April 21, 2012
Ten Rules of the “War on Terrorism” by Jacob G. Hornberger I confess that I have trouble sometimes figuring out the nature and logic of the so-called war on terrorism. The following are what seem to be the principles of this “war”: 1. Since the “war on terrorism,” according [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Future of Freedom Foundation, Geneva Convention, Jacob G. Hornberger, U.S. Empire, United State, War on Terror
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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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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 18, 2012
Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors by John W. Whitehead, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Iraq, Lincoln Group, Obama, Pratap Chatterjee, United States, United States Armed Forces
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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 7, 2011
Once again, war is prime time and journalism’s role is taboo 1 December 2011 On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, David Richards, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, Ministry of Defence, United States, WikiLeaks
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December 5, 2011
A war crimes tribunal in Malaysia offers a devastating critique of international criminal law institutions today. In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, International Criminal Court, Iraq, Iraq War, Kuala Lumpur, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, United States
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November 24, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (Credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File) Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Michael Bloomberg, New York, September 11 2001, Terrorism, United States, United States Armed Forces
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November 16, 2011
Arms Sales to Asia and the Gulf Vital to US Corporations Amid talk of budget cuts in America and Europe, US military contractors look to exports, with the Pentagon’s help by John Glaser, November 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon’s plan to sell 5,000 bunker-buster [...]
Tags: Asia, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirate, United States
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November 15, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, David Swanson, Donald Rumsfeld, Fort Huachuca, Iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Iraqi Army, 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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October 24, 2011
The bankers’ blockade of WikiLeaks must end Julian Assange has announced that WikiLeaks will suspend operations until the banking blockade is lifted. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Whether you support WikiLeaks or not, the blockade by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others is a sinister attack on free speech reddit this Comments (80) James Ball guardian.co.uk, Monday [...]
Tags: Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Julian Assange, MasterCard, PayPal, United States, Visa, WikiLeaks
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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 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 5, 2011
1) Ameril Umbra Kato (center), the leader of the breakaway Muslim rebel group, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM), brandishes his gun with his soldiers at Camp Omar, Maguindanao, August 28, 2011. Kato recently split from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), citing his disagreement with the MILF’s ongoing peace talks with the government [Joe [...]
Tags: Bangsamoro, Islam, Maguindanao, Manila, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Muslim, Operation Enduring Freedom, Philippine, Philippine National Police, United States
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September 21, 2011
none of what follows should surprise anyone that the US wants to be able to annihilate anyone it can say is an enemy terrorist, or supporter, or follower. What the hell what we say goes, you get in the way you die. George Ikners ikners.com Obama Team Split Over Use of Lethal Force The expansive [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Obama administration, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Somalia, United State, United States Department of State, Yemen
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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 [...]
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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
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
‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Binosche Barrett, Matthew’s wife, with their two children. Photograph: Declan Walsh for the Guardian ‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Tensions between Pakistan and the US often made life tricky for [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Fateh Jang, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISLAMABAD, Matthew Barrett, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, The Guardian, 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, [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Ames Straw Poll, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, United State
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August 21, 2011
Obama bans war criminals, except our own Nat Hentoff Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:00 am | Updated: 8:30 am, Fri Aug 19, 2011. BY NAT HENTOFF | 0 comments Judgment day for U.S. torture chiefs – Part I By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators [...]
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
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August 16, 2011
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan August 10th, 2011 | by Chris Woods | Published in All Stories, Covert Drone War, Drones carousel | 3 Comments CIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau. More than 160 children are [...]
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August 16, 2011
Chris Hellman, The Pentagon‘s Spending Spree Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to offer for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has [...]
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August 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
USA: United Saviors for All by: Thomas Vincent , Contributing Writer Book Review: Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War Printer-Friendly Version Like it? Share it! After reading a few chapters of “Washington Rules,” it might seem mystifying why its author is not more of a rising star in Washington politics. Andrew Bacevich [...]
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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 11, 2011
Why Congress Must Stop Obama’s Libyan Warmongering Doug Bandow August 9, 2011 Babies have short attention spans. Congressmen are even worse. A couple months ago legislators were outraged over the willingness of President Barack Obama to ignore the Constitution by going to war in Libya. Now the issue is all but forgotten. The debt-limit fight [...]
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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
Pentagon Bans Coverage of Slain US Soldiers Obama breaks yet another promise by John Glaser, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon announced on Monday they will not allow any media coverage of the arrival of the remains of the 30 dead soldiers killed in this Saturday’s helicopter shootdown [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Dover Air Force Base, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Pentagon, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, Clive Stafford Smith, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Tara McKelvey, United State
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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. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bipartisan Policy Center, Erskine Bowles, Pentagon, Pete Domenici, Republican, Robert Gates, Tom Coburn
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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 [...]
Tags: Baghdad, Hamid Hassan, Iraq, Iraqi security forces, middle east, Nouri al-Maliki, United States, United States Armed Forces
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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 [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, BarackObama, Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, History, Libya, middle east, Muslim world, New York Times, Obama administration, Osama BinLaden, Pakistan, Twentieth Century, United State, Wars and Conflicts
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bunny Greenhouse, Dick Cheney, Iraq, KBR, National Whistleblowers Center, No-bid contract, United States Army Corps of Engineers
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush tax cuts, Cancer, Elite, Harry Reid, middle east, Nigeria, Party leaders of the United States Senate, President, Republican, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, United State, War crime, White House
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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
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)
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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)
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