rt.com An Israeli Border Police officer has been caught on video kicking a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank. The police have launched a probe into the incident, documented by an Israeli human rights organization. The footage shows a 9-year-old boy walking down the road when a […]
By Pat Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that […]
From the Huffington Post The Bolivian president and a Russian political leader have launched a joint effort to have President Barack Obama stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize. As Forbes is reporting, Russian Liberal Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement Monday saying that the prize, awarded to […]
“Screw Uganda, guys: Nigeria’s a better backdoor!” From Atlanta Blackstar. ______________ In an effort to help it deal with the brutal violence of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, the Nigerian government has given the U.S. the authority to conduct strikes against the group on Nigerian soil with […]
By Pat Buchanan In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America? Straussians, writes Gottfried, “wish to present the construction of government […]
By Paul Gottfried The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht den Euro nicht (Germany does not need the euro) tells you everything you might want to know about why the […]
By Gabe Fisher Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News. A Syrian official denied the claims. According to the article, the four countries are preparing 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft […]
From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]
From the Atlantic Wire. Personally, I find Kickstriker’s campaign parody fucking hilarious, not to mention potentially more effective than Jason Russell’s imperialist-enabling personality cult. Here’s an excerpt from the Kickstriker bid… PLEDGE $50,000 OR MORE 3 BACKERS · Limited Reward (29 of 32 remaining) If Kony is killed […]
schneier.com Bruce Schneier We’re in the early years of a cyberwar arms race. It’s expensive, it’s destabilizing, and it threatens the very fabric of the Internet we use every day. Cyberwar treaties, as imperfect as they might be, are the only way to contain the threat. If you […]
MIGRATION Are Immigration Laws Like Jim Crow? by David Bier Foundation for Economic Education WELFARE STATE Big Lies in Politics by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com MONETARY POLICY How the Euro Will End by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Cato Institute ECONOMICS Hayek on Individualism by Sheldon Richman Foundation for Economic […]
IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events What’s new with Antiwar.com staff and contributors? Congratulations to Gareth Porter, reporter for InterPress Service and frequent Antiwar.com contributor, for winning the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s […]
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From Press.TV Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (file photo)
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From the Huffington Post One of President Barack Obama’s former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video. “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted […]
By Immanuel Wallerstein ntelligence Agency (CIA) that originally meant the unintended negative consequences to a country of its own espionage operations. For example, if a secret CIA operation led to a revenge attack on U.S. individuals who were unaware of the CIA’s operation, this was considered “blowback.” But […]
By Glenn Greenwald In 2005, Karl Rove sparked widespread outrage by accusing liberal critics of President Bush’s Terrorism programs of sympathizing with and wanting to coddle The Terrorists: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks andwanted to prepare […]
Kerry Bolton is interviewed by Richard Spencer. The United Nations General Assembly Author Kerry Bolton joins Richard to discuss geopolitics and the intersection of global finance, war, and foreign policy. In particular, they examine the “conspiracy theories” regarding major events like the Second World War and the Cold […]
By Thomas Naylor When MSNBC host Chris Hayes had the audacity in his pre-Memorial Day show to question whether every American soldier was entitled to be called a “hero,” he unleashed a virtual firestorm in cyberspace and elsewhere. He had clearly asked the right question, a question that […]
By Chris Bray Illustration by Miguel Davilla On a September afternoon in the peacetime year of 1821, a regiment of Rhode Island militia completed its annual review and prepared to go home. Suddenly the regiment’s parade field in Providence became the scene of a spontaneous military riot. In […]
By Justin Raimondo On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, proffered a resolution declaring: “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all […]
cryptogon.com Via: AP: Suicides are surging among America’s troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation’s decade of war. The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action […]
rt.com Seven UN peacekeepers have been killed in a remote area of southwestern Ivory Coast. They were ambushed during a mission to protect civilians threatened by attack. Over 40 of their colleagues who stayed on guard remain in danger, the UN said. A group of peacekeepers were on […]
