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POPSTop Ten Reasons to Give Back the Peace Prize Reason Number Three: The US Continues to Ignore Israeli nukes, while it acts as banker, diplomatic cover, and armorer its brutal Israel's sixty year occupation of Palestine. Reason Number Two: The US is Funnelling Billions Into Expanding Its Military Presence Across the African Continent. Reason Number One: It just ain't right.
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POPSUS Denies Letting Troops Convert Afghans A military chaplain was shown delivering a sermon to other soldiers, saying: "The special forces guys -- they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down."
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POPSWestern military forces turning inward in anticipation of domestic unrest "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security. Deliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency..."
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POPS Afghanistan, Another Untold Story Some Real History Since feudal times the landholding system in Afghanistan had remained unchanged, with more than 75 percent of the land owned by big landlords who comprised only 3 percent of the rural population. In the mid-1960s, democratic revolutionary elements coalesced to form the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). In 1973, the king was deposed, but the government that replaced him proved to be autocratic, corrupt, and unpopular. It in turn was forced out in 1978 after a massive demonstration in front of the presidential palace, and after the army intervened on the side of the demonstrators.
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POPSACLU Says NorthCom’s Fighting Unit May Be Illegal (c0nt.)“This is a radical departure from separation of civilian law enforcement and military authority and could, quite possibly, represent a violation of law,” said Mike German, ACLU national security policy counsel. “Our Founding Fathers understood the threat that a standing army could pose to American liberty.”
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POPSInsubordination Examples There have been a number of famous and infamous people who have committed insubordination or publicly objected to an organizational practice. * Douglas MacArthur - US General who was relieved of command by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean Conflict. * Jackie Robinson - US baseball player was accused of insubordination while in the military but was exonerated at a court martial. * Howard Zinn - historian who was fired for insubordination * Albert Pike - charged by the Confederate Army with insubordination * George Grosz - soldier in German Army, World War I, and artist * Eugene Debs - labor organizer and member of Socialist Party * Jeffrey Wigand - VP of Brown & Williamson who revealed tobacco industry practices * Billy Mitchell - famous aviator, United States Army Air Corp commander during World War I and proponent of air power during the interwar years * Hunter S. Thompson - famous writer fired from Time Magazine
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