War
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How to Reverse the Tide of War. A Global People’s Movement. Say No to Nuclear War By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction. Continue reading
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Trump’s Nuclear Obsession, Threat of Nuclear War against North Korea
The production of nuclear weapons constitutes a multi-billion dollar bonanza for the Military-Industrial Complex. “Scientific opinion” on contract to the Pentagon “confirm” that the B61-11 and B61-12 tactical nuclear weapons are “peace-making” bombs “harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground”. Continue reading
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PM must publish Intelligence Committee report on UK drone killings By Chris Cole
Soon after it had been re-constituted in the new parliament, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) issued a statement in October 2015 saying that an investigation into the drone strikes in which British nationals were killed was an “immediate priority”… Four months later we are still waiting. Continue reading
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Media: NYT Says Congress Has 'Duty' to Make War–Rather Than the Right to Reject It
As reports come in detailing the degree to which Donald Trump has escalated the “War on ISIS”—and killed hundreds more civilians in the process—this would seem like a good time for the country to sit back and examine the United States’ approach to fighting “terrorism” and its recent iteration, the so-called Islamic State. Continue reading
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Legacy: “Obama scattered his drones and special forces throughout the Muslim world”
In January, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that President Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Continue reading
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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Made in Britain, Tested on Yemenis: The Reality of Working for the “Bomb-makers”
Tucking into steak and chips, the 25-year-old talks of moving in with his girlfriend, his good pay at the nearby BAE factory – £40,000, almost twice the local average – and the security it brings. And then he thinks of the people those planes will be sent to kill. Continue reading
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U.S. Considers First-Strike Attack on North Korea
The publication called Business Insider is carrying a story promoting a US first-strike attack on North Korea. The article includes a quote from the Wall Street Journal that reads, “An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt the country’s nuclear-weapons threat, people… Continue reading
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New Report: British Drone Operations Against ISIS, 2014-2016 By Chris Cole
Drone Wars UK is today publishing a new report detailing UK armed drone and air operations against ISIS. The report contains data on UK operations in Iraq and Syria gained through Freedom of Information requests since 2014 as well as background and a timeline of UK air operations. In addition, the report highlights continuing issues… Continue reading
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Trump’s first disastrous airstrike, followed by ‘boots on the ground’
American broadcasting network NBC was the first to report news from a senior US military official that in the first airstrike and military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Southern Yemen on Sunday. One was a member of SEAL Team 6 a U.S. Navy component of Joint Special Operations… Continue reading
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Attorney General speaks on legality of UK pre-emptive drone strikes By Chris Cole
UK Attorney General Jeremy Wright’s speech at the IISS on Wednesday evening, “The modern law of self-defence”, trailed by advanced PR as “setting out the legal basis for British military strikes against terror targets overseas”, gained a flurry of advance media coverage. I’m sure others far more qualified will comment in detail on the legal… Continue reading
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The Next Frontier: Trump and Space Weapons By Karl Grossman
It is highly likely that the Trump administration will move to have the U.S. deploy weapons in space. If this happens, it will be profoundly destabilizing, setting off an arms race and, also likely, leading to war in space. Continue reading
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Where are Britain’s armed drones? And why it matters we are not allowed to know By Chris Cole
At the first stage of what is likely to be a lengthy appeals process, the Information Commissioner has upheld the Ministry of Defence’s refusal to reveal to Drone Wars UK the number of Britain’s armed drones currently deployed. Continue reading
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Video: Whether Clinton or Trump, Tensions Will Escalate with China and Russia Under Next U.S. President By John Pilger
Journalist John Pilger tells Paul Jay that the very real prospect of another World War is not being taken seriously by the American media Continue reading
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The Danger of Nuclear War between USA and Russia
18 October 2016 — Global Research War between US and Russia Could Be Sooner than Later. “The Danger of a Nuclear War” By Joachim Hagopian, October 18 2016 Barely noticed in a virtual media blackout in the West are at least a half dozen high alert, significant international developments that all strongly indicate the extreme danger of… Continue reading
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Gorbachev’s Nuclear Initiative of January 1986 and the Road to Reykjavik
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s radical proposal in January 1986 to abolish nuclear weapons by the year 2000 met with derision on the part of many U.S. officials, who treated it as pure propaganda, but was welcomed by President Reagan, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The records reveal serious internal… Continue reading
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“Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having: Selected Articles
12 October 2016 — Global Research “Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having By Adeyinka Makinde, October 11 2016 M.A.D. The concept of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ which posited the prospect of a global catastrophe in the event of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was one which permeated the… Continue reading
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Cheerleaders For US Aggression: Pushing The World Towards The Nuclear Brink By Colin Todhunter
As the US and its client states and terror groups keep pushing to destroy Syria, I’m reposting this piece from last year. Washington seems increasingly hellbent on direct conflict with Russia. Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace By Adam Johnson
According to leading pro-Democratic media, the US cannot possibly work with Russia; they are fundamentally adversarial. This type of macho posturing, previously the domain of Fox News, has become increasingly commonplace as the Clinton camp drives home the talking point that Trump is a Kremlin agent. Continue reading
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Provoking Nuclear War by Media: Selected Articles
23 August 2016 — Global Research Provoking Nuclear War by Media By John Pilger, August 23 2016 The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain… Continue reading
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