13 November, 2008
Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
By Tom Engelhardt
On the day that Americans turned out in near record numbers to vote, a record was set halfway around the world. In Afghanistan, a U.S. Air Force strike wiped out about 40 people in a wedding party. This represented at least the sixth wedding party eradicated by American air power in Afghanistan and Iraq since December 2001
An Open Letter To Mr Barack Obama, US President-Elect
By Friends Of Lebanon
Mr Obama, it has been a mere week since you were elected, and already you have destroyed any semblance of hope held for peace in the Middle East. Over sixty years of US subservience to the Zionist dream has not brought peace to anyone, not even to the Israelis. It certainly is time for a change. You can continue to seek profit from the illusion of power, or you can seek pride from the reality of respect. It is indeed time, as you say, to promote the cause of peace
17 October, 2008
How To Manage An Imperial Decline
By Aziz Huq
Do empires end with a bang, a whimper, or the sibilant hiss of financial deflation? We may be about to find out. Right now, in the midst of the financial whirlwind, it's been hard in the United States to see much past the moment. Yet the ongoing economic meltdown has raised a range of non-financial issues of great importance for our future
05 September, 2008
Going On An Imperial Bender
By Tom Engelhardt
How the U.S. garrisons the planet and doesn't even notice
25 August, 2008
NATO: A Tool Of U.S. Imperialism
By Ghali Hassan
>The U.S.-controlled North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has lost its purpose to continue as a defence alliance. However, its aggressive expansion is endangering world peace and the survival of the planet
06 August, 2008
Obama And The Empire
By William Blum
I’m afraid that if Barack Obama becomes president he’s going to break a lot of young hearts. And some older ones as well
28 July, 2008
The Military-Industrial Complex
By Chalmers Johnson
Although Eisenhower's reference to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning against its "unwarranted influence" has, I believe, largely been ignored. Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our Constitutional structure of checks and balances
12 June, 2008
A Failed Project For The New American Century?
By Tim Buchholz
So the war in Iraq led to an increase in the short term, but looks like it will lead to a decrease in the future. The dollar is reaching new lows and people are starting to invest in Euros and Yen instead. Our housing market has crashed. Our deficit continues to grow. And even PNAC’s website, www.newamericancentury.org, has been taken down, saying only “This account has been suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.”
23 May, 2008
How The American Imperial Dream Foundered In Iraq
By Michael Schwartz
It is past time for the rest of the world to shoulder at least a small share of the burden of resistance. Just as the worldwide protests before the war were among the upstream sources of the Iraqi resistance-to-come, so now others, especially Americans, should resist the very idea that Iraq could ever become the headquarters for a permanent United States presence that would, in the words of Bush speechwriter David Frum, "put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans." Unlike the Iraqis, after all, the citizens of the United States are uniquely positioned to bury this imperial dream for all time
17 May, 2008
Terror Most Imperial
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Today, one of the more subtle tools of imperialism is the use of value-laden language that seeks to define the Arab and Muslim world. With labels such as ‘terrorists’ and ‘Islamofascism’, they wish to establish an ‘Orientalist’ perspective of otherness denoting barbarism as set apart from Israel and the West which represents admirable qualities. It is imperative to reject this imperial imposition of characterization and for each state, individually and collectively, to self-rule, foremost through self-definition
30 April, 2008
America's University Of Imperialism
By Chalmers Johnson
This essay is a review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella
02 April, 2008
Empire Or Humanity?
By Howard Zinn
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire
14 March, 2008
The Ruthless American Empire
By Timothy V. Gatto
On Wednesday, March 19th, there will be a mass civil disobedience demonstration on the steps of the Capitol. If you can be there, then be there. If you cannot attend, go to a rally near where you live. The future of this nation is at stake. This means our future is at stake. This monster that has been created must come to an end and this nation must return to its borders and re-join the community of nations. The simple fact is that all Empires fall. Do you want to be here when this one does?
