23 August, 2012
American Militarism And Its Short- And Long-Term Implications
By Taj Hashmi
Is there a way out of the foreseeable mega wars in the names of the “War on Terror” or “Islam-in-Danger”? We know the answer, which might sound very sophomoric, that is the American people should force their government to restrain the Military-Industrial Complex from promoting wars and conflicts; make the Israeli Lobby accountable to US laws and regulations
24 June, 2011
Imperialism 101
By Michael Parenti
Chapter 1 of Against Empire by Michael Parenti
23 September, 2010
What Do Empires Do?
By Michael Parenti
The purpose of all this killing is to prevent alternative, independent, self-defining nations from emerging. So the empire uses its state power to gather private wealth for its investor class. And it uses its public wealth to shore up its state power and prevent other nations from self-developing
10 March, 2010
Decade Of The Drone: America's Aerial Assassins
By Rick Rozoff
2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington's use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted "collateral damage."
01 March, 2010
America's Permanent War Agenda
By Stephen Lendman
America's Permanent War Economy....has endured since the end of World War II....Since then the US has been at war - somewhere - every year, in Korea, Nicaragua, Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan - all this to the accompaniment of shorter military forays in Africa, Chile, Grenada, Panama," and increasingly at home against its own people
14 February, 2010
What Do Empires Do?
By Michael Parenti
From ancient times to today, empires have always been involved in the bloody accumulation of wealth. If you don't think this is true of the United States then stop calling it "Empire." And when you write a book about how it wraps its arms around the planet, entitle it "Global Bully" or "Bossy Busybody," but be aware that you're not telling us much about imperialism
05 January, 2010
Wars "R" Us: Making The World Safe For
American Domination
By Emily Spence
Wars are big business, most notably for investors and employees in the aerospace and defense industries. The related purposes, like the ones guiding most corporations, are hardly humanistic. Instead new sources of revenue, cheap resources from conquered lands, and new markets for products and services are the sine qua non
04 January, 2010
What To Watch For In 2010
By Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse
According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don't name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin
01 January, 2010
Gangs And The Truth About American Interventions
By Timothy V. Gatto
Many of the young people that are active in these gangs are probably following the example that is presented to them every day. In this case I'm talking about the example that the United States government presents on the worlds stage. At this point one may ask oneself if the behavior of the United States doesn't present the same type of modus operandi that gangs display
18 August, 2009
Top 50 US War Criminals
By David Swanson
These are men and women who helped to launch wars of aggression or who have been complicit in lesser war crimes. These are not the lowest-ranking employees or troops who managed to stray from official criminal policies. These are the makers of those policies
30 July, 2009
Dismantling The Empire
By Chalmers Johnson
Three good reasons to liquidate our empire and ten steps to take to do so
27 July, 2009
Mourn On The Fourth Of July
By John Pilger
From his early political days, Barack Obama has followed in a long tradition among U.S. political leaders of promoting America's right to rule and order the world
20 July, 2009
Systematic Pressures Behind
US Military And Covert Action
By Dr Sagar Sanyal
Dr Sagar Sanyal discusses various domestic US institutions that either reduce democratic accountability of the military and intelligence agencies or that create systematic pressures for their use
02 July, 2009
How To Deal With America's Empire Of Bases
By Chalmers Johnson
The U.S. Empire of Bases -- at $102 billion a year already the world's costliest military enterprise -- just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don't occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad
12 March, 2009
Too Many Overseas Bases
By David Vine
In the midst of an economic crisis that’s getting scarier by the day, it’s time to ask whether USA can really afford some 1,000 military bases overseas. For those unfamiliar with the issue, you read that number correctly. One thousand. One thousand U.S. military bases outside the 50 states and Washington, DC, representing the largest collection of bases in world history
13 November, 2008
Don't
Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
By Tom Engelhardt
On the day that Americans turned
out in near record numbers to vote, a record was set halfway around
the world. In Afghanistan, a U.S. Air Force strike wiped out about 40
people in a wedding party. This represented at least the sixth wedding
party eradicated by American air power in Afghanistan and Iraq since
December 2001
An
Open Letter To Mr Barack Obama,
US President-Elect
By Friends Of Lebanon
Mr Obama, it has been a mere week
since you were elected, and already you have destroyed any semblance
of hope held for peace in the Middle East. Over sixty years of US subservience
to the Zionist dream has not brought peace to anyone, not even to the
Israelis. It certainly is time for a change. You can continue to seek
profit from the illusion of power, or you can seek pride from the reality
of respect. It is indeed time, as you say, to promote the cause of peace
17 October, 2008
How
To Manage An Imperial Decline
By Aziz Huq
Do empires end with a bang, a whimper,
or the sibilant hiss of financial deflation? We may be about to find
out. Right now, in the midst of the financial whirlwind, it's been hard
in the United States to see much past the moment. Yet the ongoing economic
meltdown has raised a range of non-financial issues of great importance
for our future
05 September, 2008
Going
On An Imperial Bender
By Tom Engelhardt
How the U.S. garrisons the planet
and doesn't even notice
25 August, 2008
NATO:
A Tool Of U.S. Imperialism
By Ghali Hassan
The U.S.-controlled North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation (NATO) has lost its purpose to continue as a defence
alliance. However, its aggressive expansion is endangering world peace
and the survival of the planet
06 August, 2008
Obama
And The Empire
By William Blum
I’m afraid that if Barack
Obama becomes president he’s going to break a lot of young hearts.
And some older ones as well
28 July, 2008
The
Military-Industrial Complex
By Chalmers Johnson
Although Eisenhower's reference
to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning
against its "unwarranted influence" has, I believe, largely
been ignored. Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of,
or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how
it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from
oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades
our Constitutional structure of checks and balances
12 June, 2008
A
Failed Project For The New American Century?
By Tim Buchholz
So the war in Iraq led to an increase
in the short term, but looks like it will lead to a decrease in the
future. The dollar is reaching new lows and people are starting to invest
in Euros and Yen instead. Our housing market has crashed. Our deficit
continues to grow. And even PNAC’s website, www.newamericancentury.org,
has been taken down, saying only “This account has been suspended.
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.”
23 May, 2008
How
The American Imperial Dream
Foundered In Iraq
By Michael Schwartz
It is past time for the rest of
the world to shoulder at least a small share of the burden of resistance.
Just as the worldwide protests before the war were among the upstream
sources of the Iraqi resistance-to-come, so now others, especially Americans,
should resist the very idea that Iraq could ever become the headquarters
for a permanent United States presence that would, in the words of Bush
speechwriter David Frum, "put America more wholly in charge of
the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans." Unlike the Iraqis, after all, the citizens of the United States are
uniquely positioned to bury this imperial dream for all time
17 May, 2008
Terror
Most Imperial
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Today, one of the more subtle tools
of imperialism is the use of value-laden language that seeks to define
the Arab and Muslim world. With labels such as ‘terrorists’
and ‘Islamofascism’, they wish to establish an ‘Orientalist’ perspective of otherness denoting barbarism as set apart from Israel
and the West which represents admirable qualities. It is imperative
to reject this imperial imposition of characterization and for each
state, individually and collectively, to self-rule, foremost through
self-definition
30 April, 2008
America's
University Of Imperialism
By Chalmers Johnson
This essay is a review of Soldiers
of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
by Alex Abella
02 April, 2008
Empire
Or Humanity?
By Howard Zinn
What the Classroom Didn't Teach
Me About the American Empire
14 March, 2008
The
Ruthless American Empire
By Timothy V. Gatto
On Wednesday, March 19th, there
will be a mass civil disobedience demonstration on the steps of the
Capitol. If you can be there, then be there. If you cannot attend, go
to a rally near where you live. The future of this nation is at stake.
This means our future is at stake. This monster that has been created
must come to an end and this nation must return to its borders and re-join
the community of nations. The simple fact is that all Empires fall.
Do you want to be here when this one does?
02 December, 2007
World Of Terror,
Sidr And The US 'Help'
By Anu Muhammad
The world has entered into a permanent system of
war, militarization, destruction and dehumanisation. After Second World
War, for different reasons, the US has emerged as the centre of this
global system. The survival of the US as a super power, expansion of
its hegemony and the function of global capitalism now mostly depend
upon war machine and militarism. That gives birth to a new phase of
imperialism and becomes a threat not only people and nations in the
periphery but for whole human civilization
17 November, 2007
Averting World
War III, Ending
Dollar Hegemony And US Imperialism
By Rohini Hensman
If the Bush administration has decided to attack
Iran militarily, is there any power on earth that can stop it if the
people of the US are unable or unwilling to do so? The argument below
is that if the USA’s ability to undertake imperial conquests depends
on its obvious military supremacy, this in turn is ultimately based
on the use of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. It
is the dominance of the dollar that underpins US financial dominance
as a whole as well as the apparently limitless spending power that allows
it to keep hundreds of thousands of troops stationed all over the world.
Destroy US dollar hegemony, and the “Empire” will collapse
14 November, 2007
Cost Of US Wars
$1.6 Trillion
By Bill Van Auken
The price tag for the wars being waged by the US
military in Iraq and Afghanistan will hit nearly $1.6 trillion during
the coming year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Democratic
staff of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee
25 October, 2007
Torture, Paramilitarism,
Occupation And Genocide
By Stephen Lendman
On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar
and defended his administration claiming "This government does
not torture people." Again he lied. Once secret US Department of
Justice (DOJ) legal opinions confirm the Bush administration condones
torture by endorsing "the harshest interrogation techniques ever
used by the Central Intelligence Agency." It also condones paramilitary
thuggery, oppressive occupation, and genocide. This unholy combination
is the ugly face of an imperial nation run by war criminals
24 October, 2007
The Imperial
Presidency
By Ralph Nader
To what level of political insanity has this Washington
Caesar descended? Only two countries can start World War III-Russia
and the United States. Is Bush saying that if Russia, presently opposed
to military action against Iran, persists with its position, Bush may
risk World War III? If not, why is this law-breaking warmonger, looking
for another war for American GIs to fight, while his military-age daughters
bask in the celebrity lime light?
