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"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps (1881-1940)

Wars are more than very expensive in lives and money. (Ask a veteran or teacher whose support has been cut because it is "unaffordable.")

The longer they are the the less effective wars become. We clearly lost the two longest wars in the history of the United States - Vietnam and Afghanistan. The more time that goes by the more we become tolerant of corrupt dictators abusing their people because they are on "our" side and the more we use the false "sunk cost" argument that if we have sacrificed this much money and lives, we can't pull out now. We straight out lost in both Vietnam and Afghanistan - not just the war but many lives (ours and innocent civilians), trillions of dollars that could have been used to help our infrastructure, our world wide reputation for competence, and decades of time. After half a century of these fruitless wars we seemed to waste no time before jumping into the Ukraine War.

Further, these wars result in the loss of civil rights, especially recently. In our history there have been times when civil rights have been suspended, such as the Civil War and World War II, but they have always been during the War only and some sort of due process remained. What we have now is a situation worse by both the length - well over ten years - and extent of deprivation of constitutional rights. As Hunter S. Thompson said on 9/12/2001: “The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for peace in our time, in the U.S. or any other country. Make no mistake about it: we are at War now- with somebody- and we will stay at war with that strange and mysterious enemy for the rest of our lives.” See also Civil Rights

The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future. (A particularly useful source of documentation on war is Oliver Stone's documentary The Untold History of the United States)

A modest first step is following the clear intention of the United States Constitution in requiring a declaration of war before engaging in extended combat operations. Another step is to consult with the the UN Security Council. We agreed and are bound by by international law requiring that they authorize military action. See also A Legal Framework for Just Military Action.

Comments which are verified by Wikileaks and reporters in the field are that there were never more than a few hundred Taliban in Afghanistan and much of their support comes from Pakistan which we have given billions of dollars to over the years. Wikileaks and on the ground correspondents also have documented the utter corruptness of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Is this worth even more of our national treasure as well as the irreplaceable lives of our soldiers and sailors?

We should not forget the Israeli war against Gaza and corresponding war crimes we are largely financing with now up to over four billion dollars every year or 11 million dollars every day. A good summary is the article Continuing Middle East War Crimes by Isaac Saul. See also the YouTube video Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza. Targeting civilians is wrong no matter who does it. War crimes are equally wrong if done by the United States as exposed by Julian Assange, by Israel, or by Hamas. Many believe it is a right based upon who is doing it. See also references 170, 191, 194, 227, 237, 248, 256, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 266, 273, 281-302, 309-347, 362, 374-381, 384, 401-407, 433, 459-470, 488, 516-534, 576, 581-587, 626, 627, 654-660, 751-762, 924-934, 963-991, 1018, 1019, 1049, 1094-1105, 1131, 1138, 1139, 1158, 1161, 1196-1201, 1295.

In the Naval War College two basic questions are "What is the threat?" and "What is the appropriate force or other means to handle the threat?" Our expenditure of money, lives, and wear and tear on the military is completely out of balance with a small number of terrorists. Also usually missing is a real (not pretend) exit plan.

We should ask ourselves bluntly if we are doing precisely what the terrorists want us to. In 2004 Osama bin Laden said frankly in a videotape their strategy was to “provoke and trap.” “All we have to do is…raise a piece of cloth on which is written ‘Al Qaeda” in order to make the generals race there, to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses.” (1)

We should do our homework first, know what the threat is, weigh options of using other countries and other means, and be very reluctant to enter any military conflict. Certainly we have an international interest, there are activities that only the United States can do, and nobody is advocating eliminating the military. But we are not all powerful and must consider our actions first. As Fareed Zakaria said, “Washington has to move out of the eighth century A.D. adjudicating claims between Sunnis and Shias in Baghdad, and move into the twenty-first century – to China, India, Brazil – where the future is being made.” (2)

The United States exerted a great deal of influence through the Marshall plan after World War II by influencing other countries to engage in mutually beneficial economic policies. It has cut down greatly on economic help to rely increasingly on war activities. China meantime has engaged with much success in a "Belt and Road" initiative similar to the Marshall Plan. See China's Trillion Dollar Plan to Dominate Global Trade.

Is getting involved in the very serious business of starting a war right or wrong dependent solely on whether it is a republican or democrat who starts it? Obama, Trump, and Biden and almost everyone in congress on both sides of the aisle cheerily act as if that is the sole criterion. War may be acceptable as a last resort, but it is past time we ended the decades long practice of both major parties of having it be our first resort to gain political popularity.

Two recommended books follow.

Moyn, Samuel Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War Captain Byron (U.S. Navy retired) in his review of this book said that Moyn presents with considerable evidence that “This country likes war. It relies overwhelmingly on war. Forever War.”

Whitlock, Craig The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Captain Byron (U.S. Navy retired) in his review of this book correctly describes “an Army and three presidential administrations more interested in happy talk than honest appraisal.” The United States failed badly in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and we should take a hard look at what happened before we get involved again.

We should not forget the following standards we imposed upon Germany.

DECLARATION of the NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."

A good example of failing foreign policy causing war is the YouTube video Why Haiti is Dying & the DR is Booming.

Help make your progressive case by using this documentation which is continuously updated. https://www.newprogs.org/make_your_case

Footnotes
1) Fareed Zakaria, “The Post-American World Release 2.0,” (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011), 269-270.
2) Fareed Zakaria, “The Post-American World Release 2.0,” (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011), 263.
3) deleted - inactive link

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4-Antiwar movement revitalized by Independents and third party groups
5-360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan
6-Iraq Withdrawal? Don't Take it to the Bank
7-Bush 2.0: 100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush
8-Ending Wars on Time Would Save $200 Billion, One-Sixth of Debt Reduction Goal (leaving open the question of how much we would save if we ended the wars early!)
9-Libya: 'Humanitarian' Snow Job
10-Libya: Never Believe It Till It's Officially Denied
11-Libya: Enough To Make You Cry
12-Is Washington Out of Gas?
13-How Washington Creates Global Instability
14-Freedom Is Not Free at the State Department
15-Obama waives penalties on countries that employ child soldiers – again!
16-Panetta: No clear plan on end to Libya mission
17-Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?
TARPing War
18-Afghanistan to back Pakistan if wars with U.S.: Karzai
19-The Military Spending Fairy
20-U.S. General Fired for Criticizing Hamid Karzai
21-An All-American Nightmare: This Is What Defeat Looks Like
22-Obama Moves to Legalize Cluster Munitions
23-Chicago Rally to Thank Obama for Supposedly Ending War in Iraq Turns Up 30 Speakers and 10 Audience Members
24-450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet
25-Obama’s Proliferating Wars: Empire on Full Throttle Offensive
26-Those Weak Losers Who Care about “Law”
27-The End in Afghanistan?
28-The 0% Doctrine
Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran
29-A New Age of Enemies
30-Left Behind
What We Lost in Iraq and Washington, 2009-2012
31-The Smog of War
32-What the Laws of War Allow
33-Obama Supports Military Coup in Maldives
34-Ex-Maldives Leader Rejects US Compromise Call
35-Memory Failure at the Pentagon
36-A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC
Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies
37-War Pay
The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget
38-Mission Failure: Afghanistan - A Message Written in Blood That No One Wants to Hear
39-The CIA and a Blowback World
40-How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan or America:
A Guide to Disaster at Home and Abroad
41-US Drone Strikes Target Rescuers in Pakistan – and the West Stays Silent
42-Green on Blue Attacks: The Story Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Want to Talk About
43-The Best Laid Plans: How Quickly Will the U.S. Leave Afghanistan?
44-Cost of the Afghan War
45-We Are at War
46-Washington Invested in War
47-Military’s Own Report Card Gives Afghan Surge an F
48-More War!
49-Disaster on Autpilot
50-Killing the Kids That Don't Need to Die
51-Obama's Foreign Policy: Is he Hawk or Dove?
52-Time to Pack Up
53-The Alliance from Hell - How the U.S. and Pakistan Became the Dysfunctional Nuclear Family of International Relations
54-Embassy Attack Shows Folly of Arming Zealots
55-Preparing for a Digital 9/11
56-Obama Adviser Robert Gibbs Blames Denver Teen’s ‘Terrorist’ Father for His Drone Death
57-Exposed 'Kill Matrix' Gives Permanence to US 'War on Terror' -
The Washington Post Reports on the Codifying of Obama's 'Kill List'
58-Drone of Silence: The National Security Policy that Obama and Romney Won’t Debate
59-Terror Tuesday Cubed: The ‘Disposition Matrix’ Normalizes State Murder
60-Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection
61-Troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014
62-Obama Notifies Congress of Troops Deployed to Libya and Yemen
63-1939 Peace on Earth Animation
64-Pentagon to Send Missiles, 400 Troops to Turkey
65-US Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
66-US Drone Strikes, Cyber Attacks Carried Out Under Cover of the Christmas Holiday
67-3,000 US troops secretly return to Iraq via Kuwait
68-Panetta Urges New Focus for NATO
69-WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says
70-Sen. Claire McCaskill leaps hurdles to overhauling wartime contracting
71-Military expenditure (% of GDP)
72-On Its Way Out, the US Will Give Afghanistan Its Very Own Fleet of Drones
73-Special Afghanistan inspector blasts Pentagon, USAID waste
74-The United States government is, far and away, the greatest threat to world peace.
75-The Pentagon as a Global NRA: For Washington, There Is No Arms Control Abroad
76-U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market
77-U.S. troops arrive in Turkey to help protect border with Syria, prompting some skepticism
78-US Support for Dictatorship in Iraq Sowing Future Chaos
79-Why Obama's CIA Nominee Is Responsible for the Deaths of Pakistani Civilians
80-World Military Spending
81-Bill Moyers Essay: When We Kill Without Caring
82-Ann Jones, The Afghan End Game?
83-Dumb and Dumber: A Secret CIA Drone Base, a Blowback World, and Why Washington Has No Learning Curve
84-Justice Department Memo Reveals ‘Legal Case’ for Drone Strikes on Americans
85-United Nations: US Attacks Killed Hundreds of Afghan Children
86-Wars That Aren’t Meant to Be Won
87-Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator
88-With Little More Than a Note, Obama Deploys US Troops To Niger
89-5 lessons of the Iraq war
90-Buying the War
91-Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed: Iraq War Among World’s Worst Events
92-Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion and interest payments could swell cost to more than $6 trillion - study
93-A Rape in Wartime
94-The Iraq Anniversary and the Washington Post
95-UN says US drones violate Pakistan's sovereignty
96-Will Congress Act to Stop US Support for Honduras' Death Squad Regime?
97-Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook– Al-Queda is a computer database (he died 4 weeks later…)
98-Iraq, Afghan Wars to Cost US Over Next 100 Years
99-Study: Iraq War Cost 190K Lives, $2.2 Trillion
100-An Anniversary Many Would Like to Ignore
101-Thoughts on War, 10 Years Post Shock and Awe
102-US Support for Emerging Dictatorship in Iraq May Have ‘Catastrophic’ Effects
103-US-Backed Regime in Bahrain Bans All Protests: Obama continues to support the brutal Bahraini dictatorship, valuing ruthless control of the Persian Gulf over democracy
104-Experience: I was a whistleblower - 'I had been prepared to fight the enemy in Iraq, but I never expected to feel betrayed by my own people'
105-Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres: Exclusive: General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse
106-“Most Expensive Wars in US History”: Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
107-Paying the Costs of Iraq, for Decades to Come
108-After “withdrawal” U.S. will keep 9 Afghan bases
109-Bill Moyers Essay: When We Kill Without Caring
110-BOLGER, MANSKI: Obama’s misuse of AUMF is unconstitutional, unconscionable
111-Bring Our War Dollars Home
112-The Hijacking of Human Rights by Chris Hedges
113-Engelhardt, The Last Empire?
114-Engelhardt: Field of Nightmares
115-The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan: The United States?
116-The United States Is Fighting How Many Wars?
117-David Vine, Baseworld Profiteering
118-US Senate declares the entire USA to be a "Battleground".
119-Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent - Senior Obama officials tell the US Senate: the 'war', in limitless form, will continue for 'at least' another decade - or two
120-Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.
121-Afghanistan: The End Game?
122-Andrew Bacevich: The Eternal War?
123-The Cold War Redux? Are Washington, Moscow, and Beijing Using the Global Arms Trade to Create a New Cold War?
124-Rising Cost of the Afghanistan War
125-Despite Obama's Claims, Drones More Deadly for Civilians: Report
Drone strikes in Afghanistan cause 10 times more civilian casualties than 'conventional' warfare
126-Humanity’s Oldest Story
127-Let the bullets fly: War is a great business
128-U.N. expert: More arms for Syria mean more war crimes
129-War Crimes as Policy
130-How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars - Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6
131-Another Jolly Little War
132-Chemical Weapons
133-The Dead Rhetoric of War By Chris Hedges
134-Cluster Bombs, Decapitation Bombing Killed Hundreds, Says Human Rights Watch
135-Bureau Investigation Finds Fresh Evidence of CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers - If proved, US targeting of rescuers who respond to scene of earlier explosions are clearly "war crimes"
136-Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualized
137-Drought Helped Spark Syria’s Civil War — Is it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?
138-Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists: Documents reveal US money trail to Egyptian groups that pressed for president's removal.
139-History of United States Getting Involved in "Humanitarian" Wars
140-U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … That It Will Publicly Admit - And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight … Let Alone Public Knowledge
141-Obama Closes Office Working to Shut Down Gitmo - Obama has fundamentally signed on to the belief that individuals can be held forever without due process
142-Obama's war record.....in one place
143-Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?
144-The US Has No Credibility Dealing With Chemical Weapons
145-To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes
146-U.S. Depleted Uranium as Malicious as Syrian Chemical Weapons
147-US-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds
148-Yes, we can: Obama waives anti-terrorism provisions to arm Syrian rebels
149-A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

150-Al-Qaeda Backers Found With U.S. Contracts in Afghanistan

151-Amnesty report on Pakistan drone strikes contradicts US assurances of precision - The US insists that almost all drone strikes in Pakistan hit legitimate targets, but a new Amnesty International report says at least 29 civilians have been killed since 2012.

