Bradley Manning should win the Nobel Peace Prize
The Guardian Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse at Fort Meade on the third day of his court martial. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
Woman Naxal with rifle held off 250 commandos for six hours: Police
Indian Express For 10 hours on Saturday, around 30 Naxals held off 250 police commandos in this village, killing three cops. One of the Maoists was Raneeta, 32, who, the police said, fought the elite CoBRA commandos for six hours single-handedly, using a .303 rifle, hiding in a […]
Washington Is Insane — Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As […]
Fighting Terrorism by Arming Terrorists
By W. James Antle III The Obama administration appears to be moving toward arming rebels in Syria, though the White House has only publicly confirmed an increase in the “scope and scale” of its military support. By one estimate, seven of nine key rebel combatant groups are Islamist. […]
The Long Haired Conservatives: the Children of ’68 Reconsidered
By Timothy Stanley May 14, 2008 From the vantage point of the early 21st century the American left seems like a hopeless, hapless, very probably lost cause.
Icelandic Legislator: I’m Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum
forbes.com Andy Greenberg Icelandic legislator and Icelandic Modern Media Initiative co-founder Birgitta Jonsdottir When WikiLeaks burst onto the international stage in 2010, the small Nordic nation of Iceland offered it a safe haven. Now American whistleblower Edward Snowden may be seeking that country’s protection, and at least one […]
Israel-Mexico: Military Cooperation to Crush Zapatistas Liberation Movement
Global Research Mexico has gone public about military coordination with Israel in Chiapas, home to the Zapatistas liberation movement. (Image: Omar Torres / AFP/Newscom)
An Anarchist Looks at Memorial Day
By Thomas Knapp “Memorial Day,” according to Wikipedia, “is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May …. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service.” I confess to mixed feelings. On the one […]
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
By John Whitehead “[F]orce alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root; and in the absence of a strategy that reduces the well-spring of extremism, a perpetual war – through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments – will prove […]
A Letter to North American Anarchists from Radical Beirut
Anarchist News Comrades, —- The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how our struggles against the state and dominant power structures are interconnected and the same. Our […]
The Human Cost of the War in Iraq
MIT Conventional wisdom in American politics focuses only on American costs in the war in Iraq: the casualties to U.S. soldiers, the financial costs, and sometimes the strategic costs. But the human cost to the Iraqis themselves are nearly ignored in political discourse, the news media, and intellectual […]
Army Death Squad Cut ‘Trophies’ From Civilians They Murdered
Lew Rockwell Posted by Lew Rockwell on March 21, 2011 08:17 AM The American soldiers took more than 4,000 photos of their civilian Afghan kills and “trophies,”but the evidence is, as usual, being hidden from us and the world. And we know what little we know thanks to […]
U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … And Many More Covert Wars
Global Research Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper, “How many wars is the US fighting today?” Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military […]
The Weak Evidence for Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
By Daniel Larison Jeffrey Lewis reviews the evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria and finds it lacking: The conventional wisdom seems to be that Syria used “small scale” chemical agents to test Western resolve. This is the sort of thing that sounds great over coffee at the […]
The State Is Terrorism
White House says the US may use military force against Syria
Russia Today AFP Photo/Jim Watson The White House says that United States President Barack Obama may approve of using military force against the Syrian government.
The true cancer in the world
Bill Ayers Gets It Right
The Blaze Bill Ayers spoke at the University of Oregon last week on the subject of teaching and organizing for “social justice.” His speech was not free of the radical sentiments he is well-known for espousing (especially in the company of America’s youth). Case in point: he spoke […]
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot
“The bombings in Boston today were horrible, and I do not intend to suggest anything else. But I cannot help thinking that at least hundreds of such street-side bombings, some of them much more powerful and lethal, have occurred in Baghdad during the past decade. I very much […]
Obama’s Dirty Imperialist War in Afghanistan
By Kim Gamel A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike and an American civilian adviser, officials said Sunday.The fighting along a main infiltration route from […]
Noam Hits Another One
Immortal Technique On Fire with Alex Jones
I Am Sick of Veterans Who Wave the Flag and Send Others Off To Die
By James Glaser A World War II vet told me something once that I have found to be true: “If you walk into a VFW or American Legion Post bar and hear some guy telling everyone what a hero he was and how he fought the enemy so […]
An Elite Group of Psychopaths
Bounty on two Americans tied to Somali terror group
By Elise Labott The State Department has put a multimillion-dollar bounty on the heads of two Americans who the United States claims belong to an al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, CNN has learned. Posters and matchbooks in Somali and English emblazoned with the names and pictures of Omar […]
Yes, Pinochet Really Was an Asshole…
…no matter what some “libertarians” think. By Gavin McInnes With the passing of Hugo Chávez, we got a lot of crocodile tears from liberals claiming we had “lost a friend” who “lifted the poor and helped them realize their dreams.” Jimmy Carter told us that he “never doubted […]
Was Iraq Worth It?
