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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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. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bipartisan Policy Center, Erskine Bowles, Pentagon, Pete Domenici, Republican, Robert Gates, Tom Coburn
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July 29, 2011
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
Tags: David Cameron, Freud Communications, Inquiry, Keith Vaz, Lord Justice of Appeal, Matthew Freud, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Criticism of the Israeli government, Gilad Atzmon, Islamophobia, Israel, Lauren Booth, Palestine, Palestinian people
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July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
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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
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 26, 2011
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
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July 25, 2011
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S. Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press The suspect behind the attacks in Norway said he believed multiculturalism to be a threat. Here, mourners at Oslo Cathedral.More Photos » By SCOTT SHANE Published: July 24, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT SINGLE PAGE REPRINTS SHARE The man accused of the [...]
Tags: Islam, Islamophobia, Jihadwatch, Muslim, Norway, Oslo Cathedral, Robert Spencer, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Chalmers Johnson, Max Boot, middle east, Noam Chomsky, Oxford University Press, Robert Kagan, Thomas Dunne Books, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World Trade Center
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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. [...]
Tags: AK-47, Ammar, Gharyan, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Nafusa Mountains, Tripoli
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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
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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July 11, 2011
President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders will meet on Monday to continue working on a deal to avert a looming US debt default. Obama and Republican and Democratic leaders met for roughly an hour and a half on Sunday in a bid to break an impasse on deficit reduction talks to [...]
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July 6, 2011
Tens of thousands of people have taken to Portugal‘s streets to protest against austerity measures [AFP] Portugal’s credit standing has been cut to junk by Moody’s Investors Service in the first such move by a credit ratings agency. Moody’s also warned on Tuesday that the country may well need a second round of rescue funds before it can [...]
Tags: Bond credit rating, Credit rating, European Union, Greece, International Monetary Fund, Moody's, Portugal, Standard & Poor's
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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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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June 30, 2011
Petraeus is expected to start his new job in September [Reuters] The US Senate has voted unanimously to confirm General David Petraeus to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA to become [...]
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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 30, 2011
Obama: Questions About War Powers Act ‘Defending’ Gadhafi Insists Congress Should Unify in Support of War by Jason Ditz, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in a rambling press conference covering a myriad of topics, President Obama slammed the members of the House of Representatives for questioning the legality [...]
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
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June 27, 2011
2010 Sydney Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Environmental Campaigner The distinguished Indian physicist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. The citation for Dr. Shiva’s selection reads, “For courageous leadership of movements for social justice – the empowerment of women in developing countries, advocacy [...]
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June 26, 2011
Libya unveils its latest weapon against Nato: women at arms More than 500 females of various ages armed to the teeth and swearing loyalty are paraded in front of international media Female Libyan supporters of Gaddai celebrate after graduation in weapons training and pose for foreign journalists in Tripoli, during a government guided tour. [...]
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June 25, 2011
Even Democrats seem to be able to see that there is at least a problem. President ‘becoming an absolute monarch’ on war powers, Dem says By Pete Kasperowicz - 06/24/11 09:56 AM ET A House Democrat warned Friday that the U.S. president is becoming an “absolute monarch” on matters related to the authority to start a war. Rep. [...]
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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 22, 2011
Poll: Americans Who Favor Withdrawing Troops Quickly at All-Time High CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES Lt. John Paszterko, with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, talks with a local farmer while on patrol last year near Kandahar, Afghanistan. By Sara Sorcher Updated: June 21, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. June 21, 2011 | 1:51 p.m. Americans in record [...]
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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
Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East Share1838 We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in the USA?here NOAM CHOMSKY: We were talking about unions before. Union busting is [...]
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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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