John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAY<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fixatedpersonsunit</span></a></span> Those allies the US dragged into war? You forgot Ukraine. Yes, Ukraine fought with the US after 9/11. Anything lower than stabbing an ally who bled for you? <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/GWOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GWOT</span></a> <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://pdx.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> #9/11 <a href="https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/ukraine-fought-alongside-us-in-iraq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counteroffensive.news/p/ukrain</span><span class="invisible">e-fought-alongside-us-in-iraq</span></a></p>
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Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇪🇺<p>USA, What happened to you? You used to be cool.</p><p><a href="https://therealnews.com/abu-ghraib-survivors-are-still-fighting-for-justice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therealnews.com/abu-ghraib-sur</span><span class="invisible">vivors-are-still-fighting-for-justice</span></a></p><p>No wait it was someone else.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iraq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iraqwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iraqwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>The USA took over Iraq and Afghanistan to make them better and now both countries are worse off. Same will happen if the yankees invade Palestine.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AfghanWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfghanWar</span></a></p>
stefania maurizi<p>This is a national taboo in Italy: the role of US bases in bloodbaths from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a>.<br>I've investigated it and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProgressiveInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgressiveInternational</span></a>'s David Adler and Abdullah Farooq tracked down cargo flights to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nevatim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevatim</span></a> airbase in Israel</p><p>[ENGLISH]<br><a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/24/intelligence-drones-italian-weapons-against-the-people-of-gaza/7849689/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicol</span><span class="invisible">a/articoli/2025/01/24/intelligence-drones-italian-weapons-against-the-people-of-gaza/7849689/</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>I dislike Xi Jinping's maritime bullying, fear Donald Trump's threats against Panama, and loathe Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>All of these are symptoms of worsening international relations. Let us not forget, however, that this current sickness is in large part a consequence of the US led invasion of Iraq, a war that violated norms against war as in instrument of policy, norms that had acted as an admittedly grossly imperfect yet still functional immune system for the international body politic. I still feel ashamed and angry that the UK's Labour Prime Minister went all in on this war.</p><p>What is happening today has deeper roots than the character flaws of some current leaders or an upsurge of populism post 2008. I've no time for talk of "Donald the Dove", but am equally impatient with those who refuse to recognize the role of the George W Bush administration in creating this mess.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/XiJinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XiJinping</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirPutin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TonyBlair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyBlair</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RulesBasedOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RulesBasedOrder</span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/middleeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>middleeast</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NisourSquareMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NisourSquareMassacre</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NisourSquare</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baghdad</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Massacre</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/2024Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2024Election</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genz</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Millenials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millenials</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenX</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/boomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boomers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Not an actual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeOrwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeOrwell</span></a> quote, but it's from the movie version of 1984. In the movie, Winston Smith reads the quote as an excerpt from Emmanuel Goldstein's banned book: "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IranWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Doublethink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doublethink</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1984Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1984Movie</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>ICYMI - From 2011: Secret memos expose link between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> firms and invasion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a></p><p>Paul Bignell, Tuesday 19 April 2011 </p><p>"Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BP</span></a> that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq's enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TonyBlair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyBlair</span></a>'s military commitment to US plans for regime change.</p><p>"The papers show that Lady Symons agreed to lobby the Bush administration on BP's behalf because the oil giant feared it was being 'locked out' of deals that Washington was quietly striking with US, French and Russian governments and their energy firms.</p><p>"Minutes of a meeting with BP, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shell</span></a> and BG (formerly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishGas</span></a>) on 31 October 2002 read: 'Baroness Symons agreed that it would be difficult to justify British companies losing out in Iraq in that way if the UK had itself been a conspicuous supporter of the US government throughout the crisis.'</p><p>"The minister then promised to "report back to the companies before Christmas" on her lobbying efforts.</p><p>"The Foreign Office invited BP in on 6 November 2002 to talk about opportunities in Iraq 'post <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RegimeChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RegimeChange</span></a>'. Its minutes state: "Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP is desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity.'</p><p>"After another meeting, this one in October 2002, the Foreign Office's Middle East director at the time, Edward Chaplin, noted: 'Shell and BP could not afford not to have a stake in [Iraq] for the sake of their long-term future... We were determined to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq."'</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BPKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbolishTheMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheMonarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOil</span></a></p>
