In an absolutely vile miscarriage of justice, Frank Wuterich, the Marine sergeant who instructed his soldiers to massacre civilian Iraqis, could receive the maximum sentence of three months of “confinement” for the 24 he and henchmen slaughtered.

Is this really how this country treats war crimes? But then again, look at how the Obama administration failed to prosecute members of the Bush administration for their war crimes…

More on this war criminal here.

It’s tax season…and here’s an unfriendly reminder that we all pay for imperialism—UN-sanctioned or not.

(via political-cartoons)

Some bereaved relatives heckled the former prime minister as he expressed his remorse.

Members of the audience shouted: “Too late, too late,” while two women turned their backs on Blair, and then walked out. An official brought tissues into the hearing for another woman who burst into tears.

“Your lies killed my son, I hope you can live with yourself,” Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon Gentle was killed while serving in Basra, southern Iraq, in 2006, shouted as Blair completed about four hours of testimony.

“You’re a disgrace to your office and our country,” Reg Keys, whose son was killed in 2003, shouted as Blair left.

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