May 13, 2012
Cuba, The Drug War, And The Isolation Of The U.S. By Noam Chomsky May 11, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug [...]
Tags: Cartagena Colombia, Colombia, Cuba, drug war, Juan Manuel Santos, Organization of American States, Summit of the Americas, United States
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May 6, 2012
Javier Sicilia: Can a poet overcome a state of lawlessness and corruption to bring peace to Mexico? (Photo: Mark Karlin)This is the fifth article in Truthout‘s series looking at US immigration and Mexican border policies through a social justice lens. Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout, visited the border region recently to file these [...]
Tags: Drug cartel, Drug Wars, javiersicilia, Mark Karlin, Mexico, Murder, TruthOut, United States
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April 4, 2012
Drug War Nightmare: How We Created a Massive Racial Caste System in America The drug war has created a new Jim Crow system. March 26, 2012 | To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Oval Office, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, United States, War on Drugs
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March 25, 2012
In 2012 alone, Guatemala has confiscated more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine valued at roughly $10,000 per kilo [Reuters] Guatemala proposes legalisation of drugs President says war on drugs has failed and region must look at ways to regulate production, transit and consumption. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has said the war on drugs in Latin America has [...]
Tags: Central America, drug war, El Salvador, Guatemala, Latin America, Mauricio Funes, Otto Pérez Molina, United States
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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 9, 2012
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Will Latin American Leaders Wake Up The U.S. And Revolutionize Drug Policy? Latin Americans realize they are bearing the brunt of a war that has been imposed on them, and are increasingly eager to assert their independence. The so-called War on Drugs has been going on for over 40 years, but despite [...]
Tags: Costa Rica, drug war, El Salvador, Guatemala, Janet Napolitano, Juan Manuel Santos, Latin America, United States
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March 4, 2012
VP Biden to Reject Calls From Latin America to End War on Drugs by John Glaser, March 03, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Vice President Joe Biden will tour Latin America and meet with heads of state amid growing pressure from the region for a different approach to the failed war on drugs. Political leaders [...]
Tags: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Iran, Joe Biden, Latin America, United States, War on Drugs, White House
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January 5, 2012
Scott Horton Interviews Anthony Gregory Scott Horton, January 01, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum This interview between Scott Horton and Anthony Gregory can be hear at the MP3 referred to, if you can not access that here is the link http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/01/01/anthony-gregory-24/ Anthony Gregory, Research Editor at the Independent Institute, [...]
Tags: American Conservative, Anarcho-capitalism, Christian Science Monitor, Future of Freedom Foundation, Independent Institute, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Michael Badnarik, San Diego Union Tribune
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December 8, 2011
BY GLENN BY GARVIN BY GGARVIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM I owe Kyle Vogt an apology. A former military policeman, he’s now a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP, a group of former cops, prosecutors and judges that supports ending the war on drugs. When I interviewed Vogt for a [...]
Tags: Gonzalez, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Mexico, New York Times, United States, United States Border Patrol, Vogt, War on Drugs
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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 28, 2011
A tribunal in Malaysia’s capital found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes in Iraq [GALLO/GETTY]War Crimes never receive the attention of what may be called the usual criminal activity. Even the attempted proceedings at Nuremberg ended up a whitewash of the Allied crimes during what was termed the Second World War. Far from [...]
Tags: Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tony Blair, War crime
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November 27, 2011
Still Pushing the Failed Militaristic Approach to the Drug War John Glaser, November 18, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Via Juan Carlos Hidalgo at the blog for the Cato Institute, this graph illustrates how Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s militarized approach to the drug war not only didn’t quell the violence, but reversed the [...]
Tags: Cato Institute, Drug Enforcement Administration, drug war, Felipe Calderón, George W. Bush, Guatemala, Human Rights Watch, Mexico, Otto Pérez Molina, United State, United States
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November 23, 2011
Portugal has decriminalised the posession of drugs which has significantly lowered the prison population [EPA] Chicago, IL – The War on Drugs is a global war without end. The battle takes more prisoners than all conventional wars combined and yet the availability of psychoactive substances never significantly diminishes. Those who sell and consume illegal [...]
