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 [...]
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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 [...]
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January 14, 2012
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 [...]
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January 11, 2012
Only 6 Guantanamo prisoners have been tried before a military commission [ACLU] New York, New York - This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first prisoner arriving at Guantanamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in US history. Guantanamo has been a catastrophic failure on every front. It has long been past the time [...]
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January 11, 2012
Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment By James Cogan 10 January 2012 The crisis besetting the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan has been deepened over recent days. Its own puppet government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has publicly accused the American military of torture and arbitrary detention at the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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December 26, 2011
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse(New York University Press, 2011) is a treatise which, through detailed essays, recollections, evidence and testimonies, explores the subject of torture through three main sections – the history of US torture, the torture of prisoners in custody, and accountability for [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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November 14, 2011
Will Dick Cheney Be Arrested on Wednesday? http://warisacrime.org/content/will-dick-cheney-be-arrested-wednesday I’ve just sent this letter by email. To: Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Dave Norris, Police Chief Timothy Longo From: David Swanson I hope you will consider this request from a deeply concerned citizen on its legal merits rather than its acceptability in certain social circles [...]
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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 30, 2011
A shackled detainee is taken from a vehicle for interrogation at Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo base in Cuba in 2006. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP Ten years on from its creation, calls are mounting from legal and human rights experts for closure of the ‘torture’ centre on Cuba reddit this Ed Vulliamy in New York [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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October 20, 2011
Police in British Columbia have taken extra security measures ahead of today’s visit by former President George W. Bush, who is set to speak at an economic summit. The security is to handle hundreds of protesters, but Amnesty International has also called on the Canadian government to arrest Bush and either prosecute or extradite him [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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October 15, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Ten years after 9/11, detention policies in the U.S. are facing increasing scrutiny both here and abroad. A terrorism trial set to begin later this month is already attracting international attention. American citizen Tarek Mehanna is set to face charges of “conspiring to support terrorism” and “providing material support to terrorists.” Mehanna is accused [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Boston, Gareth Peirce, Massachusetts, Providing material support for terrorism, Tarek, United States, Yemen
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October 14, 2011
Why Did the United States Invade Afghanistan? by Tim Kelly, October 12, 2012 The tenth anniversary of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan came and went with very little attention from the mainstream media. U.S. policymakers are nevertheless confronted with many questions regarding that conflict, such as its affordability, the effectiveness of various strategies, and [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Colin Powell, Laden, Osama bin Laden, September 11 attacks, Taliban, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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October 12, 2011
– Posted on 11 October 2011 Obama’s Depression – by Stephen Lendman Chosen to serve power, not popular interests, Obama wrecked America‘s economy to save giant Wall Street banks. He’s still doing it, despite claiming he’s been out in front doing all he can. By bailing out too-big-to-fail banks and waging multiple imperial wars, [...]
Tags: Credit crunch, Great Depression, Japan, Main Street, Microsoft Office, Obama, Rosenberg, Stephen Lendman, United State, Wall Street
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October 11, 2011
Ten years ago, the U.S. launched a war against Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world. This past weekend, activists from Occupy DC, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Peace Action, and many more came together to remember that day. We also remembered the first mobilization of our then-new anti-war movement, a New York [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Mahmoud Abbas, NATO, New York City, Peace Action, United Nations, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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October 10, 2011
Many Americans are drowning in debt and unable to afford both daily costs and credit card payments [GALLO/GETTY] Occupy Wall Street through Egyptian eyes One Egyptian food cart vendor in New York city typifies average American woes – deep in debt with no way out. Zayd Sifri Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:05 [...]
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October 10, 2011
It seems that the message is getting through. All the lies about keeping the economy going simply mean keeping the elites in unbelievable profit positions and making the people pay. The propaganda campaign conducted by all the capitalist economies where every last cent is wrenched from the wealth creating people and put into the pockets [...]
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October 7, 2011
Romney: Rebuild defense, add 100,000 troops By Bruce SmithAssociated Press / October 6, 2011 E-mail| Print| Comments (1) Text size – + MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday America must not economize on security but rather strengthen national defense by rebuilding the Navy and Air Force and adding 100,000 active duty personnel. Tweet Be the first [...]
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October 6, 2011
Veterans for Peace Denounces Obama’s Assassination Policy Eric Garris, October 04, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum From Veterans for Peace: As of September 29, 2011, we are only one step away from a government where the top official can kill anybody, anywhere, any time he feels it necessary – and do it in [...]
