August 31, 2011
Cheney Lauds Iraq War, Waterboarding as ‘Right’ Former VP a ‘Big Advocate’ of Simulated Drowning by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In his latest interview promoting his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney championed the Iraq War as the “right policy,” insisting the 2003 occupation was a [...]
Tags: Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Nuclear weapon, Saddam Hussein, Spin, United States, Waterboarding
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August 21, 2011
Obama bans war criminals, except our own Nat Hentoff Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:00 am | Updated: 8:30 am, Fri Aug 19, 2011. BY NAT HENTOFF | 0 comments Judgment day for U.S. torture chiefs – Part I By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Geneva Convention, George W. Bush, Presidency of George W. Bush, United Nations Convention Against Torture, United States
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August 16, 2011
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan August 10th, 2011 | by Chris Woods | Published in All Stories, Covert Drone War, Drones carousel | 3 Comments CIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau. More than 160 children are [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Chris Woods, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Iain Overton, List of diplomatic missions in Pakistan, Non-governmental organization, Pakistan, United States
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August 16, 2011
Chris Hellman, The Pentagon‘s Spending Spree Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to offer for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has [...]
Tags: Leon Panetta, Military budget, National Priorities Project, National security, Osama BinLaden, Pentagon, United State, United States Armed Forces
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August 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 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 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 20, 2011
War Without Humans Modern Blood Rites Revisited By Barbara Ehrenreich For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon — honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth — it might be useful to stop thinking [...]
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July 12, 2011
Pakistan Military-Aid Hold Deals New Shocks by Jim Lobe, July 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum By suspending $800 million in U.S. military aid to Pakistan, the administration of President Barack Obama appears to be taking a calculated gamble that Islamabad — and especially its powerful army — has no interest in [...]
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July 12, 2011
ISLAMABAD – The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the U.S. seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al-Qaida, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday. Holding back the $800 million in aid is unlikely to [...]
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July 11, 2011
Exclusive to The Gulf Today Reports about an alleged CIA drone base targeting militants of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen appear contradictory. Some say that the US spy agency was trying to build a drone facility for surveillance and attack in Yemen itself similar to another on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, [...]
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July 11, 2011
Panetta Slips Up on Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan By Adam Entous KABUL, Afghanistan — Leon Panetta, on his first day here as U.S. defense secretary, made what appeared to be his first big policy announcement: The U.S. would keep 70,000 troops in the country until the end of 2014, when the Afghans are scheduled to assume [...]
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July 11, 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Fog of (Robot) War Posted by Barbara Ehrenreich at 6:06pm, July 10, 2011. Last week, William Wan and Peter Finn of the Washington Post reported that at least 50 countries have now purchased or developed pilotless military drones. Recently, the Chinese had more than two dozen models in some stage of development on display at [...]
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July 10, 2011
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has said he believes Osama bin Laden‘s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is hiding in Pakistan‘s tribal area. Photograph: Pool/Reuters The Pakistan military declared it did not need US military aid as the White House confirmed that it would withhold some $800m (£498m) in assistance to the country’s armed forces. The row will worsen [...]
Tags: Ayman Al Zawahiri, Central Intelligence Agency, Haqqani network, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Armed Forces, United States
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July 6, 2011
Every once in a while the news for those of you who think that decency and equality and freedom really means something gets good. The non stop erosion of liberty by the rampant and incorrigible forces of reaction is what seems so strong. Yet the fact that their power rests in opinion is proven time [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Howard McKeon, John McCain, Libya, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Taliban, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Congress, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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July 6, 2011
Obama Counterterrorism Strategy Lies and Fails John Glaser, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn’t the case. Rather, [...]
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 04/07/2011 Reporter: Geoff Thompson Recently uncovered documents have linked an Australian soldier with the abuse of prisoners in Iraq‘s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. The ABC’s Geoff Thompson investigates. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: These notorious pictures helped change the course of the Iraq War. The graphic photos of Iraqi detainees being mistreated [...]
