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Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden's secret burial at sea »

The heavily redacted internal emails released by the Defense Department show that no U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea, and that Islamic laws were followed during the ceremony.

You’d have to be completely brainwashed to take the government’s word on anything with a complete lack of any proof whatsoever, or just be 99% of Americans.

For everyone celebrating Mother’s Day today safe and sound here in America, take a moment to think about the mothers around the world who are without children today due to injustices carried out by our government with our tax dollars.

Afghan President Says U.S. Can Have 9 Bases After Withdrawal

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Afghanistan will allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country after the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops at the end of next year. For months, U.S. and Afghan leaders have been holding secret talks about the future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Karzai made the remarks in a speech at Kabul University Thursday.

President Hamid Karzai: “They want nine bases all over Afghanistan, including Kabul, Bagram, Mazar, Jalalabad, Gardez, Kandahar, Helmand, Shindand and Herat, and we agreed to give them these bases. Our conditions are that the U.S. should guarantee to bring security in our country and support Afghanistan’s forces, as well as build up our economic infrastructure.”

In a statement, the U.S. embassy in Kabul said the United States is not seeking permanent military bases in Afghanistan, but instead hopes to use Afghan facilities.

Source.

People understand the definition of ‘suspect’, right?

US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding »

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said

priceofliberty:

anarchovelocirachel:

ronpaulproblems:

proudtopay:

What a you #ProudToPay for on this #TaxDay? Schools, roads, weather forecasts, airports, soldiers, firefighters, teachers, clean water? Share on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or any old-fashion way what your are proud to pay for.

I’m proud to pay taxes for the following:

Helping Gitmo be renovated instead of closed

Killing Pakistani children with drones

$500 million to study why kindergartners ”can’t sit still.”

$2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly

Elaborate GSA conferences

$500,000 so Alaska Airlines could paint a salmon on the side of a plane

And the list goes on and on. Government already makes life unaffordable for many Americans. The least they could do is let us keep our own money. I’m not proud to pay. And I won’t be until government can spend within its means (so probably never).

Never proud to pay.

Lmao what fucking shill was paid to make a tumblr called PROUD TO PAY mother fucking tribute?!

I’m proud to pay for the murder of people all of the world who I’ve never met and never had a problem with, but my government assures me they are a threat to my freedom. I’m proud to pay for our 100+ international military bases and our occupation forces around the world. I’m proud to pay for the salaries/healthcare/retirement of every politician who does absolutely fucking nothing productive, meanwhile people working minimum wage jobs get shit. I’m proud to pay for a government that thinks it owns a huge landmass and can keep people off of it through force, even though humans are just trying to move freely around the planet they were fucking born on. I’m proud to pay for a government that has more incarcerated humans than any other country, mostly for victimless crimes. I’m proud to fund the war on drugs, because let’s be honest, people shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions for themselves. I’m proud that I get to pay taxes, but if I made up a bunch of shit about some invisible dude in the sky who impregnated a virgin with himself using magic laser god sperm and wrote a book about it, and then got other people to read it and believe in it and we built a clubhouse and hung out there once a week to talk about all the shit we made up, I wouldn’t have to pay any taxes. Most of all though, I’m proud to pay taxes to support the statist indoctrination of our country’s youth, so that future generations can grow up to be mindless state-worshiping ~~slaves~~ tax payers. In the end, I guess I’m just proud that I don’t have a fucking choice in the matter, as money is directly confiscated from my wages, and if I try to keep my own money, I will be literally locked in a cage.

Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike »

We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in the Third world countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism… Instead of sending our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so we can have the oil under their sand, we should send them to rebuild their infrastructure, supply clean water, and feed starving children…

In short, we should do good instead of evil. Who would try to stop us? Who would hate us? Who would want to bomb us? That is the truth the American people need to hear.

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—	USAF Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, Vietnam veteran and Catholic bishop, commenting on the terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in the National Catholic Reporter, 1998

I will never stop attempting to reform statists. I will not give up hope.

weeptowaterthetrees:

palestinianliberator:

dreamingofhalab:

musaafer:

watanafghanistan:

An 8 year old girl describes the night Robert Bales killed 17 civilians. Watch the video here [x]

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Panjwayi massacre in Afghanistan in which a US soldier, Robert Bales, left his military base and murdered 16 innocent civilians (9 children, 3 women) in two separate villages, cut off their limbs and set them on fire.

This would be U.S. imperialism for you.

reblogged this before, but it’s certainly worth another

Mr. Freedom

Support the troops!

US to purchase fleet of enhanced drones despite budget cuts – report »

Oh no, the sequester is going to cripple national security! Just kidding, we’re gonna buy more drones. Sorry if you lost your job, but drones are more important.

Heard a piece on NPR today about a soldier in Afghan that got his legs blown off and was recuperating in the US, getting fit with robotic prosthetics etc. Dude seemed pretty cheery considering the circumstances. What was missing from the piece though was any question on why the fuck this guy was over there in the first place. You lost your legs, for what? And now tax payers are footing the bill for you to get nice new robo legs. Why don’t we stop sending people over there so they don’t get killed or kill other people, and that way we don’t have to fucking celebrate some dude who comes back mangled but gets to have robo legs like some kind of consolation prize because his own were fucking blown off.

Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers »

By closing two cases of detainees tortured to death, Obama has put the US beyond any accountability under the rule of law.

Selected Commentary from a Commondreams.Org Article

“When I awoke this morning I felt really unsafe.

Then I read that Obama had incinerated five Afghan children and now my trembling has stopped and my fears have eased.

I’ll pour myself a bowl of genetically modified corn flakes (unlabeled), check my bank account (still paying .001 interest), turn on the liberal cable news channel (I’m sure they’ll start defending my lost liberties soon), send a few emails (I’ve got nothing to hide from the NSA) and check the weather report (another unusually mild February day what could be the cause?).

Good work on taking out those Muslim children Mr. Obama and keeping the country safe from the immense harm they posed to all of us.” - CygnusX1isahole

A Child’s Guide To United States Foreign Policy, 2003

Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction honey.
Q: But the inspectors didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That’s because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that’s why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That’s because the weapons are so well hidden. Don’t worry, we’ll find something, probably right before the 2004 election.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I’m confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn’t they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn’t want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn’t make sense Daddy. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons to fight us back with?
A: It’s a different culture. It’s not supposed to make sense.
Q: I don’t know about you, but I don’t think they had any of thoseweapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn’t matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.
Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.
Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don’t go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.
Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it’s a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A: Right.
Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Isn’t that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.
Q: What’s the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba’ath party, while China is Communist.
Q: Didn’t you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Like in Iraq?
A: Exactly.
Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China’s a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q: How come Cuba isn’t a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being communists and started being capitalists like us.
Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn’t that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don’t be a smart-ass.
Q: I didn’t think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don’t have freedom of religion in Cuba.
Q: Kind of like China and the Falun Gong movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he’s not really a legitimate leader anyway.
Q: What’s a military coup?
A: That’s when a military general takes over the government of a country by force, instead of holding free elections like we do in the United States.
Q: Didn’t the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a military coup?
A: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he did, but Pakistan is our friend.
Q: Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is illegitimate?
A: I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.
Q: Didn’t you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.
Q: Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A: Because of what they did to us on September 11th.
Q: What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A: Well, on September 11th, nineteen men, fifteen of them Saudi Arabians, hijacked four airplanes and flew three of them into buildings, killing over 3,000 Americans.
Q: So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A: Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban.
Q: Aren’t the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who chopped off people’s heads and hands?
A: Yes, that’s exactly who they were. Not only did they chop off people’s heads and hands, but they oppressed women, too.
Q: Didn’t the Bush administration give the Taliban 43 million dollars back in May of 2001?
A: Yes, but that money was a reward because they did such a good job fighting drugs.
Q: Fighting drugs?
A: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping people from growing opium poppies.
Q: How did they do such a good job?
A: Simple. If people were caught growing opium poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads cut off.
Q: So, when the Taliban cut off people’s heads and hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if they cut people’s heads and hands off for other reasons?
A: Yes. It’s OK with us if radical Islamic fundamentalists cut off people’s hands for growing flowers, but it’s cruel if they cut off people’s hands for stealing bread.
Q: Don’t they also cut off people’s hands and heads in Saudi Arabia?
A: That’s different. Afghanistan was ruled by a tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not comply.
Q: Don’t Saudi women have to wear burqas in public, too?
A: No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic body covering.
Q: What’s the difference?
A: The traditional Islamic covering worn by Saudi women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers all of a woman’s body except for her eyes and fingers. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman’s body except for her eyes and fingers.
Q: It sounds like the same thing with a different name.
A: Now, don’t go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.
Q: But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A: Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.
Q: Who trained them?
A: A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.
Q: Was he from Afghanistan?
A: Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a bad man, a very bad man.
Q: I seem to recall he was our friend once.
A: Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Q: Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke up in 1990 or thereabouts, and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.
Q: So the Soviets, I mean, the Russians, are now our friends?
A: Well, not really. You see, they were our friends for many years after they stopped being Soviets, but then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq, so we’re mad at them now. We’re also mad at the French and the Germans because they didn’t help us invade Iraq either.
Q: So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A: Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.
Q: Do we always rename foods whenever another country doesn’t do what we want them to do?
A: No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we invade.
Q: But wasn’t Iraq one of our friends back in the 1980s?
A: Well, yeah. For a while.
Q: Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A: Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran, which made him our friend, temporarily.
Q: Why did that make him our friend?
A: Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.
Q: Isn’t that when he gassed the Kurds?
A: Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his friend.
Q: So anyone who fights against one of our enemies automatically becomes our friend?
A: Most of the time, yes.
Q: And anyone who fights against one of our friends is automatically an enemy?
A: Sometimes that’s true, too. However, if American corporations can profit by selling weapons to both sides at the same time, all the better.
Q: Why?
A: Because war is good for the economy, which means war is good for America. Also, since God is on America’s side, anyone who opposes war is a godless un-American Communist. Do you understand now why we attacked Iraq?
Q: I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us to, right?
A: Yes.
Q: But how did we know God wanted us to attack Iraq?
A: Well, you see, God personally speaks to George W. Bush and tells him what to do.
Q: So basically, what you’re saying is that we attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices in his head?
A: Yes! You finally understand how the world works. Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go to sleep. Good night.