Earlier this week Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once again claimed that when they attacked the Mavi Marmara peace convoy on May 31 in international waters, the high-seas Israeli pirates -- euphemistically called "commandos" -- were acting in...
"The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with...
Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
1. It is impossible to kill enough people to end up with no enemies. 2. For every person your military kills, you create 100 more enemies from family, friends, countrymen, religious colleagues, etc. 3. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. The intelligence services...
In a disturbing comment on "OK, so who DID they slaughter?" poster "DOESITMATTER" suggested a scenario in which a drone pilot and helicopter gunship both mis-target apparent "militants" in Los Angeles, "cut[ting] to ribbons a group...
[viddler id=f166caa9&w=247&h=227]"Those who would slaughter innocent men, women, and children must know that the United States will do more than simply strengthen our defenses. ... Around the world and here at home there are those who would attack our...
The most ominous thing about Obama in Afghanistan is that Bush at least did us the courtesy of lying about Iraq as if "we the people" actually mattered. --Serious Soundbytes
We weren't on the wrong side [in Vietnam], we were the wrong side. --Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, via NewsBusters.org And were we also the wrong side in the Korean "War", Panama (Operation Just Cause), Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury), Iraq - - -...
After all these years, Jane WAS Right! British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair's decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq.... A major focus of the investigation is the...
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