Tags: al-Qaida, Anwar al-Awlaki, George W. Bush, Obama, Obama administration, Osama bin Laden, United States, Yemen
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October 6, 2011
US gains in Afghanistan fragile, uncertain What has been gained in Afghanistan a decade after the US invaded the country as part of Bush’s ‘war on terror’? D. Parvaz Last Modified: 05 Oct 2011 17:37 Most Americans – indeed, most of the western world – are done with memorialising the anniversary of the September 11 [...]
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October 4, 2011
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans OCT 3 2011, 9:10 AM ET 1024 The Department of Justice produced it prior to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But they won’t release it. Outside the U.S. government, President Obama’s order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has [...]
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September 29, 2011
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine” Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. David E. Alvarado / isafmedia) Monday 26 September 2011 by: Gareth Porter, Truthout [...]
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September 27, 2011
Are We At War With Pakistan? Seems like it… by Justin Raimondo, September 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In the days before the Empire, generals – particularly Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs – kept their mouths shut. The Founders’ justified fears of military intrusion into the political realm were still present in the American [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Haqqani network, Inter-Services Intelligence, Justin Raimondo, Kabul, Pakistan, Pakistan government, Quetta Shura, United States
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September 27, 2011
Quintessentially Authoritarian Foreign Policy John Glaser, September 26, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Reuters: Pakistan’s military will not take action against the Haqqani militant group that Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. …The Pakistani commanders [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Express Tribune, Haqqani, Haqqani network, Kabul, North Waziristan, Pakistan, United States
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September 27, 2011
The Senate stayed in session later than planned to strike the deal [AFP] US Senate averts government shutdown Legislators strike deal to allow government to continue operations while also providing aid to victims of disasters. The US Senate has reached a deal to avert a government shutdown and make billions of dollars of aid available to [...]
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September 21, 2011
What follows is a Summary provided by the US Government Accountability Office of expenditure in Afghanistan by the US and ‘other donors’. Of course the US would have us all believe that this money was spent on the well being and future development of Afghanistan. It would on those grounds have nothing to do [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Government Accountability Office, Politics of Afghanistan, Shukria Barakzai, Taliban, United States
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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 20, 2011
Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion? Fundamentalist religion plays a big role in today’s Republican party–but has it gone even further, spreading dangerous beliefs as articles of faith? September 15, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism – a go-slow approach to governing that [...]
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September 19, 2011
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace Illustration by Mr. Fish Enlarge this image. By Chris Hedges Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendered the last shreds of his integrity. [...]
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September 16, 2011
The anthrax scare: not a germ of truth US Marines in biological warfare suits during an exercise at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Photograph: Kenneth Lambert/AP Ten years on, the anthrax attacks seem a footnote to 9/11. But we forget how George Bush used them to push for war in Iraq reddit this [...]
Tags: 2001 anthrax attacks, Anthrax, Colin Powell, Gulf War, Iraq, Iraq War, New York Post, Presidency of George W. Bush, R. James Woolsey Jr., Robert Stevens, Saddam Hussein, Tom Daschle, United Nations, United States
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September 15, 2011
Liberticidal anti-terror laws must go’ International rights advocacy group says laws used pretext of fighting “terror” to legalise discrimination and torture. Asad Hashim Last Modified: 09 Sep 2011 20:32 Baudouin, left, says his group is afraid it will be difficult to undo what has been done in the past decade [FIDH] As the United States positioned [...]
Tags: Advocacy group, Anti-terrorism legislation, Human rights, middle east, Philippines, September 11 2001, September 11 attacks, United Nations, United States, USA PATRIOT Act, War on Terrorism, Warfare and Conflict
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September 13, 2011
US embassy in Kabul under attack – live updates Smoke rises from buildings during an on-going attack in Kabul city centre. Photograph: Daud Yardost/AFP/Getty Images Rockets are being fired at the US embassy in Kabul, say police in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibliity and says the attackers are armed with rocket-propelled grenades, [...]
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September 1, 2011
Senator Mark Udall, above, and Senator Ron Wyden have warned Americans that their government is spying on them [EPA] The rise of government surveillance is a troublesome legacy of the September 11 attacks. Today, video cameras are visible everywhere in public places, recording people’s every move. But what about spying that can’t be spotted? Ten [...]
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September 1, 2011
Cheney’s Kettle Logic By David Swanson http://www.democrats.com/cheneys-kettle-logic Sigmund Freud once mentioned the defense offered by a man who was accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first place, he had returned the kettle undamaged; in the second place it already had holes in it when he borrowed [...]
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September 1, 2011
How US firms profited from torture flights Court documents show how a network of US private companies profited from rendition operations. Photograph: Alamy Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies reddit this Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 31 August 2011 21.20 BST Article history The [...]
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