War
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Hubris Isn't the Half of It | David Swanson
Feb. 19, 2013 (Information Clearing House) -- As our government was making a fraudulent case to attack Iraq in 2002-2003, the MSNBC television network was doing everything it could to help, ...
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Cornel West Names Obama as 'War Criminal' | Jon Queally
Cornel West says, "Let us not be deceived: Nixon, Bush, Obama, they're war criminals." (Marc A. Hermann/for New York Daily News) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- Philosophy professor, social critic ...
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Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually Want | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 19, 2013 When one looks at scenes of fleeing refugees from Syria via images of their squalid refugee camps and hears their pleas for solidarity, mercy or for ...
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Highway of Death: 22 Years Later (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 19, 2013 Persons taking no active part in hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed ...
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Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 Soon after the joint U.S.-British bombing campaign "Operation Desert Fox" devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the ...
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Obama’s Expanding Kill List | Paul Craig Roberts
Feb. 11, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ...
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Bulldozers and More Talks: Paving the Road for a New Status Quo | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2013 Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the U.S. administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine ...
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No Security Firms for African Refugees | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2013 The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security ...
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71 Years After Executive Order 9066 (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 “The adjective and the noun don't match.” - Studs Terkel (talking about the “Good War”) The enduring “Good War” fable goes well ...
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Remembering the Maine for 115 Years (What We’re up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” - Teddy Roosevelt (1897) Feb. 15, 1898 was a muggy Tuesday night in ...
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America’s Sniper Fetish | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 6, 2013 “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger When the story broke about ...
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