Action Item: Civics 101 — Cutting Defense Means? Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for the Military
Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy sent this late last night. Please share. Eisenberg and Murphy are co-conveners of the United for Peace and Justice Legislative Working Group. By Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy Some readers probably heard on the news how the...
‘Drowning People in Fear is the Key to Power’
A few months ago I pointed to an important piece in Foreign Affairs by Micah Zenko and Michael A. Cohen who argued that despite the constant fear-mongering and threat inflation in America, we are actually very secure and face very few, very minor external threats. I...
Meddling in Syria: Bad When Iran Does It, Honorable When We Do It
Headlines are awash today with the breaking news that Iran is continuing to send arms to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, despite UN sanctions prohibiting such transfers. Forget the usual counter-narrative double standard about how the U.S. supports its own brutal...
America’s ‘Drug War’ Crimes in Honduras
In the name of the war on drugs, the U.S. has murdered a number of civilians, including two pregnant women and two children in Honduras. Dan Kovalik at Huffington Post: According to the Honduran newspaper, Tiempo, as well as the Honduran human rights group, COFADEH,...
MeK and That Dastardly T-Word
In the news section, Jason Ditz tells us that the State Department is preparing to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) from their official list of terrorist organizations. This, after years of praise and advocacy from elite members in American...
Urgent: Congress Voting on Pro-War Iran Resolution Today
From Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council Congress is planning to vote today to make war with Iran more likely. This afternoon, the House of Representatives is going to consider H.Res.568 – a resolution that significantly lowers the threshold...
Loosely in the AP, with Nanodiamonds
Justin has already written about this in great detail, but I thought I'd put up an image comparison between the AP's "drawing" and a detonation nanodiamond explosion chamber. Given that Iran is known to have a perfectly legal, 100% non-nuclear, 100% civilian...
Drones in Yemen May Cause Blowback, a Belated Revelation
At Foreign Policy, James Traub wonders whether we might be causing outrage and creating enemies through our drone war in Yemen. As Barbara Bodine, a former ambassador to Yemen, notes, "Right now we don't have a Pakistan-like reaction. But at first we didn't have that...
US, NATO Refuse to Recognize the Libyan Civilians They Killed
Human Rights Watch: The 76-page report, “Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign in Libya,” examines in detail eight NATO air strikes in Libya that resulted in 72 civilian deaths, including 20 women and 24 children. ...the absence of a clear...
