Obama OKs Proliferation of US “Hunter-Killer” Drone Technology Administration plans to arm Italy‘s fleet of Reaper drones – Common Dreams staff The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the Obama administration plans to arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that would open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to [...]
Photo by Reuters I’ve just returned home from the NATO summit and I can’t stop focusing on all that we don’t know after dozens of world leaders met for two days. I have to wonder if the Obama Administration is disappointed in the results. At the end of all of those hours of talking, the [...]
British Played Central Role in CIA-Saudi Undercover Underwear Bomb Plot British authorities will neither confirm nor deny their involvement by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This British intelligence played a central role in the undercover operation involving a supposed new underwear bomb threat from an al-Qaeda off-shoot in Yemen, Reuters reports. The government this [...]
Obama Echoes Bush, Sets Plan for Polar Bear Extinction “President Obama’s proposal for these magnificent and imperiled animals is a gift to Big Oil“ – Common Dreams staff The Obama Administration issued a proposed rule yesterday that disregards the effects of greenhouse gases on polar bear habitat leading one conservation group to say that the [...]
A Huge Student Loan Scam For-profit colleges are massively ripping off U.S. taxpayers By Andrew Leonard April 18, 2012 “Salon” – Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill with the impressive, everybody-can-get-behind-this title “Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act.” Sponsored by the ultra-conservative North Carolina [...]
The Obama administration called the rocket launch a ‘provocative action’ that threatens regional security. Photograph: Ekaterina Shtukina/Ria Novosti/EPA Obama engagement policy ‘in tatters’ after North Korean rocket defiance US officials expect Pyongyang to carry out third nuclear test in near future, respresenting significant policy failure for president guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 April 2012 17.56 BST Article history [...]
Israel Afraid of Iraq’s US-Provided Warplanes That Israel feels threatened by Iraq – America’s intended client – is a monument to the failure of the Iraq war by John Glaser, April 09, 2012 Print This | Share This Recent U.S. military aid and arms sales to Iraq are fueling concern in Israel amid intelligence reports that Baghdad is increasingly [...]
Leaked Video Shows US Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians Employees of the US military contracting group Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide) are seen in new leaked video shooting their machine guns at random while driving through the streets of Baghdad, crashing into other cars and even running over [...]
By David Model (about the author) opednews.com This page has been pointing out the terror tactics involved in Drone warfare for quite some time. Obama is possibly the worst Presient the US has produced. The electoral system there is corrupt and simply a plaything for the elite and their money backed up by ruthless media propaganda. [...]
Illustration by Victor Juhasz Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out? By MATT TAIBBI March 14, 2012 10:55 AM ET At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail [...]
Nine Years Out of Government and Pinning Hopes on Those Who Challenge it!! By davidswanson - Posted on 19 March 2012 By Ann Wright Nine years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State in opposition to President Bush’s war on Iraq. A lot of water has gone under [...]
Allow Failure To Fail Bank of America teetering on the edge of collapse By Matt Taibbi March 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — There are two things every American needs to know about Bank of America. The first is that it’s corrupt. This bank has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it [...]
Pentagon Requests Mightier Bomb to Attack Iran The 30,000-pound bunker-busters are designed to penetrate Iran’s underground nuclear facilities by John Glaser, January 28, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon has decided that its largest conventional bomb isn’t capable of destroying Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment facilities and has ordered efforts to make it more powerful. The 30,000-pound [...]
An unmanned Predator drone of the type operating along the Afhanistan-Pakistan border. Photograph: Rex Features/Sipa Press By June 2004, it was confirmed that the US was using torture at secret detention sites and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was in that month that piles of “torture memos” were released to the public. Torture did not officially end until [...]
Victory for Internet Freedom: Obama Announces Opposition to SOPA, Congress Shelves Bill The Protect IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act have generated intense opposition because of their crackdown on Internet freedom–and that opposition just won big. January 15, 2012 | isguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to [...]
Ex-Taliban militants surrender under a US-backed Afghan amnesty in Herat. Peace moves with the Taliban appear to have stalled over the transfer of Guantánamo prisoners. Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA You may wonder just how obvious it has become that Guantanamo is set to be the place where those against the idea of endless war to support [...]
