03 October 2009 | Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Culture, Empire, Intervention, Liberal Interventionism, Military-industrial complex, News, US Military, War crimes | L. Reichard White
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have excused you”?… –Rethink [...]
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11 August 2009 | Japan, Military-industrial complex, News, Nukes, Roosevelt, World War | L. Reichard White
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second bomb hit Nagasaki. … [President Dwight [...]
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20 July 2009 | Charles Krauthammer, Military-industrial complex, Neocons | Matt Barganier
You lazy, gravity-worshiping hippies may be content to sit around stoned while the Mooninites convert to Islam and threaten the democratic peoples of interstellar space, but Charles Krauthammer will never retreat!
After countless millennia of gazing and dreaming, we finally got off the ground at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Within 66 years, a nanosecond in human [...]
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13 July 2009 | Antiwar movement, Culture, Economics, Empire, Intervention, Libertarianism, Military spending, Military-industrial complex, Neocons, Politics, US Military, War on Terror, War party | Matt Barganier
Maybe this post by George Hawley, “Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem,” wasn’t directed at Antiwar.com, but I’ll address some excerpts from it anyway.
In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old Right non-interventionism, I’ve been somewhat uneasy with much of the movement’s rhetoric. Specifically, I often find much [...]
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06 July 2009 | Civil liberties, Military-industrial complex, War at Home, War on Terror | Tim Swanson
ArsTechnica has a good overview of the $1.8 billion NSA facility being erected in Utah.
Jon Stokes, the author, correctly notes how government organizations are doing a disservice to tax payers for two reasons.
First, there is little empirical data to suggest that the NSA’s current data mining system has been effective at [...]
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25 June 2009 | Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Military spending, Military-industrial complex | Matt Barganier
A piece we ran in Viewpoints yesterday, “Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think,” indicated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards. This was incorrect (see this for details). We regret the error.
On a less clear-cut matter, I received the following e-mail from Halliburton’s PR department:
FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE [...]
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