Famous sycophant Tony Blair, now a $6-million-a-year consultant for JP Morgan, isn’t clear of his self-serving past just yet. During a supposedly secure hearing about his ties to the Murdoch scandal, a protester burst in to charge Blair with war crimes. And he is facing tough questions about newly revealed secret meetings with Libya‘s Gaddafi. [...]
Noam Chomsky (Credit: Reuters/Jorge Dan) Chomsky on Obama Bush disappeared and tortured those the US disliked, while the Obama administration simply “murders them” BY GLENN GREENWALD Appearing on Democracy Now this morning, Noam Chomsky said the following: If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers. If the Obama administration decides they don’t [...]
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/leaving-afghanistan-staying Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military presence in Afghanistan (currently about three times the [...]
April 30, 2012 Retired analyst: Fiction fueled war By Joel PruettThe Norman Transcript NORMAN — Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern said the war with Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Rather, it was about misinformation and fossil fuels. The analyst, who has appeared on CNN, NewsHour and other news [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)An interview with academic and author Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam on the consequences of a future war with Iran. War on Iran: America’s Next Catastrophe in the Middle [...]
Camp Delta, where detainees on the war on terrorism are kept, at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, October 9, 2003. (Photo: Angel Franco / The New York Times) Protecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA’s Latest Wrong Turn Saturday, 07 April 2012 00:00By Roy Eidelson, Truthout | Op-Ed Shortly after learning about the American Psychological [...]
Man Whose WMD Lies Led to Iraq War Confesses All Defector tells how US officials ‘sexed up’ his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion By Jonathan Owen April 01, 2012 “The Independent” – -A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting [...]
A medic talks to an Iraqi civilian with help from a translator. (Photo: Jametiks) A young Iraqi interpreter named Ali was riding with members of the United States Army 1st Armored Division on a 2003 midnight raid outside of Baghdad when the driver made a mistake in the darkness and their armored Bradley vehicle flipped into [...]
GETTY IMAGES 4 MONTHS AGONEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 02: Members of the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as ‘Veterans of the 99%’ prepare to march from VietnamVeterans Plaza to Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street movement is centered on November 2, 2011 in New York City. The [...]
The Shifting Strategies of Empire By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/shifting-strategies-empire Remarks at the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Conference: President Obama this week declared the war on Iraq to be an honorable success that has given us a brighter future. Are you fired up? Ready to go? Eric Holder this month explained [...]
Obama Declares War on Iraq an Honorable Success 2 Weeks Early for April Fool’s Day By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/obama-declares-war-iraq-honorable-success-2-weeks-early-april-fools-day President Proclaims ‘National Day of Honor’ American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 – On the ninth anniversary of U.S. forces moving into Iraq, President Barack Obama has proclaimed today [...]
Nine Years Later: More Shocked, Less Awed By David Swanson, Remarks at the Left Forum http://warisacrime.org/content/nine-years-later-more-shocked-less-awed When I lived in New York 20 years ago, the United States was beginning a 20-year war on Iraq. We protested at the United Nations. The Miami Herald depicted Saddam Hussein as a giant fanged [...]
America and the Middle East: Psycho Warriors Who Deceive Humanity By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD March 18, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — In a knowledge-driven global culture of enhanced human communications and proactive visions for sustainable futuristic co-existence between Man and the encompassed Universe and divergent civilizations, we the educators and learners [...]
Army Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Invasion of Iraq Rates of suicide have increased even more under Obama by John Glaser, March 08, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The number of suicides in the U.S. Army rose by 80 percent after the United States launched the war on Iraq, according to [...]
How often do you see the word “intervention’ these days. It must be almost daily and always seems to refer to something being done by one country to ‘help’ another. In practice it is far more motivated by by advantage than any sense of charity or assistance. First you [...]
Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/un-cheating-justice-two-years-left-prosecute-bush Elizabeth Holtzman knows something about struggles for justice in the U.S. government. She was a member of Congress and of the House Judiciary Committee that voted for articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1973. She proposed the [...]
