redefining the terms scumbags and war profiteers, the very politically connected, private military for hire (mercenaries) group Blackwater is suing families of it’s former employees to keep them from inquiring as to how their family members died. unbelievable. these family members worked as civilian contractors for Blackwater in iraq and were brutally killed and mutilated on march 31st, 2004 in Fallejuh. the families of the victims wanted to know how that happened. after Blackwater refused to share any information about the incident as to how or why they were killed, the families were told by Blackwater that they would have to sue Blackwater to find out. they did. the families filed suit in 2005 as their only course of action. after Blackwater lost every appeal against the suit all the way to the U.S. supreme court, Blackwater has reversed tactics. Now Blackwater is trying to sue the families of the American contractors for $10 million to keep them from finding out how their family members died. Blackwater is also trying to place a gag order on the families to keep them from talking about the case. feel free to contact your senators and congressional representatives to let them know this isn’t right. additonal information on the democracy now website. there is also a Blackwater Victims website seeking donations to help the families of the victims defense fund.
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a post from politics.tv (and also touched on at alternet and defensenews), documentary film maker robert greenwald testified at a hearing in US Congress on may 10, 2007 about war profiteering. greenwald requested to show a few minutes of one of his films, iraq for sale: the war profiteers, but Republicans blocked his request. here is the 4 minute clip from iraq for sale that Congress didn’t see.
in light of the current and growing fake news reports and bogus claims to hype up and ‘justify’ a new war with iran, please be sure to watch this amazing video by margo guryan titled Margo Guryan / 16 words. brilliant animation and political commentary. these are the same 16 words from bush’s 2003 state of the union speech to justify a war with iraq. lies, lies, and more lies.
youtube clip of the fiesty george galloway VS a talking head from UK’s sky news. teleprompter-reading skills don’t come in too handy with the out spoken george galloway (see previous clip of galloway speaking before the US senate). despite getting his microphone turned down halfway through the interview, it’s galloway by a landslide …
i love seeing things like this very powerful ad placed in a high school newspaper. the full text of the ad reads “You can’t be all that you can be if you’re dead. There are other ways to serve your country. There are other ways to get money for college. There are other ways to be all you can be. THINK ABOUT IT. Before you sign your life away.” the full ad layout can be seen here. the controversial ad was created and paid for by an anonymous sophmore at Warwick Valley High School in New York. the student who placed the ad is a member of the Bruderhof community, a Christian-based communal order in Sugar Loaf that preaches pacifism. more power to him! the full story is available via the times -herald record online (1st view is free. 2nd view requires registration - unless you delete their cookie) and also on michael moore’s website.