The Class of 2002 are beating the drums on Iran, failing to learn from a war that’s not yet history. Well, it shows chutzpah The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it round. It takes a while, by all accounts, but you have to think any such vessel has the turning circle of a London …
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George Galloway Wins Shock Election in Bradford, U.K. By Agence France-Presse
BRADFORD – Britain’s mainstream parties were reeling Friday after firebrand George Galloway, a fierce critic of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a sensational return to parliament. The Scottish politician becomes his Respect party’s only lawmaker after crushing his former party, Labour, in Thursday’s by-election in the ethnically mixed city of Bradford in northern England. Speaking ahead of a …
Read More »For nuclear security beyond Seoul, eradicate land-based ‘doomsday’ missiles By David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg
America's 450 launch-ready land-based nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are the opposite of a deterrent to attack. In fact, their very deployment has the potential to launch World War III and precipitate human extinction – as a result of a false alarm. We’re not exaggerating. President Obama and other world leaders gathered at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, this …
Read More »Imperial Ignorance By Aijaz Zaka Syed
So this is how the cookie crumbles. From burning books to butchering babies, it seems everything is fair game as the victors near their tether. Four years after Barack Hussein Obama offered a “new way forward”; the gulf between America and the world’s Muslims is at its widest. The horrific details of the Panjwai massacre, with first person accounts recounting …
Read More »What motivates Americans to Kill Muslims? Discussing the Motives of the Afghan “Shooter” By Glenn Greenwald
Here’s a summary of the Western media discussion of what motivated U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to allegedly kill 16 Afghans, including 9 children: he was drunk, he was experiencing financial stress, he was passed over for a promotion, he had a traumatic brain injury, he had marital problems, he suffered from the stresses of four tours of duty, he “saw his buddy’s leg blown off …
Read More »LIBYA: THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF NATO STRIKES
In March 2011 several member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a military campaign against Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s forces. Although NATO appears to have made significant efforts to minimize the risk of causing civilian casualties, scores of Libyan civilians were killed and many more injured. Amnesty International is concerned that no information has been made available to …
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