By George Eliason | Ukraine War | 22 Nov 2014 Within a few days the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is going to meet with Ukraine’s best and brightest. They are coming to ask for money, weapons, and start lobbying for direct intervention. The thought that the halls of the US Congress can be sullied with this kind…
Jack Doyle | Daily Mail | 18 Nov 2014 Letters containing the detailed conclusions of the public inquiry into the Iraq War have been sent to the main participants, the Daily Mail understands. The revelation will increase speculation that the conclusions of the long-delayed inquiry could be made public in the coming months. Tony Blair…
Brian Terrell | Voices for Creative Non-violence | 19 Nov 2014 Political language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words…
John Glaser | AntiWar | 15 July 2013 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that legal advisers to President Obama have warned him since the beginning that aiding the Syrian rebels probably violated international law and risked a direct conflict with the Assad regime. Members of the so-called Lawyers Group of top legal advisers from across…
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…
By Christopher Black |Global Research | October 19, 2014 The Nato ordered indictment of Muammar Gadaffi by the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the Nato attack on Libya in 2011 echoed the indictment of President Milosevic by International Criminal Tribunal For Yugoslavia, during the Nato attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. Both men ended up dead as a…
Robin Beste | Stop the War Coalition | 14 Oct 2014 Wherever Blair goes he is threatened with a citizen’s arrest for his crimes. Now it appears there have been plots to assassinate him. What can he do to protect himself? FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie Booth, may have been the…