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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/105/0 en http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=549 <p>Malalai Joya was 27-years-old when she became the youngest person elected to the new Afghan Parliament. </p> <p>She’s now suspended from Parliament for criticizing other MPs and accusing many of being warlords and criminals. She calls Afghanistan’s democracy a farce and says her country’s liberation is a lie. She has written a book called A Woman Among Warlords. Malalai Joya was in Toronto.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/get-out-my-country" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/get-out-my-country#comments AFGHANISTAN TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:04:36 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46818 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=539 <p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published new evidence Monday that Iran had been building “contingency centres” in the event of a U.S. bombing attack as early as 2002, years before it began building the second enrichment facility at Qom.</p> <p>But the latest report on Iran’s nuclear programme by the agency appeared to reject Iran’s account of how and when it had decided to build the Qom enrichment plant and implied that it believed Iran was hiding the construction of other facilities.</p> <p>The report provides new evidence that the Qom enrichment facility was constructed on one of many sites where tunneling had been prepared as early as 2002 to protect various kinds of facilities from a possible U.S. air attack.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/iran-began-preparing-us-bombing-2002" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/iran-began-preparing-us-bombing-2002#comments IRAN WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:40:18 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46793 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://tshtf.blogspot.com/ <p>Meaning:<br /> Something which is owed that is ruthlessly required to be paid back.<br /> Reap what one sows: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." In modern terms; what goes around comes around, aka you get what you deserve.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pound-flesh" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pound-flesh#comments AFGHANISTAN CORPORATE MEDIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMY IRAN IRAQ ISRAEL PAKISTAN / INDIA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:51 +0000 Forked Tongue 46763 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20091117hn.html <p>Dear Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,</p> <p>In the fall of 1980 I was assigned as a civilian university professor to provide Japanese language instruction to the officers and men of the USS Knox (FF-1052), a destroyer home-ported in Yokosuka. Sharing quarters with the ship's nuclear weapons officer, I soon became aware that the Knox was outfitted with an ASROC antisubmarine missile system including nuclear depth bombs.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-nuclear-arms-japan-firsthand-account" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-nuclear-arms-japan-firsthand-account#comments ASIA KOREA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:09:50 +0000 poorrichard 46741 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://commonwonders.com/ <p>There’s no armor, it turns out, for conscience.</p> <p>So our men and women are coming home from the killing fields wounded in their heads, used up, greeted only by the military’s own meat grinder of inadequate health care and intolerance for “weakness.”</p> <p>“Frankly, in my more than 25 years of clinical practice, I’ve never seen such immense emotional suffering and psychological brokenness.” This is what whistleblower psychiatrist Kernan Manion wrote recently to President Obama about his experience counseling Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, as reported by Salon.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/hell-comes-home" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/hell-comes-home#comments SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:56:19 +0000 poorrichard 46735 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://whatreallyhappened.com/ <p>I present this in the ongoing struggle to change the hearts and minds of our warmongering neighbors, knowing full well that cooler heads, sharper minds and more eloquent voices than mine have so far been unable to penetrate the thick skin of willful ignorance. "There are none so blind as those who will not see."<br /> <a href="http://tshtf.blogspot.com/2009/11/letter-to-busted-world.html" title="http://tshtf.blogspot.com/2009/11/letter-to-busted-world.html">http://tshtf.blogspot.com/2009/11/letter-to-busted-world.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/blogs/forked-tongue/09/11/20/letter-busted-world" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/blogs/forked-tongue/09/11/20/letter-busted-world#comments CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSE Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:53 +0000 Forked Tongue 46724 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=516 <p>American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it’s a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.</p> <p>The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts marking their deaths are short, sweet, and short-lived. Congressional investigations? No way. To the contrary! If anyone is inconsiderate enough to mention the killings of people overseas in a public forum, they get shouted down or simply ignored.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-shootings-shockerwhy-not-us-war-crimes" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-shootings-shockerwhy-not-us-war-crimes#comments AFGHANISTAN IRAQ TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:20 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46717 at http://whatreallyhappened.com https://research.au.af.mil/papers/ay2003/awc/Ryder.pdf <p><small><em>If you don't know about the perhaps-as-many-as-two-million polyeurathane "coffin liners" being stored (by the CDC? FEMA?) at certain rural locations across the US (notably Madison, GA) without explanation, well, it's pretty effin' creepy. Google it, no lack of theories. Here's a little something I found...