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no. not. that of course since you mentioned. must not comes and talks about. that i found it very. round the highest rates of genetic damage in any population ever studied radiation expert christopher busby has reported from us depleted uranium munitions in iraq birth defects was the north of the us nukes on hiroshima and nagasaki democracy now reports are being found in babies doctors told renowned war correspondent jamil such injuries have simply never been seen before from ations that she said they don't even have medical terms for it's common now in fallujah for newborns to come out with massive multiple systemic effects babies being born with two heads maybe being babies being born with half of their internal organs outside of their bodies and it is ongoing the b.b.c.
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knows the pentagon's response to complaints from iraq about depleted uranium attacks they wanted to go away because we kicked out of them but that doesn't explain says common dreams nuisance of the shocking numbers of u.s. vets affected six hundred ninety seven thousand u.s. troops in the first gulf war the department of defense now admits nearly two hundred fifty thousand of permanently disabled from opposed to the last a just one hundred one in three troops to be on treason documentary is a simply incredible figure goldman jarrett used also was born with most of her hand missing and other deformities he believes his service in iraq is to blame independent tests on the veteran high levels of the pretty drain him in his body some versions of going to court have received admissions that the disability could only have been caused by a huge two three eight dog rule was put in charge of do you clean up all of the operation desert storm the oil. he was well aware of its toxicity he says not only
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in areas they hit but for anyone working with it in the vicinity is d.-u. or even breathing down wind of uranium paul tickles he says no one was warned of its incredible danger. radiation damage to his lungs and kidneys brain lesions and serious damage to his eyes the united. states very specifically uranium contamination will make food water unusable. yet we use it in combat. that's why the united nations commission on human rights commissions were illegal weapons. indiscriminate they can't be cleaned up and they will last for eternity. right if there were. weapons of mass destruction. created uranium why for. the not only.
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are contaminated. twelve years of the u.s. led bombing of afghanistan america's longest war the journal military medicine pulls from civilians in both areas and found concentrations of uranium high above eight thousand percent this claims the afghan dui and recovery fund is the result of journalist glenn greenwald says the us establishment is systematically hiding horrors committed by its forces from the american people official casualty lists in mainstream media don't even mention the afghans all rocky's civilians who died i simply don't see exist in corporate sites is why is the site fairness and accuracy in reporting the american public thinks just a few thousand civilians have been killed in violent deaths from the invasion in iraq u.s. based organization foreign policy is actually one point five million. those killed
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from operation desert storm followed by years of u.s. sanctions comes the current snows the four point six million matches that this for no gas chambers call in a rush for foreign policy in focus he joins us congress see how do we explain all this american exceptionalism america to better than everybody else american democracy is better than any other democracy even though we have one of the lowest voting rates in the world for a major developed country. also lounge soldiers. and so live in the west leading all sorts the on the afghan war he lived during the 1980's with the mujahideen and has met with northern alliance taliban and key u.s. general since in his latest book pakistan a hard country he speaks to the people in the region critical to this war for us live and thanks very much for joining us did you get the impression us least don't care about casualties. in iraq. which really gives the impression.
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of be a whistleblower sibel edmonds has claimed a more sinister financial incentive to continue a war generals say they win and it involves a health catastrophe closer to home production of opium since the u.s. came in is taken off afghanistan now provides almost all the world's supply international calls to spray opium crops and in production reuters reports are being blocked by the us government huge increase in opioid consumption in the states as the center for disease control is one american of drug abuse every nineteen minutes senior pentagon sources confirm to the sunday times investigation relations that u.s. officials are fueling afghan drug transport fearing massive. the state diploma.
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put intense pressure on the sunday times which pulled its correspondents. reports. eventually investigated by the justice department which will keeping its findings classified crucially her findings were quote supposed to speak to former intelligence of the school record great to have you on the show first how big is this problem this country consumes sixty percent of the world's opiates the stuff that the americans are are basically hooked on you know the oxy cotton epidemic in florida is out of control you could you can imagine how many people in my neighborhood have children and families that have been affected by the oxycontin epidemic. from this so the afghan farmers it is a make as much you know i mean he's making the least amount but the real money comes in when it gets out when it gets out of the country and you hop secor wrote a great book about the drug trade in the night and florida called welcome to terra
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land instead of welcome to disneyland and it's a story about. it goes into the base where mohammed attah train or the airfield where ramadan train was a cia operations field where there are flying and heroin you're talking about billions of dollars a year and money that comes in that's on it you want to answer for it so there and that's that's it goes to the highest level i asked john mccain a question in a sysinstall to meeting i asked him i said well what do you think about the amount of drugs that are coming out of afghanistan making it into the streets of america he said that it's beneath them cocaine cowboys it's a documentary it goes into complete detail around the cocaine trade in the seventy's and eighty's seven times the deposits in miami alone of all the other federal reserve banks at the time was being laundered and deposited through. the
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federal reserve in miami so that should tell you something it's a huge amount of money the justice department says no one that h.s.b.c. will face trial for what alternate calls drug money laundering and giving favored clients status to no narco barons and investigation in london's observer newspaper goes further claiming quote the world's biggest drug money launderers the city of london and wall street question in the war on terror is dr kevin barrett great to see you kevin what do you see is going on here the taliban had stopped the opium crop they had shut down that business which took away a trillion dollars or so out of the coffers of the u.s. invaded they just propped up all the opium lords and told them to plant and they had a bumper crop and set world records within a year or two yes the wall street bankers are dependent on drug wandering money money laundering to keep their enterprises going they're making all these crazy gambles with derivatives you know. the amount of derivatives floating around are into the hundreds of trillions more than there is real assets enter and so this
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banking system is very vulnerable and what they do is they leverage the drug problem the state department strenuously do know as these claims but in that case also leading terrorism. why is it going to such extraordinary lengths to silence was so close on the subject critics say the case for illegal use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium appears more clear cut. as a member of parliament of eighteen years following the allied forces official admission they used seventy seven bombs containing white phosphorus on civilians accusing other countries of using chemical weapons when you're doing so on a greater scale she says quote. thinking seek truth from facts this is the truth.
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look at the videos we get from syria these days you know people chaplet chopping off eating the intestines this is why we're far warns them something that you play beyond that hollywood movie lies the united states of america to stop supporting people who have ideologies that can crush humanity in the name of religion in the name of interest in the name of any political. comrade soldiers you're in the military now no more joking any more. never been
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some time in my life. every day with the story obsolete limits. do you think it's going to be easy. but everyone's desperate. just gets to. college. i don't know if i'm going to make it to the end look i'm still filming some i'm just a book on the left i don't know what to do. it's no good james it's a lot to. expect some of the toughest writing. for the rest of the film.
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and well known see. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge only in the cherry sub take in the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are a priest tool to have there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a most track i don't believe in that destroyed. and that free. enterprise money market is profit. for social justice golden rice monarchy. real damage
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and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward for the oligarchy carex it is toxic as it looked a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on which all of this boils.
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welcome to russia the olympic flame arrives in moscow as the first torch bearers begin the marathon that four month relay through russia before the launch of sochi two thousand and fourteen winter games. celebrations for the fortieth anniversary of egypt's last war with israel turned violent in cairo where fierce clashes between opponents and supporters of mohamed morsy regime leave scores of killed and wounded. u.s. operation in libya seize a top terror leader seized in a separate raid in somalia proves unsuccessful with special forces unable to capture a wanted al shabaab militant leader. and at least a dozen children are killed in a suicide attack in iraq that targeted an elementary school most recent.

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