Listen to the interview. May 25, 2012 Robert Stark interviews Paul Craig Roberts. Topics include: PCR’s role in the Reagan administration and supply-side economics; How job outsourcing was engineered by Wall Street and corporations; The military-industrial complex; Neoconservatives, foreign policy in the Middle East, and war with Iran; […]
June 8th, 2012 Libertarian Party [Prediction: The Ron Paul movement will eventually split into two camps. One will be a more system-friendly movement for whom Rand Paul is the figurehead. The other will be a more radically anti-state movement whose radicalism surpasses that of Ron Paul. The latter […]
By Doug Casey There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in this publication. But it occurs to me that I’ve never discussed the topic myself in any detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. […]
From the Guardian. In other news, Gary Glitter has been appointed chairman of UNICEF… _______________ by David Smith With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN’s choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk. […]
RT.com Around 12,000 troops from more than 19 nations are wrapping up a massive military training drill in the Middle East. But for some of those servicemen, these exercises might be just the beginning of something much bigger to come. The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are […]
By Justin Raimondo We might as well get rid of Memorial Day, for all the good it does us. Originally “Decoration Day,” the last Monday in May has been the designated time for us to remember the war dead and honor their sacrifice – while, perhaps, taking in […]
By David McElroy It’s Memorial Day in the United States, a day we set aside to remember men and women who’ve died in wars. Politicians make a lot of speeches today and lay a lot of wreaths, but the best way to honor the fallen would be to […]
From the Tehran Times KUALA LUMPUR — It’s official — George W. Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty […]
By David Swanson (Remarks prepared for Richmond Peace Education Center Event in Richmond, Va., May 24, 2012) I have a friend who’s a compulsive liar. OK it’s not a friend. It’s my television. And my newspaper. According to them, the United States, as one among equals, in coalition […]
Tom Naylor is interviewed by Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor (left). Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of […]
By Justin Raimondo A recent Rasmussen poll has 51 percent of Americans favoring the pullout of all US troops from Europe – and yet not a single major American politician would even consider endorsing such a move. Why is that? I thought politicians were supposed to be consummate opportunists, whose […]
By Anthony Gregory If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false, the administration […]
This amuses me on many a level. From the Huffington Post… _____________ Over five centuries after the famed explorer’s death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage across the Atlantic — and how his faith may have played into those […]
By Alexander Cockburn The news is in. White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The Bureau of the Census confirms that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 of all births in the year ending July, 2011, while minorities including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of […]
By Paul Atwood The Great Recession is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and, like the aftermath of Katrina, or the BP calamity, or the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, is a man-made disaster. Many signs point to worse tidings. Many of us who live in this […]
By Kevin Carson A Twitter friend of mine recently recounted a conversation with another friend — not a self-described anarchist — who spontaneously concluded that voting was useless. “I think it’s insane to think that people who are in the kind of power that only government and capitalism […]
From the Chicago Tribune The NATO protesters marching in the South Loop on Sunday were mostly peaceful when they were in Grant Park. They’re opposed to violence, opposed to the war in Afghanistan. The only argument I became involved in was with the slightly militant vegans, like the […]
When the system fails it will be civilian insurgents and remnants of the military on one side, and mercenaries and the police state on the other.
By Justin Raimondo This is the question puzzling Paul’s friends, as well as his enemies. A recentannouncement by the campaign that the anti-interventionist Congressman andpresidential candidate is not spending money in the remaining primary states provoked a Drudge headline: “Paul Out.” That is the GOP Establishment’s fondest wish, but the reality is that Paul is far […]
abcnews.go.com BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and LEE FERRAN American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, speaks during a news conference held by the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu’s Afgoye district in Somalia, May 11, 2011. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo) An Alabama […]
By Gabriel Kolko Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too. America’s crisis is both military and economic; they are interrelated because America has a huge deficit, in large part because it has the chimerical ambition to be the world’s dominating military power, which costs […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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