152-Ann Jones: Americans Can’t Remember, Afghans Will Never Forget

153-United States War Crimes

154-Dispatches: The War in Afghanistan is Escalating, Not Ending

155-Empire Under Obama, Part 3: America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries Around the World by Andrew Gavin Marshall

156-Ending One War, Ending All Wars

157-For 4th Straight Year, Obama Approves Military Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers

158-JSoc: Obama's secret assassins - The president has a clandestine network targeting a 'kill list' justified by secret laws. How is that different than a death squad?

159-The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan: The Other Side of the COIN

160-Malala to Obama: "Drones Fueling Terrorism"

161-McCain: F-35 among the ‘Great, National Scandals’

162-The business of America is war
163-Engelhardt, The American Exceptionalism Sweepstakes

164-The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars

165-The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s "Neocon" Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech

166-The Cost of War to Social Programs
167-Andrew Bacevich, Bashing “Isolationists” While at War in the World

168-Jeremy Scahill, The Fantasy of a Clean War
169-Top 45 Lies in Obama's Speech at the U.N.

170-U.S. media suppressed 2009 UN report showing Israel using chemical weapons against Palestinians: Obama ignores Israel's chemical weapons abuse while targeting Syrian government that may not be responsible for recent chemical attacks

171-US has killed far more civilians with drones than it admits, says UN

172-William Astore, War! What Is It Good For? Profit and Power
173-10 More Years in Afghanistan by David Swanson

174-2013: War by the Numbers: A statistical look back at a violent year

175-Deceiving the US Public on Syria

176-Guernica Films: Measure of a Life

177-In reversal, Obama says he will boost US military support in Iraq

178-Let’s Begin Ending War Again

179-LIVE Interactive with Occupy Kenya Activist: Obama Administrative Coup to Oust Elected President
180-Obama’s Ludicrous Afghanistan Declarations

181-Adam Hochschild, The War to Begin All Wars

182-Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, American Death Spiral in the Middle East

183-Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

184-Obama vs. Bush on War

185-Changing Enemies

186-'Double dealing': How Pakistan hid Osama Bin Laden from the U.S. and fueled the war in Afghanistan

187-The Long Shadow of a Neocon - Reassessing a primary architect of Iraq and Afghanistan’s current misery

188-208 Palestinians, 1 Israeli Killed in Gaza Conflict; Brits Blast Biased BBC Reporting

189-27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama

190-35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists - Here's a handy A to Z guide to U.S.-backed international crime.

191-4 Boys Killed Playing on a Beach; 223 Palestinians, 1 Israeli Killed in Gaza Conflict

192-400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op

193-Afghanistan, Another Untold Story (posted in 2009)

194-An honest Israeli Jew tells the Real Truth about Israel (video)

195-On Ultra Nationalists: When You Slow-Dance with the Devil, You Can't See His Face

196-Bill Moyers Essay: ‘Crossing the Euphrates’

197-Bill Moyers Essay: What We Can Learn From Lawrence of Arabia

198-Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: U.S. Training Death Squads

199-Break the Silence: A World War Is Beckoning

200-Afghan War Spending - Bush vs. Obama

201-Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us

202-American Military Dominance In One Staggering Chart (defense spending by country)

203-Chris Hedges: The Ghoulish Face of Empire

204-Chronology Vietnam from 111 BCE

205-Column: What we did in Iraq is coming back to haunt us

206-Controlling the Lens: The Media War Being Fought Over Ukraine Between the Western Bloc and Russia

207-Crediting Obama for Bringing Troops Home–Without Noting He Sent Them Abroad

208-Dahr Jamail: Incinerating Iraq

209-Deaths in Other Nations Since WW II Due to US Interventions

210-Dilip Hiro: Behind the Coup in Egypt

211-Don’t Walk Away From War

212-A Record of Unparalleled Failure

213-Eric Alterman Warns: Pundits and Partisans Are Up to Old Tricks in Iraq

214-Everybody's Got Afghanistan Wrong - This goes deeper than the usual war lies.

215-Exclusive: New document details America’s war machine — and secret mass of contractors in Afghanistan - What is a huge army of private contractors secretly doing in Afghanistan? A leaked PowerPoint presentation explains

216-Fracking Weaponized – Joe Biden’s Ukraine Crusade

217-Freedom Rider: America Brings Hell to Ukraine

218-Full Show: Chaos in Iraq

219-Full Show: The Lies That Lead to War

220-GOP's actual track record on supporting veterans

221-Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law?

222-In Iraq, The U.S. is The Problem, not the Solution

223-Infographic: How the Israeli ID card system enforces apartheid

224-Iraq Is Coming Apart at the Seams — Here’s Our Essential Reader

225-Iraq War III? Will Obama try to re-fight the Iraq war?

226-Iraq’s Second Largest City Falls to Extremists

227-Israeli war crimes in Gaza provoke global outrage

228-Kerry Announces Increased Weapons Shipments to Syria Rebels

229-Kidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa

230-US Feigns "Horror" Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered

231-Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links

232-Map of US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

233-Michael Klare: Fighting for Oil

234-The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia

235-Michael Schwartz: The New Oil Wars in Iraq

236-New York Times Admits It Pushed Fabricated Evidence about Iraq, Syria and Ukraine

237-Obama Administration Endorses Israel's Assault on Gaza - US backing comes amid rising Palestinian death toll in besieged enclave

238-Obama Plans To Leave 10,000 Troops In Afghanistan Past Deadline

239-Obama Vision of "Ending" Afghan War Includes 10,000 Troops: Despite repeated calls to end the war completely, president lays out plan for continued US presence well beyond 2014

240-One Failure After Another - Obama, Israel and Liberal Capitulation

241-Dispatching B-2 Stealth Bombers to Europe: Obama’s Attempt at Intimidating Russia

242-Operations Brother’s Keeper & Protective Edge

243-Our Big, Fat, Not-So-Secret War in Africa - U.S. Officials Talk Candidly (Just Not to Reporters) about bases, winning hearts and minds, and the “War” in Africa

244-Pepe Escobar: Who’s Pivoting Where in Eurasia?

245-President Obama Receives “Ambassador for Humanity” Award (Not Satire)

246-Democrats, Republicans playing political football over Benghazi attack: Don DeBar

247-Robert Parry: Evidence for Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Based on Shoddy Journalism

248-State Department Responds to Israel’s Bombing of Children Playing on Gaza Beach by Blaming Hamas

249-Stretching It

250-VIDEO: Slavyansk Still Being Bombed

251-The Guns of Folly

252-The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda

253-The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East

254-The Secret War in Libya

255-The Soaring Profits of the Military – Industrial Complex and the Soaring Costs of Military Casualties

256-Bombing of Gaza children gives me “orgasm”: Israelis celebrate slaughter on Facebook

257-CNN: Palestinians Want to Die

258-Freedom Rider: American and Israeli War Crimes

259-How US and Blair Plotted "Ceasefire" Scam

260-Warren Warns Against Civilian Deaths In Warfare — But No Mention Of Drones “Whatever our righteous intentions, the world does not hold us blameless when civilians die.”

261-Pax Americana vs. The Arc of the Moral Universe

262-The US Left’s Obligation to Palestine is to Build an Internationalist Movement

263-This chart shows every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2000

264-Toll of U.S. invasion haunts Iraq

265-How America's Wars Came Home With the Troops

266-Chase Madar: The Folly of Arming Israel

267-Nick Turse: How “Benghazi” Birthed the New Normal in Africa

268-US Air Strike Killed Woman, Seven Kids in Central Afghanistan - Karzai Reiterates Demand to End Air Strikes Against Villages

269-US Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq to Cost $6 trillion

270-Vice President Joe Biden Promotes U.S. as Fracking Missionary Force On Ukraine Trip

271-Clips from Oscar-Nominated Documentary Dirty Wars (video)

272-Obama's "Dirty Wars" Exposed at Sundance (video)

273-Peace Propaganda And The Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004) (video)

274-Syria: The Crime and the Criminals (video)

275-Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (video)

276-Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq to Cost U.S. Over $4 Trillion

277-Washington and the Corporate Media Are in Full Propaganda Mode on Ukraine

278-The Fog Machine of War - Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military and Media Freedom

279-White House requests $500 million to aid Syrian rebels

280-Why we stuck with Maliki — and lost Iraq

281-Witness to an International Crime: Israeli State Terrorism in Gaza

282-Gaza is a concentration camp, and it’s an American delusion not to recognize that — Weschler

283-Updated Numbers on Gaza

284-Palestinian and Israeli Deaths

285-496 Palestinians, 20 Israelis Die in Gaza Conflict; Why the Shujaiyah Massacre?

286-Collective punishment or human shields? Israel’s military has no “moral superiority,” time for media to cover Gaza fairly - The civilian death toll in Gaza is immoral and unacceptable -- and it's time to talk honestly about all of it

287-Dead Gazans Missing From Senate Endorsement of Israeli Invasion

288-Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked

289-Gaza Conflict: 1039 Palestinians, 43 Israelis Dead; Israel Bombs Another Hospital

290-Israel and Palestine, an animated introduction.

291-Who Bears More Responsibility for the War in Gaza?

292-Claim that Hamas killed 3 teens is turning out to be the WMD of Gaza onslaught

293-How Israel Uses Twitter, Facebook & Tinder to Legitimize Murder | Brainwash Update

294-Jewish Voice for Peace

295-Must Watch – Chris Hedges speech about Gaza – Shame On You Nawaz Sharif, Altaf Hussain & Asif Zardari

296-New Facebook Page Equates Sex with Israeli War on Gaza

297-Noam Chomsky vs. Al Franken: Behind the odd progressive divide between senators, intellectuals on Gaza: Senate progressives join unanimous resolution backing Israel, but the reaction has been different elsewhere on left

299-The US-Israel Special Relationship Timeline That AIPAC Doesn’t Want You To See

300-US Only Country To Vote No On UN Resolution Against Killing Civilians In Gaza

301-US-backed Israeli invasion of Gaza unleashes death and destruction

302-Chris Hedges beautiful speech on Gaza #FreePalestine

303-Causes of War Krugman Overlooked

304-Chris Hedges - America Is Slowly Crumbling (video)

305-Chris Hedges - How the Brutalized Become Brutal

306-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Age of Impunity - An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country? The Empire as a basket Case

307-Escalation: Obama Broadens War Goals - Informs Congress About Latest Round of Attacks

308-Freedom Rider: Putin in America’s Crosshairs

309-Israeli Complicity

310-Israeli Attack on Civilian Apartments

311-Claim that Hamas Killed 3 Teens is turning out to be the WMD of Gaza Onslaught

Claim that Hamas killed 3 teens is turning out to be the WMD of Gaza onslaught - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/killed-turning-onslaught#sthash.aFnQbDzM.dpuf

312-Picture Documentation of Israeli Slaughter

313-86% of Gaza Dead Were Civilians (Believe the UN, Not NY Times’ Jodi Rudoren)

314-UN Specialist for Palestinian Rights Suspects Israel Committed War Crimes: An Interview with Richard Falk on the Crisis in Gaza

315-As Repression Escalates on US Campuses, an Account of My Ordeal With the Israel Lobby and UC

316-Gaza conflict: Drone footage reveals extent of damage

317-The Damage in Gaza - Satellite imagery released by the U.N. shows destruction in hard-hit Gaza neighborhoods.

318-Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack

319-Cease-Fires in Which Violations Never Cease: What's Next for Israel, Hamas and Gaza?

