Photo Credit: Shutterstock Will Latin American Leaders Wake Up The U.S. And Revolutionize Drug Policy? Latin Americans realize they are bearing the brunt of a war that has been imposed on them, and are increasingly eager to assert their independence. The so-called War on Drugs has been going on for over 40 years, but despite [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the wake of the cross-border strike, Pakistan shut down a US air base in Balochistan and halted NATO supplies [AFP] Pakistan’s army has rejected a US military report that claimed that NATO cross-border air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November were regrettable but justified. In a detailed report released on Monday, Pakistan’s [...]
A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire by Sheldon Richman, January 20, 2012 The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories [...]
Top Iran General Threatens Retaliation Over Scientist Killing Warns US, Britain and Israel Will All Be ‘Held Accountable’ by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an interview with the Iranian state media this weekend, Iran’s Deputy Joint Chiefs [...]
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 [...]
Piss on War by Abby Zimet Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghans “utterly deplorable”; a Marine commander calls it “wholly inconsistent with the high standards of conduct and warrior ethos that we have demonstrated throughout our history.” But Gawker‘s Hamilton Nolan calls it a crock. In a furious screed, he blasts [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New US Strategy in Asia is Just Old US Hegemony by John Glaser, January 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama administration has announced a new defense strategy for the country based on slightly slimmer armed forces, more drones and special ops, and a renewed focus on Asia-Pacific due to China’s supposed military build-up. [...]
Meir Dagan, head of Mossad at the time Israel Framed CIA in Backing Jundallah Terrorists Memos: Mossad Agents With US Passports, US Dollars Recruited Terror Group by Jason Ditz, January 13, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The 2007 revelation by ABC News that the Bush Administration was covertly backing the Jundallah terrorist organization in an effort to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Report: US Likely to Resume Pakistan Drone Strikes Soon Attacks Killed 609 in 2011, Only Three ‘Commanders‘ by Jason Ditz, January 09, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Reports coming out of the Express Tribune tonight say that the United States is close to [...]
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 [...]
The US military plans to triple the number of Afghan police by the end of 2013. Photograph: Stringer/EPA US reliance on Afghan paramilitaries in rural areas worries European allies Britain wonders if local police force can keep stability, while Germans argue the units are not easy to control A split between the US and its [...]
Ali Kinani, only nine years old at the time, was among the victims in the 2007 killings in Nisoor Square.The Charlotte Observer reports: Blackwater Settles Iraq Killings in Two Separate Legal Cases The mercenary company formely known as Blackwater has settled two separate wrongful death cases stemming from its notorious operations during the [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Obama Spins ‘New’ Global Military Strategy as Massive Change ‘Leaner’ Military Will Keep Costing More by Jason Ditz, January 05, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama held a high-profile press conference at the Pentagon briefing room today to dot the I’s and cross [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Obama’s Weapons Welfare to Tyrannies Gets Applause John Glaser, January 03, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum I wrote last week about the Obama administration’s $11 billion deal to send Iraq military arms and equipment, despite the descent into tyranny of the Maliki government. That same day, it was announced that the Obama administration [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Report: Israel, US Discuss Excuses for Attacking Iran Israeli Hawks ‘Furious’ at Panetta for Comments on War by Jason Ditz, December 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A report today is claiming that the Obama Administration is in secret talks with the Israeli government to figure out [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Photos Released of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/60240 Every American should read this letter: December 18, 2007 To: Mr. Randy Waddle, Assistant Inspector General, Ft Carson, Colorado CC: LTC John Shawkins, Inspector General, Ft Carson, Colorado Major General Mark Graham, Commanding Officer, Ft Carson, [...]
The U.S. Government Loved the Iraqi People to Death by Jacob G. Hornberger Now that the 9-year military occupation of Iraq is presumably coming to an end, it would be appropriate to reflect on the Iraqi people who died as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of the country. [...]
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 [...]
The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US By davidswanson - Posted on 06 December 2011 By Robert Johnson, Business Insider The US military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much [...]
Deadly Attack on Pakistani Base Due to U.S. “Errors” A Pakistani official has claimed that U.S. officers gave the wrong coordinates when seeking permission to engage by John Glaser, December 03, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The unprovoked U.S. attack on a Pakistani military border post last week occurred due to “errors” by U.S. [...]
Occupy Foreign Affairs It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he writes, is undermining democracy. Progressives have been hammering home this message for years if not decades. Nor is the choice of publication necessarily a shocker. Foreign Affairs is the flagship publication of the elite that runs American foreign policy. [...]
Pakistani flags cover the coffins of soldiers killed in the Nato border attack on Saturday. Photograph: Reuters Pakistan orders US to leave airbase in row over deadly Nato assault Islamabad says US must leave Shamsi base in 15 days after deaths of at least 24 Pakistani soldiers in mistaken attack reddit this Saeed Shah in [...]
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. [...]
The Nurenberg trials allowed the US to try germans without reflecting on their own warfare [GALLO/GETTY] Princeton, NJ – Ever since German and Japanese surviving leaders were prosecuted after World War II at Nuremberg and Tokyo, there has been a wide abyss separating the drive for criminal accountability on the part of those who commit [...]
U.S. Army Tests Secret Hypersonic Weapon Published November 17, 2011 | TechMediaNetwork Print Email Share Comments DARPA The DARPA Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV)-2, one of several hypersonic test projects underway by various U.S. military agencies. The U.S. Army’s hypersonic weapon prototype streaked across the Pacific Ocean at several times the speed [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
