Greta Berlin
FreeGaza.org
10 September 2009

As Israel continues to commit slow-motion genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, saying they let in 150 trucks a day of food and medical aid (when the people of Gaza need 500-600 trucks a day), and B’tselem, the Israeli Human Rights group writes that more than 50% of the people of Gaza Israel killed were civilians, the world stands silent.

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Afghan alcohol ban after Nato staff were ‘too hungover’ to give explanation for airstrike that killed 70 civilians / By Mail Foreign Service

Alcohol has been banned from Nato’s headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed up to 70 civilians.

US General Stanley McChrystal, head of the International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), decided to bar boozing after launching an investigation into the bombing in northern Afghanistan.

Staff at the Kabul headquarters were ‘either drunk or too hungover’ to answer his questions.

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US troops massacre over 147 civilians in Farah Afghanistan
RAWA News / May 2009

Frishta, 7, wounded in coalition air strike on Bala Baluk (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)

Over 147 innocent civilians, many of them women and children, were massacred when US war planes bombed villages of Gerani and Gangabad in Bala Baluk district of Farah Province on May 4, 2009.

This is one out of many war crime cases committed by the US troops in Afghanistan over the past few years. The number of innocent civilians killed since Obama took office in Jan.21, reaches to 300 and his so-called “new” strategy for Afghanistan and surge in number of troops has resulted in more such terrible tragedies.

How many students were texting during this snoozer?

How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 3 September 2009

Watch Matt Taibbi break down his report on the sad state of health care reform in his blog, Taibblog.

Let’s start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It’s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn’t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

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The health care industry is the epitome of “the American experiment”, a nightmare that only the darkest of criminal minds would execute and sustain.