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While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct Read More >>

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In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police.

Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.

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The US forces, along with the South Vietnamese Army, and Australian allies, were forced to fight a war that they were not allowed to win.

Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, famous for defeating Napoleon’s Grande Armee at Waterloo, once said “I’ve spent my [...]

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement that began on September 17th of this year, has been spreading like wildfire across the globe, though curiously it remains a mystery to some. To give you an idea of the growth of the Wall Street Occupation, this Infograph was created and submitted by economist and language major, Muhammad Saleem and [...]

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Secret Orders Forcing Google and Sonic to Release a WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Email, Reveal the Scale of US Government Snooping (Spying)…

Somewhere, a US government official is reading through a list of those who sent or received an email from Read More >>

Meet the Anthropologist, Activist, and Anarchist Who Helped Transform a Hapless Rally into a Global Protest Movement, David Graeber

David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, [...]

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Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans.

But two of the highest-profile protesters — each from opposite ends of the [...]

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Navy Sailor Stands Tall In the Middle of Oakland Tear Gas Attack Holding the Constitution and a Veterans for Peace Flag… Moments After Scott Olsen Was Hit In the Head

Here he is a couple of minutes before, standing with [...]

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While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others – Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them – are content to let [...]

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Occupy movement returns to streets demanding answers after teargas canister hit Iraq serviceman Scott Olsen in the head.

Related Story : Oakland Police Under Scrutiny – Live Updates

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This footage is proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25.

The moment leading up to the shooting, Olsen was standing completely still. He was then hit in the head with a tear gas canister, which is potentially fatal.

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Anyone curious about the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can look it up on costofwar.com, up to the latest fraction of a second. Last weekend, the Iraq war had cost more than $800 billion since 2001; the Afghan war, $467 billion plus.

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An Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police on the streets of Oakland was awake and lucid, hospital officials and family members said on Thursday.

Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old former U.S. Marine struck in the head during Wall Street protests on Tuesday night, had [...]

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An active-duty black National Guardsmen in uniform showed up in Liberty Plaza less than two days after Oakland police brutalized a U.S. marine Iraq war veteran in the crackdown on Occupy Oakland. He allowed people to [...]

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(Editors Note: Yesterday October 27th, 2011) – This morning Occupy Oakland and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) put out a call for occupations across America and around the world to hold solidarity vigils for Read More >>

While the Occupy movement targets the 1 Percent, we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S., and they use their corporations’ massive lobbying [...]

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Total Cost of All Wars Since 2001

Cost of Afghanistan War Since 2001

Cost of Iraq War Since 2003

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