NATO was long touted as a post-WWII body of collective security, though few on the wrong end of its bombing campaigns have felt any safer for it. Here are a few reasons why 65 years of NATO haven’t made the world a better place. Published time: April 04, 2014 05:36 Edited time: April 05, 2014 18:11 More
Video of Veterans for Peace action in NYC at Vietnam Memorial. Moving testimony by veterans about why they continue to work for peace. [youtube=http://youtu.be/secsZuDTD-M] Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on More
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/88171992] In a special interview, Truthout contributor Henry Giroux takes us back to the basics of what can be seen as an ongoing and accelerating war between the rich and everyone else, an event that has resulted in a mass inability “to translate private troubles into larger structural public considerations.” Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise More
“The free market norm assumes a frictionless exchange which maximizes everyone’s well-being,” he said. “The existence of ... coercive instruments, such as the prisons and the enormous military, makes you think that the theory is not all it is purported to be. There is a gap between what it pretends to be and what it More
In retrospect, Russia-bashing was the main media event of the Sochi Olympics since the U.S. "lost" in the medal count. The Ukraine crisis has put the Olympics in the past tense and presented an opportunity for the old Cold War team to field a new crisis. Pres. Obama is following the Clinton policy of pushing More
In retrospect, Russia-bashing was the main media event of the Sochi Olympics since the U.S. "lost" in the medal count. The Ukraine crisis has put the Olympics in the past tense and presented an opportunity for the old Cold War team to field a new crisis. Pres. Obama is following the Clinton policy of pushing More
From the start it has been difficult to interpret foreign policy as Barack Obama envisages it. The reason, so far as I can see, is that he has always been a man of American domestic affairs and of law, his profession. By William Pfaff truthdig.com Feb 25, 2014 White House/Pete Souza The Obama government has taken a Cold More
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tomgram, Nick Turse: The Pentagon Makes History the First Casualty Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. By Nick Turse TomDispatch.com February 18, 2014 It’s 2053 — 20 years since you needed a computer, tablet, or smart phone to go online. At least, that’s More
By Ted Asregado Truthout | Video Interview 02 February 2014 Truthout.org [youtube=http://youtu.be/mbOhELlpAcc] President Barack Obama enters the House Chamber of the Capitol Building to deliver the State of the Union address, Jan. 28, 2014. (Photo: Gabriella Demczuk / The New York Times) A politician who tries to please as many factions as he or she can often ends More
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. —Chris Hedges By Henry A Giroux Wednesday, 25 September 2013 Truthout.org | Op-Ed Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout What kind of society emerges when More
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. —Chris Hedges By Henry A Giroux Wednesday, 25 September 2013 Truthout.org | Op-Ed Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout What kind of society emerges when More
They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America. They snatch men from their homes in the Maghreb and shoot it out with heavily armed militants in the Horn of Africa. .... By Nick Turse January 16, 2014 TomDispatch.com Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback. Read More
