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Shadow Company is a documentary film that explores the history of mercenaries, the PMC industry and regulation of it - with exclusive interviews with security contractors, journalists, historians and owners of contracting companies. With tens of thousands of armed contractors in Iraq alone, it is clear that the rules of war have changed - and it is up to everyone to learn how these rules have changed and why.
 Iraq Veterans Memorial is an online war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have lost their lives serving in the Iraq War. The Memorial is a collection of video memories from family, friends, military colleagues, and co-workers of those that have fallen.
The National Priorities Project offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice.  Militarism and Global Warming US militarism has to be considered under three headings: First, the US military is the largest single consumer of fossil fuel in the world. Second, the US economy, the largest national consumer of fossil fuel in the world, has shown that its primary mode of maintaining a supply of fossil fuel for itself is through military action (assault, intervention, occupation of other oil producing nations). Third, the US military operates in the interest of a corporate economy of which it (the military) is the foremost sector in the US.photo source  The Ground Truth The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homeocming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home.
Featured Organizations To inform and educate the public, especially students, parents and school personnel about the growing militarization of our schools, and to create and present positive nonviolent alternatives which promote the value of human life, justice and equity for all persons
 SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.
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photo source "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. " — Omar Bradley
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Did You Know?160 million died in wars during the 20th century.Global military expenditure and arms trade form the largest spending in the world at over one trillion dollars in annual expenditure. The USA is responsible for 48 per cent of global military expenditure, distantly followed by the UK, France, Japan and China with 4–5 per cent each. US military spending was almost two-fifths of the total, almost 7 times larger than the Chinese budget, the second largest spender. |
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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
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weapons, land mines, arms trading, land mine removal, mine clearance, disarmament, illegal trade, black market, peace, international ban, injury, amputation, maim, civilian casualty, international law, the Mine Ban Treaty, anti-personnel land mines, anti-tank land mines, naval mines, war
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Jed Diamond, author
The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Health the Four Key Causes of Depression and Aggression.