War
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NYT Trumpwashes 70 Years of US Crime By Adam Johnson
Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New York Times’ Mark Landler (12/28/17) on how Trump has reshaped US foreign policy. Buried in the otherwise banal analysis was this gem of… Continue reading
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New Year’s Message And Warning From A War Correspondent By Andre Vltchek
Occasionally it is good to realize that there are actually two parallel realities that are constantly competing for the ‘hearts and minds’ of people living all over the world. There is real life and ‘fake life’. There is reality and elaborately manufactured pseudo-reality, which is designed to appear more real than the reality itself. It… Continue reading
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US-North Korea Nuclear War: One Million Deaths on the First Day: Selected Articles
28 December 2017 — Global Research The Quad: US Searches Edge of Asia for Allies to Contain Beijing By Tony Cartalucci, December 28, 2017 There has been a recent buzz promoted around the so-called Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) – a coalition of sorts counting the United States, India, Australia, and Japan as members. Promoted by familiar corporate-financier… Continue reading
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Imminent Dangers to Humanity: The Social Psychological Factor “Permitting” Nuclear War and Climate Change By Prof. Marc Pilisuk
During time of mourning or fear of grave existential threats, the human psyche is quite capable of denying and ignoring likely and imminent dangers. President Trump raised the prospect of venturing into a nuclear war with North Korea. It is essential that some of us counter this propensity. In nuclear war there are blast, firestorm… Continue reading
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UK & US continue to honour and supply Saudi Arabia despite slaughter at weddings, funerals & in everyday life
As decision-makers and most voters in America and Britain enjoy comfortable lives, the Times and Yemen’s al-Masirah TV report that Saudi warplanes near Yemen’s rebel-held capital struck and killed several people on Wednesday, according to medical officials. These included a group of ten women attending the funeral in Arhab, 25 miles from Sanaa, according to… Continue reading
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Is Trump Contemplating Nuclear War against North Korea? Selected Articles
4 December 2017 — Global Research Will Trump Launch a Nuclear Holocaust? US Hysteria Blooms in Wake of North Korean Missile Splashdown By William Boardman, December 03, 2017 The most dangerous thing about the North Korean missile launch is the reaction of the unprincipled, under-informed, white identity extremist sitting in the Oval Office. If there’s a nuclear war coming… Continue reading
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US and South Korea Begging for War with North Korea. Preparation for Military Onslaught under Operation “Vigilant Ace” By Carla Stea
On November 23, the U.S. and South Korea confirmed that they will be deploying yet another menacing military demonstration against North Korea, with 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptor stealth fighters and F-35 aircraft, 12,000 U.S. personnel, with the participation of the U.S. marines and navy. This preparation for military onslaught against the DPRK, called “Vigilant… Continue reading
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The Uncounted: debunking Pentagon claims that few civilians have died in airstrikes
The Pentagon claims that its air war against ISIS is one of the most accurate in history and that the 14,000 US airstrikes in Iraq have killed only 89 civilians – those not listed are here called ‘The Uncounted’. Continue reading
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Watching, Killing: The Evolution of RAF Drone Warfare in the 21st Century’ – Dr Peter Lee By Peter Burt
The lecture, provocatively titled ‘Watching, Killing: The Evolution of RAF Drone Warfare in the 21st Century’ marked the tenth anniversary of the commencement of British Reaper drone operations and took place shortly before the Ministry of Defence announced that RAF Reaper drones are to remain deployed in the Middle East after other UK aircraft return… Continue reading
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Book Review: ‘The Humanitarian Impact of Drones’ By Jo Frew
The Humanitarian Impact of Drones is, as Chris Heynes says in the preface, “a most welcome contribution to a vital debate,” chiefly because it extends beyond the legal lens used to consider the rights and wrongs of particular targeted killings, often the criticism which dominates the debate on the use of armed drones. Instead, split… Continue reading
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The Complicity of Warmongers: Selected Articles
22 November 2017 — Global Research How Syrian-Nuke Evidence Was Faked By Gareth Porter, November 21, 2017 When Yousry Abushady studied the highly unusual May 2008 CIA video on a Syrian nuclear reactor that was allegedly under construction when Israeli jet destroyed it seven months earlier, the senior specialist on North Korean nuclear reactors on the International Atomic Energy… Continue reading
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'The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot'
When it comes to nuclear weapons, our next guest explains, all the talk you hear about strategic considerations driving proliferation—how do we look tough with North Korea, and so on—is in a sense a distraction from what’s really going on. If you really want to know why the US keeps churning out nuclear warheads, follow… Continue reading
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US War Crimes: Selected Articles
19 November 2017 — Global Research President Trump Accelerates Drone Strikes in Somalia By Zero Hedge, November 19, 2017 U.S. Africa Command has conducted fourteen airstrikes since August bringing the year’s total to eighteen. The increased tempo of airstrikes started in September between the Kismayo and Mogadisu region. Continue reading
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War Crimes as Policy and the Suppression of Dissent: Selected Articles
18 November 2017 — Global Research War Crimes as Policy By Mark Taliano, November 17, 2017 The West, their allies, and their proxies are not wanted in Syria. They are the problem, not the solution. Their foreign “interventions” in Syria amount to war crimes as policy. Continue reading
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Britain, Saudi Arabia and America spend millions on execution without trial
The RAF has dropped about 3,500 bombs and missiles, which the BBC estimates has already cost £150m in munitions. Each Brimstone missile costs more than £100,000 and the RAF has already fired more than 350, according to the BBC estimate, defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said. Continue reading
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US Led Wars in The Middle East and Africa: Selected Articles
10 November 2017 — Global Research US Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan, Along with Civilian Deaths By Jason Ditz, November 09, 2017 With the US once again escalating the war in Afghanistan, the number of US warplanes dropping munitions on the central Asian country are on the rise, and with it, the number of civilians being killed in those… Continue reading
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‘Inappropriate Behaviour’ – Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The ‘Mainstream’ That Is Anything But
The truth of corporate journalism, and the great irony of its obsession with ‘fake news’, is that it is itself utterly fake. What could be more obviously fake than the idea that Truth can be sold by billionaire-owned media dependent on billionaire-owned advertisers for maximised profit? Continue reading
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$elling War and Pentagon Expansion in Asia-Pacific By Bruce Gagnon
Trump touched down in Hawaii on his way to Asia. He was met with protests there and huge marches are happening across South Korea in anticipation of his meeting with the newly elected President Moon in Seoul. Moon is turning out to be a disappointment to peaceniks across Korea as he carries water for the… Continue reading
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Perpetual war: UK’s armed drones to stay deployed beyond campaign against ISIS By Chris Cole
The ongoing drone deployment by the UK will no doubt not be viewed as pragmatic or sensible by the majority in the Middle East, but as provocative and threatening. It will be seen that the UK is continuing to partner with the US in an endless drone war in the Middle East and beyond. Continue reading
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“Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”, 204 Atomic Bombs against Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned Prior to End of World War II By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
As early as September 1945, “the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated attack directed against major urban areas. Continue reading
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