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Iraq outraged by Blackwater case dismissal
Iraq has criticized the US court’s dismissal of all charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing seventeen Iraqi civilians in 2007. The country’s government has vowed to pursue the case itself. Blackwater contractors – a US private military company – was sent to Iraq to assist the US army in 2003. In 2007, 17 [...]
Continue reading...Endless war as a means to keep Pentagon’s budget
30. December 2009
Today the US is spending more on war than the governments of 50 American states spend on education, healthcare and welfare of the American people, says journalist Sherwood Ross. “American people who voted for peace are finding that we have a greater war economy than ever before,” said Ross. “The idea of the Pentagon and [...]
Continue reading...We’ll force a vote on whether to stay in Afghanistan – Congressman Kucinich
23. December 2009
US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is circulating a resolution to end the war in Afghanistan, says he is simply trying to reclaim the forgotten constitutional responsibility of Congress to start and end war. Kucinich reminds the basic principles that “It is not appropriate for generals to be making decisions on their own about whether the [...]
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4. January 2010
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