January 9, 2012
During the Republican presidential debates this weekend, candidates took aim at the military strategy President Obama unveiled late last week, which vows cuts in military spending and a stepped-up focus on the Asia-Pacific region, as well as increased use of drone strikes that have targeted militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and throughout Horn of [...]
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January 8, 2012
Lynch in 2003 The military’s ‘fabrication’? No, Jessica Lynch was WaPo’s story In Jessica Lynch, Media myths, Washington Post on January 5, 2012 at 9:15 am A passage in a recent essay at a Washington Post blog demonstrates just how insidious the notion is that the military made up the hero-warrior tale about Army private JessicaLynch in the early days of the Iraq War. The Post’s higher education blog, “College Inc.,” cited “the [...]
Tags: 507th Maintenance Company, Afghanistan, Iraq, JessicaLynch, Lynch, Military, PatTillman, Washington Post
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January 6, 2012
Iranian submarines participate in naval parade war game on Sea of Oman near Strait of Hormuz (Reuters)UPDATE: At 12:53 PM ET the Associated Press filed a new storyreporting on the major joint US-Israel missile defense exercise: US-Israel vs Iran: War Games Prelude to War? Iran Rails Against West’s ‘Economic War’ The drumbeats of war are [...]
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January 6, 2012
The Heads of State The Tyranny of Defense Inc. By ANDREW J. BACEVICH In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern [...]
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January 5, 2012
World public opinion of the US military and its operations has soured after 9/11 [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Portents of declining US and Western prestige marked the closing months of 2011. There is of course the ongoing economic crisis, and the inability to respond to it effectively. But another sign was the rapidity with [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Airstrike, Kurdistan Workers, NATO, Pakistan, Turkey, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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December 26, 2011
Making Repression Our Business The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East By Nick Turse As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some [...]
Tags: Greater Middle East, Human Rights Watch, middle east, NickTurse, Obama, Pentagon, TomDispatch.com, United Arab Emirates, United State, United States, United States Africa Command
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December 13, 2011
Military Spending is the Weakest Job Creator by Miriam Pemberton Even before the supercommittee’s demise, the defense industry and its Pentagon and congressional allies were making preemptive strikes on the next phase: the automatic cuts, half of them from defense, that are supposed to follow the supercommittee’s failure. And with national unemployment rates stuck near 9 [...]
Tags: Aerospace Industries Association, Alan Greenspan, Barney Frank, Institute for Policy Studies, Lawrence Korb, Military budget, Pentagon, Robert Pollin
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December 7, 2011
The Military Spending Fairy Much to nobody’s surprise, a new study from MIT‘s Political Economy Research Institute contradicts right-wing and Defense Department talking points and finds that funding domestic priorities like clean energy, health care, and education creates about twice as many jobs per dollar spent, at all pay levels, as military spending. Economist Dean [...]
Tags: Dean Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Military budget, Political economy, Political Economy Research Institute, Sustainable energy, Talking point, Washington
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November 28, 2011
On the eve of Egypt‘s election, Tantawi rejects calls from protesters that ruling generals must step down. Last Modified: 27 Nov 2011 19:43 video at http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111127144858738355.html Egypt’s military ruler has warned of “extremely grave” consequences if the country does not pull through its current crisis, and urged voters to turn out for landmark parliamentary elections starting on Monday. Field [...]
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November 14, 2011
Obama used to refer to longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak as a ‘friend’ of the US – and not as a dictator [EPA] During the past few months, Barack Obama has come under increasing pressure from his would-be Republican opponents, not for secretly subscribing to the faith of the enemy (Obama Muslim-baiting is so 2010), [...]
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October 26, 2011
Was Gadaffi executed with NATO consent? 22 October 2011 There is increasing evidence and proof that there has been a prior agreement between the supporters of the Libyan National Transitional Council [NTC] and the leaders of the NATO countries on the physical liquidation of Col Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, his sons, and those close to him, and [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Libya, Libyan, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, United Nations
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October 25, 2011
Image via Wikipedia Ray McGovern on Activism and the Military Industrial Complex http://warisacrime.org/content/ray-mcgovern-activism-and-military-industrial-complex The past 50 years have shown that President Eisenhower was spot on, as we would say today, about the Military Industrial Complex and what to expect if Americans were not vigilant, which, of course, we have not been — until maybe now. [...]
