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You are first rate. Shine on, lady.

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This is why I refuse to celebrate this “Holiday” like a dumb American.

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You are amazing, Catlin Johnstone! Thanks for being such a wonderful thruth teller! The best!

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Keep shining the light on the truth Caitlin. The world needs more independent journalists who speak truth to power and refuse to promote propaganda. As Assange said, "If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth."

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This is one of Caitlin's best articles to date, and she has a good number of them which have been excellent. This is not for the faint of heart, but it certainly needs to be said in retaliation of the old adages of "thanking people for their service". Do you thank people who assist in murder of an innocent party?? Then why do it here. Just in the decade alone the United States has committed a number of egregious crimes that would have left people like David Paterus, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Bolton, Hillary Clinton, Samantha Powers and Mike Pompeo all charged with war crimes in International Criminal Court, for which the United States is not a part of incidentally. The lives damaged by sociopathic corporate shareholders of large military companies such as LG3 Technologies, Raytheon and Boeing far exceeds the :alleged" crimes of leaders of countries for which we engage war against.

It is high time we denounce these foreign lobbys, military corporations and congressional officials who openly engage in facilitating wars against nations for which we should be building relationships. Not trying to destroy them using the blood of US soldiers.

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Without even reading it, the title alone garnered a heart. Some things are painfully obvious unless we choose to live in a cartoon.

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No matter how you try to spin it, someone of your ilk would not be allowed the freedom to write such drivel if not for the current existence of the American military....Take America out of the equation and you would doing and saying exactly as you were told. if not, China would simply kill you.... Period.

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I have serious issues with this type of statement whatever the reason for war cannot and must not Negate the fact that our families have sacrificed their lives for our country and we cannot forget them and the price they paid how can we ever give a soldiers families and loved ones that served in the military comfort while the country focuses on celebrating the death of people who never put anything above themselves in their lives. A criminal who died had a gold casket and the "people riot and loot burning businesses to the ground " they have the freedom to protest wrongdoing and we have freedom to be a diverse country that has the rights that we have because of the soldiers who fought for that and the statement that they recruit people who get nothing in return is bs the military paid for my sons college education and they are learning skills to be successful in their lives.

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