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Victoria Brittain> Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
Tomgram: Victoria Brittain, Fighting a Global War of Terror “Here was the texture of a hidden war of continual harassment against a largely helpless population. This was how some of the most vulnerable people in British society — often already traumatised refugees and torture survivors — were made permanent scapegoats for our post-9/11, and then […]
Noam Chomsky> The US and Israel, Not Iran, Threaten Peace
The US and Israel, Not Iran, Threaten Peace by Noam Chomsky Published on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by Common Dreams It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war […]
Cathy Breen> From The Frying Pan, Into The Fire? Iraqi refugees in Syria
From The Frying Pan, Into The Fire? Hardly a day goes by that I don’t receive an email or desperate phone call from Iraqi refugees in Syria . . . By Cathy Breen VFCN This article first appeared on WagingNonviolence.org. Click here for the video. “Can you help us?” cries the voice over the phone from […]
Tom Engelhardt> Washington’s Militarized Mindset
Tom Engelhardt> Washington’s Militarized Mindset The Military Solution> The Lessons Washington Can’t Draw From the Failure of the Military Option By Tom Engelhardt July 5, 2012 Tom Dispatch Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us – less than 1% – serves […]
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Changing Face of Empire
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Changing Face of Empire By Tom Engelhardt Posted June 14, 2012. Tom Dispatch The frustration has long been growing. Now, it’s been put into words. On his recent trip to Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has earned a reputation for saying whatever comes into his head, insisted that […]
Glenn Greenwald> Leon Panetta: Macho Renaissance man
Leon Panetta: Macho Renaissance man The U.S. media becomes extra sycophantic when it comes to U.S. military leaders, as 60 Minutes showed last night. BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com MONDAY, JUN 11, 2012 07:55 AM CDT Leon Panetta Of all the ways in which America’s establishment media lionizes political leaders, none is quite as sycophantic as […]
Bruce Gagnon> American Exceptionalism to the Rescue
American Exceptionalism to the Rescue By Bruce K. Gagnon (about the author) June 4, 2012 opednews.com U.S. Secretary of War Leon Panetta is making a tour of the Asia-Pacific where he is pumping up the next military conflict. Yesterday I heard he was in Vietnam trying to close a deal to allow the U.S. […]
Chris Hedges> The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost
The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost by Chris Hedges Monday, March 26, 2012 Truthdig via Common Dreams I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part […]
Bob Boldt> Send in the Clowns …
Send in the Clowns… By Bob Boldt Sunday, 05 February 2012 MWC Sometimes I think that Scott Pelley and the lovely Lara Logan should be drawing their paychecks directly from the paymaster at the Pentagon rather than CBS’s 60 Minutes. They never pass an opportunity to cheerlead the latest drone strike or pull a […]
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