Adam Hochschild, Antiwar Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night Posted by Adam Hochschild at 9:35am, February 26, 2012. [Special Offer for TomDispatch Readers: Adam Hochschild’s new book on World War I, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, was a big hit and boy did [...]
DEBUNKING, DISTORTION, FACT-CHECKING, FEMALE HEROISM, FOX NEWS, GETTING IT WRONG, IRAQ WAR, JESSICA LYNCH, WASHINGTON POST Liz Trotta mangles Jessica Lynch ‘fairy tale’ In Debunking, Jessica Lynch, Media myths, Washington Poston February 20, 2012 at 10:12 am Veteran broadcast journalist Liz Trotta went on Fox News yesterday to condemn plans to ease restrictions on women in Army combat positions. In doing so, Trotta referred to — and mangled — key elements of the [...]
Sgt Frank Wuterich faced nine counts of manslaughter Continue reading the main story Related Stories Marine faces trial on Iraq deaths The final US Marine to face charges over the killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005 has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty. Sgt Frank Wuterich was one of [...]
The News of Empire Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 “Mr. Obama and his senior national security advisers have sought to reassure allies and answer critics, including many Republicans, that the United States will not abandon its commitments in the Persian Gulf even as it winds down the war in Iraq and looks [...]
A Momentum of Cynicism Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 “But no matter how futile, repulsive or dysfunctional war may be,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her book Blood Rites, “it persists.” A fascinating story in the New York Times just after Christmas showed this persistence unfolding before our very eyes. The sale of arms to [...]
The Big Lie Marches on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 The war is over, sort of, but the Big Lie marches on: that democracy is flowering in Iraq, that America is stronger and more secure than ever, that doing what’s right is the prime motivator of all our military action. [...]
Why Do We Ignore the Civilians We Kill in US Wars? By John Tirman January 10, 2012 “WP” – January 06, 2012 - As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, N.C., lauding troops for “your patriotism, your commitment to fulfill [...]
Iraq plans to increase its oil production capacity up to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 [Al Jazeera] Baghdad, Iraq - While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain. On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its [...]
In Sadr City, Bahgdad, the streets are cracked, filled with potholes, and strewn with refuse [Dahr Jamail/Al Jazeera] We in Australia should never forget our role in this tragedy, we must remember how simple it was for a politician infected with lies who was only too willing to pass the disease on to the nation to lead [...]
Tides of Darkness by Nebojsa Malic, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum January 6, 2012More War in 2012 Last year was supposed to be the one of shattered illusions. From “victories” in Iraq and Afghanistan to the springtime for jihad – not democracy – in the Arab world, the Empire consistently failed to [...]
Whatever the realities of the incident at Haditha are the fact remains that there was atrial or there were trials and all defendants were found not guilty. It is always difficult to look at a trial after verdict unless you had the same advantages as the [...]
The Forgotten Wages of War By JOHN TIRMAN This is a fairly conservative look at the real cost of war. It proceeds on the assumption that we all need an accurate kill number to properly asses the true damage of ear. However, what is really needed is no killing, no war at all together [...]
Barack Obama at the Pentagon. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Obama has unveiled plans for America’s military future, outlining a historic shift towards a smaller and leaner force that will focus on China and move away from large-scale ground warfare that has dominated the post-9/11 era. Obama became the first president to announce a strategy [...]
US soldiers stuck in sand in southern Afghanistan. (Wikimedia Commons) Debacle! Iraq, Afghanistan and the End of US Supremacy How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower by Tom Engelhardt It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in [...]
IBO: 162,000 Reported Deaths in Iraq War At Least 114,000 Were Civilians by Margaret Griffis, January 02, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iraq Body Count, a British non-governmental agency that tracks only confirmeddeaths, released its estimate of war fatalities. They calculated [...]
