America's Addiction: Waging War on Humanity
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The US accused Syria’s regime of having used chemical weapons, specifically the deadly nerve agent sarin, against rebels seeking to topple him. But top officials, citing the flawed intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq, said Washington needs
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Human history is filled with conflict. Some of that conflict takes place on a small level involving only a few people -- sometimes the battle takes place within a single person's mind.
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Unfolding events in the Koreas and their respective mentor states, the United States and China, resemble the run ups to the collapse of communism in the USSR and Central and Southeastern Europe and the reunification of the two Germanys. Few foresaw t
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a classified assessment last month saying that it now has “moderate confidence” that the “North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles however the reliability will be lo
The United Nations has been hit by a second war crimes court dispute in a week with Rwanda trying to stop the UN Security Council praising the International Criminal Court.
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State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she wa
One of China’s top experts on North Korean affairs warned yesterday of a better than 70 per cent chance of war on the Korean Peninsula as tensions continued to rise and South Korean and US forces More...
The country, where Kim Jong-un was reportedly educated as a child under a pseudonym, helps to monitor the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Switzerland has a long résumé of international moderation efforts
A line of cars and moving trucks packed with luggage are headed towards the South Korean border.
(CNN) - Republican leaders in Congress received a dire warning on Tuesday from former Vice President Dick Cheney on the Ongoing Crisis in North Korea. "We're in deep doo doo," Cheney Told Lawmakers, According to a GOP leadership aide. Cheney
North Korea has completed preparations for a missile test that could come any day, a South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, as Pyongyang prepares to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder. That is historically a time when the reclusive communist
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U.S. propagandists and the mainstream media present foreign crises, like the current one with North Korea, as black-and-white morality plays with Official Washington behaving wisely and the adversaries as crazy. But the reality is always more complex
The intensifying war of words between North Korea on one hand and the United States and ally South Korea on the other risks igniting a major conflict.
The Chinese are careening about the Far Pacific in the traditional manner of newly important countries — as during the Wilhelmine period in post-Bismarck Germany — announcing chunks of the Pacific to be “Chinese lakes,” and demanding a doffing of the
North Korea may be preparing for a fourth nuclear test, South Korean officials say. South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae told lawmakers there are "signs" of increased activity in the North's main nuclear test site.
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The North Korean government warned Russian and European diplomats to evacuate Pyongyang by April 10, saying it cannot assure their safety “in the event of a conflict”.
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Television Newsnight and in The Guardian.
Unless North Korea wants to be annihilated, its leadership has to find a way to climb down from its current wave of provocative rhetoric.
North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.
Officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Navy is shifting the USS Fitzgerald — a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific Ocean — amid ongoing North Korean threats.
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The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the U.S. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.