The Horrible Things That The Empire Offer Us By Fidel Castro May 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Havana: - A piece of news released by AP, the most important US news agency, dated today in Monterrey, Mexico, explains it with irrefutable clarity. This is not the first, and certainly it won’t be the [...]
JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon called the mistakes ‘egregious’. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA It would be funny if it were not tragic. Here is a loss of $2 billion being described on the BBC as a tiny part of $300 billion in assets. Just think for a moment just what could be done with $3 [...]
Torture on Trial Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture by: David Swanson Published in the May / June 2012 Humanist http://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/ Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was hooded with three empty sand [...]
Gareth Evans, former attorney-general and foreign minister in Australia. Photo Credit: London School of Economics Library/Wikimedia Commons Despite being ‘idolised’ as some sort of peace advocate Gareth Evans was a long way from anything like that description. The Australian support for the murderer Suharto is a matter of national disgrace, the stealing or at least [...]
Imperial Ignorance By Aijaz Zaka Syed March 26, 2012 “The News” — So this is how the cookie crumbles. From burning books to butchering babies, it seems everything is fair game as the victors near their tether. Four years after Barack Hussein Obama offered a “new way forward”; the gulf [...]
Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation [...]
A Tale of Two Tales What Real World?By Fred Reed March 16, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —As I listen to American fury against uncoöperative Afghans, to Congress furiously denouncing Pakistan for anemic aid in conducting the current wars, I sometimes wonder whether the US is playing with a full deck. The [...]
Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening. Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of [...]
Photo Credit: ShutterStock.com Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse Author and social critic Morris Berman says the fact that we’re a nation of hustlers lies at the root of our decline. March 7, 2012 | Several years after the Wall Street-ignited crisis began, the nation’s top bank CEOs (who far out-accumulated their [...]
How often do you see the word “intervention’ these days. It must be almost daily and always seems to refer to something being done by one country to ‘help’ another. In practice it is far more motivated by by advantage than any sense of charity or assistance. First you [...]
Andy Kroll, The Unlikely Oracle of Occupy Wall Street Posted by Andy Kroll at 8:41am, March 1, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Many thanks to those of you who made a contribution to this site in return for a signed paperback copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All [...]
Fifty years ago, John F Kennedy decided to invade South Vietnam – which would leave millions dead [GALLO/GETTY] Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie [...]
Noam Chomsky, Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:16am, February 15, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Noam Chomsky’s latest TomDispatch post ends today, but TomDispatch, of course, goes on. In the coming weeks, expect new posts from Andrew Bacevich, Rebecca Solnit, Michael Klare, Nick Turse, Karen J. Greenberg, and [...]
Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Gangster Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 8:13am, February 19, 2012. If all goes as planned, it will be the happiest of wartimes in the U.S.A. Only the best of news, the killing of the baddest of the evildoers, will ever filter back to our world. After all, American [...]
US to Reestablish Military Presence in Philippines The move is part of a broader imperial plan to counter China‘s influence in Asia-Pacific by John Glaser, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is in talks with the government of the Philippines about re-establishing a military presence in the country about two decades after the [...]
. Utopia: Social Forum Declares ‘Together We Are the 99%‘ Thematic Social Forum 2012: Capitalist Crisis: Social and Environmental Justice – Common Dreams staff link to article http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/25-0 Another world is possible This well-known message is coming out of Porto Alegre, Brazil this week as the “Thematic Social Forum” takes place, in stark contrast to the [...]
Resist U.S. Imperialist War Threats On Iran By Sara Flounders http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30321.htm January 21, 2012 “IAC” — January 18, 2012 –There is growing apprehension that through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or a staged false flag operation, a U.S. war with Iran is [...]
A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire by Sheldon Richman, January 20, 2012 The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories [...]
A Captive Nation By William Bowles January 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — There are more young people of working age out of work than at any time in recorded British history according to the latest government figures. I started the current version of my online presence as it were in March of [...]
The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam Transcript – Public Lecture – Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 By Prof. Francis A Boyle 06/22/06 “Information Clearing House“ – — Kuala Lumpur – Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America [...]
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is “Aggression” By Kevin Carson January 14, 2012 “C4SS” – The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new “defense” guidance document: “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.” I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite [...]
The News of Empire Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 “Mr. Obama and his senior national security advisers have sought to reassure allies and answer critics, including many Republicans, that the United States will not abandon its commitments in the Persian Gulf even as it winds down the war in Iraq and looks [...]
Engelhardt, Superpower Adrift in an Alien World Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:33am, January 12, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Our deepest thanks to those of you whose early contributions are already giving TomDispatch a good financial start in 2012. Keep in mind that anyone wanting to contribute $75 or more to this site [...]
This article is about a person from the US military and his stance on war. It outlines the conclusion often reached that the only way war can be stopped is for soldiers to stop fighting. Any form of refusal to fight of course sends the military [...]
January 10, 2012 “BFP” – Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! Or as they said in Egypt last spring, Kefaya–enough! Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next president, Vladimir Putin, is a major obstacle to their plans. Few however understand why. Russia today, in [...]
Why Do We Ignore the Civilians We Kill in US Wars? By John Tirman January 10, 2012 “WP” – January 06, 2012 - As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, N.C., lauding troops for “your patriotism, your commitment to fulfill [...]
