Huffington Post | 25 March 2015 “They believe that ISIS is probably a baby of the USA or a baby of Israel” BAGHDAD — It’s all a ruse, some Iraqis say, nothing more than a carefully thought-out plan to destabilize their bloodied country even more. Twelve years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and three…
Infowars.com | March 25, 2015 The Christian Science Monitor warns that last week’s attack on a museum in Tunisia that killed 23 may endanger the supposed “democratic transition” the African nation underwent after the Western engineered Arab Spring. “Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things,”…
Consortium News | 24 March 2015 Ukraine’s post-coup regime is facing what looks like a falling-out among thieves as oligarch-warlord Igor Kolomoisky, who was given his own province to rule, brought his armed men to Kiev to fight for control of the state-owned energy company, further complicating the State Department’s propaganda efforts. In the never-never land of…
The Daily Sheeple | 24 March 2015 War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. –George Orwell The late United States Marine Corps Major GeneralSmedley D. Butler is perhaps most famous for his post-retirement speech titled “War is a Racket.” In the early 1930s, Butler presented the…
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | March 25, 2015 It was made as a special statement. The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wanted it known that Australian soldiers who had fought in Afghanistan in what has been the country’s longest war should not be treated like those who had fought in Vietnam. “Afghanistan is a better country…
Paul Craig Roberts | 24 March 2015 Andrew Cockburn has written a must-read book. The title is Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins. The title could just as well be: How the US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc. The US military no longer does war. It does assassinations, usually of the…
Seymour Hersh | There is a long ditch in the village of My Lai. On the morning of March 16, 1968, it was crowded with the bodies of the dead—dozens of women, children, and old people, all gunned down by young American soldiers. Now, forty-seven years later, the ditch at My Lai seems wider than…
Class War Films | 13 Feb 2012 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Transcript Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening. Whether Americans live in the one state or the other…
ICH | 25 March 2015 The investigators found “the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around one million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan ( i.e. a total of around 1.3 million). http://www.democracynow.org/embed/headlines/2015/3/25 A new report has found that the Iraq War has killed about one million people. The Nobel Prize-winning…
Russia Insider | 25 March 2015 The US House Resolution to send lethal arms to Ukraine also calls for a long-term strategy for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin Aside from the usually Congressional lust for war so as to secure their billions in military industrial complex campaign donations (slush funds), the key part of the…