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Sometimes, It's Good to Remember the Basics

Water, and food. The basics. Being dropped to the Yazidis in Iraq, caught with nothing, under attack by vicious militants. 

Force Feeding at Gitmo? Yessir!

Via The Guardian: "Calls for the doctors who force-feed hunger-striking prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to refuse to perform the practice on ethical grounds have got nowhere, a spokesman for the prison said on Thursday.

No doctors, nurses or corpsman had balked at feeding the prisoners or even voi…

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Bread, But Not Guns for Syria

Humanitarian aid is making its way to the Syrian people, but even they do not know its source is the USA.

According to this report in the WaPost, "America has done nothing for us. Nothing at all,” said Mohammed Fouad Waisi, 50, spitting out the words for emphasis in his small Aleppo grocery store,…

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