Glenn Greenwald | Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
A hideous symbol of the bipartisan continuity of U.S. barbarism...
Former FBI Agent, Coleen Rowley Talks About 9/11 Intelligence Failures and GWOT
Former FBI Special Agent and whistleblower, Coleen Rowley, joins us to discuss the greatest intelligence failure in American History.
DN! Exclusive VIDEOS: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror
"Numbing & Horrible": Former Drone Operator Brandon Bryant on His Haunting First Kill
Mary Beaudoin: Who is Behind the Mask?
He is credited with being a military strategist with abilities worthy of a five-star general and yet at the same time possessing the business acumen of an oil tycoon, in addition to being “a prolific fundraiser and a ruthless killer.” By Mary Beaudoin WAMM Newsletter Summer I July 2015 Concrete information about Abu Bakr Al More
▶ Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of War • Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum
Bilmes: We have been using entirely borrowed money to finance our wars.
▶ Breaking the Set: These 5 Censored Books Tell a History the Establishment Wants Hidden
Abby Martin speaks with NYU media studies professor, Mark Crispin Miller, about five historical books that have been actively suppressed and hidden from the American public. https://youtu.be/RcHRaxN-u5U Click here to help Rise Up Times continue to bring you essential news you won’t find in the mainstream corporate media. Forbidden Bookshelf: http://www.openroadmedia.com/series/forbidden-bookshelf/
Henry A. Giroux: The War on Terrorism Targets Democracy Itself
Giroux: Notions of democracy increasingly appear to be giving way to the discourse of revenge, domestic security, stupidity and war. The political reality that has emerged since the shattering crisis of 9/11 increasingly points to a set of narrow choices that are being largely set by the jingoistic right-wing extremists, the US Defense Department and conservative-funded foundations, and fueled by the dominant media. War and violence now function as an aphrodisiac for a public inundated with commodities and awash in celebrity culture idiocy.
Henry A. Giroux: Terrorism, Violence and the Culture of Madness
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.
VICE News: The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion
Leopold: According to the latest figures compiled by Iraq Body Count, to date more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, although other sources say the casualties are twice as high. More than 4,000 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and tens of thousands more have been injured and maimed. The war has cost US taxpayers more than $800 billion.
Libel Lawsuit Against Danish Media Sets Stage for 9/11 Evidence in Court
As a scientist who had taught for 40 years at the University of Copenhagen, Dr. Harrit was appalled at being labeled a “crackpot” and likened to creationists and Holocaust deniers. So he filed a libel suit... By Admin Info-wars.org February 28, 2015 By Josef Hanji and Ted Walter A watershed moment took place in Denmark More
Alfred W. McCoy: The Real American Exceptionalism
From the article: According to documents whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked to the Washington Post, the U.S. spent $500 billion on its intelligence agencies in the dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, including annual appropriations in 2012 of $11 billion for the National Security Agency (NSA) and $15 billion for the CIA. If we add the $790 billion expended on the Department of Homeland Security to that $500 billion for overseas intelligence, then Washington had spent nearly $1.3 trillion to build a secret state-within-the-state of absolutely unprecedented size and power.
▶ Richard Seymour: Charlie Hebdo, Islamophobia and the Freedom of Expression
Author Richard Seymour says the free speech argument is being used to obscure the reality of Islamophobia in Europe