New US Strategy in Asia is Just Old US Hegemony by John Glaser, January 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama administration has announced a new defense strategy for the country based on slightly slimmer armed forces, more drones and special ops, and a renewed focus on Asia-Pacific due to China’s supposed military build-up. [...]
New National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan: War Still a Stalemate Classified Data Refutes Pentagon Claims War Is Going Well by Jason Ditz, January 11, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama Administration’s repeated claims that the occupation of Afghanistan is going swimmingly and that major progress [...]
Obama Spins ‘New’ Global Military Strategy as Massive Change ‘Leaner’ Military Will Keep Costing More by Jason Ditz, January 05, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama held a high-profile press conference at the Pentagon briefing room today to dot the I’s and cross [...]
Obama’s Weapons Welfare to Tyrannies Gets Applause John Glaser, January 03, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum I wrote last week about the Obama administration’s $11 billion deal to send Iraq military arms and equipment, despite the descent into tyranny of the Maliki government. That same day, it was announced that the Obama administration [...]
HENTOFF: Obama drones kill citizens: Where’s the law? By NAT HENTOFF, NEA Columnist | 0 comments The New York Times’ incisive public editor, Arthur Brisbane, asks a question that has not been raised by any Republican battlers for the presidency. Congressional Democrats loyal to the incumbent are also silent: “There remains,” says Brisbane, “no clear accounting of the legal [...]
Propaganda, Theirs and Ours: Assad’s Lies Ought to be as Transparent as Obama’s John Glaser, October 31, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently appeared on Russian television to discuss the current crisis in his country. He reiterated what he has held for months as the [...]
White House Rejects Calls for Oversight on Drone Killings Officials Insist Congress Doesn’t Need Details by Jason Ditz, December 30, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum For quite some time this site has been warning about the use of drones and the [...]
In eroding civil liberties, Barack Obama finishes what George Bush began: James Gill Ron Paul, who is expected to fare well in next week’s Iowa caucuses, is also attracting passionate support in various other states, including Louisiana. Nobody gives him any chance of winning the GOP nomination, however. He wants, for instance to repeal the Patriot Act, so named, in the [...]
Britain Asks US to Hand Over Bagram Detainee-For-Life The US government did not respond to Britain’s request by the required deadline by John Glaser, December 21, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In response to a court order, the British government has asked the U.S. to return to their custody [...]
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war By Karen DeYoung, Published: December 20 Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top official in the Haqqani insurgent network, as a counterterrorism victory. The identities [...]
Iran‘s pursuit of nuclear arms has less to do with Israel and more to do with the threat posed by the US [GALLO/GETTY] US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta made some perhaps unintentionally interesting remarks regarding US policy toward Iran earlier this month, and it is fair to suppose that the venue in which he [...]
The Obama administration provides more foreign aid to Israel than to any other country [GALLO/GETTY] Washington, DC - Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post. Glick, a dual citizen of [...]
Detained Colorado Mall-Goer Told Dick Cheney Iraq War Was ‘Disgusting’ by Jason Ditz, December 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Publicly criticizing the Iraq War has been the pretext for a lot of flimsy government actions, but does hearing someone publicly criticize the occupation [...]
Droning On Someday soon, you’ll be checking your new Clear Skies app as a routine part of your preparations to go out for the evening. First, you’ll look at your smart gizmo to read your latest email to make sure there hasn’t been any change in plans. A quick glance at Facebook lets you see [...]
Here in Australia our slavish and sycophantic adoration of US world policies mean in the long run that we just as much as those in the US government who were responsible, believe just as passionately in torture as they do. It is a vicious circle that must be broken. The [...]
This is what seems a somewhat misguided piece on Iran. But that is a matter for you to decide once you have looked at this and any other material. As far as Iran is concerned there is a real threat to its existence posed directly by Israel just as Israel is a threat [...]
Ahmed Kamel, 12-year old Iraqi, victim of US cluster bomb US Moves to Overturn Ban on Cluster Bombs Cluster bombs are widely deemed inherently indiscriminate weapons, but the US aims to torpedo international ban by John Glaser, November 10, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is leading an effort to water down an international [...]