Hell no, says Pat Buchanan. Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. […]
The New Propaganda Is Liberal
by John Pilger What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerized […]
Just About Sums It Up…
Not to Praise, But to Bury Him
By Kevin Carson Since Hugo Chavez’s death last week, predictably, the cable news talking head shows and the editorial pages of the major newspapers of record have been full of head-shaking about the dictatorial nature of his regime. To be sure, the Chavez regime was dictatorial. But another […]
Neocons and Obamaites Unite Against Rand Paul
By Justin Raimondo The response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on the right and the left – followed by harsh denunciations from Democratic party partisans and their neocon allies. It was a moment […]
Anthony Gregory on Rand Paul’s Senate Filibuster
Chomsky Acknowledges the Neocons as the Dominant Force in Pushing for Iraq War
By Dr. Stephen Sniegoski phen Sniegoski March 8, 2013 6 While traditional conservatives welcomed neoconservatives as allies in their fight against Soviet Communism and domestic liberalism, the neocons in effect acted as a Trojan Horse within conservatism: they managed to secure dominant positions in the conservative political and […]
The World of 2100
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
City-states are the Future?
Trendsimwatching.com Trend: Nation-states may be losing power to smaller entities as globalization sorts cultures into regions based on city-states. VC Confidential describes a dinner talk by futurist Paul Saffo. Excerpts below. Link: VC Confidential: A Global Evening with Paul Saffo …our world is moving from one of nation-states […]
Would Conscription Curb US Militarism? Thom Hartmann Thinks So
By Dave Hummels Do you ever get the feeling that progressives have run out of ideas? This thought crossed my mind when I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Draft: A War-Killer” on Truthout. Hartmann advocates reinstatement of conscription in a “new and improved form.” He proclaims that the military […]
Honor Bradley Manning: Defend Julian Assange
By Justin Raimondo Bradley Manning has slipped off the media’s radar, and not because he isn’t newsworthy: his “trial”—which has now reached its 1000th day – has been conducted largely in secret, with motions classified and testimony not available to the general public. This underscores the significance of […]
Leftists and War
By Khadijah Umayyad I myself am an ardent reader of antiwar.com and have spent untold hours listening to the Scott Horton show. As my initial post on WWI historical revisionism might indicate I take war-revisionism, historical and theoretical, to be of great importance to breaking down a primary […]
Charles Rangel: Liberal Democrat for Military Slavery
Patriot-Newswire Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) wants to bring back the military draft and require women to register for the Selective Service. On Friday, Rangel reintroduced the so-called “draft bill,” known officially as “The National Universal Service Act” (H.R. 747), and “The All American Selective Service Act” (H.R. 748), […]
Obama to receive Israel presidential medal
Herald-Sun BARACK Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal, from his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on a visit to the Jewish state next month, Peres’s office says. Barack Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal. AAP
Why Isn’t the Murder of an American Boy an Impeachable Offense?
By Jacob Hornberger Article 2, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
‘Let Us Not Be Deceived’: Cornel West Names Obama as ‘War Criminal’
By Jon Queally Like Nixon, Bush, and others the law is suspended for the president, but “applies for the rest of us”
How Rand Paul Thinks
By Daniel McCarthy As Jim Antle points out, Rand Paul’s vote against cloture for the Hagel nomination has been roundly criticized by antiwar conservatives, libertarians, and liberal admirers of Ron Paul—not only by Scott McConnell and Daniel Larison here at TAC but also by Justin Raimondo (a longtime […]
Towards a Christian Zionist Foreign Policy
By Philip Giraldi Countries frequently define themselves by what they believe to be true. When reality and belief conflict that definition might well be referred to as a “national myth.” In the United States many believe that there exists a constitutionally mandated strict separation between religion and government. […]
Neocons Agitate for a China-Japan War
By Eric Margolis On 30 January, a Chinese Jiangwei II-class frigate entered the disputed waters around the Senkaku Islands, a cluster of uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands. A Japanese destroyer was waiting. When the two warships were only 3 […]
Executioner in Chief: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination Program
By John Whitehead “Much of our foreign policy now depends on the hope of benevolent dictators and philosopher kings. The law can’t help. The law is what the kings say it is.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing for The Atlantic “If George Bush had done this, it would have […]
Rand Paul and Reorienting Republican Foreign Policy
By Daniel Larison Frederick Kagan didn’t understand why Rand Paul emphasized restraint and avoiding unnecessary wars: America’s foreign policy today is hardly one of militaristic, imperialistic determination to intervene. To put it charitably, this is an odd thing to say about the current state of U.S. foreign policy. […]
Rand Paul’s War Against “Radical Islam”
By Justin Raimondo Sen. Rand Paul wants to be taken seriously – as a presidential candidate, as heir to the energetic youth-oriented movement founded by his father, and as a foreign policy Deep Thinker. This last goal was supposed to have been approached, if not reached, by his […]
The Republican Obsession
By Pat Buchanan If last week’s hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP. Is the Republican Party, as currently constituted, even capable of conducting a foreign […]
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