GM7077<p>Reminder that Israel's papa, the US, also bombs clinics and hospitals...</p><p>'Iraq: US air raid on Fallujah clinic kills dozens' (2004) | UN Reliefweb</p><p><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/iraq-us-air-raid-fallujah-clinic-kills-dozens-witnesses?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shared&utm_source=x.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reliefweb.int/report/iraq/iraq</span><span class="invisible">-us-air-raid-fallujah-clinic-kills-dozens-witnesses?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shared&utm_source=x.com</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>I remember this. For months <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a> refused to discuss possible deployment, saying ‘it’s hypothetical & I will not discuss hypotheticals’. Then it was ‘oops too late’. It was brazen.</p><p>So much of the poison we see manifest in Australian politics today was seeded & cultivated under Howard. The ‘nation of shareholders’. The demonisation of anyone who was not cis het white Anglo people with well paid work. Reframing social problems as individual deficits. Sending our country to war based on a lie. The tragedy is, as politics, it worked. Howard the cruel, unscrupulous ‘strategist’ is still their hero.</p><p>That government caused so much damage. We remember. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CabinetPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CabinetPapers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> </p><p>Australia kept quiet about early deployment of forces ahead of Iraq war, cabinet papers show <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/01/australia-kept-quiet-about-early-deployment-of-forces-ahead-of-iraq-war-cabinet-papers-show?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/jan/01/australia-kept-quiet-about-early-deployment-of-forces-ahead-of-iraq-war-cabinet-papers-show?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a>] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawAndDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawAndDisorder</span></a>, September 9, 2024</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/September11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>September11</span></a>, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked</p><p>"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>, pushed through Congress the USA <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PatriotAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatriotAct</span></a>, opened the notorious detention center at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuantanamoBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuantanamoBay</span></a> which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndefiniteDetention</span></a>, initiated a wave of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.</p><p>"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a>. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.</p><p>"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbuZubaydah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbuZubaydah</span></a>, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.</p><p>"He became the sixth <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whistleblower</span></a> indicted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> administration under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EspionageAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EspionageAct</span></a> of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.</p><p>"In 2012, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RalphNader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RalphNader</span></a> family honored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kiriakou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kiriakou</span></a> with the Joe A. Callaway Award for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivicCourage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivicCourage</span></a>, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."</p><p>Listen:<br><a href="https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawanddisorder.org/category/cr</span><span class="invisible">iminalizing-dissent/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIASponsoredTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIASponsoredTerror</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BushAdministraiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BushAdministraiton</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TargetingMuslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TargetingMuslims</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarResister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarResister</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Whistleblowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whistleblowers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLibertiesRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLibertiesRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p>well this toot blew up lol... i guess one thing i take away from it is the extent to which "character is destiny" and how the character of the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> regime was painfully obvious to people of good faith even from its first moments (to that end I also recommend Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?").</p><p>unfortunately while there are dissimilarities between that crew and trump's, e.g. the glorification of war, it's also true that there are a lot of scary war loving fascists on team <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>. Ken Silverstein managed to get a hold of a private group chat featuring a lot of these folks earlier this year. Who was in the chat:</p><p>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> (<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> Blackwater massacre guy)<br>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KimberlyGuilfoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KimberlyGuilfoyle</span></a> (Don Jr's gf)<br>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MichaelFlynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelFlynn</span></a><br>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRA</span></a> guys<br>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfD</span></a> guys<br>- <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TuckerCarlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuckerCarlson</span></a><br>- Israeli intel<br>- Congressmen who resigned in various scandals</p><p>...and worse.</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/182008</span><span class="invisible">/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/QAnon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QAnon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Colbycolby" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Colbycolby</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrALJONES</span></a></span> </p><p>yeah</p><p>i was dubious of your suggestion</p><p>but i think about it, you're right</p><p>they fling enough shit, delay just enough, to get their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> ghouls to rule in a way that gives us <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> "in the name of expediency"</p><p>like the assholes ruled for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bush</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gore</span></a> in 2000, when if the count continued, gore could have prevailed and no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iraqwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iraqwar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harris</span></a> has to win outright in a large amount of states to squash shit flinging scenarios</p><p>people: you need to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2024</span></a></p>
Ryan W. Featherston<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@PricklyPam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PricklyPam</span></a></span> (AKA: Pamela the Prickly): (2) Also, Democrats, including your favorite Albert Gore, supported the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> too. <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/why-al-gore-would-have-invaded-iraq-and-what-it-tells-us-about-syria/article14105322/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theglobeandmail.com/news/polit</span><span class="invisible">ics/why-al-gore-would-have-invaded-iraq-and-what-it-tells-us-about-syria/article14105322/</span></a></p>
PKPs Powerfromspace1<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Npars01" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Npars01</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>breadandcircuses</span></a></span> heck we even tax payer 🇺🇸 💸funded a full scale invasion on their behalf <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/iraqwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iraqwar</span></a></p>
