HAITI: Private Contractors ‘Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot’

By Anthony Fenton VANCOUVER, Canada, Feb 19, 2010 (IPS) – Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging “shock doctrine” for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporations, the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), is co-organising a “Haiti summit” which [...]

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Another Soldier Dies at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) In San Antonio

Our country really takes care of its soldiers (tongue-in-cheek). There have been other and similar stories like this – this one just caught my eye this evening and I’m tired of seeing them. So many “mysterious” deaths. Drug mix-ups, overdoses/overmedication, lack of proper care and attention, transmission of infectious diseases, such as AIDS, due to [...]

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Ron Paul: March to War in Lebanon?

Statement on H Res 1194, “Reaffirming the support of the House of Representatives for the legitimate, democratically-elected Government of Lebanon under Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.” May 20, 2008 March to War in Lebanon? Madam Speaker I rise in opposition to H. Res. 1194 because it is dangerously interventionist and will likely lead to more rather [...]

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Winter Soldier 2008

Last weekend, March 13-16, hundreds of U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan met in Silver Springs, Maryland to testify about and against the wars being fought. The four day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War and the event was patterned after the 1971 Winter Soldier hearings organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against [...]

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New account sheds light on CIA disappearances and ‘black sites’

From Crimes and Corruption of the New World Order News Friday, March 14, 2008 Amnesty International today revealed in a new report further details of the cruelty and illegality of the CIA programme of secret detentions and enforced disappearances – a program re-authorized by President Bush in June 2007. The details come in the form [...]

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Another Demonstration of Bushs’ Loss of the “Sense of Reality”

G.W. Bush is the guy you love to hate because he’s an idiot and he occupies the highest office in the United States of America. And Bush continually goes about saying stupid things. I think his brain is ate up by drugs and alcohol… Bush stated in a satellite teleconference held with U.S. military and [...]

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Lasers Used to Clear Traffic for Army Convoy

Interesting video. I imagine that traffic is not the only thing these little ‘dazzlers’ can be used for… From Wired Video: Army Lasers Zap Bikers in Afghanistan By Sharon Weinberger March 14, 2008 | 12:45:00 PM Laser “dazzlers” are becoming increasingly popular as nonlethal devices. This is one of the first videos I’ve seen of [...]

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The New World Order and Blackwater Worldwide

Blackwater Worldwide is the new peace-keeping force for the U.N. Now if you have stopped laughing we need to look at this very seriously.. The U.N. is a front organization for our new ‘government/masters’ – seriously – ‘hide everything in plain sight’ – I’m sure you have heard that adage before. I am not going [...]

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