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 [...]
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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 10, 2012
Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012 Posted by Michael Klare at 9:37am, January 10, 2012. Last week, the president made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to unveil a new strategic plan for U.S. military policy (and so spending) over the next decade. Let’s leave the specifics to a future TomDispatch post and focus instead on a historical footnote: [...]
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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 8, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian Labor Party, David Petraeus, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, United States
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January 8, 2012
Tides of Darkness by Nebojsa Malic, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum January 6, 2012More War in 2012 Last year was supposed to be the one of shattered illusions. From “victories” in Iraq and Afghanistan to the springtime for jihad – not democracy – in the Arab world, the Empire consistently failed to [...]
Tags: iPhone, Iraq War, Libya, McDonald, McDonnell Douglas, Osama bin Laden, Thomas Friedman, United States
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January 8, 2012
British Deploy Navy Warship Into Persian Gulf The military posturing off Iran‘s coast is very dangerous by John Glaser, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This article highlights the stupidity of sabre rattling. It is just not possible to threaten [...]
Tags: Gulf, HMS Daring, Hormuz Strait, Iran, Persian Gulf, Royal Navy, Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, Type 45 destroyer, United States
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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 [...]
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January 5, 2012
Scott Horton Interviews Anthony Gregory Scott Horton, January 01, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum This interview between Scott Horton and Anthony Gregory can be hear at the MP3 referred to, if you can not access that here is the link http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/01/01/anthony-gregory-24/ Anthony Gregory, Research Editor at the Independent Institute, [...]
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December 21, 2011
The Big Lie Marches On We must have an honest accounting of the Iraq War. by Robert C. Koehler The war is over, sort of, but the Big Lie marches on: that democracy is flowering in Iraq, that America is stronger and more secure than ever, that doing what’s right is the [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Big Lie, Iraq, Iraq War, middle east, New York Times, United States, World War II
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December 16, 2011
If you for some reason accept that a war can ever be anything but a criminal action you can as this article does go through an exercise in assessing roles and objectives. Once that has been done even painstakingly what is then left is some supposed evaluation of achievements as opposed to failures of whatever [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Barack Obama, Fallujah, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi security forces, Saddam Hussein, United States
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December 13, 2011
Where is Iran’s nuclear program going? I do not know. By Deepak TripathiA few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East and Cold War history, at the London School of Economics in 2009. His topic was “The Islamic [...]
Tags: BBC World Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Fred Halliday, Iran, Iranian Revolution, London School of Economics, middle east, Tudeh, United States
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December 8, 2011
Libertarianism Is Antiwar by Jacob H. Huebert, December 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum [Chapter 9 of Libertarianism Today by Jacob Huebert. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA.] WHY LIBERTARIANS OPPOSE WAR Libertarianism and war are not compatible. One reason why should be obvious: In war, governments commit legalized mass-murder. In [...]
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December 7, 2011
Once again, war is prime time and journalism’s role is taboo 1 December 2011 On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, David Richards, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, Ministry of Defence, United States, WikiLeaks
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December 5, 2011
A war crimes tribunal in Malaysia offers a devastating critique of international criminal law institutions today. In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, International Criminal Court, Iraq, Iraq War, Kuala Lumpur, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, United States
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December 5, 2011
Since 9/11, Senator Lindsey Graham has said repeatedly that we must fight the terrorists “over there” so we don’t have to fight them “over here.” But this week, Graham threw that all out the window. Apparently, we are now at war everywhere. Forever. Commenting on the controversial Section 1031 of the National Defense Authorization [...]
Tags: Jim Gilmore, Justin Amash, Lindsey Graham, Magna Carta, National Defense Authorization Act, Rand Paul, United State, United States nationality law
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November 28, 2011
A tribunal in Malaysia’s capital found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes in Iraq [GALLO/GETTY]War Crimes never receive the attention of what may be called the usual criminal activity. Even the attempted proceedings at Nuremberg ended up a whitewash of the Allied crimes during what was termed the Second World War. Far from [...]
Tags: Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tony Blair, War crime
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November 27, 2011
Still Pushing the Failed Militaristic Approach to the Drug War John Glaser, November 18, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Via Juan Carlos Hidalgo at the blog for the Cato Institute, this graph illustrates how Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s militarized approach to the drug war not only didn’t quell the violence, but reversed the [...]
Tags: Cato Institute, Drug Enforcement Administration, drug war, Felipe Calderón, George W. Bush, Guatemala, Human Rights Watch, Mexico, Otto Pérez Molina, United State, United States
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November 26, 2011
When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with David Swanson AlterNet / By Bruce E. Levine For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal. David Swanson’s recently released book, When the World Outlawed War, tells the story of [...]
Tags: David Swanson, Iraq, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Kellogg–Briand Pact, United State, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, World War II
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November 24, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (Credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File) Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Michael Bloomberg, New York, September 11 2001, Terrorism, United States, United States Armed Forces
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November 16, 2011
Arms Sales to Asia and the Gulf Vital to US Corporations Amid talk of budget cuts in America and Europe, US military contractors look to exports, with the Pentagon’s help by John Glaser, November 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon’s plan to sell 5,000 bunker-buster [...]
