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Jane Dugdale, War Is A Crime: ''Philadelphia City Council, by a vote of 15-2, passed a resolution 'calling on the U.S. Congress to bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, to take the funds saved by that action and by significantly cutting the Pentagon budget, and to use that money to fund education, public and private sector family-sustaining job creation, special protections for military sector workers, environmental and infrastructure restoration, care for veterans and their families, and human services that our cities and states so desperately need.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9957-philadelphia-city-council-says-stop-funding-the-war-machine

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War, Killing and Destruction: Your Tax Dollars at War

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''People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an killing and destruction.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31690.htm



Persistent Myths of Combat

By Chris Hedges

If veterans speak of terrible wounds, of lies told to make them kill, of evil committed in our name, we fill our ears with wax.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31892.htm



Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

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A brief and crucial history of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30620.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=combat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=veterans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jane+Dugdale
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
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