Pentagon Propaganda ‘Fiasco’ Gets Scrutiny in House Wasteful war propaganda and the dirty deeds of the Pentagon‘s corporate contractors are exposed by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This A member of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday threatened an amendment to block funding for Pentagon propaganda efforts, citing reports critical of their management and [...]
Gen Martin E Dempsey speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. The course was suspended when a student objected to the material. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina [...]
A cartoon included in the Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “Jihad: Defined and Operationalized” contains a number of ugly stereotypes.Hundreds of US military officers have enrolled in the course on Islamic radicalism since it was first offered four years ago at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics For [...]
“As the centers of American power were seized and hijacked by corporations, the media continued to pay deference to systems of power that could no longer be considered honest or democratic. The media treat criminals on Wall Street as responsible members of the ruling class. They treat the criminals in the [...]
Obama Misleads on Afghanistan, Claims Victory and Promises Withdrawal The war has not only failed, it will continue for another decade by John Glaser, May 05, 2012 Print This | Share This In his weekly address, President Obama promised to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of 2014 and to start wasting money here at home, instead of [...]
link to interactive map- a must to look at to see the real position http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/04/2012417131242767298.html Doha, Qatar - US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance somewhat towards Iran’s favour. While US forces [...]
Obama in Afghanistan to Sign Deal to Continue War Through 2024 President Sneaks Into Country to Sign Document, Bypasses Congress by Jason Ditz, May 01, 2012 Print This | Share This Months of “not quite public” Obama Administration efforts to negotiate a still-secret pact to ensure that US troops will [...]
COLUMNS The Long, Hot March of Climate Change By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. LISTEN Related articles The Long, Hot March of Climate [...]
Update On War Crime Those Laboratory Mice Were Children By Karlos Zurutuza April 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — FALLUJAH, Iraq, Apr 13, 2012 (IPS) – At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don’t want to talk. “Families bury their [...]
(Credit: Salon) For a few years now this page has consistently warned about the murder machines that are proliferating at the moment. They fit into what Orwell described so well in 1984. First they alleviate the need for a great deal of hand to hand combat and can fill the dual purpose of murdering the enemy and [...]
U.S. Army soldiers in four-wheel vehicles wait as bundles of fuel are air delivered by a C-17 Globemaster III to Forward Operating Base Waza K’wah in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Jan. 30, 2011. (Photo: The U.S. Army) Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War? A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic [...]
War porn: The new safe sex By Pepe Escobar (This is the much-abridged version of a conference at the XII Seminar of Political Solidarity at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, March 27, 2012.) The early 21st century is addicted to war porn, a prime spectator sport consumed by global couch and digital potatoes. War porn [...]
After Bales’ Arrest, Military Tried to Delete Him from Web Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:32By David Goldstein, Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers | Report Washington – Besides waiting nearly a week before identifying the Army staff sergeant who’s accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers, the U.S. military scrubbed its websites of references to [...]
A US soldier‘s massacre of 16 civilians is Afghanistan’s My Lai moment, says Escobar [EPA] “We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig… cow after cow… village after village… army after army…” – Colonel Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse NowHong Kong - It started way before a lone killer, a US Army [...]
Bradley Manning has been charged on 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks [...]
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 [...]
Published on Friday, February 24, 2012 by Truthdig.com Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time When the entertainment industry gets in bed with the Pentagon, censorship is inevitable by David Sirota When philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” he meant it [...]
It is hardly surprising to see a US position where secret armies are to be used to continue the policy of global containment (substitute imperialism if you prefer). To those people who voted for a real killer menace in Obama it must be a daily tragedy to see the use of force is [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Paying Millions in Cash to Families of ‘Collateral Damage’ by John Glaser, January 23, 2012 link to article http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/23/u-s-paying-millions-in-cash-to-families-of-collateral-damage/ | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon has a practice called “condolence payments.” This is when U.S. commanders pay surviving family members thousands of dollars for every civilian they’ve killed. After a [...]
Pfc Manning is just one of the ranks of US military whistleblowers [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about… civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as uplifting acts of philanthropy: [...]
Resist U.S. Imperialist War Threats On Iran By Sara Flounders http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30321.htm January 21, 2012 “IAC” — January 18, 2012 –There is growing apprehension that through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or a staged false flag operation, a U.S. war with Iran is [...]
Former Liberian Ruler ‘Worked for CIA’ Pentagon Discloses Taylor Ties, Offers No Details by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report today in the Boston Globe has revealed that former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor had ties with both the CIA and the Pentagon’s internal spy agency [...]
The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam Transcript – Public Lecture – Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 By Prof. Francis A Boyle 06/22/06 “Information Clearing House“ – — Kuala Lumpur – Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America [...]