</em></small></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/about-those-fema-coffins" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/about-those-fema-coffins#comments COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA HIDDEN HISTORY SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WMD Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:09:44 +0000 jo-ann F. 46712 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://dprogram.net/2009/11/19/why-war-is-inevitable-john-kaminski/ <p>Just before World War I, the sentiment in America was decidedly pro-German, and more the half of all the immigrants coming to this developing land WERE German. Nobody wanted to get involved in a European war. But the media, owned by the same people who were making the weapons, convinced us, apparently, by suddenly and savagely telling hair-raising false stories about the Germans.</p> <p>This is the great fact Americans continue to ignore. Instead of understanding that bankers create the wars, we prefer to believe the prejudicial hate speak that emanates from American media that our enemies are “krauts,” “gooks,” and “ragheads,” without remembering, as the great suppressed writers have told us, that the folks who control the money also control everything else.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/why-war-inevitable-%E2%80%93-john-kaminski" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/why-war-inevitable-%E2%80%93-john-kaminski#comments CORPORATE MEDIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:05:45 +0000 Mike Rivero 46691 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34019879/ns/us_news-military/ <p>The crew aboard a U.S. submarine made dozens of errors before the vessel collided with an American warship in the Persian Gulf, an accident that exposed lax leaders who tolerated sleeping, slouching and a radio room rigged with music speakers, a Navy review found.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/navy-%E2%80%98ineffective%E2%80%99-leadership-sub-collision" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:35 +0000 Mike Rivero 46568 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/11/17/our-chief-industry-war/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+antiwar-original+%28Antiwar.com+Original+Articles%29 <p>We often hear the complaint that America doesn’t make anything anymore: that is, our economy seems driven not by producing actual things, but utterly intangible creations such as credit default swaps and securitized sub-prime mortgages. Our once-bustling factories are rusted relics. Entire industries have collapsed. Ghost towns have sprung up where cities once thrived, like mushrooms sprouting in a cemetery. Baffled Americans, who – mistaking debt for wealth – thought they lived in the wealthiest country in the world, struggle to define what is happening. Old words like "correction," contraction," and "recession" give way to talk of a second Great Depression, and, in this context, the question "What does America make anymore?" is raised with renewed vigor.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/our-chief-industry-war" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/our-chief-industry-war#comments ECONOMY WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:58:43 +0000 Mike Rivero 46522 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/17/army.suicides/index.html?eref=rss_world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_world+%28RSS%3A+World%29 <p>Suicides among soldiers this year have topped last year's record-breaking numbers...</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/army-suicides-set-another-yearly-record" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/army-suicides-set-another-yearly-record#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:32:07 +0000 Mike Rivero 46487 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjKtLnetK4&feature=youtube_gdata <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dLjKtLnetK4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dLjKtLnetK4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ground-truth-trailer" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ground-truth-trailer#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:29:54 +0000 Mike Rivero 46486 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://rense.com/general88/colors.htm <p>According to a report in World Net Daily, "Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength to integrate North America.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-wearing-un-colors" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-wearing-un-colors#comments IMMIGRATION/NORTH AMERICAN UNION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:11:35 +0000 poorrichard 46463 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://arklatexhomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=4509 <p>Fort Hood to Simulate Terrorist Attack Wednesday<br /> Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 @04:57pm CDT<br /> An exercise designed to test Fort Hood's ability to respond to a terrorist attack will be conducted Wednesday.<br /> Military officials say the drill will involve a simulated explosion at the post's Abrams Fitness Center, resulting in mass casualties and triggering protective measures and emergency response.<br /> Col. Tori Bruzese, Fort Hood's Garrison Commander said, "We have a duty to ensure that we are ready to thwart any attempt to harm America's most precious resource, our Soldiers and Familes." The drill is expected start at 1 p.m. and be completed by 5 p.m.<br /> **Also at <a href="http://pmcterrordrillresearch.blogspot.com/2007/06/drills.html" title="http://pmcterrordrillresearch.blogspot.com/2007/06/drills.html">http://pmcterrordrillresearch.blogspot.com/2007/06/drills.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-ft-hood-simulate-terrorist-attack-wednesday" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-ft-hood-simulate-terrorist-attack-wednesday#comments COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA HIDDEN HISTORY WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:27:25 +0000 mytrueword 46460 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://bit.ly/v1ojF <p>China and the United States agreed that Iran faced "consequences" if it resisted greater openness on its nuclear program, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with China's Hu Jintao. Obama spoke with sterner language than Hu.</p> <p>"Iran has an opportunity to present and demonstrate its peaceful intentions, but if it fails to take this opportunity, there will be consequences," the US president said. Hu made no mention of consequences, saying the Iran conflict is important to resolve through negotiations.