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Don't Thank Me for My Service

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 19:25 — Dave Culver

  • Instead, demand an immediate end to the corporate takeover of our "democracy" and to the undue influence of the military-industrial-Congressional complex. Demand sanity in Pentagon spending and a reallocation of finite resources to people-focused programs such as health care, education and jobs rather than to killing and destruction.
  • Bill Moyers | What It’s Like to Go to War
  • War is A Racket Redeux

Camillo Mac Bica, Truthout

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U.S. Marine in Zaranj, Nimroz province, December 30, 2011. (Photo: Cpl. Bryan Nygaard / U.S. Marine Corps)

Sunday, 03 June 2012 | I do not want to appear disrespectful or ungrateful, but should we meet on the street one day, do say "Hello," or "Fine day" or other such nicety, but please do not thank me for "my service" as a United States Marine. I make this request because my service, as you refer to it, was basically, either to train to become a killer or to actually kill people and blow shit up.

Now, that is not something for which a person should be proud nor thanked. In fact, it is regrettable, and for me a source of guilt and shame, something I will have to live with for the rest of my life, as the past cannot ever be undone. So, when you thank me for my service, it disturbs me ... a lot.

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Bill Moyers | What It’s Like to Go to War, Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers & Company

  • In this encore broadcast, Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes explains what we need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors.
  • Invisible injuries grip young veterans

War is A Racket Redeux, Kevin Werner, Veterans for Peace

 

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War is A Racket Redeux, Kevin Werner, Veterans for Peace

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 18:48 — Dave Culver

 

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War is a Racket, Major General Smedley Butler 

 

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Randall Enos | At Home With LaPierre / media.cagle.com

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 13:06 — Dave Culver

 

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Petition: Dear NRA, Please Add Me to Your Enemies List

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 12:58 — Dave Culver

 

Sign our petition and we will will let the NRA know that you oppose their policies as much as those they perceive as their enemies.

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March 8, 2013 | Did you see the NRA's enemy list last week? Were you surprised you were not on it? Did you feel left out? If you want to be added to their esteemed list, sign our petition and we will will let them know that you oppose their policies as much those they perceive as their enemy.

Petition reads: I was looking at your enemies list the other day and was surprised that you left me off. Please add me to your very distinguished list.

Signed,

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Special Project | Obama's Drone Presidency: Week of March 10, 2013

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 11:47 — Dave Culver

Where to draw the line on drone strikes?

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Paresh Nath

Cliffs Notes for the Filibuster: Rand Paul in His Own Words, Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

  • The Kentucky Republican's nearly 13-hour stand on the Senate floor, condensed into a tight brief for civil liberties
  • Obama's Drone Presidency

Who can’t be on Obama’s “kill list”? David Sirota, Salon

  • A Department of Justice (DOJ) white paper reveals White House rationalization for drone strikes -- and an out of control power structure.
  • Call it Too Big to Curtail.
  • List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
  • 10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing
  • Obama's Kill List Reveals Gangsta Mentality in the Oval Office

10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing, Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams

  • Stay tuned to www.c-span.org at 2:30pm on Thursday (2/7) to hear the Senators’ questions, Brennan’s answers and the response from those of us in the audience who don’t have many such occasions to express outrage at our government’s policy of remote-controlled killing.
  • Pressure Works: Urge the Senate to Press Brennan on Drone Strikes
  • John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy

Rise of The Drones, Nova, PBS

  • Meet a new breed of flying robots, from tiny swarming vehicles to giant unmanned planes.
  • List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen

List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports, Drones Watch

  • Drone Warfare ~ Madea Benjamin
  • John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy
  • How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?

John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy, Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams

  • If Obama thinks John Brennan is a good choice to head the CIA and secure America, he should contemplate the tragic deaths of victims like 16-year-old Tariq Aziz, and think again.
  • Drone Warfare ~ Madea Benjamin
  • Jimmy Carter savages US foreign policy over drone strikes

US detained hundreds of Afghan teenagers, Submitted by Evergreene Digest Assistant Editor Jeanette Eastman

  • The teens had not been charged with any crimes, but were each held for an average of one year for the sole purpose of preventing “a combatant from returning to the battlefield”, the report (to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child) said. 
  • The US Military Approves Bombing Children
  • US DOJ Alleges Mississippi County Jails Kids for School Dress Code Violations, Tardiness

The US Military Approves Bombing Children, Robert Dreyfuss, Nation

  • Some Afghan kids aren’t bystanders
  • If Our Drones Are So Accurate, Why Do Their Missiles Keep Hitting Children? 
  • Obama's Drone Presidency
  • There must be accountability for US drone strikes

Obama's Drone Presidency, Melissa Harris-Perry, Nation

 

 
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Cliffs Notes for the Filibuster: Rand Paul in His Own Words

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 11:13 — Dave Culver

  • The Kentucky Republican's nearly 13-hour stand on the Senate floor, condensed into a tight brief for civil liberties
  • Obama's Drone Presidency

Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

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Senator Rand Paul spent nearly 13 hours on the Senate floor Wednesday conducting an old-fashioned filibuster. Associated Press

Mar 7 2013 | On the purpose of his filibuster:

"I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan's nomination for the CIA I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. That Americans could be killed in a cafe in San Francisco or in a restaurant in Houston or at their home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an abomination." 

Why he worries about killing within the United States:

"When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal, 'no.' The president's response? He hasn't killed anyone yet. We're supposed to be comforted by that. The president says, I haven't killed anyone yet. He goes on to say, 'and I have no intention of killing Americans. But I might.' 

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Obama's Drone Presidency, Melissa Harris-Perry, Nation

 

 
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