By Michael Welch | Global Research | November 15, 2014 A Conversation with Stan Goff and Joshua Key. Global Research News Hour Episode 82 “If a soldier beat up or shot somebody, all he had to say – if he said anything at all – was that he felt threatened. As a result, our behaviour at war…
Ray McGovern | Consortium News | 16 Nov 2014 Exclusive: As the United States slides back into war in the Middle East, the specter of Vietnam hovers over the endeavor with some observers wondering if wishful thinking will again replace hardheaded analysis about the risks and the costs, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray…
Lawrence S. Wittner | History News Network | 16 Nov 2014 U.S. politicians and pundits are fond of saying that America’s wars have defended America’s freedom. But the historical record doesn’t bear out this contention. In fact, over the past century, U.S. wars have triggered major encroachments upon civil liberties. Shortly after the United States…
Jim Dean | Press TV | 14 Nov 2014 “One of the saddest lessons of history is if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.” -Dr. Carl…
Washington’s Blog | 13 Nov 2014 Endless War Is the Agenda Pulitzer-prize winning reporter James Risen reminds us: We are now in the longest continuous period of war in American history. And yet there is remarkably little debate about it. Many Americans assume “because 9/11″. But regime change in Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Afganistan (and…
By Michael Werbowski | Global Research | November 13, 2014 The “great powers” are marking the centenary of World War One. Ironically the world is still at war. There are global and regional conflicts in progress. Rising tensions between India and Pakistan (two nuclear powers), US-NATO led “civil wars” in Iraq and Syria, as well as the…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | November 10, 2014 Neocons come out of the woodwork as Republicans gain majority Now that the congressional game of musical chairs is over and Republicans have most of the chairs, it’s time for the Bush-era neocons to come out of the woodwork. For instance, former Secretary of State…
Glen Greenwald | The Intercept | 6 Nov 2014 Barack Obama, in his post-election press conference yesterday, announced that he would seek an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from the new Congress, one that would authorize Obama’s bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria—the one he began three months ago. If one were being generous, one could say that…
Mike Goslett | Daily Mail | 25 January [AM editor’s note: on the eve of another contrived-pack of lies intervention in the Middle East; lest we forget what happens to those who call ‘Bravo Sierra’ on government perfidy and the extent government will go to cover up its’ crimes]. Vital evidence which could solve the mystery…
By Saul Takahashi | Global Research | October 31, 2014 The efforts of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to change Japan’s pacifist Constitution has received much attention overseas. This attention is very justified, and one hopes it will continue. However, most foreign media outlets fail to convey just how dramatically, and how rapidly, the public debate…