second+Amendment
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fallujah
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NATO
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nobel+Laureate
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=children
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mairead+Maguire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lucinda+Marshall
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gregory+Gibson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Parry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos

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