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Bales Sentenced to Life in Prison for Afghan Massacre

2013-08-26T18:39:09.288Z

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, August 26 2013

U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Bales has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 16 Afghan civilians during rampages on two villages last March. Bales was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty in June. He was spared the death penalty in return for his plea. A number of Afghan victims were flown to the United States to testify during his trial. An Afghan man who lost relatives in Bales’ attack spoke out after the sentence was reached.

Haji Mullah Baran: "We’ve heard the U.S. government say they’re sending soldiers to bring democracy, freedom and justice, but there are certain soldiers, such as this gentleman, who have actually committed crimes and murdered people. If I had a chance to talk to Sgt. Bales, I would ask him directly: Right to your face, you’re a murderer. Why did you do this? Did you ever think of being a human being? Because a human being wouldn’t do this."

Many Afghan victims and family members had called for Bales to receive the death penalty. During closing arguments last week, Bales apologized for the massacre, calling it an "act of cowardice." Defense attorneys had argued Bales suffered a breakdown from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury developed in multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The massacre marked the worst killings of civilians blamed on a single U.S. soldier since the Vietnam War.

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"Kill Anything That Moves": New Book Exposes Hidden Crimes of the War Kerry, Hagel Fought in Vietnam (video length 18:40)

2013-01-18T13:59:06.642Z

DemocracyNow.org - We’re joined by Nick Turse, managing editor of TomDispatch.com and author of the new book, "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam." The title is taken from an order given to the U.S. forces who slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese civilians in the notorious My Lai massacre of 1968. Drawing on interviews in Vietnam and a trove of previously unknown U.S. government documents — including internal military investigations of alleged war crimes in Vietnam — Turse argues that U.S. atrocities in Vietnam were not just isolated incidents, but "the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military."

Martin Luther King, Jr. & The Vietnam War

2011-04-04T19:02:10.315Z

These are video excerpts from "Evidence of Revision", a 6-DVD, 10 hour long documentary series that presents suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the public concerning the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. This 10-minute video asks why MLK was assassinated in 1968.

On April 4, Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death.

"The promises of the Great Society [LBJ's initiative] have been shut down on the battlefields of Vietnam - making the poor, both White and Negro, bear the heaviest burden both at the front and at home."
~MLK