Whistleblowing website prepares to release some 400,000 classified US military documents on the war in Iraq. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 18 Oct 2010 03:04 GMT The Pentagon has assembled a 120-member team to prepare for the expected publication of some 400,000 Iraq war documents on the Wikileaks website. The documents are thought to concern battle [...]
Pepe Escobar: China’s Pipelineistan “War”
by RAINman on 15. Oct, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Anteing up, betting, and bluffing in the new Great Game Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. His latest book is Obama Does Globalistan. He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com. Antiwar Forum October 13, 2010 Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on Dec. 14, [...]
Uganda, America’s Pit Bull, Wants to Lead a Larger War in Somalia
by RAINman on 14. Oct, 2010 in Newsletter Links
by Glen Ford America’s top hit man in Africa, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, is calling for a much larger air, sea and land war in Somalia – with Museveni’s forces on point. The saber-rattling follows on the heels of Uganda’s and Rwanda’s threats to withdraw from UN “peacekeeping” missions, such as in Somalia. What’s up? [...]
Waging Peace from Afar: Divestment and Israeli Occupation
by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links
A growing grassroots movement is using the techniques of the anti-apartheid movement to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. by Phyllis Bennis Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer, and most recently Ending [...]
‘I would gladly kill Arabs – even slaughter them’
by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links
In new bid to defend publishing controversial images, former IDF soldier Eden Abergil writes on Facebook ‘In war there are no rules.’ By Haaretz Service Haaretz Fri, August 20, 2010 Eden Abergil, the former Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been criticized for publishing controversial images on Facebook, allegedly wrote on her Facebook page on [...]
Low al Qaeda count stirs new war debate
by RAINman on 17. Aug, 2010 in General
By Rowan Scarborough The Washington Times – August 15, 2010 With the American public growing more pessimistic about Afghanistan, war proponents are renewing their case in the face of new estimates that say no more than 100 al Qaeda operatives remain in the country. In one of his first statements to Congress after being picked in [...]
The Weak Case for War with Iran
by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Jeffrey Goldberg’s new article in the Atlantic is deeply reported — and deeply wrong about the Middle East. But it’s his misunderstanding of America that is most dangerous of all. BY FLYNT LEVERETT, HILLARY MANN LEVERETT FOREIGN POLICY - AUGUST 11, 2010 Amid widespread skepticism that sanctions will stop Tehran’s nuclear development and grudging, belated recognition [...]
The Suffering of Fallujah
by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links
By Robert Koehler Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist, contributor to One World, Many Peaces and nationally syndicated writer. His new book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound (Xenos Press) is now available for pre-orders. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at www.commonwonders.com. Huffington Post - August 09, 2010 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . [...]
Norman Solomon: State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War
by RAINman on 29. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Antiwar Forum - July 28, 2010 Washington’s spin machine is in overdrive to counter the massive leak of documents on Afghanistan. Much of the counterattack revolves around the theme that the documents aren’t particularly relevant to this year’s new-and-improved war effort. The White House seized on the time frame of the documents released by WikiLeaks. “The period [...]
U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame
by RAINman on 27. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com. Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2010 The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from [...]
Big Oil Makes War on the Earth
by RAINman on 20. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Indigenous inhabitants of the Delta like the Ogoni people have suffered disaster without even the oil-money equivalent of trickle-down economics touching their lives, says Ellen Cantarow. Ellen Cantarow is a journalist whose work on Israel/Palestine has been published widely for 30 years including at TomDispatch. She is now working on climate change and big oil, [...]
Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States
by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
by Zainab Cheema Zainab Cheema, a free-lance writer, gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of Crescent International. Media Monitors Network - July 7, 2010 Crusade — a word caught between the lexicon of pedestrian, every day use and the charged memories of civilizational struggle. The mixed history of the Crusades is itself caught [...]
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