Afghan War Draws in China and Russia
• dailybell.comPlease don't look now, for everything is fine. Soon Afghanistan, pacified, will join the West.
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WAR: About that War
NATO chief Petraeus to leave post by end of year: report
• RawStory.comUS war commander General David Petraeus will leave his post as chief of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan before the end of the year, the Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
Op Ed: War is not the answer
Sierra Hancock"War is not the answer, For only love can conquer hate." (Marvin Gaye)
Ray McGovern: My Take
Mourning Iraqi Wives, Children on Valentine’s Day
Ray McGovernTwenty years ago, as Americans were celebrating Valentine’s Day, Iraqi husbands and fathers in the Amiriyah section of Baghdad were peeling the remains of their wives and children off the walls and floor of a large neighborhood bomb shelter.
Donald Rumsfeld 'worried about electromagnetic pulse attack' against US
• Terrence AymDonald Rumsfeld, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents Gerald Ford and George W, Bush, has gone on record with his deep concern over America's vulnerability to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. During an interview with Ne
$20-Trillion War Costs Bankrupting US
• dailybell.comOut of control spending must be examined and admitted so that the task of protecting the Homeland can be updated and maintained.
Wrights takes “stop all war” message to Arizona
Ernest HancockPHOENIX, Ariz. (Jan. 31) – People are ready to listen to a presidential candidate who is committed to proclaiming the message to stop all war, Libertarian writer and activist R. Lee Wrights told the Arizona State Libertarian Party convention Saturday
And There It Is: Neocons Test Idea of US Intervention in Egypt
• AntiWar.com / Jeremy SapienzaIF Egypt, or the other states who are without doubt in the same line of teetering dominoes, falls, Dan Senor raises the non-negotiable need to “deploy resources” — that’s code for invasion
The State of the Union Is Still a State of War - by R. Lee Wrights
• Spotlight: Anti-War.comWhat was glaringly absent from President Obama’s state of the union address Tuesday night, as well as from the response from both the Republicans and the Tea Party movement, is an admission that the real state of the union is a state of war.
Leaked Document: US General Aware of Torture
• APA senior U.S. military officer who oversaw the training of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank was aware that some engaged in the torture of detainees. The transcript of a 2009 meeting between Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton and chief Palestinian nego
Blackwater suit tossed 7 years after grisly deaths
• APU.S. District Judge James C. Fox said court-ordered arbitration fell apart because neither side was paying the [lawyers] costs of that process, so he decided to shut the case nearly seven years after the killings.
Trial set for ringleader of rogue Afghanistan Army unit
• ReutersArmy Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs is charged with premeditated murder and assaulting unarmed Afghan civilians, as well as with cutting off fingers from corpses and beating a fellow soldier who had alerted superiors to widespread hashish use in his uni
Ann Jones on Making Peace
• arcleinLooking for a way out of Afghanistan? Maybe it’s time to try something entirely new and totally different. So how about putting into action, for the first time in recorded history, the most enlightened edict ever passed by the United Nations Securi
Nothing Quite So Stable As A Corpse.
• The PPJ GazetteYes. Those are dead children from the Waziristan region of Pakistan killed by United States drones like this: True, war has not been declared in Pakistan so they are collateral damage – The Geneva Convention doesn’t apply. The only rights for thes
New Yorker's Hersh sparks anger, puzzlement with remarks on military 'crusaders'
• Washington PostNeoconservative advisers to President Bush took the attitude that " 'we're gonna change mosques into cathedrals,' " Hersh, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, said. "That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint
Ron Paul - Perpetual War is Expensive!
• YoutubeCongressman Paul on our 20 year involvement in Iraq
British PM demands release of Blair’s secret letters to Bush on Iraq war
• RawStory.comAmid an inquiry into the 2003 military invasion of Iraq, David Cameron, the sitting British Prime Minister, called for public pressure on former Prime Minister Tony Blair over his refusal to release letters sent to US President George W. Bush in the
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Ernest Hancock
Chris Hellman - budget analyst for the the National Priorities Project
Program Date:Chris Hellman - budget analyst for the the National Priorities Project - Cost of War: Breaking It Down
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Chris Hellman - budget analyst for the the National Priorities Project
Program Date:Chris Hellman - budget analyst for the the National Priorities Project - Cost of War: Breaking It Down
Martin Luther King and the Empowerment of the War Machine: A Libertarian’s View (video)
• The International LibertarianWelfare at home and warfare abroad are just flip sides of the same coin. If the left really wants to see Dr. King’s dream of peace come true they must face the reality that they can not give the government the tools it needs to wage war and expect it
British military working on invisible war machines
• Terrence AymIf defense contractor BAE Systems has its way, within five years the entire British military will disappear. The soldiers and their equipment won't go away, the enemy will be unable to see them. The British military is gearing up for the next genera
Korean War Games
• arcleinWhat's happening on the Korean peninsula? If you read the press or listen to the talking heads, your best guess would be that an insaneNorth Korean regime is willing to risk war to manage its own internal political tensions. This conclusion would be
Afghan mortars kill 8: Pakistan
• CBC NewsMortars allegedly fired from Afghanistan on Thursday have killed eight people in northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani officials say. The mortars hit a house in the North Waziristan tribal area. The dead included five men and three women, they said.
Thursday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded
• antiwar.com / Margaret GriffisAt least three Iraqis were killed and 16 more were wounded, but only attacks in Baghdad were reported.
On the weekend’s shooting–
• www.sovereignman.comViolence is the answer for those who lack the intellectual merit to win a battle of ideas and can only resort to more animalistic behavior to impress their point.
Wednesday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 4 Wounded
• antiwar.com / Margaret GriffisAt least three Iraqis were killed and four more were wounded in light violence.
Suspected US missile strike kills 4 in Pakistan
• SF GateSuspected U.S. unmanned aircraft fired four missiles at a house in a militant-infested area of northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least four people. The identities and nationalities of those killed were unknown.
IEDs kill 21,000 Iraqi civilians 2005-2010
• USA TodayThe military has been reluctant to release civilian deaths in part because the figures are imprecise estimates, said Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman. It's difficult, he said, to discern civilians from insurgents after a bomb explodes.
Tuesday: 2 Iraqis, 1 Kuwaiti Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded
• antiwar.com / Margaret GriffisThe Iraqi government is investigating a shootout between the Kuwaiti Coast Guard and a group of Iraqi fishermen that left one Kuwaiti dead. Meanwhile, at least two Iraqis were killed and 42 more were wounded in this and other incidents.
Roots of Arizona's Violence
Stephen LendmanBlame America's culture of violence
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