02 December, 2007
World Of Terror, Sidr And The US 'Help'
By Anu Muhammad
The world has entered into a permanent system of war, militarization, destruction and dehumanisation. After Second World War, for different reasons, the US has emerged as the centre of this global system. The survival of the US as a super power, expansion of its hegemony and the function of global capitalism now mostly depend upon war machine and militarism. That gives birth to a new phase of imperialism and becomes a threat not only people and nations in the periphery but for whole human civilization
17 November, 2007
Averting World War III, Ending Dollar Hegemony And US Imperialism
By Rohini Hensman
If the Bush administration has decided to attack Iran militarily, is there any power on earth that can stop it if the people of the US are unable or unwilling to do so? The argument below is that if the USA’s ability to undertake imperial conquests depends on its obvious military supremacy, this in turn is ultimately based on the use of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. It is the dominance of the dollar that underpins US financial dominance as a whole as well as the apparently limitless spending power that allows it to keep hundreds of thousands of troops stationed all over the world. Destroy US dollar hegemony, and the “Empire” will collapse
14 November, 2007
Cost Of US Wars $1.6 Trillion
By Bill Van Auken
The price tag for the wars being waged by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan will hit nearly $1.6 trillion during the coming year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Democratic staff of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee
25 October, 2007
Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation And Genocide
By Stephen Lendman
On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." Again he lied. Once secret US Department of Justice (DOJ) legal opinions confirm the Bush administration condones torture by endorsing "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency." It also condones paramilitary thuggery, oppressive occupation, and genocide. This unholy combination is the ugly face of an imperial nation run by war criminals
24 October, 2007
The Imperial Presidency
By Ralph Nader
To what level of political insanity has this Washington Caesar descended? Only two countries can start World War III-Russia and the United States. Is Bush saying that if Russia, presently opposed to military action against Iran, persists with its position, Bush may risk World War III? If not, why is this law-breaking warmonger, looking for another war for American GIs to fight, while his military-age daughters bask in the celebrity lime light?
10 October, 2007
Reviewing James Petras' "Rulers And Ruled In The US Empire"
By Stephen Lendman
The book is information rich on a core issue of our time. It discusses the US empire's "systemic dimensions," evolving changes in its ruling class, its corporatist system, myths about its coming collapse, contradictions in the current debate on immigration and market liberalization policies, the use of force and genocidal carnage, corruption as a market penetrating tool, the Israeli Lobby's power and influence, Latin American relations and events in the region, social and armed resistance, and much more in four power-packed parts under 17 subject chapter headings
05 October, 2007
The American
Empire And The Commonwealth Of God
By Jim Miles
Book Review: The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God – A Political, Economic, Religious Statement. By John Cobb, Richard Falk, David Griffin and Catherine Keller
01 October, 2007
A Global Satyagraha
Against Imperialism
By Rohini Hensman
Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 provides a fitting occasion to launch a global satyagraha against imperialism. Such a struggle is urgently needed today, given the carnage being inflicted by imperialism in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the threat of even greater carnage in Iran. Support for the people of these countries needs to be stepped up to a higher level globally if the continuing holocaust is to be halted
28 September, 2007
The State of
the American Empire – How the USA Shapes the World
By Jim Miles
Book Review: The State of the American Empire – How the USA Shapes the World By Stephen Burman. University of California Press, Myriad Editions,2007
26 September, 2007
A Culture Of
Violence
By Stephen Lendman
What kind of country glorifies mass killing, assaults and abuse; one that looks down on pacifist non-violence as sissy or unpatriotic, yet claims to be peace loving. It's not in the third world, under dictatorship or controlled by religious extremists. It's the "land of the free and home of the brave, America the Beautiful" where human rights, civil liberties, common dignity and personal safety are more illusion than fact
21 August, 2007
Oil Wars: Fueling
Both U.S. Empire And Ecocide
By Dan Brook
The war will end. U.S. troops will return home. The empire is running on fumes and will eventually stall out. The only questions are: How many more people will have to die before that happens? How many more billions of dollars will have to be wasted?