10 October, 2007
Reviewing James
Petras' "Rulers And Ruled
In The US Empire"
By Stephen Lendman
The book is information rich on a core issue of
our time. It discusses the US empire's "systemic dimensions," evolving changes in its ruling class, its corporatist system, myths
about its coming collapse, contradictions in the current debate on immigration
and market liberalization policies, the use of force and genocidal carnage,
corruption as a market penetrating tool, the Israeli Lobby's power and
influence, Latin American relations and events in the region, social
and armed resistance, and much more in four power-packed parts under
17 subject chapter headings
05 October, 2007
The American
Empire And The Commonwealth Of God
By Jim Miles
Book Review: The American Empire and the Commonwealth
of God – A Political, Economic, Religious Statement. By John Cobb,
Richard Falk, David Griffin and Catherine Keller
01 October, 2007
A Global Satyagraha
Against Imperialism
By Rohini Hensman
Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 provides
a fitting occasion to launch a global satyagraha against imperialism.
Such a struggle is urgently needed today, given the carnage being inflicted
by imperialism in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the threat of
even greater carnage in Iran. Support for the people of these countries
needs to be stepped up to a higher level globally if the continuing
holocaust is to be halted
28 September, 2007
The State of
the American Empire –
How the USA Shapes the World
By Jim Miles
Book Review: The State of the American Empire – How the USA Shapes the World By Stephen Burman. University of California
Press, Myriad Editions,2007
26 September, 2007
A Culture Of
Violence
By Stephen Lendman
What kind of country glorifies mass killing, assaults
and abuse; one that looks down on pacifist non-violence as sissy or
unpatriotic, yet claims to be peace loving. It's not in the third world,
under dictatorship or controlled by religious extremists. It's the "land
of the free and home of the brave, America the Beautiful" where
human rights, civil liberties, common dignity and personal safety are
more illusion than fact
21 August, 2007
Oil Wars: Fueling
Both U.S. Empire And Ecocide
By Dan Brook
The war will end. U.S. troops will return home.
The empire is running on fumes and will eventually stall out. The only
questions are: How many more people will have to die before that happens?
How many more billions of dollars will have to be wasted?
16 July, 2007
Plan Iraq:Permanent
Occupation
By Stephen Lendman
Drawdowns, withdrawal, timelines, mission shifting,
building democracy and all the other current and long-standing phony
rhetoric aside, America is in Iraq to stay as a conqueror and occupier
- that is, until Iraqis finally kick us out as they will in time in
a part of the world long a graveyard for foreign invaders. But it won't
happen quickly or before countless more thousands die, are injured,
suffer immeasurably, are displaced, and lose everything
US Middle East
Wars: Social Opposition
And Political Impotence
By James Petras
Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul,
Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists
and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me
why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over
the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?
09 June, 2007
Report Details
CIA Prisons In Europe
By Joe Kay
A report released Friday by the Council of Europe
confirms that the CIA has used interrogation centers in Europe, including
in Romania and Poland, to secretly hold and torture prisoners captured
in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the globe
16 May, 2007
Is Imperial
Liquidation Possible For America?
By Chalmers Johnson
When Ronald Reagan coined the phrase "evil
empire," he was referring to the Soviet Union, and I basically
agreed with him that the USSR needed to be contained and checkmated.
But today it is the U.S. that is widely perceived as an evil empire
and world forces are gathering to stop us
15 May, 2007
Notes On A Cultural
Renaissance
In A Time Of Barbarism
By James Petras
We live in a time of imperial-driven destructive
wars in the name of ‘democracy’, savage exploitation in
the name of ‘emerging world powers’, massive forced population
displacement in the name of ‘immigration’ and large-scale
pillage of natural resources in the name of ‘free markets’
27 April, 200
Mr. Bush, Tear
Down These Walls!
By Scott Ritter
The ongoing policy of building walls in Baghdad
designed to segregate Sunni neighborhoods from Shiite neighborhoods
is as morally despicable as it is ineffective. The Soviets built walls;
the Nazis walled off entire communities, often as a precursor to rounding
up the segregated population and shipping it off to concentration camps
24 April, 2007
Deaths In Other
Nations Since WW II
Due To Us Interventions
By James A. Lucas
The overall conclusion reached is that the United
States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of
between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over
the world
23 April, 2007
Blacksburg To
Baghdad:US Mass Murder
At Home & Abroad
By Gideon Polya
The Blacksburg Massacre was enabled because America
is awash with guns, has a power-obsessed, abusive and racist culture
and IGNORES the appalling human consequences of its actions
17 April, 2007
Blood For Oil
Control
By Paul Street
U.S. forces are in Iraq to protect Iraq oil from
the Iraqis themselves and from the possibility that the Iraqis might
act to accelerate U.S. global decline by aligning their energy resources
with the development of competing states and sectors in the world system
14 April, 2007
Iran May Be
The Greatest Crisis Of Modern Times
By John Pilger
It is time we in Britain and other Western countries
stopped looking from the side. We are being led towards perhaps the
most serious crisis in modern history as the Bush-Cheney-Blair "long
war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's
independence from rapacious America
27 March, 2007
A Cluster Bomb
Treaty: Again,
It's The U.S. v. The World
By Scott Stedjan & Laura Weis
In an historic step forward, Norway hosted the
Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions in late February 2007, where 49
countries met to discuss how to address the indiscriminate and lasting
effects of cluster munitions on civilians. The Bush administration did
not send a representative to the Oslo meeting and, absent a policy change,
is unlikely to participate in subsequent meetings
19 March, 2007
If Elected,
Hillary Clinton Vows
To Keep US Troops In Iraq
By Bill Van Auken
In a calculated bid to position herself for the
2008 Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton told the New York
Times Wednesday that, if elected president, she would keep significant
US military forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future
13 March, 2007
America's
Perpetual Nuclear War
By Robert Weitzel
The world should note that America has been waging
a “low yield” nuclear war that has been killing civilians
for almost two decades. Missing from this war are mushroom clouds and
very loud booms. Present is nuclear fallout with its insidious long-term
effects on both combatant and civilian and its perpetual contamination
of land and water resources
11 March, 2007
A Predator
Becomes More Dangerous
When Wounded
By Noam Chomsky
Washington's escalation of threats against Iran
is driven by a determination to secure control of the region's energy
resources
10 March, 2007
Democrats “Withdrawal” Plan Paves
Way To Escalation Of Iraq War
By Bill Van Auken
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic
congressional leaders unveiled a toothless plan Thursday that they claim
would result in the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq a year
and a half from now. The main purpose of this political exercise, however,
is to unite the party behind supplemental funding legislation that will
provide at least $100 billion more to pay for the escalation of the
illegal war and occupation that has been waged by Washington for the
past four years
02 March, 2007
Nemesis:
The Last Days Of The American Republic
By Chalmers Johnson & Amy Goodman
In his new book, CIA analyst, distinguished scholar,
and best-selling author Chalmers Johnson argues that US military and
economic overreach may actually lead to the nation's collapse as a constitutional
republic. It's the last volume in his Blowback trilogy, following the
best-selling "Blowback" and "The Sorrows of Empire."
A Review
Of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis
By Stephen Lendman
Volume three is Nemesis and the subject of this
review. In it, Johnson "tried to present historical, political,
economic, and philosophical evidence of where our current behavior is
likely to lead." He believes our present course is a road to perdition
in the form of fiscal insolvency and a military or civilian dictatorship
Never Again
To Antiwar Battle Fatigue
By David Howard
From the Holocaust witnesses we have learned to
say never again to regimes of racism and fascism. From Hiroshima and
Nagasaki survivors we have learned to say never again to nuclear weapons.
From the Iraq War we must learn to say never again to preemptive war,
to torture, and to the insidious ideology of democratizing by the sword
01 March, 2007
America's
March Madness
By Mickey Z.
Last month, I touched on a fraction of February's
forgotten history vis-à-vis America's long history of global
brutality. Here's a small taste of March's madness
14 February, 2007
The World
Can Halt Bush’s Crimes
By Dumping The Dollar
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the rest of the world would simply stop purchasing
US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars into the foreign
exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed with economic
crisis and unable to wage war. The arrogant hubris associated with the “sole superpower” myth would burst like the bubble it is
13 February, 2007
Bush’s
Plan For Iraq And The Middle East
By Abid Mustafa
Over the past few months, the Bush administration
in the backdrop of the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) report has announced
its plan for Iraq—apart from the Presidents refusal to formally
engage Iran and Syria— the plan broadly concurs with the recommendation
laid out by the ISG. Furthermore, the US has mobilised its surrogates
in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the gulf countries to
implement this plan and prepare the ground for the emergence of a new
middle east. What follows is a brief summary of what America is planning
to achieve in Palestine, Iraq and Iran
12 February, 2007
“You
Cannot Oppose The War And Fund This War”
By Kevin Zeese & Anthony Arnove
An interview with Anthony Arnove
War: It's
Just A Pretext Away
(Lessons From Yugoslavia)
By Mickey Z.
Anyone viewing international events with even a
shred of objectivity knows that the U.S. government is just a pretext
away from bombing Iran. American history, after all, is teeming with
convenient provocations that created an opening for military intervention
07 February, 2007
Forgotten February
By Mickey Z.