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obama-iran-faces-%E2%80%98consequences%E2%80%99-nuclear-issue" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obama-iran-faces-%E2%80%98consequences%E2%80%99-nuclear-issue#comments IRAN WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSE Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:15:16 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46456 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROZ20091116&articleId=16111 <p>"Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world's oceans and seas at will. It is also expanding a global interceptor missile system on land, on sea, in the air and into space that will leave it invulnerable to retaliation."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/global-warfare-usa-world-pentagons-oyster" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/global-warfare-usa-world-pentagons-oyster#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:15:38 +0000 Mike Rivero 46441 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.channel3000.com/news/21569845/detail.html <p>Wounded Wisconsin Soldier Talks About Fort Hood Shooting<br /> Random Lake Woman Being Called A Hero<br /> Updated: 7:44 am CST November 10, 2009<br /> FORT HOOD, Texas -- Amber Bahr still has a slight limp in her step after she was shot in the back during last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood.<br /> "All of a sudden, I heard somebody yelling something, and then I heard rounds going off, and we all hit the ground and covered our heads," said Bahr. "I think the majority of us thought it was a drill. I personally thought it was a drill. The rounds stopped and I smelled sulfur and I heard screaming and I saw blood. And I realized it wasn't a drill."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fthood-attack-drills-common-fake-shooting" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fthood-attack-drills-common-fake-shooting#comments COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:43:38 +0000 mytrueword 46427 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16136 <p>“I see the ugly,” Luther told IPS. “I see soldiers beating their wives and trying to kill themselves all the time, and most folks don’t want to look at this, including the military.”</p> <p>Luther, who in 2007 became the founder and director of the Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors, knows about these types of internal problems in the military because he has been through many of them himself.</p> <p>Luther told IPS that he believes the real number of soldiers at Fort Hood committing suicide is being dramatically underreported by the military.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-army-underreporting-suicides-says-gi-advocacy-group" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-army-underreporting-suicides-says-gi-advocacy-group#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:45:42 +0000 Mike Rivero 46391 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/cnn-on-our-new-huge-huge-bomb-to-use.html <p>Wolf was practically breathless with excitement as he marveled there at the end about what a big, big, powerful bomb that is. He looked like he was in need of CPR or some other type of relief. "It's a huge, huge bomb, Barbara."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cnn-our-new-huge-huge-bomb-use-against-iran" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cnn-our-new-huge-huge-bomb-use-against-iran#comments IRAN WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:20:57 +0000 Mike Rivero 46383 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.info/index.php?p=m60117&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>A British soldier who faces up to 10 years in jail for speaking out against the war in Afghanistan will go before a military judge this week to discover if he will remain in an army jail while he awaits trial.</p> <p>In an escalation of the Ministry of Defence's legal action against him, Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, 27, was arrested and charged last week with five counts of disobeying lawful commands and standing orders in relation to his public opposition to the war expressed at an anti-war rally last month.</p> <p>He had already been charged with desertion for refusing to return to fight in Afghanistan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/anti-war-soldier-faces-10-years-jail" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/anti-war-soldier-faces-10-years-jail#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:21:00 +0000 ladylove 46324 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/mccoy/single <p>As the "War on Terror" enters its ninth year to become one of America's longest overseas conflicts, the time has come to ask an uncomfortable question: What impact have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--and the atmosphere they created domestically--had on the quality of our democracy? </p> <p>Every American knows that we are supposedly fighting elsewhere to defend democracy here at home. Yet the crusade for democracy abroad, largely unsuccessful in its own right, has proven remarkably effective in building a technological template that could be just a few tweaks away from creating a domestic surveillance state--with omnipresent cameras, deep data-mining, nano-second biometric identification, and drone aircraft patrolling "the homeland."</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/welcome-home-war-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/welcome-home-war-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties#comments DICTATORSHIP WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:22:45 +0000 malterwitty 46308 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://dprogram.net/2009/11/16/faber-predicts-war-to-distract-from-bad-economy/ <p>However, “military Keynesianism” – using military spending to stimulate the economy – has been U.S. policy for half a century. And the economist who coined that term said that such a policy always and “inexorably” leads to “an actual war” in order to justify all of the military spending.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/faber-predicts-war-distract-bad-economy" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/faber-predicts-war-distract-bad-economy#comments ECONOMY WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:03 +0000 Mike Rivero 46300 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=353c <p>In twenty years children are all too likely to be living poor, on a hostile planet, working long hours to pay down the sins of their fathers.