2006-04-21
Reality Show
I have mentioned Madeleine Albright saying that the death of 500,000 children during the UN sanctions on Iraq after the Gulf War, but could not find a video of the interview of Albright by Leslie Stahl on 60 minutes. Here it is at the link below.
In case you missed it:
"We Think the Price Is Worth It":
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it
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Photographs from Iraq
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?
story=2006041322552586
Looking at these photos is necessary to your understanding of war. These are relatively mild photos. Search earlier Reality Show presentation for more graphic photos. Force yourself to understand what the consequences of war are. Isn’t it obvious that no one wins? Isn’t it obvious that war is degrading to humanity? How many more children have to be killed before the enormity of the misery caused by George Bush and his crowd sinks into the collective conscience of the American public.?
What you see in these photos is the result of lies, outright lies, by the President, vice-President, Secretary’s of State, Secretary of Defense and the rest of the toadies of the Bush administration. It is a result of U.S. Representatives and Senators failing to stop the madness , of newspaper reporters and TV commentators failing to report the real news and of right-wing religious zealots and other pseudo-patriotic misfits seizing the opportunity to attempt to advance their own narrow interests.
You can bring the madness to an end. When you go to the polls in November . . .and you absolutely MUST go to the polls in November . . . if you vote Republican, you are contributing to more of the slaughter shown above, even if the Republicans you vote for were against the war and against Bush and cronies. This is the time to be hardnosed. The Republican majority must be defeated. Then, the work of weeding out those Democrats who have displayed a dismal spinelessness in the face of what should have been, from the start, an obvious recognition of the malfeasance of the Bush administration can take place.
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2006-04-11
Truthout.org
VIDEO | Dispatch From South Dakota:
Tribal President Cecelia Fire Thunder Speaks
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
Filmmakers Chris Hume and L. Wild Horse travel to South Dakota, the state that has passed a law banning all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. But on the Pine Ridge Reservation, tribal president Cecelia Fire Thunder is taking a stand. She is invoking the Oglala Lakota tribe's status as a sovereign nation to surpass state law, by building a family planning clinic on the reservation. President Fire Thunder speaks with t r u t h o u t in this video exclusive.
