The War

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• for Veteran’s Day…

  
  Dean's World — Authority: 570
  I have some thoughts about muslims serving in the armed forces . UPDATE: The Fort Hood Family Fund is taking donations on behalf of the victims of Fort Hood and their families.
  6 hours ago

• Veterans Day

  
  GRUBB STREET — Authority: 118
  I was going to repost "On Flanders Field", as is my wont , but I am feeling more hopeful with the process and discussions regarding the men and women who, at home and overseas, seek to protect us. So instead, I provide the link about Kobold Quarterlys Adopt-a-Soldier promotion. Small but Fierce, indeed. More ...
  6 hours ago

• In Memoriam - Happy Veterans Day

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, originally posted to VVAW.NET, was forwarded to the blog by David Zeiger, November 11, 2009 Please Dont Thank Me For My Service - Veterans Day Any Year I can see That Wall in DC. Im thinking of those two hundred names and faces I cant remember, eighteen and nineteen year old boys from my Basic Training ...
  8 hours ago

• The War Room Closes its Doors, Last Day is 11/30/2009

  
  SEATTLE HIP HOP: Blogs is Watching - A Seattle hip-hop lifestyle blog. — Authority: 130
  Most of the local press has caught on earlier in the day/week and it was announced on @thewarroom s twitter tonight that indeed doors are closing on November 30th pending a sale. Links below for additional insight. The Stranger Ownership Changes at the War Room? Or... The Official Word on the War Room: ...
  8 hours ago

• War and the Denial of Loss

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  (This post is part of a series on war, and a smaller set of posts for Armistice Day 2009.)Nations wage unnecessary wars because their leaders lack wisdom or conscience, and the checks to force them to act wisely and conscientiously are tragically wanting. However, wars also start – and persist - because of the ...
  9 hours ago

• Veterans Day 2009

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 441
  Veterans Day 2009 has a different meaning this year as we look back only days ago to the Fort Hood shooting. The first Armistice Day was on Nov. 11, 1919, and it marked the one year anniversary of the end of World War I. It is what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be an over exaggeration, The ...
  9 hours ago

• War council weighs Afghan troop boost

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  President Barack Obama convenes another closed-door review on  Afghan war strategy, as a new opinion poll shows a growing number of Americans believe the war is not going well. Go here to see the original: War council weighs Afghan troop boost
  10 hours ago

• Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  (This is a long post in three parts. Its part of a series on war, and a smaller set of posts for Armistice Day 2009.)Therefore, my Harry,Be it thy course to busy giddy mindsWith foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,May waste the memory of the former days.- Henry IV on his deathbed to Prince Henry, Henry IV, ...
  13 hours ago

• Since PrezBO Took Office, Gitmo Living Conditions Are Worse

  
  OldController — Authority: 139
  So sez a detainee. Found by way of Right Side of the Rainbow . Jurist article by Jay Carmella. [JURIST] A letter [text, PDF] from a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee, made public Monday, alleges that conditions at the prison have worsened for detainees a year after the election of US President ...
  13 hours ago

• 11/11 Armistice Day 2009

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  (Click on the comic strip for a larger view)In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly wrote:The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches ...
  14 hours ago

• The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  Ive featured Wilfred Owens poetry before, but his work relates to several posts this year, and its always relevant for Armistice Day. The British (specifically English and Welsh) Owen was tragically killed in combat just a week before World War I ended. Owen is widely considered to be one of the greatest of war ...
  15 hours ago

• Iraq Veterans Against the War: Operation First Casualty

  
  The Daily Gotham - grassroots news and activism for new yorkers — Authority: 470
  This is an amazing video of IVAW s guerrilla performances of "Operation First Casualty". As you can see the performances were done on the streets of New York City; going to the heart of the ugliness of war. Today is Veterans Day. To honor my brother, who is an anti-war activist in Puerto Rico, a New Yorker by birth ...
  15 hours ago

• C-Hill Loses Another Venue: War Room To Close

  
  Seattle Subsonic — Authority: 423
  What was word on the cyberstreet yesterday became official today: the War Room is closing its doors on November 30th . Following in the footsteps of King Cobra , which closed this past February, the eclectic concert and dance venue with the coolest rooftop bar around is calling it quits after five years. Bummer. ...
  16 hours ago

• Demonizing the Enemy

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  (British WWI poster, from this helpful site. A few more are scattered throughout this post. Click them for a larger view.)Theres an observation Ive seen attributed to several different people, that in a democracy, sustaining a war effort over a long time depends on increasingly demonizing of the enemy. The basic ...
  17 hours ago

• Iran ready to aid Yemeni security

  
  I'm A Pimpin Turtle... — Authority: 513
  AL-JAZEERA Iran has said that it is ready to help restore security in Yemen, which is currently engaged in a deadly conflict with an armed Houthi opposition group. Manouchehr Mottaki, Irans foreign minister, made the offer on Wednesday, a day after Tehran warned Middle Eastern governments against interfering in the ...
  19 hours ago

• U.S. accuses Iran of arms shipments to Hezbollah

  
  I'm A Pimpin Turtle... — Authority: 513
  HAARETZ - Shlomo Shamir The United States accused Iran on Tuesday of illicit arms deliveries to Hezbollah guerrillas, during a session of the United Nations Security Council, endorsing charges by Israel following its seizure of a ship in the Mediterranean last week. The Antigua-flagged ship, which was commandeered ...
  22 hours ago

• “Major Terror” Nidal Hasan is a terrorist!

  
  22MOON.COM — Authority: 488
  . . . Fort Hood Massacre Was Terrorism By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann November 9th, 2009 NEWSMAX.COM In his nationally televised remarks following the horrendous ...
  23 hours ago

• Terrible toll of senseless wars

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 485
  This statement was issued by the Fort Hood chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Under the Hood Café , a meeting place organized near Fort Hood by antiwar activists for soldiers to meet and unwind. Socialist Worker , November 9, 2009 OUR COMMUNITY is distraught by the tragic shooting at Fort Hood ...
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• Veteran’s Day 2009

  
  The Rude News — Authority: 426
  Thank a Vet for all that we have. If you have never read Michael Yon , then you should start. He is the Ernie Pyle of our times. _____ Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day, commemorating the signing of the German Armistice on the 11th hour, 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. On May 13, 1938 ...
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• The War Is Remembered

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  No more gunfires, no cannon shells, But their resonance lingers on; No more tortures nor prison cells, Yet the pain would never be gone; Mourn for comrades who fought and fell And the savageries undergone; Died in the course or lived through hell, For those that lived, must live on ! Live on to tell the crimes of war ...
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