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David Fitzsimmons | VA / www.truthdig.com

Tue, 05/21/2013 - 18:56 — Dave Culver

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How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists

Tue, 05/21/2013 - 18:46 — Dave Culver

Their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. 

Fran Quigley, Common Dreams

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From left, Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice, and Michael Walli. (Photo: Saul Young/News Sentinel)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism.  Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. 

Here is how it happened. 

In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property.  Y-12, called the Fort Knox of the nuclear weapons industry, stores hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium and works on every single one of the thousands of nuclear weapons maintained by the U.S.

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“Sniper” and the Elephant in the Room

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 09:51 — Dave Culver

  • Lessons From Harry Chapin’s Classic School Shooter Song
  • Brain-altering Psych Drugs as a Tipping Point to Overt Acts of Violence
  • De-mystifying the mass shootings seems to be a taboo subject 

Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duty to Warn / Evergreene Digest

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May 17, 2013 | I have been involved in the mental ill health industry in various ways since the early 1990s. In the last decade of my medical career I was an independent holistic mental health care practitioner. I found myself frequently feeling obligated to function as a whistle-blower, exposing a psychopharmaceutical drug industry that had enormous numbers of serious, often unrecognized problems, many of them brain-disabling, addicting or even lethal.

Starting with the wake-up call of the Columbine school massacre in 1999, I became acutely aware of the close connections between the epidemic of mass shootings and the widespread use of prescription antidepressants for adolescents  (which are illegal, for good reasons, to be prescribed in the under age 18 group in Great Britain). In my study of the problem, I discovered that mass shootings escalated dramatically after Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft hit the market in the decade prior to Eric Harris was started on Zoloft and then was switched to Luvox. (See www.ssristories.com for much more on the topic of drug-induced violence.).

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Guns vs. Butter

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 20:59 — Dave Culver

Exposing the Truth

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Mr. Fish | Flying Mother Nature’s Silver Seed / www.truthdig.com

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:13 — Dave Culver

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Unwilling to Listen, Unable to Hear

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:05 — Dave Culver

  • The U.S. government and military complex is unwilling to listen, to listen deeply, to the cries of those whom it has slaughtered, wounded, detained, tormented and ruined.
  • Thoughts on the Boston Marathon Bombing 
  • Boston and Beyond
  • Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs       

Lynn Feinerman, Tikkun Daily

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April 26, 2013 | On April 20, 2013, days after the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon event, President Obama asked: “Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country, resort to such violence?”

Media reported that on April 22, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers accused in the bombings, answered Obama’ s question. He stated they bombed the event in reaction to U.S. attacks on Islam.

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Related:

Boston and Beyond, Noam Chomsky, In These Times 

  • It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily--for example, in a remote village in Yemen.
  • When we experience terror at home, we must remember the United States’s use of terror abroad.
  • Two Obamas, Two Classes Of Children
  • Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs

Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs, RootsAction Team

  • Both rip through human flesh causing maximum pain, injury, and death.
  • Both are wrong!
  • Here Comes AIPAC, Lobbying for War

 

 
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