Martin Nutty<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@TomSwirly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TomSwirly</span></a></span> </p><p>The opinion is whether it is worth reading or subscribing too</p><p>I think you’ll find that many media outlets got it badly wrong on the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a>. </p><p>There is an old saw about the news where it is called the “rough first draft of history”. Sometimes those drafts are abject failures. Does that mean the whole publication should be disregarded?</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>As Military Contractors Face Scrutiny; A Look at Erik Prince's Controversial 'Blackwater Worldwide'</p><p>Story by Rishitha Boddu, December 2, 2023</p><p>"Erik Prince is an American businessman and former US Navy SEAL whose net worth is estimated at a substantial $2 billion dollars. He is known for founding and owning the military contractor XE, widely recognized as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackwaterWorldwide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackwaterWorldwide</span></a>, a company that engaged in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/covert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covert</span></a> government operations. However, this enterprise faced intense scrutiny for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> violations in 2007, leading to Erik's decision to step down as its leader in 2009. But even before Blackwater, a significant portion of Prince's wealth is derived from his family's automotive accessory empire, established by his father.</p><p>"Established in 1997, Blackwater holds the distinction of being the largest private military company globally. Notably, it has been awarded more than $1.6 billion in federal contracts. Moreover, the company is reported to have secured classified contracts from the Central Intelligence Agency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a>) amounting to a staggering $600 million since 2001. Following Erik's departure, Blackwater underwent a change in ownership, with a group of investors acquiring it in 2010, before rebranding it as Academi in 2011. In 2013, Erik Prince authored the book 'Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror,' shedding light on the company's inner workings.</p><p>"Blackwater, a private military and security company founded by Erik Prince in 1997, emerged as a major player during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a>. The company secured contracts to provide security services to various U.S. government agencies, making it an essential part of the U.S. military presence in Iraq. Blackwater's involvement in the Iraq war, including the killing of civilians, brought it to the forefront of public scrutiny and controversy.</p><p>"Blackwater and Erik Prince faced numerous allegations of war crimes and misconduct during the Iraq war. The most infamous incident was the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NisourSquare</span></a> massacre in 2007, where Blackwater personnel were involved in a shooting that resulted in the deaths of seventeen Iraqi civilians.</p><p>"The Nisour Square incident was a turning point, as it raised questions about the behavior of private military contractors in a war zone. It prompted further investigations into the conduct of Blackwater and its personnel, ultimately contributing to a tarnished reputation.</p><p>"Amid mounting legal challenges and heightened scrutiny, Erik Prince chose to step down from his role as the CEO of Blackwater in 2009. The controversy surrounding Blackwater's activities in Iraq and its reputation became increasingly untenable, and Prince sold the company.</p><p>"Prince's resignation was seen as a strategic move to distance himself from the crimes at Blackwater. While it marked his exit from the company he founded, it did not shield him from ongoing legal battles and public attention.</p><p>"In sworn statements submitted as part of the case, former Blackwater employees made explosive allegations, including claims that Prince may have been involved in the murder of individuals cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company.</p><p>"These individuals also alleged that Blackwater was engaged in smuggling weapons into Iraq and that Erik Prince, in their view, perceived himself as a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianCrusader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianCrusader</span></a>' with a mission to eliminate Muslims and Islam. These allegations fueled the already raging controversy surrounding Prince and his companies.</p><p>"The fraud case and the allegations against Erik Prince and Blackwater have continued to generate public and legal scrutiny. This ongoing legal battle has kept the controversies alive, ensuring that Prince remains a figure of interest and concern."</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/as-military-contractors-face-scrutiny-a-look-at-erik-princes-controversial-blackwater-worldwide/ar-AA1kUmFz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/money/companies/</span><span class="invisible">as-military-contractors-face-scrutiny-a-look-at-erik-princes-controversial-blackwater-worldwide/ar-AA1kUmFz</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateProtestors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TigerSwan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqiCivilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqiCivilians</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Warmonger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warmonger</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDevos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetsyDevos</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Amway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amway</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>I first heard about the attack on IRC. I think that might have been the first global disaster I heard about first on the Internet. I miss IRC. I also miss the world before 9/11. I do not miss that day. Not every major event changes the world. That one did. <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> #911 <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/AfghanWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfghanWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a></p>
FAIR<p>20 years after the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a> is still lying about WMDs in Iraq--and doubling down when <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@theintercept" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theintercept</span></a></span>'s <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JonSchwarz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonSchwarz</span></a> calls them on it.</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/iraq-war-atlantic-david-frum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2023/03/29/ir</span><span class="invisible">aq-war-atlantic-david-frum/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Environmental Justice Atlas: Depleted Uranium, Iraq</p><p>Last update:<br>2017-11-17</p><p>"In June 2011, the NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI) published a report about the state of depleted uranium in Iraq stating that contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) is strongly suspected of causing a sharp rise in congenital birth defects and cancer cases in Iraq with many prominent doctors and scientists stating that DU contamination is also connected to the recent emergence of diseases that were not previously seen in Iraq, such as illnesses in the kidney, lungs, and liver, as well as a total collapse of the immune system"</p><p>"Environmental Impacts<br>- Visible: Air pollution<br>- Potential: Soil contamination, Surface water pollution / Decreasing water (physico-chemical, biological) quality, Groundwater pollution or depletion, Genetic contamination"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirthDefects</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toxic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/sadr-city-radioactive-waste-iraq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ejatlas.org/conflict/sadr-city</span><span class="invisible">-radioactive-waste-iraq</span></a></p>
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