A brief peek at America's unrestrained brutality
Clinton, Edwards
And Obama: Strike Iran
Why The Democrats Won’t Save Us
By Joshua Frank
None of the front running Democrats are opposed
to Bush’s dubious “war on terror” or his bullying
of Iran. They support his aggression in principle but simply believe
a Democratic presidency could handle the job more astutely. All put
Israel first and none are going to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East
02 February, 2007
Stepped
Up US Preparations
For War Against Iran
By Peter Symonds
A relentless and unmistakable American buildup
for war against Iran is currently underway. Military preparations are
being accompanied by a daily barrage of propaganda against Tehran issuing
from US sources and relayed uncritically via a compliant media
01 February, 2007
US Holocaust
Commission And Holocaust Denial
By Dr Gideon Polya
The US recently successfully put a Resolution to
UN General Assembly rightly condemning Holocaust Denial. However the
Resolution ignored huge non-Jewish Holocausts e.g. the US-driven Iraqi
Holocaust and thus was Holocaust Ignoring, something even worse than
Holocaust Denial because it is Passive Holocaust Denial that admits
of no refutation – who does one refute something that has not
even been asserted?
24 January, 2007
Gangsters For
Capitalism
By Clinton L. Cox
Although benign U.S. intentions are an article
of faith among many Americans, theft, murder and oppression have always
been central to U.S. policies and practices in the non-white world.
George Bush’s crusade for ‘democracy’ is yet another
chapter in the shameful saga
Bush The
Empire Slayer
By Bernard Chazelle
Victors are never war criminals. That's because
they get to write the history books. Bush won't have that chance. The
die has been cast and the hour is too late for him or anyone to alter
the unforgiving judgment of posterity
20 January, 2007
Rice’s
Middle East Tour: Arab Rregimes
Back US War Drive In Iraq And Iran
By Jean Shaoul & Chris Marsden
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar,
Oman and the Emirates have all signed up to the Bush administration’s
escalation of its aggression against Iraq and its plans for a military
attack on Iran
Truth Is
Speaking… Is Power Listening?
By Carolyn Baker & Jason Miller
Carolyn Baker interviewed by Jason Miller
19 January, 2007
Is
The U.S. Planning A Horrific Global Nuclear War?
By Michel Chossudovsky
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped
on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable,
a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive
fallout, over a large part of the Middle East
17 January, 2007
Turning On
The War
By Joshua Frank
It seems the only way the war will come to an end
will be when soldiers start resisting by the droves. It’s already
happening with little fanfare all across the country. Many are finding
refuge in Canada and elsewhere. These brave soldiers must be congratulated
for taking such a path. They are the answer the antiwar movement has
been looking for. Let’s hope they lead by example. If their peers
don’t follow, we are in for a much longer, deadlier war
11 January, 2007
Bringing
To Book The Guilty Men Of Baghdad
By Siddharth Varadarajan
The legal arguments used by the U.S.-sponsored
Iraqi court to convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity apply
even more forcefully to those American leaders who ordered the illegal
invasion and occupation of Iraq
Air strikes
On Somalia: A New Stage
In Washington’s Illegal “Terror” War
By Chris Marsden
US air strikes against targets in the south of
Somalia have claimed a substantial number of civilian lives. The bombing
campaign, begun Sunday night and continued on Monday, mark a major escalation
in the Bush administration’s lawless use of violence to achieve
Washington’s strategic aims under the auspices of its “global
war on terrorism.”
A Dark Anniversary
By William Fisher
This week, as the world marks the fifth anniversary
of the arrival of the first detainees at the U.S. naval facility at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a growing number of people and organizations –
from military officers to religious leaders to legal scholars to human
rights groups – continue to label the prison a black hole of injustice
and demand that it be closed
08 January, 2007
The Tower
Of Wealth Without A Foundation
By Siv O'Neall
The two mainstays of the neoconservative and neoliberal
agenda can be reduced to the accumulation of more wealth for the tiny
upper clique of the American population and to assuring the ever-lasting
continuation of the U.S. empire. The rest of the world is simply of
no consequence to the neocon way of thinking and that's where they make
the huge mistake that is one day going to be their downfall
07 January, 2007
Bush’s
Solution To Iraq – No Mystery
By Dan Lieberman
Jordan and Syria, that feel threatened by Iraq
and Iran, might become more conciliatory to the U.S. and Israel (USrael)
and seek their protection (as in mafia protection). The U.S. might bow
out and let Israel proceed in its own plans. Israel might be the biggest
victor in this calamitous and haunting adventure
04 January, 2007
Hussein
And Ford = Dead Criminals
By Mickey Z.
All you need to know about America is summed up
here: Saddam Hussein was "the next Hitler" while Gerald Ford
was a "healer."
30 December, 2006
War And
USA
By David Truskoff
Christian Americans are the most war like people
this planet has ever produced
28 December, 2006
A Look Back
And Ahead In An Age Of Neocon Rule
By Stephen Lendman
It's time to pause at year's end to give thanks
for our blessings but reflect that the spirit of the season demands
that the madness of Bush neocon rule be stopped and ended before it's
too late
Will Stinky
Cut The Big One
By Sheila Samples
Bush is a brutal, pathological liar -- arguably
a homicidal maniac. After losing two wars against helpless, unarmed
nations, he's bored. The Decider is moving on to greater things, and
those who know how to listen to him know the decision to nuke Iran has
already been made. Before he leaves office, Bush plans to spread the
same freedoms throughout Iran that Iraq is presently enjoying. Will
Stinky cut the big one on his way out?
26 December, 2006
“Stephen
Lendman Sounds Off”
By Jason Miller & Stephen Lendman
Despite his relatively recent start, Stephen Lendman
has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous and well-respected chroniclers
of truth in the alternative media community.Here is a glimpse of Stephen
and his worldview
Iran And
North Korea Standoff:
US policy On NPT Is In Tatters
By Abid Mustafa
The US has not only failed to curb the nuclear
ambitions of Iran and North Korea, but has also made the world a dangerous
place to live in. By signing a nuclear deal with India in violation
of the NPT and not lifting a finger to reign in Israel's atomic weapons,
more and more countries will follow Iran and North Korea in a bid to
nuclearize. Thanks to the Bush administration, America now stands on
the verge of becoming the worlds biggest proliferate of nuclear technology
23 December, 2006
The Birth Of
An Empire
By Rosa Mariam Elizalde
An Interview with Gore Vidal
21 December, 2006
UK, US And
Israeli State Terrorism
And Western Holocaust Denial
By Gideon Polya
Holocaust Denial is exactly what racist, lying
Western academics, politicians and media have been guilty of in relation
to past and present Western-imposed Holocausts in Asian countries, including
India
The Decider
Can’t Decide
By Kevin Zeese
Indications are Bush is moving toward more troops,
with Democratic leadership support, now Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly
opposes an increase in troops in Iraq. Washington, DC is confused in
the face of military defeat. It is time to face the facts and leave
Elephants
And Quagmires
By Bill Henderson
While the Bush administration, the media and nearly
all the Democrats still refuse to explain the war in Iraq in terms of
oil, the ever-pragmatic members of the Iraq Study Group share no such
reticence
19 December, 2006
"Defending
Our Interests And
Our People" (Lessons From Panama)
By Mickey Z.
Estimates range from 500 to 3000 dead Panamanian
civilians killed during the invasion and the fighting afterwards. Bush
the Elder was later asked if getting Noriega was worth all those deaths.
As if to confirm the unspoken tenet that some lives count more than
others, the president replied: "Every human life is precious, and
yet I have to answer, yes, it has been worth it."
17 December, 2006
The U.S.
Government Hates Democracy
(Lessons From Italy)
By Mickey Z
As far as I'm concerned, we can't put forward enough
reminders of how the U.S. government about peace, freedom, justice,
etc. aside, the land of the free is not even remotely interested in
spreading democracy. There is an abundance of evidence to back up this
assertion. For now, I offer the example of post-World War II Italy
The Atrocities
Of Augusto Pinochet
And The United States
By Roger Burbach
The Pinochet affair has shaped a whole new generation
of human rights activists and lawyers. They are determined to end the
impunity of public officials, including that of the civilian and military
leaders in the United States who engage in state terrorism and human
rights abuses while violating international treaties like the Geneva
Conventions
16 December, 2006
Omissions
In The Iraq Study Group Report
By Stephen Lendman
It remains to be seen how long it will take for
a mass awakening to occur to arouse the public at home, as it did in
Iraq and Afghanistan, making them no longer willing to put up with the
kind of abuse and neglect they've so far failed to resist. If history
is a guide, it will happen
08 December, 2006
The Empire
Is Falling
By Robert Fisk
The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase,
is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule
on Mesopotamia
Vietnam,
Iraq, And The M Word
By Mickey Z.
Other countries have war criminals. In America,
we have the mistaken
07 December, 2006
Don't Expect
U.S. To Create Democracy
In Iraq (Lessons From Greece)
By Mickey Z.
It would be nice to believe that the U.S./British
invasion of Iraq may have been horribly mishandled but the motivation
behind it was sincere. After all, it's a timeless classic: toss out
a depot and introduce democracy. However, even the most perfunctory
glance at previous U.S./British ventures would promptly expose the lies.
An excellent example is post-WWII Greece
21st American
Century Is About To End
By Abid Mustafa
Barely six years have elapsed since President Bush
took office and the much coveted 21st century belongs to America is
about to come to an abrupt end. America's pre-eminence in four corners
of the world is being challenged by friends and foes alike
06 December, 2006
The End
Of The Bush Dynasty
By Stephen Lendman
It now remains for his final exit that can't come
soon enough for most who want him out now and may act to force it if
the Congress won't act as a majority of the public demands. Whatever
happens from here, the king is dead (even with his head in place), and
with it the power and influence of a family dynasty brought down by
the poisoned chalice of its ill-chosen successor, unworthy and unable
to wear the crown and pass it to the next in line
Don't Let
Dick Cheney Read Your Palm
By Mickey Z.
A look back at some of the predictions that Dick
Cheney made on Iraq
02 December, 2006
Like Hitler
And Brezhnev,Bush Is In Denial
By Robert Fisk
More than half a million deaths, an army trapped
in the largest military debacle since Vietnam, a Middle East policy
already buried in the sands of Mesopotamia - and still George W Bush
is in denial. How does he do it?
01 December, 2006
Barack Obama
And The Winds Of War
By Glen Ford
Barack Obama--who has never claimed to be a Black
leader--is in fact not a leader at all. Nowhere is this more evident
than in the most critical issue facing Americans and the world at this
dangerous juncture in history: the war in Iraq
Noam Chomsky
And Gilbert Achcar's New Book:
Perilous Power
By Stephen Lendman
A review
29 November, 2006
Nominee For
US Defense Secretary
Advocated Bombing Of Nicaragua
By Joe Kay
In December 1984, Robert Gates, the Bush administration’s
nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, advocated military
strikes against Nicaragua in response to what he considered to be a
growing threat to US interests in Central and South America. Gates was
then deputy director of intelligence at the CIA
Lawyers File
War Crimes Charges Against
Rumsfeld And Others In German Court
By Michael Ratner
Revolution Interview with Attorney Michael Ratner
on the Case vs Rumsfeld
28 November, 2006
Impeachment
Hearings For Bush & Co.?
How About War Crimes Tribunals
By Heatherwokusch
The administration has taken pre-emptive action
against future war crimes charges, including pushing through the scandalous
Military Commissions Act, which provides them retroactive domestic protection
from prosecution regarding prisoner abuse cases
Razzle-Dazzle
Time In Washington
By Kevin B. Zeese
The Democrats reaped the benefit of voter anger
at the Iraq war and occupation on November 7 and regained control of
both chambers of Congress. Will the Democrats satisfy the desire to
end the Iraq War? Sadly, the initial signs are that voters are likely
to get a lot of razzle-dazzle in Washington, but not much change in
policy
27 November, 2006
Some Things
You Need To Know
Before The World Ends
By William Blum
The good news is that the Republicans lost.The
bad news is that the Democrats won.The burning issue -- US withdrawal
from Iraq -- remains as far from resolution as before
The American
Thanksgiving: Rejoicing
In Genocide And White Supremacy
By Glen Ford
No Halloween of the imagination can rival the
exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy,
of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most loathsome, humanity-insulting
day of the year – a pure glorification of racist barbarity
25 November, 2006
US Could Bomb
Iran Nuclear Sites In 2007: Analysts
By AFP
President George W. Bush could choose military
action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year,
political analysts in Washington agree
Empire's Ally:
Canadian Foreign Policy
By Greg Albo
The Bush doctrine and the imperial interventions
across the Middle East, supported by Canada and the other Western powers,
is the most visible symbol of this geo-political strategy. One of capitalism's
most powerful fictions is - not for the first time - being laid bare
for what it is: naked self-interest
Reclaiming
America: Democrats Must
Truly Change Course
By Ramzy Baroud
To prevent the exodus of Empire-driven neo-conservative
ideologues from being replaced by self-deceiving, Israel-comes-first
Democrats, the American public must not be satisfied with its democratic
revolution of early November. Americans must continue to push for a
truly equitable, sensible and revolutionary foreign policy
23 November, 2006
Thanksgiving:
The National Day Of Mourning
By Wampsutta
Text of 1970 speech by Wampsutta an Aquinnah Wampanoag
elder and Native American activist
America
Has Left The Building:
An Open Missive Of Anger And Hope
By Phil Rockstroh
I want you to realize this: There are hidden reservoirs
of hope within us: reservoirs as boundless as the reach of your ruthlessness.
These waters are as deep and potent as you are, at present, shallow
and shameless. Yet, they're inaccessible to you -- as long as you insist
your drink of choice will continue to be oil and blood, mixed with the
runoff of melting Arctic glaciers
22 November, 2006
Rumsfeld’s
War And War Crimes
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
With U.S. laws protecting its government officials
that are at variance with international laws, Rumsfeld’s war crimes
case may eventually go to the UNSC. But there, the USA will veto such
resolutions further isolating herself from the rest of the civilized
world
21 November, 2006
Rumsfeld
Should Be Indicted
By Mahmood Khattak
Most of the people defending Rumsfeld would take
the alibi that he was not personally torturing those people. Saddam
Hussein was sentenced to death for killing 182 people, even though he
did not pull the trigger himself. Hitler did not kill all the six million
Jews in Holocaust himself
Democrats Seek
Accommodation With Bush
Administration To Continue Iraq Occupation
By Joe Kay
Over the weekend, leading Democrats pledged their
eagerness to work closely with the Bush administration in forging a
bipartisan policy to continue the occupation of Iraq, and voiced their
support for a substantial increase in the military budget and the recruitment
of more Army troops
Third
Parties Fight For American Democracy
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
A great democracy offers citizens sharp political
choices. That’s what gives political freedom meaning. With two-party
control of America’s political system, political options and discourse
are stifled. We badly need more visible third-parties that can fully
participate and reach the public with information about their platforms
and candidates. In a nation that so worships competition it is hypocritical
that there is so little political competition
20 November, 2006
Milton Lost:
Can We Regain Paradise?
By Jason Miller
This article is dedicated to the untold millions
who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman’s creation of an intellectual
bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart
failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual
18 November, 2006
A Prescription
For Peace
Teaching Tommy During an Era of Fascism
By Doug Soderstrom
In looking back at that of my own education, I
have come to the conclusion that much of what I learned was a matter
of propaganda.Then, after having spent forty years as a psychologist
teaching at the college level, my sentiments have not changed; we, as
teachers, have done a terrible thing. We have chosen to mislead our
students. We have led them to believe things that are simply not true
17 November, 2006
The Price
Of Imperial Arrogance
By Stephen Lendman
Hitler just called for the people to support him
and used his anointing to unleash a reign of terror across the continent.
It now remains to be seen how much more damage George Bush will do with
his power and what the newly elected Democrat congress will do about
it that early-on doesn't look like much of anything. Dare we imagine
the price to be paid for more of the same ugly business as usual and
a president given the power of a dictator to act as he pleases without
restraint and a willingness to use it
Democrats
Must Offer A New Blueprint For Iraq
By Scott Ritter
It is imperative that the Democratic Party stake
out a position on Iraq before the Iraq Study Group publicly announces
its findings and recommendations
16 November, 2006
Depleted
Uranium, Another Gift From The Imperialists
By Pauline Paulinson
With now over 10 trillion doses of DU in Iraq and
Afghanistan, it comes as no surprise that widespread field studies in
Afghanistan point to the existence of a large scale public health disaster.
UMRC is the first independent research organization to find DU in the
bodies of US, UK and Canadian Gulf War I veterans and following ‘Operation
Iraqi Freedom’, they found DU in the water, soils and atmosphere
of Iraq as well as in Iraqi civilians
To Hell
With Centrism: We Must
Reclaim The Inspired Edge
By Phil Rockstroh
Rumsfeld is gone. Mehlman is gone. Delay is gone.
Yet -- let's not have our progressives' version of a strutting on the
flight deck of an aircraft carrier moment. Because mission has not been
accomplished
15 November, 2006
To the Victors
Belongs Impunity
By Jason Miller
Baghdad’s kangaroo court has issued a verdict
that virtually guarantees that Saddam Hussein will launch his journey
into the hereafter from the platform of a gallows.Yet to ensure public
furor against Hussein (and to distract the hoi polloi from focusing
upon those guilty of similar crimes), the corporate media have conveniently
jettisoned several important aspects of history down the Memory Hole
14 November, 2006
Here come The
Odious Excuses
By Robert Fisk
The philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are
now washing their hands
The Only Way
Out Of Iraq
By Mirza A. Beg
The failure is evident to all who can reason. As
predicted our bungling leader has not only landed the sole super power
in an un-winnable quagmire in Iraq, but now even Afghanistan is on the
skids, spiraling towards chaos
Liar Liar
Pants On Fire
By David Truskoff
In 1952 Hanson Baldwin wrote, about the war in
Vietnam, "The people of France are becoming more and more Weary
of conflict that brings them no return at a cost known to every tax
payer" In November 2006 the American taxpayers said the same thing
with their vote against the Bush War. There will be many investigations
and subpoenas that will now lead to chaos and turmoil in American politics.
but In the end greed will prevail. It always does. The liars will see
to it
11 November, 2006
Myth Of
The Brave Soldier
By Mickey Z.
There are many who identify themselves as "anti-war" who will vigorously defend the troops. Even when faced with documented
evidence of criminality, Americans still cannot summon the bravery to
condemn the military
10 November, 2006
Outlaw
Empire Meets The Wave
By Tom Engelhardt
The wave -- and make no mistake, it's a global
one -- has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters.
It's a sight for sore eyes
08 November, 2006
Saddam Hussein
Verdict: US Politicians,
Media Applaud The Gallows And The Noose
By David Walsh
It is, in its own way, entirely fitting that a
show trial followed by a hanging should be hailed by the US media and
both major parties as symbols of Washington’s “democratic” mission in Iraq
07 November, 2006
Agitprop
Capital Of The World (The USA)
Exports Its Poison To Venezuela
By Stephen Lendman
With the December election less than a month away,
events are building toward a climax when Washington-orchestrated fireworks
are sure to erupt. Expect them to be even uglier than the tactics used
in the previous three failed attempts to oust Hugo Chavez
Unleashing
the Christ Within:Last Hope
For The Moribund Soul Of A Nation?
By Jason Miller
In a collective sense, the soul of the United States
is writhing in the agony of spiritual asphyxiation. Trapped in an overflowing
cesspool of its own making, the nation’s élan vital desperately
needs freedom and an infusion of spiritual oxygen. Sans significant
change, its odds for survival equal those of an under-sized fish carelessly
tossed ashore by a heartless angler
06 November, 2006
Apocalypse
No! Christian Fascism
And The Nazi Legacy
By Juan Santos
If Life on Earth is to survive, if we and millions
of other species are to survive, human society will have to undergo
the deepest of transformations on a global scale. Stopping Christian
Fascism will only be the beginning
Blood And
money
By John Pilger
If I have learned nothing else from witnessing
numerous bloody contrivances, it is never to underestimate the stamina
of rampant, rapacious empire and the dishonesty of its "humanitarian
interventions". Millions of us, who are the majority, need to raise
our voices again, more urgently now than ever
05 November, 2006
Botched Or
Not, The Joke's On Us
By Mickey Z.
Every now and then, a series of events (and the
reaction to those events) converge to effectively illustrate just how
deeply the indoctrination runs in the home of the brave/land of the
free. Senator John F. Kerry was the catalyst for the most recent such
convergence. His "botched joke" laid bare the passionate cult
of the soldier, America's enduring military fetish
03 November, 2006
America
The Temporary
By Mickey Z.
America the Beautiful. The Declaration of Independence.
The Statue of Liberty. Baseball, apple pie, and internal combustion
engines built by Chevrolet. All of these are nothing more than the castles
made of sand Jimi Hendrix sang about
The Great White
Hunters Bwana Dick And Don
By Rana Bose
Do Bwana Dick and Bwana Don really think that the
people of the world outside the United States are really scurrying around
without any heads above their shoulders, waiting for justice to arrive
from the Bible belt via the Great White Hunter?
02 November, 2006
Midterm
Elections 2006:It's Always Darkest,
Right Before ...It Goes Completely Black
By Phil Rockstroh
I believe, at this late hour, the second best thing
that could come to pass in our crumbling republic is for the total destruction
of the Democratic Party -- and then from its ashes to rise a party of
true progressives
Apocalypse
No!
An Indigenist Perspective -Part I
By Juan Santos
Science has given us until roughly 2012 to take
radical action to change the course we’re on. In the next six
years, they tell us, we will determine the fate of the Earth.With the
US and its white colonial puppet Israel on a nuclear collision course
with Iran and Syria, we may have less time than that
01 November, 2006
Terrorism:
Facts Versus Myths
By Ram Puniyani
When I look
At the purple blue sky
At night,
I want to see stars,
Not bombers, circling the moonilight
The Forgiven:
Clint Eastwood's Good War
By Mickey Z.
In the midst of our current, perpetual war against
evil, America is yet again reflecting upon the "good war."
If Clint Eastwood is allowed to recycle those images in ³Flags
of Our Fathers,² as the author of an alternative history of WWII,
why shouldn't I state my case yet again?
31 October, 2006
Hell Awaits
America
By Jason Miller
Mass manipulation, blissful psychosis, and 7 easy
wys to achieve damnation
30 October, 2006
American
Voters Must Not Reward Failure
By Ramzy Baroud
On November 7 only the American voter has the power
to decide: whether to reward failure or to gracefully search for a way
out of Iraq
28 October, 2006
Christian
Supremacists And American Imperialism
By Yoginder Sikand
Bush is on record as having claimed that only Christians
have a place in heaven. Many other religious fundamentalists in other
faiths, including Osama bin Laden, whom Bush regularly refers to as
his principal adversary, think likewise about their own co-religionists.
A recipe for despair? Perhaps, although, hopefully, not necessarily.
But all the more reason for taking the battle against bigots parading
in the guise of virtue even more seriously
Members
Of Bush Gang Swore Under Oath
Saddam Was Behind 9/11
By Evelyn Pringle
For those Americans still wondering about a motive
for Bush taking the country to war in Iraq, the first and foremost goal
of the neocons was to gain control of the world's oil supply and the
number two goal, was to set up a war profiteering scheme to funnel billions
of tax dollars into their own bank accounts for many years to come
Is It Vietnam
Yet?
By Cindy Sheehan
With the mid-term elections looming dangerously
close, and with public opinion in opposition to George's failed foreign
policies crossing the two-thirds mark, the White House announced that
they are going to present their puppet government of Iraq with a "timetable"
for US withdrawal. This reminds me of Richard Nixon's "secret plan" to remove US troops from Vietnam that he touted in his narrow electoral
victory over Hubert Humphrey in 1968
27 October, 2006
James Petras'
New Book:The Power Of Israel
In The United States
By Stephen Lendman
Petras' powerful new book is titled The Power of
Israel in the United States. It's a work of epic writing and essential
reading documenting the enormous influence of the Jewish Lobby on US
policy in the Middle East
26 October, 2006
Nuclear Dual
Standards
By Ramzy Baroud
The US administration’s double standards
in dealing with the intensifying nuclear crisis in North Korea further
strengthens the argument that President George W Bush’s colonial
designs are either exasperated by the vulnerability of his foes or deterred
by their lethal preparedness
The Shame
Of The Nation: A Collective Perversion
By Stephen Lendman
The daily headlines about a single congressman's
online pedophiliac behavior obscure the greater issue of a nation off
its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling
the foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what
the nation long-claimed to stand for but no longer does if it ever did
Selling
Satan: Iraqi War Dead And
The Collateral Damage To America's Soul
By Phil Rockstroh
Regarding the death of well over half-a-million
Iraqis, the majority of the citizenry of The Corporatists States of
America have experienced a comparable degree of regret and remorse that
their oligarchic overlords experience when topping-off the tanks of
their corporate jets with fuel purchased with money plundered from their
employee's retirement accounts ... Sans conscience above -- sans conscience
below
25 October, 2006
A Massive
Turn Around Needed
By Ted Bohne
A massive turn around of American foreign policy
is in order. This will do more to make the US safe than any action in
Iraq which is well known to have never been a threat to the US. Remember,
each day we wait to dismiss the current regime, American lives and Iraqi
lives are being squandered like drunk's drinking money
21 October, 2006
How Not To
Engage With The 'Muslim World':
Insights From Delhi
By Yoginder Sikand
In recent years, particularly following the events
of 11 September 2001, several Western organisations based in Delhi have
launched programmes ostensibly seeking to 'engage' with Muslims. Some
of these are funded by their respective governments. Rather than aiming
to promote serious dialogue between Muslims and the 'West', some of
these programmes seem motivated almost entirely by narrowly-defined
security concerns, and aimed at defending Western governments' imperialist
policies and interests
20 October, 2006
Space:
America's New War Zone
By Andrew Buncombe
The Bush administration has staked an aggressive
new claim to dominate space - rejecting any new treaties that seek to
limit the United States' extraterrestrial activities and warning that
it will oppose any nations that try to get in its way
US Turns
Space Into Its Colony
By Ehsan Ahrari
President George W Bush signed an executive order
creating a new National Space Policy on Wednesday. The most crucial
feature of this policy is that it "rejects future arms-control
agreements that might limit US flexibility in space and asserts a right
to deny access to space to anyone 'hostile to US interests'"
19 October, 2006
Beware Empires
In Decline
By Michael Klare
Just as an empire on the rise, like the United
States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, is often inclined to take
rash and ill-considered actions, so an empire on the decline, like the
British and French empires after World War II, will engage in senseless,
self-destructive acts. And I fear the same can happen to the United
States today, as we, too, slip into decline
17 October, 2006
Bush
Unleashes The Nuclear Beast
By Joseph Cirincione
Rather than negotiate treaties to eliminate weapons,
the Bush administration forged a strategy to eliminate the regimes that
might use them against us. The Bush team felt they knew who the bad
guys were, and they aimed to get them — one by one. But the strategy
has backfired
Swallowing
The Blue Pill: Frank Talk
On Race And Fascism In The US
By Juan Santos
As the US veers on a radical course toward fascism,
the Democrats, who are riding high on a national wave of revulsion against
the Bush regime, breathe not a word about reversing the legalization
of torture or restoring habeas corpus; they say nothing about reversing
the Patriot Act, nothing about averting war in Iran, and nothing of
substance about pulling out of Iraq
Spiritual
Felo De Se: Fealty To A Moral Abomination
By Jason Miller
Those leaders (like Chavez) who fight for the poor
and oppressed are treated as threats and pariahs, champions of the privileged
elite like Reagan are enshrined in the pantheon of American politics,
and malefactors in the Bush Regime garner enough support to continue
perpetrating their heinous crimes
13 October, 2006
Clutching
Our Values Aboard
The Death Train Of Empire
By Phil Rockstroh
So what exactly are values anyway? Values are what
the clergy and the corporatists allow us to keep for ourselves -- after
they've made off with all the valuables
11 October, 2006
The End Of
An Era
By Siv O'Neall
The era of superpower domination of the world is
rapidly coming to an end. The very arrogance of the present superpower
has caused its impending downfall
Who’s
Really Preying On Teenagers?