Imperialism and the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools” By James Petras January 01, 2012 “Information Clearing House” - One of the great paradoxes of history are the claims of imperialist politicians to be engaged in a great humanitarian crusade designed to liberate nations and peoples, while practicing the most barbaric conquests, destructive wars and large scale [...]
The Untouchables Elite immunity in the age of imperialism by Justin Raimondo, December 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by Steven Howards, a Colorado man arrested by Secret Service agents when he confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney at a shopping mall and told him he [...]
Scott Horton Interviews James Bovard Scott Horton, December 02, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses his article “Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan;” Hamid Karzai’s empty promises of reform as Afghanistan claims the title of most corrupt government in the world; Mitt Romney’s eager prostrating to the military [...]
Wen wants any dispute over the South China Sea to be resolved by the countries that are affected [EPA] This page has often warned you about the dangers in attempting to control the seas, particularly the Straits of Malacca as some sort of route foe the passage of oils from the Middle East to the US. [...]
The US is trying to exploit opportunities silently against China such as the Burmese Myitsone Dam project [EPA] Standing on a platform in Honolulu last week as United States military officials and heads of Pacific islands looked on, Hillary Clinton charted Washington’s course for re-entry to the Asia-Pacific. The hour-long talk, the content of which [...]
Clinging to the US as if it were a life raft in a stormy sea and expecting to be respected by our Asian neighbours makes Australia look both complicit in US war crimes and a partner in future US imperial expansion in the area. The Australian record in Asia is deplorable. From the White [...]
Any fossil fuel infrastructure built in the next five years will cause irreversible climate change, according to the IEA. Photograph: Rex Features World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change [...]
EGYPT TO IMF: “Topple Their Debts!” There really is a magic bullet that can make sure Egypt‘s revolution triumphs, discovers Eric Walberg, author of Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics & the Great Games. The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was launched at the Journalists’ Union 31 October, with a colourful panel of speakers, including [...]
Ugandan Regime Sharply Increases Repression John Glaser, November 01, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum I guess this would be less relevant if Obama had not just sent combat troops to support the Ugandan military and government in their fight against the LRA. Amnesty International: The Ugandan government and public officials [...]
The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel [EPA] Remember the bases? As the world reeled from the sheer audacity of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many feared the US was seeking to establish a permanent presence in that country. The idea was plausible [...]
AP / Thomas Watkins Residents hang out at the basketball court at Algin Sutton Recreation Center in South Los Angeles. The center is included in the city’s Summer Night Lights program aimed at reducing gang violence. By Bill Boyarsky While Occupy Wall Street and similar movements around the country take aim at financial institutions and their [...]
Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed AP / Jay Finneburgh Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, lies bleeding in Oakland, Calif., after being struck by a projectile apparently fired by police. He suffered a skull fracture while marching with other demonstrators attempting to re-establish a presence near a protest camp disbanded by authorities, said Dottie Guy [...]
The End of the American Era Noam chomsky has taken a view of the work of Walt et ors in the following ways,”Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, said the authors took a “courageous stand” and said much of the criticism against the authors was “hysterical”. But he asserts that he did not [...]
Empire and Hegemony Chomsky in various publications deals with the position of the global imperial project and the role that the hegemons play in that sphere of action. There really is no point or there may be no point in discussing whether the one concept includes the other once you [...]
Guatemala apologises to Arbenz family for 1954 coup Jacobo Arbenz had been in office for three years when he was ousted Continue reading the main story Related Stories Worst place to be a paramedic Guatemala urged to protect women Guatemala gets new UN crime chief Guatemala’s government has apologised to the family of former President [...]
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
It was refreshing to read Stephen Lendman’s recent article where he said simply that war was the business of the USA. However, that is a poroposition that has been around for some time and very often propounded by those alleged loony lefties and dissidents who are frequently held up to ridicule by the media in [...]
Occupy movement goes global – in pictures Occupy Wall Street protests are linking up with other Occupy movements around the world An Occupy Wall Street protester, with a US flag stuck over her mouth, holds up a placard in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New YorkPhotograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters Related articles Even the [...]
Nude in Black and White Mr. Fish By Mr. Fish While visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., at age 11, I found out that the transparent bubble on a warplane from which a gunner fires his machine gun is called a blister. This seemed somehow appropriately unsettling, as if any aircraft [...]
As Obama has said the US is keeping all options open. That is simple US warspeak for if we want to we will start the bombing straight away. But at the moment times are a bit tight so we may have to wait a while. Basically the height of imperial arrogance and a very important [...]
Romney: God Wants U.S. to Lead, Not Follow You can always call God in aid of sheer warmongering and killing. George Ikners ikners.com Published October 07, 2011 Mitt Romney, the leading Republican presidential candidate, is calling for a century of American dominance in his first major foreign policy address, outlining plans to strengthen the U.S. military while [...]
John Feffer, The End of America‘s Pacific Century Posted by John Feffer at 9:28am, October 4, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: The offer of a signed, personalized copy of Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren's remarkable new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, is [...]
Quick military ‘victories’ in Afghanistan and Iraq soon proved to be illusory [EPA] Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war in Central [...]
The US has been creating instability for decades. Even the most cursory reading of Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson can confirm not just the fact but also the reasons. Naomi Klein‘s book the Shock Doctrine also illu8strates how western capitalism and imperialism live and breathe instability to further their own aims. The following article by Nick [...]