Tags: drug war, International Narcotics Control Board, Lisbon, Politics of Portugal, Portugal, Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Substance dependence, 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 [...]
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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 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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September 8, 2011
WikiLeaks: ‘Drugs, thugs and facts’ around the world maps some of the recently released US cables on the ‘war on drugs’ Titles from some of the latest WikiLeaks cables on the “war on drugs” read like cheeky tabloid headlines rather than polished prose from international diplomats. “Coke, tokes and inept folks: Can Sierra Leone stay tough on drugs?” reads a secret [...]
Tags: Africa, Central America, Dominican Air Force, Dominican Republic, Drugs, Freetown, Guinea-Bissau, Health, Illegal drug trade, Institute for Policy Studies, Mexico, Sierra Leone, United States, War on Drugs, WikiLeaks
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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 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 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 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 [...]
Tags: Baitullah Mehsud, Central Intelligence Agency, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Haqqani network, Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistani Armed Forces, Pervez Musharraf, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 10, 2011
Defense Budget Hysteria By WINSLOW T. WHEELER The rhetoric of people rushing to rescue Pentagon spending from “completely unacceptable” cuts is quite hysterical. Leading the chorus has been Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. He termed the possible defense budget cuts (about $850 billion over 10 years according to most) a “doomsday mechanism,” if the automatic [...]
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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 4, 2011
Rumsfeld Iraq ‘torture‘ suit given go-ahead Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been represented by the justice department Continue reading the main story Related Stories Bush ‘should face torture probe’ Rumsfeld defends US war in Iraq Profile: Donald Rumsfeld A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured [...]
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July 31, 2011
US congressman Peter King has been holding hearings on the ‘radicalisation’ of the American Muslim community, and has refused to widen the hearings’ scope to include other, non-Muslim terrorism threats [GALLO/GETTY] The frightful mass murder in Norway on July 22, 2011 and the instant, knee-jerk reaction of a number of leading European and American news organisations – including the BBC, The [...]
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July 31, 2011
US Predator drones have played a large role in the CIA’s extrajudicial killing program in Pakistan, where some 2,500 people in Pakistan, mostly civilians, have been killed by US forces since June 2004 [EPA] They call it “bug splat“, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those [...]
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July 30, 2011
Progressives don’t need more reasons to be disappointed with President Barack Obama’s handling of the deficit talks, but here’s another failing that has not gotten much play: The administration has been so timid on defense cuts that some leading Republicans are now well to the president’s left on this issue. (Flickr/gregwest98) SHARE THIS STORY. [...]
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July 30, 2011
BALAD, Iraq (AFP) – A US-Iraqi raid north of Baghdad on Saturday killed a tribal sheikh and two of his family members, police said, as local leaders condemned what they branded a “massacre” of civilians. US forces said the operation aimed to nab a wanted insurgent but officials in the village of Rufayat, 70 kilometres [...]
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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 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 29, 2011
WASHINGTON — Though the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan will save the nation billions of dollars a year, another cost of war is projected to continue rising for decades to come: caring for the veterans. Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times When you embark on an immoral, illegal and criminal act like a war [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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July 24, 2011
In 1971, President Richard Nixon, motivated by addiction among US soldiers in Vietnam, told Congress drug abuse was ‘public enemy number one’ Photograph: AP Four decades ago, on 17 July 1971, President Richard Nixon declared what has come to be called the “war on drugs“. Nixon told Congress that drug addiction had “assumed the dimensions of [...]
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July 23, 2011
Drugs and the Meaning of Life (Photo by JB Banks) Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of [...]
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July 23, 2011
Study Rebuts US Claims of ‘No Civilian Deaths’ in Pakistan Drone Strikes by Naseema Noor, July 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum ( ikners.com has consistently warned about the use of these weapons of mass murder, they are lovingly described by by perverted officers as Guardian Angels. George Ikners ikners,com) As the Pakistani [...]
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