War
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Running amok? Donald Trump facilitates civilian drone deaths & continues attacks in seven countries ‘and elsewhere’
The NGO CAGE, which campaigns against discriminatory state policies and advocates observance of due process and the rule of law, reminds readers that in October 2017, US President Donald Trump replaced the Obama rules pertaining to drone strikes with his own ‘rules’ called the “Principles, Standards, and Procedures,” or PSPs. Continue reading
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Peace Is a Cliché
3 June 2018 — Global Research News Peace Is a Cliché: When the West Cannot Control the World Unopposed It Means War By Andre Vltchek, June 03, 2018 Today, some 60 percent of Kenyans live in slums; some of the toughest in Africa. Some of these ‘settlements’, like Mathare and Kibera are housing at least one million people, in… Continue reading
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The U.S. and Israel Are Marching towards War with Iran By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
On Monday, May 21, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a rant against Iran before the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington. It was a bullying speech to push the Iranian leadership to surrender unconditionally to US demands. If the Iranian people are unable to contrive “regime change” the US will do it by military means,… Continue reading
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Arms Manufacturers Use Israel’s Massacres in Gaza to Test New Technology
As the Israeli military mows down unarmed Palestinian protesters, arms trade expert Andrew Feinstein explains how weapons companies use Gaza as a laboratory to test new products and rake in profits Continue reading
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Militarization, “War is Good for Business”
7 May 2018 — Global Research News Scheme to Let OPCW Name Perpetrators of Alleged Syria Chemical Attacks By Stephen Lendman, May 07, 2018 No evidence suggests Syrian use of CWs anytime during years of war. Plenty indicts US-supported terrorists, toxic agents supplied by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, perhaps by Washington and Israel as well – each… Continue reading
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Video: The Art of War: US Fleet with 1000 Missiles in the Mediterranean By Manlio Dinucci
holds the position of Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. In a congressional hearing, Scaparrotti explains the reason for the strengthening of US forces in Europe. What he presents is a real war scenario: he accuses Russia of carrying out “a campaign of destabilization to change the international order, fracture NATO and undermine US leadership around… Continue reading
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Britain’s war – denials wear thin: defence secretary now acknowledges civilian killing by RAF
Britain is at war with more than 1600 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor of the Times reports the killing of a civilian by RAF drone in Syria. Continue reading
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MoD accidentally reveals British drones firing thermobaric missiles in Syria By Chris Cole
The Ministry of Defence has revealed for the first time – seemingly accidentally – that British drones are firing thermobaric weapons in Syria. The disclosure comes in an Freedom of Information (FoI) response to Drone Wars detailing the use of Reaper drones over the previous three months. Continue reading
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UK drone strike kills civilian in Syria admits MoD By Chris ColeUK drone strike kills civilian in Syria admits MoD By Chris Cole
For the first time, the Ministry of Defence has admitted a civilian death in its air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The strike, from an RAF Reaper drone, occurred on 26 March according to a written statement by the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson. The strike itself was reported by the MoD on its… Continue reading
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Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor” By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018 In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power… Continue reading
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Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor” By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018 In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power… Continue reading
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Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III By Gregory Shupak
President Donald Trump is threatening to escalate the Syrian war, as are France and the United Kingdom, while Israel apparently bombed Syria three days ago. In this context, major “liberal” media outlets are writing that Trump should attack Syria further. Continue reading
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Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation By Rick Sterling
Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria. Continue reading
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More than 3000 Google employees want company to drop Pentagon ‘war’ drone program
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, published in the New York Times. Drone gizmo 2. Citing the company motto, “Don’t be evil” the letter urges the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial to aid with video imagery which could improve the targeting of drone… Continue reading
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Is There Hope for International Peace and Security? Selected Articles
25 March 2018 — Global Research Donald Trump: Is He Too Dangerous to be Head of State? By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, March 25, 2018 US President Donald Trump (1946-), as a politician, has succeeded in attracting voters who are dissatisfied or partially dissatisfied with their economic or social situation, especially working class white voters without college degrees. Income inequality and… Continue reading
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Immoral, unethical and illegal? Military action in areas where the UK is not formally at war
Mark Shapiro draws attention to a contribution from Emily Knowles, who leads the Oxford Research Group’s Remote Warfare Programme. Continue reading
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NSA: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question: Part II, 1965-1969
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), widely accepted today as a global standard for international nuclear policy, was in fact a source of significant tension between two staunch allies, the United States and West Germany, in the mid-1960s, as illustrated by declassified documents published for the first time today by the National Security Archive and the… Continue reading
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America’s Search for the “Big War”
22 March 2018 — Global Research U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II By James A. Lucas, March 22, 2018 The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. Continue reading
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2016 US Elections: Evidence for “Israelgate”? Russia Was a Scapegoat?
21 March 2018 — Global Research Iraq and the “Gulf War”: Remembering the 1991 Al-Amiriyah Bombing by the US Air Force By Felicity Arbuthnot and Radio Islam, March 21, 2018 According to Arbuthnot, the nuclear shelter was built during the Iran-Iraq War by a Finnish company which allegedly shared the map and the design with the United States… Continue reading
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Triggering War. A Manufactured “Catalytic Event” Which Will Initiate An All Out War? Are We Going to Let this Happen Again?
As we watch Western governments testing their opponents – today Iran, the next day the DPRK, and then Russia and China – we hold our breaths. We are waiting with a sense of dread for the occurrence of a catalytic event that will initiate war. Now is the time to reflect on such catalytic events,… Continue reading