What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy

Abolish the CIA

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Addicted to War

“This 2-hour 28-minute video compilation by Frank Dorrel is an excellent and invaluable educational tool that reveals the true nature of U.S. foreign policy. It’s been seen in many classrooms, churches, home screenings, on cable TV and shown by many Peace and Justice organizations.

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Jacob Dean Gets Tortured at Gitmo Solidarity Protest + Gitmo Protester Arrested After Scaling White House Fence

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Guantanamo hunger strike day 101 at Powell & Market

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Filter Free Radio on Jun 27, 2013

Portland, OR activists have been holding daily protests and vigils at City Hall in solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay detainee hunger strikers 4-6p since May 12th. Today, June 26th is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Jacob Dean of Filter Free Radio volunteers to be strapped down and force fed to lend his body to the total eradication of torture and the effective functioning of the Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

In the words of Portland’s hunger striker S. Brian Willson, “We are not worth more. They are not worth less.” – Recorded on June 26, 2013 at Portland, OR City Hall. (This is NOT actually torture, like they do in Gitmo. This is just political street theater.)

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Denial, Selective Perception and Military Atrocities by Felicity Arbuthnot

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by Felicity Arbuthnot
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crossposted at Global Research
22 September, 2010

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“Wrong from the start.” (Ezra Pound, 1885-1972.)

When the horrors of the sadistic, near necrophile behaviour of U.S., personnel at Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, first showed the tip-of-the-iceberg-lie of “liberation”: cruelty, depravity and bestiality on a scale which apparently dwarfed all that Saddam Hussein’s regime had been accused of, President George W. Bush said: ” This does not represent the America I know.”

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Brian Willson: Resisting Weapons of Empire + Making a Stand Against War

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August 14, 2009

Talk by Vietnam Veteran, Lawyer and Activist S. Brian Willson given August 9, 2009 at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (http://www.gzcenter.org) and recorded by Todd Boyle.

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