War
When Will the Bad Dream End?
Anthony Gregory Lew Rockwell In a normal country, war is front-page news. It is a big deal to invade and bomb another nation. Most of…
Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civilians ‘were killed for sport and their fingers collected as trophies’
The Daily Mail A dozen US soldiers are facing trail accused of being part of a ‘kill team’ that allegedly killed Afghan civilians in an…
Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets
Scott Shane The New York Times WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of…
Implications of Pointless War
Robert Koehler AntiWar What does it mean that the New York Times, upon the occasion of President Obama’s announced drawdown of forces in Iraq last…
Orwellian DoubleThink: War is Peace
Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 3 Activist Post No need to modernize the phrasing of this most obviously relevant Orwellian slogan. Obama, our Nobel Prince of…
Former CIA officer accused of abusing suspect now training other operatives
Associated Press A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence…
American History, American War, American Empire
American Empire Before the Fall. By Bruce Fein. Campaign for Liberty, 2010. Vii + 219 pages. David Gordon Lew Rockwell It is hardly news that…
Cyber Warfare: US Military Hackers and Internet Spies
Leonid Savin Global Research After October 1 thousands of US military hackers and spies will get down to their cyber war activities. The declarations…
US expects to subsidize Afghan training for years
Desmond Butler Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after…
The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond
Source: Deviant Art Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes Washington Post Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to…
EU austerity policies risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist
Greece’s austerity measures cannot prevent default and will lead to a breakdown of the political order if continued for long, a leading German economist has…
AP Issues Standards Memo: ‘Combat in Iraq is Not Over’
Jason Linkins Huffington Post At some point in the last two weeks, you may have been told by someone in the news that combat operations…
Tony Blair’s Big Lie Omission
In his new book, the former British prime minister asks for a fair hearing on the Iraq war. But he ignores a key meeting where…