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Chris Hedges> The Treason of the Intellectuals
The Treason of the Intellectuals “These liberal warmongers, 10 years later, remain both clueless about their moral bankruptcy and cloyingly sanctimonious. They have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on their hands.” By Chris Hedges Posted on Mar 31, 2013 truthdig.com The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th […]
Charles McDermid> US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses
US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses Unsparing analysis of $60bn spent ‘rebuilding’ Iraq lays bare the waste trail that may lead all the way to Afghanistan. At least $8bn in Iraq reconstruction funds is still unaccounted for and presumed ‘wasted’, a report says [Reuters] Charles McDermid Last Modified: 27 Mar 2013 AlJazeera.com The final breakdown of […]
Mission Unaccomplished> Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History
Mission Unaccomplished Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History “By 2009, of course, it should all have been so obvious. We were no longer inside the neocon dream of unrivaled global superpowerdom, just mired in what happened to it. We were a chicken factory in the desert […]
MNASAP> Minnesotans’ Taxes for Iraq & Afghan Wars: $41 BILLION
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Coleen Rowley: Ten years after Iraq
Coleen Rowley: Ten years after Iraq Preemption, from wars to detention to drone strikes, lacks justification, draws retaliation. COLEEN ROWLEY Updated: March 2, 2013 – 4:42 PM StarTribune.com . FBI agent Coleen Rowley in 2003. Photo: Janet Hostetter, Associated Press Ten years ago, I made the ultimately futile effort of writing to FBI Director Robert Mueller […]
Chomsky> The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful, Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet
The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire, Noam Chomsky’s new interview book with David Barsamian (with thanks to the publisher, Metropolitan Books). The questions are Barsamian’s, the […]
Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored?
Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored? by Ishaan Tharoor February 15, 2013 by Time Magazine Anti-war protesters gather in London at the start of a demonstration against war on Iraq, February 15, 2003. Millions of people are expected to take to the streets of towns and cities across the globe on Saturday to demonstrate against […]
Moyers & Co.> Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
Published on Feb 7, 2013 Journalist Nick Turse describes his unprecedented efforts to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex. Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of […]
Drone Wars: Tactics in Search of a Strategy
Drone Wars: Tactics in Search of a Strategy The confirmation hearings of John Brennan for director of the Central Intelligence Agency serve as the latest searing reminder of the intellectual rigamortis gripping the national security establishment and how brain dead we have become as a country in addressing strategy and strategic issues. by James A. […]
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy Posted by John Feffer September 6, 2012 TomDispatch.com Think back to the election of 2008. Do you remember how one candidate had it easy? He had eight years of abject failure to run against. Eight years that included the launching of two dismal wars, the creation of […]
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