- Former US drone pilot quits, regretting bombing innocents, including children (PressTV, May 20, 2013):
A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in Afghanistan and realizing he has unconsciously developed a desire to kill.
Tags: Afghanistan, Assassination, Children, Civilians, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Soldiers
From the article:
“Countries using depleted uranium weapons insist that the material is toxic, but not dangerously radioactive, as long as it remains outside the body.“
And here are some ‘easy’ precautions to prevent toxic DU dust from entering into the body for people who live in the contaminated areas of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Lebanon and now Syria:
1. Wear a gas mask at all time (for as long as you are still breathing)!
2. Don’t drink and eat anything (for as long as you live)!
3. Don’t touch anything (for as long as you live)!
Best of luck!
Anybody who still believes that complete BS that depleted uranium is not dangerous should watch this:
- MUST-SEE: Former Head Of Pentagon’s Depleted Uranium Project Dr. Doug Rokke On Depleted Uranium (Video)
Yes, this is GENOCIDE! (More info on DU down below.)
- ‘Israel used depleted uranium shells in air strike’ – Syrian source (RT, May 5, 2013):
Israel used “a new type of weapon”, a senior official at the Syrian military facility that came under attack from the Israeli Air Force told RT.
“When the explosion happened it felt like an earthquake,” said the source, who was present near the attack site on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday morning.
“Then a giant golden mushroom of fire appeared. This tells us that Israel used depleted uranium shells.”
Tags: Civilians, Depleted uranium, Genocide, Global News, Government, Israel, Military, Politics, Syria, WMDs
- Killing Civilians Is a More Popular Than You’d Think–Especially Among Pundits (FAIR, May 3, 2013)
Tags: Civilians, Global News, Society
- Drones Visualization: Every U.S. Drone Strike In Pakistan Since 2004 (GRAPHIC) (Huffington Post, March 26, 2013):
Pitch Interactive, a Berkeley-based data visualization unit, has created a graphic tracking every drone strike the United States has carried out in Pakistan since 2004. Wesley Grubbs, who created the visualization, joined HuffPost Live host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Tuesday to explain the motivation behind the visualization.
“We want to shock people,” Grubbs said. “What we tried to do though with this was not just shock people with the number of casualties, but to shock people with the amount of information that we really don’t know.”
The visualization, seen below, tracks the victims of the strikes using data from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, specifically noting children and civilian collateral damage. Note the sharp uptick after President Obama takes office in 2009:
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush administration, Children, Civilians, George Bush, Global News, Government, Military, Pakistan, Politics, Terrorism, U.S.
- The President of Perpetual War (Truthdig, Jan 25, 2013):
Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama’s political formula should be obvious. He gives fabulous speeches teeming with popular liberal ideas, often refuses to take the actions necessary to realize those ideas and then banks on most voters, activists, reporters and pundits never bothering to notice—or care about—his sleight of hand.
Whether railing on financial crime and then refusing to prosecute Wall Street executives or berating health insurance companies and then passing a health care bill bailing out those same companies, Obama embodies a cynical ploy—one that relies on a celebrity-entranced electorate focusing more on TV-packaged rhetoric than on legislative reality.
Never was this formula more apparent than when the president discussed military conflicts during his second inaugural address. Declaring that “a decade of war is now ending,” he insisted that he “still believe(s) that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.”
The lines generated uncritical applause, much of it from anti-war liberals who protested against the Bush administration. Living up to Obama’s calculation, few seemed to notice that the words came from the same president who is manufacturing a state of “perpetual war.”
Tags: Barack Obama, CIA, Civilians, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, U.S., War
- Dreams in Infrared – The Woes of an American Drone Operator (Der Spiegel, Dec 16, 2012):
Tags: Barack Obama, Children, Civilians, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.
- Morsi gives Egypt’s army police powers, right to arrest (France 24/AFP, Dec 10, 2012):
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Monday granted the army police powers, including the right to arrest civilians, ahead of a controversial December 15 referendum on a draft constitution that has sparked more than two weeks of protests.
President Mohamed Morsi has ordered Egypt’s army from Monday to take on police powers — including the right to arrest civilians — in the run-up to a divisive constitutional referendum that has triggered mass street protests.
The decree, published in the government gazette, takes effect on the eve of mass rival protests on the referendum and follows street clashes that have left seven people dead and hundreds injured.
Tags: Civilians, Constitution, Dictatorship, Egypt, Fascism, Global News, Government, Law, Military, Muslim Brotherhood, New World Order, Police, Police State, Politics, Society
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest.
- US intel agencies killing innocents around the globe (PressTV, Dec 5, 2012):
There has been a war inside the American intelligence community between two factions. On one side, a war between the “technogeeks,” those who spy from afar, who plot, who fabricate, who imagine, who create intelligence, not based on the reality of the world but on the needs of the powerful, the need to “certify lies” and those who would restore a human equation.If it serves “money” and power for the “geek squad” to say Iran is making nuclear weapons or that a man in a cave defeated America’s air defenses, if it serves “money” to talk of weapons that don’t exist and terror groups that “never were,” the “geek squad” simply makes it up.
This is what the CIA has become, a largely privatized system of “brown nosers” and paid liars, manufacturing a reality that never existed, sending America’s vast military power spinning in circles, eventually toward ruin and defeat.
Tags: 1984, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaida, Barack Obama, CIA, Civilians, DIA, Dictatorship, Fascism, George Orwell, Global News, Government, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Terrorism, U.S.
- U.S. Drone Strikes Are Causing Child Casualties: Video and Report (Huffington Post, Dec 1, 2012):
During my recent trip to Pakistan as part of our upcoming documentary film, Drones Exposed, I was struck most by the stories told to me by children who had experienced a U.S. drone strike firsthand. The impact of America’s drone war in the likes of Pakistan and Yemen will linger on, especially for the loved ones of the 178 children killed in those countries by U.S. drone strikes.
War Costs’ latest video (with accompanying report) brings attention to the children who have died as a result of drone strikes. The video names some of the children who perished in these strikes, and points out the obfuscation tactics of American officials who will not own up to the significant amount of civilian casualties that have occurred due to this legally- and morally-dubious policy.
Tags: Children, Civilians, Drones, Global News, Government, Military, Obama administration, Pakistan, Politics, U.S., War, War Crimes
- THE LAND GRABBERS STRIKE AGAIN (Veterans Today, Nov 19, 2012):
“I don’t travel. If I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: What are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive. And Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.” — Jewish writer Isaac Asimov
Hizballah is the only Arab millitia which defeated the Jewish Army in the summer of 2006. Continue reading »
Tags: Chinook Salmon, Civilians, Gaza, Global News, Government, Hamas, Israel, Military, Politics, War
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