Will the "anti-imperialist, anti-war" types at least acknowledge that the Syrian regime is guilty of widespread atrocities, even if they won't lift a finger to prevent it?

An increasingly common medical note written by a Syrian doctor and stamped by the Ministry of Health.

"To Whom It May Concern:
I have reviewed the case of _______, the daughter of Hassan, on Wednesday, date _______.  She was suffering from bruising and tears along the posterior vaginal wall, along with tears in the anal sphincter.  These injuries were the result of a sexual rape. A surgical procedure was done repairing the wall of the vagina and the sphincter. She is now in the hospital recuperating.
Signed, Surgical consultant. This report was written free from duress.

They're raping little 11-year old boys, too.

Nadia Khoury is a Contributing Writer for The Propagandist

Two decades ago these men were the worst of enemies, looking at each other over the front line, strategizing how to kill each other. They wanted to fulfill dreams about nation, freedom, and independence. In those years they blindly followed an ideological approach to life, or perhaps tribal based on their families or ethnic groups. Their aims were not accomplished, but the sacrifice remains. At the end of the war many of them joined the Bosnian national army forces, hoping to work on improving security situation under NATO; that also would not happen.

The federal government decided to downsize the national armed forces. The soldiers were demombilized with promises of a paycheck that never came. Approximately one thousand man who once fought against each other come to the plaza in front of the seat of the federal government several months ago, establishing a permanent tent camp. They started a hunger strike and asked the government to find funds in the upcoming budget for them. Some money was actually budgeted for this purpose -- without being distributed.

This is the third and final article in a series by Joseph Suh on why he wants to serve in the military. Read the first and second articles, Why I Want to Serve, Why I Want to Serve Part 2.

Much of what the American military is devoted to today is fighting the forces of extremists. This cannot be much clearer than its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq: the destruction of religious and tyrannical zealots who pose a threat to national security. 

To me, there is no higher calling than to confront the aforementioned figures, who've such low value for human life. 

The BBC has a new feature called Sudanese conflict: What you need to know. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer up what you need to know.

First of all, it makes out the South Sudanese to be the aggressors.

The crisis started in April, after months of border skirmishes, when South Sudan seized an oil field, which is internationally accepted to be in Sudan, saying the area was being used as a base for Sudanese attacks on its territory.

That's weird. Sudan has been attacking South Sudan since that nation achieved its independence (Actually, since before it became independent. That's kind of why they wanted to be independent).

Those semantically-neutral "border skirmishes" you mentioned? I suppose those are euphemisms for almost entirely one-sided Sudanese aggression against its bullied neighbor. The seizing of the oil field, where the South finally went on the offensive, only happened after incessant Sudanese aggression meant to perpetrate genocide against border communities.

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Here's a quick roundup of the best propaganda we've seen at the magazine this week:

• Obama in Afghanistan. Mission Accomplished. Not. There's more to winning in Afghanistan than taking down Osama Bin Laden.
• The Day We Took Out Bin Laden. Worth Celebrating. Well, certainly.
• Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming At Rich People. Heck, I'm screaming right now.
• Bizarro Islam. "Male handsomeness,  being a constant temptation to women, must be disguised, for the prevention of sin."
• Occupy May Day 2012. An Activist's Agenda. What a way to occupy your day.

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Confusion to our enemies!

“Tonight, I’d like to tell you how we will complete our mission and end the war in Afghanistan,” Obama said Tuesday. We’re still waiting. 

That's the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson on why Americans can't understand what their president can't explain, or maybe it's why Americans can't explain what their president can't understand. In any case, it's about unanswered questions surrounding Barack Obama's surprise media-availability sessions in Afghanistan this week.

This might be at least partly the source of the confusion: "And so 10 years ago the United States and our allies went to war to make sure that al-Qaida could never again use this country to launch attacks against us." Thus spake Obama at Baghram. In fact, for the "allies" among the UN_mandated, NATO-led 47-member ISAF military coalition, the whole point has not been to make America safe from al-Qaida. The United States itself has had (or at least once had) rather more Afghanistan-related reasons to involve its soldiers in Afghanistan too. Like building a sovereign and democratic UN member state where there was just a big black hole, for instance. Whatever happened to that, anyway?

When an American soldier killed 16 civilians in Kandahar in March, condemnation was swift and it came from all sides of the war.

The US Government was quick to apologize, with US President Barack Obama stating, "The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own children who were murdered." NATO immediately announced it was investigating the incident.

President Karzai, whose regime is financed in great part by US resources, slammed the US, saying to reporters a few days after the incident: "This has been going on for too long. You have heard me before. It is by all means the end of the rope here." Karzai, surrounded by media, paid visits to the victims' families and wore black for two days. He publicly participated in conspiracy theorizing that the soldier didn't really act alone, and the killings may have been planned and intentional, conspiracies that have otherwise been propagated by the likes of the Russian Government-owned RT.com and RAWA.org, and which helped add fuel to the flames in an already highly volatile situation.

The Taliban, for their part, immediately used the occasion to spurn out anti-American propaganda. They called US forces in Afghanistan "sick-minded American savages." They then proceeded to launch an attack against an Afghan Government delegation visiting the site of the massacre, just after threatening to behead US soldiers in retaliation for Bales' murders. Only days after the Kandahar killings by Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the Taliban carried out their own massacre in Kandahar, in a suicide bombing that killed two children and injured eight. Then, on March 26, they used a child suicide bomber in an attempted attack on Coalition Forces, wounding a foreign aid worker, three Coalition soldiers, and a child. The Taliban issued a statement saying the suicide bombing was in revenge for Bales' killings. And three days before Bales' killings, on March 8th (incidentally, International Women's Day), a roadside bomb laid by the Taliban killed nine children and four women.

You're not ever going to find a clearer call to genocide by a nation's leader in front of the cameras. Sudanese President Al-Bashir isn't just saying he wants to "liberate" territory that no longer belongs to Sudan, but he also declares he wants no "insect" or "vermin" left alive.

He's already infamously committed one genocide. Will the world stand by as he commits his second?

Jonathon Narvey is the Editor of The Propagandist

So much respect that the Syrian army is shooting right at them.

North Korea's military is threatening to attack the South, in no uncertain terms.

“The special actions of our revolutionary armed forces will start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors,” the North Korean military command’s “special operation action group” said in a statement carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency. “They will reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style.”

OK, maybe some uncertain terms. That last line especially is horribly mangled. But them's still fightin' words.