http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1366278,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Tim Pluta, a veteran, writes an excellent essay published in a newspaper from the region of North Carolina that gave the world the superb novel, "Cold Mountain," written by Charles Frazier.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2490


Illinois' wounded vets at bottom for benefits

The article below features this frank assessment from a government employee about how poorly our government treats our Nation's wounded warriors. "'The folks who do the adjudication in Chicago are pretty tough [deciding veterans' disability claims]," said Ed Anderson, a senior analyst at [the Department of Veterans Affairs] headquarters in Washington. "Folks there really look at everything with jaundiced eyes, and they are rather stringent in their application [of the laws]." In response to the newspaper report, U.S. Representative Lane Evans (D-Illinois) says he'll launch an investigation.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2491

U.S. Psychological Operations:

Military Uses Networks to Spread Misinformation: The U.S. military is reportedly distributing misinformation to the media as part of a campaign of psychological operation...

http://207.44.245.159/article7406.htm

Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.

http://207.44.245.159/article7403.htm

If only those who sent us to Iraq lay awake at night...

http://207.44.245.159/article7408.htm


From Information Clearing House

by Jeffrey Sachs, TomPaine.com Exclusive

American media and public opinion permit the world's strongest military force to act without any practical restraint.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/iraqs_silent_dead.php

by Paul Craig Roberts

CounterPunch

11/30/04

Bush's invasion has turned not only Iraqis but all of the Middle East against the US. Where there were no terrorists and no support for terrorists, there are now tens of thousands of terrorists. America's puppet regimes in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are endangered by the anti-Americanism that is engulfing the Middle East.

Like Hitler at Stalingrad, Bush cannot recognize the danger. Unable to occupy Iraq, Bush plans to expand the war to Iran and Syria. The identical Bush officials who lied about Iraq having nuclear weapons or weapons programs now lie about Iran having nuclear weapons or weapons programs...

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11302004.html



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp