Tensions are escalating since North Korea’s launch of a satellite into orbit on December 12, 2012. Overwrought news reports termed the launch a “threat” and a “provocation,” while U.S. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor called it “irresponsible behavior.” Punishment for North Korea was swift in coming by Gregory Elich North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 was just one of 75 satellites that a […]
Full Interview of Pres. Assad with Turkish Media Broadcast Friday April 5, 2013 In an interview with the Turkish TV station Ulusal Kanal broadcast Friday, Syrian President Assad accused his neighbors of stoking the revolt against his government, saying “we are surrounded by countries that help terrorists and allow them to enter Syria.” But he warned that those same countries may […]
Soldier relives infamous WikiLeaks video by Russia Today It was the video that put WikiLeaks on the map: “Collateral Murder” turned the tide of war in Iraq and landed Private first class Bradley Manning in military detention. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. “The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away […]
In an April 3 Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. dials back on Korean show of force,” reporters Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes revealed that the White House approved a detailed plan, called ‘the playbook,’ to ratchet up tension with North Korea during the Pentagon’s war games with South Korea by Stephen Gowans The war games, which are still in progress, […]
Several groups of peace activists have demonstrated in New York to generate a public uprising across the United States against the government’s use of assassination drones by PressTV The protesters rallied in New York on Wednesday to call for an immediate halt to US assassination drone attacks in other countries and to voice their opposition to any use of drones […]
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States leaves an indelible impression on the peoples that come in contact with it: in the case of Iraqis, a legacy of death by bombs, bullets, incineration, starvation, disease and genetic damage. The U.S. didn’t invent war crimes, but its global reach and high tech style of killing makes America […]
Arms Control as a Weapon by Glen Ford The United Nations General Assembly vote on regulation of the international arms trade purports to be a modest step away from violence in the world, but is in fact the very opposite. The newly approved Arms Trade Treaty is conceived and designed as a facilitator of war by its main sponsor, the […]
Send a Strong Message Against NATO Intervention in Syria? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Is there a connection between events in Syria (maybe even US tension with North Korea) and Russia’s impromptu Black Sea war games that started on March 28, 2013? While on his way from Durban in South Africa, where the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South […]
The best way to understand the seemingly reckless, recurring threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is this: the East Asian region is being run like a Mafia protection racket by Finian Cunningham And the criminal Mafia is the US. The conflict emanates from Washington and is perpetuated by Washington. Why? To justify what would otherwise be seen as […]
by Greg Mitchell The Washington Post killed my assigned piece for its Outlook section this weekend which mainly covered media failures re: Iraq and the current refusal to come to grips with that (the subject of )–yet they ran this misleading, cherry-picking, piece by Paul Farhi claiming the media “didn’t fail.” I love the line about the Post in March 2003 carrying some skeptical pieces […]
The US Defense Department has ratified the sale of advanced stealth fighter jets to South Korea amid escalation of war of words between Washington and Pyongyang by PressTV The Pentagon said on Wednesday it had notified Congress about the possible sales of new military hardware including two competing fighter jets — the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 stealth fighter or Boeing […]
British Personnel Reveal Horrors of Secret US Base in Baghdad by Ian Cobain Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to […]