16 July, 2007
Plan Iraq:Permanent
Occupation
By Stephen Lendman
Drawdowns, withdrawal, timelines, mission shifting, building democracy and all the other current and long-standing phony rhetoric aside, America is in Iraq to stay as a conqueror and occupier - that is, until Iraqis finally kick us out as they will in time in a part of the world long a graveyard for foreign invaders. But it won't happen quickly or before countless more thousands die, are injured, suffer immeasurably, are displaced, and lose everything
US Middle East
Wars: Social Opposition And Political Impotence
By James Petras
Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?
09 June, 2007
Report Details
CIA Prisons In Europe
By Joe Kay
A report released Friday by the Council of Europe confirms that the CIA has used interrogation centers in Europe, including in Romania and Poland, to secretly hold and torture prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the globe
16 May, 2007
Is Imperial
Liquidation Possible For America?
By Chalmers Johnson
When Ronald Reagan coined the phrase "evil empire," he was referring to the Soviet Union, and I basically agreed with him that the USSR needed to be contained and checkmated. But today it is the U.S. that is widely perceived as an evil empire and world forces are gathering to stop us
15 May, 2007
Notes On A Cultural
Renaissance In A Time Of Barbarism
By James Petras
We live in a time of imperial-driven destructive wars in the name of ‘democracy’, savage exploitation in the name of ‘emerging world powers’, massive forced population displacement in the name of ‘immigration’ and large-scale pillage of natural resources in the name of ‘free markets’
27 April, 200
Mr. Bush, Tear
Down These Walls!
By Scott Ritter
The ongoing policy of building walls in Baghdad designed to segregate Sunni neighborhoods from Shiite neighborhoods is as morally despicable as it is ineffective. The Soviets built walls; the Nazis walled off entire communities, often as a precursor to rounding up the segregated population and shipping it off to concentration camps
24 April, 2007
Deaths In Other
Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions
By James A. Lucas
The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world
23 April, 2007
Blacksburg To
Baghdad:US Mass Murder At Home & Abroad
By Gideon Polya
The Blacksburg Massacre was enabled because America is awash with guns, has a power-obsessed, abusive and racist culture and IGNORES the appalling human consequences of its actions
17 April, 2007
Blood For Oil
Control
By Paul Street
U.S. forces are in Iraq to protect Iraq oil from
the Iraqis themselves and from the possibility that the Iraqis might
act to accelerate U.S. global decline by aligning their energy resources
with the development of competing states and sectors in the world system
14 April, 2007
Iran May Be
The Greatest Crisis Of Modern Times
By John Pilger
It is time we in Britain and other Western countries stopped looking from the side. We are being led towards perhaps the most serious crisis in modern history as the Bush-Cheney-Blair "long war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's independence from rapacious America
27 March, 2007
A Cluster Bomb
Treaty: Again, It's The U.S. v. The World
By Scott Stedjan & Laura Weis
In an historic step forward, Norway hosted the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions in late February 2007, where 49 countries met to discuss how to address the indiscriminate and lasting effects of cluster munitions on civilians. The Bush administration did not send a representative to the Oslo meeting and, absent a policy change, is unlikely to participate in subsequent meetings
19 March, 2007
If Elected,
Hillary Clinton Vows To Keep US Troops In Iraq
By Bill Van Auken
In a calculated bid to position herself for the 2008 Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton told the New York Times Wednesday that, if elected president, she would keep significant US military forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future
13 March, 2007
America's
Perpetual Nuclear War
By Robert Weitzel
The world should note that America has been waging a “low yield” nuclear war that has been killing civilians for almost two decades. Missing from this war are mushroom clouds and very loud booms. Present is nuclear fallout with its insidious long-term effects on both combatant and civilian and its perpetual contamination of land and water resources
11 March, 2007
A Predator
Becomes More Dangerous When Wounded
By Noam Chomsky
Washington's escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the region's energy resources
10 March, 2007
Democrats
“Withdrawal” Plan Paves Way To Escalation Of Iraq War
By Bill Van Auken
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic congressional leaders unveiled a toothless plan Thursday that they claim would result in the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq a year and a half from now. The main purpose of this political exercise, however, is to unite the party behind supplemental funding legislation that will provide at least $100 billion more to pay for the escalation of the illegal war and occupation that has been waged by Washington for the past four years
02 March, 2007
Nemesis:
The Last Days Of The American Republic
By Chalmers Johnson & Amy Goodman
In his new book, CIA analyst, distinguished scholar, and best-selling author Chalmers Johnson argues that US military and economic overreach may actually lead to the nation's collapse as a constitutional republic. It's the last volume in his Blowback trilogy, following the best-selling "Blowback" and "The Sorrows of Empire."
