Land of the Un-free and Mind Controlled Just discovered this in my Draft folder – forwarding a Washington Post article acknowledging ten political atrocities which remain a dirty, unspoken secret in America. (Scroll to the bottom.) (I highly recommend this news source: WantToKnow.info, by Fred Burks.) Here’s to waking up. ~Jean “James Madison [...]
True Democracy Still Far Off By Gibson Nyikadzino April 03, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — It is fact that in many – if not all ‑ countries of the world, the dominant political discourse consists of ideas put forth by the ruling class. This discourse led Karl Marx to argue that [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. Scott Horton, March 08, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses his endorsement of a full page ad in the Washington Posttitled “Mr. President: Say No [...]
Our Very Own Oscar Night in Rimini By Michael HudsonFebruary 27, 2011 “Counterpunch” — I have just returned from Rimini, Italy, where I experienced one of the most amazing spectacles of my academic life. Four of us associated with the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) were invited to lecture for three days on Modern Monetary [...]
By Shashi Tharoor “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope In a Mumbai Undercity” A book by Katherine Boo This is an astonishing book. It is astonishing at several levels: as a worm’s-eye view of the “undercity” of one of the world’s largest metropolises; as an intensely reported, deeply felt account of the lives, [...]
KAM Workshops (CC-BY-SA) This article concerns what happens when you have taken in the capitalist delusion, hook, line and sinker. You develop a complete trust in the fact that the only way out is to take orders from above. It is a lot like what you could a Good King Wenceslas syndrome. All we need [...]
Money has been at the centre of US politics for decades. Candidate Barack Obama raised $750mn to help him get elected as president. That went down as the most expensive federal election in history - but this year it is due to get even more expensive. “We have a corrupt system where government is responsive to [...]
Lynch in 2003 The military’s ‘fabrication’? No, Jessica Lynch was WaPo’s story In Jessica Lynch, Media myths, Washington Post on January 5, 2012 at 9:15 am A passage in a recent essay at a Washington Post blog demonstrates just how insidious the notion is that the military made up the hero-warrior tale about Army private JessicaLynch in the early days of the Iraq War. The Post’s higher education blog, “College Inc.,” cited “the [...]
Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget By William Blum January 03, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – - “Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done [...]
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 [...]
Although, on the information supplied, this article dos not contain the direct admission in the title it seems a logical conclusion to what has in fact been said. Perhaps more amazing is the fact the Obama could even contemplate making the statement he did when he is occupying centre stage as the [...]
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 [...]
The latest bombings in Baghdad killed 72. (Via Aljazeera) By Ismail Salami – TehranThere is a new fear emerging in Iraq that the country will plunge even more into turmoil and political disequilibrium as the US troops cased in their colors and left behind a country which they helped lay bare to waste and dereliction. [...]
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. [...]
Exploiting the anti-Semitic smear now backfiring A former AIPAC official who attacked CAP writers on Israel may himself be the one to suffer consequences By Glenn Greenwald* (updated below) “I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and [...]
Former NASA astronaut and Senator John Glenn, giving a lecture in 2009, stood up for the health of nuclear industry workers. The Human Face of the Nuclear Arms Race December 6, 2011 · By Robert Alvarez The pernicious quest for nuclear arms all in the name of a “greater good” – has tens of thousands of human [...]
Downed US Drone in Iran Reveals Broader Covert War President Barack Obama promised that “No options off the table means I’m considering all options.” by John Glaser, December 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iran’s recovery of a downed U.S. [...]
CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone Move Couched as ‘Head Fake’ to Trick Iran by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This weekend’s story of Iran shooting down a drone came with [...]
Self-interest rules as US circus makes mockery of democracy Paul McGeough December 6, 2011OPINION Go anywhere in the world these days and the voice of the US is heard – urging, cajoling or sanctioning in the name of freedom and human rights. It might be a big gun, like Hillary Clinton in Burma, or [...]
Israel’s Deadly Drone War in Gaza by Jason Ditz, December 04, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Between the endless blockade, the constant threat of invasion and the internal faction fighting, one would figure life in Gaza couldn’t get much more difficult. But then the drones show up and everybody scatters. Its rarely [...]
WikiLeaks Spy Files Expose Surveillance Industrial Complex John Glaser, December 02, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum WikiLeaks Spy files project should go a long way in educating the public about how intrusive and privacy-violating the government is and how this new high-tech industry – the surveillance industrial complex, as some are calling [...]
WikiLeaks Releases Documents on Government Surveillance Tactics For an ongoing project called Spy files, hundreds of documents on dozens of governments and contractors have been released by John Glaser, December 01, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum WikiLeaks has released secret files shining light on the mass surveillance practices of dozens of governments and the [...]
Image by The U.S. Army via Flickr Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan by James Bovard, Posted November 30, 2011 American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has dumped on Afghanistan [...]
After years of decline, the number of Americans who understand that the planet is indeed warming is rising [GALLO/GETTY] Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until after the [...]
Engelhardt, The Interpretation of American Dreams Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:23am, November 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I have a be-the-first-on-your-block offer to make today. The initial copies of my new book, The United States of Fear, should be in my hands as early as next week -- and immediately autographed and [...]
A mushroom cloud over Bikini Atoll in 1954. Photograph: Corbis There is just no evidence that Iran possesses the type of nuclear capability pictured. Of course the ‘free west’ has had this capability for decades. But we are the forces of good and Iran is being made to look like the forces of evil. Here in [...]
