Top Democrat on House Armed Services Committee vows no further cuts by John Glaser, January 25, 2012 A top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that the $513 billion defense budget for 2013 cannot be negotiated upwards…. Read More ›
Declan Walsh ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has issued an uncompromising formal rejection of the United States military’s report last month on a contentious border exchange in which 24 Pakistani soldiers died, dealing a fresh blow to US hopes of reviving a… Read More ›
By Stephen Gowans There are a few facts to keep in mind to understand what’s going on in the wake of the death this week of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. #1. US foreign policy vis-a-vis North Korea has always… Read More ›
Leader of “Kill Team” Pleads Not Guilty by John Glaser, October 31, 2011 The US Army staff sergeant in charge of the notorious “Kill Team” in Afghanistan admitted in court on Monday to cutting the fingers off of the corpses… Read More ›
The anonymous person who put it online wrote, ‘Scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans’ By Daniel Bates Last updated at 9:15 PM on 11th January 2012 The U.S. Marine… Read More ›
Editor’s note: This post contains language and imagery that some might find offensive. By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News A video posted on YouTube shows four combat Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead men in Afghanistan,… Read More ›
Troops Sent Over ‘Recent Outbreaks of Violence’ by Jason Ditz, January 10, 2012 Citing recent ethnic violence and with the apparent certainty that every nation on the planet needs at least a few US boots on the ground, President Obama… Read More ›
Q. Is Obama better than Bush? A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one. By Stephen Gowans US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal… Read More ›
Some surprisingly good CBS reporting on Bagram Airbase as the new legal black hole, secret prison of the Obama administration: Begram: the Other Guantanamo There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times… Read More ›
Moral Victory, and Selective Body Counts by RAMZY BAROUD Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also… Read More ›
Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities. Similar actions emerged in scores of other nations. For the first two weeks, the corporate-owned… Read More ›
Who is the Real Loser? by ELIAS AKLEH Economic sanctions are arrogant open acts of war against other nations. Their goal is to devastate the lower and middle classes and to weaken the country. The regime of the imposing country… Read More ›
The Indefinite Detention of American Citizens by JOANNE MARINER Passed by the House and Senate last week, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now awaits the president’s signature. Because of its controversial provisions on indefinite detention, President Obama had threatened… Read More ›
By Glenn Greenwald Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there’s a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 