A Review
Of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis
By Stephen Lendman
Volume three is Nemesis and the subject of this review. In it, Johnson "tried to present historical, political, economic, and philosophical evidence of where our current behavior is likely to lead." He believes our present course is a road to perdition in the form of fiscal insolvency and a military or civilian dictatorship
Never Again
To Antiwar Battle Fatigue
By David Howard
From the Holocaust witnesses we have learned to say never again to regimes of racism and fascism. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors we have learned to say never again to nuclear weapons. From the Iraq War we must learn to say never again to preemptive war, to torture, and to the insidious ideology of democratizing by the sword
01 March, 2007
America's
March Madness
By Mickey Z.
Last month, I touched on a fraction of February's forgotten history vis-à-vis America's long history of global brutality. Here's a small taste of March's madness
14 February, 2007
The World
Can Halt Bush’s Crimes By Dumping The Dollar
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the rest of the world would simply stop purchasing US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars into the foreign exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed with economic crisis and unable to wage war. The arrogant hubris associated with the “sole superpower” myth would burst like the bubble it is
13 February, 2007
Bush’s
Plan For Iraq And The Middle East
By Abid Mustafa
Over the past few months, the Bush administration in the backdrop of the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) report has announced its plan for Iraq—apart from the Presidents refusal to formally engage Iran and Syria— the plan broadly concurs with the recommendation laid out by the ISG. Furthermore, the US has mobilised its surrogates in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the gulf countries to implement this plan and prepare the ground for the emergence of a new middle east. What follows is a brief summary of what America is planning to achieve in Palestine, Iraq and Iran
12 February, 2007
“You
Cannot Oppose The War And Fund This War”
By Kevin Zeese & Anthony Arnove
An interview with Anthony Arnove
War: It's
Just A Pretext Away (Lessons From Yugoslavia)
By Mickey Z.
Anyone viewing international events with even a shred of objectivity knows that the U.S. government is just a pretext away from bombing Iran. American history, after all, is teeming with convenient provocations that created an opening for military intervention
07 February, 2007
Forgotten February
By Mickey Z.
A brief peek at America's unrestrained brutality
Clinton, Edwards
And Obama: Strike Iran
Why The Democrats Won’t Save Us
By Joshua Frank
None of the front running Democrats are opposed to Bush’s dubious “war on terror” or his bullying of Iran. They support his aggression in principle but simply believe a Democratic presidency could handle the job more astutely. All put Israel first and none are going to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
02 February, 2007
Stepped
Up US Preparations For War Against Iran
By Peter Symonds
A relentless and unmistakable American buildup for war against Iran is currently underway. Military preparations are being accompanied by a daily barrage of propaganda against Tehran issuing from US sources and relayed uncritically via a compliant media
01 February, 2007
US Holocaust
Commission And Holocaust Denial
By Dr Gideon Polya
The US recently successfully put a Resolution to UN General Assembly rightly condemning Holocaust Denial. However the Resolution ignored huge non-Jewish Holocausts e.g. the US-driven Iraqi Holocaust and thus was Holocaust Ignoring, something even worse than Holocaust Denial because it is Passive Holocaust Denial that admits of no refutation – who does one refute something that has not even been asserted?
24 January, 2007
Gangsters For
Capitalism
By Clinton L. Cox
Although benign U.S. intentions are an article of faith among many Americans, theft, murder and oppression have always been central to U.S. policies and practices in the non-white world. George Bush’s crusade for ‘democracy’ is yet another chapter in the shameful saga
Bush The
Empire Slayer
By Bernard Chazelle
Victors are never war criminals. That's because they get to write the history books. Bush won't have that chance. The die has been cast and the hour is too late for him or anyone to alter the unforgiving judgment of posterity
20 January, 2007
Rice’s
Middle East Tour: Arab Rregimes Back US War Drive In Iraq And Iran
By Jean Shaoul & Chris Marsden
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the Emirates have all signed up to the Bush administration’s escalation of its aggression against Iraq and its plans for a military attack on Iran
Truth Is
Speaking… Is Power Listening?