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is “Aggression” By Kevin Carson January 14, 2012 “C4SS” – The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new “defense” guidance document: “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.” I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite [...]
Engelhardt, Superpower Adrift in an Alien World Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:33am, January 12, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Our deepest thanks to those of you whose early contributions are already giving TomDispatch a good financial start in 2012. Keep in mind that anyone wanting to contribute $75 or more to this site [...]
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 [...]
Photo: U.S. Air ForceAccording to Wired’s Danger Room blog, a full 31 percent of all military aircraft are drones. This figure shows a massive uptick from 2005 when just 5 percent of military aircraft were drones. New Report Details Extent of US Military Reliance on Drones A recent Congressional Research Service report documents a staggering [...]
Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012 Posted by Michael Klare at 9:37am, January 10, 2012. Last week, the president made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to unveil a new strategic plan for U.S. military policy (and so spending) over the next decade. Let’s leave the specifics to a future TomDispatch post and focus instead on a historical footnote: [...]
The Pentagon will delay acquisition of more than 100 early-model Joint Strike Fighters, a bid to save up-front money and to give more time for testers to work out the finicky F-35 warplane’s many technical kinks. That much was expected: The real surprise is that a newly cash-conscious Defense Department still seems fully committed to buying nearly [...]
Many of the key points in President Obama’s new blueprint for the next decade of U.S. defense strategy are straightforward. More spy gear; more special forces; fewer land wars; Asia, Asia, Asia. Whatever you think of the merits of those points, at least they’re internally consistent. Others… not so much. Sometimes the analysis in [...]
Shake hands with Master of Triple Speak Into the Tumbrils With Them by ALEXANDER COCKBURN One of the dubious virtues of double speak is that it fills a space. Students refer to that technique as waffle and it is a major weapon in making what is [...]
How Washington Lies About Cutting Defense Budgets John Glaser, January 04, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum At Reason‘s Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been [...]
Why Not Attack Iran? By David Swanson, DontAttackIran.org The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. AtDontAttackIran.org we’ve been collecting the arguments for and against attacking Iran for years. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Your government is slated to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to purchase, maintain and operate our massive nuclear arsenal. The costs include everything from new nuclear bombers, submarines and bomb factories to the huge but unknown costs of deploying and maintaining thousands of nuclear weapons. It’s an outrage that we [...]
How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again. By Dan Froomkin December 30, 2011 “Information Clearing House” - Reports about the end of the war in Iraq routinely describe the toll on the U.S. military the way the Pentagon does: 4,487 dead, and 32,226 wounded. The death count is accurate. But the [...]
Pentagon Propaganda Programmers Pardoned; Pro-War News at Eleven by Jeff HuberThe man who was perhaps the last of the true investigative reporters on the Pentarchy beat may have just taken a swan dive into the canvas. . For years, David Barstow of the New York Times, amid a phalanx of thewarmongery’s favorite echo chamberlains, the likes of [...]
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules by John Glaser, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication [...]
Making Repression Our Business The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East By Nick Turse As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some [...]
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 [...]
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani pledged to ‘defend the sovereignty of the country at all costs’ following the attack. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty AUS military investigation into the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in repeated air strikes by American warplanes on two border outposts last month has found that both sides were to blame after a chain [...]
The Pentagon has admitted significant responsibility for an attack on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last month that left 24 Pakistani solders dead. A military investigation found U.S. and Afghan commandos incorrectly determined there were no Pakistani forces in the area before the air strike. U.S. officials then provided inaccurate data to a Pakistani [...]
Making Repression Our Business The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East By Nick Turse As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some [...]
Topics: iran ♦ leon panetta ♦ panetta The Pentagon on Tuesday sought to play down remarks by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who has suggested Iran’s nuclear program could be on a faster track than previously suspected. In an interview with CBS News, Panetta said Iran could have anuclear weapon in a year or possibly sooner and that the timeline might be different if Tehran [...]
The Pentagon hasn’t come close to solving the PTSD crisis plaguing the current generation of troops. And the top brass looks like it’s ready to try anything — like a major push into a cutting-edge, controversial realm of treatment. One that’d see military personnel popping a pill to wipe away the fear [...]
Military Spending is the Weakest Job Creator by Miriam Pemberton Even before the supercommittee’s demise, the defense industry and its Pentagon and congressional allies were making preemptive strikes on the next phase: the automatic cuts, half of them from defense, that are supposed to follow the supercommittee’s failure. And with national unemployment rates stuck near 9 [...]
Nick Turse, Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring? Posted by Nick Turse at 9:22am, December 13, 2011. [For TomDispatch Readers: Thanks to all of you who are sending in end-of-the-year contributions. For $75 (or more), you can still get my new book, The United States of Fear, autographed to you -- or to a friend [...]