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October 20, 2011
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 [...]
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October 20, 2011
A Saudi-Iranian cold war takes shapeOctober 19, 2011 01:10 AMBy Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The Middle East continues to experience one of its most tumultuous moments of structural change in several generations, and countries are reconfiguring both their domestic power structures as well as their intra-regional relations. In this context, we can expect [...]
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October 19, 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures with Libyan soldiers upon her departure from Tripoli in Libya on Oct. 18, 2011. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) By Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) — Russia, the United States and European countries ignored fears over human rights abuses and sold large numbers of weapons to governments in the Middle East [...]
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September 21, 2011
none of what follows should surprise anyone that the US wants to be able to annihilate anyone it can say is an enemy terrorist, or supporter, or follower. What the hell what we say goes, you get in the way you die. George Ikners ikners.com Obama Team Split Over Use of Lethal Force The expansive [...]
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September 14, 2011
Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has said he regrets providing misleading intelligence that led the US to invade Iraq, believing it had weapons of mass destruction. Powell, the first secretary of state in the administration of George W. Bush, the former US president, which declared war on Iraq [...]
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September 6, 2011
Syria should accept Arab League initiative to avoid foreign intervention 29 August 2011 Nabil al-Arabi, the Arab League secretary general, is still waiting for the Syrian government’s answer to his request to visit Damascus. He has been entrusted by the Arab foreign Ministers to visit Damascus at the head of a delegation to convey to [...]
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August 30, 2011
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
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August 29, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –America is the most militaristic nation on Earth, spending $1 trillion of taxpayer money yearly for warmaking — outstripping all other nations combined. Why? What’s the point of trying to police the entire planet, when other democracies don’t feel this compulsion? Especially when the policing doesn’t really work? Col. Andrew Bacevich knows war [...]
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August 19, 2011
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance. July 31, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Activism & [...]
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
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August 16, 2011
After Months of Pushing for ‘Request’ White House Will ‘Consider’ Staying in Iraq As Attacks Continue to Grow, Spokesman Says Still Waiting for Iraqi Request by Jason Ditz, August 15, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Pretending as usual with that months of haranguing the Maliki government into allowing US troops to [...]
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August 10, 2011
Syria protests: Activists in Damascus say the escalation of pro-democracy protests is piling pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: Associated Press Syrian security forces were reported to have launched another wave of violence against pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday as PresidentBashar al-Assad rejected a Turkish appeal to change tack or meet the fate of Libya’s Muammar [...]
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
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August 2, 2011
World Beat by JOHN FEFFER | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Vol. 6, No. 31 O U R L A T E S T AUG 2 | Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinforce a Border That Was Arbitrary to Begin With Conn Hallinan AUG 1 | Islamophobes Insinuate Their Way Into U.S. Intelligence Paul [...]
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July 31, 2011
Barack Obama has not slept for a week because of worries over the US budget. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images ( Seems life for a warmonger gets tougher by the minute, perhaps he should play with the dog. Even war criminals feel the heat and need a rest, forget about the countless numbers that have suffered [...]
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July 30, 2011
Progressives don’t need more reasons to be disappointed with President Barack Obama’s handling of the deficit talks, but here’s another failing that has not gotten much play: The administration has been so timid on defense cuts that some leading Republicans are now well to the president’s left on this issue. (Flickr/gregwest98) SHARE THIS STORY. [...]
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July 30, 2011
As for the comments of General Lute in the post on this page read this and see for yourself where these alleged Al Qaeda connections are and how foolish it is to suggest that some sort of knockout punch can be delivered in Pakistan. As long as the US keeps its extremely close links to [...]
