Mourn on the 4th of July by John Pilger, ZSpace, July 11, 2009 The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with…
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Killing Hope, Sowing Terror: The Assassination Bureau
By Manuel Garcia, Jr., Counterpunch, July 15, 2009 In June of 2009, Leon Panetta, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — the American Praetorian Guard guiding the course of the Dollar Area Empire — cancelled a program…
Internal documents show Harper Govt obsessed with war resisters
By Laura K, we move to canada, July 10, 2009 Those of us who actively oppose the policies of Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government may sometimes feel government officials are impervious to our criticisms. Those of us who write and call…
Afghanistan, Canada and the challenges facing the anti-war movement
By James Clark, rabble.ca, July 14, 2009 In just a few months, anti-war activists will mark the eighth anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-led “war on terror,” and the movement that emerged to counter it. Since 2001, Canada’s anti-war…
NATO’s War Plans For The High North
NATO Secretary General Scheffer (L) and Iceland’s outgoing Prime Minister Haarde (R) attend seminar on security prospects in high north in Reykjavik Photo: REUTERS by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, June 14, 2009 Since the beginning of the year the United…
Obama’s Rollback Strategy: Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan (and the Boomerang Effect)
Illustration: Latuff by Prof James Petras, Global Research, July 9, 2009 The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of…
Iraq a failed imperialist venture
by Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star, July 2, 2009 American troops were not welcomed with flowers in Iraq but their departure from cities and towns has been. Iraqis celebrated National Sovereignty Day Tuesday as U.S. troops were yanked out of populated…
Stewart blasts former CIA analyst for rooting for bin Laden attack
By David Edwards, The Raw Story, July 2, 2009 Perhaps it’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome. The same person who spent nearly a decade fruitlessly leading the CIA unit charged with finding Osama bin Laden now seems to be rooting…
Anti-war dissent grows in the US military
A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Military By Dahr Jamail, Tomgram, June 30, 2009 The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the “definitive history of…
Colonizing Culture in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail, May 27, 2009 The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in…