Antiwar.com columnist David R. Henderson and Paola Gilbert will be on a panel, "Is Iran a Threat?" on Sunday, June 19 from 3 PM to 5:00 PM at the Peace Resource Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside. Free admission. David R. Henderson is an economics professor at the...
Collateral Damage: The Equations
ALLAN NAIRN: Well, now, as the U.S. is losing its edge economically, it has one clear comparative advantage. And that's in killing. And it's using it. Obama has increased the attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan. Brookings Institution last year estimated that for every...
How to become collateral damage #37
Israeli military 'regrets' killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT OOPS! In the occupied West Bank, Israeli...
Iran: Parallax view
NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. ...They show that Arab opinion ...—holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United...
Something they should still fear?
The first [British anti-Iraq-war] march in which I took part must have numbered something like a million. ...this huge crowd, which was being really very crudely manhandled by the police at the edges. We stopped. We were all wedged together and looking into Downing...
Dubya was right??
From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...
Is THIS why they hate us?
AMY GOODMAN: A former US Marine who killed two unarmed Iraqis is running for a congressional seat in North Carolina... Ilario Pantano has said he has no regrets about fatally shooting the two at point-blank range after detaining them near Fallujah in April 2004....
Krauthammer: WikiLeaks show the U.S Military’s “Restraint”
This has got to be the quote of the day -- maybe the week, maybe the month. After agreeing all around on FOX News' Special Report tonight that there was "nothing there, there" in the 400k documents dumped by WikiLeaks on Friday (a massive release of classified reports...
Blackout?
Can YOUR card do this? AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you how war fits into this. I mean, you co-wrote the book with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. How does war fit into our problems with the economy? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, war fits in because you're creating a...
OOPS! Again.
...allegedly "hacked" software, in the case of the CIA, is now being used to guide killer drones to their targets, according to IISI's legal pleadings, despite the fact that the modified software doesn't function properly... --CIA Drone-Code Scandal Now Has...


