How the military infiltrates and spies on peace activists.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-06-09/news/watching-the-protesters/1 

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct issues a report and states that a member of Congress taking money from a corporation doesn't mean that he/she is being influenced.  What's new?

We all know that corporations are not philanthropic organizations.  So one may wonder what the donations are for.

http://ethics.house.gov/Media/PDF/PMA%20Final%20Report.pdf 

Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and that information was kept from the public.

Military and intelligence spending relentlessly increase as unemployment heads over 10% and the economy bleeds red ink. America has become the Sick Man of the Western Hemisphere, an economic cripple like the defunct Ottoman Empire. 

  WASHINGTON — Defense giant KBR Inc. was awarded a contract potentially worth $2.8 billion for support work in Iraq as U.S. forces continue to leave the country, military authorities said Tuesday. 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hx3jn-1MgXROlML7o_ifsoa8E60gD9E6KEGG0 

There have been 4,696 coalition deaths -- 4,379 Americans, two Australians, one Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, five Georgians, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvians, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, one South Korean, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the Iraq war as of February 9, 2010, according to a CNN count.  

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

Threads is a 1984 BBC television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesize the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.

 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8197B8DEF93FC7D9&search_query=threads&rclk=pti

 As the first journalists to enter Kabul in 1981 for CBS News following the expulsion of the Western media the previous year, we continue to be amazed at how the American disinformation campaign between Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street built around the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lives on.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/12/22/charlie-wilson’s-war-is...

 WAR: the entertainment propaganda.

 The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/pentagon-officials-confirm-bush-propaganda-p...

 The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.

http://current.com/15gli4c

 When high school senior Ciarra Boyd recently persuaded her friend to not join the U.S. military, she got something she was not expecting: an irate call from her friend's recruiter. 

http://www.indypressny.org/nycma/voices/393/briefs/briefs_2/

 Isn't amazing that we need private security to protect our military?

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/us-replacing-iraq-troops-with-private-c...

 The military economy is nearly three times as large, proportionally to the rest of the economy, as it was at the beginning of the Bush administration. And it is the only manufacturing sector showing any growth. Extrapolate that trend, and what do you get? 

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/is-america-building-a-purely-military-e...

 WASHINGTON — U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan may hire a private contractor to provide around-the-clock security at dozens of bases and protect vehicle convoys moving throughout the country.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/25/3069812-us-eyes-private-guards-...

 FORT CARSON, Colo. - Soldiers from a Colorado unit accused in nearly a dozen slayings since returning home - including a couple gunned down as they put up a garage sale sign - could be showing a hostility fueled by intense combat in Iraq .

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0709/640593.html

Campaign promises, promises, promises...

Despite what any politician will tell you when they want to be elected, some things will never change.  War is one of them.

http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1217522.html

 No matter which government is in place, some things never change.

And what also didn't change is that this money was most probably taken out of the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds, as usual.

This is never talked about when discussions about the solvency of these Trust Funds come up.

It's easier to blame the Medicare program than the war spending.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/14/house-approves-967-billion-to-fun...

 How the military has teamed-up with local police to spy on U.S. citizens and, of course, peace groups.

http://www.infowars.com/military-police-document-reveals-integration-wit...

 BAGHDAD - Late last month Blackwater Worldwide lost its billion-dollar contract to protect American diplomats here, but by next month many if not most of its private security guards will be back on the job in Iraq.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/04-2

 The United States spends on its military 5.8 times more than China, 10.2 times more than Russia, and 98.6 times more than Iran. 

http://seekingalpha.com/article/90742-the-economic-cost-of-the-military-...

The Military Industrial Complex is affecting us at a very early age.

http://www.ewg.org/report/CDC-Scientists-Find-Rocket-Fuel-Chemical-In-In...

This article in the New-York Times is a quick overview by Bob Herbert of the burden that war is imposing on our country.

Not much indepth, but it is good food for thought for the unconvinced.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=1

 The war and occupation of Afghanistan has become a critical part of UFPJ's work.

Here are some facts in UFPJ's website.

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=4019