AOC denies hosting military recruitment event

AOC denies hosting military recruitment event

Funny how the announcement didn’t mention anything other than the military being there?!

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Previously:

Student Services Fair Being Held Later Today Hosted By Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 🤔

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UK to Give Ukraine Depleted Uranium Shells Despite Russian Warnings

Russia’s defense minister says the move brings the world closer to a ‘nuclear collision,’ Putin vows to respond

UK to Give Ukraine Depleted Uranium Shells Despite Russian Warnings

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[2019] New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

“Depleted Uranium (DU) is a toxic, radioactive heavy metal that is the waste byproduct of the uranium enrichment process when producing nuclear weapons and uranium for nuclear reactors. Because this radioactive waste is plentiful and 1.7 times more dense than lead, the United States government uses DU in munitions/ammunition which are extremely effective at piercing armored vehicles. However, every round of DU ammunition leaves a residue of DU dust on everything it hits, contaminating the surrounding area with toxic waste that has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the age of our solar system, and turns every battlefield and firing range into a toxic waste site that poisons everyone in such areas. DU dust can be inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through scratches in the skin. DU is linked to DNA damage, cancer, birth defects, and multiple other health problems. The United Nations classifies Depleted Uranium ammunitions as illegal Weapons of Mass Destruction because of their long-term impact on the land over which they are used and the long-term health problems they cause when people are exposed to them.”

The Pentagon denies that they’re sending depleted uranium ammunition (if you can even believe them)!

Student Services Fair Being Held Later Today Hosted By Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 🤔

Student Services Fair Being Held Later Today Hosted By Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (archived)

We will be joined by special guests from the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, former interns, and last year’s winner of the Congressional App Challenge!

H/T: Lee Camp

Related:

After impassioned speech, AOC’s ban on US military recruiting via Twitch fails House vote

Why the change?! OpenSecrets doesn’t show any weapons contractor donations!? Maybe they’ll show up on her next campaign?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

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War Is A Racket

“War Is A Racket” By Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Read By Jon Gold

A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings

A second ex-Guantanamo detainee has stepped forward to say that Gov. Ron DeSantis, while a U.S. Navy JAG officer in 2006, watched and allowed the brutal forced feedings of detainees that U.N. human rights authorities, an international physician’s group and others have condemned as a form of torture.

A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings

Opinion: Too hungry to weep. The tragedy of Yemen’s starving children

Opinion: Too hungry to weep. The tragedy of Yemen’s starving children

In 2022, the US committed $1 billion to humanitarian relief in Yemen. Maintaining that level given the worsening situation should be a mere formality.

Yet having spent the past week in Washington with members of Congress and the Senate regarding this crisis, it is apparent that political and fiscal calculations flourish when media coverage is fleeting, and outrage muted. As one Senator sterilely offered during our meeting, “That’s a lot of money.” A lot, indeed. Accordingly, to try to describe the near $110 billion the US has pledged to Ukraine in the last year sends one scrambling for a thesaurus.

Nevertheless, the wheels are steadily in motion for that outcome, as global aid for Yemen is in staggering decline. Announced on Monday by Secretary Blinken, with unfortunate lack of context, the US government is slashing this year’s contribution to the UN appeal for Yemen by roughly 25% – additionally I’ve been told by multiple sources at USAID that their cuts for aid to Yemen in 2023 could go as high as near 40%, with further cuts planned for 2024.

H/T: Revolutionary Blackout

The article was written March 2nd, 2023. The video was uploaded March 14th on the War Child USA channel. So far, nothing on their YouTube or website.

China is not knocking at Australia’s door for war; US will use Australia as a proxy: experts

As Australian media outlets up their game of drumming war drums against China, former Australian diplomats stressed China is not knocking at Australia’s door to invade Australia; China provides economic opportunity and prosperity, while the US is offering death and destruction, at Global Times’ Global Minds Roundtable on China-Australia Relations on Monday.

China is not knocking at Australia’s door for war; US will use Australia as a proxy: experts