Fiery Speech on Native Rights, Solidarity

This fiery speech by native leader George Erasmus is an indicator of what has yet to happen. The emotion and raw aggression in his voice is firm and clear. The ability to use your voice to relay our inherent and indigenous rights is important and our leaders of today and tomorrow must speak the same path of understanding of current and future issues.
>fiery speech<

Psychopaths Rule The World

The Devaluation of Human Life

They claim to act on our behalf, but they do not. They don't even
answer to us. They kill in the interests of the state while
claiming to serve the interests of the people. And if you don't
like the way they are serving 'your interests'... tough.

They rationalize it.

They convince themselves of obvious contradictions and shrug it of
without the slightest sense of irony.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner being hailed as a promoter of unity and
peace even as he supports the overthrow and execution of a head of
state by terrorists and extremists.

It is a good deal more than hypocrisy, when psychopaths rule the
world...
>informative report<

Memorial Day Special: U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit

Democracy Now! returns to Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization’s six-decade history, where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war medals by hurling them down the street in the direction of the NATO summit. We hear the soldiers’ voices as they return their medals one by one from the stage. "I’m here to return my Global War on Terror Service Medal in solidarity with the people of Iraq and the people of Afghanistan," said Jason Hurd, a former combat medic who spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. "I am deeply sorry for the destruction that we have caused in those countries and around the globe." Scott Kimball, an Iraq war veteran, adds: "For all the service members and veterans who are against these wars, you are not alone!" Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special                                  >listen to their voices<

DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay

Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic , talks about the similarities in the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the signs that the U.S. empire is exhibiting the same symptoms: over extension, corruption and the inability to reform.

Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization devoted to public education concerning Japan and international relations in the Pacific.                 >link to interview<

Pentagon Whistle-Blower Karen Kwiatkowski’s Secret History of the Iraq War

Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Iraq whistle-blower reminds us that Bush lied.                               >Listen to the show<

Against Empire: Fighting the "Reality Cartel"

Getting to the ROOT of the problem

There's a lot of great material out there.

This is one of the very best things I've
come across in a long, long time.

Make the time for this one. Takes notes.
Listen to it more than once.

It's the whole enchilada presented as cleanly
and clearly as you're going to find anywhere.
>link to interview<

Shocking report - Toxic Depleted Uranium Fallout in Fallujah report by team in 2013!

Toxic Fallout in Fallujah

Vice Media

Since the assaults on Fallujah in 2004, the city has seen an astronomical rise in birth defects and abnormalities, including some too new to even have a proper medical name. VICE went back to Iraq to investigate.                                     >More here<

Immortal 23

Sen. Byrd & Iraq vet Tomas Young read names of the "Immortal 23" senators who voted against Iraq war  

Uploaded on Sept 6, 2009

This documentary depicts the life of a disabled Iraq War veteran

Now let's give credit where it is due and look back on what some of these Senators had to say on October 11, 2002 or in the days leading up to that vote.

Mark Dayton (D-MN)

    "There appears to be no imminent threat to the United States from Iraq. If there were, the Bush Administration could not have decided last summer to delay this unveiling until September because, in the words of White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Jr., 'from a marketing point of view, you don't bring out new products in August.'

    "Because Iraq's threat is not immediate, and because U.N. diplomatic efforts are just under way, I believe it is unwise and unnecessary for Congress to vote now on a future use of military force. So why is Congress rushing to judgment at this time? It is for political advantage in the upcoming election, rather than diplomatic or military necessity."          >clip Body of War<