By Marjorie Cohn | Truthout | 16 Oct 2014 For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the “Vietnam syndrome,” in which US presidents hesitated to launch substantial military attacks on other countries. They feared intense opposition akin to the powerful movement that helped bring an end to the war in Vietnam. But in…
By Prof. James Petras | Global Research | October 26, 2014 There is no question that, in the immediate aftermath and for several years following US military conquests, wars, occupations and sanctions, US multi-national corporations lost out on profitable sites for investments. The biggest losses were in the exploitation of natural resources – in particular, gas…
John Oliver | Last Week Tonight | 19 Oct 2014 Translators who have aided the U.S. Military in Afghanistan and Iraq are in great danger in their home countries, but red tape is making it impossible for many of them to leave. John Oliver interviews Mohammad, one translator who made it out. For more info…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | October 7, 2014 Udo Ulfkotte says all major media networks controlled by CIA “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public,” Ulfkotte told Russia Today. “I was supported by the Central…
Collen Rowley | Huffington Post | 2 Oct 2014 The answer lies in human psychology. And probably like the old observation about history, people who refuse to understand human psychology are doomed to be victims of psychological manipulation. How is it that even members of peace groups have now come to support US bombing? One…
Ian Fantom | Veterans Today | 25 Sept 2014 Britain is again on the verge of war. Every time they say it’s different this time, and it never is. They say the first casualty of war is truth, but it’s not true; the truth is dead before the war even begins. War is the result…
By Inder Comar | Global Research | September 22, 2014 There was much enthusiasm in 2008 that President Barack Obama would bring a saner and more lawful approach to issues of foreign policy and war and peace. Six years later — with Americans still being killed in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay still in active operation, US drones…
RT | Aug 5, 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OEHvAqf_I0?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Abby Martin remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, going a few of the most absurd pretexted for war in modern history.