Media Ask Which Candidate Can Better Exploit Our Irrational Fear of Terrorism
Politico (9/20/16) frames the terrorism issue as “who has the upper hand.”
Gary King | The Duterte Phenomenon and the Struggle for Life and Land in the Philippines
The U.S. military’s Pacific Pivot includes the use of Philippine military bases, increasing tension with China.
Rise Up Times | Articles about the Middle East
Articles about the Middle East. Click the title of each article to read the full article. Found on the link on the RiseUpTimes.org page. Regularly updated. Also visit the WAMM Middle East Committee website here for information and articles. +++ Telesur English Click the image to view Israel's 2014 Gaza Massacre. +++ A few of More
Kathy Kelly | A Good Beginning
If the U.S. might diminish offensive war preparations against Russia, when would DOD budget proposals begin to reflect this?
What Did We Buy With the $5 Trillion That the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have Cost Us?
We were lied into that war, and it has weakened our economy. If anyone can tell me what benefits that war brought the average American, I’d like to hear it.
Linda Hoover | A Legacy of Resistance
U.S. decision-makers turned to soldiers for hire....Soldiers for hire are not a reliable military force. They fight not for a principle or belief, but for the highest bidder. In 2016, perhaps half of the troops fighting for the U.S. military are mercenaries from countries impoverished by U.S. foreign policies—countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, and Pakistan.
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | Pete Seeger (Video)
Last night on the anniversary of the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27, Women Against Military Madness, and other groups with offices at 4200 Cedar in Minneapolis, dedicated a Peace Pole in the front of the building.
Al Jazeera | Drone: Inside the CIA’s Secret Drone War
I thought it was the coolest damn thing in the world. I was like 'Oh man, I get to play a video game all day!' And then reality hits you that you may have to kill somebody. Michael Haas, former drone operator
John Pilger | Provoking Nuclear War by Media
This [war propaganda] was the model for Washington’s subsequent invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and, by stealth, Syria. All qualify as “paramount crimes” under the Nuremberg standard; all depended on media propaganda.
Allison Deger | Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes in first half of 2016 than all of 2015
From 2006 to June 30th of this year B’Tselem found Israel demolished more than 1,113 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, making homeless 5,199, of whom 2,602 are children.
Marjorie Cohn | US Targeted Killing Rules Conflate Legality and Politics
Under the guise of increased transparency, the administration has revealed partial information about its targeted killing program. But much remains classified. And what we do know does not comply with the law.
Nick Turse | Breaking the Camouflage Wall of Silence: When AFRICOM Evaluates Itself, the News Is Grim
What’s strange, however, is that none of this seems to have caused anyone in the national security state or the military to reconsider the last 15 years of military-first policies, of bombs dropped, troops dispatched, drones sent in, and what the results were across the Greater Middle East and now Africa. There is no serious recalibration, no real rethinking. The response to 15 years of striking failure in a vast region remains more of the same. State of failure indeed! --Tom