Still In Vietghanistan by Abby Zimet With ongoing news of atrocities by U.S. forces and a new poll finding that just 23% of Americans, the lowest rate ever, support the Afghanistan War, a former Marine in Vietnam and currentVeterans For Peace president wonders why people ask him about the “rules of war” governing dead bodies – as though there [...]
Uprooting Trees and Lives by Abby Zimet The latest lofty move by the Middle East‘s self-professed only democracy: Israel has orderedPalestinian farmers in Deir Istiya, a major West Bank olive producing village, to uproot at least 1,400 trees they have tended for generations because…..umm. Petition to halt the largest of years of such actions, currently at a stand-off thanks to protests by residents and [...]
By Sherwood Ross (about the author) By Sherwood Ross The U.S. should end all aid to Israel if it attacks Iran, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk says. It should “tell Israel outright that both American money and American political and military support will end should it decide to drag America into another Middle [...]
If Iran Had Nuclear Weapons Most Arab People Would Feel Safer By Noam Chomsky The Arab dictators may be in America’s pocket but, says Noam Chomsky, polls show repeatedly that it is the United States and Israel that are viewed as the greatest threat to the vast majority of the Arab [...]
In 1953, a coup backed by the US and UK overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran [AP] Melbourne, Australia - With the momentous convulsion in the Middle East sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi’s martyrdom in January 2011, it is time to ask what happened to the question which for long dominated Western discourse on the Middle East: Is [...]
Article and video at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/22/palestinian-children-detained-jail-israel The room is barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which has no escape in the windowless room. The rough concrete walls deter idle leaning; the constant overhead light inhibits sleep. The delivery of [...]
Top Israeli Official Slams Obama For Not Being More Hostile to Iran Vice PM Blames ‘Election-Year Considerations’ by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum It should not take long for Australia’s puppy dog politicians [...]
The Boston Globe called U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul a “Republican maverick”. The label has been attached to Paul primarily because he differs from the other Republican presidential candidates on foreign policy. Said The Globe after the presidential debate In Des Moines, Iowa on December 10th: “While most of the Republican candidates are open to military action against Iran, [...]
: Occupy Wall Street: Why Now? What’s Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street by Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom Naomi Klein: One of the things that’s most mysterious about this moment is “Why now?” People have been fighting austerity measures and calling out abuses by the banks for a couple of years, with [...]
World public opinion of the US military and its operations has soured after 9/11 [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Portents of declining US and Western prestige marked the closing months of 2011. There is of course the ongoing economic crisis, and the inability to respond to it effectively. But another sign was the rapidity with [...]
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 evidence mounts up to the effect that all war is a crime. It is no stretch of the imagination or torture of what we know and perceive to reach that firm conclusion. The damage done is enormous which is why to an extent talking of money costs not only [...]
] Technocratic governments – such as Papademos’ in Greece - tend towards oligarchy, not democracy [Reuters You can only wonder why it should be a matter of some wonder that when the capitalist system of democracy wants to fix itself and it calls for the services of the completely unfeeling, uncaring technocrat that anything but another more potent [...]
There is ’the highest possible need for co-operation between the US and China‘, author says [EPA] New York, NY - In January 2010, a Google executive announced “a new approach to China” in a blog post, revealing that the firm had “detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack… originating from China” and that it would reconsider business operations there. [...]
On December 16, Haaretz writer Barak Ravid headlined, “Secret EU paper aims to tackle Israel‘s treatment of Arab minority,” saying: Haaretz obtained parts of “a classified working paper produced by European embassies in Israel….” The “unprecedented document” addresses internal Israeli issues. It was written without Israel’s knowledge. It also covers Israeli peace process intransigency, its self-characterization as [...]
I often say that critics of Israel and America’s unconditional support for it are wrong to call the monster that has Congress by the testicles the “Israel lobby“. That description of it implies that it speaks for all Israelis. It does not and in Ha’aretz recently there was a remarkably good analysis of what’s happening in Israel which illustrates, proves, my [...]
‘Price Tag’ Attack: West Bank Mosque Set on Fire Fire Only Damaged Entrance, Locals Say by Jason Ditz, December 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli police are reporting a new “price tag” attack in [...]
