FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 5th 2011 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Kevin B. Zeese KBZeese at Gmail.com, 518-543-6920 Americans from Across the Political Spectrum Call for End to U.S. Militarism Washington, DC: Putting aside political differences on other issues,...
Afghanistan “Pullout” Irrelevant, Unlikely
One faction of Obama’s national security team, the same that argued against a troop surge in 2009, is calling for a “steeper pullout” from Afghanistan. According to the NYTimes, two primary reasons are motivating said faction to push for this: President Obama’s...
Rethinking Afghanistan with Your Wallet
Rethinking Afghanistan asks, "How Much Did You Pay for the War this Year?" One can find the answer here. On Thursday April 14th, a bipartisan coalition of members of Congress including Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Raul...
U.S ‘Allows’ Bravest Woman in Afghanistan to Visit
Under pressure from everyone, the State Department reversed an earlier decision to deny prominent Afghan activist Malalai Joya a visa for a three-week speaking tour for her new book, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her...
History repeating itself: 9 Afghan kids killed by ‘mistake’
While writing the blog entry for Kathy Kelly's recent Antiwar Radio interview, I did a Google search for the New York Times piece on the nine firewood-gathering Afghan boys killed by NATO gunships. I clicked on what I thought was the correct link, a Times article...
Collateral Damage: The Equations
ALLAN NAIRN: Well, now, as the U.S. is losing its edge economically, it has one clear comparative advantage. And that's in killing. And it's using it. Obama has increased the attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan. Brookings Institution last year estimated that for every...
Dubya was right??
From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...
Blackout?
Can YOUR card do this? AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you how war fits into this. I mean, you co-wrote the book with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. How does war fit into our problems with the economy? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, war fits in because you're creating a...
OOPS! Again.
...allegedly "hacked" software, in the case of the CIA, is now being used to guide killer drones to their targets, according to IISI's legal pleadings, despite the fact that the modified software doesn't function properly... --CIA Drone-Code Scandal Now Has...
Mass murder: Monkey see monkey do?
JUAN GARCÉS: "... Hitler asked his generals to be ready to invade Poland, and to exterminate the population in those territories, because German population should replace this population. Some generals say, "My Führer, there will a provoking of cry in the...