By Carolyn Baker & Jason Miller
Carolyn Baker interviewed by Jason Miller
19 January, 2007
Is
The U.S. Planning A Horrific Global Nuclear War?
By Michel Chossudovsky
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East
17 January, 2007
Turning On
The War
By Joshua Frank
It seems the only way the war will come to an end will be when soldiers start resisting by the droves. It’s already happening with little fanfare all across the country. Many are finding refuge in Canada and elsewhere. These brave soldiers must be congratulated for taking such a path. They are the answer the antiwar movement has been looking for. Let’s hope they lead by example. If their peers don’t follow, we are in for a much longer, deadlier war
11 January, 2007
Bringing
To Book The Guilty Men Of Baghdad
By Siddharth Varadarajan
The legal arguments used by the U.S.-sponsored Iraqi court to convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity apply even more forcefully to those American leaders who ordered the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq
Air strikes
On Somalia: A New Stage In Washington’s Illegal “Terror” War
By Chris Marsden
US air strikes against targets in the south of Somalia have claimed a substantial number of civilian lives. The bombing campaign, begun Sunday night and continued on Monday, mark a major escalation in the Bush administration’s lawless use of violence to achieve Washington’s strategic aims under the auspices of its “global war on terrorism.”
A Dark Anniversary
By William Fisher
This week, as the world marks the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a growing number of people and organizations – from military officers to religious leaders to legal scholars to human rights groups – continue to label the prison a black hole of injustice and demand that it be closed
08 January, 2007
The Tower
Of Wealth Without A Foundation
By Siv O'Neall
The two mainstays of the neoconservative and neoliberal agenda can be reduced to the accumulation of more wealth for the tiny upper clique of the American population and to assuring the ever-lasting continuation of the U.S. empire. The rest of the world is simply of no consequence to the neocon way of thinking and that's where they make the huge mistake that is one day going to be their downfall
07 January, 2007
Bush’s
Solution To Iraq – No Mystery
By Dan Lieberman
Jordan and Syria, that feel threatened by Iraq and Iran, might become more conciliatory to the U.S. and Israel (USrael) and seek their protection (as in mafia protection). The U.S. might bow out and let Israel proceed in its own plans. Israel might be the biggest victor in this calamitous and haunting adventure
04 January, 2007
Hussein
And Ford = Dead Criminals
By Mickey Z.
All you need to know about America is summed up here: Saddam Hussein was "the next Hitler" while Gerald Ford was a "healer."
30 December, 2006
War And
USA
By David Truskoff
Christian Americans are the most war like people this planet has ever produced
28 December, 2006
A Look Back
And Ahead In An Age Of Neocon Rule
By Stephen Lendman
It's time to pause at year's end to give thanks for our blessings but reflect that the spirit of the season demands that the madness of Bush neocon rule be stopped and ended before it's too late
Will Stinky
Cut The Big One
By Sheila Samples
Bush is a brutal, pathological liar -- arguably a homicidal maniac. After losing two wars against helpless, unarmed nations, he's bored. The Decider is moving on to greater things, and those who know how to listen to him know the decision to nuke Iran has already been made. Before he leaves office, Bush plans to spread the same freedoms throughout Iran that Iraq is presently enjoying. Will Stinky cut the big one on his way out?
