Diana Johnstone
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: For Washington, War Never Ends
The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn’t. Continue reading
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
In the time of the first Queen Elizabeth, British royal circles enjoyed watching fierce dogs torment a captive bear for the fun of it. The bear had done no harm to anyone, but the dogs were trained to provoke the imprisoned beast and goad it into fighting back. Blood flowing from the excited animals delighted… Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe By Diana Johnstone
Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private aircraft of the President of Bolivia to cross their airspace on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden might be aboard is rather more astonishing. 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
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2013: Why Nobody's Listening to Black Folk, Sniper Gets Sniped, New Black Agenda TV Episode
7 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why Nobody’s Paying Attention to Black Folks These Days by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t expect President Obama to offer any measures targeted to the Black economic crisis in his State of the Union address. He’s under absolutely no pressure to Continue reading
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ColdType, October 2012: Edward S. Herman, Greg Palast, Philip Kraske, Linda McQuaig, John Pilger, Deepa Kimar and Diana Johnstone
3 October 2012 — ColdtypeIn the October issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today Cover story this month is Fred Reed’s essay reminding us that playing soldiers is part of the male genome. Really. Helps explain why, despite the efforts of generations of mothers, little boys would still rather play with toy soldiers than Continue reading
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Road To Damascus…And On To Armageddon? By Diana Johnstone
The United States has decided that as sole superpower it doesn’t really need to stoop to diplomacy to get what it wants, and the United Nations has been turned into the instrument of US policy. The clearest evidence of this was the failure of the UN Security Council to block the NATO powers’ abuse of… Continue reading
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Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone: Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was billed as a short little military operation to ‘protect Libyan civilians’. Five months later, all the assumptions on which the war was based have proved to be more or less false. Human rights organizations have failed to find evidence… Continue reading
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Reasons and False Pretexts: Why are They Making War on Libya? By Diana Johnstone
Reason Number One: Regime change. This was announced as the real objective the moment French president Nicolas Sarkozy took the extraordinary step of recognizing the rebels in Benghazi as “the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people”. This recognition was an extraordinary violation of all diplomatic practice and principles. Continue reading
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Another NATO Intervention? Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Again? By Diana Johnstone
Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little ‘humanitarian war’, this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities. Continue reading
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