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Marine involved in Haditha massacre to go unpunished

Jordan Viray — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:30:31 +0000

One of the Marines who admitted to participating in the Haditha massacre where 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians - including women, children, the elderly and the handicapped - will receive no detention.

Where do many police come from?

fat_bastard — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:19:04 +0000

"US Army suicides are levelling off but rates of domestic violence and sex crimes among soldiers have increased.." then many leave to join law enforcement.
A further take away is the mess that war takes on a humans mind.

Ron Paul booed over proposed golden rule of foreign policy.

slimey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:28:13 +0000

Scattered boos and jeers drowned out Paul's call for a "golden rule" in American foreign policy.

Marines Filmed Urinating on War Victims

celestrion — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:17:05 +0000

A 39-second video shared by "semperfiLoneVoice" (whose YouTube account as since been closed) appears to show four US Marines urinating on the bodies of Iraqi or Afghani nationals, contrary to the terms of the third Geneva Convention (Section III). If this proves to be authentic, I'm going to use "Semper Fi" as a new colloquialism for a golden shower.

Video: Chinese Troops in Texas Ad - Ron Paul

lobb40118 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:11:04 +0000

A great new video for the Ron Paul 2012 campaign. How would you like it if Chinese troops were on our soil?

Ron Paul: 9/11 prompted "glee" in Bush administration

Mattfree88 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:17:25 +0000

Ron Paul: 9/11 prompted "glee" in Bush administration

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq.

Unemployment for Young Vets: 30%, and Rising

PV — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:25:09 +0000

The youngest of veterans, aged 18 to 24, had a 30.4 percent jobless rate in October, way up from 18.4 percent a year earlier.

Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or The Economy Dies

StrayLite — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:44:18 +0000

The Broken Window fallacy, again! As if prosperity truly required destruction. . .

Imagine if armed Chinese troops were in texas

franimal19 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:35:57 +0000

Great video from Revolution PAC. Sharing what many FTL listeners have mentioned, what if another nation set up a military base in the united states. What if they patrolled our streets, armed? What if they had checkpoints? What if they killed our families? Call us "Terrorist" for defending our "home land"?

Really brings it home.

A Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds, Says Latest US Data

gat — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:14:06 +0000

More than 1.6 million people were arrested for drug offenses in the US last year, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report 2010, and more than half of them were for marijuana. That's a drug arrest every 19 seconds, 24 hours a day, every day last year. The numbers suggest that despite "no more war on drugs" rhetoric emanating from Washington, the drug war juggernaut is rolling along on cruise control.

Ron Paul doesn't blame America for 9/11, the neocons do!

RottingNation — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:01:36 +0000

It;s actually kind of obvious. Ron Paul is blaming the government and Al Qaeda for the attacks. People like Santorum are blaming Americans and their way of life!

Angry crowd turns on journalists reporting embassy attack in Egypt

mrtruth — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:00:21 +0000

An angry crowd lingering near the Israeli embassy in Cairo after an attack on the building a day earlier turned on journalists reporting the incident Saturday, accusing at least one of being an Israeli spy.

Biggest & Worst Crime Ever On Earth

Stu Pitt Moran — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:31:52 +0000

Short documentary about the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In-depth description of what the people in the two cities went through before and after the bombings.

Iceland most peaceful country in the world, US ranked at 82

berserker13 — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:34:10 +0000

World peace has been on a downward trend in recent years, according to an annual gauge of domestic and foreign conflict.
But there are bright spots regardless of the overall global outlook. Iceland passed New Zealand to become “the country most at peace.” Other nations ranked high on the peace scale were Japan, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Canada, Norway and Slovenia.

US warns: hack us, and we might bomb you

andrew.valish — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:20:54 +0000

The US revealed its "International Strategy for Cyberspace" (PDF) yesterday. It's mostly blather about how terrific "cyberspace" is, but it gets more specific on a few key issues like national defense. Could our next war start because of a hack? The government says it's possible.

Onion News -- Predator Drone Court-Martialed

MotorBoatingSOB — Sat, 07 May 2011 07:01:03 +0000

Military officials make an example of the TR425 Predator Drone which fired on an Afghan wedding last September.

Followup video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCdLV3Xlbo&feature=feedu

Darren Wolfe at the Agora I/O Unconference March 26, 2011 (video)

darrenlobo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:40:48 +0000

The founder of Focus on Peace, Darren Wolfe, speaks about the new organization at the Agora I/O unconference in Valley Forge, PA on March 26, 2011. He explains why there is a need for a peace movement that isn't part of the political left. Darren goes into how a politically neutral peace movement, such as Focus on Peace, can bring into the movement many who will now have nothing to do with it.

General Petraeus Apologizes For Murder

libertas7213 — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:00:27 +0000

General Petraeus apologizes for the deaths of Afghani children though the week prior he suggested that some children whose parents say sustained burns in that airstrike might have been maimed by their own parents, so as to blame American forces.

Clinton Calls Drug War That's Left 15,000 Dead Last Year 'Messy'

Thrain — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:17:05 +0000

GUANAJUATO, Mexico — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Mexico to stay the course in an admittedly "messy" war against drug cartels, saying Monday that the Obama administration will help with new controls on the flow of American guns across the border.

Martin Luther King and the Empowerment of the War Machine

darrenlobo — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:08:10 +0000

Welfare at home and warfare abroad are just flip sides of the same coin. If the left really wants to see Dr. King’s dream of peace come true they must face the reality that they can not give the government the tools it needs to wage war and expect it not to do so.