How Governments Abuse Our Patriotism
David Redick Activist Post We hear talk during Federal election campaigns about which candidates are the most patriotic, as demonstrated by words and lapel pins….
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Why the Wars Can’t be Won
Prof. John Kozy Global Research Edmund Burke’s statement, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is frequently cited, but in truth, even…
‘The Invasion of Iraq was Wrong, Unjust and Damaging’
Spiegel Online Has American credibility been severely damaged by the Iraq War? One day after the last US combat unit left the country, some in…
Orwell in charge? Kucinich compares Iraq ‘exit to Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’
Ron Brynaert Raw Story “Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing ‘combat brigades’ but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an…
The Phases of an Empire
David Redick Activist Post The analysis below explains why all empires and “Imperial Style” governments have failed throughout history, and why our Empire-USA faces the…
Petraeus: We’re Not Leaving Iraq
Pentagon Surprised to Hear Reports That War Ended Jason Ditz AntiWar As Obama Administration officials and a willing mainstream media report that yesterday was the…
Poll: Opposition to Wars at All Time High
Press TV A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time…
HR 1553 Authorizing ‘Use of Force’ Against Iran is Based on Pure Propaganda
Activist Post America has not officially declared war on a nation since World War II. Yet we are now entangled in endless wars with no…
Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell on War, Deficits and Foreign Policy Dictatorship
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
Henry A. Giroux TruthOut When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas “marketplaced,” our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy…
Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington
Tom Engelhardt Tom’s Dispatch The other day I visited a website I check regularly for all things military, Noah Shachtman’s Danger Room blog at Wired…
None Dare Call It Tyranny
Sheldon Richman The Future of Freedom Foundation If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive…
Not All Were Destroyed: CIA Torture Tapes Discovered
Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo Associated Press WASHINGTON – The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison….
Afghanistan finds 1.8 billion barrel oilfield
Sayed Salahuddin Reuters Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country,…