The Only Victors In War: War Profiteers! Since World War II ‘the war to end all wars’ there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this Laura Cray political cartoon is from the from page editorial, of the August 18, 1945 Issue of The Militant Newspaper, with the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace” Could Still Be Published Today!Spreading ‘Democracry’ Quotes of the Day:
“In some ways it reconfirms and illuminates much of what we knew, or thought we knew, about a lot of these programs, like that the administration firmly prefers kill over capture despite claiming the opposite, and that there’s not ‘a bunch of folks in the room’, as Obama calls it – that there’s a clear, bureaucratic process for this. “It clearly shows, as we’ve known, that the United States does not know who it’s killing.” The White House and National Security Council declined to comment on the leak. “The report the Intercept story references is an internal classified document,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Linda Rojas. “As a matter of policy we don’t comment on the details of classified reports.” The CIA maintains a drone assassination program separate from the Pentagon program, although Barack Obama has called for bringing the CIA program inside the Defense Department. That effort has stalled. The Intercept report revealed, among other new disclosures, that at one point in 2012 Obama had approved 20 people for assassination in Yemen and Somalia. More than 200 were killed by drones in those countries that year, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It revealed that the military labels unidentified people it kills in targeted strikes as “enemies killed in action”, although victims may be family members or associates of actual targets – or may just have been nearby, or mistakenly targeted. — Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
“Craig has written a very in depth portrait of his struggles and triumphs in the NBA and beyond.” —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “It is time to remove Craig Hodges from exile status and place him where he has always belonged: on the short-list of the activist athletes who stood tall, paid the price and now live their life perhaps scarred, but without regrets. Read this book so a new generation of NBA players and fans will know his true story. Read this book so to say not in a whisper but with a confident shout, ‘You DO want to be like Craig Hodges.’ — Dave Zirin, from the Introduction — Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter
The main entrance to Camp Century, the U.S. military base in Greenland known as “the city under the ice.” (Photo: Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Spying’s New Frontier: Private Firm Collects Data on ‘Every American Adult’ “We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad” One company has pioneered the powerful new industry known as data-fusion. by Nadia PrupisA $Trillion Here A $Trillion There — But No Health Education and Welfare: Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has GoneWashington, D.C. — A new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, released last week, has left Americans stunned at the jaw-dropping lack of accountability and oversight. The glaring report revealed the Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report by the Fiscal Times.Environment:
Protect Our National Parks from Coal Plant Haze Will your next visit to one of our national parks include beautiful views of their natural beauty and wonder? Too many times, pollution from nearby coal-fired power plants blankets our parks in a smoggy haze.Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters:
Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter By Craig Hodges From Michael Jordan to George Bush Sr., Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power — and it cost him dearly. In the prime of his career Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as professional athlete to stand up against racism and economic exploitation. In this well-told, passionate, and historically literate memoir, Hodges shares the stories — to include his encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R Kelly, Michael Jordan and more — of his life-long crusade to improve the conditions for African Americans.Labor:
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Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower Classified documents on US assassination program released to the Intercept welcomed by men who exposed NSA surveillance and Pentagon Papers The Intercept report revealed, among other new disclosures, that at one point in 2012 Barack Obama had approved 20 people for assassination in Yemen and Somalia. Tom McCarthy
ACLU Forces US Government to Release Secret Drone Playbook The long-awaited guidelines provide “a timely reminder of the breadth of the powers that will soon be in the hands of another president,” said ACLU deputy legal director by Lauren McCauley 
Melting Greenland Ice Cap Will Expose Military’s Cold War-Era Toxic Waste Study finds that rapidly melting ice will unearth radioactive waste, toxic PCBs, and raw sewage left behind by secret U.S. military base in the 1960s by Nika Knight
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