320-Let My People Go by Chris Hedges

321-The Palestinians’ Right to Self-Defense by Chris Hedges

322-Israel Bars Amnesty, Human Rights Watch Workers from Gaza

323-Democrats’ Unapologetic Support for Israel Enables Daily War Crimes Against Palestinians

324-Dutch Man Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust Returns His Medal: Henk Zanoli Objects To Israel's Actions in Gaza

325-Gaza Civilian Damages

326-Gaza slaughter exposes Democrats

327-Gaza: new evidence of deliberate attacks on medics by Israeli army

328-Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction

329-Here's the full text of the deleted Times of Israel post backing genocide in Gaza

330-Indefensible and Illegal Israeli Land Seizure Given Laughable Reasoning

331-Israel Announces 'Unprecedented' Land Seizure - Anti-settlement group says move is "proof that Prime Minister Netanyahu does not aspire for a new 'Diplomatic Horizon'"

332-Israel To Take Largest Amount Of Land From West Bank In 30 Years

333-Israeli army summarily executed fleeing civilians in southern Gaza

334-How Israel Uses Twitter, Facebook & Tinder to Legitimize Murder | Brainwash Update

335-Israel's Borders under International Law - Northwestern University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Series No. 06-34

336-Obama Admin Condemns Attack On UN School In Gaza But Refuses To Assign Blame, Restocks Israel’s Ammunition

337-Israel used banned weapons on Gaza (video and comments)

338-Raw footage of Israeli sniper killing wounded civilian

339-Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2007)

340-Terrorism in the Israeli Attack on Gaza by Glenn Greenwald

341-The Destruction of Gaza's Schools and the Future of Palestinian Children

342-The member of Knessett who called for genocide - against the mother of the "snakes"

Israel/Palestine

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- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/knesset-genocide-against#sthash.KGYd1wpp.dpuf

343-The Outlaw State of Israel, part 1 - Since 1948 Israel has drawn a long list of military aggression, human rights violations, and war crimes

344-The United Nations is Dead: It Did Not Stop the Slaughter

345-Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, Going Wild in the Gaza War

346-US senator (Boxer, a democrat) filibusters live coverage of powerful Palestinian testimonies

347-US Stands Alone in Vote Against UN Inquiry Into Gaza Assault - Resolution passes, despite US opposition, as body approves official inquiry into "all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law"

348-History Repeating Itself? U.S. Bombing Iraq While Jockeying to Oust Leader It Once Favored

349-Iraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!

350-Islamic State and the American Way of War: The New Enemy Creation Process

351-More Killing in Obama’s ‘War on Terror’ Than Bush’s ‘War’

352-Obama To Bomb Iraq To Protect Advisors He Sent In, Prevent Ethnic Killing, Secure US Oil Contracts

353-Obama: “Russia Is Responsible For The Violence In Eastern Ukraine and Pigs Can Fly”

354-The New York Times and Flight MH17: With each lie fanned irresponsibly by the media, the probability of a major war increases substantially.

355-The Real “Dirty Wars” in the Horn of Africa

356-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Escalation Follies: How America Made ISIS - Their Videos and Ours, their "Caliphate" and Ours

357-Tomgram: Nick Turse, American Monuments to Failure in Africa?

258-Why Washington's War on Terror Failed - The Underrated Saudi Connection

359-Top 9 Reasons to Stop Bombing Iraq

360-Ukraine: Five facts and fallacies you need to know about the US-Nato drive to war

361-US intervention is not humanitarian and will not protect the people of Iraq

362-War is the new system of governance (and five other Gaza takeaways) - The status quo of the occupation has reached a new level of violence and destruction, but there is no political power in sight that can impose a change on the ground.

363-Why Obama is bombing the Caliph

364-William Astore: The Bomber Will Always Get Funded — and Used

365-Why Are The Tricks Used To Sell War in 2003 Working in 2014? Have We Learned Nothing?

366-Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?

367-US/UK media coverup of Nazis in Ukraine continues unraveling and MH-17 falls apart…

368-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Great Concentration or the Great Fragmentation? Power Drain - Mysteries of the 21st Century in a Helter-Skelter World

369-The US Government Never Understood Afghanistan and Still Doesn't

370-Stepping warily onto the battlefield

371-President Obama’s High-mileage, Stupid New War

372-Opinion: The Growing Cost of the Third Iraq War

373-Marjorie Cohn | Obama Declares Perpetual War

374-The Untold Story of the Shejaiya Massacre in Gaza: A Former Israel Soldier Speaks Out

375-The Rise of "If Not Now" and the collapse of the pro-Israel consensus

The rise of ‘If Not Now’ and the collapse of the pro-Israel consensus - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/collapse-israel-consensus#sthash.KR9eO9GI.dpuf

376-The Gaza War Map

377-Noam Chomsky: The Real Reason Israel "Mows the Lawn" in Gaza - Like other states, Israel pleads "security" as justification for its aggressive and violent actions. But knowledgeable Israelis know better.

378-Leaked email reveals ADL advice to universities urging anti-Palestine crackdown

379-Israeli Occupation Forces Destroy water networks and launch assault on farmers

Israeli occupation forces destroy water networks and launch assault on farmers - See more at: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/14205-israeli-occupation-forces-destroy-water-networks-and-launch-assault-on-farmers#sthash.v2bzIJMx.dpuf

380-Israel lobby group outlines dirty tricks against campus Palestine activists

381-Civil Administration plans to expel thousands of Bedouins from homes, concentrate them in inadequate settlement

382-American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy

383-43 Million People Kicked Out of Their Homes

384-Tomgram: Jen Marlowe, One Family, Two Doors, Nowhere to Run

385-Happy Holidays?: Obama Endorses A Militarized Israel, Land Grabs, And Domestic Spying: At a time when many were distracted by the hectic holiday season, Obama signed into law U.S. support for a militarized Israel, the transfer of sacred Native American land to a mining company, and increased domestic spying.

386-Verifiable proof that the Kiev and US spokespersons lied about Ukrainian bus attack that killed 12

387-Reckless Congress ‘Declares War’ on Russia - Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever

388-The greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world America isn't still at war - Afghanistan, Iraq, the illegal conflict with Isis, secret drone strikes across the Middle East: You would think Congress might want to vote on the Forever War. But you would be very, very wrong

389-The new Iraq War is doomed: After years of lies and senseless military conflict, we must oppose US escalation in Iraq

390-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Washington's Walking Dead - More and More War - The Tao of Washington

391-America is Open for Business in Iraq

392-America Didn’t Just Prosecute Torturers, We Executed Them

393-Apache Helicopter & Hellfire Missile Blues | Philip A. Farruggio

394-Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Drone War?

395-Benjamin Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons

396-Bob Simon on Buying the War in Iraq

397-Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?

398-Dramatic Shifts in the Political and Military Situation in Ukraine

399-Endless War Is Alive and... Bleeding

400-Endless War? Obama Sends Congress Expansive Anti-ISIS Measure Six Months After Bombing Began

401-UN Finds Credible Ties Between ISIS And Israeli Defense Forces

402-Dozens of European parliamentarians call for end to EU-Israel treaty

403-Former Israeli Defense Warns: Americans Are Next! Shocking Interview

404-Gaza Invasion Resulted in Carloads with Maimed, Torn Apart, Bleeding, Dying Innocent Civilians, Says Norwegian Doctor

405-Jewish Voice for Peace

406-Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel

407-US helped Israel with H-bomb - 1980s report declassified

408-War is the New Normal - Seven Deadly Reasons Why America's Wars Persist

409-Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite

410-Has President Obama Once Again Sold Us Down the River?

411-ISIS is Proof of the Failed "War on Terror"

412-John McCain Calls For US War In Ukraine, Libya, Syria, And Iraq

413-My War on Terror: Letter to an Unknown American Patriot

414-Noam Chomsky: America paved the way for ISIS - The famed linguist and philosopher on the conflict in Iraq, Israel and the myriad dangers of U.S. foreign policy

415-Obama’s Drone War Death Count Surpasses Spanish Inquisition: Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama’s covert drone war has done something in 6 years that it took the Spanish Inquisition 350 years to accomplish.

416-Our Condolences: How the U.S. Paid for Death and Damage in Afghanistan

417-Policy ‘Intellectuals’ Are Enabling Our Never-Ending State of War

418-Stephen Hawking Warns That Aggression Could 'Destroy Us All'

419-The Endless Tragedy of Vietnam

420-The Real Enemy is Hypocrisy - The Enemy is Not Russia or Putin

421-How Obama’s Aggression in Ukraine Risks Nuclear War: Could Romney or McCain Really be any Worse?

422-Why Obama’s Hopes of Decapitating the Islamic State Won’t Work

423-The ISIS-US Empire – Their Unholy Alliance Fully Exposed

424-The Shame of US Journalism Is the Destruction of Iraq, Not Fake Helicopter Stories

425-The Victory of ‘Perception Management’

426-The World of Our Grandchildren Noam Chomsky discusses ISIS, Israel, climate change, and the kind of world future generations may inherit.

427-The Contours of the American Empire by Jeremy Cloward, Ph. D., Diablo Valley College, “War is a matter of vital importance to the State...the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.” Sun Tzu (Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher, circa 544 BC)

428-This broken 700-ton generator demonstrates everything that went wrong with the reconstruction of Iraq

429-Rationalizing Lunacy: The intellectual as Servant of the State

430-Remembrance of Wars Past - Why There is No Massive Antiwar Movement in America

431-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Ten Commandments for a Better American World

432-Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Witness to War, American-Style

433-Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Israel, Gaza, and Energy Wars in the Middle East

434-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Watching the Same Movie About American War for 75 Years

435-Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges?

436-Truth in Media: The Origin of ISIS

437-Ukraine denouement: The Russian loan and the IMF’s One-Two Punch

438-FBI Whistleblower: “U.S Is Reviving Terror Scare With ISIS To Promote The Terror War Industry”

439-White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths - Amid reports of women and children killed in U.S. air offensive, official says the 'near certainty' policy doesn’t apply

440-Why ISIS Exists - In the U.S. war on Iraq, hundreds of thousands died the sort of deaths that, if broadcast in an ISIS video, would have inflamed international opinion.

441-John Pilger | Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue

442-Obama's Real Number of Wars

443-'US not engaged in major war': Obama Memorial Day remark slammed

444-35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists - As the situation in Ukraine continues to fester, a handy history guide -- from A (Argentina) to Z (Zaire)

445-41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground: New analysis of data conducted by human rights group Reprieve shared with the Guardian, raises questions about accuracy of intelligence guiding ‘precise’ strikes

446-Always Remember, the NY Times Pushed, Hard, for War in Iraq

447-Body Count Report Reveals At Least 1.3 Million Lives Lost to US-Led War on Terror: Although a conservative estimate, physicians' groups say the figure 'is approximately 10 times greater' than typically reported

448-Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us

449-Causing genocide to protect us from terror by Neil Clark who is a journalist, writer, award winning blogger, and broadcaster

450-Climbing into Bed with Al-Qaeda

451-‘2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone’: Iraq reveals number of US arms falling into ISIS hands

452-Confirmed Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” in a Proxy War Against Assad

453-Contractors reap $138B from Iraq war

454-Crimea: The Way Back Home - EN Subtitles - Full Documentary (VIDEO)

455-David Brooks’ sickening Iraq apologia: How the New York Times hack just rewrote history - The conservative New York Times columnist explains what he's learned from his Iraq war boosting: largely nothing

456-Endless War: As U.S. Strikes Tikrit & Delays Afghan Pullout, "War on Terror" Toll Tops 1.3 Million

457-Far from facing the truth, the US is telling new lies about Iraq - Politicians who claim they had no choice but to support the invasion are wrong. America got a war it wanted - even if it wasn’t what it expected by Gary Younge

458-Five Years On, the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' Video Matters More than Ever

459-60 Plus Israeli Soldiers Tell The Truth About Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza

460-Former President Jimmy Carter: Gaza situation 'intolerable'

461-Holocaust survivors and their descendants accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ - More than 300 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have condemned what they described as Israel’s 'genocide of Palestinian people' in an advert in the New York Times

462-Not a Single House Has Been Rebuilt One Year After Israeli War on Gaza

463-Obama gives $1.9 billion in weapons as welcome gift to Israel’s racist government

464-Palestinian soccer set back by death of coach, 2 players in Gaza war - Death of soccer legend, aspiring youths, bring to the fore how no part of Palestinian society is escaping the violence and destruction.

465-Israel to seize 202 acres of Palestinian land as dumping ground - Israel has decided to seize some 202 acres of privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank to make a new dumping grounds for its illegal settlements.