Palestine Israel History and Theirstory. (Part 2/4) by DR. CHRISTOF LEHMANN on NOVEMBER 19, 2011 Palestine Israel History and Theirstory. (Part 1 here) The Necessity of a Teleological Approach to the Language of the Discourse. The Palestinian Israeli conflict has lasted for decades, with unimaginable human suffering involved on both sides. This suffering was [...]
Image via Wikipedia Wartime Contracting Commission Classifies Findings for Next 20 Years Although the Commission on Wartime Contracting was created to expose waste and abuse, their records are sealed until 2031 by John Glaser, October 25, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has decided to not reveal [...]
Israeli military covers up evidence showing Eilat attack was not carried out by Palestinians by HAITHAM SABBAH on OCTOBER 25, 2011 After a shooting attack on an Israeli bus and truck two months ago which killed five civilians and three soldiers, Israeli military officials immediately claimed that a Palestinian resistance group was responsible. But an Israeli [...]
Empire and Hegemony Chomsky in various publications deals with the position of the global imperial project and the role that the hegemons play in that sphere of action. There really is no point or there may be no point in discussing whether the one concept includes the other once you [...]
Malalai Joya’s Message on the Anniversary of the Afghanistan Invasion Eric Garris, October 09, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum A message from former Afghan MP and Parliamentarian in the National Assembly Malalai Joya. She was ousted for denouncing the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan parliament. She is the [...]
David Petraeus (Credit: AP/Salon) MONDAY, OCT 3, 2011 11:01 PM AUS EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME The Petraeus projection: The CIA director’s record since the surge Hero worship hides the military failures of the CIA director’s “global killing machine” BY FRED BRANFMAN TOPICS:DAVID PETRAEUS Few issues are more important to America’s future than reducing the threat [...]
How Congress Sees the Middle East Through AIPAC-Colored Glasses by MEDEA BENJAMIN and ALLISON McCRACKEN During August recess this year, 81 members of Congress went on a junket to Israel funded by the Israel lobby group AIPAC (well, funded by the American Israel Education Fund, but they are really one and the same) to “learn [...]
The following are a list of debates featuring Noam Chomsky on a range of topics. · Noam Chomsky debates Ian Williams in Foreign Policy in Focus.. August 3 – September 1, 2009. · Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers. Discussion with Robert Trivers. September 6, 2006. · Chat With Chomsky. With Washington Post readers. March 24, 2006. · Science [...]
There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave the Military Industrial Complex By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/there-must-be-50-ways-leave-military-industrial-complex And we heard all of them from two dozen brilliant speakers during a three-day conference this past weekend. If you missed it, the video is all online. So is the text of many of the papers presented. Here are a few excerpts to [...]
Israel issues 3 demolition orders to Bedouins in Jordan Valley Published yesterday (updated) 18/09/2011 21:28 Israeli bulldozers clear the way for the Separation wall near a Palestinian Bedouin family on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 2007. [MaanImages/Jared Malsin] TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued three demolition orders on Sunday to residents of [...]
Liberticidal anti-terror laws must go’ International rights advocacy group says laws used pretext of fighting “terror” to legalise discrimination and torture. Asad Hashim Last Modified: 09 Sep 2011 20:32 Baudouin, left, says his group is afraid it will be difficult to undo what has been done in the past decade [FIDH] As the United States positioned [...]
Much of the US public believed falsehoods about Iraq in 2003, a major reason why the anti-war movement failed [Reuters] Combating ignorance, avoiding arrogance The American public often hides in ‘willed ignorance’ about the world around them. Robert Jensen Last Modified: 13 Sep 2011 11:38 After 9/11 it became immediately clear that US leaders were [...]
The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux Using Privilege to Challenge the StateNoam Chomsky A San Francisco mural depicting Archbishop Óscar Romero / Photograph: Franco Folini Since we often cannot see what is happening before our eyes, it is perhaps not too surprising that what is at a slight distance removed is utterly invisible. We have just [...]
September 11 commemorations were everywhere this past weekend. My own view is that the devastating attacks of September 11 were, along with an enormous human tragedy, a huge crime, a crime against humanity. But they did not threaten our country’s existence, they did not threaten our democracy. It was the acts of September 12, when [...]
The Israeli cabined approved a plan which enforces the relocation of 30,000 Bedu [GALLO/GETTY] Bedouin transfer plan shows Israel’s racism The Israeli cabinet accepted plans to relocate Bedouin villages to government-approved towns. Ben White Last Modified: 13 Sep 2011 12:57 Recently the Israeli cabinet approved a major plan for the Negev that seeks to “relocate” an estimated [...]
