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    No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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  7. 25 May


    disobey: For more info, check out these articles: BBC: Al-Qaeda’s Origins And Links Quote from the article: “During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.” CBC: Who is Osama bin Laden? Quote from the article: “Bin Laden apparently received training from the CIA, which was backing the Afghan holy warriors – the mujahedeen – who were tying down Soviet forces in Afghanistan.” Der Spiegel: Arming The Middle East; The Checkered History of American Weapons Deals “The United States also supplied Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s with money and arms for their struggle against occupying Soviet troops. One of the best customers for the CIA back then was Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden. Two decades later, US commandos are hunting for the world’s most notorious terrorist and his Taliban helpers.”

    disobey:

    For more info, check out these articles:

    BBC: Al-Qaeda’s Origins And Links

    Quote from the article: “During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.”

    CBC: Who is Osama bin Laden?

    Quote from the article: “Bin Laden apparently received training from the CIA, which was backing the Afghan holy warriors – the mujahedeen – who were tying down Soviet forces in Afghanistan.”

    Der Spiegel: Arming The Middle East; The Checkered History of American Weapons Deals

    “The United States also supplied Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s with money and arms for their struggle against occupying Soviet troops. One of the best customers for the CIA back then was Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden. Two decades later, US commandos are hunting for the world’s most notorious terrorist and his Taliban helpers.”

    (Source: openandempty)

     

  8. 25 May



    : thinksquad: If you “took” everything, every person, over $150,000 a...

    thinksquad:

    If you “took” everything, every person, over $150,000 a year, and used every single penny, sold everything they had for value they own, we still could not pay the deficient, let alone touch the debt. According to Wikipedia, the monetary base “consists of coins, paper money, both as bank vault cash and as currency circulating in the public, and commercial bank reserves with the central bank.” Currently the U.S. monetary base is sitting somewhere around 2.7 trillion dollars. So if you went out and gathered all of that money up it would only make a small dent in our national debt. But afterwards there would be no currency for anyone to use.

     

  9. 25 May



    What is patriotism? Is it loyalty to a spot on a map, marked off from others spots by blue or yellow lines, the spot where one was born? But birth is a pure accident; surely one is in no way responsible for having been born on this spot or on that … Does patriotism mean loyalty to a political system and its institutions, constitutional, autocratic, republican or whatnot? But if history has made anything unmistakably clear, it is that from the standpoint of the individual and his welfare, these are no more than names.
    — Albert Jay Nock (via anarchei)

    (Source: laliberty, via anarchei)

     

  10. 22 May



    War: Big Government’s Best Friend

     

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    (Source: thinksquad)

     

  12. 17 May


    While the emotional repercussions of war aren’t easy to measure, the before, during, and after pictures of soldiers who have seen combat tell a pretty unsettling story. Link here: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war/44319

    While the emotional repercussions of war aren’t easy to measure, the before, during, and after pictures of soldiers who have seen combat tell a pretty unsettling story.

    Link here: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war/44319

     

  13. 17 May



    Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees '10 to 20' More Years of War Against al-Qaida | Danger Room | Wired.com

    The war against al-Qaida is far from winding down, according to top Pentagon officials. The Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare sees it lasting for 10 to 20 more years. Ask the Japanese if we are still in Japan. Or the Germans if we are still in Germany, we will be there for the long haul.

    (Source: thinksquad)

     

  14. 16 May



    Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees '10 to 20' More Years of War Against al-Qaida | Danger Room | Wired.com

    The war against al-Qaida is far from winding down, according to top Pentagon officials. The Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare sees it lasting for 10 to 20 more years. Ask the Japanese if we are still in Japan. Or the Germans if we are still in Germany, we will be there for the long haul.

     

  15. 12 May



    Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima

    (warning: graphic images) The United States may be finished dropping bombs on Iraq, but Iraqi bodies will be dealing with the consequences for generations to come in the form of birth defects, myst…