Via the Just the Facts blog, this U.S. Trade and Aid Monitor* details the corporatist approach to drug war foreign policy. The Department of Defense is extending a privately contracted five-year global counter narcotics program valued upwards of $15 billion. The...
CNN's top-front story this morning is a disgusting video showing a dead girl from the al-Ranel neighborhood of Latakia. She was shot in the eye, and is sprawled out on the sidewalk. "Her mouth was frozen, slightly ajar. Her vacant face and lifeless head conjured the...
That's the title of Kevin Baron's piece at Stars and Stripes, which explains how propaganda is wrapped around the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan to make them seem as if they're on the losing end. Politico’s Morning Defense shared an email Monday that is pure...
At the blog for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliot Abrams concludes that people who think illegal settlement construction hinders the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are not living "in the real world." Abrams has argued before, amazingly, that settlements in...
The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that the "coalition" is trying to "build" a cadre of leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a probably...
During the Cold War, the pretext for reigning terror down upon the masses in Central and South America through U.S. imperialism was the creeping communist threat. This was used as a justification for our 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected...
Richard Falk has an insightful and somewhat dispiriting piece at al Jazeera called "Why the Afghanistan War Won't End Soon." He writes about the prescience of the so-called 'Vietnam Syndrome' (once referred to as "sickly inhibitions against the use of military...
The Des Moines news reporter who noted our anti-war message at the entrance of yesterday’s Republican Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, was not present with us long enough to see the real story. Our banners actually got an amazingly good reception! Our group of sign holders...
The graph, from the Just the Facts blog, shows the trend in economic and military aid to Latin America between 1999 and 2010. It's a common mistake, what with Reagan's extreme terrorism in Nicaragua and El Salvador, to think that the height of U.S. intervention into...
A while back I blogged about a nutty congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, who visited Iraq and suggested Iraqis ought to be the ones to pay Americans reparations. But that was just a kooky representative, right? He didn't know what he was talking about. Jet lag, perhaps....
