Petraeus: Can He Tell It Straight?
Clipped from www.informationclearinghouse.infoThe Petraeus appointment also suggests that the President places little value on getting the straight scoop on these key war-related issues. If he did...
View ArticleWarrior Pundits and War Pornographers
Clipped from www.amconmag.comObjective reporting on the SEAL team that killed bin Laden was as easy to find as a Prius at a Michele Bachmann rally. The media simply couldn’t help themselves. They...
View ArticleEnabling a Future American Dictator
Clipped from original.antiwar.comLast week, the 60-day deadline for the president to gain congressional approval for our military engagement in Libya under the War Powers Resolution came and went. The...
View ArticleAmerican Wars Will Be Increasingly Secret
Clipped from news.antiwar.comThe Obama administration responded to pressure this week regarding the legality of American military involvement in Libya by claiming that the War Powers Resolution does...
View ArticleHow Secretary Gates prevented a war with Iran
Clipped from www2.tbo.comAlthough the Arab Spring has recently drowned out the drumbeat calling for a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, we should remember that, not long ago, this drumbeat...
View ArticleMilitarism Is Not Patriotism
Clipped from original.antiwar.com America acquired its globe girdling military empire only after World War II, complete with hundreds of military bases, scores of unequal foreign alliances, and scads...
View ArticleThe American Fantasy of Irreversible Victory
Clipped from nationalinterest.orgChris Preble's piece about fragile and reversible gains provides excellent insight into a frequently heard theme in discourse concerning military expeditions overseas,...
View ArticleWar Inc — Inside The Pentagon’s Psychological Operation To Suck The Masses...
Clipped from blog.alexanderhiggins.comFrom Games To Movies, The Pentagon Spends Billions To Entice The American Youth Into Giving Up Their Lives In The Name Of Military ServiceAs the U.S. economy...
View ArticleMedia: A Spy-War Tool
Clipped from www.opinion-maker.orgEven now 25 percent of this country’s intelligence work force is made up of private contractors along with 70 percent of the CIA budget (81 billion as of 2010)...
View ArticleWar, the fiscal stimulus of last resort
Clipped from www.intrepidreport.comProtesters have been trying to stop the military juggernaut ever since the end of World War II, yet the war machine is more powerful and influential than ever. Why?...
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Obama Secretly Sold Bunker-Busting Bombs to Israel
Clipped from news.antiwar.comA story to be published on Monday in Newsweek is revealing that President Obama secretly sold 55 GBU-28 bunker-buster bombs to the Israeli military in 2009, citing...
View ArticleRON PAUL CAMPAIGN SUGGESTS MILITARY TIRED OF ENDLESS WARS
Clipped from americanfreepress.netWhile the corporate media keep throwing two gubernatorial bookends—Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts—in our collective face, as if they are the...
View ArticleSetting the Trap
Clipped from original.antiwar.comBuried in the annual defense appropriations bill is a provision that would give the President the power to use the military to intern anyone – including American...
View ArticleCan Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
Clipped from lewrockwell.comCan the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants? In the Senate's dark and...
View ArticleCongress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF
Clipped from www.salon.comA bill co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and GOP Sen. John McCain (S. 1867) — included in the pending defense authorization bill — is predictably on its way to...
View ArticleAn Exchange of Empires
Clipped from lewrockwell.comThrough the defeat of the Japanese military, Japan won the war in the Pacific. The United States lost it.Japan's military lost face in 1945. Representatively, the entire...
View ArticleRussia Threatens to Kill NATO War in Afghanistan
Clipped from www.thenewamerican.comFollowing the Pakistani government’s recent decision to shut down NATO supply lines into Afghanistan indefinitely, Russian officials upped the ante by subtly...
View ArticlePAKISTANI FORCES TAKE CONTROL OF AIRBASE AS U.S. PERSONNEL LEAVE
Clipped from theuglytruth.wordpress.comPakistani security forces took control of a strategically important airbase in the country’s southwest Saturday evening after most of the U.S. military personnel...
View Article96% of Congressmen Agree: Bad Legislation Is Easier To Craft In Secret
Clipped from www.techdirt.comThe whole "indefinite military detention" aspect of the bill is heinous enough even if it just ends up being used against foreign suspects. But the decision to declare US...
View ArticleCongressional Tyranny, White House Surrender
Clipped from www.counterpunch.orgParaphrasing Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of Capitol Hill. A majority of Congress is just about to put the finishing touches on an amendment to the...
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