Tag Archives: war

Media Scoundrels Promote War

Stephen Lendman

Syria is target one, then Iran. The road to Tehran runs through Damascus. Western-backed insurgents can’t match Assad’s security forces.

In 2011, Libyan killer gangs had air force support. Without NATO, they’d have been routed.

Expect stepped up intervention in Syria. All signs suggest it… Continue reading

Posted on April 12, 2012 by FG

Germans are behind Günter Grass

Gilad Atzmon

Israel doesn’t approve Grass’s recent poetic intervention. Yet, according to the German Financial Times, Grass views are highly accepted amongst Germans.

Israel doesn’t approve Grass’s recent poetic intervention. Yet, according to the German Financial Times, Grass views are highly accepted amongst Germans.

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Posted on April 9, 2012 by FG

Obama Adminsitration Silencing Palistani Drone-Strike Lawyer

Medea Benjamin

 ”Information Clearing House” — When is the last time you heard from a civilian victim of the CIA’s secret drone strikes? Sure, most of

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Posted on April 9, 2012 by FG

President Obama and His key Advisors are a Gang of War Criminals

Dave Lindorff

February 29, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —- If a bunch of street toughs decided to gang up and beat the crap

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Posted on March 10, 2012 by FG

The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability

Kathy Kelly and Afghan Youth Peace

Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province.  She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son… Continue reading

Posted on February 29, 2012 by FG

AIPAC and the Push Toward War
Robert Wright
The Atlantic” –  Late last week, amid little fanfare, Senators
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Posted on February 29, 2012 by FG

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Noam Chomsky: America’s Decline Is Real — and Increasingly Self-Inflicted

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. … Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 by FG

Transformational Politics

Awakening an American Society and the Global Community

Be Part of the Evolution

Clive Hambidge

“Julian Assange” said Noam Chomsky “should be congratulated for  carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the

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Posted on February 13, 2012 by FG

Profiting From The Pentagon – OpEd

Donald Kaul

Washington’s talking about cutting the military budget. Whoopee.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently revealed plans to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Pentagon’s budget in the next decade, with possibly more reductions on the way.

We’re going to have fewer soldiers… Continue reading

Posted on February 11, 2012 by FG

Israelis Should be Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran

Gideon Levy

For far too long now Israel has been headed by heroes, the kind who don’t hesitate to take the country on yet another dangerous, purposeless adventure. We must tell them now, loudly: We are a-f-r-ai-d.

February 07, 2012 “Haaretz” -… Continue reading

Posted on February 8, 2012 by FG

Stop the War protests against Iran and Syria intervention: 28 January 2012

On 28 January 2012 at the United States Embassy in London, Stop the War held a rally to launch the Don’t Attack Iran campaign. Among the speakers (videos below) were Tony Benn, Kate Hudson, John Rees, Roger Lloyd Pack, Andrew Murray, John

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Posted on February 5, 2012 by FG

Say No to War

Stephen Lendman

Wolfgang Borchert: German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life.

Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released him. His Wehrmacht conscription suspended his young theatrical career… Continue reading

Posted on February 5, 2012 by FG

Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Against whom is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at?

This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the… Continue reading

Posted on February 4, 2012 by FG

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dempsey Told Israelis US Won’t Join Their War on Iran

Gareth Porter

Washington – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from… Continue reading

Posted on February 3, 2012 by FG

The Unpaid Bills of the Iraq War

Charles P. Pierce

If you don’t count the contractors, and the embassy the size of Rhode Island, the fact that an awful lot of non-Iraqi someones are making a buck over there, and the long, bloody folly of it lodged in our historical memory like a… Continue reading

Posted on February 3, 2012 by FG