War
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Video: The Bomb Sends a Message to the World – Untold History
Peter Kuznick (co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the Unites States): The atomic bomb did not end the war with Japan, it was a threat to the Soviet Union that the US would dominate the post-war world – Continue reading
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The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War By Diana Johnstone
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration. Continue reading
Bosnia, Diana Johnstone, genocide, Holocaust, intervention, Libya, NATO, R2P, Rwanda, Srebrenica, UN -
Wars That Aren’t Meant to Be Won By David Swanson
I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a war is not always to win it. Continue reading
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Illegal Invasions, “Rogue States”, Forgotten Victims and a Shaming Plea By Felicity Arbuthnot
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” – in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from the Prime Minister’s “no boots on the ground” assurances, to “Operation Creep” in barely over a week. Continue reading
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Space War: U.S.’s Former Nazi Scientists’ Dream Of Ruling World
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Bruce Gagnon shares little known facts about the militarization of space by the United States, the development of first strike space drones and the foundation of the US military industrial complex by Nazi scientists bent on victory in World War III. If you thought missile defense… Continue reading
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William Blum: “There is a drone with Assange’s name on it” Interview By John Robles
Mr. Blum is candid in his assessment of CIA assassination plots against such people as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. He also has some surprising things to say about Julian Assange and Osama bin Laden. Continue reading
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Video: Stop the US War Machine: The Movement to Impeach Obama By grtv
For much of the last decade, the left participated in activism and protests condemning the Bush administration’s wars of aggression, and calling for the President’s impeachment. Now that it is a Democrat in the White House, however, these self-same activists are suddenly shying away from impeachment as a way to stop the American war machine. Continue reading
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Israeli Spy was Central Cog in Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Alliance By Wayne Madsen
The one major explosive revelation in the declassified report is Pollard’s involvement in a highly-classified Israeli-South African program to test a nuclear weapon in the South Atlantic/South Indian Ocean region in September 1979. Continue reading
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The Children Killed by America’s Drones. “Crimes Against Humanity” committed by Barack H. Obama By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends. Among the list, are infants of 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. In some cases brothers and sisters of… Continue reading
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PBS Drone Coverage Brought to You by Drone Makers
The PBS Nova broadcast “Rise of the Drones” was sponsored by drone manufacturer Lockheed Martin–a clear violation of PBS’s underwriting guidelines. Continue reading
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U.S. Building “Global First Strike Capacity” Against Russia and China By Hu Yumin
The US aims to combine PGS [Prompt Global Strike] with its space and anti-missile technologies to form an integrated defense system, which could render other countries’ strategic weapons, including nuclear arms, almost useless. This could put other countries in a dilemma: they either lose the capability to launch a strategic nuclear counterattack or use nuclear… Continue reading
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The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of War by Felicity Arbuthnot
The siege of Leningrad is still considered the most lethal siege in world history, a shocking “racially motivated starvation policy”, described as: “an integral part of Nazi policy in the Soviet Union during World War 11.” Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted… Continue reading
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The “War On Terror” Spreads to Africa: U.S. Sending Troops to 35 African Nations
The U.S. Sets Its Sights On Controlling African Resources and Reducing Chinese Influence Continue reading
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John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old By Medea Benjamin
In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days later, when Aziz was driving with his 12-year-old cousin to a… Continue reading
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Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the light of the fact that it transpires that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that the invasion of Iraq was illegal I write to draw your attention to just a few of the the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under the US-UK’s despotic, imposed, puppet Prime Minister. Continue reading
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Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war. Continue reading
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WHY HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONISM IS A DEAD END By Jean Bricmont
Unable to find a new ideological identity after the demise of its big Soviet brother, the European left has engulfed itself in societal issues at home and humanitarian interventionism abroad. In an inconsistent stance, it calls for the protection of peoples by U.S. imperialism. But how can it wish to protect anyone when it has… Continue reading
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NATO models Syria plot after Hitler’s rape of Czechoslovakia By Webster G. Tarpley
It has been less widely noted that the 2011-2012 destabilization of Syria by NATO and the reactionary Persian Gulf monarchies has been closely following the script of Hitler’s onslaught against Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1938. Continue reading
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“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
“This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March… Continue reading
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“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
“This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March… Continue reading
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