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July 28, 2011
News sources indicate that France has agreed to let Qaddafi remain in Libya if he cedes power. Qaddafi’s acquiescence notwithstanding, this is the best decision made by the Western powers so far in the Libyan conflict, not only because the offer presents a reasonable alternative to continued bloodshed in Libya, but because by discarding the politics [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
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July 26, 2011
Goldman Sachs: US Faces Credit ‘Downgrade’ if it Counts Eventual End of War as ‘Deficit Reduction’ Claiming Wars Will End Sooner or Later Not a Real Savings by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Senate Democrats have issued a new “savings” plan that would nominally pare the projected [...]
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
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July 26, 2011
NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital Engineering school also hit, Brits call it ‘spy HQ’ Jeremy Sapienza and Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment [...]
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July 25, 2011
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
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July 25, 2011
Pentagon: New Iraq Troop Deal Needed ASAP Insists More Time Needed to Extend ‘Support Contracts’ by Jason Ditz, July 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though on many occasions the Iraqi government has appeared to be on the verge of grudgingly acquiescing to the repeated demands, so far they have not approved [...]
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July 24, 2011
The imperial project as we have seen it unfold on the part of the US and other countries around the world has always come hand in hand with the destruction of any and all existing free, democratic or libertarian institutions that exist in the target countries. In order to strip these countries of the resources [...]
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July 23, 2011
US military weighs more Predator drones for Libya 22 Jul 2011 21:10 Source: Reuters // Reuters * NATO wants more aircraft in 4-month-old bombing campaign * U.S. again debating whether to arm rebels, official says By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – As the war in Libya drags on, the U.S. military is [...]
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July 23, 2011
By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security for its diplomats in Iraq once the U.S. military withdraws. And no one outside State knows anything more, as the department has gone to war [...]
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July 21, 2011
[Introduction to Samah Sabawi's piece by Israeli activist Ofer Neiman from BOYCOTT!] There are good things to be said about Professor Naomi Chazan, a scholar of contemporary Africa and a former member of the Israeli Knesset (on behalf of the center-left Meretz party). When an extreme right-wing and US funded Israeli student group like “Im [...]
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
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July 15, 2011
In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Around a Deadline Spencer Platt/Getty Images American soldiers stopped to talk with an Iraqi during a patrol this week in Babil Province. Lately, American combat deaths have been increasing in Iraq. By TIM ARANGO Published: July 14, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE [...]
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July 15, 2011
Pentagon: Internet an ‘Operational Domain’ for Wars Military Eyes Dramatic Increase in ‘Cybersecurity‘ Employees by Jason Ditz, July 14, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Finally releasing their long-promised “cybersecurity plan,” the Pentagon today declared that the Internet is now being considered an “operational domain” for all wars, and proposed a dramatic increase [...]
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July 15, 2011
Mourners carry the coffin of a killed Libyan rebel fighter in Zintan. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters The six barefooted men trooped into the school library, their faces uneasy and downcast. Not so long ago this room, with its Arabic texts and Webster’s dictionary, was for studious children. Now it is home to prisoners of war. [...]
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July 13, 2011
US politicians continue to press for detainees captured overseas to be tried in military courts [EPA] When Ahmed Warsame was captured by US forces in April, he didn’t know that he would be interrogated on a ship at sea, then rendered to trial in New York City nearly three months later. It also probably didn’t occur [...]
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July 13, 2011
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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July 13, 2011
Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is also a fellow of the Transnational What follows is in the form of a letter by Phyllis Bennis the author of the article beside this one on this page. It summarises thoughts, actions, initiatives and the continuing [...]
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July 13, 2011
Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power By Phyllis Bennis, AlterNet Posted on July 11, 2011 (Selçuk, Turkey) It was election day, June 12, in this small town in Turkey’s heavily secular far west region. Opposition to the governing Justice and Development Party, the Islamic-oriented AKP, runs strong. The manager of the small hotel shook his [...]
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July 13, 2011
US Drone Salvo Attacks Pakistani Border Regions, Killing 48 Pakistan Threatens to Withdraw Troops From Border as Tensions Rise by Jason Ditz, July 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Over the past 24 hours US drones have launched multiple drone strikes against tribal areas inside of Pakistan, killing at least 48 people [...]
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