26 December, 2006
“Stephen
Lendman Sounds Off”
By Jason Miller & Stephen Lendman
Despite his relatively recent start, Stephen Lendman has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous and well-respected chroniclers of truth in the alternative media community.Here is a glimpse of Stephen and his worldview
Iran And
North Korea Standoff:
US policy On NPT Is In Tatters
By Abid Mustafa
The US has not only failed to curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, but has also made the world a dangerous place to live in. By signing a nuclear deal with India in violation of the NPT and not lifting a finger to reign in Israel's atomic weapons, more and more countries will follow Iran and North Korea in a bid to nuclearize. Thanks to the Bush administration, America now stands on the verge of becoming the worlds biggest proliferate of nuclear technology
23 December, 2006
The Birth Of
An Empire
By Rosa Mariam Elizalde
An Interview with Gore Vidal
21 December, 2006
UK, US And
Israeli State Terrorism And Western Holocaust Denial
By Gideon Polya
Holocaust Denial is exactly what racist, lying Western academics, politicians and media have been guilty of in relation to past and present Western-imposed Holocausts in Asian countries, including India
The Decider
Can’t Decide
By Kevin Zeese
Indications are Bush is moving toward more troops, with Democratic leadership support, now Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly opposes an increase in troops in Iraq. Washington, DC is confused in the face of military defeat. It is time to face the facts and leave
Elephants
And Quagmires
By Bill Henderson
While the Bush administration, the media and nearly all the Democrats still refuse to explain the war in Iraq in terms of oil, the ever-pragmatic members of the Iraq Study Group share no such reticence
19 December, 2006
"Defending
Our Interests And Our People" (Lessons From Panama)
By Mickey Z.
Estimates range from 500 to 3000 dead Panamanian civilians killed during the invasion and the fighting afterwards. Bush the Elder was later asked if getting Noriega was worth all those deaths. As if to confirm the unspoken tenet that some lives count more than others, the president replied: "Every human life is precious, and yet I have to answer, yes, it has been worth it."
17 December, 2006
The U.S.
Government Hates Democracy (Lessons From Italy)
By Mickey Z
As far as I'm concerned, we can't put forward enough reminders of how the U.S. government about peace, freedom, justice, etc. aside, the land of the free is not even remotely interested in spreading democracy. There is an abundance of evidence to back up this assertion. For now, I offer the example of post-World War II Italy
The Atrocities
Of Augusto Pinochet And The United States
By Roger Burbach
The Pinochet affair has shaped a whole new generation of human rights activists and lawyers. They are determined to end the impunity of public officials, including that of the civilian and military leaders in the United States who engage in state terrorism and human rights abuses while violating international treaties like the Geneva Conventions
16 December, 2006
Omissions
In The Iraq Study Group Report
By Stephen Lendman
It remains to be seen how long it will take for a mass awakening to occur to arouse the public at home, as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan, making them no longer willing to put up with the kind of abuse and neglect they've so far failed to resist. If history is a guide, it will happen
08 December, 2006
The Empire
Is Falling
By Robert Fisk
The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on Mesopotamia
Vietnam,
Iraq, And The M Word
By Mickey Z.
Other countries have war criminals. In America, we have the mistaken
07 December, 2006
Don't Expect
U.S. To Create Democracy In Iraq (Lessons From Greece)
By Mickey Z.
It would be nice to believe that the U.S./British invasion of Iraq may have been horribly mishandled but the motivation behind it was sincere. After all, it's a timeless classic: toss out a depot and introduce democracy. However, even the most perfunctory glance at previous U.S./British ventures would promptly expose the lies. An excellent example is post-WWII Greece
21st American
Century Is About To End
By Abid Mustafa
Barely six years have elapsed since President Bush took office and the much coveted 21st century belongs to America is about to come to an abrupt end. America's pre-eminence in four corners of the world is being challenged by friends and foes alike
06 December, 2006
The End
Of The Bush Dynasty
By Stephen Lendman
It now remains for his final exit that can't come soon enough for most who want him out now and may act to force it if the Congress won't act as a majority of the public demands. Whatever happens from here, the king is dead (even with his head in place), and with it the power and influence of a family dynasty brought down by the poisoned chalice of its ill-chosen successor, unworthy and unable to wear the crown and pass it to the next in line
Don't Let
Dick Cheney Read Your Palm
By Mickey Z.
A look back at some of the predictions that Dick Cheney made on Iraq
02 December, 2006
Like Hitler
And Brezhnev, Bush Is In Denial
By Robert Fisk
More than half a million deaths, an army trapped in the largest military debacle since Vietnam, a Middle East policy already buried in the sands of Mesopotamia - and still George W Bush is in denial. How does he do it?
