What it really means to “nuke” human beings

I'm tired of hearing Neocons cavalierly talking about "nuking" one or more Middle Eastern countries. These days, Neocons often talk about this "need" to use nuclear weapons to show people in the Middle East that "we" mean business. I have personally heard this sort of talk several times (when you…

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1,000 veterans per month attempt suicide, far more than Veterans Administration admitted.

According to McClatchy, the Veterans Administration withheld inconvenient information regarding the number of veterans who have attempted suicide: The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who've attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was…

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Director Phil Donahue discusses the sanitizing of the Iraq occupation.

In this Truthout interview (by Geoffry Millard), Phil Donahue exhorts: "Don't sanitize the war."  Who are the perpetrators of this effort to sanitize the war?  Politicians and the media, for starters.  That effort to sanitize the bloody U.S. occupation of Iraq is the main message of the newly-released movie that…

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