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Empire Under Obama: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

We can have Empire, or we can have Humanity. The choice is yours.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36702.htm



Congress Fails To Show For Drone Hearing

By Popular Resistance

The Rehman family traveled halfway around the world from Pakistan to tell the story of their families loss; the killing of the families grandmother. Only five members of Congress bothered to show up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36695.htm



"Unmanned: America s Drone Wars"

Hidden Truth Behind US Drone Program

Video

One of the most anticipated documentaries on drones, directed and produced by Robert Greenwald, has been released so that audiences worldwide can finally see the US drone program for what it really is.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36704.htm



They Were Soldiers

How the Wounded Return from America s Wars

Audio
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-ann-jones-on



When I was In Vietnam, I was No Hero

By Arnold Oliver

More than a few veterans, myself included, are troubled by the way Americans observe Veterans Day. The holiday has devolved into a hyper-nationalistic worship service of militarism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36795.htm



How politicians use the poppy appeal to make today s wars more popular

Supporting the troops is increasingly used as a substitute for supporting unpopular wars, and the poppy appeal is part of that process.

http://noglory.org/index.php/how-politicians-use-the-poppy-appeal-to-make-today-s-wars-more-popular



Why Remembrance Rituals Make Me See Red

By Robert Fisk

How come this obscene fashion appendage, inspired by a pro-war poem, for God s sake, which demands yet further human sacrifice, still adorns the jackets and blouses of the Great and the Good? Even Tony Blair dares to wear a poppy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36819.htm



Veterans Day From Another Angle

By Fred Reed

How many Laos did we butcher for nothing, how many Vietnamese, how many Cambodians? Millions, literally. For nothing. Nothing. How many Iraqis? Afghans? Pakistanis? If any of it preserved my freedom, I am unaware of it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36824.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Silent Soldiers, The Losers From Our Lost Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/07-5

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The Required Blood Sacrifice
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/jonathan-goodwin/the-required-blood-sacrifice/

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Seven Things Veterans Need More Than a Holiday

Kevin Mathews, Care2: If the US were really committed to its troops after they complete their tours of duty, why are veterans facing so many hardships back at home?

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19941-seven-things-veterans-need-more-than-a-holiday



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