March 14, 2012
Afghan farmers work on a poppy field in the Grishk district of Helmand province (Reuters / Abdul Qodus / Files) Heroin harvest: NATO losing Afghan war on drugs Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 13 March, 2012, 13:23 TRENDS:Russia-NATO relations TAGS: Military, NATO, Russia, Politics, Terrorism,Drugs, Afghanistan, USA, Robert Bridge, Egypt The western military bloc couldn’t persuade Afghan farmers to [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Ivanov, NATO, Opium production in Afghanistan, Russia, United State, Viktor Ivanov
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March 5, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: Alastair Crooke, Blair, Clive Stafford Smith, David Blunkett, Gareth Peirce, George W. Bush, Paul Kagame, Tony Blair, United States, World Food Programme
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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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December 27, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Cost of War, George Ikners, Iraq, Iraqi people, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, US War And Occupation Of Iraq, Warfare and Conflict, Wikipedia
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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 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 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 18, 2011
“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 [...]
Tags: IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Nuclear weapon, Tehran, United State, Weapons, Yukiya Amano
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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
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 [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, Cheney, David Swanson, Dick Cheney, United States, University of Virginia, Virginia, World War II
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, British Columbia, Bush, Canada, Constitutional Rights, George W. Bush, Guantánamo Bay, Muhammed Khan Tumani, Murat Kurnaz, United Nations Convention Against Torture
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Future of Freedom Foundation, George W. Bush, Iran, Jacob G. Hornberger, Obama, United States
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Bronx, Central Intelligence Agency, Jason Leopold, McGovern, Nikolay Nekrasov, Ray McGovern, United States, White House
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Cavalier Daily, David Swanson, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Pentagon, Senior Executive Service (United States), United States, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Congress
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Libya, Minneapolis, Syria, Taliban, United Nations, United State, United States Armed Forces
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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 31, 2011
Mullah Omar Admits Taliban Are Negotiating With US Dropping a long-held precondition that troop withdrawals precede talks, Omar signals potential for political settlement by John Glaser, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed that negotiations with the U.S. are taking place, disproving the long-held [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Rashid, Mohammed Omar, Mullah Mohammed Omar, Negotiation, Pakistan, Taliban, United States
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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, [...]
Tags: Iraq, MNF, Philip Alston, Tikrit, United State, United States Department of State, War crime, Warfare and Conflict
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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 [...]
Tags: David Ignatius, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, Oval Office, Presidency of George W. Bush, Stephen Hadley, Washington Post
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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 25, 2011
Afghan Veterans Against the War Go on Tour The Afghanistan Veterans Against the War (AVAW) speaking tour kicked off yesterday marking the beginning of a series of events around the country from August 22 -31. The first stop was hosted by the IVAW Bay Area chapter and tonight the tour will go to Coffee [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Coffee Strong, Helmand Province, Illinois Army National Guard, Lashkar Gah, Nonviolence, Politics of Afghanistan
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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 24, 2011
The disgraceful US imperial presence in South America has been very accurately chronicled for decades. It involved the whole gamut of the imperial destruction of the South. Everything took pace from, torture, to phoney regime change, to the destruction of workers’ unions and the death of dissidents including priests and teachers. All these measures were needed to enforce absolute [...]
Tags: Augusto Pinochet, BBC, Chile, Cuba, Forced disappearance, Human rights, Meyer Lansky, Political prisoner, South America, Valech Report
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August 24, 2011
Misunderstanding the Afghan War (After a Decade!) John Glaser, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as “goodwill gestures” and “appeasement.” The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, American Enterprise Institute, British Council, Kabul, List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom, NATO, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), William Patey
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August 24, 2011
David Hicks’s Guantanamo Memoir ©iStockphoto.com/andrewmedina Given the hundreds of prisoners who have been released from the military facility at Guantanamo over the more than nine years of the prison’s existence, it shouldn’t be surprising that some number of these former detainees have written memoirs. Ranging from mass-market, English-language books available on Amazon.com to Pashto- and [...]
Tags: Abdul Salam Zaeef, David Hicks, George W. Bush, Guantanamo: My Journey, Murat Kurnaz, New South Wales Supreme Court, Providing material support for terrorism, United States
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Baitullah Mehsud, Central Intelligence Agency, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Haqqani network, Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistani Armed Forces, Pervez Musharraf, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Posted in Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Political psychopaths, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, 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, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War child victims, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on Islam and Muslims, War on terror | No Comments »
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 16, 2011
Analysts say the current training scheme of relying on expensive contracts is not sustainable [EPA] A US-based military contractor has failed to provide nearly 60 per cent of the instructors needed to train Afghan police under a contract with the US government, according to an audit issued on Monday. The audit focused on the transfer [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of State
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August 14, 2011
Special Ops: The New Face of War By dlindorff - Posted on 13 August 2011 By John Grant How do you assure the security of a nation of human beings who consume a disproportionate amount of the world’s resources, habitually live beyond their means and are addicted to all forms of fantasy from Bible-based delusion, to patriotism-based [...]
Tags: Bob Woodward, Osama bin Laden, Phoenix Program, Special operations, Stanley McChrystal, United States, United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, United States Navy SEALs
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August 14, 2011
The Invisible Dead and “The Last Word”: Lawrence O’Donnell ‘Rewrites’ the Occupation of Afghanistan “It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” – Albert Einstein On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 [...]
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August 13, 2011
You can watch the video at: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/201181073919760492.html In February 1949, members of the Karen ethnic minority launched an armed insurrection against Myanmar‘s central government. In pictures: Sixty years of war Over 60 years later, the conflict continues, with more than a dozen ethnic rebel groups waging war against the army in their fight for self-rule. Now, [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Asia, Burma, China, Civil war, Kachin State, Minority group, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: American imperialism, Benjamin Franklin, British Empire, George W. Bush, History, John Foster Dulles, John Quincy Adams, Monroe Doctrine, United State, William H. Seward
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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 [...]
Tags: Barney Frank, Credit rating, Early Show, Military budget, Pentagon, Standard & Poor's, United States, United States House Committee on Financial Services
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Leon Panetta, Libya, Shia Islam, United State, United States Secretary of Defense, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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August 9, 2011
They Died in Vain; Deal With It by Ray McGovern, August 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as “heroes” the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission crashed, apparently after [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Israel, John R. Allen, Ray McGovern, Scott Pelley, Thomas Aquinas, United State, Walter Cronkite
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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 [...]
Tags: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Getty Images, Harry S Truman, Hiroshima, John J. McCloy, Stewart Udall, United States, World War II
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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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