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Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass Exclusive: The U.S. government’s 15-year-long “global war on terror” has spread death and chaos across entire regions – while also imposing propaganda narratives on Americans – with no end in sight, says Nicolas J S Davies. The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that 41 U.S-led air strikes targeting ISIS […]
US Veterans Join Petition for Snowden
US Veterans Join Petition for Snowden U.S. military veterans, including lethal drone participants, are joining efforts to inform the American public about the secrets of the endless “war on terror” and are supporting Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, reports Dennis J Bernstein. Lisa Lynn, a retired Air Force Sergeant and former U.S. Drone Program Operative, has joined a […]
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror Among the troubling legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency is his consolidation of the dubious legal principles that George W. Bush cobbled together to justify the Global War on Terror, explains Michael Brenner. President Barack Obama’s uneasy encounters with the law in devising numerous innovative means to prosecute the […]
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad turtix | Shutterstock.com For more than a century American film has been one of the most important apparatus used for perpetuating American white supremacy and justifying American military adventures. Racism in film and white supremacy are so intricately interwoven into the fabric of America […]
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror
Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror BERLIN – Containing the scourge of Islamist terror will be impossible without containing the ideology that drives it: Wahhabism, a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism whose international expansion has been bankrolled by oil-rich sheikhdoms, especially Saudi Arabia. That is why the newly announced Saudi-led anti-terror coalition, the Islamic Military Alliance […]
A thousand 9/11s
A thousand 9/11s The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority Fourteen years ago, 2,996 people were murdered when four civilian planes in the United States were hijacked by al-Qaeda extremists, one flown into the Pentagon, and two into the World Trade […]
Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos
Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos On Friday we checked in on two of the world’s most important conflicts: 1) that which is unfolding in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has effectively granted Washington access to Incirlik (you know, for “anti-terror” sorties) in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence […]
Leveling the Playing Field of Death
Leveling the Playing Field of Death In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ, writing that western […]
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny The great lesson from history that each consecutive generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against […]
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’ (Satire): President Obama announced at a White House press conference today that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade treaty details must remain secret because the now 14-year-old US War on Terror requires secrecy from terrorist enemies, secrecy is the founding principle of American freedom, and […]
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror” […]
Food scarcity is fanning flames of ‘war on terror’
Food scarcity is fanning flames of ‘war on terror’ Every country experiencing civil unrest due to rising militant Islamist violence is facing resource shortages directly linked to food insecurity, according to new research by British scientists. Of the 17 countries identified as being most at risk of food riots, 14 are Muslim-majority countries, and at […]
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead The secret campaign to undercount the ‘war on terror’ death toll in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America In the name of ‘counting every casualty,’ the Pentagon is systematically undercounting deaths from the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs,’ in the Middle East, Central […]
Fighting the “War on Terror ” by Banning Cash
Fighting the “War on Terror ” by Banning Cash It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up “War on Terror” as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the very real war on the use of cash and personal privacy that they are waging against their own citizens Taking […]