US-Supported Afghan Militias Commit Widespread Human Rights Abuses A Human Rights Watch report details impunity of criminal gangs, off the hook due to ties to corrupt Afghan officials by John Glaser, September 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US-supported Afghan militias are committing widespread human rights abuses, but neither Washington or Kabul are [...]
US Troops in Libya to ‘Secure Embassy’ Stretched ‘no boots on ground’ pledge now broken? by Jeremy Sapienza, September 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Before American involvement in NATO’s attack on the Gadhafi regime began, the administration insisted there would be “no US boots on the ground” in Libya. That promise has [...]
9/11 Serves as Reminder for Iraqis of Excuse for US Occupation by Jason Ditz, September 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the ten year anniversary a chance for Americans to reflect on the enormous losses of 9/11, Iraqis too are looking back at what they lost after the Bush [...]
The Cold War and Long War are over—it’s time to return to reality. By Andrew Bacevich | September 7, 2011 The tide of war is receding. … It is time to focus on nation building here at home. —President Obama, June 22 Ideology makes people stupid. Employing ideology as the basis for policy is [...]
The U.S. Response to 9/11 Cost Us Far More Than the Attacks Themselves LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: The September 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. September 6, 2011 | The September 11, [...]
Settlers are building homes in the West Bank at almost twice the pace that they are being constructed inside Israel, anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Wednesday. The group said analysis of aerial photographs and field visits to settlements in the West Bank showed a vast disparity between construction inside Israel and in [...]
Quick military ‘victories’ in Afghanistan and Iraq soon proved to be illusory [EPA] The imperial delusions of the United States Almost ten years after the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy remains aggressive and unrealistic. Robert Jensen Last Modified: 07 Sep 2011 12:47 Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, [...]
As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible exciting bloody conflict. Israel’s leading news outletYnet, published yesterday a detailed comparison between Israel’s and Turkey’s military capacity – it outlines the size of the air force, navy, ground forces in the respective countries. “Turkey”, it says, [...]
Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’ Tensions Rise as Whistleblower Reveals Israeli Effort to Start a US War With Iran by Jason Ditz, September 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though tensions in the relationship between the US and Israeli governments rarely get aired in public, there is a general sense in media reporting [...]
Israel’s Anti-democratic Enterprise By George Polley Israel as a Jewish state is unworkable for one simple reason: non-Jews are treated differently than Jews, leaving non-Jews in a lesser-than position in which they have fewer rights than Jews, and are required to carry a special identification card that identifies them as non-Jews, and must be surrendered [...]
Torture’s dark beginnings Joshua E.S. Phillips has shed light on the subject of detainee abuse by the US armed forces By Alice Johnson, Staff Writer Published: 00:00 September 2, 2011 1Share Image Credit: Supplied Joshua E.S. Phillips has also made a radio documentary that focused on a battalion which served in Iraq. After five [...]
US Envoy: Israel Considers Any Protest an Excuse to Use Military by Jason Ditz, September 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Whenever Israeli troops rough up civilian protesters, it is shrugged off as an isolated incident. One of the WikiLeaks cables, however, shows that it was explicit military policy to abuse civilians [...]
How US firms profited from torture flights Court documents show how a network of US private companies profited from rendition operations. Photograph: Alamy Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies reddit this Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 31 August 2011 21.20 BST Article history The [...]
Ornithologists make homes for owls in Israel Published Thursday 25/08/2011 (updated) 27/08/2011 11:49 A Jordanian farmer holding a barn owl during a joint seminar in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu on June 13, 2010. [MaanImages/Hagai Aharon] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An ornithologist in Israel has overcome superstitions to help owls settle in Arab villages in the lower [...]
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
Kabul police’s turf war with Afghan troops risked British Council rescue When the British Council compound in Kabul was attacked on Friday by insurgents city police sent away Afghan commandos. A New Zealand SAS soldier died during the rescue of two council teachers. Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA Insurgent attack on British Council workers thwarted [...]
Envoy: China to support Palestinian UN bid Published yesterday (updated) 24/08/2011 23:22 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Chinese Middle East envoy Wu Sike announced his country’s full support on Wednesday for the Palestinian UN bid for recognition in September. Secretary-General of the Presidency At-Tayeb Abdul Rahim met with the Chinese envoy in the presidential headquarters in [...]
