War
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NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov't and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn't Huge Enough
The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.” Continue reading
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New MoD document on use of drones, same old spin By Chris Cole
After a long delay the UK MoD has produced its new doctrine publication on the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (commonly known as drones). Its predecessor, ‘The UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ (JDN 2/11), caused a stir in 2011 as it acknowledged real ethical and legal issues with the growing use of these systems.… Continue reading
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Joint civil society statement on US-led armed drones control process By Chris Cole
Work is now being undertaken by a group of states led by the US to draft more detailed politically binding international standards, building on the declaration. In this context, a group of civil society organisations have set out in an open statement, reproduced below, a range of concerns about the limitations of this initiative –… Continue reading
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THE COMING WAR ON CHINA A film by John Pilger
With Donald Trump threatening a war in Asia over North Korea, the real target is China. A new feature-length documentary by award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger is perhaps Pilger’s most timely and urgent investigation. The film is both a warning and an inspiring story of people’s resistance. Continue reading
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Despite international condemnation, our ‘special friend’ continues to bomb civilians in fearful, hungry and cholera-ridden Yemen
On 6th August the Real Progressive Front reported that Saudi Arabia and its allies, neglecting all reports and admonitions, have killed 9 family members, including 4 children, at home by ‘haphazard’ coalition airstrikes. Reports indicate that the strikes targeted a residential zone and videos taken at the scene show people dragging out the corpses from… Continue reading
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China and Russia, Beijing’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace? By Peter Koenig
1 September 2017 — Global Research Why is Peace not breaking out, when the vast majority of the world’s populace does not want war? Why is the world one huge fireball of hostilities, conflicts, threats of economic sanctions, propaganda of lies and mind manipulations, fearmongering – killing – massive killing – 12-15 million people killed since… Continue reading
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NYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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NSA: "Clean" Nukes and the Ecology of Nuclear War
30 August 2017 — National Security Archive Officials in 1960s Sought Studies of “Longer-term Consequences of Nuclear Attacks on the Health of People or on Their Living Environment” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 602 Continue reading
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New FoI figures on UK air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria By Chris Cole
New figures released to Drone Wars UK in response to Freedom of Information requests shows a dramatic increase in the number of RAF operations in Syria in the first six months of 2017. According to the figures, UK armed air missions in Syria rose by 480% in the first half of 2017 compared with the… Continue reading
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Information tribunal dismisses Drone Wars appeal over British drone secrecy By Chris Cole
An information tribunal has upheld the MoD’s decision to refuse to release the number of British armed drones deployed against ISIS and their location, despite such information being released by the UK about its ‘manned’ aircraft. Continue reading
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Hyping the Threat from North Korea
Embedded deep beneath the country’s mountainous zones are some 200 varieties of minerals, including gold, iron, copper, zinc, magnesite, limestone, tungsten, and graphite, Quartz reports. The total value of these minerals lies somewhere between $6 trillion and $10 trillion. Continue reading
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Video: 72 Years After Bombing Nagasaki, US Threatens Another Nuclear War
TRNN examines the myth that using nuclear weapons on civilian populations was necessary to force Japan to surrender Continue reading
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Geography 101: “Get Trump an Atlas”. Trump Wants to Bomb North Korea With Nuclear Weapons. Where is the Target Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While Americans are ignorant regarding the World’s geography, they nonetheless expect that their elected president as well as his foreign policy advisers know “where the countries are”, particularly those countries which are on the Pentagon’s hit list. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 9 August 2017
9 August 2017 — Information Clearing House The Madman With Nuclear Weapons is Donald Trump, Not Kim Jong-un By Mehdi Hasan Think I’m being unfair? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47579.htm Continue reading
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On the Beach 2017 – The Beckoning of Nuclear War By John Pilger
In his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study, Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs – three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Having pledged to help “rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War. Continue reading
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Commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Selected Articles
5 August 2017 — Global Research Seventy-two years now, the people around the world together with the victims remember the egregious act of the US in dropping the first ever atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington had categorized Hiroshima as “a military base”. The stated objective was “humanitarian”, minimize collateral damage, avoid the deaths of… Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: The Special Relationship Between UK and Saudi Arabia
6 July 2017 — TRNN Adam Smith of Campaign Against the Arms Trade calls for a judicial review of the UK government’s continued approval of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Dark Side of Mr. Moon – Pushing for War on Korean Peninsula
Activists in South Korea were excited and fairly optimistic that the election of liberal President Moon Jae-in might help deescalate tensions on the peninsula. They hoped that he would block further deployments of the provocative THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system and even demand that the US pull back the two THAAD… Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump's 'One Good Policy'
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump’s ‘One Good Policy’
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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