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July 4, 2011
Senate Hawks Push Obama to Make Case for Libya War Lieberman, Graham Say Lack of Explanation Keeping Congress From Approving Conflict by Jason Ditz, July 03, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Two of the Senate’s most hawkish members, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and Joe Lieberman (I – CT) today pushed [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, British Empire, ERIC MARGOLIS, Osama bin Laden, Recessional, Rudyard Kipling, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
The Lawless Presidency Obama’s lawyers are foundering in explaining the legal rationale for his Libyan adventure. Bruce Ackerman on our broken system of giving presidents legal advice—and how to fix it. June 28, 2011 11:45 PM EDT The present confrontation over the War Powers Act requires Congress to rethink some tragic events of the past decade. [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
Death Doctrine by John Tirman July 2011 Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and Angola were the three rings of the Reagan Doctrine, the war by proxy, and none turned out well. The former president’s support of despots and violent insurgencies guaranteed a future of errant, and deadly, U.S. foreign policy. Photograph via Flickr and Marion Doss, by Michael Evans, [...]
Tags: Iranian Revolution, Khmer Rouge, National Archives and Records Administration, Reagan Doctrine, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, United States, United States Armed Forces, Vietnam
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July 3, 2011
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that if Europe’s attitude to NATO did not change, the alliance would degenerate into “collective military irrelevance” [GALLO/GETTY] The old vocation of what Rudyard Kipling called the “White Man’s Burden” – the driving idea behind the West’s quest for global hegemony from the days of imperial expansion in [...]
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July 3, 2011
Obama intends to withdraw 10,000 US troops by the end of this year, and to complete the withdrawal of some 30,000 troops by September 2012 [GALLO/GETTY] US President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House on June 22 concerning the “way forward” in Afghanistan struck many as highly unusual. Though billed in advance as a [...]
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July 3, 2011
Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex By James Ledbetter • Yale University Press • 2011 • 268 pages • $26 Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex By William D. Hartung • Nation Books • 2011 • 296 pages • $25.95 Fifty years ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s [...]
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July 2, 2011
Is Leon Panetta a Saint—or a War Criminal? by David R. Henderson, May 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum David R. Henderson’s Introduction: The first part of this article’s title is absurd, right? How could the head of the CIA, a man who sends drones to kill alleged terrorists and [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Monterey College of Law, Monterey County Herald, Osama BinLaden, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, United State
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July 2, 2011
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton: ‘We need to see this through.’ Photograph: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters Nato will not be deterred from its military action in Libya by Muammar Gaddafi‘s threats to take the war to Europe, the US secretary of state,Hillary Clinton, has said. Clinton brushed aside Gaddafi’s warning that unless air strikes against his regime stopped, [...]
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July 2, 2011
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Tim Craig and Ed O’Keefe, Published: June 30 BAGHDAD — Three U.S. soldiers were killed this week in a rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Iranian border, the military said Thursday, bringing June’s death toll to 15 and marking the bloodiest [...]
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July 2, 2011
More U.S. troop deaths raise questions about strategy BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON – June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones. Sixty U.S. [...]
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July 1, 2011
Preface: If war was not a crime and there ever could be a winner separated from a loser perhaps the title to this article would be more sensible. But it certainly does reflect about the only way you can communicate George Ikners ikners.com Winners and Losers by Philip Giraldi, June 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, John Bolton, John R. Bolton, United State, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
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July 1, 2011
There is something ironic about the fact that the American foreign-policy establishment, which is afflicted terribly by the illness of threat inflation, is now inflating the threat of competing ideas. As my colleague Gene Healy has pointed out on the Cato blog, the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute has been fanning the flames of fear not just of [...]
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July 1, 2011
Study: US Wars Cost $4 Trillion, Killed 258,000 137,000 Civilians ‘Directly’ Killed in Iraq, Afghanistan by Jason Ditz, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new study from Brown University’s Watson Institute has set an estimated that the post 9/11 costs of the assorted wars of the Bush and Obama Administrations [...]
