February 25, 2012
Activists protest against Monstanto, which has settled with US victims of ‘Agent Orange‘. Photograph: Nigel Treblin/AFP/Getty Images Monsanto settles ‘Agent Orange’ case with US victims Long-running suit claimed residents of Nitro, West Virginia were exposed to the carcinogenic Vietnam-era chemical weapon Chemicals giant Monsanto has reached a settlement with US residents who claimed they were [...]
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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 [...]
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January 7, 2012
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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 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 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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 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 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 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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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, [...]
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August 31, 2011
US has wasted $30bn on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds An Iraqi worker cleans raw sewage at Rustumiya ruined sewage plant. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says change needed to avoid similar waste in future reddit this Peter Walker guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 August 2011 11.52 [...]
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August 31, 2011
Obama Cheers ‘Successes’ of a Decade of War Praises ’9/11 Generation’ for ‘Extraordinary Decade of Service’ by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today to the American Legion, President Barack Obama praised what he dubbed the “9/11 generation,” insisting that they had provided an “extraordinary decade of service” [...]
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August 31, 2011
August: Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan Civilian Deaths Go Uncounted as Ever by Jeremy Sapienza, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum We thought July was deadly in Afghanistan. But August was already showing its deadly side by mid-month, after the Taliban shot down a US helicopter and bombings, shootings, and [...]
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August 30, 2011
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
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August 29, 2011
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love warby David Sirota, Published: August 27 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist [...]
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August 29, 2011
dick be in chains Cheney: Bush Leaked Iraq Strategy Debate Slams Bush for Doing ‘Disservice’ to Troops by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest in a number of revelations coming out of his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that a 2007 leak to [...]
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August 25, 2011
Speaking a message of peace at a Swedenborgian chapel By davidswanson - Posted on 24 August 2011 From LA Quaker This Sunday at 10 AM I will be giving a message at Wayfarers’ Chapel, a beautiful all-glass church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright‘s son, in Palos Verde. It’s one of the most beautiful spiritual venues I’ve ever seen, with [...]
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August 24, 2011
Will Obama Denounce MLK as Memorial Dedicated? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/3371 That sounds like a crazy question, doesn’t it? Why would President Obama denounce Martin Luther King, Jr.? Well, the reason I ask is that he’s done it before. Really? But surely he wouldn’t do it on such a solemn occasion? Well, the time [...]
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August 21, 2011
Obama bans war criminals, except our own Nat Hentoff Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:00 am | Updated: 8:30 am, Fri Aug 19, 2011. BY NAT HENTOFF | 0 comments Judgment day for U.S. torture chiefs – Part I By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators [...]
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
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August 16, 2011
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan August 10th, 2011 | by Chris Woods | Published in All Stories, Covert Drone War, Drones carousel | 3 Comments CIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau. More than 160 children are [...]
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August 16, 2011
Chris Hellman, The Pentagon‘s Spending Spree Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to offer for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has [...]
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August 7, 2011
Afghanistan‘s innocent victims U.S. drone strikes continue to leave a trail of devastated families and communities in their wake Share Comments 1 By Mary Meehan12:56 p.m. EDT, August 4, 2011 I used to think of Vice President Joseph Biden as a nice guy. Good old Joe. Down-to-earth, nice sense of humor, great family man. But last year [...]
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August 6, 2011
Between 100,000 and 200,000 Japanese were killed either during the bombing or afterwards in the radioactive fallout. (Photo: Getty Images) How did Americans learn to stop worrying and love the bomb? Sixty-six years after the devastation of Hiroshima, it’s a question that historians and politicians are still debating. But as former U.S. Secretary of the [...]
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August 5, 2011
Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58709 On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast [...]
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July 30, 2011
John McCain: Ever Confused, Always for War Posted by Doug Bandow Sen. John McCain has exhibited personal courage, but his geopolitical judgment is uniformly awful. Over the last 30 years there has been no war or potential war that he has opposed. In 2008 he wanted to confront nuclear-armed Russia over its neighbor Georgia, [...]
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July 29, 2011
War Is a Racket SHARE 6 U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Adam J. Root KBR subcontractors work on a project at Camp Fallujah in Iraq in 2008. By Amy Goodman “War is a racket,” wrote retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short [...]
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
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July 26, 2011
Goldman Sachs: US Faces Credit ‘Downgrade’ if it Counts Eventual End of War as ‘Deficit Reduction’ Claiming Wars Will End Sooner or Later Not a Real Savings by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Senate Democrats have issued a new “savings” plan that would nominally pare the projected [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Associated Press, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Nick Pope, Tripoli, United State, Zlitan, Zliten
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July 25, 2011
Afghanistan War Weekly: July 25, 2011 By davidswanson - Posted on 25 July 2011 This week, there were several reports of corruption and mismanagement of government funds, including the discovery that the Taliban was indirectly receiving US funds intended for transportation contracts. There were also conflicting reports regarding the death of Mullah Omar, who the Taliban also said [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Haqqani network, Lashkar Gah, Mohammed Omar, NATO, Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, Taliban, United States
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July 24, 2011
War Fatigue and the Uncritical Critics of War by Hannah Gurman, July 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya, the first decade of the 21st century has solidified the U.S. reputation as the energizer bunny of war. While these conflicts continue to rage on, there are a [...]
Tags: Demography of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iraq War, Libya, middle east, Osama BinLaden, Politics of Afghanistan, Robert Gates, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, New York Times, President of Afghanistan, Tom Engelhardt, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, Washington Post
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Afghanistan opium, Afghanistan security forces, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Peace Movement, Pentagon, people's protests, Political psychopaths, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, torture, Torture and Human Rights, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War child victims, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War no reason needed | No Comments »
July 21, 2011
1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War — And Why We Let Them Most Americans turn a blind eye to the violent acts being carried out in their name. July 19, 2011 | An Iraqi policeman walks past destroyed cars at the site of a blast [...]
Tags: Iraq, Iraq Body Count, Iraq War, Iraqi Army, Presidency of George W. Bush, Richard Miniter, Saddam Hussein, The New York Times
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July 20, 2011
War Without Humans Modern Blood Rites Revisited By Barbara Ehrenreich For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon — honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth — it might be useful to stop thinking [...]
Tags: Barbara Ehrenreich, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Human, Iraq, Iraq War, Pentagon, September 11 attacks, United State, World Trade Center, World War II
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July 20, 2011
Lying About Civilian Casualties in Drone War John Glaser, July 19, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Apparently John Brennan, President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor, told the public last month that zero (that’s right, zero) civilian casualties have occurred as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. For anyone reading Antiwar.com on [...]
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, Civilian casualties, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Pakistan, South Waziristan, United States
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July 14, 2011
Afghanistan: Leaving as Tragic as Staying by Kelley B. Vlahos, July 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “What do we care?” That’s what Bing West, former assistant secretary of defense and Vietnam veteran, exclaimed when it was suggested that Afghanistan might slip “back into warlordism” if the U.S. military stopped focusing on [...]
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