February 23, 2012
On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s pressing responsibilities. But there is no escaping the fact that the deceptively serene waters are now also grounds for a nascent but real new cold war.China takes the [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, China, Leon Panetta, NATO, Philippine, South China Sea, United State, Xi Jinping
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February 23, 2012
Poor America Must Watch P a n o r a m a [B B C] – Video Documentary With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm [...]
Tags: Earth, Hilary Andersson, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Nevada, List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, Storm drain, Tent city, United States
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January 27, 2012
“A State of the Union address, with the entire military leadership staring at you from the floor of the Congress, is not the easiest place for a President to speak truth to power,” writes LeVine [GALLO/GETTY] Irvine, CA - How do you judge a State of the Union speech that begins with a lie? There was any number [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Frank Wuterich, Haditha, Iraq, Los Angeles Times, Obama, United States, United States Armed Forces
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January 26, 2012
I Israel snaps at Iran 21 January 2012 http://www.abdelbariatwan.com/IsraelSnapsatIran.htm ‘Israel is going to hit Iran’. No, ‘Israel wavers on Iran Strike’. ‘US Army Chief in Tel Aviv to prevent Iran Strike’. ‘Obama warns Netanyahu: No Strike without US’. These are the kind of headlines that have dominated front pages [...]
Tags: Ali Larijani, Arab, Central bank, Gaza Strip, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mossad, Saudi Arabia, Tel Aviv, United State, United States
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January 26, 2012
US, Israel Agree: Iran Not Building Nukes by Ray McGovern, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world [...]
Tags: Dick Cheney, Ehud Barak, George W. Bush, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel, National Intelligence Estimate, New York Times, Ray McGovern, United States
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January 24, 2012
William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict Posted by William Astore at 8:55am, January 24, 2012. The twenty-first century hasn’t exactly been America’s greatest moment. Still, there remain winners, along with all the losers you might care to mention. If, in fact, you were to sum up the [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, General Dynamics, iPod, Iraq, Iraqi Air Force, middle east, Saddam Hussein, United States
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January 24, 2012
Americans are in the crosshairs of terrorists worldwide purely due to Washington’s policy in the Muslim world, not because there is an Islamic enemy whose only aim is to kill Americans for their freedoms and lifestyle, insists a former CIA officer. RT news channel on 9 November 2011 link to vireo of interview http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30332.htm [...]
Tags: Arab Spring, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran, Islamism, Israel, Michael Scheuer, Muslim world, Syria, United State
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January 15, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: China, Iran, Kevin Carson, Nazi Germany, Pentagon, United State, United States Armed Forces, United States Department of Defense
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January 14, 2012
The Next War on Washington’s Agenda By Paul Craig RobertsOnly the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israeland NATO) were initiated in May 2003.’Washington has deployed missiles directed [...]
Tags: China, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, Michel Chossudovsky, United States, United States Africa Command, Washington
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January 14, 2012
Military Questioning ‘Urine Video’ Marines All Four Identified, Official Confirms by Jason Ditz, January 13, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Still scrambling to get a handle on the massive public and diplomatic fallout from a video leaked earlier this week showing four US Marines urinating on the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Camp Lejeune, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Jason Ditz, Leon Panetta, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, United States
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January 11, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Iowa, Paul Rieckhoff, Richard Nixon, Ron Paul, Texas, World War II
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January 10, 2012
Photo: U.S. Air ForceAccording to Wired’s Danger Room blog, a full 31 percent of all military aircraft are drones. This figure shows a massive uptick from 2005 when just 5 percent of military aircraft were drones. New Report Details Extent of US Military Reliance on Drones A recent Congressional Research Service report documents a staggering [...]
Tags: Congressional Research Service, Creech Air Force Base, Danger Room, Military aircraft, Nevada, Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, Pentagon, United States Armed Forces, Wired
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January 9, 2012
Freedom: An Endangered Species in America By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 09 January 2012 Freedom: An Endangered Species in America - by Stephen Lendman Last September, marking the 9/11 tenth anniversary, the ACLU published a report titled, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11.” Who then could have imagined America engaged [...]
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Bush, Cold War, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Guantánamo, Obama, Stephen Lendman, United States, United States Armed Forces, Washington
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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 [...]
