27 November 2009
Here is an interesting graph that shows the cost of US led war compared against univesal health care, universal preschool, security, cancer research and immunization. It is easy to see how much the American people are losing with these unjustified wars: masacring people within and abroad the country.
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29 October 2009
Recent news from The New York Times has suggested that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the CIA and has for much of the past eight years.
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27 October 2009
I was reading through some articles about the increase of opium production in Afghanistan and came across the following graph from Wikipedia. Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan (in Hectors) This data was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is interesting to note that during the period when Taliban was gaining power, the [...]
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15 October 2009
The following is what the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said about Iran’s nuclear program and questioned some world powers’ constant and unjustified focus on the Iranian program. Photo: World Economic Forum “We don’t want nuclear weapons in this region and this is what we have always called for. We have also voiced this to the Iranian [...]
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14 October 2009
The BBC has recently reported that the Pentagon is speeding up the deployment of an enormous bomb, one that would be the largest non-nuclear weapon ever in the U.S. arsenal. The 30,000 lb (13600 kg) massive ordnance penetrator (MOP) carries about 2,400 kilograms of explosives and is so heavy no fighter can carry; it can only [...]
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08 October 2009
It is of good news that a tyrant like Berlusconi is no exception from the Law. Unfortunately the old man’s plans got thwarted this time.
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07 October 2009
The US Senate has just passed a substantial defense bill for fiscal year 2010. Photo: Speaker Pelosi The “Defense” bill detail is as follows: Total allocated sum: $636 billion Approximate total sum for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $130 billion The sum: $3.9 billion less than the amount requested by President Barack Obama’s administration. Bill passed: 93-7 [...]
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03 October 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama will not pressure Israel to disclose its nuclear arsenal to international inspection, as reported on Friday by The Washington Times. There has been a 40-year-old covert agreement between the U.S. and Israel has permitted Israel to maintain its active nuclear facility without any inspection which contains several hundred nuclear bombs. Israeli [...]
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01 October 2009
“No flu vaccine, no pay raise” Local Ohio hospital workers are being told. Elsewhere, in New York, nearly 500,000 health care workers are forced to take swine flu shot or face losing their jobs. New York is the first state in the country to order flu vaccinations for its health care workers. The initial doses of swine [...]
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30 September 2009
He labels Iran’s new hysteria as Deja vous, warmongering and draws a similar parallel with Saddam Husein’s WMD justification. He goes on to point out the followings: The American government knew about Qom’s nuclear plant since 2006 Obama was briefed about this site in November right after he was elected. The CIA had reported that there was no [...]
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Admin - AKfortruth: Thanks for the links. They are actually very infor...
treedp: This is our sadest reality... innocent lives lost ...
treedp: Not only have the opium production increaseed in A...
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