August 29, 2011
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love warby David Sirota, Published: August 27 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist [...]
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August 16, 2011
Chris Hellman, The Pentagon‘s Spending Spree Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to offer for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has [...]
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August 15, 2011
Virginia Militarized By David Swanson with Shepherd Johnson http://warisacrime.org/content/virginia-militarized The U.S. military is a permanent and pervasive presence in Virginia. Were the state of Virginia to ban participation in wars of aggression, weapons sales to brutal dictatorships, and the manufacture of aggressive and illegal weapons, the Military Industrial Complex would be obliged to help itself [...]
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August 11, 2011
. A Minotaur IV is launched at Vandenberg Air Force Base. A similar rocket will carry the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. (Senior Airman Andrew Satran/U.S. Air Force / April 22, 2010) Experimental Mach-20 aircraft set for launch at Vandenberg AFB The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 is part of a program that would deliver a military strike anywhere [...]
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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 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 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 19, 2011
Photos from the Ground Show Civilian Casualties By Hasnain Kazim Noor Behram In the US, remote-controlled drones are considered great tools in the war on terror. For years Washington has sent these high-tech weapons into western Pakistan, lauding their precision. But a local journalist says he has photographic evidence that civilians are often the victims. Noor [...]
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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 13, 2011
In the coming weeks, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to decide on the size, scale and timing of an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week the president’s military advisors reportedly argued against the prospect of a substantial withdrawal, saying that leaving too early would threaten hard-won gains. The president’s final decision will depend on judgements [...]
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July 6, 2011
Obama Counterterrorism Strategy Lies and Fails John Glaser, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn’t the case. Rather, [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 1, 2011
Study: US Wars Cost $4 Trillion, Killed 258,000 137,000 Civilians ‘Directly’ Killed in Iraq, Afghanistan by Jason Ditz, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new study from Brown University’s Watson Institute has set an estimated that the post 9/11 costs of the assorted wars of the Bush and Obama Administrations [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 27, 2011
With the ever growing presence of fascist thought starting to dominate the mainstream of the media it is useful to look around at what people who are not psychopaths think about the directions being taken at present around the planet. Here in australia we are firmly in the grip of an unelected Prime Minister who [...]
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June 26, 2011
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) – Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms. “Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you,” Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of [...]
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June 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
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June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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June 23, 2011
All this may look good but think about the fact that they should not be there at all and that a mercenary army will have ti be there to protect their precious assets and it all comes to nought. Now how long ago was it that the great crawler Julia said we were there regardless? [...]
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June 22, 2011
NATO Abandons Denial, Admits to Libya Attack That Killed 15 NATO Warplanes Attacked Sorman After All by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sunday, NATO copped to killing at least nine civilians in a strike in Central Tripoli, blaming a “weapons system failure,” but when a second incident [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
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June 21, 2011
Adel: A decade of injustice Adel al-Gazzar has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving detention without trial, torture and medical malpractice. In January 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year [GALLO/GETTY] For someone to be held [...]
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
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June 21, 2011
THE ROVING EYE NATO, the ultimate transformer By Pepe Escobar To follow Pepe’s articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please clickhere. Forget about the Hollywood Transformer franchise; as facts on the ground go, the ultimate transformer in real life is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO has just admitted it was “probably” responsible for the [...]
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June 18, 2011
US in talks with Taliban, says Karzai Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, confirms US involvement in the peace talks at a news conference in Kabul Share22 Reuters guardian.co.uk, Saturday 18 June 2011 10.23 BST Article history Diplomats have already said there have been months of preliminary talks between the two sides. Photograph: Reza Shirmohammadi/AP The US [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pentagon Urges Obama to Keep Afghan Surge Going Until Fall 2012 Plan Would Keep Vast Majority of Surge Troops in Nation for Another Year and a Half by Jason Ditz, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the decision on the long-promised July 2011 dradown likely just weeks away, the [...]
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June 13, 2011
Washington Post Wants Endless War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58137 The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — to show up in many a future editorial, as it will give presidents the “legal” (although unconstitutional) [...]
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June 9, 2011
Is Leon Panetta a Saint—or a War Criminal? by David R. Henderson, May 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum David R. Henderson’s Introduction: The first part of this article’s title is absurd, right? How could the head of the CIA, a man who sends drones to kill alleged terrorists and ends up [...]