Hegemony or Survival Noam Chomsky debates with Washington Post readers Washington Post, November 26, 2003 In his new book, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance,” intellectual activist Noam Chomskyargues that U.S. policy — the militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, the dismantling of international agreements, and the [...]
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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 [...]
Rebecca Solnit, This Land Is Your (Occupied) Land Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 10:13am, October 18, 2011. The other day in my Manhattan neighborhood, a woman passed me in the street. She was obviously headed for a demonstration somewhere in the big city, with a sign tucked sideways under her arm. I could just make out the [...]
How Barack Obama went from cool to cold ‘Americans want their president to really need them. He doesn’t’: Barack Obama Photograph: guardian.co.uk Barack Obama’s measured approach won him the White House. So why do supporters think he lacks the ‘fierce urgency of now’? reddit this Gary Younge guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 October 2011 19.59 [...]
Wow – over 500,000 people signed in just 5 days — let’s get to a million! Our giant counter is live at Wall St — click below to sign and see the streaming video. Then forward this email! Dear friends, Thousands of Americans have taken over Wall Street — joining a global movement from Madrid [...]
Slovakia rejects Euro bailout expansion plan – Live Slovakia’s prime minister Iveta Radičová faced an uphill struggle in uniting warring factions ahead of a crucial eurozone vote. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP You may think it is interesting to watch the rich trying to extract every last cent from the rest of the world. People [...]
Journalism 101: If a US Official Says It, Report It by Charles Davis, October 10, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In Pakistan, according to American officials, strikes from Predators and Reapers operated by the CIA have killed more than 2,000 militants; the number of civilian casualties is hotly debated. In Yemen last month, an [...]
As we step off the Turkish Air flight and walk across the dusty tarmac to the terminal, we are greeted by a large billboard. In big bold English it proclaims, “Welcome to the Home of the Brave.” It stops me in my tracks. I shake my head, thinking, “damn weird” and continue in to passport [...]
Justice Obstructed at Bagram: 10 Years Is Too Long by Brian Terrell, October 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Despite 10 years of occupation and untold millions of dollars spent on rebuilding Afghanistan’s broken judicial and criminal justice system, the Afghan courts are “still too weak,” The Washington Post reported on Aug. 12, for the [...]
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans OCT 3 2011, 9:10 AM ET 1024 The Department of Justice produced it prior to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But they won’t release it. Outside the U.S. government, President Obama’s order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has [...]
A future for drones: Automated killing By Peter Finn, Published: September 20 One afternoon last fall at Fort Benning, Ga., two model-size planes took off, climbed to 800 and 1,000 feet, and began criss-crossing the military base in search of an orange, green and blue tarp. The automated, unpiloted planes worked on their own, with no [...]
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 [...]
The US has been creating instability for decades. Even the most cursory reading of Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson can confirm not just the fact but also the reasons. Naomi Klein‘s book the Shock Doctrine also illu8strates how western capitalism and imperialism live and breathe instability to further their own aims. The following article by Nick [...]
No big deal? US ambassador’s baffling response to Afghan assault Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, has seen plenty of violence in his career. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP Ryan Crocker was in bullish mood following the 20-hour militant assault on Kabul, but, around him, citizens are suffering reddit this Jeremy Kelly in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Wednesday [...]
How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’ On April 14, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet looked so impotent he might have starred in a Viagra commercial. Tenet had come before the 9/11 Commission for what was sure to be a public flogging. In response, he alternately apologized for the agency’s failure to [...]
US has wasted $30bn on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds An Iraqi worker cleans raw sewage at Rustumiya ruined sewage plant. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says change needed to avoid similar waste in future reddit this Peter Walker guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 August 2011 11.52 [...]
dick be in chains Cheney: Bush Leaked Iraq Strategy Debate Slams Bush for Doing ‘Disservice’ to Troops by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest in a number of revelations coming out of his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that a 2007 leak to [...]
The fact that the landmark trial of Hosni Mubarak is happening at all – in itself a remarkable feat - is glossed over by critics who are quick to point out the flaws in a trial that certainly would not meet Western expectations [EPA] Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more [...]
Yesterday I addressed the frequent absence of clarity, in public discussions of sanctions, regarding the objective that sanctions against any one regime are intended to achieve. Although this lack of specificity about the goal still characterizes all too many comments about sanctioning the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, official positions as well as unofficial commentary have [...]
‘This is the purest people’s revolution there ever was.’ (Aljazeera) By Steve Breyman The Washington Post wonders how those protests in Syria keep going (e.g., Liz Sly, ‘Syrian Revolt Still Spontaneous and Leaderless,’ July 28). Journalistic convention requires that demonstrations have leaders, spokespeople, identifiable representatives. Without someone fitting the preconceived bill, reporters grasp for meaning. [...]
Dope dilemma: should a journalist smoke pot to get a source to open up? Washington Post humour columnist Gene Weingarten has set journalists a problem. I’ve amended it just slightly for a British audience. A reporter is sent to interview a man who can help to reveal a matter of major national importance. It would be [...]
Muslims Bombed Norway! Where’s the Apology? by MOHAMED KHODR on JULY 25, 2011 This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23, 2011. / AP PHOTO As expected the Washington Post‘s subdued non-hysterical coverage of the horrific terrorist attacks in Norway contrasts sharply with the hysterical coverage of [...]
U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes View Photo Gallery — Images from Afghanistan: July 2011: Continued photo coverage of life and war in Afghanistan. Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Karen DeYoung, Monday, July 25, 11:38 AM A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation [...]