466-Richard Falk on the Aftermath of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza

467-Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, The One-State Conundrum

468-UN: Israeli military killed 44 Palestinians at UN shelters

469-US Aid to Israel Jumps to $11 Million Dollars Per Day

470-Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza

471-How the US Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis: Washington's support for Yemen's former dictatorship — and of Saudi efforts to sideline the country's nonviolent pro-democracy movement — helped create the current crisis.

472-If this is what an anti-war presidency looks like to you, you're detached from reality - Despite what some Republicans and neo-conservatives claim, Obama is plenty militaristic. That’s part of the problem in the region, not the best solution

473-Legality of Drone Warfare or Illegality of Drone Assassination? Let a Real Debate Begin!

474-Libya

475-New Evidence US Backed ISIS

476-Obama ordered CIA to train ISIS jihadists: Declassified documents

477-Obama's War Plans Against Venezuela: Another Act of Imperial Desperation

478-America Admittedly Behind ISIS "Surge"

479-Original Iraq War Skeptics Find the Rekindled Debate Maddening

480-Our embarrassing, servile media: Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it? The paper of record is carrying Washington's water in its Ukraine reporting -- all too believing, once again

481-What The Media’s Getting Wrong About Israel And Palestine — And Why It Matters - MintPress founder and editor-in-chief, Mnar Muhawesh, discusses the profound personal effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

482-Saudi Arabia is 'biggest funder of terrorists'

483-Saudi Arabia Launches Airstrikes as Yemen Civil War Ignites Regional Firestorm - Situation remains complex, but human rights activist declares "Hell is on the door" and "The worst is coming" as bombs fall in capital of Sanaa

484-Six US Presidents Have Destroyed Iraq

485-Stop Smoking The Democrack: Protest America’s Wars - Why is the Democratic Party given a pass for the warlike behavior protested under Bush?

486-Targeting ISIS, US-Led Strike Kills 52 Civilians, Including 7 Children

487-The Farce Is Complete: Joe Biden's Son Joins Board Of Largest Ukraine Gas Producer

488-Israel urges Switzerland to stop funding leftist NGO Breaking the Silence - Earlier, the Foreign Ministry announced it was trying to thwart a scheduled exhibition in Zurich by the nonprofit, which includes testimonies by IDF soldiers on alleged human rights violations.

489-Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

490-NYT Trumpets U.S. Restraint against ISIS, Ignores Hundreds of Civilian Deaths

491-The greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world America isn't still at war - Afghanistan, Iraq, the illegal conflict with Isis, secret drone strikes across the Middle East: You would think Congress might want to vote on the Forever War. But you would be very, very wrong

492-Tomgram: Anand Gopal, How to Create an Afghan Blackwater

493-Tomgram: Andrew Cockburn, How Assassination Sold Drugs and Promoted Terrorism

494-Tomgram: Ann Jones, Citizen's Revolt in Afghanistan

495-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Counting Bodies, Then and Now

496-Tomgram: Michael Klare, Superpower in Distress

497-Tomgram: Nick Turse, AFRICOM Behaving Badly

498-Tomgram: Nick Turse, One Boy, One Rifle, and One Morning in Malakal

499-Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military's Battlefield of Tomorrow

500-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, In the Middle East, Bet on a Winner (Iran!)

501-Tomgram: William Astore, America's Mutant Military

502-Tomgram: William Hartung, Your Money at War Everywhere

503-U S Plan- Destroy 7 countries in 5 years

504-U.S. admits to backing 'questionable actors' (i.e. Al Qaeda/ISIS) in Syria

505-Ukraine: why the West is to blame for the crisis

506-Costs of War - US and Allied Killed

507-US-backed Criminal Slaughter in Yemen Revealed by Finian Cunningham + Houthi Arms Bonanza Came From Saleh, Not Iran by Gareth Porter

508-US-led airstrikes kill 52 Syrian civilians in a day, not 1 ISIS fighter – monitor

509-Assange Reveals That The West is Behind ISIS And Ukraine Crisis And Israel Behind Hamas

510-White House still ignores murder of American reporter Serena Shim who filmed western aid to ISIS

511-‘2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone’: Iraq reveals number of US arms falling into ISIS hands

512-Ban Killer Robots Before They Take Over, Stephen Hawking & Elon Musk Say

513-Bill Clinton Laid the Foundation for the Libyan, Syrian and Ukrainian Wars

514-BlackRock, Obama Campaign Donors Stand To Benefit From Cuts To Military Pensions

515-Document: The Pentagon’s Law of War Manual

516-New Amnesty Report Visualizes Israel's War Crimes

517-A Year After More Than 2,000 Killed in Gaza, Israel's Collective Punishment Continues

518-Amnesty International: 'Strong Evidence' Of Israeli War Crimes In Gaza

519-Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel by Chris Hedges

520-Cynthia McKinney: US Lawmakers FORCED to Support Israel!

521-Foreign Investment in Israel Drops by Almost Half in 2014

Foreign investment in Israel drops by almost half in 2014 - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/foreign-investment-israel-drops-almost-half-2014-1302510425#sthash.nhy6y5pG.dpuf

Foreign investment in Israel drops by almost half in 2014

#Business

One of the report's authors suggested the sharp decline could be down to the 2014 Gaza war and an international boycott campaign

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/foreign-investment-israel-drops-almost-half-2014-1302510425#sthash.nhy6y5pG.dpuf

Foreign investment in Israel drops by almost half in 2014

#Business

One of the report's authors suggested the sharp decline could be down to the 2014 Gaza war and an international boycott campaign

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/foreign-investment-israel-drops-almost-half-2014-1302510425#sthash.nhy6y5pG.dpuf

522-Gaza is a Concentration Camp and it is an American delusion not to recognize that

Gaza is a concentration camp, and it’s an American delusion not to recognize that — Weschler - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/concentration-delusion-recognize#sthash.pfk9izAH.dpuf

523-On the One-Year Anniversary of Israel's Attack on Gaza: An Interview with Max Blumenthal

524-Israeli soldiers cheered while Palestinian bled to death under army jeep

525-Jewish settlers burn, destroy Catholic Church on the banks of the Galilee sea

526-Landgrab

527-Shrinking Palestine

528-Soldiers expel Palestinians from pool in Area A to enable settlers to bathe undisturbed

529-Tomgram: Jen Marlowe, "They Demolish and We Rebuild"

530-TRANSCRIPT: An Interview with Max Blumenthal on the One Year Anniversary of Israel's Attack on Gaza

531-Truthout Interviews Max Blumenthal About the 51-Day Israeli Assault on Gaza

532-UN Report: Israel Committed Unprecedented Devastation and Killings in 2014 Gaza War - Next step: Palestine submits thousands of pages documenting Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court; if the prosecutor fails to act, legitimacy of the court will further erode, says CCR's Michael Ratner

533-US replenishes Israel's arsenal with $1.9 billion in new weapons

534-Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel by Chris Hedges

535-Photos from Igor Bozic's post in IOUCO-International Observatory of Ukrainian Conflict

536-In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia - Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world

537-Essay: Capability-Based Planning and the Death of Military Strategy

538-Iraq War a War Crime - Pushed by Cheney Over Objections of Joint Chiefs Video – John Kiriakou on RAI(7/10)

539-Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No Doubt That Endless War Is Official US Doctrine

540-Martin O’Malley’s Link Between Climate Change and ISIS Isn’t Crazy

541-NATO Leaders Seek 40,000 Troops Along Russian Border - US Pledges Troops and Equipment to Latest Escalation

542-Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

543-Obama On Track To Drop More Bombs Than Bush

544-Retired US General Admits Military’s Role in Creating ISIS

545-We Have Failed Afghanistan Again and Again

546-Today's Civilian Victims in Yemen Will be Ignored Because U.S. and its Allies Are Responsible

547-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Washington's Great Game and Why It's Failing

548-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Theology of American National Security

549-Tomgram: David Vine, The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East

550-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Armed Violence in the Homeland

551-Tomgram: Engelhardt, What Happened to War?

552-Tomgram: Greg Grandin, How Endless War Helps Old Dixie Stay New

553-Tomgram: Nick Turse, My Very Own Veteran's Day

554-Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, The Pivot to Eurasia

555-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, What If There Is No Plan B for Iraq?

556-Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, No Lone Rangers in Drone Warfare

557-Tomgram: William Astore, "Hi, I'm Uncle Sam and I'm a War-oholic"

558-When Clinton Lied, Yugoslavia Died

559-Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

560-Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate

561-To Defend Iran Deal, Obama Boasts That He’s Bombed Seven Countries

562-America's Reckless War Against Evil: Why It's Self-Defeating And Has No End

563-Behold: How the US blew $17 billion in Afghanistan

564-Climate Change and Inequality Are Driving War and Catastrophic Conflicts from Syria to Africa

565-Documented Proof That America Created ISIS Has Emerged

566-Syrian Special Forces find NATO chemical weapons and gear in a... (video)

567-Past and Present, US Implicated in Abuses Inflicted by Iraq-Backed Militias - 'The documents show how Washington...has consistently overlooked excesses by Shi’ite militias sponsored by the Iraqi government'

568-Six Years and $17 Billion Wasted in Afghanistan with Nothing to Show for It

569-The Democrats Are Just As Crazy and Just as Warmongery as Republicans

570-Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Six Mistakes on the Road to Permanent War

571-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Shadow War and an American Drone Unit Under Wraps

572-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Who Will Fight the Islamic State?

573-We Got Scammed by Government Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

574-Why Saudi Collapse May Be Closer Than You Think: The stewardship of the new Saudi king is shaping out to be a disaster

575-U.S. wars caused refugee crisis

576-Israeli forces shoot 9 university students on Tulkarem campus

577-The world of threats to the US is an illusion

578-A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail - Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.

579-Confession of a CIA Agent: They gave us millions to dismember Yugoslavia

580-Profiting off of chaos: How the U.S. privatized its war in Afghanistan — Antony Loewenstein on “Disaster Capitalism” - Journalist Antony Loewenstein tells Salon how corporations exploit violent conflicts in Afghanistan and beyond

581-Boycotting Israel isn't anti-Semitic – how many human rights groups need to condemn it until this is clear? - Is the BDS movement singling out Israel? No – but the British government is singling it out for impunity

582-Israel is finding it harder to deny targeting Gaza infrastructure - With blackouts, food shortages and sewage in the streets, observers say the IDF either targets civilians or has terrible aim

583-Israel Wants % Billion Dollars a Year in Military Aid from the US

Israel wants $5 billion a year in military aid from the US - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/israel-billion-military/#sthash.AahoHHTI.dpuf

584-Netanyahu demands more billions from US after Iran Deal, insults US Envoy, Steals more Land

585-Roger Waters: Pink Floyd star on why his fellow musicians are terrified to speak out against Israel - Exclusive: 'If they say something they will no longer have a career – I have been accused of being a Nazi and an anti-Semite'

586-UN calls for immediate halt of destruction of Palestinian homes

587-White Phosphorous War Crimes Connect Israel To Monsanto - Although Monsanto was once the exclusive U.S.-based provider of white phosphorous to the U.S. government, Israel Chemicals, Ltd. has started supplying the deadly munition as well.

588-He’s made the Middle East worse: Let’s be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them - Decades of poorly concocted policies with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and others haunt us -- and worsen every day

589-Immunity of State Officials for War Crimes: UN Library’s Most-checked-out Book in 2015

590-Israel,Turkey Sign $1.3 Billion Gas Deal Despite Public Protest - Approval followed years of political upheaval and widespread public protest.

591-Libyan People Lash Out At Obama For Destroying Their Country

592-It was once called Armistice Day

593-Martin Luther King Jr. and Peace

594-Media Silent As US-Backed Saudi Forces Starve Half Million Yemeni Children - The United Nations warned that 8,000 children could suffer from severe malnutrition in 2016. And that’s just in one southern Yemeni city.