America’s War for Global Domination by Michel Chossudovsky 12/15/03: (Global Research) We are the juncture of the most serious crisis in modern history. The Bush Administration has embarked upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity. The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq are part of a broader military agenda, which [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
The Agony of Iraq, the Country of My Birth by Adnan Al-Daini, December 30, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum As a 17-year-old in 1962, I was one of a group of about 10 Iraqi students doing A-levels in a college in the UK. The group included three Christians and one Kurd; [...]
Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan Posted: 12/20/11 04:16 PM ET Sign Up Submit this story Shouldn’t Americans of every faith tradition band together to stop the war on Christmas? Let us call on President Obama to announce that on Dec. 24th and 25, the United States will [...]
Journalist Joshua Phillips. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Torture’s Other Victims: US Soldiers Wednesday 21 December 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview link to video http://www.truth-out.org/tortures-other-victims/1322783647 The Iraq war isn’t over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Some of these men and women [...]
War is brutal and inhumane. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also been killed as a result of the unwarranted US invasion, and many more [...]
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. As 2011 comes to a close, we will see lists of the year’s most memorable events and most important people, as is the pattern every year. But not all stories are created equal. [...]
Texas doctors to operate on girl burned in U.S. drone strike By davidswanson - Posted on 22 December 2011 (CNN) – She has eyelashes but no eyebrows. She has all her fingers but is missing four nails. Her skin is so taut now that she can no longer frown. LOOK AT HER.
The Occupy movements are a manifestation of the public’s discontent with American social welfare [GALLO/GETTY] San Pedro, California - Last week I wrote about Newt Gingrich‘s incredibly destructive record and mindset. But as I wrote then, “If you want to know why the American political system can’t solve even most routine problems anymore, the reasons are [...]
AP / Keystone / Peter Schneider By Robert Scheer Few journalists have greater influence on U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East, than New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. But his tortured obit of a column this week on the official end of the neocolonialist disaster that has been the Iraq occupation reminds one that [...]
The Big Lie Marches On We must have an honest accounting of the Iraq War. by Robert C. Koehler The war is over, sort of, but the Big Lie marches on: that democracy is flowering in Iraq, that America is stronger and more secure than ever, that doing what’s right is the [...]
Bacevich: After Iraq, War is U.S. Editor’s Note: Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. This post is one of four from the Council on Foreign Relations in response to the question, Was the Iraq War worth it? By Andrew Bacevich As framed, the question invites a sober comparison of [...]
Iraq War Officially Ends, Leaving Thousands Dead, Millions Displaced, Strong Contractor Presence It is always fascinating to watch the US leave the scene of failed interventions, wars and the like. There is none of the fanfare of ceremonial signings of documents aboard aircraft carriers or the subsequent war crimes tribunals that always [...]
Staff Sergeant Prince House with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division smiles as his Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle nears the Kuwaiti border as part of the last US military convoy to leave Iraq December 18, 2011.(Reuters/Lucas Jackson) By Reuters It has always been almost impossible to accurately the loss of life in [...]
Chicago Rally to Thank Obama for Supposedly Ending War in Iraq Turns Up 30 Speakers and 10 Audience Members By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/60258 Obama promised to make ending the war in Iraq his first act in office. Then he did what he could to avoid ending it. Forced by Bush [...]
Aftermath of U.S. Marine killing of civilians, Haditha, Iraq, 2006 One Million + Dead & Displaced in Iraq for This? By War Criminals Watch - Posted on 16 December 2011 I can’t tell you anymore than this: The Bush regime’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on lies, was illegitimate, unjust, and immoral from [...]
If you for some reason accept that a war can ever be anything but a criminal action you can as this article does go through an exercise in assessing roles and objectives. Once that has been done even painstakingly what is then left is some supposed evaluation of achievements as opposed to failures of whatever [...]
Andrea Bruce for The New York TimesDocuments were strewn about an junkyard in Baghdad that specializes in selling trailers and office supplies left over from the United States military base closings. BAGHDAD — Several weeks ago, we heard that a local businessman had purchased some trailers from a closing American base. IRAQ WAR: 2003 [...]
