Dennis Kyne will lecture on the use of depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq and Afghanistan, the health and environmental impacts of DU, and ongoing opposition by veterans to the war in Iraq.

Dennis is a decorated Army combat medic (Operation Desert Storm) with 15 years of military service and founder of the Bay area chapter of Veterans for Peace.

Wednesday, October 10th, 7:00 p.m.
CAFE Infoshop, 935 F Street, Fresno, CA
A $5 dollar donation is suggested but not required for the Wednesday night event.

Thursday, October 11th, 7:00 p.m.
Califormia State University, Fresno

by Medialens.org

Introduction

The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.

As we recently reported, only a handful of media outlets covered a new ORB poll revealing that 1.2 million Iraqis had been murdered since the 2003 invasion. BBC Online provided a rare example:

A Democracy Now! debate between Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ali. One of my all time favorite debates. I must admit I never like Hitchens even before he became a massive war monger. I always thought he had totalitarian ideas. In any case Ali takes Hitchens to task.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/12/1347208

The Dems have been celebrating their "victory" with the passage of a new war funding bill that sets nonbinding dates for withdraw from Iraq, while funding the war until after Bush's term ends. Congressman Dennis Kucinich expressed his displeasure with his fellow Dems. Have a listen to Kucinich on Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org/)