595-Myanmar’s Peace Prize Winner and Crimes Against Humanity - The New York Times

596-Nearly 90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not The Target - U.S. drone strikes have killed scores of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

597-Obama Never Had a Plan to End What Guantánamo Represents

598-Obama Seeking Unlimited War Powers Under Pretext of Anti-Daesh Fight | The Greanville Post • Vol. IX

599-Saudi Arabia Bombs Day Care Centre for Blind Children in Yemen, U.S Silent

600-Scrapping this crappy jet could provide the entire country with 23 years of free college | Minds

601-Study: U.S. regime has killed 20-30 million people since World War Two -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

602-SYRIA: my published articles and other musings from and on Syria (2014/2015/2016) | In Gaza

603-The greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world America isn't still at war | Trevor Timm | Opinion | The Guardian

604-The media are misleading the public on Syria - The Boston Globe

605-The Obama Administration Has Just Recklessly Escalated Its Military Confrontation With Russia | The Nation

606-The U.S. Spent a Half Billion on Mining in Afghanistan With ‘Limited Progress’ - ProPublica

607-The US is now involved in 134 wars or none, depending on your definition of 'war' | GlobalPost

608-The War in Africa the U.S. Military Won't Admit It's Fighting | Bryan Maygers

609-This graphic shows how the US defense budget dwarfs the rest of the world's

610-Timeline of CIA Interventions in Syria | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

611-To Wipe Out Terror, The US Is Now Bombing Seven Different Countries

612-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Washington's Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars | TomDispatch

613-Tomgram: Engelhardt, "The Finest Fighting Force in the History of the World" | TomDispatch

614-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences | TomDispatch

615-Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Peace Movement's War Story | TomDispatch

616-Tomgram: Nick Turse, How to Succeed at Failing, Pentagon-Style | TomDispatch

617-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, How to Resolve the ISIS Crisis | TomDispatch

618-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, American War Crimes, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | TomDispatch

619-Tomgram: Rick Shenkman, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing | TomDispatch

620-Tomgram: William Astore, Spoiling The Pentagon | TomDispatch

621-Top Veteran’s Charity Accused of Pocketing Millions in Donations | True Activist

622-U.S. killing more civilians in Iraq, Syria than it acknowledges

623-Video Catches Bureau of Land Management Employees Brag About Stealing Land from WWII Vets | The Free Thought Project

624-Washington to escalate US Mideast wars - World Socialist Web Site

625-West Media Starves Truth in Syria

626-Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public bodies and student unions | Home News | News | The Independent

627-New York State passes anti-boycott legislation | The Ugly Truth

628-Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, The Grief of Others and the Boasts of Candidates | TomDispatch

629-We’re never winning these wars: America has zero to show for its decades of bloodshed in the Middle East - Salon.com

630-5 Charts to Understand the Calamity of Ukraine's Economic Collapse

631-59 Journalists Murdered in Honduras Since Clinton-Backed Coup

632-A Peek At Empire

633-After invading Iraq 13 years ago the US is still making the same mistakes - The lead-up to war in 2003 was filled with spin and misinformation. But today, we aren’t even having the semblance of a debate about military intervention

634-51 US Diplomats Are Wrong -- Assad Regime Change by Force Would Result in Uncontrollable Anti-American Anger

635-At UNLV, whistleblowers call for accountability in military drone program

636-Bernie Sanders: 'Drones Have Done Some Good Things'

637-Best of TomDispatch: Nick Turse, From the Missing Archives of a Lost War

638-Brutal regime: Saudi Arabia strikes Yemeni market at rush hour; no military goal

639-Clinton: Destroy Syria for Israel

640-Could a Lack of Water Cause Wars? Water scarcity poses a greater risk of turmoil under global warming, the World Bank argues

641-"The Assassination Complex": Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book

642-Tomgram: Harwood and Stanley, Policing the Dystopia

643-Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification

645-Deeper and Deeper into War: Obama Authorizes More Military Force in Afghanistan - '15 years later, lives lost, billions spent...'

646-Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out Of World Humanitarian Summit, Says It No Longer Has Hope

647-During Honduras Crisis, Clinton Suggested Back Channel With Lobbyist Lanny Davis

648-World War III Has Begun

649-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Revolving Doors, Robust Rolodexes, and Runaway Generals

650-Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Tick... Tick... Tick...

651-Erik Prince: Obama and Clinton Are Complicit in Creating ISIS - The origins of Daesh, known commonly as the Islamic State or ISIS, tie back directly to Obama and Clinton policy delusions and half measures of the Iraq and Syria conflicts.

652-Even critics understate how catastrophically bad the Hillary Clinton-led NATO bombing of Libya was - The NY Times reports on Clinton's war leadership don't go far enough. Hillary's disaster in Libya should haunt her

653-Freedom Rider: Obama’s Last Gasp Imperialism

654-Press release: UN Committee Against Torture recommends 50+ measures to Israel to end its use of torture

655-Israel jails Palestinian journalist for “incitement”

656-Israel’s Unsung Protector: Obama

657-Obama signs anti-BDS bill into law

658-Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza for third day

659-Russell Tribunal Finds Evidence of Incitement to Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza

Russell Tribunal finds evidence of incitement to genocide, crimes against humanity in Gaza - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/incitement-genocide-humanity/#sthash.zxYRLB3r.dpuf

660-US Aid to Israel Jumps to $11 Million Dollars Per Day

661-WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. AND NATO GUILTY

662-An epic miscalculation on the price of a warplane is going to cost taxpayers $1.5 trillion

663-How the World Ends: Baiting Russia is Not Good Policy

664-How They Brainwash Us - The media's incessant manufacturing of consent for US foreign policies.

665-Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War - The growing scandal over cooked ISIS intelligence just got much worse. Now, analysts are saying they’re being forced out for not toeing the Obama administration’s line on the war.

666-Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine

667-Memorial Day Lesson - End War

668-The Unfolding Story Of Latin America

669-Nobody Knows the Identities of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia, but Most Are Certain They Deserved It

670-In Transparent Act, Obama Administration Erases Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes

671-Obama's Seven Slaughters: It's a Disease, Not a Doctrine

672-Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2014

673-Pentagon disciplines 16 for deadly attack on Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan

674-Pentagon To Send In Tanks And Troops To The Republic Of Georgia

675-Retired General Speaks The Truth: We Created ISIS – The Ring of Fire

676-Saudi Arabia wants US to kill 9/11 bill, threatens to dump US assets worth $750 bn - report

677-Senate Agrees: US People Can't Know Overseas Drone Death Toll - At behest of intelligence chief, Senate removes "modest" provision that would reveal number of people killed by US attacks overseas

678-Silencing America as It Prepares for War

679-Syria Elections 2016: US-NATO’s Failed Attempt to Deny the Will of the Syrian People

680-Syria Questions

681-The only chart you need to see to know that the world is upping the ante on defense spending

682-The Syria 'dissent' memo and US bureaucratic support for Kerry war strategy

683-The US Government Just Killed 150 People In A Country They Aren’t Even At War With

684-The US Is Now Involved In 134 Wars - Or none, depending on your definition of 'war'.

685-This is what climate change looks like.

686-Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, A Corporation Goes to War

687-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, America's Sinkhole Wars

688-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Presidential Wars

689-Tomgram: Andrew Cockburn, Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington

690-Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Flashpoint for the Planet

691-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Don't Blame It All on Donald Trump

692-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Done In by the American Way of War

693-Tomgram: Engelhardt, They Just Can't Stop Themselves

694-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Where Did the American Century Go?

695-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command

696-Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Challenges of 2016

697-Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, What Principles Rule the World?

698-Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars

699-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Candidates, Is America Exceptional, or Only Great?

700-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Snapchat Version of American Victory

701-Tomgram: Rory Fanning, Talking to the Young in a World That Will Never Truly Be "Postwar"

702-Tomgram: William Astore, America's Post-Democratic Military

703-Tomgram: William Astore, The End of Air Power?

704-Tomgram: William Astore, Words About War Matter

705-Tomgram: William Hartung, What a Waste, the U.S. Military

706-U.S. Delivers 3,000 Tons Of Weapons And Ammo To Al-Qaeda and Co. in Syria

707-U.S. Sets Stage for Libya-Like Regime Change in Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba”

708-US Foreign Policy in Africa and the 2016 Elections

709-US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

710-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial

711-Thanks to 'War on Whistleblowers,' US Ranks 41st on Press Freedom Index - Reporters Without Borders' annual rankings find US's relative improvement "hides overall negative trends"

712-Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars

713-We're Running Out of Water, and Consequences Could be Dire

714-Why Obama Silenced bin Laden

715-Why Western Outrage Following the Brussels Terrorist Attacks Is Useless

716-With Trump or Hillary, The Crisis in Syria Will Only Worsen

717-Writing a Blank Check on War for the President - How the United States became a prisoner of war and Congress went MIA.

718-U.S. expands secret wars in Africa

719-Julian Assange: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria

720-Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Disappear Money, Pentagon-Style

721-‘Three strikes and you’re out: Ukraine is a divided, failed, rogue state’

722-"The Assassination Complex": Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book

723-"This is Our War & It is Shameful:" Journalist Andrew Cockburn on the U.S. Role in the War in Yemen

724-“Stand by your Man”: The Hegemonic Harpies and World Domination

725-15 Years after Invasion, Afghanistan Is a Mess Nobody Talks About - Wait Til You Read about Ghost Soldiers and Other Fraud

726-27 U.S. Senators Rebel Against Arming Saudi Arabia

727-A Clinton Win Means An Expanded War in Syria

728-Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day

729-America Launched More Than Sixty Airstrikes in Six Countries Last Weekend Alone

730-An Urgently Necessary Briefing on Syria

731-Andrew Bacevich: Why Is No Candidate Offering an Alternative to Militarized U.S. Foreign Policy (YouTube)

732-Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

733-Anti-war News

734-Assange released 500,000 diplomatic cables which reveals how the CIA created ISIS

735-At Least 20 Casualties in Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen

736-Best of TomDispatch: Andrew Bacevich, Pentagon, Inc.

737-Israel Bombs Syrian Airport; Syrian Army Warns of Retaliation

738-Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says the US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure

739-Clinton Is the Most Dangerous Person Alive – An Interview with Edward S. Herman

740-Corporate Media is Lying to You — Syrian Army Freed Aleppo, There is No Genocide

741-Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Obama's Last Chance

742-Democrats And Their Chilling Apathy Toward War

743-Did Obama’s election kill the antiwar movement?

744-Diplomatic Frauds: Kerry, Power, Kirby Lying and Shilling for ‘Body Bags’ and War in Syria

745-Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says - Research provides first deep look at how global warming may already influence armed conflict.

746-Ethnic Bloodshed Linked to Climate Change

747-Examining International Sanctions: The Case of Eritrea

748-Eye on Media: CBS selling us the White Helmets and more Syria lies—again, and again

749-US Foreign Policy: Killing People to Save Them - What we have seen is the Middle East and large parts of North Africa on the receiving end of death, destruction and displacement over the last 15 years.

750-Freedom Rider: Standing with Syria

751-Gaza Picture

752-Gaza quotes by Israel

753-2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election - Unearthed tape: 'We should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win'

754-As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More

755-BBC forced to admit it misled over Palestine

756-Gaza is a concentration camp, and it is an American delusion not to recognize that - Weschler

Gaza is a concentration camp, and it’s an American delusion not to recognize that — Weschler - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/concentration-delusion-recognize/#sthash.xcXsrQ7l.dpuf

757-Israeli think tank: Don’t destroy ISIS; it’s a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria - Head of a right-wing think tank says the existence of ISIS serves a "strategic purpose" in the West's interests

758-UN Committee Against Torture recommends 50+ measures to Israel to end its use of torture

759-Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, The Death of the Two-State Solution

760-UN names Israel as world’s top human rights violator

761-Western Leaders Grow Deaf to the Pleas of Palestinians

762-Assange:Forget Russia,The Real Threat to America comes from Israel and the Israel Lobby

763-Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia - After the British report exposing falsehoods to justify invading Iraq in 2003, a new U.K. inquiry found similar misconduct in the 2011 attack on Libya, but no lessons are learned for the West's new propaganda about Russia

764-Getting Real News From Aleppo - With Vanessa Beeley (YouTube)

765-Hands Off Syria!

766-Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath

767-Hillary Clinton Wants to Destroy Syria Just Like Libya - Attempting to enforce a 'no-fly zone' in Syria is a recipe for disaster

768-Hillary Clinton's Axis of Evil - Let’s cut to the chase; Hillary Clinton is ready to go to war against Russia in Syria – with inbuilt, potentially terrifying, thermonuclear consequences.

769-Hillary Clinton’s Six Foreign-Policy Catastrophes

770-Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention

771-Media Blackout: Hillary Calls for Killing 'a Lot of Civilians,' Starting War with Russia

772-In A Short Speech Putin Strips Down Naked EVERY Dirty Game The US Played: ISIS, Syria And More…

773-Indeed, Western Civilization is in a War

774-Is the Military Really “Depleted” After Years of Record-High Spending?

775-It’s 2016: Do You Know Where Your Bombs Are Falling?

776-Journalist Eva Bartlett: “I’m Back From Syria. The Media Is Lying To You!”

777-Julian Assange: Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria

778-Kosovo: An Evil Little War (Almost) All US Candidates Liked

779-LAME DUCK: New Obama Executive Action Opens Door to Unlimited Arms for Salafi Terrorists in Syria

780-Leaked recording proves John Kerry pushed for massive war in Syria, while Saudi Arabia and Turkey funded Al Qaeda

781-Making Violence Visible: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StoptheBleeding Africa

782-Media misinformation and the US election’s war agenda

783-Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria

784-Media Silent As US-Backed Saudi Forces Starve Half Million Yemeni Children

785-Milosevic Exonerated by International Tribunal, Media Is Silent - The last communist leader of Yugoslavia was compared to Hitler as his country was sanctioned, torn apart and thousands killed by the U.S. and NATO.