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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June 29, 2011
June 28, 2011 On the Mend? America Comes to Its Senses By Andrew J. Bacevich At periodic intervals, the American body politic has shown a marked susceptibility to messianic fevers. Whenever an especially acute attack occurs, a sort of delirium ensues, manifesting itself in delusions of grandeur and demented behavior. By the time the condition [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Cold War, Douglas MacArthur, George W. Bush, Greater Middle East, Pentagon, Robert Gates, United State, Washington D.C
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June 28, 2011
Ceci n’est pas une guerre Chase Madar 24 June 2011 Tags: law | libya If anyone should have been able to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy, it was Harold Hongju Koh. The dean of Yale Law School and a prominent critic of Bush-Cheney lawlessness, his reputation was clinched by a chorus of [...]
Tags: Advocacy Organizations, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, John McCain, Obama administration, United States, WikiLeaks, Yale Law School
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June 28, 2011
As commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, David Petraeus made his opposition to torture crystal clear. Which is why it came as a surprise when Petraeus, nominated to lead the CIA, asked Congress on Thursday to clarify how far interrogators can go in inflicting pain on detainees in “special cases.” Petraeus referred to what’s known [...]
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June 28, 2011
ill The U.S. Military Concede East Afghanistan to The Taliban? Posted: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:36:18 +0000 John Allen better be a mathematical genius. The three-star Marine general tapped to helm the Afghanistan war has one hell of a battlefield geometry problem on his hands. Not only does Allen have to hold U.S. gains in southern [...]
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June 28, 2011
US Afghan roop withdrawal is Victory for Taliban 25 June 2011 To paraphrase George Orwell, the shortest route to ending a war is to lose it. US President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will withdraw 33,000 US troops from Afghanistan in one year’s timeis a frank admission of defeat and a desperate attempt to minimize [...]
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June 27, 2011
When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58303 For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this [...]
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June 27, 2011
Obama Soldiers On ‘Centering’ on Afghanistan: a speech that pleased no one by Justin Raimondo, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In his speech explaining why the US cannot withdraw from Afghanistan any earlier than 2014 – at the earliest — President Obama wasted no time in waving the bloody shirt [...]
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June 26, 2011
NATO wrong to target residential buildings in Libya 21 June 2011 NATO planes carried out raids on Saturday killing 15 people, including three children. The planes targeted what was termed as a military position where a close aide to Libyan Leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi resided. Western correspondents who visited a hospital where the bodies of the [...]
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June 26, 2011
Real Numbers of “Troops” in Afghanistan John Glaser, June 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum I’m waiting for Obama’s announcement of the new policy of troop levels in Afghanistan to become old news by about Monday, but while it’s still the weekend, let’s consider further exactly how many people we’ve [...]
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June 26, 2011
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith By Eugene Robinson Some heard a declaration of victory, others an admission of defeat. The many contradictions in President Obama’s speech about Afghanistan Wednesday night were perhaps intended to obscure the bottom line: Tens of thousands of American troops will remain for at least three more [...]
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June 26, 2011
We’re All Leninists Now There seems little doubt that the Lenin owes a great deal to the world in his completely calculated use of Marxist ideals to impose a savagery on peoples of the world that has very little to compare it with. From very early days Bakunin constantly warned as did many anarchists that [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced interrogation techniques, John Yoo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, United States, Vladimir Lenin
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June 26, 2011
The Unchanging Imperial Paradigm by Sheldon Richman, June 24, 2011 Despite President Obama’s trumpeted force drawdown in Afghanistan, by the end of next summer more than twice as many U.S. troops will be fighting in that country’s civil war as there were when he became president in 2009. His soothing words notwithstanding, a force of [...]
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June 26, 2011
Politics shapes strategy in conflicts of choice — which is another reason to avoid them In National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post, leading War on Terror hawks are expressing outrage at the timeline President Obama set for troop reductions in Afghanistan. Their complaint: politics is driving American policy. “So why September 2012?” Bill Kristol writes. [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, middle east, National Review, Osama BinLaden, Saddam Hussein, United States, Washington Post
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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