Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012 Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:10am, January 3, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: We’re back, ready to do our best to keep up with what’s certain to be a tumultuous 2012, starting with an assessment of America’s lost wars in the Greater Middle East. By the way, I made an More
JFP 8/5: Panetta: Cut Social Security and Medicare, not the military SUBMITTED BY ROBERT NAIMAN ON 5 AUGUST 2011 - 8:03PM Just Foreign Policy News August 5, 2011 I) Actions and Featured Articles A Historic Opportunity to Cut Military Spending The agreement in Washington to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for deficit reduction has More
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Two-Faced Washington Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:00am, August 2, 2011. TomDispatch.com Lowering America’s War Ceiling? Imperial Psychosis on Display By Tom Engelhardt By now, it seems as if everybody and his brother has joined the debt-ceiling imbroglio in Washington, perhaps the strangest homespun drama of our time. It’s as if Washington’s leading political players, aided More
Seeing ‘Islamic Terror’ in Norway Learning no lessons from Oklahoma City mistakes 7/25/11 FAIR.org Media Advisory Right-wing terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik reportedly killed 76 people in Norway . . . , by all accounts driven by far-right anti-immigrant politics and fervent Islamophobia. But many early media accounts assumed that the perpetrator of the More
Obama’s Secret Wars: How Our Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies Are More Dangerous Than Terrorism Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment’s worldwide license to kill. By Fred Branfman July 11, 2011 | Alternet.org Although President’s Obama’s partial Afghan troop withdrawal announcement has received more attention, his June 29 “National Strategy for Counterterrorism” is of More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8bRK5-dM0&w=560&h=349] Uploaded by ourjourneytosmile on Jul 4, 2011 Dear friends in an antagonistic world, In the face of a broken Afghan dove, what can the people ask for? In the face of possible 'doom', what can we ask for? Y Not listen? Y Not Converse? Have conversations between the People and world leaders become so impossible in More
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/hrI9gseOCwI.html width="480" height="302"] Minneapolis, MN, June 30, 2011. A group of dedicated peace activists rallied in front of Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to plead for the Senator’s help in voting down war appropriations and in bringing all troops home now from Afghanistan and Iraq. “The economy is in the can, US out of Afghanistan” More
Media Advisory Defining 'Withdrawal' from Afghanistan Media's selective memory on Obama escalations 6/23/11 Barack Obama's June 22 announcement of a phased troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was often portrayed as a major step towards ending the war, with many outlets neglecting to accurately explain the pace of escalation that has happened under his watch. When Obama More
On “Humanitarian” Military Intervention by Anne Winkler-Morey WAMM Newsletter June 2011 Based on a speech given May 4, 2011, at a forum sponsored by May Day Bookstore at the University of Minnesota. Elites who benefit from war don’t fight them, and those men and women who do, would never pick up a gun to protect More
Are We Giant Suckers? While the US Blows Money on the Military, Europe Spends Dough on Social Programs Hawks simultaneously argue that lavish U.S. military spending subsidizes Europe’s social welfare programs, and that we’re the smarter party in this deal. AlterNet / By Joshua Holland June 17, 2011 | Last week, during his final European visit before retiring, More