786-The Immense Power We Must Confront

787-Fact: Establishment Dems Are So Awful They’ve Made The GOP The Default Anti-War Party

788-Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

789-OBAMA and CLINTON APPROVED 20% OF U.S. URANIUM SALE TO RUSSIA. Podesta Lobbied for Sale to Kremlin (YouTube)

790-Obama and Hillary DID Found ISIS - This 2012 US Government Memo Proves It: And the media are lying about it. "Let’s put into broader context the Fourth Estate’s malfeasance in not connecting the 2012 DIA report to Trump’s accusation..."

791-Obama Attempting to Destroy Syria before January 20th

792-Obama Destroyed Libya

793-Obama directs Pentagon to target al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, one of the most formidable forces fighting Assad

794-Obama Has Just Turned Yemen into Another Middle East Quagmire

795-Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.

796-Obama Signs his Last Pentagon Budget: A Legacy of War and Reaction

797-Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

798-Obama’s achievement: Whitewashing permanent warfare with eloquence

799-Obama’s Bombing Legacy

800-Obama’s Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change (as related to war)

801-Obama’s Legacy: War Without End

802-The War Nerd: Everything you know about Crimea is wrong(-er)

803-Poking The Bear: Dems & Reps Court War With Russia By Supporting Syrian No-Fly Zone - Last month, a top U.S. general warned that instituting a no-fly zone in Syria ‘would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia,’ a move that could ultimately provoke a devastating nuclear confrontation between superpowers.

804-Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost Nearly $5 Trillion (and Counting): Report: As nation remembers 9/11 victims, report calculates cost of military response to attacks

805-Presidential candidate Clinton says removing Assad in Syria is No. 1 priority

806-Provoking Nuclear War by Media

807-Report: Nearly $5 Trillion Spent on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars So Far

808-Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

809-Rwanda, the Clinton Dynasty, and the Case of Dr. Léopold Munyakazi

810-Saudi Arabia Bombing Yemen To Quell Demonstrations for Democracy - The Saudi-led coalition is not just trying to deter Houthi leaders; they want to ensure that pro-democratic Yemeni demonstrations don't touch the rest of the Arabian peninsula, says Bilal Zenab Ahmed of Souciant.com

811-Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story

812-Who Backs ISIS and How

813-A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels (TED Talks)

814-Ten Times Worse Than Hell: A Syrian Doctor on the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Aleppo

815-The Business of War is the Cause of War

816-The Deteriorating Situation in Ethiopia

817-The Fake Campaign to Blame ‘the Russians’

818-The Ghosts of Direct Action

819-The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World

820-The Imperative of De-Demonizing Vladimir Putin - The personal vilification of Russia’s president is propelling the new Cold War toward hot war, poisoning American politics, and degrading US media.

821-The List: 27 Countries Destroyed By Hillary Clinton's Neocon 'Hubris' - She's a one-woman global neocon wrecking ball

822-The lying campaign on Russian hacking

823-The media are misleading the public on Syria

824-The Obama Legacy Part VIII: The War Summation

825-Dennis Kucinich: Push for ‘New Cold War’ Behind Effort Against Michael Flynn

826-Trump: Don't Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy

827-The UN’s Next Genocide in Somalia

828-The War on Yemen and ‘International Order’

829-The world is in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II

830-One in three Saudi air raids on Yemen hit civilian sites, data shows - Exclusive: Pressure on UK and US roles in war set to increase as survey shows school buildings and hospitals among targets

831-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Swamp of War

832-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Mission Unaccomplished, 15 Years Later

833-Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Unipolar No More

834-Tomgram: Engelhardt, A 9/11 Retrospective: Washington's 15-Year Air War - Bombs Away! Their Precision Weapons and Ours

835-Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Living Nightmare of Intelligence Groupthink - The Future by Committee: The Collective "Wisdom" of the U.S. Intelligence Community

836-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Crimes Against the Future - The World After Me: Eternal Wartime in America

837-Tomgram: Engelhardt, War, Peace, and Absurdity

838-Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, You Don't Leave Home Without It

839-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Killing People, Breaking Things, and America's Winless Wars

840-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Revolving Doors, Robust Rolodexes, and Runaway Generals

841-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Special Ops, Shadow Wars, and the Golden Age of the Gray Zone - The Year of the Commando: U.S. Special Operations Forces Deploy to 138 Nations, 70% of the World's Countries

842-Boots On The Ground: US Sends Troops To Syria’s Manbij

843-Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Perpetual Killing Field

844-Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Pivots to Africa and That Continent Goes Down the Drain

845-Tomgram: Nick Turse, What the U.S. Military Doesn't Know (and Neither Do You)

846-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Class of 2017 -- So Sorry!

847-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers?

848-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of Trump and His National Security State Critics

849-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, War Without End

850-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Yet Another Undeclared U.S. War

851-Tomgram: William Astore, In Afghanistan, America's Biggest Foe Is Self-Deception

852-Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Arm a "Volatile" Planet

853-Tomgram: William Hartung, The Doctrine of Armed Exceptionalism

854-Tomgram: William Hartung, The Generals vs. the Ideologues or the Generals and the Ideologues?

855-Tomgram: William Hartung, Trump for the Defense

856-Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification

857-Two children killed in US drone strike on Yemen

858-U.S. Military Carries Out 30 Airstrikes in Yemen

859-Ukraine and the Dumbed-Down New York Times Columnist

860-UN Admits Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak for First Time Ever

861-UN Peace Council: The US media is lying to the American people. The war in Syria is not a civil war, it’s a proxy invasion by the United States

862-Unprecedented number of US drone and air strikes hit Yemen

863-Investigating the Saudi Government 9/11 Connection – Interview with former US Senator Bob Graham

864-US Media Silence as Pentagon Deploys Rangers Armoured Regiment on the Ground in Syria

865-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Surging to Failure

866-Unworthy Victims: Houthis in Yemen and Hutus in Burundi

867-US Drone Strike Kills Nine Civilians in Mosul Attack Destroyed Home, Killing Entire Family

868-US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims - As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans

869-US Invades Syria, and Warns Russia

870-US Lawmakers Introduce ‘Stop Arming Terrorists Act’ In Answer To Obama Decision To Expand Military Support To ‘Rebels’ In Syria

871-US Officially Enters War with Yemen Amid Charges of Saudi War Crimes - U.S. launched strikes against Houthi rebels for first time just as Human Rights Watch accused Saudi-led coalition of war crimes for funeral bombing

872-US Senator: "We Have Never Done Anything More Loathsome or Despicable Than What We're Doing in Syria."

873-US to Keep Bombing Syria Despite Civilian Deaths and Humanitarian Pleas: Asked if airstrikes would pause, chief spokesman for U.S. military in Iraq and Syria said, "No. Operations continue against [ISIS.]"

874-US-led coalition admits 54 civilian deaths in Syria, Iraq strikes

875-Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

876-Washington Post Stirs Fear After False Report of Power Grid Hack by Russia - Story quickly falls apart after investigation finds claims to be inaccurate

877-WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived

878-Julian Assange has confirmed that the U.S. Government is lying to the American people about Russia

879-We finally know what Hillary Clinton knew all along – US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding Isis. There is a bizarre discontinuity between what the Obama administration knew about the jihadis and what they would say in public.

880-U.S. Bombing Yemen Now, War Machine Churns On (YouTube)

881-Why won't anyone admit that America is fighting 5 wars?

882-WikiLeaks Exposes Hillary’s Stunning Connection to ISIS — Mainstream Media Blackout Ensues

883-WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath

884-WikiLeaks: US, Israel, And Saudi Arabia Planned Overthrow Of Syrian Govt. In 2006: Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

885-Will U.S. Troops Become the Ethiopian Government’s Thugs?

886-With a show of Stars and Stripes, U.S. forces in Syria try to keep warring allies apart

887-Without Providing Any Evidence of Hacking, Obama to Announce ‘Punishment’ Plan for Russia

888-Yes, Obama and Clinton Created ISIS – Too Bad Trump Can’t Explain How It Happened

889-"National Bird" a documentary on drone warfare available on Netflix as of May 2017

890-Anatomy of Failure - Why America Loses Every War It Starts by Harlan K. Ullman ISBN 978-1-68247-225-5

891-Permanent State of Emergency

892-Destabilizing the Middle East (Yet More)
The Saudi Regime Is Playing Donald Trump With Potentially Disastrous Consequences

893-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, All War All the Time, or War American-Style

894-A Wide World of Winless War
Globe-Trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces Already Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017

895-Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Summer of Love and the Winter of National Insecurity

896-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Fighting the War You Know (Even If It Won't Work)

897-Color Revolution Comes Home?

898-WikiLeaks Drops CHILLING New Video – Every American Should See This (VIDEO)

899-“Having America Care About You Is Not Necessarily a Good Thing” The war in Afghanistan is already the longest in US history. And now Trump is considering sending more troops. A conversation with Anand Gopal and May Jeong

900-Fred Fuentes: Media Lies About Venezuela

901-Yemen: The War That Isn’t Happening Even as It’s Happening

902-What’s Really Going on In Venezuela

903-US Expands Military Footprint in Syria to EIGHT Bases, ‘Modifies’ Kobani Air Base

904-U.N. Suspending Plan for Cholera Vaccination in Yemen

905-Top 10 Lies, Damn Lies, And Lies About Syria

906-Tomgram: William Hartung, The Trillion-Dollar National Security Budget

907-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Is Anything the Moral Equivalent of War?

908-Tomgram: Nick Turse, Counting Coups

909-Tomgram: Laura Gottesdiener, The Wrath of the U.S. Along the Euphrates River

910-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Bombing the Rubble - Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh

911-Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames

912-The World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis Is Basically Being Blacked Out by Western Media - The United States is fueling a conflict that has resulted in war crimes and famine.

913-The Empire Files: The U.S. School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads (You Tube video)

914-Ten Problems with Anti-Russian Obsession

915-Shock Horror! CIA Director Admits US Trying to Overthrow Venezuelan Government

916-“Russiagate” Narrative Crumbling With Seymour Hersh Phone Call, But Damage Already Done

The “Russiagate” narrative that the Russians hacked into private emails to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election has effectively recast international relations. But it has been coming apart and a just-released recording of a Seymour Hersh phone call may be a fatal blow.

917-Two Words That Sum up the Media’s Disingenuous Outrage of What’s Happening Venezuela …. Saudi Arabia

918-CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat

919-After Hersh Investigation, Media Connive in Propaganda War on Syria

920-DNC Makes Unbelievably Feeble Response To Latest Russiagate Debunking Evidence

921-Media silent as former CIA analyst destroys the claim that Russia hacked the US election [VIDEO]

922-Julian Assange asks why the US said nothing when Obama supported Ukrainian neo-Nazis

923-Is Yemen Too Much for the World to Take?

924-Why Palestine is Still the Issue

925-Palestine Remains 'the Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time'

926-Israel seizes solar panels donated to Palestinians by Dutch government - Israeli authorities insist that stop-work orders were issued before soldiers carried out raid on solar farm which allegedly did not have proper building permits

927-How Long Could Israel Survive Without America?

928-Former Congressman James Traficant said the Israel lobby controls Congress, the White House, U.S. foreign policy, and mainstream media.

929-Which will it be: Unequivocal support for Israel or our First Amendment rights?

930-Schumer, Gillibrand Co-Sponsor Senate Bill That Would Make Boycotting Israel A Felony

931-Democrats Join Republicans In Bill Criminalizing Speech Critical Of Israel - I cannot imagine any reason for this egregious offense against the First Amendment except to please AIPAC and their AIPAC associated donors.

932-45 senators support bill that makes boycotting Israel a crime: The American Civil Liberties Union calls the bill a 'direct violation of the First Amendment'

933-BREAKING: Israeli soldiers on rooftop throw stun grenades into defenseless crowd

934-The Palestinian Information Center

935-Instances of the U.S. Overthrowing or attempting to Overthrow a Foreign Government since World War II

936-Climate change and the military-industrial complex

937-Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122 - Cold War U.S. Interrogation Manuals Counseled "Coercive Techniques" - Cheney Informed of "Objectionable" Interrogation Guides in 1992 - "Inconsistent with U.S. Government Policy" - National Security Archive Posts CIA Training Manuals from 60s, 80s, and Investigative memos on earlier controversy on human rights abuses

938-Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage of Venezuela

939-1 Million Malnourished Children At Risk Of Cholera In Yemen

940-ConocoPhillips Awarded US$2bn for 2007 Oil Field Expropriation, Venezuela Claims Victory - Venezuela claims the award ordered by the ICC is lower than the amount originally offered by Chavez as compensation and is only 10% of what the oil giant filed for.

