1. ” McCain and Lieberman’s “Enemy Belligerent” Act Could Set U.S. on Path to Military Dictatorship
On March 4th, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bill called the “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010″ that, if passed, would set this country on a course to become a military dictatorship.”
2. No, it was not a mistake. Since they went to war knowing all the reasons were lies, it was an intentional war crime from the start.
“GOP congressmen: Everyone agrees Iraq war a ‘horrible mistake’”
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/gop-iraq-war-horrible-mistake/
3. “Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones
Thousands carry flag-draped coffins, anti-Obama signs in DC protest; want troops back home”
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/03/20/thousands-rally-to-pull-troops-from-2-war-zones/
4. “Nuclear bunker spy comes out of hiding
The activist who exposed Britain’s secret shelters tells of his living in fear of MI5 for nearly 50 years
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The existence of the bunkers and the fact that they were reserved for politicians, military leaders and civil servants were closely guarded secrets.
“I was terrified because the bunker meant the government was quite uninhibited about the destruction of the civilian population if it felt that was what had to be done,” recalled Lesser. “The nuclear nightmare was a reality.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7069772.ece
5. Hilarious:
“Can US catch up to Iran in Providing Health Care to Least Privileged?
Proponents of unregulated capitalism, or if you will, the ‘free market,’ maintain that it provides a better life for all than do other systems. This allegation is demonstrably untrue if the question is public health across the board. In Iran, under the hyper-capitalist Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, infant mortality was 122 per 1,000 in 1970. Today, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is 28.6 per 1,000, an incredible decrease. Some 94% of the population has access to health services, and around the same percentage have access to affordable medicine. The state is authoritarian and controlling, but it cares about the welfare of even the poor among its citizens in a way that the US-backed, capitalist Pahlevis clearly did not. In the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency, at a time when he had drastically limited Federal support for stem cell research, Iran committed $2.8 billion to such high-powered medical research.
It is to the point where Mississippi, which has among the worst health statistics in the US, and where 20% of the population lacks health insurance, is looking to Iran for a model of how techniques pioneered in a third-world society could improve health care for Americans living in third-world conditions.”
6. “Bible Far More Violent than Qur’an
Actually I figure Europeans polished off a good 70 million people in the 20th century, whereas Muslims probably killed no more than 2 million (mainly in the Iran-Iraq War and Afghanistan, the latter of which a European power provoked). But this vast difference is not because Christian-heritage Europeans are such worse human beings than Muslim Middle Easterners. Rather, Europe industrialized warfare first, and also had the political independence to launch wars.
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The amazing thing is that the West has managed to convince itself that all its wars and killing were someone else’s fault (even though it was mainly elements of the West fighting other elements of the West that produced the charnel houses of the twentieth century).”
7. “Iraq War Triumphalism Ignores a Key Matter: Dead Civilians”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25041.htm
8. “Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit
While such elites as the Kochs are a tiny minority of Americans, they’ve surreptitiously skewed our public debate, agenda, and policies to their self-serving agenda by instilling a totally false supposition within the mass media and both major parties that a volatile majority of people has a broad distrust of anything public and views government as the enemy. Thus even Democrats shrink from attempting anything more audacious than incremental reforms, meekly courting vituperous Republicans and corporatists who obviously are out to gut any forward-thinking changes.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25039.htm
