Young People of America...Rise Up and Rebel!
by Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.
Just over 50 years ago it was No Gun Ri. Then My Lai. And now Haditha.. and, as (headlines declare), even more mass murders, most recently in the Iraqi villages of Ishaqi, Hamdaniya, Latifiyah, and Yusifiyah; young men fresh out of high school, frustrated by life, with nothing better to do than to sign up as mercenaries ready and willing to kill for their country, yet, as always, afraid to die and angry as hell as a result of buddies (comrades-in-arms) having been killed, everyone of them having been thrown into a world of cultural confusion and death wanting nothing more than an opportunity to return home, body and mind unimpaired. You see, for each of these young men and women, there will be two wars; the first a physical battle to stay alive, the second a psycho-spiritual effort, a struggle to live with what they "had to do" in order to stay alive. In war there are no winners... only those who lose least!
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The True History Behind the Rise of Zarqawi
by Greg Palast
Elections were not in The Plan. The Plan was a 101-page document to guide the long-term future of the land we'd just conquered. There was nothing in it about democracy or elections or safety. There was, rather, a detailed schedule for selling off "all [Iraq's] state assets" -- and Iraq, that's just about everything -- "especially," said The Plan, "the oil and supporting industries." Especially the oil.
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Anti-Direct-Democracy Propaganda
by Stephen Neitzke
Collectively, we the sovereign people cut through that propaganda barrier in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many tens of millions of Americans came to the conclusion that the prevasive corruption of their times negated the representative government that they wanted. They saw that the people are the only effective check and balance on governments wide open to corruption. (Never more true than today.)
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Iraq, An Analysis
by Steve Osborn
In the beginning, Saddam Hussein was put into power by the United States. When Iraq was at war with Iran, our enemy of the moment, we gave him lots of WMD's to use on the Iranians. He did use a lot in that direction, but also used a good deal of it to slaughter Kurds and Shiites in his own country. This did not bother us at the time as he was fighting a foe for us.
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