941-‘CIA and Mossad created ISIS’, says Julian Assange as Wikileaks releases 500k US cables

942-“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel

943-89% of Senate Democrats Help Pass The $696.5B Defense Bill

944-Afghanistan: Why We Won’t Leave

945-America Can't Quit Its Afghan War Addiction - It's costing lives, not to mention billions in badly needed funds.

946-Autopilot Wars: Sixteen Years, But Who’s Counting?

947-Best of TomDispatch: Tom Engelhardt, Through the Gates of Hell

948-Bombshell Report Confirms US Coalition Struck A Deal With ISIS

949-Book Review by Sondra Miller: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

950-Breaking: US Occupation of Syria Now Official

951-Caught in a lie, US & allies bomb Syria the night before international inspectors arrive

952-Climate change and international conflict - Talk of potential war is grabbing headlines with growing concerns over North Korea's nuclear program. Talk of eventual 'climate wars' is on a far-different schedule, but some book authors say it's a question of when and not of whether.

953-Clinton Emails on Libya Expose The Lie of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

954-Congress Votes to Say It Hasn’t Authorized War in Yemen, Yet War in Yemen Goes On

955-Tomgram: John Feffer, The Real Disuniting of America

956-Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification

957-Obama’s Hidden Role In Worsening Climate Change

958-Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Face of "War" at Home

959-Vietnam Full Disclosure

960-Every Moment We Focus On Russiagate, The World Comes Closer To Annihilation

961-Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country

962-From W to Obama to Trump, the Policy Has Been Endless War - Trump’s version of global strategy is turning out to be more of the same.

963-How Israel and its partisans work to censor the Internet

964-As Thousands Left Homeless from Hurricanes, Trump Sends $75 Million MORE to Israel

965-Assange:Forget Russia,The Real Threat to America comes from Israel and the Israel Lobby

966-Australian film ‘Stone Cold Justice’ on Israel’s torture of Palestinian children

967-Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel

968-Congress’ Gargantuan New Military Spending Bill Forks Over Unprecedented Sums to Israel and Ukraine

969-Death Toll at Gaza Protests Continues to Rise as Israel Rejects Calls for Investigation Into 'Massacres' - Videos appear to show peaceful protesters being shot for no discernible reason.

970-Despite Latest Massacre in Gaza, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism

971-For Israel, There’s Little Political Cost to Killing Palestinians

972-Instead of Brokering Peace, Jared Kushner Keeps Guzzling Jet Fuel on His Way to the Middle East - The story always ends the same: Israel wins, Palestinians lose and other Arab leaders take care of their real interests.

973-Israel Confirms Video of Sniper Shooting Unarmed Palestinian, as Soldiers Cheer, Is Genuine

974-Israel destroys Palestinian classrooms ahead of first day of school - Four Palestinian communities have seen their educational facilities – donated by international bodies and NGOs – destroyed on grounds they have been built without permission

975-Israel has arrested 800 Palestinian children since start of 2017

976-Israel’s Online Shadow Operations - Numerous well funded, organized projects by and for Israel work to flood social media with pro-Israel propaganda, while blocking facts Israel dislikes. The projects utilize Israeli soldiers, students, American teens and others, and range from infiltrating Wikipedia to influencing YouTube. Some operate out of Jewish Community Centers in the U.S.

977-Israeli ambassador pushes potential war to elite U.S. powerbrokers

978-Israeli Army’s Lies Can No Longer Salvage Its Image

979-Norman Finkelstein’s new book on Gaza is a meticulous account of Israel’s crimes

980-NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians

981-In ‘NYT,’ Israeli minister calls BDS activists ‘enemy soldiers’ and compares them to Nazis

982-Palestine Faces Genocide – Israel Deserves Its Pariah Status

983-Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel Became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship

984-That "Israel Lobby" Controversy? History has proved us right.

That ‘Israel Lobby’ Controversy? History Has Proved Us Right

985-The Trump Team Definitely Colluded With a Foreign Power—Just Not the One You Think: Why are the media paying scant attention to Michael Flynn’s admissions about Israel?

986-U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel

987-US Blocks UN Investigation into Israeli Military Killings in Gaza

988-Despite 200 Israeli Nukes Aimed At Iran, US To Fund Israel Defense To Tune Of $700M

989-What’s in Al Jazeera’s undercover film on the US Israel lobby?

990-When “Progressives” Make Palestinian Rights Taboo, They Are Coddling the Far Right

991-Worldwide Protests Await Britain’s Celebration Of Balfour Anniversary

992-General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years (YouTube)

993-How American Generals Have Paved the Way for Permanent War in Afghanistan and Across the Globe

994-How U.S.-Saudi Marriage Gave Birth to Jihad

995-Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior

996-In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA

997-Pouring trillions into the black hole of war while our national infrastructure continues to decay - Pouring more and more trillions into the black hole of war must come to an end before the condition of America’s infrastructure becomes virtually irreversible.

998-Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study

999-Iraq: US military admits failures to monitor over $1 billion worth of arms transfers

1000-Ken Burns' New Vietnam War Series Teaches a Flawed, Misleading Lesson: The new film distorts what scholars, veterans and antiwar activists alike know about the war and its aftermath.

1001-Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It’s Getting Worse

1002-Masters of War: Senate Defense Budget Set to Exceed One Third of Global Military Spending: The Senate passed a $700 billion defense policy bill on Monday, exceeding what even Trump requested.

1003-Military Spending Is Already Bankrupting America - Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $1.8 trillion in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – that’s $8.3 million per hour.

1004-More Holes in Russia-gate Narrative

1005-More than 50,000 Yemeni children 'will die by the end of the year'

1006-The Biggest Secret - My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror

1007-New Defense Strategy: War With Great Nations & Arms Race

1008-Newsletter: As US Empire Fails, Trump Expands A Quagmire

1009-Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People: Opinion

1010-Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

1011-Pentagon pays Off Sports Teams

1012-Pentagon Papers

1013-Behind the Guise of Adversarial Journalism, CNN’s Jake Tapper Is Taking America to War

1014-The Silencing of Dissent

1015-Gerald Feierstein, a Gulf-Funded Expert Pushing Catastrophic War on Yemen, Appears to Have Lied to Congress - A widely quoted Middle East Institute director is paid to advance the U.S.-Gulf war on Yemen.

1016-NYT Laments ‘Forever Wars’ Its Editorials Helped Create

1017-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The CIA and Me

1018-Gaza now has a toxic ‘biosphere of war’ that no one can escape

1019-Israel accused of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza: Human Rights Watch report claims Israel committed war crimes in its use of air-burst white phosphorus artillery shells

1020-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Disappearance, a Body, and What It Takes to Make the News

1021-Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela? A right-wing insurgency, with the United States' backing, threatens a fragile democracy.

1022-Pundits And Politicians Are Tacitly Admitting That They Lied About Russia

1023-Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War is a Bitter One

1024-Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup Or Invasion Of Venezuela Next?

1025-Ron Paul Reminds Americans the US Military is Occupying 53 of 54 African Nations

1026-Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact: From accusations of Trump campaign collusion to Russian Facebook ad buys, the media has substituted hype for evidence.

1027-Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

1028-Seymour Hersh: US Lied About Syrian Chemical Attack Then Bombed Them Anyway

1029-Stumbling Blocks: Tim Kaine and the Bipartisan Abettors of Atrocity

1030-Syria: Nearly 1,000 Civilians Reportedly Killed During U.S.-Led Offensive in Raqqa

1031-The Killing of History

1032-The United States May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen - The Saudi air campaign is targeting schools, hospitals, markets—and US military support makes it all possible.

1033-The US Has Soldiers Deployed In Almost Every Country On Earth

1034-The Voiceless Left Stands Before The Monster Of History - Rumours of war and the lexicon of war permeate the culture of empires, and the US empire is not an exception.

1035-The War on Terror Has Created 6500% More Terrorism

1036-The Cities at Risk of Climate-Driven Conflict

1037-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, A New Age of Sea Power?

1038-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat

1039-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Global War of 2030

1040-Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, Washington's Drug of Choice in the War on Terror

1041-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Country Addicted to War

1042-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Memo to the Publisher of the New York Times

1043-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Creating a Perpetual War Machine

4044-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, How We Learned Not To Care About America's Wars

1045-Tomgram: Ann Jones, When Will They Ever Learn?

1046-Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, In Present American Wars, Repeating Past Mistakes

1047-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Buttering Up the Pentagon

1048-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Cleaning House, Enabling War

1049-Retired US Colonel: Israel Is Dragging the United States Into World War III

1050-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Embracing Our Inner Empire

1051-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Hail, (Donald) Caesar!

1052-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Putting the "War" in the "War on Terror"

1053-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Three Administrations, One Standard Playbook

1054-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, War Making in the Age of the Imperial Presidency

1055-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Whose Side Are You On?

1056-Tomgram: Engelhardt, America Last?

1057-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Doing Bin Laden's Bidding

1058-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Nixon's Children - "Tell Me how This Ends?" David Petraeus Finally answers His Own Question

1059-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Seeing Our Wars for the First Time - 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror

1060-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Age of Unintended Consequences

1061-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Tweeting While the Planet Burns

1062-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to the Post-American World

1063-Tomgram: John Feffer, Avoiding War with Pyongyang

1064-Tomgram: Michael Klare, Militarizing America's Energy Policy

1065-Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New "Long War"

1066-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Red Scare in the Gray Zone

1067-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Wider World of War

1068-Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Coming Year in Special Ops

1069-Tomgram: Stephanie Savell, The Hidden Costs of America's Wars

1070-Tomgram: William Astore, Taking War Off Its Pedestal

1071-Tomgram: William Astore, The Fog of War in America

1072-Tomgram: William Astore, The Superpower That Fought Itself -- And Lost

1073-Tomgram: William D. Hartung, 2018 Looks Like an Arms Bonanza

1074-Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Wield Influence and Sell Weaponry in Washington

1075-Tomgram: William Hartung, Selling Arms as if There Were No Tomorrow

1076-Tomgram: William Hartung, The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers

1077-Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Last Men Standing Victory at last! In America's Wars, Failure is the New Success

1078-U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds

1079-US has no evidence of Syrian use of sarin gas, Mattis says

1080-US Military Presence In 53 of 54 African Countries

1081-US Provides Military Aid To More Than 70 Percent Of World’s Dictatorships

1082-US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World's Dictatorships

1083-We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001 - 15 years after the invasion of Iraq, what are the costs?

1084-When It Comes to the War in the Greater Middle East, Maybe We’re the Bad Guys

1085-When Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous

1086-Why Americans Support Perpetual Wars

1087-Why Trump's New Strategy for Afghanistan Is the Disaster You'd Expect It to Be: A battlefield for an endless American war.

1088-Washington Post Pushes More Dubious Russia-bashing

1089-Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?

1090-Highlights from Conference on No Foreign Bases, Jan. 12-14, 2018 (YouTube)

1091-Best of TomDispatch: William Astore, A Military Bemedaled, Bothered, and Beleaguered

1092-U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds

1093-Best of TomDispatch: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire

1094-‘NYT’ columnist says killing Palestinian civilians is… good for Palestinians

1095-As IDF Uses Gaza Protesters for Shoot-to-Maim Target Practice, Israel Argues Human Rights Don’t Apply to this “War” The manner in which protesters, including children, have been injured – live ammunition fired at the groin, neck, limbs, and abdomen – suggests that Israeli troops intentionally aim to inflict maximum physical harm on the civilian participants in the marches.

1096-Democrats Join Republicans In Bill Criminalizing Speech Critical Of Israel I cannot imagine any reason for this egregious offense against the First Amendment except to please AIPAC and their AIPAC associated donors.

1097-This is why Gazans won't back down

1098-High Alert For Palestinian Slaughter & Conflict With Iran

1099-Irish lawmakers call for boycott of Israel Two European Parliament lawmakers from Ireland support boycotting Israel following Eurovision victory.

1100-Israel Begins Bombing Syrian Army Minutes After US Pulls Out of Iran Deal

1101-Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public bodies and student unions Critics say move amounts to a 'gross attack on democratic freedoms'

1102-Tomgram: Shammalah and Marlowe, The Return of the Women of Gaza

1103-US blocks United Nations call for independent probe into Gaza deaths

1104-US State Passes Law Defining Any Criticism of Israel as ‘Anti-Semitic’ Just As They Kill 60 Civilians As many Americans criticize the number of civilian deaths on the Gaza Strip, a state has passed a measure labeling criticism of Israel as "anti-Semitism."

1105-With All Eyes on Gaza, Israel Falls Back on the Hamas Card When other excuses collapse to the honest lens of public transparency, the Hamas card is predictably played with almost sneering contempt for the world’s ability to pierce half-truths.

1106-Hizbollah’s Victory and the U.S.-Iran Conflict

1107-How the FBI and CIA Restarted the Cold War to Protect Themselves

1108-Media Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections Amid Complete Unanimity Of Outlook

1109-Militarism Mapped

1110-Military Spending Is Already Bankrupting America Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $1.8 trillion in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – that’s $8.3 million per hour.

