March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney’s irresponsible comments about war with Iran in recent days. Here’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘war’
Chris Hedges: Throw Out the Money Changers
Posted in Banks, tagged Bailouts, banksters, Chris Hedges, corporate government, Elite, hegemony, Money changers, war on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
truthout Monday 18 April 2011 by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where greed [...]
Militarized Conservatism and End(s) of Higher Education
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, iraq, iraq war, Libya, war, war funding, tagged Afghanistan, Higher Education, iraq, Libya, Militarized Conservatism, military power, national security state, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, USA's military spending, war on April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Militarized Conservatism and End(s) of Higher Education Tuesday 5 April 2011 by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout The Pathologies of War There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state.(1) Not only is it waging a war in three countries, but its investment in military power is nearly as much as all [...]
Bill Kristol Gets A War Boner
Posted in Bill Kristol, war, tagged Bill Kristol, Chickenhawk, Kristol, Libya, President Obama, U.N. Security Council, war on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Kristol gets a war boner Crooks and Liars- By Brad Reed March 21, 2011 03:05 PM One of the many depressing aspects of Obama’s horrific decision to start a third simultaneous war with a Muslim-majority nation is that it’s providing endless pangs of pleasure to Bill Kristol. After all, America’s Chickenhawk-in-Chief hasn’t been able [...]
Please Mr. President! Some Truth About Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, America, President Obama, war, tagged CIA, Pakistan, President Obama, war, war in Afghanistan on December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Eric Margolis, The Huffington Post, Dec 20, 2010 After nine years of war in Afghanistan, costing over $100 billion in taxpayer money and 700 American lives, the full truth about this murky conflict remains elusive. The government and media have colluded to paint the picture of a noble, heroic, flag-waving American enterprise in Afghanistan that [...]
Blowing Billions on War While American Workers Go Under
Posted in Afghanistan war, America, war, war funding, tagged Afghanistan war, Americans, spending on war, United States, war on December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, The Huffington Post, Dec 5, 2010 When asked by USA Today‘s pollsters last week, sixty-eight percent of Americans said we worry that the cost of the Afghanistan War hurts our ability to fix problems here in the U.S. This week, we learned just how right we were about that. [...]
Obama’s Massive Power Struggle With The American War Machine
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, CIA, Obama, President Obama, war, tagged Afghanistan, American War Machine, CIA, Counter-terrorist Pursuit Teams, CPT, infinite war, Obama, pentagon, war on September 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Obama’s Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine Asia Times / By Pepe Escobar Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war. September 24, 2010 | As that self-appointed court stenographer Bob Woodward reveals in his latest court opus Obama’s Wars – conveniently leaked to the [...]
The American way of war; how Bush’s wars became Obama’s
Posted in 911, America, war, tagged 911, America, Paul Woodward, Tom Engelhardt, war on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Paul Woodward, War in Context, July 23, 2010 On September 11, 2001, America froze in shock and the shock was followed by a mix of fear, anger and bewilderment. Yet for some, the first response was also the enduring response: a knowing dread that what followed would be far worse than what just happened; [...]
Could “Success” In Afghanistan Be Worse Than Failure?
Posted in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, General David Petraeus, President Obama, tagged Afghanistan, McChrystal, Obama, Petraeus, success, war on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Could “Success” in Afghanistan Be Worse Than Failure? Tomdispatch.com / By Tom Engelhardt Success means that the fifth poorest country in the world and foremost narco state is ours for years to come. July 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. – In triumphant testimony before a joint committee of Congress in which he was greeted on both sides [...]