Tags: Asia-Pacific, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Obama, United States, William Hartung
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January 6, 2012
There is an Arabic proverb: “A criminal always hovers near the scene of the crime.” It is a saying that applies, in one way or another, to What America is doing in the Gulf 5 January 2012. [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Arab Gulf, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, Israel, middle east, Saudi Arabia, United State, United States
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January 6, 2012
Iran‘s navy conducting the Velayat-90 naval war games in the strait of Hormuz on New Year’s Day. Photograph: Mohsen Shandiz/Corbis Tensions on the oil shipping lanes in the Gulf have escalated with the announcement of new naval exercises by Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards and news that Israel and the US are planning to carry out extensive joint manoeuvres in the region. [...]
Tags: Hormuz, Hormuz Strait, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran, Israel, Tehran, United States
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January 6, 2012
How Washington Lies About Cutting Defense Budgets John Glaser, January 04, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum At Reason‘s Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been [...]
Tags: Jacob Sullum, Leon Panetta, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Pentagon, Ron Paul, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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January 6, 2012
Why Not Attack Iran? By David Swanson, DontAttackIran.org The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. AtDontAttackIran.org we’ve been collecting the arguments for and against attacking Iran for years. [...]
Tags: David Swanson, Dick Cheney, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Pentagon, Tony Blair, United States, Washington, Wesley Clark
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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 [...]
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Cold War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin, United State, War Machine, World War II
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January 5, 2012
Barack Obama at the Pentagon. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Obama has unveiled plans for America’s military future, outlining a historic shift towards a smaller and leaner force that will focus on China and move away from large-scale ground warfare that has dominated the post-9/11 era. Obama became the first president to announce a strategy [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey, Obama, Pentagon, United States
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January 3, 2012
US soldiers stuck in sand in southern Afghanistan. (Wikimedia Commons) Debacle! Iraq, Afghanistan and the End of US Supremacy How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower by Tom Engelhardt It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in [...]
Tags: Fort Bragg, Greater Middle East, Iraq, Iraq War, middle east, Tom Engelhardt, United States, United States Armed Forces
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January 1, 2012
Understanding the US Torture State by Anthony Gregory, October 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn (New York University Press: 2011), 342 pages. When I was a child in Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets [...]
Tags: Cold War, Dianna Ortiz, Fort Benning, George W. Bush, Marjorie Cohn, National Lawyers Guild, Saddam Hussein, United States
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December 29, 2011
Branding The “War on Terror“ Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies As competition for oil, water and other resources intensify, global power relationships are shifting, providing backdrops for a string of conflicts from Iraq to Libya. Brazilian-born journalist Pepe Escobar, one of the [...]
Tags: Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin, BRIC, Central Asia, China, Pepe Escobar, Russia, Soviet Union, United State
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December 28, 2011
This page has consistently warned about the expected effect of the drone wars. These monstrous murder machines take the US abilities at 30,000 feet and continue that advantage to ground level. It is at ground level that the US has been extremely poor at instilling its brand of justice and capitalist [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Israel, middle east, Notre Dame Law School, Pakistan, United States
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December 26, 2011
Romney & Obama Agree on Iran: Keep Up Aggression, Impede Peace John Glaser, December 20, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Eli Clifton at ThinkProgress directs us to a recent interview with Mitt Romney on Bill O’Reilly’s show in which Romney’s war rhetoric gets “challenged by an unlikely source”: Interesting. Romney doesn’t really [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Flynt Leverett, Iran, Mitt Romney, Persian Gulf, Romney, Tehran, United States
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December 23, 2011
US soldiers return to their barracks at a military base outside Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. Photograph: Stefan Zaklin/EPA It has been seven years since the end of the second siege of Fallujah – the US assault that left the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians, and displaced hundreds of thousands more; the assault that [...]
Tags: Aggression, Fallujah, Fallujan, First Battle of Fallujah, Iraq, Morality, United States, United States Marine Corps
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December 21, 2011
As the final contingents of U.S. troops withdraw from the Iraqi state that the U.S. created and imposed on the Iraqi people, a familiar narrative is re-emerging in the mainstream corporate press – the 21st century version of the “white man’s burden.” The notoriously anti-Muslim Peter King, whose agenda is to [...]
