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U.S. Military: We Killed Afghan Women | Wikileaks Video Shows War As It Is | Pope: Meet With Victims

4:33 pm on April 9 2010
By Psycler
Filed in: Politics
Tagged with: Catholic, Religion

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Glenn Greenwald on Chilling Iraq Video: “The Only Thing That’s Rare About This Is That We Know About It”

Glenn Greenwald and WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange discuss why footage capturing of U.S. troops shooting unarmed civilians is not an “aberration.”READ MORE

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

“Oh Yeah, Look at Those Dead Bastards” — Collateral Murder Video Shows War Like It Is

As a document of the tragedy of Afghanistan-Iraq — and of a series of Pentagon-sanctioned war crimes, the Wikileaks video is a powerful statement. READ MORE

Pepe Escobar / Asia Times

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience on March 17, at St Peter's square at The Vatican. The pope should apologise to Irish sex abuse victims and admit the Catholic church abused its power and deliberately covered up the activities of paedophile priests, a leading victims' group said Friday.

Why the Pope Should Take Responsibility and Meet with Victims of Pedophile Priests

Instead of resigning, the Pope should clear his calendar for the next six months and meet with the countless victims of sexual abuse who had their childhoods stolen. READ MORE

Michael Scahill / AlterNet

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Seven replica mosques were erected on a range at Bellerby, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire to prepare soldiers for combat in Afghanistan.

Report: British Soldiers Using Models of Mosques for Target Practice

While a military spokesman denied the structures were meant to be mosques, he defended the use of props ‘that replicate the environment [soldiers] will be deployed to.’ READ MORE

By Liliana Segura / AlterNet

We Can’t Keep Funding What We Believe Is Evil

There is really only one way to stop the collateral murder by our military: stop the wars and bring our troops home. READ MORE

By Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

Canadian Academics Under Fire For Opposing Scholarship Program For Children of “Heroes” Who Died In War

Fifteen university professors have written a letter calling Canada’s “Project Hero” scholarship “a dangerous cultural turn” that associates “heroism” with military intervention. READ MORE

By Jasmin Ramsey / AlterNet

How the Israeli Government Tried to Spin Its Way out of Its Inhumane Gaza Invasion

In this excerpt from his new book, Finkelstein dissects the PR effort to cover up the inhuman acts committed by Israel’s massive offensive in the Gaza strip in 2009. READ MORE

By Norman Finkelstein / O/R Books

Mexican police stand near a skull discovered with other remains in what is thought to be a large grave in the desert of victims of recent drug violence on March 19, 2010 in the county ofJuarez, Mexico. Chief US diplomat Hillary Clinton leads a senior delegation to Mexico Tuesday, barely a week after US consulate-linked killings galvanized attention on the country's surging drug violence.

Is Mexico City a Safe Haven From the Drug War? Don’t Bet Your Life

Living in Mexico City is a lesson in will power: you learn to deceive yourself into thinking that the horrors that are everywhere else in Mexico do not exist here. READ MORE

By Michael Miller / The Brooklyn Rail