14 days ago by xxxevilgrinxxx

US Says Russia/China UN Veto “Disgusting”, “Shameful”, “Deplorable”, “a Travesty” . . . Really?” Arab Studies Institute/7 feb 2012 A Quick Listing of The United States’ Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972–2011* Year Resolution Vetoed by the United States 1972 Condemns Israel for kill ...

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35 days ago by Chief

There used to be a time when the United States stood for something. When the U.S. Constitution meant something. After WW II, there were trials in both Germany and Japan about the way the Nazis and the Imperial Command treated both citizens and captured enemy soldiers. Hence, the Geneva Conventions w ...

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36 days ago by vamanadeva

Much of Gaudiya Vaishnava preaching is universal and does not concern the particular. We are always told that the truth is ABSOLUTE and we will return to Godhead. We should never lose site of these simple universal precepts. Arjuna however overcame his doubts about killing his own family and chose t ...

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37 days ago by ladybug

Presidential hopeful Rick Perry defended the Marines' "mistake" on Sunday. Perry also accused the Obama Administration of "over the top rhetoric" and "disdain for the military('s)" condemnation towards a video showing four Marines urinating on dead corpses in Afghanistan. When asked about Perry's co ...

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45 days ago by Roberto

Click comic to ENLARGE. For those whose knowledge of American gastronomy is woefully incomplete, Twinkies have been "tingling [American] tastes buds for more than 80 years". And for those whose doctors have warned them that their blood is running a bit too freely through veins and arteries entirely ...

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45 days ago by adriejan

This Wednesday will be the tenth anniversary of the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay. Opened by Bush and, despite all his campaign promises, kept open by Barack Obama, this camp represents the warped state the rule of law has been put into in the US by both these presidents. The New York Times has a ...

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46 days ago by xxxevilgrinxxx

In what was clearly a war crime to rival anything the Nazi Wehrmacht engaged in during World War II, the Bush/Cheney administration and the Pentagon ordered the leveling of Fallujah in retaliation for the killing by resistance fighters of four Blackwater mercenaries in the city, and the hanging of t ...

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64 days ago by therealsweedie

National Defense Authorization Act. Just taste those words for a moment. Now that you’ve experienced what a pile of shit tastes like, let’s get down to business. For those of you who do not know what this act is, here is a small breakdown for you. In 2001, immediately following the 9/11 attacks, an ...

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67 days ago by xxxevilgrinxxx

Counterpunch Dave Lindorff 16 dec 2011 Imagine for a moment if an Iranian, or some other nation’s, robot spy plane had been captured or shot down over U.S. territory. Imagine the official response if the nation that owned that plane were to demand its return! First of all, Congress members, probably ...

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74 days ago by Bradley Farless

A friend of mine came across this documentary and passed along the link. I'm studying Middle Eastern history as my major, so he thought it would be relevant to my interests. It's 79 minutes and the audio gets steadily further and further out of sync with the video, but hey, it's free, and it's worth ...

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