Wars Of Vengeance Will Not Work For France, Just As They Failed The US
Bennis: Wars of vengeance won’t work for France anymore than they worked for the US.
Bennis: Wars of vengeance won’t work for France anymore than they worked for the US.
Sheer: Like most of the others killed by the two American bombs, neither the children nor the adults had any role in Japan’s decision to go to war, but they were picked as the target instead of an isolated but fortified military base whose antiaircraft fire posed a higher risk. The target preferred by U.S. atomic scientists—a patch in the ocean or unpopulated terrain—was rejected, because the effect of hundreds of thousands of civilians dying would be all the more dramatic.
Greenwald: But what I ... don’t want is for non-Muslims to rest in their privileged nest, satisfied that the term and its accompanying abuses is only for that marginalized group. And what I especially don’t want is to have this glaring, damaging mythology persist that the term “terrorism” is some sort of objectively discernible, consistently applied designation of a particularly hideous kind of violence.
Wright: My conscience is taking me now to North Korea. Today, as a citizen diplomat, I am part of a delegation of 30 international women peacemakers from around the world who will walk with Korean women, north and south, to call for an end to the Korean War and for a new beginning for a reunified Korea.
Threats to free speech can come from lots of places. But right now, the greatest threat by far in the West to ideals of free expression is coming not from radical Muslims, but from the very Western governments claiming to fight them. The increasingly unhinged, Cheney-sounding governments of the U.K., Australia, France, New Zealand and Canada — More
Former Vice President Dick Cheney makes an ironic assertion about the legacy and burden of President Obama's administration.
From the article: This imagery actually serves to de-politize the political nature of tensions. It sanitizes the actions of empire, from coercive diplomacy with Iran and support for regime change in Syria to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and US military intervention in Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.
From the article: “Unless you have been strapped down to the board, have endured the agonizing feeling of the water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs, you will not know the meaning of the word.
Giroux: Already imperiled before the aftershocks of the terrorists’ attacks, democracy became even more fragile in the aftermath of 9/11. Almost fourteen years later, the historical rupture produced by the events of 9/11 has transformed a terrorist attack into a war on terror that mimics the very crimes it pledged to eliminate.
Greenwald: There can be no doubt that such new criminal laws are specifically intended to ban ideas these governments dislike.
The usual definition of a 'terrorist' is simple: a person who uses violence in the pursuit of a political objective. By Robert J. Burrowes countercurrents.org February 11, 2015 By this definition, the two major categories of terrorist are those political leaders who perpetrate state terror by attacking other countries (ranging from launching a war, perhaps More
Additionally, [Judge] Drain revoked Odeh's American citizenship; she will be deported at the conclusion of her sentence. Odeh's attorney, Michael Deutcsch, told the Free Press after the sentencing that he will appeal. "It was excessive," Deutsch said. "She's not a terrorist. She was fighting for freedom" against what he called a "brutal occupation that continues today."