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Jeremy Scahill on Obama's Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting

2014-10-20T01:17:26.959Z

CIA makes up a name for latest target of air strikes, names it after an Iranian province for fun. Executive branch not to be trusted with U.S. foreign policy, self-interested expansion of imperial presidency uses auspices of war on terror to justify what it wants, etc.,

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Zombie - The Cranberries [lyrics]

2014-09-11T13:08:53.894Z

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via Chris Agorista on Diaspora:

"I first heard this song back in the mid nineties and kind of liked it but didn't pay much attention to the lyrics etc. I wasn't conscious enough at the time to realize I was one of the zombies. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when my daughter (now 14) had put the song on a mix for the car on usb thumbdrive and asked me what the lyrics meant. She asked "does it speak about all the people who don't know or care about what is happening with war etc. in the world?" I said "Yes, sweetheart, I think so." It brought tears to my eyes to see her have such realizations at her age."

Song: Zombie by The Cranberries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NImOOdV6qfg

Grandmother Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison After Protest at U.S. Drone Base

2014-07-12T17:17:29.885Z

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, July 11

In New York, a peace activist and grandmother has been sentenced to a year in prison for her role in peaceful protests at a base where U.S. drones are piloted remotely. Mary Anne Grady Flores had been issued an order of protection aimed at keeping her away from Hancock Field Air National Guard Base after she participated in an act of civil disobedience there in 2012. Last year, Grady Flores says she attended another peace action, but did not participate, instead photographing it from the roadway, beyond what she believed was the base’s boundary. She was later told the base’s property extended into the road. On Thursday, Judge David Gideon of the DeWitt Town Court sentenced her to the maximum sentence of a year in prison for violating the protection order and fined her $1,000. In a courtroom packed with about 150 supporters, Grady Flores spoke about what she called the four perversions of justice in her case.

Mary Anne Grady Flores: "The fourth perversion is the reversal of who is the real victim here: the commander of a military base involved in killing innocent people halfway around the world or those innocent people themselves, who are the real ones in need of orders of protection? So I, as a nonviolent grandmother and a caregiver to my own mother, as I prepare for jail, itself a perversion, I stand before you remorseful. I’m remorseful about my own country and its continued perpetuating of violence and injustice."

Mary Anne Grady Flores was taken into custody following the sentencing. She is appealing the verdict. Earlier in the day, her supporters marched six miles from the drone base to the courtroom carrying a coffin bearing the words "First Amendment."

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/headlines#7119

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'No' to Gitmo': Dozens of global protests over Obama broken promise to close prison

2014-06-14T20:02:12.858Z

The Oklahoma City action gets a mention in this video segment.

Dozens of protests set up today as part of a 'Global day of Action to close Guantanamo'. International human rights groups and activists from across the…

Obama says 'Now is the Time' for Palestinian-Israeli Peace - meets with President Abbas, at White House

2014-03-17T20:59:29.472Z

March 17, 2014 - President Barack Obama said on Monday that a Middle East peace solution remained elusive but that he was hoping to see progress in the comin...