By David Howard
But if the idea of your school being obliged to
pimp for the Army disturbs you as much as it disturbs me, you probably
won’t rest until the recruitment provision of NCLB is repealed
and we all acknowledge that child recruitment is as obscene as child
pornography
Piercing
The Simulacrum: Of Faux Democracy,
Petty Tyrants, And Painful Realities
By Jason Miller
Given humankind’s United States-led pursuit
of self-destruction, an economic, ecological, or humanitarian cataclysm
is virtually inevitable at some point. However, there is a silver lining.
The survivors who rise from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix will
be blessed with a second chance. And let’s hope those Founding
Parents will have the wisdom to remake civilization according to truly
democratic, just, and humane principles
10 October, 2006
War For Souls
And Empire In Christ's Name
By Yoginder Sikand
Although rarely commented on in the press, Christian
fundamentalism has emerged as a powerful factor in shaping American
foreign policies, particularly in the 'Muslim world'. With a born-again
Christian fundamentalist as President of America this is hardly surprising
09 October, 2006
Revolt Of The
Generals
By Ralph Nader
Daddy Bush should take his son and have him repeat
after him again and again--"options for revision," "options
for revision," "options for revision." Unless, that is,
Bush and Cheney both do the country a favor and resign
A Subtle
Kind Of Fascism
By John Chuckman
America is a democracy, isn't it? It certainly
has many of the forms of a democracy, but when you closely examine the
details, as I've written previously, American democracy resembles a
badly worn wood veneer. The ugly structural stuff underneath sticks
out the way elbows do in a threadbare coat
Canada Need
Not Follow The US
By Javed I. Chaudry
It is high time, the Canadian government and its
public learn to differentiate between right and wrong in the light of
the lessons learned from the history rather than make decisions on the
basis of political expediency
Lebanon-
Foreplay For The Rape Of Iran
By Dick Mazess
A nuclear attack on Iran would not only alienate
European allies and make the US a pariah state but likely would stimulate
nuclear proliferation worldwide
07 October, 2006
Two Roads
Diverged For America
By Anthony Signorelli
As I have written in my new book Call to Liberty,
the political conditions in the country are ripe for fascism. If principled
ideas do not emerge in the new leadership of the Democratic Party, the
vacuum will likely be filled by dynamic ideas vying for prominence from
the far right wing
06 October, 2006
Intervention
And Terrorism
By Paul Buchheit
If we were to accept the recommendation of military
experts to cut the military budget, eliminate a tax cut that benefits
the rich, and end a controversial war, we could free up about $300 billion
for alternative energy research. With American ingenuity and this kind
of money, we'd have a good chance of overcoming the dependencies that
cause people to want to attack us
05 October, 2006
"No
Blood For Oil"
By David Truskoff
"No Blood For Oil" - Most popular sign
carried all over the world during May, 2003 anti-war demonstrations
04 October, 2006
The Erosion
Of Democracy And
Freedom In America
By Stephen Lendman
Anyone reading Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen
Here" will be scared wondering if it really can happen here. Anyone
living in the surreal age of George Bush and his out-of-control extremist
neocon administration knows it already has, and we haven't yet found
a way to stop it. This is no time for complacency. We are all now "enemy
combatants."
02 October, 2006
Torturer-in-Chief
By Ralph Nader
The messianic, authoritarian George W. Bush and
the minds of his cohorts have further collapsed the rule of law with
his bulldozing through a divided Congress more dictatorial powers in
his increasingly self-defined, self-serving and failing "war on
terror."
Bush Uses The
Word Fascism To Mislead
By John Cox
As a historian of Nazi Germany, I have been intrigued
by the widespread use of the term "fascist" in public discourse
over the last few weeks. Since early August, the Bush Administration
has undertaken a coordinated campaign to link "fascism" with
political Islam and with Muslim-based opposition to U.S. policy in the
Middle East
29 September, 2006
A Soul
Defying, Tacit Approval Of Torture:
How Did We Come To This?
By Phil Rockstroh
The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous
as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every
aspect of contemporary life.To resist, we must cast off the fear of
being an outcast. I remain hopeful: There is yet a molecule or two of
the wild wolf left within us cringing, cloying Toy Poodles
Toadies And
Timid Men -How Empires Die
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
If Gandhi found a law permitting detention without
trail by a foreign government abhorrent enough to launch a nationwide
general strike, what is America doing when similar laws are being passed
by its own government?
The Special
Forces Rebels
By Jim Travis
Stan Goff and William T. Hathaway shine light into
the military's heart of darkness. These two defectors from the elite
guard have become effective opponents of the empire they once served,
and their example will help other soldiers to rebel and tell their stories
Fool's Goal
By Sheila Samples
So we are left yet again to ponder the meaning
of Bush's words while he eyes Iran and checks options on his table and
paws through his tool box with the hallucinatory goal of killing his
way to glory. A fool. With a fool's goal
28 September, 2006
US Threatened
To Bomb Pakistan
Back To “The Stone Age”
By Kranti Kumara & Keith Jones
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s revelation
that a top US official said Pakistan would be bombed “back to
the stone age” if Islamabad didn’t break its ties with the
Taliban and provide logistical support to the US conquest of Afghanistan
is yet another example of the mobster methods that have come to characterize
US diplomacy, especially under the Bush administration
Wars And
Debts And Taxes, Oh My!
By Michael Boldin
As stated so clearly in the Declaration of Independence,
the American people have every right to write a new declaration of independence
from the illegitimate, unlawful, and unconstitutional acts of their
rulers. Such rights are inalienable and absolute in all people. Rights
cannot be altered or abolished; governments can
27 September, 2006
Military
Draft Needed For War With Iran And Syria?
By Steve Hammons
Will the U.S. soon need to activate Selective Service
System plans for a military draft if open hostilities break out with
Iran and Syria?There are signs that for many possible reasons, there
are people and groups in Washington and elsewhere who desire a wider
war - war between the U.S. and Iran and Syria - World War III.If they
have their way, the necessity for a military draft would become a real
possibility
26 September, 2006
Gearing Up
for Rove's Pre-Election "Surprises"
By Bernard Weiner
What those surprises might be range from announcing
the capture or death of Osama bin Laden to a surgical strike on Iran's
fledgling nuclear program to ignoring a possible major terrorist attack
against the U.S. -- or, conversely, announcing that they've foiled a
frightening urban bomb plot. Or all of the above, and more
24 September, 2006
Two Winners
In A War Without End
By Robert S. Becker
There are two winners, at least in the short run:
the Bush government has shown great skill in leveraging the very fear
and terror concocted by the terrorists. For what Bush has done is not
only revenge 9/11, say in Afghanistan (with mixed results), but acts,
as if in collusion with terrorists, to broadcast the very fear and terror
by which they seek to achieve their political goals
Christian
Fundamentalism And American Empire
By Yoginder Sikand
Like other forms of religious fundamentalism, Christian
fundamentalism is a dreaded doctrine of supremacy, a cult of hatred
and a recipe for disaster. And with an avowed born-again Christian at
the helm of affairs in America one shudders to think of what more brutalities
are in store for the world if Christian fundamentalism is allowed to
remain unchallenged
23 September, 2006
Herbert Spencer's
Evolved Capitalists
By Jason Miller
Someone needs to persistently document and decry
the myriad foreign and domestic crimes of the American Empire. Join
those of us who are. And perhaps one day justice will be served
22 September, 2006
Reflections
On Our Inner Bush: Corporate Monkeys
In Our National House Of Mirrors
By Phil Rockstroh
We have summoned Bush by the incantation of our
hidden intentions; perhaps, if we were to awaken to the George W. Bush
concealed within, we might understand our own collaboration in creating
him – and then, at long last, we can begin the process of dismissing
him and all he represents
America
Has Just Lost Two More Wars
By John Chuckman
The failure of America's military could be explained
by the notion that failure is only what happens when you seek the wrong
success. A poorly-governed people, as Americans certainly are, keeps
being sent to wars in which they have no vital interest or commitment
21 September, 2006
Rise Up Against
the Empire
By Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez's address to the United Nations
Imperialism
101 - The US Addiction To War,
Mayhem And Madness: Part II
By Stephen Lendman
We're at a moment now when there's still time to
act before it's too late to save a nation conceived in liberty that
may soon no longer have it
20 September, 2006
Control The
Dictionary,Control The World
By Bernard Weiner
Bush, with a straight face, tells us that he has
never authorized torture, and he thinks he can get away with that lie
because the public is mostly unaware that his administration has totally
altered the definition of "torture."
18 September, 2006
The American
Military's Cult Of Cruelty
By Robert Fisk
The change to 'warrior' creed is encouraging soldiers
to commit atrocities
16 September, 2006
Imperialism
101 - The US Addiction To War,
Mayhem And Madness - Part I
By Stephen Lendman
The US-led aggression in the Middle East and the
three failed attempts to oust Venezuela's Hugo Chavez since 2002 (with
a fourth now planned and likely to be implemented soon) are just the
latest examples of this country's imperial agenda and the "new
world order" it has in mind
Decline
Of The American Empire
By John Chuckman
The rise now of China, Japan, Europe, and others – India, Korea, and to some extent Russia and Brazil – means
the United States must be relatively diminished on the world stage,
much as an only child whose mother just gave birth to quintuplets
04 September, 2006
Beware
The Rise Of The Fourth Reich
By Indira Rai-Choudhury
I am afraid because this is the rise of the Fourth
Reich...the rise of racist and immoral power hungry men that rationalize
crimes against humanity and criminalize all dissent
01 September, 2006
Unconstitutional
Orders Must Be Disobeyed
By Bill Mcginnis
If Bush Orders The Bombing Of Iran Without Congressional
Authorization, The Military Must Disobey
30 August, 2006
Return Of
People Power
By John Pilger
There is no difference in principle between the
people's movement that saw off the Israeli invaders and the stirring
of people everywhere as they become aware of the real meaning of the
ambitions and hypocrisy of Bush and his vassal, who want us to be ever
fearful of and cowed by "terrorism" when, in truth, the greatest
terrorists of all are them
17 August, 2006
Pipelines
To 9/11
By Rudo de Ruijter
This research article is intended to reveal the
facts that lead to the US invasion of Afghanistan and to reveal the
logical place of the 9/11events in that context. It is not meant to
offend anyone. Don't read it if you are pleased with the "official" version of our history
09 July, 2006
Last Stand
By Seymour M. Hersh
The military's problem with the President's Iran
policy
08 May, 2006
To The Rogue
Tyrants Belong The Spoils
By Jason Miller
Regardless of what one believes about Chomsky or
his motives, Failed States is a brilliant dissection of the increasingly
inhumane and authoritarian political structure of the United States
05 May, 2006
The Salvador
Option Has Been Invoked In Iraq
By John Pilger
The American public is being prepared. If the attack
on Iran does come, there will be no warning, no declaration of war,
no truth
04 May, 2006
Failed States
By Stephen Lendman
Comments On Noam Chomsky's New Book
28 April, 2006
GI's Beware
of Radioactive Showers!
