23:21 05/10/2012 Operetta in 5 Acts: Netanyahu’s Own Theater By Uri Avnery The master magician has drawn another rabbit from his top hat. A real and very lively rabbit. He has confounded everybody, including the leaders of all parties, the top political pundits and his own cabinet ministers. He has also shown [...]
The Port Huron Statement and the Start of the Sixties By Alexander Cockburn Fifty years ago, a group of students in the American Midwest issued a document rather portentously titled “The Port Huron Statement.” It was the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), [...]
Published today, MLK Day 2012: The Military Industrial Complex at 50 is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course. Authors (from within and without [...]
The Heads of State The Tyranny of Defense Inc. By ANDREW J. BACEVICH In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously identified the military-industrial complex, warning that the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces posed a threat to democracy. Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern [...]
US soliders are the 1 per cent subjected by Washington to endless tours of duty in foreign wars [EPA] Williamsport, Pennsylvania – America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, which [...]
BEAR ANY BURDEN Few Americans remember an America that wasn’t a superpower—muscle-bound and shrouded in secrecy. One Nation, Under Arms The private papers of the late George F. Kennan, Cold War architect and diplomat extraordinaire, reveal his anguish over the way his famous 1947 warning about Soviet expansionism helped transform the America he loved into one he no [...]
Why Israel Will Not Attack Iran by URI AVNERY EVERYBODY KNOWS the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. “Hold me back!” he shouts to his comrades, “Before I break his bones!” Our government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, via all channels, it shouts that it is [...]
Hold Me Back! by Uri Avnery, November 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Everybody knows the scene from school: A small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. “Hold me back,” he shouts to his comrades, “before I break his bones!” Our government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, [...]
War on the Earth: Atomic Appalachia and the Militarized Southeast By davidswanson - Posted on 25 September 2011 MIC50.org MIC at 50 – Charlottesville, VA, September 16-18, 2011 Coleman Smith and Clare Hanrahan of New South Network of War Resisters Militarism is killing us. It is waging a war on the Earth and the devastation wrought [...]
Why Are Politicians Running from Economic Reality into Tea Party Fantasy Land? Just three years ago, President Obama was an unapologetic Keynesian. Now, he’s jumped on the deficit hysteria bandwagon. September 5, 2011 | In 2008 America elected as its president not only an African-American but an unapologetic Keynesian. In his inaugural address Barack [...]
Remembrance, Reflection, and Resistance By David Krieger, August 6, 2011 We must come to understand Hiroshima and Nagasaki as war crimes. And we must resist the double standard that makes crimes committed by our enemies punishable under international law, while the same crimes committed by our leaders are deemed to be acceptable. We remember the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Virtue-less war of the ‘Nintendo bomber’ As unbridled use of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan continues, another casualty of war may be democracy in the US Drone pilots pilot the craft from an air conditioned office thousands of miles away. War has never before been so like a video game.[GALLO/GETTY] In April, the British [...]
