Tag: United States

On Morales and Snowden, US & Canada Virtually Expelled from the Hemisphere

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Snowden Will be Granted the Full Protection of American Law On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace. Morales was flying home from a Moscow summit on July 3. In an interview there he had said he was open to offering political asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former U.S. spy-agency contractor wanted by Washington on espionage charges, who was in the Moscow airport.

Threat of Nuclear War: DPRK or the US?

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Who is the Threat? North Korea or the United States? While the Western media portrays North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century. On July 27, 2013, Armistice Day, Koreans in the North and the South will be commemorating the end of the Korean war (1950-53). Unknown to the broader public, the US had envisaged the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea at the very outset of the Korean War in 1950. In the immediate wake of the war, the US deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea for use on a pre-emptive basis against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in violation of the July 1953 Armistice Agreement.

Why Is the United States So Sick?

Laudan Aron on

In the wake of a startling report highlighting the United States’ poor health compared with other wealthy nations, the report’s director searches for answers. Americans die younger and experience more injury and illness than people…

Australian War Games: The U.S. Military Machine OUT OF Control in Asia-Pacific

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The “military machine” of the United States is “out of control” as it is spreading its military tentacles throughout the Asia-Pacific region amid a massive and unprecedented series of war games in Australia, an antiwar activist says. Approximately 20,000 US troops descended on Australia’s east coast for a joint military exercise this week in the biggest such exercise to date.
“This is part of the Obama administration’s signaled so-called Asia-Pacific shift or Pivot,” Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO organization said in a phone interview with Press TV’s US Desk on Thursday.

WHEN and HOW Will All This YANKEE INSANITY END? How Many Abuses and How Much More Pain We Have to Bear?

Pablo Cingolani on

When and how will all this Yankee insanity end? How many abuses and how much more pain will we have to bear? When and how will all this Yankee insanity end? How many abuses and how much more pain will we have to bear? What happened to President Evo Morales on his return flight from Moscow to Bolivia is mind-boggling to us because of the specific details of this new imperialist intrigue. It is not surprising, though, given the permanent and unjustified aggression of the United States of America against the peoples of the world. This aggression is the rule, not the exception, of the conduct of this country, its armed forces and its intelligence agencies. What is obvious in this case, in which Evo is a central figure, is that this imperialist power seems to have a limitless ability to act with impunity, violating every international treaty and using third party countries as puppets.