Tags: Iraq, Iraqi, Iraqi people, Joe Biden, Libya, NATO, Saddam Hussein, United States
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December 19, 2011
Smoldering ruin of a border outpost inside Pakistan attacked by US helicopters. 24 Pakistani soldiers died here and at a second mountaintop outpost in an unprovoked US massacre Shaukat Qadir This past June I posted an article by Anatol Lieven on Facebook. For those who are not familiar with his name, [...]
Tags: Husain Haqqani, Mansoor Ijaz, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani, United States, Zardari
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December 19, 2011
Perhaps the really sad factor in all the discussions about Obama‘s lack of any achievements is the grave likelihood that he never intended to carry out any measure that was part of his electoral platforms and his selling himself to his army of supporters. All the dancing, the tears of Joy as he was elected [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Congress, Guantánamo, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama, United State, War on Terror
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December 8, 2011
The Obama administration provides more foreign aid to Israel than to any other country [GALLO/GETTY] Washington, DC - Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post. Glick, a dual citizen of [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Caroline Glick, Israel, Jerusalem Post, Jews, Leon Panetta, middle east, Obama, Obama administration, United States
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November 29, 2011
Pakistanis have become increasingly angry over US drone attacks that kill civilians, such as 16-year-old Tariq Aziz [EPA] This weekend, Pakistan ordered the closure of the US drone base after a US attack killed 26 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border. This news will be welcomed by the people of Waziristan, where communities have borne [...]
Tags: Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistani, Tariq, Tariq Aziz, United State
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November 24, 2011
Totally Corrupt America by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Last March I reviewed Matt Taibbi’s important book Griftopia, an entertaining account of the through-going financial fraud that gave us the financial crisis. Taibbi shows that the US “superpower” can match any third world backwater in the magnitude of greed and fraud that is endemic in business and government. [...]
Tags: Georgia, Goldman Sachs, Gretchen Morgenson, Griftopia, Matt Taibbi, Paul Craig Roberts, UBS, William J. Brennan Jr
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November 14, 2011
Poverty rates for single mothers in the US was 49 per cent higher than in 15 other weatlhy countries [GALLO/GETTY] We’ve been at war for decades now – not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. [...]
Tags: Brookings Institution, E.P. Thompson, Isabel Sawhill, News program, OWS, Poverty, Poverty in the United States, United States, United States Census Bureau, Wall Street
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November 14, 2011
Colonel Morris Davis, Former Chief Prosecutor Guantanamo Military Commissions. (Photo: Crimes of War) Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: “A Pair of Testicles Fell Off the President After Election Day” Sunday 13 November 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Report Morris Davis speaks bluntly about some of President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. “There’s a pair [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congressional Research Service, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Morris Davis, Obama, USS Cole bombing, White House
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November 13, 2011
Why Defense Debates Are Unbalanced THE SKEPTICS |More Benjamin H. Friedman | November 8, 2011 A reporter asked me the other day why my side of the military budget debate—for slashing spending—has been quiet lately. Given that I have been spending too much time making such arguments, I was slightly annoyed. The conversation was a [...]
