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You Want the Truth? You Don`t Deserve the Truth, According to Mainstream Media

We have spent $20 billion pouring weapons and arms into propping up the Malaki government in Iraq which is more than 5 times the amount dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. Make sense? Did you know this?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - One of the most significant changes in the US in recent times is our inability to see things from another perspective. Take the Ukraine and Crimea.

John Kerry and Obama repeatedly warned Russia about “respecting international law, the integrity and sovereignty of the Ukraine” but not one outlet reminded us of our clear violation of international law and lack of respect for the sovereignty of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Baghdad Central

Center-staging the calamities of collaboration, Elliott Colla’s noir thriller exposes the moral and strategic failures of military occupation.

(JERUSALEM) - Without networks of collaborators conscripted from among the ranks of the insurgency, sustained military occupations are unthinkable. Yet, no one likes to talk about collaborators—it is an unpleasant subject because collaborators are about as loved by their handlers as they are by the communities they betray.

To be sure, collaborators under military occupation consider themselves as a beneficial screen, ameliorating the worst that might happen, and at times they even embrace the new order and think of themselves as brave emissaries of the future.

LaVena Johnson: Army Still Calls Grisly Rape and Murder `Suicide`

LaVena's father had to seek Congressional intervention just to receive the details of the death investigation.

(SALEM) - "My daughter was raped, beaten, murdered, set on fire, then they tried to burn the tent down with her body in it." John Johnson, father of LaVena, should never have had to say those words. His daughter suffered greatly before dying.

But the army called it a suicide.

Iraq Vets` Amazing Cross Country Trek to California

Both Voss and Anderson served in the Army, and both have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

(LOS ANGELES) - Two Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans have followed the footsteps of a small handful of veterans who have ‘taken to the open road’ to raise money for respective veterans organizations and to help people understand the scores of issues that plague veterans as they try to readjust to life back home.

Tom Voss (29) and Anthony Anderson (30) donned their hiking boots and headed west from Wisconsin on a 2700-mile journey that would take them to California’s Santa Monica Pier.

Iraqi Government Threatens Action Against Kurds as Oil Exports Set to Begin

The conflict escalated when Baghdad followed through on Maliki's threat.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs firmly stated the central government will take action, "including fiscal measures," if Kurdistan begins exporting oil without coming to an agreement with Baghdad.

The remarks came as Minister Hussain al-Shahristani spoke at a conference in London on January 28.

An Open Letter to Soldiers with `Mental Health` Issues

You stand at the fork of two paths...

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a 'mental health' issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.

My first suggestion is that you ignore any label that you have been given. For example, the term 'post-traumatic stress disorder' (PTSD) is an inaccurate and unhelpful way of labelling the appropriate, diverse and complex emotional responses that a normal human being will have to emotionally disturbing events of the type that are experienced during war.

Photos Reportedly Show Marines Burning Bodies in Iraq

WARNING: Video contains graphic images.

(MOSCOW RT) - TMZ released 41 shocking new photos on Wednesday that they say show US Marines burning the bodies of dead Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004. TMZ did not reveal its source, and also said that some of the pictures were too gruesome to release.

"The actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members, nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than 2.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan." a US Defense Department spokesman said in a statement.

Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence

The clashes kick off 2014 in much the same way as 2013 ended – a return to violence in a country that had seen important security gains in recent years.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly took control of Ramadi and Fallujah, bombing police headquarters and killing dozens. On New Year's Day Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent in reinforcements to take back control of AnbarProvince's two largest cities.

Are US Policy Makers Really that Stupid, or are they Evil?

Is it a surprise that in a world poll this week the US was voted the biggest threat to peace in the world?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Are US policy makers really stupid or do they have a natural talent for creating violence and hatred? The latest world poll shows the US is considered the biggest threat to world peace and our government’s daily actions and decisions assure us of a continued “number one”.

Iraq for example, just suffered its worst year of violence since 2008 with almost 9,000 deaths in a country that is a failed state wracked with civil wars, sectarian strife, and infested with large Al Qaeda groups, all trying to impose their will and agenda on a devastated nation.

Al Qaeda Does Not Exist and Never Has

The basic truth is that Al Qaeda does not exist and never has. Al Qaeda is a manufactured enemy who was created by the Bush Administration in order to have an excuse to wage a war for the control of the world’s oil resources.

(MOSCOW Pravda) - Did an American even hear the words “Al Qaeda” before 9-11?

Or were we told that its alleged leader Osama Bin Laden has family who themselves have personal business relationships with George W. Bush’s family and that both families had financially profited considerably from the “War on Terror”?