Pentagon Cuts? Read the Fine Print, then Think Again

Watch Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as he trots out over and over again this week to explain before well-placed cameras that, despite “cuts” to the Pentagon budget, somehow the U.S. military will manage to muddle through, sigh, it’s OK, sigh …

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The Few The Proud The Pissers

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The urination by U.S. Marines on dead human corpses is entirely in keeping with the moral standards of the U.S. military and other military organizations. It isn’t inexplicable. On the contrary, it’s easy to explain. When you take impressionable teenagers who have no experience of the world outside of the care of their parents, and teach them that it’s an honorable thing to punch, kick, stab, shoot, bomb, and in other ways brutalize other people merely because they’ve been ordered to do so, it is quite predictable that those young people will lose their moral foundations and perform all manner of disrespectful acts.

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Rick Perry Wants To Start A New Iraq War

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Rick Perry’s rationale for starting a new Iraq war, and sacrificing even more American lives and money: If we don’t send American soldiers back into Iraq to restart our war there, Iran will invade Iraq, and then, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq will have been for nothing.

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Iran War Looming, Vote for an End to Perpetual War

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American politicians are agitating for war against Iran. We can’t afford the war, but then, we couldn’t afford the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan either.

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Pete DeFazio Takes On Wasteful Military Spending

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U.S. Representative Peter Defazio has identified outrageous examples of military waste, and is demanding an audit of the Pentagon’s books. However, both the House and Senate have worked together to make sure such scrutiny does not take place.

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24 Senate Democrats Still Won’t Vote Against War In Iraq

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Yesterday, 24 Senate Democrats refused to vote for an end to the power to go to war in Iraq. The names of these senators are listed here.

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Why Is Now The Time For Military Expansion?

As we’re struggling to make ends meet here at home, Obama wants to spend more on military strategy in an arena where the United States hasn’t suffered aggression since Pearl Harbor. Must we? Is Australia in crisis?

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Cain Out To Kick The You-Know-What Out Of Everyone In The World

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Herman Cain doesn’t understand the difference between defense and offense. The mission of the American military is not to go out and fight against all the other nations on Earth, “to kick the you-know-what out of everyone in the world.”

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Americans Forced Afghan Civilians to Walk Through Minefields: Multiple Allegations

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Soldiers from the American-installed Afghan government, accompanied by American soldiers, pulled civilians out of their houses at night and forced them to march in front of the soldiers, along a road that was known to conceal unexploded land mines.

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News I Should’ve Noticed Before Now, Lightning Quick

Mitt Romney: Golly, big spending is great so long as it’s to blow shit up. Norton and Ariely’s tidy tale of wealthy inequality was unfortunately massaged to hide the result that people actually want a society even more equitable than …

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Torture Regime Is What We Got For 10 Years of War

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Let’s suppose that something changes in the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and that the American military is able to successfully keep the current government of Afghanistan in power. Even if this happens, the “success” of the decade-long war will be to have installed and preserved a regime that engages in widespread torture of its citizens.

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DC Occupation takes Freedom Plaza Drone Protest to National Air and Space Museum, with a Pepper Spray Coda

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This image shows the tail end of a march down E Street this afternoon from Freedom Plaza by the White House, down the National Mall, and over to the Air and Space Museum. At the head of this march is …

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Freedom Plaza And The Battle Of The Drones

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Occupy DC protesters closed down the offices of General Anomics, manufacturer of military attack drones, just as Wired magazine reported that a computer virus has infected the software used to control the drones.

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Freedom Plaza Occupation Has Begun!

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There are about 100 people in Freedom Plaza right now. Some of them are working on erecting a stage on the east end of the protest site. Most of them are involved in a meeting at which the group is talking about when the first arrests of the protest ought to be, and how people who don’t want to get arrested can avoid doing so.

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Elders Supporting The Occupation Movement

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Interviews with retired Americans indicate that there is a wide age range of support for the people engaging in Occupy Wall Street and other occupation protests across the United States.

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Obama Administration Drafts Legal Advisory Justifying Killing of Americans without Trial

When you read about the assassination of an American citizen by the U.S. Government, you may be tempted to think of it as an isolated action. But before that assassination was carried out, the Justice Department actually wrote a opinion …

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An End To War And The October 6 Protest

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Debra Sweet’s article represents the one issue defining the timing and focus for many activists planning to participate in the upcoming occupation protest in Washington D.C.’s Freedom Plaza: The decade-long war in Afghanistan.

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Plans for October 6 2011 Occupation of DC get Specific

Later today, Adbusters is asking tens of thousands of Americans to storm onto Wall Street, set up barricades and begin a months-long occupation… for a reason to be determined later. For months now, the October 2011 Coalition has had a …

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