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June 9, 2011
Lawmakers call for reduced Afghan role Email Print Reuters – Senator John Kerry (D-MA) speaks during a news conference in Islamabad May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood Slideshow:Afghanistan Play VideoAfghanistan Video:Panetta backs responsible withdrawal from Aghanistan 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads Play VideoAfghanistan Video:In Kabul, air pollution a bigger killer than war AFP By Missy Ryan and [...]
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June 9, 2011
Please note there is not the slightest reference to asking the Afghans what they want or need or feel is necessary. George Ikners ikners.com U.S. wants ‘joint bases’ in Afghanistan, Gates says By Karen DeYoung, Published: June 9 The United States should maintain a long-term military presence in Afghanistan as a “tenant” on bases jointly occupied with Afghan [...]
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June 9, 2011
White House affirms relationship with Bahrain, detentions and prosecutions continue Marian Wang | ProPublica | Jun 08, 2011 As the Bahraini government continued its crackdown on largely Shiite pro-democracy groups, the Obama administration reaffirmed its friendship with Bahrain this week. More Shiites were arrested and about 50 medical workers were charged by the Bahraini government this [...]
Tags: Al Khalifa family, Bahrain, Barack Obama, Crown prince, Salman ibn Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, Shia Islam, United States, White House
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June 5, 2011
What follows is a Democracy Now! interview with Hersh. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Sy, I wanted to ask you—you mentioned earlier the uprisings in the Arab world, and I wanted to ask you about the impact of those uprisings both on the theocracy in Iran and also on Israel’s attempts to constantly encircle Iran or [...]
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June 5, 2011
The position that the US and Pakistan finds itself in is becoming intolerable to Pakistan. It would only be a fool who would not recognise that a renewed push to kill anyone that remotely looks like a terrorist by the US is being done to continue the nehancement of the election prospects of Obama. No thought is [...]
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June 4, 2011
The cost of Empire is truly staggering. That is just as far as how far an entire economy and production in the US has to be rigged, faked and reconstructed to make a fundamental fallacy appear like normal behaviour. Central to whatever theme is being played the US imperial project is a creation of a [...]
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June 4, 2011
No Evidence of Iranian Weapons Program, Despite Rhetoric John Glaser, May 31, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Seymour Hersh reports in the latest issue of The New Yorker that “despite years of covert operations inside Iran, extensive satellite imagery, and the recruitment of Iranian intelligence assets, the United States and its [...]
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June 3, 2011
Are Palestinian children less worthy? Although Palestinian children endure lives of suffering, Obama’s love for their Israeli counterparts knows no limit. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 30 May 2011 14:47 During the first and second intifada, more than 700 Palestinian children were killed, and a further 313 children died in the Israeli shelling of Gaza in December 2008-July [...]
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June 2, 2011
This is another first rate article from Gareth Porter. Whenever you get the opportunity you should take the time to listen to and watch him speak. George Ikners ikners.com Splitting the Taliban By GARETH PORTER The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between U.S. officials and a Taliban figure [...]
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June 2, 2011
This type of action serves to highlight what these people like Kissinger have done. It is all very worthwhile, but a little scary for the arrester. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Kissinger Protested at New York Event Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came under protest Tuesday at a public event in New [...]
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June 1, 2011
As we here in Australia listen to the madness of our elected representatives talk about security, war and a stupid notion of a presence in the Middle East, it should be remembered that insanity comes with a price tag. As the rush to security continues so does the amount we need to spend on the war [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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June 1, 2011
With the arrest of Mladic it is a good idea to remember that war criminals are not restricted to the vanquished. Often the greatest crimes are committed by the victors and of course quite conveniently forgotten. The major matter that springs to mind was the vaporisation of two Japanese cities as the final kick in the war against the Japanese. In [...]
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May 31, 2011
Emperor Obama vs the Arab people Despite calling for change in some parts of the Middle East, the US president reaffirmed the status quo where it counts. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 21 May 2011 13:17 By giving Israel his unflinching support, Obama has alienated much of the Arab world [GALLO/GETTY] In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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