It’s time we recognised the Blair government’s criminality 16 February 2012 In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
US Steps Outside the Law as the War on Terror Drones On The use of unmanned aircraft belies America’s rhetoric about its values. By Justin Randle January 24, 2012 “SMH” — The CIA recently launched its first drone attack of 2012. Three people in North Waziristan were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Billions in Military Dollars Disappear Into Black Hole Quest for the ‘Perfect Radio’ Continues With No Serious Progress by Jason Ditz, January 10, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The US military spends hundreds of billions of dollars on “new” technology for the American war machine, [...]
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We learned today that Britain sends its best warships to the Gulf. Britain’s newest warship is heading to the Gulf for its first mission at a time of tensions over Iran‘s threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key transport route for oil. The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS [...]
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 [...]
How Washington Lies About Cutting Defense Budgets John Glaser, January 04, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum At Reason‘s Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
The evidence mounts up to the effect that all war is a crime. It is no stretch of the imagination or torture of what we know and perceive to reach that firm conclusion. The damage done is enormous which is why to an extent talking of money costs not only [...]
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 [...]
Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan Posted: 12/20/11 04:16 PM ET Sign Up Submit this story Shouldn’t Americans of every faith tradition band together to stop the war on Christmas? Let us call on President Obama to announce that on Dec. 24th and 25, the United States will [...]
Secret Wars and the Rule of Law by Tim Kelly, December 21, 2011 The president of the United States now wages secret wars virtually independent of Congress and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Earlier this month, the White House issued several findings authorizing U.S. intelligence services to carry [...]
Journalist Joshua Phillips. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Torture’s Other Victims: US Soldiers Wednesday 21 December 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview link to video http://www.truth-out.org/tortures-other-victims/1322783647 The Iraq war isn’t over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Some of these men and women [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers By: Robert Greenwald Thursday October 27, 2011 1:08 pm There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs. If you’ve been following the War Costs campaign, you already know that [...]
U.S. budget cuts and the next war of choice By BENNETT RAMBERG LOS ANGELES — The failure of the U.S. Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to reach agreement on budget cuts now sets the stage for $1.2 trillion in automatic reductions to begin in January 2013. Should these cuts go [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lawyers’ harangues against US over strike Our Staff Reporter | Metropolitan > Lahore | Yesterday LAHORE, Dec 1: Legal fraternity on Thursday staged a rally against unprovoked air strikes by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) targeting Pakistan army posts in Mohmand Agency and demanded the army should avenge the killing of 24 troops during the [...]
A series of prosecutions have been mounted against British military personnel accused of causing civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Photograph: Ahmad Jamshid/AP British soldier fired for stabbing Afghan boy Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook jailed and dismissed from the army after bayoneting boy, 10, in kidneys for no reason reddit this Nooruddin Bakhshi, Rob Evans, Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon [...]
Pakistanis have become increasingly angry over US drone attacks that kill civilians, such as 16-year-old Tariq Aziz [EPA] This weekend, Pakistan ordered the closure of the US drone base after a US attack killed 26 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border. This news will be welcomed by the people of Waziristan, where communities have borne [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Occupy” Actions Across the Country In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges Go to story | Go to homepage NYPD Aid Protesters in Shutting Down Stock Exchange Voices from Zuccotti Park: why arenâ t people too big to fail? Go to story | Go to homepage Does the IAEA report on Iran prove the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
