Take a wild guess who convinced George W. Bush that starting wars in the Middle East would be "good for the economy"?

Oliver Stone interviews former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner :

Sebastian Jungler on what war does to the human body :

"...an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well. Complex motor skills start to diminish at 145 beats per minute, which wouldn't matter much in a swordfight, but could definitely ruin your aim with a rifle. At 170 beats per minute you start to experience tunnel vision, loss of depth perception, and restricted hearing. And at 180 beats per minute you enter a netherworld where rational thought decays, bowel and bladder control are lost, and you start to exhibit the crudest sorts of survival behaviours: freezing, fleeing and submission."

Go Here To Read A Chunky Excerpt From Sebastian Jungler's New Book 'War'

WhaddaYaMean We're The Bad Guys?

This stunning, but true, summary of 65 years of American War from Australian journalist John Pilger appears on Reddit :

Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death

This is taken from the reality-rocking Pilger documentary The War On Democracy, which you can watch online here for free.

A Redditer helpfully supplies a list of Wikipedia links that confirm it all :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_US_regime_change_actions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_transnational_human_rights_actions

Here's a few good reads for starters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Wars (lots of little-known wars there)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrorism

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