March 5, 2012
Perhaps the luckiest people on the planet are those in the US and those who follow their lead in creating imperial hegemony. The level of war crimes committed by people like Clinton, Obama, Blair. Howard and more recently Gillard here in Australia would see any person not so close to the elites struggling to defend [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Bill Van Auken, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Homs, International Criminal Court, Iraq, middle east, Syria, United State, War crime
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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 [...]
Tags: Agent Orange, Monsanto, Nitro, nitro west virginia, Scott Partridge, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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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 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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December 27, 2011
Portrait of an American “Hero”, A Soldier’s Story By JoAnn Wypijewski from the editors…. Fort Hood, outside Killeen, Texas, is the largest military base in the world, 214,000 acres. Today it’s home to around 40,000 soldiers. It’s where thirteen were killed, thirty wounded in 2009, with Major Hasan charged as the shooter. [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, Charles Graner, Christmas, Fort Hood, Iraq, Kuwait, Lynndie England, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Texas, 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 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
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 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 21, 2011
It is interesting to note the outrage expressed at the Khmer Rouge on trial at the moment. There is no doubt that what they did in Cambodia was simply despicable and deserves the roundest condemnation. Pol Pot and Year Zero were evil manifestations of authoritarianism at its worst. The fact that something like [...]
Tags: Cambodia, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Khmer Rouge, Laos, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Arts, Currency union, Facebook, International Federation for Human Rights, Literature, Richard Blumenthal, World Literature
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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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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 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 [...]
Tags: China, Great Depression, Libya, Randolph Bourne, September 11 2001, Thomas Jefferson, United States, World War II
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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, [...]
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
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Center for Public Integrity, Chris Shays, Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq, Politics of Afghanistan, United States, United States National Security Council, Washington Post
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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 31, 2011
Afghan Taliban Predict Imminent Victory In Statement NATO Isn’t the Only One That Thinks They’re About to Win by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new formal statement released Monday and signed by former Afghan ruler Mullah Omar predicts “imminent victory” for the Taliban inside Afghanistan, insisting that [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: David Sirota, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kelly McGillis, Osama bin Laden, Pentagon, Ronald Reagan, United States, White House
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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 29, 2011
Ron Paul’s Best Week by Kelley B. Vlahos, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Campaign season’s here and the time is right, for bombast in the street. Right here on Main Street, USA, every day, they’re bloviating in the street. Invoking Martha & the Vandellas might be fun, but the prospect of [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Activism and Peace Work, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Church, Frank Lloyd Wright, Peace, Religious Society of Friends, United Nations, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World Special 75th Anniversary Edition (Martin Luther King Jr. born January 15 1929), Martin Luther King, National Mall, Nobel Peace Prize, United States, Washington DC, World War II
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August 23, 2011
Why did Japan surrender? (Keystone/Getty Images)General Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, accepted the unconditional surrender document signed by the Japanese. Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war. By Gareth CookAugust 7, 2011 E-mail| Print| Reprints| Comments (275) Text size – + [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Geneva Convention, George W. Bush, Presidency of George W. Bush, United Nations Convention Against Torture, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Chris Woods, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Iain Overton, List of diplomatic missions in Pakistan, Non-governmental organization, Pakistan, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Leon Panetta, Military budget, National Priorities Project, National security, Osama BinLaden, Pentagon, United State, United States Armed Forces
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August 13, 2011
Imperialist Freedom by Martin Morse Wooster, Posted August 11, 2011 Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz by Richard H, Immerman. (Princeton University Press; 237 pages); $24.95. There are many reasons to be angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but perhaps the most teeth-grating moments of [...]
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August 9, 2011
Rep. Frank: Military Spending ‘Biggest Reason’ for US Downgrade Senior Dem on Finance Committee Vows to Focus on Military Cuts by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Rep. Barney Frank (D – MA) confirmed that he sees military spending as the “biggest [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Harry S Truman, Hiroshima, History, Japan, Soviet Union, Surrender of Japan, United States, William D. Leahy, World War II
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July 30, 2011
You may find the following NY Times article of interest. In many ways it demonstrates via an announcement from one of the security frenzied people that infest the secretive world of war and combat, the lack of awareness of who the enemy, if there is one may be. It all starts from the imperial project’s [...]
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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, [...]
Tags: Cold War, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Libya, Lindsey Graham, Muammar al-Gaddafi, United States, WikiLeaks
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July 30, 2011
ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt. Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Dennis C. Blair, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Somalia, United States, Yemen
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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 [...]
Tags: Fox News Channel, George W. Bush, Gulf Daily News, Reel Bad Arabs, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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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 25, 2011
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Barack Obama, Chris Harman, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Howard Zinn, Joe Biden, Ryan Crocker, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Posted in Afghan funds, Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Afghanistan opium, Afghanistan security forces, Afghanistan withdrawing, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia the true friend downunder, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian War Crimes, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Political psychopaths, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on terror | No Comments »
July 25, 2011
Pentagon: New Iraq Troop Deal Needed ASAP Insists More Time Needed to Extend ‘Support Contracts’ by Jason Ditz, July 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though on many occasions the Iraqi government has appeared to be on the verge of grudgingly acquiescing to the repeated demands, so far they have not approved [...]
Tags: Council of Representatives of Iraq, Iraq, Libya, Norway, Pentagon, Politics of Iraq, Status of Forces Agreement, United States Armed Forces
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July 24, 2011
The imperial project as we have seen it unfold on the part of the US and other countries around the world has always come hand in hand with the destruction of any and all existing free, democratic or libertarian institutions that exist in the target countries. In order to strip these countries of the resources [...]
Tags: Chalmers Johnson, Max Boot, middle east, Noam Chomsky, Oxford University Press, Robert Kagan, Thomas Dunne Books, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World Trade Center
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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)
Posted in US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, War, War and economics, War child victims, War Chomsky views, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror | No Comments »
July 21, 2011
Panic as US Warplanes Attack Southern Iraq Two Days of Live Ammo Raids Have Locals Scared, Puzzled by Jason Ditz, July 20, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest indication yet that the Obama Administration’s much vaunted “end” to the war in Iraq last year was entirely illusory, reports are pouring in [...]
Tags: Amara, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi security forces, Libya, Pakistan, United State, United States Armed Forces, Yemen
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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 21, 2011
US Aid May be Fueling Afghan Insurgency Karzai government and banking sector hamper anti-corruption efforts by John Glaser, July 20, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The billions of dollars of American aid flowing into Afghanistan every year may be inadvertently fueling the insurgency and the corruption rampant within the government and [...]
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