Pentagon Budgets Half a Billion Dollars to Sell Us Wars

From Russian Today: “The Pentagon budgets half a billion dollars to market its wars in the US. Call it public relations or call it propaganda, it’s meant to win the hearts and minds of Americans. But is it coming at the price of the truth?”

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Former Joint Chiefs Chairman: Iraq War Based on Lies

We’ve known for a long time that the war was based on lies, but it’s nice to hear a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff say so. In his recently published memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior,” General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of [...]

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War Profiteers Routinely Seize Publicly Funded Software

The line between the Pentagon and the war industry is increasingly coming to resemble a highly porous membrane. War itself has become a private enterprise intended to profit private interests. The Department of Defense spends tens of billions of dollars annually creating software that is rarely reused and difficult to adapt to new threats. Instead, [...]

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Federally Sanctioned Insurers Profiting from Dead Soldiers

Any time a financial institution gives you an incentive to park a chunk of cash somewhere, you may take it to the bank, so to speak, that they are playing the spread between the rate at which they borrow money and the rate and which they pay it out. Lohman, a public health nurse who [...]

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Afghan Women Being Used for Pro-War Propaganda

As more and more people in the West become wise to the true purpose of the war in Afghanistan (hint: it has nothing to do with freedom or democracy), the proponents of the war are deploying new strategies to sell the war to an increasingly skeptical public. One of these strategies is to chronicle the [...]

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Corporate Welfare for War Industry Suppliers

Some Republicans would have you believe that they’re opposed to welfare. What many won’t tell you is that they favor corporate welfare for manufacturers and service providers in the warfare industry. The US Congress refused to pass an extension of unemployment benefits to over a million Americans because they were “opposed to adding another $33 [...]

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Military Contractors Sponsor ‘Sesame Street’ Special

Kids must learn that giving one’s life for the defense industry is sad but sometimes necessary. Premiering tonight on PBS at 8 p.m. EDT is a program, “When Families Grieve,” that features four families, two of which features fathers from the American military. (One of the soldiers killed himself. The other died in a helicopter [...]

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Blackwater Guards Stole Guns, Went on Drunken Rampage

They’re Blackwater. They can do whatever they want, and that includes murdering civilians in cold blood. Do you think the murderers will pay any consequences? Don’t be silly. Private American security guards working for the US military in Afghanistan removed hundreds of handguns and automatic weapons from stores intended for the exclusive use of the [...]

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More Than One Million Iraqis Killed in U.S. Invasion

This is the top censored story of 2009. The deaths will continue for years to come as people—including American veterans—are sickened by depleted uranium and produce children with birth defects. The maimed veterans will be tossed aside and abused by their own government, and a disproportionate number will become homeless. And to think that it [...]

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A Veteran Tells the Truth about the Iraq War

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