Wednesday
Jun162010
David DeGraw: The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
June 16, 2010 A few recent news items help expose the true drivers of current wars around the world.
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
Entries in War (232)
June 16, 2010 Monday
Jun142010
McChrystal Faces Massive Failure in Afghanistan in Next Few Months
June 14, 2010 Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the specter of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006.
Wednesday
Jun092010
Pentagon Tightens Grip on the Obama Administration and the Intelligence Community
June 9, 2010 President Barack Obama's appointment of retired Gen. James Clapper as the director of national intelligence (DNI) demonstrates the Pentagon's enormous influence over the president and indicates that there is little likelihood of genuine reform of the hidebound intelligence community. Once again, the president has appointed a general officer to an important strategic position that should be in the hands of an experienced civilian who understands the need for change.
Monday
Jun072010
Evidence Indicates that the Bush Administration Conducted Experiments and Research on Detainees to Design Torture Techniques
June 7, 2010 In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals' involvement in the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation program (EIP), Physicians For Human Rights has uncovered evidence that indicates the Bush administration apparently conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody.
Monday
Jun072010
Robert Fisk: The Truth Behind the Israeli Propaganda
June 7, 2010 I wasn't personally at all surprised at the killings on the Turkish ship. In Lebanon, I've seen this indisciplined rabble of an army - as "elite" as the average rabble of Arab armies - shooting at civilians.
Tuesday
Jun012010
Israel's Murderous Attack on Peace Activists Provokes International Outrage, Diplomatic Crisis
June 1, 2010 Days of tension between Israel’s hawkish government and the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla carrying 700 peace activists and 10,000 tons of desperately needed supplies to Gaza culminated in grisly carnage after a deadly pre-dawn attack by Israeli commandos. The operation left between nine and 19 international activists dead and dozens more injured and bleeding on the decks of the civilian vessels.
Tuesday
Jun012010
Half a Million Displaced Iraqis Face Grim Future In Squalid Squatter Camps
June 1, 2010 Recent reports from two international agencies found that of Iraq's 1.5 million internally displaced people, or IDPs, at least 500,000 have been forced to dwell in squalid squatter camps without access to health care or public services.
Tuesday
Jun012010
Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea
June 1, 2010 A chief lesson to learn from President Barack Obama’s recent unwillingness to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Lobby is that such timidity can get people killed.
Monday
May242010
Desmond Tutu: It's Time to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
May 24, 2010 This year the nuclear bomb turns 65 - an appropriate age, by international standards, for compulsory retirement. But do our leaders have the courage and wisdom to rid the planet of this ultimate menace?
Friday
May072010
One Case Against BP, Wall Street, and War
May 7, 2010 The need for greater linkages between the environmental, peace and Wall Street reform movements grow by the day in the face of the epic oil spill caused by British Petroleum, a multinational firm tied to Goldman Sachs and Halliburton in oil wars from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf.