US to Have Military Presence, Prop Up Afghan Government Well Past 2014 No settlement with the Taliban is possible before 2014, so the U.S. plan is to continue the mission for the foreseeable future by John Glaser, November 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum There is very little chance for a political [...]
Public Pressure Is Slowly Ending Afghanistan War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/public-pressure-slowly-ending-afghanistan-war Feints and baby steps in the direction of eventually ending a massive crime are not enough. Hoping to meet a distant deadline for ending a war that cannot be justified for a single day is not enough. A new misunderstanding [...]
Uzbekistan and Obama’s Indictable Commitment to Tyranny John Glaser, October 26, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum It’s amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration’s increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I’ve written previously, the Uzbek government is one [...]
Drone warfare headqyarters New US Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational by John Glaser, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter Scott Horton, October 25, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how the Obama administration pushed hard for an extended Iraq troop presence, got rejected, then spun it as fulfillment of a campaign promise; why the Iraq War’s [...]
The Return of Barbarism How imperialism corrupts the soul of America by Justin Raimondo, October 24, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “We came, we saw, he died,” babbled our notoriously bloodthirsty Secretary of State as news of Moammar Gadhafi’s grisly murder hit the headlines. Throwing her arms up in a gesture of mock-triumph, she averred – [...]
Warmonger and liar. It is difficult from this side of the planet to imagine the depths of despair Obama has introduced into the lives of decent US citizens. It is not just a matter of breaking promises, but he has done far more often than not the exact opposite of what he [...]
US President Barack Obama greets congressional leadership before signing the Iran Sanctions Bill [EPA] A week after news of an alleged Iranian assassination plot in Washington rocked the international scene, public details remain scant. The Obama administration – including the president himself – has spoken with unequivocal certitude regarding the Iranian government’s intentions and [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Jason Ditz Scott Horton, October 18, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses his post “Impasse: US Says No Breakthrough in Iraq Talks;” the disagreement on prosecutorial immunity for US soldiers remaining in Iraq; envisioning a State Department-led occupation run out of the [...]
A secret US memo authorised the killing of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for his alleged role in an al-Qaeda affiliate [EPA] The United States’ recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen has prompted renewed debate over the CIA’s predator drone programme. That the US government asserts the right to eliminate a terrorism suspect far from [...]
Obama Has Awlaki’s 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner 16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed by Jason Ditz, October 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The extra-legal assassination of New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own right, but reports about the assassination targeting some sort [...]
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | October 16, 2011 Angela Keaton, October 16, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | October 16, 2011 IN THIS ISSUE An Iranian assassination plot? No good news from Afghanistan NTC abusing prisoners, fighting resistance Israeli prisoner swap and “price tag” attacks Assorted news from [...]
US Expanding Use of Deadlier Drone Attacks by John Glaser, October 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama administration has expanded the drone war, with active unmanned Predator and Reaper vehicles armed with a 108-pound precision-strike missiles known as Hellfire II wreaking blood and carnage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. [...]
Government by Death Panel By David Sirota Remember the good ol’ days when Republicans were running around the country screaming that Democrats’ proposal to fund voluntary end-of-life counseling would somehow create a government-sanctioned death panel? Ooh boy, the heartland was ablaze back then. Wracked by anger at a Democrat occupying the White House, an enraged Middle [...]
No Direct Evidence of Iranian Government Complicity in Plot The Obama administration continues to claim the Iranian government helped orchestrate the plot, while admitting evidence is lacking by John Glaser, October 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum United States officials in the Obama administration and Justice Department have explicitly claimed that Iran’s supreme [...]
Veterans for Peace Denounces Obama’s Assassination Policy Eric Garris, October 04, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum From Veterans for Peace: As of September 29, 2011, we are only one step away from a government where the top official can kill anybody, anywhere, any time he feels it necessary – and do it in [...]
White House: Secret Panel Can Order Americans Assassinated Officials Say Process Will Remain a Secret by Jason Ditz, October 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In comments made through the media today, a number of top Obama Administration officials, including White House spokesman Tommy Vietor, confirmed that there is a “secret panel” which [...]
