War
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
Henry A. Giroux TruthOut When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas “marketplaced,” our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy…
Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington
Tom Engelhardt Tom’s Dispatch The other day I visited a website I check regularly for all things military, Noah Shachtman’s Danger Room blog at Wired…
None Dare Call It Tyranny
Sheldon Richman The Future of Freedom Foundation If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive…
Not All Were Destroyed: CIA Torture Tapes Discovered
Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo Associated Press WASHINGTON – The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison….
Afghanistan finds 1.8 billion barrel oilfield
Sayed Salahuddin Reuters Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country,…
Pentagon Holding U.S. Hostage to Endless Wars
Sherwood Ross OpEdNews Besides holding Afghanistan and Iraq hostage, the Pentagon today is holding American civilization itself hostage to its imperial designs. That’s because war…
A Campaign for War with Iran Begins
Trita Parsi Salon Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran…
A Campaign for War with Iran Begins
Trita Parsi Salon Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran…
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Seeks to Ban Assassinations of U.S. Citizens
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Lawyers for US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who has reportedly been targeted for assassination by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command,…
Grain price rise may fuel Mideast, Europe unrest
Peter Apps Reuters * Price rise comes on top of impact of financial crisis * Discontent could fuel street unrest * Middle East, North Africa,…
US Judge OKs confession extracted by threatening suspect with rape
Eric W. Dolan Raw Story In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions…
Reagan Insider: ‘GOP destroyed economy’
Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. No fiscal discipline Paul B. Farrell Market Watch ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. — “How my G.O.P. destroyed…
Targeting Iran: Is the US Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?
Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against Iran with devastating consequences. This military adventure…