“FBI Believes It Has Identified ISIS Hostage Executioner
The U.S. believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the video depicting the beheading of two American journalists and a British aid worker, The FBI director says.”
— Huff Post Politics September 25, 2014
Charlie McGrath Presents Activist Ross Caputi
Fallujah Iraq 2004 saw some of the most horrific fighting in recent military history. Fierce hand to hand and house to house fighting left thousands dead. Our country and our fighting men were told Fallujah was a terror hot spot and we were liberating the city from evil doers. We now know that it was total carnage based on outright lies.
Activist and veteran Ross Caputi takes us through the horrors of Fallujah & the deceptions that still haunts our nation and the world.
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When Americans forget the stark realities of war, we do a disservice to our veterans, as well as victims whose lives were lost in U.S. military campaigns.
On Memorial Day we are called upon to remember those who died fighting America’s wars. But we are also asked to forget. We applaud politely as veterans march in parades. Ribbons and medals, flags and fancy uniforms flood our senses, and everyone is content with the atmosphere of honor, pride, and patriotism.
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being ‘the good guys’ in world affairs. Channel 4 News is not immune from this chauvinism. For example, Matt Frei introduced a report about last month’s elections in Iraq with this propaganda bullet:
Now, America once invaded Iraq so that, in large part, Iraqis could do what they did today – go to the polls. (Channel 4 News, April 30, 2014)
Mission Accomplished.
— George W. Bush, May 1, 2003
We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected round the world.
—President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, January 24, 2012
Prior to the March 16 referendum, the BBC website reported:
Crimeans will vote on whether they want their autonomous republic to break away from Ukraine and join Russia.
I’d like to insert a joke about “freedom is on the march!” here but am too disgusted to do it. I just received a lengthy report from Dr. Muhamad Al-Darraji, President of CCER (Conservation Center of Environmental & Reserves), Fallujah City, Iraq (PDF, Doc). It documents the attacks of the past year on the people of Fallujah by the government of Iraq. The U.S. government has rushed weapons to the Iraqi government for this assault.
The United States Marine Corps … its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor…
— Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps, 1997