By Irving Wesley Hall
Bush's impending, insane nuclear attack on Iran
has provoked an unprecedented rebellion within the top leadership of
the United States military. At the same time, depleted uranium (DU)
is steadily taking down our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's time
for the soldiers to follow the lead of their commanders in order to
end the war
25 April, 2006
Removing America's
Blinders
By Howard Zinn
If Americans were more aware of how often our leaders
have lied in order to wage war, would anyone have believed this president's
justifications for attacking Iraq?
13 April, 2006
The U.S.
Military Is In DU Denial
By Susu Jeffrey
Of the 580,000 Iraq War 1 veterans, 56 percent
have applied for disability treatment and benefits. Depleted uranium
is the sin of the father visited upon the next generation, whether it’s
parental illness, death, or birth defects and genetic damage inherited
by untold generations. Brothers, if you’re going over, bank your
sperm. Sisters, if you’re going over—have your babies first
12 April, 2006
Imminent
Decline Of Empire?
By Ramzy Baroud
The miscalculated policies of the US administration
in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country’s ability
to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are
blowing everywhere, and there is little that Washington’s ideologues
can do to stop it
The American
Caesar
By Ralph Nader
In the name of fighting stateless terrorism, George
W. Bush is looming as the American Caesar running roughshod over the
civil liberties of the American people who have turned against him in
ever larger majorities
10 April, 2006
Washington
Considering Nuclear
Strikes Against Iran
By Bill Van Auken
The Bush administration is in the advanced stages
of the planning and preparation for a full-scale air war against Iran,
including the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons against selected
targets
America’s
"Noble" Cause
By Jason Miller
Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture,
and Impoverish with Impunity
08 April, 2006
Amnesty Takes
On Rendition
By William Fisher
As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and
her team continue to face increasingly harsh criticism from Muslim communities,
Amnesty International has issued a new report on one of the practices
they criticize most: rendition
04 April, 2006
Pentagon Thievery
- An Interview
With Jeffrey St. Clair
By Joshua Frank
The sooner the Iraqis evict US forces from Iraq,
the better off we'll both be. Perhaps then America's imperial ambitions
will be chastened. Perhaps the federal budget will be so busted that
future forays will be curtailed and provocative and destabilizing weapon
systems will be mothballed. And, perhaps, a third party will emerge
to reclaim the banner of Jeffersonian idealism
03 April, 2006
Uncle Sam's
Scientists Busy Building Insect Army
By Lynda Hurst
Defence research agency creates landmine-sniffing
bugs
01 April, 2006
The War
Drums Are Getting Louder
By Stephen Lendman
It looks almost certain we're now headed for a
new one against Iran, and may try to "double our displeasure"
by including a "fracas in Caracas." I just learned about an
"Operation Bilbao" which appears to be blueprint to overthrow
the Chavez government and likely includes in it targeted assassinations
starting with the guy in charge
Failed States:
The Abuse Of Power
And The Assault On Democracy
By Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has just released a new book titled "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy." It examines how the United States is beginning to resemble a failed
state that cannot protect its citizens from violence and has a government
that regards itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international
law
The Art Of
War For The Anti-War Movement
By Scott Ritter
It's high time to recognize that we as a nation
are engaged in a life-or-death struggle of competing ideologies with
those who promote war as an American value and virtue
30 March, 2006
Which Soldier
Will Be The Last
To Die For Bush's Mistake?
By Evelyn Pringle
The war in Iraq is a mistake. No its worse than
a mistake. Lets quit pussy-footing around and call it like it is. The
war in Iraq is a grand profiteering scheme gone awry and Americans need
to take off their blinders and face the truth
29 March, 2006
Hobson's
Imperialism And The Desperate
Uncle Sam As Naked As Ever
By Pratyush Chandra
What else do all these abuses demonstrate about
the state of the American youth pushed into the war, if not that imperialism
necessarily dehumanises its own citizens? They are transformed into
Full Metal Jacketed soldiers
24 March, 2006
War Making
101 - A User's Manual
By Stephen Lendman
What's at stake is nothing less than saving the
republic (again what's left of it) and our sacred Constitutional rights.
Unless enough of us are willing to fight for both and do it soon, there
may be nothing left to fight for
The War Lovers
By John Pilger
For me, one of the more odious characteristics
of Blair, and Bush, and Clinton, and their eager or gulled journalistic
court, is the enthusiasm of sedentary, effete men (and women) for bloodshed
they never see, bits of body they never have to retch over, stacked
morgues they will never have to visit, searching for a loved one
Democratizing
The World: One Torture
Victim At A Time
By Jason Miller
Analysis of the Long, Repulsive History of the
United States Inflicting Torture on Its "Suspected Enemies" (in Conjunction with a Review of A Question of Torture by Alfred W.
McCoy)
22 March, 2006
India And
UK-US Bush Wars
By Gideon Polya
On the occasion of the Third Anniversary of the
Anglo-American invasion of Iraq it is timely to note the human and economic
cost of the Bush Wars – 2.7 million excess deaths and a cost to
the US of US$1-2 trillion
16 March, 2006
Terrorists
Or Resistance Fighters:
America’s Dilemma In Iraq
By Gerald Rellick
But now after three years, and the recognition
that the war was a fraud, theses brave soldiers in Iraq know the difference:
70- 75% of them want the war to end and want to come home to their families
rather than fight George Bush’s personal war
14 March, 2006
Iraq: Permanent
US Colony
By Dahr Jamail
US policymakers have replaced the Cold War with
the Long War for Global Empire and Unchallenged Military Hegemony. This
is the lens through which we must view Iraq to better understand why
there are permanent US bases there
01 March, 2006
Imperial Conquest, Torture, And
A Little Matter Of Genocide
By Jason Miller
Americans are not an evil lot, but we are culpable for having allowed a string of truly despicable human beings to perpetrate the Iraqi genocide that has been taking place since the Reagan Regime. The monstrous psychopaths now infesting the White House have taken malevolence to a whole new level. Let us remind ourselves that The White House belongs to us and that Bush serves us
20 February, 2006
Rumsfeld Declares War On Bad Press
By Emad Mekay
Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has signaled that he plans to intensify a campaign to influence global media coverage of the United States, a move that is likely to heighten the debate over press freedom and propaganda-free reporting
Check Your Conscience At The Door:
We're Building An Empire
By Jason Miller
This is America, baby! Shut up and swear allegiance to the Flag, the Dollar, the Corporatocracy, and to the Regime
17 February, 2006
UN Report Denounces US Torture And Calls For
Closure Of Guantánamo Prison Camp
By Kate Randall
A United Nations investigation has found that the US is committing acts amounting to torture at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The report, released Thursday, is a stinging rebuke to the American government’s illegal practices, justified in the name of the so-called “war on terrorism.” The UN body is calling for the prison camp to be closed
Eyes Wide Open
By Chris Floyd
Salon.com has obtained a cache of torture photos and videos from Abu Ghraib, along with previously unreleased investigation reports which detail "a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125 images of questionable acts."
15 February, 2006
The Anti-Empire Report
By William Blum
How I spent my 15 minutes of fame
14 February, 2006
The Pentagon’s War On The Internet
By Mike Whitney
The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The plan appears in a recently declassified document, "The Information Operations Roadmap", which was provided under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and revealed in an article by the BBC
13 February, 2006
Democracy In America -
It's Spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N
By Stephen Lendman
The all-powerful rampaging U.S. juggernaut is not invulnerable. It faces at least 2 serious challenges. One is its own imperial arrogance, hubris and potentially fatal overreach that may hasten its own demise. The other is mass world public opinion that by using its "ultimate authority", becoming aroused and energized, flexing its collective muscle, can make even superpowers give ground
03 February, 2006
The State Of The Union Speech: Bush Repeats
Litany Of Lies On Iraq War
By Patrick Martin
The State of the Union speech Tuesday night was a typically choreographed affair in which George W. Bush appeared before a fawning audience and an uncritical media to deliver a stale rehash of the lies which the administration has employed to justify the war in Iraq and its attacks on democratic rights at home
30 January, 2006
Blair In Secret Plot With Bush To Dupe U.N.