Tags: Asia, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirate, United States
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November 15, 2011
One Veteran’s Rough Path from Killing and Torturing to Peace By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/one-veterans-rough-path-killing-and-torturing-peace Not yet 30, Evan Knappenberger has already lived several lives. His story destroys the U.S. government’s case against whistleblower Bradley Manning, exposes the toxic mix of fraud and incompetence that creates U.S. war policies, and highlights the damage [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, David Swanson, Donald Rumsfeld, Fort Huachuca, Iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Iraqi Army, United States
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November 14, 2011
Write text here… Related articles As Obama Talks Sanctions With Foreign Leaders, Lawmakers, Candidates Debate … – Fox News (foxnews.com) European shares gain further on euro zone hopes – Reuters (reuters.com) Showdown between Occupy Portland, police – CBS News (cbsnews.com) Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes – New York Times (nytimes.com) Cain [...]
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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 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 [...]
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November 10, 2011
The Virginia landfill where Air Force corpses were dumped Slain Troops Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits Insists Landfill Burials Were Limited to When Family Told Military to Dispose of Them by Jason Ditz, November 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum One day after the Office of Special Counsel’s report on the “gross [...]
Tags: Air Force, Dover Air Force Base, Jones, Leon Panetta, United States, United States Office of Special Counsel, United States Secretary of Defense, Virginia
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November 7, 2011
There seems little doubt that what happened prior to the Iraq invasion is set to repeat. It will not surprise to see the sam lies and deceit all over again. However, this time with hope we will be spared the sight of Powell, the prince of liars, with fake maps and vials of non-existent [...]
Tags: Ali Akbar Salehi, Gaza Strip, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saudi Arabia, Shimon Peres, United States
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October 30, 2011
A 2009 nuclear missile test in North Korea: the country’s latest Musudan missile is capable of reaching targets in Japan and Guam. Photograph: Kcna/AFP/Getty Images US to spend £700bn in next decade while Russia and Pakistan among those assigning roles to weapons beyond deterrence reddit this Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 October 2011 20.48 GMT [...]
Tags: British American Security Information Council, India, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Malcolm Rifkind, Menzies Campbell, Pakistan, Russia, United States
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October 30, 2011
A Nuke Too Far? Jason Ditz, October 27, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When you’re shilling for a war in Iran as regularly as the Washington Times does, you’re constantly making up allegations centering around what anonymous officials totally bet is the case. That and hiring artists to make caricatures of an Ayatollah [...]
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October 28, 2011
Uruguay lawmakers revoke Dirty War amnesty AP – Nun Sor Genevieve Jeanningros, from France, niece of missing French nun Sor Leonie Duquet, looks on as … By RAUL O. GARCES, Associated Press – Thu Oct 27, 10:40 am ET MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Uruguay’s Congress revoked amnesty for military officials charged with human rights abuses on Thursday, ending a deal between left and right [...]
Tags: Alfredo Astiz, Argentina, Associated Press, Congress, ESMA, José Mujica, Tupamaro, Uruguay
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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
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
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 [...]
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
United States needs to reevaluate its assistance to Israel By Walter Pincus, Published: October 18 As the country reviews its spending on defense and foreign assistance, it is time to examine the funding the United States provides to Israel. Let me put it another way: Nine days ago, the Israeli cabinet reacted to months of demonstrations against the [...]
Tags: Ellen Tauscher, George W. Bush, Iron Dome, Israel, middle east, United States, Walter Pincus, WikiLeaks
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October 18, 2011
America’s Foreign Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger President Obama’s reaction to the alleged Iranian assassination plot reflects, once again, the dictatorial powers that the president of the United States now wields in foreign affairs. As many commentators are noting, the whole scheme appears to be as bogus as a 3-dollar bill, but that isn’t really [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 16, 2011
US to field deadlier missile in war againt al Qaeda 14 Oct 2011 19:38 Source: Reuters // Reuters * US Army hopes to deploy new Hellfire version soon * “One missile for many missions,” manufacturer says * Combines killing capabilities of all previous models By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A precision-strike [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Central Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Saudi Arabia, United States, United States Army, Yemen
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October 15, 2011
Obama Invades Uganda, Only the Latest Intervention Against LRA John Glaser, October 14, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The wars are piling up for the Nobel Prize winner, war-monger-in-chief. By arbitrary presidential decree, Obama has involved America in another war without asking for approval from Congress and without even giving an explanation as to how [...]
Tags: Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lord Resistance Army, LRA, Uganda, United States, United States Africa Command
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October 15, 2011
War Breeds War, Peace Breeds Prosperity by Lee Wrights, October 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the [...]
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October 12, 2011
Video: Ray McGovern Reflects on the Horrors of War By BillyClub - Posted on 10 October 2011 Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27-years, who turned political activist. A native of the Bronx and graduate of Fordham, he is a strong critic of U.S. wars. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, I caught up with him, (he’s also [...]
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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 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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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 19, 2011
Muqtada al-Sadr has laid out three demands with the help of a massive demonstration [EPA] Imagine Dick Cheney’s reaction when confronted with this bit of information. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a certified Iraqi nationalist leader and the country’s de facto kingmaker, has just called for the end of any “armed resistance” against US “invader” forces [...]
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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 8, 2011
Quick military ‘victories’ in Afghanistan and Iraq soon proved to be illusory [EPA] The imperial delusions of the United States Almost ten years after the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy remains aggressive and unrealistic. Robert Jensen Last Modified: 07 Sep 2011 12:47 Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, middle east, Osama bin Laden, Robert Gates, Robert Jensen, September 11 attacks, United State, United States, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
Posted in Uncategorized, War, War and economics, War child victims, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed | No Comments »
August 31, 2011
Us or the war machine To publish only with credit and link to The Cavalier Daily http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/31/us-or-the-war-machine An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting By David Swanson, Guest Viewpoint on August 31, 2011 Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington [...]
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Posted in 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 and economics, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on Islam and Muslims, War on terror | No Comments »