01 December, 2006
Barack Obama
And The Winds Of War
By Glen Ford
Barack Obama--who has never claimed to be a Black leader--is in fact not a leader at all. Nowhere is this more evident than in the most critical issue facing Americans and the world at this dangerous juncture in history: the war in Iraq
Noam Chomsky
And Gilbert Achcar's New Book: Perilous Power
By Stephen Lendman
A review
29 November, 2006
Nominee For
US Defense Secretary Advocated Bombing Of Nicaragua
By Joe Kay
In December 1984, Robert Gates, the Bush administration’s nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, advocated military strikes against Nicaragua in response to what he considered to be a growing threat to US interests in Central and South America. Gates was then deputy director of intelligence at the CIA
Lawyers File
War Crimes Charges Against Rumsfeld And Others In German Court
By Michael Ratner
Revolution Interview with Attorney Michael Ratner on the Case vs Rumsfeld
28 November, 2006
Impeachment
Hearings For Bush & Co.?
How About War Crimes Tribunals
By Heatherwokusch
The administration has taken pre-emptive action against future war crimes charges, including pushing through the scandalous Military Commissions Act, which provides them retroactive domestic protection from prosecution regarding prisoner abuse cases
Razzle-Dazzle
Time In Washington
By Kevin B. Zeese
The Democrats reaped the benefit of voter anger at the Iraq war and occupation on November 7 and regained control of both chambers of Congress. Will the Democrats satisfy the desire to end the Iraq War? Sadly, the initial signs are that voters are likely to get a lot of razzle-dazzle in Washington, but not much change in policy
27 November, 2006
Some Things
You Need To Know Before The World Ends
By William Blum
The good news is that the Republicans lost.The bad news is that the Democrats won.The burning issue -- US withdrawal from Iraq -- remains as far from resolution as before
The American
Thanksgiving: Rejoicing In Genocide And White Supremacy
By Glen Ford
No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most loathsome, humanity-insulting day of the year – a pure glorification of racist barbarity
25 November, 2006
US Could Bomb
Iran Nuclear Sites In 2007: Analysts
By AFP
President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree
Empire's Ally:
Canadian Foreign Policy
By Greg Albo
The Bush doctrine and the imperial interventions across the Middle East, supported by Canada and the other Western powers, is the most visible symbol of this geo-political strategy. One of capitalism's most powerful fictions is - not for the first time - being laid bare for what it is: naked self-interest
Reclaiming
America: Democrats Must Truly Change Course
By Ramzy Baroud
To prevent the exodus of Empire-driven neo-conservative ideologues from being replaced by self-deceiving, Israel-comes-first Democrats, the American public must not be satisfied with its democratic revolution of early November. Americans must continue to push for a truly equitable, sensible and revolutionary foreign policy
23 November, 2006
Thanksgiving:
The National Day Of Mourning
By Wampsutta
Text of 1970 speech by Wampsutta an Aquinnah Wampanoag elder and Native American activist
America
Has Left The Building: An Open Missive Of Anger And Hope
By Phil Rockstroh
I want you to realize this: There are hidden reservoirs of hope within us: reservoirs as boundless as the reach of your ruthlessness. These waters are as deep and potent as you are, at present, shallow and shameless. Yet, they're inaccessible to you -- as long as you insist your drink of choice will continue to be oil and blood, mixed with the runoff of melting Arctic glaciers
22 November, 2006
Rumsfeld’s
War And War Crimes
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
With U.S. laws protecting its government officials that are at variance with international laws, Rumsfeld’s war crimes case may eventually go to the UNSC. But there, the USA will veto such resolutions further isolating herself from the rest of the civilized world
21 November, 2006
Rumsfeld
Should Be Indicted
By Mahmood Khattak
Most of the people defending Rumsfeld would take the alibi that he was not personally torturing those people. Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for killing 182 people, even though he did not pull the trigger himself. Hitler did not kill all the six million Jews in Holocaust himself
Democrats Seek
Accommodation With Bush Administration To Continue Iraq Occupation
By Joe Kay
Over the weekend, leading Democrats pledged their eagerness to work closely with the Bush administration in forging a bipartisan policy to continue the occupation of Iraq, and voiced their support for a substantial increase in the military budget and the recruitment of more Army troops
Third
Parties Fight For American Democracy
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
A great democracy offers citizens sharp political choices. That’s what gives political freedom meaning. With two-party control of America’s political system, political options and discourse are stifled. We badly need more visible third-parties that can fully participate and reach the public with information about their platforms and candidates. In a nation that so worships competition it is hypocritical that there is so little political competition
20 November, 2006
Milton Lost:
Can We Regain Paradise?
