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Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him.
While Americans are expected to thank the troops for their service all year long, today -- Memorial Day -- we are called upon to thank them even more profusely. The idea is that since the troops are defending our country and protecting our rights a
Who are the Rothschild Family? This wealthy and influential family has funded wars, and helps sculpt the face of history. The 300 year old family line has become a corporate family dynasty, their wealth and influence are incalculable. https://www.rot
The third "battle for Fallujah" is currently raging, pitting Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed Shia militias against ISIS. The US says it wants ISIS defeated but it doesn't want the Iranians to come out with more influence. Who will win, who wi
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Give Some Thought To Our Prospects Against The Russians And Chinese In World War III
I have recently posted a piece in which I tried to debunk a few popular myths about modern warfare. Judging by many comments which I received in response to this post, I have to say that the myths in question are still alive and well and that I clear
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From the Houla hoax to the chemical weapons false flag, Dr. Anderson rips the mask from the lies that have clouded the mainstream narrative of the Syrian war.
What we must decide is whether we're stuck with war as a necessity of the world in which we live, as President Obama suggested in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, or whether we're prepared to do as Martin Luther King suggested 45 years earlier in hi
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Cost of the War on Terror James Bovard talked about his Reason.com article on the war on terror, which he says has cost the U.S. $4 trillion since it began in 2001.
"We have been watching for nearly a month a steady buildup of American and NATO forces along Russia's borders – on land, on sea and in the air. There has been nothing like this on Russia's borders, such an amassing of hostile military force,
If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight.
There are always reasons. "They did it first." "They started it." "They deserved it." But the reasons are always just excuses. A war crime is a war crime is a war crime.
I'm scheduled to be on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Wednesday, May 25, starting around 9:15 a.m. to roughly 10 a.m. (EDT). I will be discussing the Reason article on our farcical $4 trillion War on Terror.
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It's Friday, it's Iraq, and there's still no vote on the cabinet nominated over a month ago. That means mass protests, and as with recent weeks, the rallies centered around the walled-off Green Zone, with many protesters forcing their way in, a
US-NATO Aggression and the Risk of World War III
An interesting controversy has broken out at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Several students and professors are protesting the selection of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, as the commencement speaker.
On May 10, 92-year-old Henry Kissinger was given the Distinguished Public Service Award by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. It does little good to be outraged by this news, in that Kissinger may have the blood of (at least) hundreds of thousands o
The U.S. government's reliance on drones to sustain perpetual war in the Mideast is meeting resistance from some assigned to carry out and justify these tactics, including a U.S. Army chaplain who resigned in protest, writes Ann Wright.
The temporary takeover of the Iraqi parliament building and other facilities in the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad by followers of Muqtada al-Sadr was a demonstration not only of current fractures in Iraqi politics but also of a recurring Am
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Washington's Military Addiction And The Ruins Still to Come By Tom Engelhardt
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I don't get it. On the one hand, we're told that the intentional targeting of civilians in wartime is a war crime. On the other hand, we're told that the intentional targeting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs was not a war crime.
Prof. Andrew Bacevich joins the Liberty Report to discuss his new book on the 30 year US war in the greater Middle East. Why are we losing and is there a better way?