By Simon Walters
A White House leak revealing astonishing details of how Tony Blair and George Bush lied about the Iraq war is set to cause a worldwide political storm. A new book exposes how the two men connived to dupe the United Nations and blows the lid off Mr Blair's claim that he was a restraining influence on Mr Bush
27 January, 2006
President Jonah
By Gore Vidal
Jonah, who, like Bush, chats with God, had suffered a falling out with the Almighty and thus became a jinx dogged by luck so bad that a cruise liner, thanks to his presence aboard, was about to sink in a storm at sea
The Nuclear “Threat” At the End Of
The Age Of Petroleum
By Zbignew Zingh
Barely three years after America invaded and occupied Iraq on the false pretense that it was developing atomic weapons, the Administration, once again, is clanging the nuclear alarm bells
26 January, 2006
Why I Now Genuflect To Charles Krauthammer
By Jason Miller
Driven by my renewed sense of purpose, and my blazing passion to follow my new-found inspiration, mentor, and idol, Charles Krauthammer, I elected to compile a compelling (yet succinct) detail, an accounting if you will, of the world's debt to America
25 January, 200
The Life And Death Of An Iraq Veteran
Who Could Take No More
By Andrew Buncombe and Oliver Duff
By his own admission Douglas Barber, a former army reservist, was struggling. For two years since returning from the chaos and violence of Iraq, the 35-year-old had battled with his memories and his demons, the things he had seen and the fear he had experienced. Last week after a brief stand-off with officers he shot himself in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene
Let History Judge
By Scott Ritter
When historians look back on the policies enacted by the Bush administration in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, starting off with the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, they will be passing judgment on a United States that has violated international law as egregiously as any power in modern history
23 January, 200
Echoes Of War
By Ghali Hassan
If one compares the engineering of the crisis which led to the war of aggression against Iraq with the current engineering of crisis to justify aggression against Iran, one is not likely to identify differences. The lies and the language are the same
20 January, 2005
Phantom Osama Groomed For A Return
By Kurt Nimmo
After a long and suspicious hiatus, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced with new threats against the Great Satan.The latest incarnation of Osama was vetted by the CIA, the spook agency responsible for promoting the original Osama’s illustrious career, that is before he died of kidney failure in December, 2001
Imperialism And Infinite Guilt
By Asim Srivastava
Last Saturday (January 14, 2006), an unmanned drone, apparently operated by the CIA, bombed the village of Damadola in Northwestern Pakistan, apparently in an attempt to assassinate the Al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahri. He was not among the 18 people who were killed in the attack. There were 8 women and 5 children among those killed. Collateral damage in the global war on terror
The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
By Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.
The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire
11 January, 2005
Sedition, Subversion, Sabotage
By William T. Hathaway
Capitalism, although resilient, is willing to change only in ways that shore it up, so before anything truly different can be built, we have to bring it down
Should God Bless America
By Craig Etchison
Is it not time for us to declare that our government will have only one special interst--treating all people and the environment with decency? Is it not time for us to decree that all decisions will be made in a single context--people and planet before profit? Maybe then we'll be worthy of God's blessing
08 January, 2005
America Is Going To Lose This War
By Sandy Shanks
The writing is on the wall. The American people are already being prepped for withdrawal, which equates to defeat for Americans and Iraqis alike any way you look at it
17 December, 2005
The Decline Of The American Empire
By Gabriel Kolko
Defeated in Iraq, bankrupt at home, despised around the globe (and that's just the good news)
17 November, 2005
Evidence Mounts That Bush Wants New Wars
By Bill Christison
Bush seems to be moving deliberately and rapidly toward new wars of aggression in an unforgivable gamble to overcome his troubles. His speech on Veterans' Day leads to this conclusion more clearly than any of his previous speeches and activities
17 October, 2005
Good Amrican's- Democracy's Grave Diggers?
By Sheila Samples
Good Americans, like their 1930s German counterparts, have already racked up a legacy of despair, misery and unbearable shame their children -- and ours -- must ultimately bear. It does not matter if Good Americans sit on the high court, if they are members of Congress, if they are propaganda conduits in the media, or if they are military ordered to turn on the very people they are sworn to protect, they are gravediggers of freedom and democracy. They will be the death of us all
08 October, 2005
God Told Me
To Invade Iraq
By Rupert Cornwell
President George Bush has claimed he was told by
God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan
as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security
for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians
04 October, 2005
Viewing Terrorism
Through A Different Lens
By Jason Miller
A true victory in the war on terror would involve eradicating the US terrorist state and criminally prosecuting
those who have perpetrated the associated war crimes. Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld, and many others in that foul administration belong in Guantanamo
Bay with those they have deemed to be terrorists
05 September, 2005
Katrina And America's
Tipping Point
By Abid Mustafa
In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane
Katrina and Bush's inept response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis
in New Orleans, the myth of America's super power status has been shattered
02 September, 2005
Honoring The Dead
By Dr. Trudy Bond
As if they were figurines, terrifying images of
Iraqis and Afghanis dismembered by explosions are exchanged on-line
for free access to a porn site. The invitation to post photos of shocking
cruelty is proposed to US combat troops who are asked to post their
horror shots in order to enter the porn section of the site. Once gaining
entry, many site visitors have been unable to resist the deal offered
by www.nowthatsfuckedup.com
Why I Do Not
Support The Troops
By Lucinda Marshall
As Cindy Sheehan has so eloquently pointed out,
using our children as "human cluster-bombs" to kill other
children in never-ending wars is not a family value, it is the callous
betrayal of our youth and the wanton destruction of our future. It is
for these reasons that I will not say that I support our troops
29 August, 2005
What If America
Found Its Soul?
By Jason Miller
Waking up to Discover Your Soul is Missing....the
Ultimate Nightmare
24 August, 2005
Pat Robertson
Declares Fatwah On Chavez
By Leigh Saavedra
When a good friend referred to Pat Robertson's
call to assassinate Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, as a "declaration
of a fatwah on a president" I laughed, appreciative of the irony.
But, can we simply laugh it away?
Pat Robertson's
Threat
By John Levine and David Walsh
The call for Chavezs assassination is a serious
threat coming from a leading Republican and close ally of the Bush administration.
It is in line with the previous attempts of the Bush administrations
to destabilize and unseat the Venezuelan government
The Democrats And
Cindy Sheehan
By Joshua Frank
If Democratic politicians had a soul they'd be
standing shoulder to shoulder with Sheehan's supporters at candle light
vigils across the country. But that won't be happening anytime soon.
The Democrats in DC aren't even sure Sheehan's actions are justified.
They aren't even sure that her son died for an unjust cause
23 August, 2005
President Bush
Knows The True Reasons
He Started A War In Iraq,But He's Not Going To Tell
By Jason Leopold
Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11
the Bush administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American
soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, its
just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth about the reasons
the war was started
22 August, 2005
The Presidents
Greatest Fear
By Doug Soderstrom
Can you imagine
a commander in chief having
committed his country to war, but with no one to command? You see a
military leaders worst fear is not that he will lose the war,
but rather that, because he has lost the trust of his own men, no one
is willing to follow
19 August, 2005
The Rise Of The
Democratic Police State
By John Pilger
Terrorism is the logical consquence of American
and British "foreign policy" whose infinitely greater terrorism
we need to recognise, and debate, as a matter of urgency
18 August, 2005
New Abuse Photos
Could Spark Riots,
US General Warns
By William Fisher
In response to a lawsuit by the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR),
and a number of medical and veterans groups demanding release of 87
new videos and photographs depicting detainee abuse at the now infamous
prison, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers,
said the release would result in riots, violence and attacks by
insurgents.
Bush Menaces
Iran With Threat Of Military Attack
By Peter Symonds
President George Bushs inflammatory comments
last Friday menacing Iran with military attack have again underscored
the lawless character of the US administration
16 August, 2005
UN Figures Show:
US Controls Iran Permanently...
By Henk Ruyssenaars
Coming September 3d, when IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei
reports on Iran's nuclear activities, the figures in this article will
be used concerning the number of visits in the field to inspect in Iran.
Showing that for years already nuclear development in Iran has been
controlled by the US and UN: day and night. So: Why War?
Cindy Sheehan's
War
By Tom Hayden
Cindy Sheehan inhabits an alternative world of
meaning that more Americans need to experience before this war can end.
She represents the survivors' need to define a meaning in her son's
death - and her life - that is counter to the meaning offered by President
Bush
Redemption Within
Reach For
The American Empire
By Jason Miller
My wife and I will travel from our home in Kansas
to be at the White House on September 24 to help hundreds of thousands
of others delivering the demands for social justice and peace. It is
my sincere belief that there are many others who care as much as she
and I do, and it is my sincere hope that together we can reinvigorate
the soul of America
14 August, 2005
Bush Raises Option
Of Using Force Against Iran
By Reuters
President Bush said on Israeli television he could
consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear
programme
11 August, 2005
The Bush Administration's
Iranian Nightmare
By Michael Schwartz
The record of Bush administration belligerence
makes it difficult to imagine America's top leadership giving up the
ambition of toppling the Islamic regime in Iran. And who knows where
future Washington plans and dreams are likely to lead -- perhaps to
destruction, certainly to bitter ironies of every sort
Comparing Japanese,
Jihadist And UK-US War Crimes
By Gideon Polya
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the final
end of World War 2 , it is useful to compare the human cost of jihadist
terrorism and UK-US state terrorism with other violent crimes against
humanity such as WW2 war crimes
10 August, 2005
Sixty Years Since
Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings
By Joseph Kay
An article in three-parts marking 60 years since
the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
09 August, 2005
George Bush Knows
Why They Hate Us
By Jason Miller
Terrorist acts and acts of military aggression
are morally repugnant. Those committing these crimes deserve to face
justice. Regrettably, as evidenced by the poignant example of Iraq,
the leaders of the United States have been committing war crimes and
acts of terrorism for years without consequence
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