U.S. Treasury Claim of Iran-Al-Qaeda “Secret Deal” Is Discredited By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – The U.S. Treasury Department‘s claim of a “secret deal” between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a key argument by right-wing activists who support war against Iran, has been discredited by former intelligence [...]
Colin Powell’s Tangled Web By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/colin-powells-tangled-web “I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying — of knowing the information was false. I didn’t.” — Colin Powell. Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world’s [...]
Robert Scheer on Obama’s Sudden Conversion “Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion” — Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific. Col. Ann Wright on Rape in the Marines “The Dark Side of the Prestigious Marine Barracks” — The Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., is the showplace of the Marine [...]
The world for some time now has been a haven for people who teach others basic lessons through propaganda. There is a fundamental difficulty with all authoritarian systems that is felt very acutely by those in power-the elites, and their lackeys- the politicians, managers and military. Just how do you keep the [...]
A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, 2009. (Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times)I kept finding myself thinking about the lunchbox. I was at the all-day Drone Summit in Washington DC [...]
Opposition to Iran war gaining momentum By Kourosh Ziabari link http://www.presstv.ir/detail/240364.html Several prominent academicians, peace activists, artists, journalists and even Nobel Prize laureates have stood shoulder by shoulder with the international organizations to voice their dismay and alarm at the renewed war rhetoric of Israel against Iran and its possible plans for launching a military [...]
