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Coleen Rowley> Senator Webb Challenges Obama’s Humanitarian Interventionism
Senator Webb Challenges Obama’s Humanitarian Interventionism Posted on Democratic Underground by annm4peace Thank goodness that Senator Webb and House Rep. Jones are challenging Obama’s (and Samantha Power’s) “humanitarian intervention” powers. The irony is that the (former military official who is no dove) Senator Webb has to challenge the (non-military experienced) executive’s unbridled power to wage “preventive […]
US Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq
US Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq Sunday 30 October 2011 TruthOut by: Thom Shanker and Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times News Service | Report United States soldiers performed a closing ceremony on Oct. 20 for a base in Tikrit, now under the control of Iraqi forces. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / […]
Panetta Dead Wrong on War Spending
Watch the Video | Share It With Your Friends Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is flagrantly advocating for war profiteers at the expense of real security for the American people. He’s trying to browbeat Congress and other officials into continuing to send huge sums of our money to war profiteers who are killing jobs and ripping off the taxpayer. Our […]
A Historic Opportunity to Cut Military Spending
JFP 8/5: Panetta: Cut Social Security and Medicare, not the military SUBMITTED BY ROBERT NAIMAN ON 5 AUGUST 2011 – 8:03PM Just Foreign Policy News August 5, 2011 I) Actions and Featured Articles A Historic Opportunity to Cut Military Spending The agreement in Washington to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for deficit reduction has […]
Secret prisons: How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism — Glenn Greenwald on Jeremy Scahill’s Nation expose
FRIDAY, JUL 15, 2011 07:16 ET How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism BY GLENN GREENWALD salon.com “The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. ‘CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,’ Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff” […]
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