GUNS, DEBT AND CORRUPTION—Military spending and the EU crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: A look at how military spending also contributes to the social crisis throughout Europe. By Frank Slijper April 2013 Executive Summary Five years into the financial and economic crisis...
View ArticleOpEds: Don’t Thank Me for My Service
By Camillo Mac Bica U.S. Marine in Zaranj, Nimroz province, December 30, 2011. (Photo: Cpl. Bryan Nygaard / U.S. Marine Corps) I do not want to appear disrespectful or ungrateful, but should we meet...
View ArticleIt’s Not Really Fascism When Christians Do It
Christian Fascism, Theocracy in America If Fascism Comes to America, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag, Carrying the Cross By Austin Cline, About.com Fascism is a term commonly used as an epithet for any...
View ArticleOpEds: Murder Made Sexy
By William T. Hathaway SOF personnel in Iraq. The power of life and death is intoxicating to many youths, who, like most of the population, are also pitifully ignorant about the actual political...
View ArticleStar Trek Into Darkness: Militarism in space
By Kevin Martinez and Clodomiro Puentes, wsws.org Star Trek Into Darkness Directed by J.J. Abrams; written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof; based on the television series created by...
View ArticleRussia and China Prepare for Global War
by Stephen Lendman Both countries want peace, not war. America threatens them. Defensive readiness is prioritized. Forewarned is forearmed. NATO’s a global alliance. Washington heads it. It’s a...
View ArticleWhat Bradley Manning’s Sentence Will Tell Us
By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog , RSN Manning: We are all in his debt. oday Bradley Manning was convicted on 20 of 22 counts, including violating the Espionage Act, releasing classified information...
View ArticleGUNS, DEBT AND CORRUPTION—Military spending and the EU crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: A look at how military spending also contributes to the social crisis throughout Europe. By Frank Slijper April 2013 Executive Summary Five years into the financial and economic crisis...
View ArticleUS MILITARY CAUGHT MANIPULATING SOCIAL MEDIA, RUNNING MASS PROPAGANDA ACCOUNTS
by Anthony Gucciardi It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and...
View ArticleBradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing
by Stephen Lendman Nobel Peace Prize functionary Asle Toje: a cog in the machinery of justice travesty. The Nobel Peace Prize does not go to those who male peace. Peacemakers like Manning rarely...
View Article“Bloodbath That Is Not A Bloodbath”: Why Egypt Is Doomed
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Stop. Look at the photos. Linger on dozens of bodies lined up in a makeshift morgue. How can the appalling bloodbath in Egypt be justified? Take your pick. Either it’s...
View ArticleSyria crisis: US reacts to British vote and setback for Obama
Note: Below we present the view on the proposed attack by the US on Syrian targets as summed up by a British paper—The Telegraph—after the UK bowed out of the equation. Britain’s withdrawal from...
View ArticleSenate resolution authorizes war for regime change in Syria
By Barry Grey and Thomas Gaist, WSWS.ORG The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday passed a resolution backed by the Obama administration that grants the president a free hand to carry out a...
View ArticleImpassioned woman confronts McCain over his warmongering in Syria during town...
Have you no decency, sir? Same could be asked of the entire US political class and its media accomplices. People are finally getting restless with “business as usual”, and more citizens are taking the...
View ArticleMajor New Polls: Americans Are Sick of War
Posted on September 27, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog Assad Syrian supporter. Even Bashar al-Assad is given higher marks than Obama and his assigned court liar John Kerry for honestly seeking peace in the...
View ArticleGiant Pentagon Budget Is Unauditable
Year After Year, It Must End by RALPH NADER The federal government is currently in a state of shutdown thanks to a small faction of extremist Republicans who vehemently bellow that the Affordable Care...
View ArticleStone & Kuznick: “We Used Chemical Weapons in Vietnam”
An Interview With Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick by SATOKO OKA NORIMATSU and NARUSAWA MUNEO Stone (l) and Kuznick on tour. The Japanese weekly Shukan Kinyobi and The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus...
View ArticleThe China Fixation
Old Game, New Obsession, New Enemy by JOHN PILGER Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of...
View ArticleGrenada: Remembering ‘A Lovely Little War’
by Bill Bigelow If journalism is the first draft of history, then U.S. student’s history books have been horribly polluted by corporate journalism. The 1983 U.S. invasion of the island nation of...
View ArticleImploding the Myth of Israel
By Chris Hedges Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the...
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