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The Academy: Militarization of Education in the US
By JP MIller South Carolina’s The Citadel remains the most prestigious template for American military academies. When I matriculated to a Prep school in 1974, I entered a military academy with a long...
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Best Military in the World, Really?
Forces of Outrage by JOHN LaFORGE In response to regular reports of atrocities by US soldiers, drone controllers, pilots and interrogators, the White House routinely tries to help. Every president...
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The Book Thief: The Nazis and the assault, then and now, on culture
By Joanne Laurier, wsws.org Directed by Brian Percival; screenplay by Michael Petroni, based on the novel by Markus Zusak On November 9, 1938, the Nazi regime organized the Kristallnacht (Night of...
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CIA role in Colombia assassination program bared
By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org FARC’s leader Raul Reyes: targeted by the US inter services. Both the US Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency have participated for over a decade in...
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Snowden reveals massive National Security Agency hacking unit
By Robert Stevens, wsws.org The US National Security Agency (NSA) runs an Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), described by Germany’s Der Spiegel as the “NSA’s top operative unit—something like...
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August: Osage County and Lone Survivor: Sound and fury signifying not too...
Former model, rapper and impudent punk Mark Wahlberg is the perfect actor to serve in a jingoist film like Lone Survivor. An early racist, Wahlberg had been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston...
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Stone & 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...
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The 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...
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Grenada: 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...
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Imploding 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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The Academy: Militarization of Education in the US
By JP MIller South Carolina’s The Citadel remains the most prestigious template for American military academies. When I matriculated to a Prep school in 1974, I entered a military academy with a long...
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The Limits of Military Power
The Hammer Policy . by LAWRENCE WITTNER, Counterpunch Is overwhelming national military power a reliable source of influence in world affairs? If so, the United States should certainly have plenty of...
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Russia and China Announce Joint Naval Drills as NATO Declares Russia an Enemy
01.May.2014 | Source: SCG Now that NATO has declared Russia an adversary where does that leave China (Russia’s closest ally)? Today NATO’s second in command, Alexander Vershbow, declared that...
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The Illegality Of NATO
The US continues to beef up the NATO air force and other branches. By John Scales Avery > Countercurrents.org Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles In recent years, participation...
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The US military is a terror organization: A Nation of Cowards Fears Freeing...
By Dave Lindorff Americans are hysterical with fear over five Taliban POWs being released from Guantanamo, yet there was no such alarm over releasing tens of thousands of German POWs at the end of...
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The Long March of Folly in Iraq
The Perils of Cluelessness and Ineptitude by ANDREW LEVINE If you are powerful enough, you don’t have to be smart. This truism explains a lot about American military history. It explains how the...
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Is the Obama Administration Quietly Turning Veterans’ Health Care Into a...
AlterNet [1] / By Camilo Mejía [2] On August 7, President Obama signed into law the Veterans’ Access to Care through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014. The week prior to that the...
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How the Pentagon Militarized the US Police Force
The corporatist rulers have long been preparing for civil unrest against their naked plundering, and the corporatized Pentagon, their main shield against social justice, happily obliges. by BEN DANGL,...
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The Long Arm of the EU: the Association Agreement and Expansionist Policies
By Jürgen Wagner | Translation by Paul Carline There they go again: nothing learned from a long and painful history. And the US, misguidedly, is stoking the fires. Without a true political...
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The Vocabulary of War Criminals
REV. WILLIAM E. ALBERTS } COUNTERPUNCH Invading Iraq Was a “Mistake” Megyn Kelly: The plague of modern TV “news”—pretty faces, empty brains. These critters regurgitate the officially “approved”...
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