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      George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice

      We Must Remember the 9/11 War Lies

      We can’t afford to let these lies go down the memory hole, like we have the other wars we were lied into.

      Thom Hartmann
      Sep 11, 2023

      Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, followed by their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier.

      Yet the media today (so far, anyway) is curiously silent about Bush and Cheney’s lies.

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      Iraqi father and children walk past a destroyed house

      Framing the Environmental Case Against War and Militarism

      We have to “save” everyone to save ourselves.

      Claudia Lefko
      Sep 11, 2023

      The enemy, as someone once wrote, is not this or that country, but war itself. It’s almost counterproductive then, to focus efforts and attention exclusively on one particular war or the suffering of one particular group of people. The issue is war; the goal is to put an end to war. That should be the focus, especially now, with massive suffering caused by wars of one kind and another raging around the world.

      Sebastian Malo’s article, “There’s a Battle Over Carbon Emerging from the War in Ukraine,” published in Politico last week, is an effort to “help people outside of Ukraine understand the massive stakes of the conflict and care more about it.” His earnest attempt—getting people to care—is something I’m all too familiar with after decades of advocacy on behalf of Iraq and Iraqis. When wars rage on, as this one does, when what was once a crisis becomes the new normal of world politics, it’s hard to keep the public’s attention.

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      Spc. Charles Graner beats Abu Ghraib detainees

      Abu Ghraib Contractor Torture Case Likely Heading to Trial After US Judge's Order

      "The ruling has cleared the way, almost 20 years hence, for our clients to tell their story in open court," said the legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed suit on behalf of detainees.

      Brett Wilkins
      Aug 02, 2023

      Survivors of torture at the hands of U.S. troops and private interrogators cheered a federal judge's rejection this week of an infamous military contractor's latest bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Iraqis formerly jailed in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison during the early years of the American-led occupation.

      On Monday, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology, a military-industrial complex linchpin based in nearby Arlington with more than 22,000 employees and billions of dollars in government contracts.

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