24 October 2011 | Afghanistan, Empire, Intervention, Military-industrial complex, News | L. Reichard White
As the Iraqis find the back-door to getting U.S. troops out of their country, is Afghan President Hamid Karzai trying a different tack – – – "God forbid, if a war breaks between Pakistan and America, we will side (with) Pakistan," Karzai said, according to a transcript released yesterday by his office. –Karzai Says Afghanistan [...]
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24 October 2011 | Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Empire, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Intervention, Iraq, Media, Military-industrial complex, News, Obama, Pakistan, Propaganda, Somalia, Troop Support, Uganda, US Military, War crimes | L. Reichard White
On Friday, October 21, 2011, Mr. Obama, invoking one of his campaign promises, announced the complete withdrawal of all U.S. Troops from Iraq by "the [Christian] holidays." Over the weekend, he and his media arm further spun the story, claiming the deadline had been negotiated by G.W. Bush. Behind the scenes — later paragraphs — [...]
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12 October 2011 | Afghanistan, Economics, Empire, Media, Military-industrial complex, News | Angela Keaton
Abdul Aziz Khan of Urdu VOA News interviews John Glaser on military industrial profiteering during the United States Government’s war in Afghanistan.
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02 October 2011 | Civil liberties, Empire, Libertarianism, Media | Angela Keaton
Kelley B. Vlahos along with military veterans Daniel Lakemacher and Students for Liberty’s Peter Neiger will be appearing at an Antiwar Break Out Session at the 2011 Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, October 8th. Register here. Vlahos is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, a Washington [...]
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07 August 2011 | Christopher Hitchens, Empire, Michele Bachmann, Neocons, War party | Matt Barganier
And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. [...]
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14 December 2010 | Culture, Empire, Military-industrial complex, News, US Military | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America’s Dark Passage, in the latest issue of Kosmos (.pdf), that the 9/11 War [...]
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