DN! What Will Happen When Donald Trump Takes Over U.S. Drone and Targeted Assassination Program?
The Obama administration argued that it shouldn’t be required to explain, to account for its actions to any court.
John Pilger | The Coming War on China
The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way.
Michelle Alexander | Learning to Walk
The truth is we are stumbling badly in large part because we are just beginning to learn to walk.
Secret World of US Election: Julian Assange talks to John Pilger
https://youtu.be/_sbT3_9dJY4 John Pilger.com Whistleblower Julian Assange has given one of his most incendiary interviews ever in a John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, in which he summarizes what can be gleaned from the tens of thousands of Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks this year. RT Published on Nov 5, 2016 Media More
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
Kathy Kelly | Don’t Move!
We must swear off making the world our battlefield and be appalled to hear the U.S. government seem to tell the world "I will kill you if you f---ing move."
US Making a Deadly Mistake in Afghanistan, Says Former Diplomat
“Under General (David) Petraeus, starting in 2010, the U.S. initiated scores of airstrikes, as well as dozens of nighttime commando raids, daily against Afghan insurgent targets," he recalled. "Many of these strikes hit legitimate targets, but many more of them hit civilians. The surge in increase of public support for the Taliban in areas of the air and commando strikes is undeniable.”
Noam Chomsky on US Presence in Europe and Edward Snowden
Why are circa 44,660 US troops and 170 military installations stationed in Germany? What historical decisions are tied to US military presence in Europe & Germany ? Why doesn’t Germany grant Edward Snowden the right to asylum?
VIDEO The Empire Files: Abby Martin with Dr. Jill Stein — Symptoms of a Sick Society
Abby Martin sits down with Dr. Stein [Green Party presidential candidate] to look at how her career in medicine helped her diagnose America's "multi-organ failure," and why her ideas pose such a threat to Empire.
VIDEO | Chris Hedges, Days of Revolt: Why the Brutalized Become Brutal
Chris Hedges and two US veterans lament the brutality of the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, which fuels the conditions for terrorism, and speak out about the painful struggle of coping with PTSD in this episode of teleSUR's Days of Revolt. https://youtu.be/68BMn-i4zLk Click here to read the transcript. TheRealNews Uploaded on Apr 2, More
Sanjay Perera |The economy of violence: Waste, expenditure and surplus
As we have seen there has largely been the channeling and misuse of energy and resources in economies that could have been used to generate abundance, but are used instead for production that involves unconscionable waste of resources and life forms. There is a framework of duality and polarity in which one group extracts from another mercilessly. The extraction of resources from the planet and all life forms results in an inordinate accumulation and hoarding of resources and wealth that is redistributed primarily amongst those who already have plenty.
Henry A. Giroux: America’s addiction to violence
Giroux: At a policy level, violence drives an arms industry, a militaristic foreign policy, and is increasingly the punishing state’s major tool to enforce its hyped-up brand of domestic terrorism, especially against black youth.