It is all about barbed wire, warnings and checkpoints. And to make it worse, Futenma air force base is right in the middle of an extremely densely populated urban area. Several middle-aged Japanese citizens are…
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The US spends $1.3 trillion a year on a military it does not need. Politicians won’t talk about cutting it down to size. I was asked earlier this week by an reporter for PressTV, the…
For the second year in a row, President Barack Obama has signed into law a Pentagon funding bill that allows for the indefinite military detention of anyone, including American citizens, without charges, while…
Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its…
military_industrial_complex Arguably, ever since entering World War II, the United States of America’s economy has been a war economy. (newsjunkiepost.com) People Vs Military Industry Military industrial complex is bankrupting … http://www.examiner.com/article/pentagon-budget-need-scrutiny-rep-peter-defazio-argues-for-livingry-over-war The Military-Industrial Complex’s Waning … http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2012/11/29/america-is-souring-on-bloated-federal-defense-spending Military–industrial complex –…
Recent events in the Central African Republic provides a test-case for the future of the continent and the role of imperialist governments in their ongoing interventions into the internal affairs of various nation-states. Threatened with…
Washington is in the “business of destroying” a very long list of countries. “Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, …” (Arash Norouzi, Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007) “The United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries throughout the world since August 1945, a number of them many times. The avowed objective of these military interventions has been to effect “regime change”. The cloaks of “human rights” and of “democracy” were invariably evoked to justify what were unilateral and illegal acts. (Professor Eric Waddell, The United States’ Global Military Crusade (1945- ), Global Research, February 2007
Obama administration’s second term escalates militarism throughout the continent On December 24, the Obama administration revealed plans to deploy 3,500 troops to nearly three dozen African states to purportedly address a looming “al-Qaeda threat.” The soldiers being…
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen…
A UN special Rapporteur tells Press TV that by waging the current deadly war on Gaza the Zionist regime of Israel is trying to divert attention from its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. At least…