By Jason Miller
This article is dedicated to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman’s creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual
18 November, 2006
A Prescription
For Peace
Teaching Tommy During an Era of Fascism
By Doug Soderstrom
In looking back at that of my own education, I have come to the conclusion that much of what I learned was a matter of propaganda.Then, after having spent forty years as a psychologist teaching at the college level, my sentiments have not changed; we, as teachers, have done a terrible thing. We have chosen to mislead our students. We have led them to believe things that are simply not true
17 November, 2006
The Price
Of Imperial Arrogance
By Stephen Lendman
Hitler just called for the people to support him and used his anointing to unleash a reign of terror across the continent. It now remains to be seen how much more damage George Bush will do with his power and what the newly elected Democrat congress will do about it that early-on doesn't look like much of anything. Dare we imagine the price to be paid for more of the same ugly business as usual and a president given the power of a dictator to act as he pleases without restraint and a willingness to use it
Democrats
Must Offer A New Blueprint For Iraq
By Scott Ritter
It is imperative that the Democratic Party stake out a position on Iraq before the Iraq Study Group publicly announces its findings and recommendations
16 November, 2006
Depleted
Uranium, Another Gift From The Imperialists
By Pauline Paulinson
With now over 10 trillion doses of DU in Iraq and Afghanistan, it comes as no surprise that widespread field studies in Afghanistan point to the existence of a large scale public health disaster. UMRC is the first independent research organization to find DU in the bodies of US, UK and Canadian Gulf War I veterans and following ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, they found DU in the water, soils and atmosphere of Iraq as well as in Iraqi civilians
To Hell
With Centrism: We Must Reclaim The Inspired Edge
By Phil Rockstroh
Rumsfeld is gone. Mehlman is gone. Delay is gone. Yet -- let's not have our progressives' version of a strutting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier moment. Because mission has not been accomplished
15 November, 2006
To the Victors
Belongs Impunity
By Jason Miller
Baghdad’s kangaroo court has issued a verdict that virtually guarantees that Saddam Hussein will launch his journey into the hereafter from the platform of a gallows.Yet to ensure public furor against Hussein (and to distract the hoi polloi from focusing upon those guilty of similar crimes), the corporate media have conveniently jettisoned several important aspects of history down the Memory Hole
14 November, 2006
Here come The
Odious Excuses
By Robert Fisk
The philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are now washing their hands
The Only Way
Out Of Iraq
By Mirza A. Beg
The failure is evident to all who can reason. As predicted our bungling leader has not only landed the sole super power in an un-winnable quagmire in Iraq, but now even Afghanistan is on the skids, spiraling towards chaos
Liar Liar
Pants On Fire
By David Truskoff
In 1952 Hanson Baldwin wrote, about the war in Vietnam, "The people of France are becoming more and more Weary of conflict that brings them no return at a cost known to every tax payer" In November 2006 the American taxpayers said the same thing with their vote against the Bush War. There will be many investigations and subpoenas that will now lead to chaos and turmoil in American politics. but In the end greed will prevail. It always does. The liars will see to it
11 November, 2006
Myth Of
The Brave Soldier
By Mickey Z.
There are many who identify themselves as "anti-war" who will vigorously defend the troops. Even when faced with documented evidence of criminality, Americans still cannot summon the bravery to condemn the military
10 November, 2006
Outlaw
Empire Meets The Wave
By Tom Engelhardt
The wave -- and make no mistake, it's a global one -- has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It's a sight for sore eyes
08 November, 2006
