FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 5th 2011 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Kevin B. Zeese KBZeese at Gmail.com, 518-543-6920 Americans from Across the Political Spectrum Call for End to U.S. Militarism Washington, DC: Putting aside political differences on other issues,...
Last month our own Angela Keaton spoke on a panel in the Live Free or Die state on the future of the antiwar movement. Along with her are Will Hopkins of NH Peace Action, Iraq veteran Alex Peterson and John V. Walsh, MD of Come Home America.us, which has just posted...
Unbelievable news: bombing another country is not war. Over at Foreign Policy, Thomas E. Ricks writes that he's convinced by the Obama administration's justification for use of drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and now Somalia. That is, they are not a form a war...
As far as the Arab Spring goes, Morocco seems to be a model for how not to needlessly shed blood and inflame unrest as we've seen in many other Arab countries. Morocco's overwhelming approval of a new constitution granting new rights to women and minorities was met...
When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn't the case. Rather, the report was similar to a...
In an article on news aggregator "The Drudge Report," a story titled "Iran Ridicules July 4th: America is Not Independent" from Israel National News spoke of The left-wing anti-war.com site was sourced as writing that Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage...
Over eight years, the US troops fighting in Iraq have faced massive local opposition, as well they might as an occupation force overseeing a war which killed a massive number of civilians. This would explain the surprise, then, when the New York Times led with the...
In a must read piece for Al Jazeera, journalist Paul Rosenberg examines the transition of Obama from a figure of revolutionary hope and change to just another run-of-the-mill politician: Things did turn out that way in exactly one case: the repeal of the military's...
The young and still maturing Iraqi military and intelligence agencies have "launched a military crackdown on smuggling gangs, al Qaeda militants and Shi'ite militias responsible for recent attacks U.S. forces." June was the deadliest month in Iraq for American...
Thanks to Nobel Peace Prize winner President Obama's ramped up offensive in Afghanistan, Afghan civilian casualties are on the rise. While a bulk of the recent casualties have not been at the hands of America and the NATO coalition, one would have to believe that...