</p> <p>And they might well be enraged, too, as they should be.</p> <p>A decade or two from now, if they confront their right-wing elders – gazing in anger and astonishment at the bottomless capacity of their parents’ selfishness – you can safely bet that their questions will be met with dissembling deception.</p> <p>Twenty years from now, regressives will lie to their children.</p> <p>We know this because those regressives are already lying today, covering their execrable crimes the only way possible.</p> <p>With deceit.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/twenty-years-now-you-will-lie-your-children" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/twenty-years-now-you-will-lie-your-children#comments TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSE Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:26 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46293 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9352&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 <p>There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm's way. Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, the brilliant New York Times war correspondent who survived wars in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, "I rarely saw moral courage. Moral courage is harder. It requires the bearer to walk away from the warm embrace of comradeship and denounce the myth of war as a fraud, to name it as an enterprise of death and immorality, to condemn himself, and those around him, as killers. It requires the bearer to become an outcast.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/welcome-home-soldier-now-shut" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/welcome-home-soldier-now-shut#comments COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:31:54 +0000 poorrichard 46269 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://telegram.com/article/20091115/NEWS/911150355/1002/rss01&source=rss <p>A former engineer for defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the company knowingly used “defective” stealth coatings when building its F-22 Raptor stealth jets.</p> <p>Darrol Olsen, a stealth engineer who was fired by Lockheed in 1999, claims Lockheed “falsely certified” the coatings between September 1995 and June 1999, saying they had passed stealth tests and concealing results that showed otherwise. Olsen said in the lawsuit he was told to “stay out of it” when he complained to his superiors.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/suit-strips-raptor-invisibility-cloak" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/suit-strips-raptor-invisibility-cloak#comments POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:53:50 +0000 Mike Rivero 46260 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23957.htm <p>An Afghan policeman earns around $120 a month. In return for this he is forced to do a more dangerous job than Afghan soldiers, some 1,500 policemen being killed between 2007 and 2009, three times the number of deaths suffered by the Afghan army. Compare this money and these dangers with that of a US paid consultant earning $250,000 a year -- and with the cost of his guards, accommodation and translator totalling the same amount again – lurking in his villa in Kabul. General Eikenberry is rightly sceptical about the dispatch of reinforcements to prop up a regime which is more of a racket than an administration. The troops may kill more Taliban, but they will also be their recruiting sergeants.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/stealing-money-selling-heroin-and-raping-boys" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/stealing-money-selling-heroin-and-raping-boys#comments AFGHANISTAN POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:33:05 +0000 poorrichard 46155 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://enpassant.com.au/?p=5542 <p>The US State uses its own working class to destroy the lives of millions overseas, and in doing so, destroys those lives too. Having served their usefulness to capital, the beast then spits them out.</p> <p>Many soldiers are traumatised by what they have done, seen or experienced. They return to a country whose leaders mouth platitudes of support but won’t pay for services for these discarded and jilted soldiers.</p> <p>Their priority is profit, not the soldiers who have killed in the name of. </p> <p>The brutality of US capitalism overseas reflects, mirrors, reinforces, telescopes and escalates its brutality at home.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-logical-consequence-us-terrorism" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-logical-consequence-us-terrorism#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:06:30 +0000 malterwitty 46124 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23958.htm <p>If we ascribe ending the war to material interests, it makes ending the war look as unworthy as the war itself.</p> <p>Yet, virtually every conservative columnist, commentator, newsperson and politician, as well as today’s antiwar protesters and apparently the Pentagon, believes that a military draft would reduce Americans’ toleration for wars because of body bags coming home to middle and upper class parents. Apparently, the lower class doesn’t mind its kids coming back in body bags.</p> <p>Those in thrall to this explanation, which derives from Marx’s materialist explanation of history, do not notice that Vietnam was our longest war. It apparently took almost forever for the material interest of students and their parents to realize itself and stop the war.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/morality-vs-material-interests-myths-our-time-paul-craig-roberts" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/morality-vs-material-interests-myths-our-time-paul-craig-roberts#comments WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:19:00 +0000 Saladin 46118 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrMzfhdmkU <object width="500" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsrMzfhdmkU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsrMzfhdmkU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="315"></embed></object><p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/what-you-didnt-know-about-war-2" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/what-you-didnt-know-about-war-2#comments IRAQ WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:02:15 +0000 Mike Rivero 46059 at http://whatreallyhappened.com