Tags: Congress, Democratic Party (United States), Military budget, Military–industrial complex, Pentagon, Republican Party, Tea Party, United States, United States Congress
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November 2, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Africa, Amnesty International, Barack Obama, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Official, Uganda, Ugandan, Ugandan government
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November 1, 2011
Try picking the one that’s different! Obama’s New War in Uganda By DOUG BANDOW on 10.31.11 @ 6:08AM How to explain his formation of his own Afrika Korps? Money burns a hole in the pocket of some people. Power does the same for some presidents. How else to explain President Barack Obama’s creation of his own [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Joseph Kony, Lord Resistance Army, LRA, Uganda, Washington, Yoweri Museveni
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October 28, 2011
Assassinating Children by Jacob G. Hornberger The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that’s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That’s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Jacob G. Hornberger, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, U.S government, United States, Yemen
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October 28, 2011
Drone warfare headqyarters New US Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational by John Glaser, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Craig Whitlock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Obama administration, October 27th 2011, Somalia, United State, United States, Washington Post, Yemen
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October 26, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Great power, John F Kennedy, John Ikenberry, Nikita Khrushchev, Noam Chomsky, Open Veins of Latin America, Osama bin Laden, Soviet, Soviet Union, United State
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October 25, 2011
Princeton University professor and renowned civil rights activist Cornel West was arrested Friday afternoon during a demonstration in Harlem against alleged racial profiling by the New York City Police Department. West joined a protest against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which critics say disproportionately targets people of color. New York City police carried out 600,000 such [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Cornel West, Harlem, Martin Luther King, New York City, New York City Police Department, Obama, Princeton University
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October 25, 2011
I WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND THE WAR WAS OVER By Mike Ferner http://warisacrime.org/content/i-woke-one-morning-and-war-was-over America’s war in Iraq is over. The last U.S. troops will leave by year’s end, “with their heads held high, proud of their success and knowing that the American people stand united in our support for our troops.” So sayeth President Obama. A [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Improvised explosive device, Iraq, Iraq War, Mike Ferner, Obama, United States
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October 20, 2011
How Liberals Buy Into Stupid Wars Richard Cohen’s column in Tuesday’sWashington Post, under the headline “Dangerous behavior from Iran,” deserves scrutiny, and not just to pick on Cohen (although he deserves to be picked on for this kind of work). The column exemplifies several of the types of distorted thinking and non-thinking that were critical [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Cohen, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, middle east, Paul R. Pillar, Richard Cohen, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, United State, United States
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October 19, 2011
A secret US memo authorised the killing of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for his alleged role in an al-Qaeda affiliate [EPA] The United States’ recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen has prompted renewed debate over the CIA’s predator drone programme. That the US government asserts the right to eliminate a terrorism suspect far from [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Awlaki, New York Times, Obama administration, OLC, United States, Yemen
Posted in CIA, civil liberty, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Fascism, Obama, Obama regime, Obama warmonger, Taliban, torture, Torture and Human Rights, Torture and Rumsfeld, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US life and the military, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
October 19, 2011
The FBI Goes Rogue On Iran Back on 1 September 2011 I posted a piece titled America‘s FBI Goes Rogue. The gist of that piece was that the FBI’s Counter Terrorist Unit has transformed itself into an instigator of crime. The Agency’s modus operandi (MO) here reminds one of those carnivorous plants that have [...]
Tags: Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iran, Justice Department, Preet Bharara, Quds Force, United States
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October 18, 2011
Rebecca Solnit, This Land Is Your (Occupied) Land Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 10:13am, October 18, 2011. The other day in my Manhattan neighborhood, a woman passed me in the street. She was obviously headed for a demonstration somewhere in the big city, with a sign tucked sideways under her arm. I could just make out the [...]
Tags: Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street, Rebecca Solnit, SEIU 32BJ, United States, Wall Street, Washington Post, Zuccotti Park
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October 18, 2011
Obama Shrinks Martin Luther King at Memorial Dedication By Matthew Rothschild, October 17, 2011 President Obama gave an eloquent speech at the Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication, but he shrank King to suit his own purposes. He focused on the convenient King—the “I Have a Dream” King—and he touched on King’s commitment to [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, King, Martin Luther King, New York City, Obama, Progressive, Riverside Church, United States
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October 18, 2011
US Deaths in Afghanistan: Obama Doubles Entire Bush-Era Total Figures Show Overwhelming Increase in Military Casualties by Jason Ditz, October 17, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A grim new milestone was reached in the US occupation of Afghanistan this week, as the death toll in less than three years under President Obama has [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bush, George W. Bush, Helmand Province, Iraq, Obama, October 17th 2011, Syria, Taliban, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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October 17, 2011
Dispatch From Activist Arrested for “Assaulting” Leon Panetta During Supposedly Public Hearing LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Civil Liberties headlines via email. A CODEPINK activist shares the story of how she and seven others were arrested last week while trying to bring [...]
Tags: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Code Pink, Congress, Iraq, Leon Panetta, United State, United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States Secretary of Defense
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October 17, 2011
A Movement Too Big to Fail AP / Ted S. Warren Protesters in Seattle melt a Bank of America debit card. By Chris Hedges There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups [...]
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