1111-Of Fake News and History Suborned (In War and Peace) by Greg Maybury

1112-Russia-gate’s Shaky Foundation

1113-Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad

1114-The Crazy Amount of Money the Military Gives to the NFL

1115-The Foundation For International Justice Is Anti-Imperialism

1116-The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)

1117-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Not So Great Wars, Theirs and Ours

1118-Tomgram: Ben Freeman and William Hartung, A Saudi Love Affair in Washington

1119-Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine An Empire of Nothing at All?

1120-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremists "R" Us

1121-Tomgram: Making Sense of America's Empire of Chaos

1122-Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is a War With China on the Horizon?

1123-Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Road to Hell in the Middle East

1124-Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Grim Inheritance

1125-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, "We Will Always Be Confronted by U.S. Power"

1126-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East

1127-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Recognizing the Camel's Nose

1128-Tomgram: Stephanie Savell, How America's Wars Fund Inequality at Home

1129-Tomgram: William Astore, Enabling Armageddon

1130-US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of the World’s Dictatorships

1131-40 Yemeni Children Dead by U.S.-Made Bomb? Outrage Mounts over U.S. Role in Airstrike on School Bus

1132-How Military Operations in Somalia 25 Years Ago Influence Operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen Today

1133-The Endlessly Repeating War in Afghanistan

1134-Tomgram: Engelhardt, America's (Near) Thirty Years' War

1135-What You Are Not Being Told About the Afghanistan War (YouTube)

1136-All Wars Are Illegal, So What Do We Do About It?

1137-Best of TomDispatch: Nick Turse, From the Missing Archives of a Lost War (Vietnam)

1138-Germany denies free speech on Israel’s crimes

1139-Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, Was Oslo Doomed From the Start?

1140-Pentagon says war in Afghanistan costs taxpayers $45 billion per year

1141-The Sinister Reason the U.S. Persists in Waging Losing Wars

1142-The US-Led Global War on Terrorism Has Succeeded... In Creating More Global Terrorism Since 9/11, the regions where the U.S. military has been most active—countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia—have seen a five-fold increase in violent attacks

1143-Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, Misremembering Vietnam

1144-Tomgram: Ben Freeman, The Saudi Lobby Juggernaut

1145-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Backfire, a Generation of American Folly

1146-Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Global War to Infinity and Beyond

1147-Tomgram: Engelhardt, Anniversaries That Never Will Be

1148-Tomgram: Engelhardt, In Search of the Victories People Don't Even Know About

1149-Tomgram: Michael Klare, On the Road to World War III?

1150-Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The American War in Yemen

1151-Tomgram: Rory Fanning, Will the War Stories Ever End?

1152-Tomgram: William Astore, The Pentagon Has Won the War that Matters

1153-US Has Spent $5,900,000,000,000 on War Since 2001: Study

1154-US wars claim soaring civilian casualties in Yemen and Afghanistan

1155-Yemen’s Descent Into Hell: a Saudi-American War of Terror

1156-The INF Treaty and the crises of arms control

1157-Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Rule Number One in Warfare: Know Your Enemy - Our Man in Riyadh

1158-Marc Lamont Hill UN Speech on Gaza that got him fired (YouTube)

1159-How The American Oligarchy Gets Society To Accept Endless War

1160-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Grandmasters of the Universe Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power

1161-Yes, What Israel Is Doing To Palestinians Is Actually Genocide.

1162-Bloody Loss For US: “We can’t Beat Taliban” – NATO General

1163-Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela

1164-Facts Don’t Interfere With Propaganda Blitz Against Venezuela’s Elected President

1165-How Much Does The U.S. Pay For NATO?

1166-Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will.

1167-Open Letter by Over 70 Scholars and Experts Condemns US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela

1168-Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to More Wars and Refugees

1169-Jeremy Corbyn: “The future of Venezuela is a matter for the Venezuelans”

1170-Stein / Baraka in Solidarity with Venezuela and Maduro!

1171-The Article Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Share: Venezuela Is Not Alone

1172-The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

1173-The Trump Administration’s Africa Policy

1174-Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO

1175-Trump’s new nuclear weapon has entered production

1176-US-Led Coup In Venezuela: The Plot Thickens

1177-Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens

1178-Venezuela: What Activists Need To Know About The US-Led Coup

1179-Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt

1180-WikiLeaks Tweets Army Manual Detailing How US Weaponized Banking Cartel to Take Down Nations The "U.S. Coup Manual" details how financial institutions like the World Bank and IMF are used as "financial weapons" used by the US to bring non-compliant nations to their knees.

1181-New York Times Supports False Trump Claims About An "Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program" That Does Not Exist

1182-'Unprecedented, Wasteful, and Obscene': House Approves $1.48 Trillion Pentagon Budget

1183-‘The Afghan Government Is as Corrupt as Governments Come’

1184-‘This Is the Latest Chapter of a Long History of US Betrayal of Kurds’

1185-“A Shameful Week for the U.S.”: Trump Admin Guts U.N. Resolution to End Rape as Weapon of War

1186-An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela: Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup (YouTube)

1187-Afghanistan Papers Proves U.S. Invasion Was Built on Lies, Deceit and Confusion

1188-As Conflict With Iran Escalates, Path To Peace Can Be Found

1189-Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has Gone

1190-Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal "Bolivia's lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals."

1191-Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Little Justification

1192-Empires Are A Secret Until They Start Falling

1193-Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela There are three things that seem to provoke the ornery United States into overthrowing or bringing down a foreign government, no matter how many innocent civilians may die in the process

1194-Trump, Obama, and Syria

1195-From Coup Leaders to Con Artists

1196-AOC Is Right About Aid to Israel Israel regularly violates human rights, murders journalists, and is now becoming part of a global far-right alliance. Cutting aid to the country should be “on the table” — to say the least.

1197-Israel accused of silencing opposition to West Bank occupation as it expels Human Rights Watch researcher

1198-U.N. panel says Israeli troops "intentionally shot children" in Gaza border protests

1199-Michelle Alexander explodes an open secret in the ‘NYT’: progressives keep quiet about Palestine out of fear for their careers

1200-Once again, ‘NYT’ distorts the news, dishonestly making Palestinians the aggressor and Israel the victim

1201-View the Frontline Documentary on Gaza that PBS pulled

1202-How the Western media support state terror – while millions die

1203-How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11

1204-Human Rights Watch Supported US-backed far-right Coup in Bolivia, whitewashes massacre of indigenous protestors

1205-Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is. If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration “bumbled” into one.

1206-It Looks Like Another Failed US Coup in Venezuela

1207-Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will.

1208-Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted

1209-Mike Pence Confirms: 'We Are With' Coup Plotters in Venezuela The Vice President's affirmation of U.S. support was echoed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton

1210-North Korea Law of Journalism Strikes Again as Envoy Rises From Dead

1211-Now the truth emerges: how the US fueled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

1212-NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda

1213-Pew report: Most veterans say the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were not worth fighting

1214-Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America

1215-Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup

1216-Jeremy Corbyn: “The future of Venezuela is a matter for the Venezuelans”

1217-Protection Of Venezuelan Embassy Continues, Opposition To US Coup Builds

1218-New WikiLeaks documents expose doctoring of chemical weapons report to justify 2018 US attack on Syria

1219-Reckless US Actions Fire Up The Antiwar Movement

1220-Report Finds US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths

1221-Rising Resistance And Solidarity In The Americas

1222-Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans

1223-South Korea signs defense agreement with China after Trump's negotiators walk out on US-Korea talks

1224-Stop the U.S. drive to war against Iran!

1225-Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried By Reuters for Over a Month

1226-The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work

1227-The real outrage of the Afghanistan war papers that no one wants to talk about

1228-The US Must Grow Up And Respect Iranian Independence

1229-The White House Once Labeled Them Terrorists. Now They're Being Called Iran’s Next Government

1230-The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

1231-They Lied to Us All Along, We Knew It, and the Afghanistan Papers Prove It

1232-Trump’s Democratic Opposition Endorses His Coup Attempt in Venezuela

1233-Uniting To Protect Venezuela And Stop The US War Machine

1234-US Chose ‘The Violent And Illegal Path’ Against Peace Activists, Embassy Protector Tells The Canary

1235-US Foreign Policy Exposed

1236-US Government Narrative blaming Iran for oil tanker attacks falls apart in hours

1237-US government spent over $500m on fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos that tracked location of viewers

1238-America has spent $5.9 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says

1239-US Media Erase Years of Chavismo’s Gains

1240-US Out Of Syria And The Middle East

1241-US Provides Military Aid To More Than 70 Percent Of World’s Dictatorships About three-quarters of the world’s dictatorships currently receive military assistance from the United States. This is a strange record for a nation that consistently justifies its sweeping foreign interventions as aimed at “promoting democracy” and “thwarting evil dictatorships.”

1242-A Stain on the Honor of the Navy In acceding to a White House request to cover the name of the USS John S. McCain, officers and officials revealed a rot within the service.

1243-Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America

1244-Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens

1245-Come Home, America: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Wars-Without-End

1246-Sanctions Are Economic Warfare Sanctions are a violent tool of U.S. control. And now this tool is in Trump’s hands.

1247-Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats

1248-War Is A Lie

1249-Julian Assange: "Nearly every war has been a result of media lies"

1250-New WikiLeaks Bombshell: 20 Inspectors Dissent from Syria Chemical Attack Narrative. Leaked Documents and Emails of OPCW

1251-We Have Just Been Handed the Pentagon Papers of Our Generation The Afghanistan Papers are a devastating indictment of our military and political leaders. The question is: Will anyone notice?

1252-Why do people in the West still believe the official lies about Syria?

1253-Will the U.S. Senate Let the People of Yemen Live?

1254-With Trump Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela, Critics Warn News Outlets Failing US Viewers Once Again "If the US had a major state TV network it would sound exactly like this. 100% pure, uncritical cheerleading."

1255-Las Vegas police help kick out veterans' group from downtown parade (YouTube)

1256-Yes, the Saudi government helped the 9/11 terrorists

1257-America's Global Chaos-Creating Death Machine

1258-The Global War of Error: No, That’s Not a Typo

1259-Trump says “War!” The World says “Peace!”

1260-War in Iraq, Syria 'is over, we lost it': Retired Army Colonel (YouTube)

1261-With a Quarter of the World’s Population Under US Sanctions, Countries Appeal to UN to Intervene Eight countries, representing around one-quarter of all humanity, say that Washington’s actions are undermining their response to the COVID–19 pandemic sweeping the planet.

1262-Freedom Rider: The U.S. Can’t Control the World

1263-Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One

1264-Propaganda by Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela and the UK

1265-When It Comes to War, Americans Remain Willfully and Incorrigibly Ignorant We have paid dearly for that ignorance and will likely pay even more in the years ahead. So it goes.

1266-On the Sentencing—and Courage—of Daniel Hale The U.S. government's intense determination to prosecute Daniel Hale is precisely because his principled moral courage asks the profound questions its leaders and defenders do not want asked.

1267-Don’t let the generals dictate the war’s legacy, make them answer for it - Expect the military officials who commanded Afghanistan to invoke ‘cutting and running.’ Let’s talk about why they failed.

1268-The Afghanistan Debacle: How Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Bamboozled the American Public

1269-We Can't Let Pro-War Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its Legacy - The U.S. architects of the ruinous war are getting the last word on its "lessons."

1270-The war in Afghanistan was far, far different from how it has been depicted in American media. A good look at the disastrous mistakes of our longest war.

1271-Here's how much the Afghanistan war cost the United States - The cost of the war in Afghanistan was over $2 trillion, nearly $300 million a day. Here’s how that money was spent. (2 minute video)

1272-How America Made Osama Bin Laden’s Dream Come True

1273-9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.

1274-It’s Not Too Late to Learn the Lessons We Didn’t Learn From 9/11 Remember when we were all going to care more about the rest of the world?

1275-General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars For generals like David Petraeus and Lloyd Austin, there has been no punishment for 20 years of disinformation on Afghanistan and Iraq.

1276-The Pentagon's Lies About the August 29 Drone Strikes Were Spread For Days By An Unquestioning Media (YouTube)

1277-Ukraine Showdown by Jeff Roby

1278-Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal

1279-Only Congress Can End Washington’s Endless Wars - The war on terror is a constitutional aberration. The U.S. legislature must reclaim its war powers from an overempowered executive branch.

1280-Why Jake Tapper Never Asks How We Pay for War

1281-Afghanistan Withdrawal: Sundays With the Military Industrial Complex

1282-The Media’s Lies About Colin Powell’s Lies

1283-Daniel Hale Went to Prison for Telling the Truth About US Drone Warfare

1284-Moyn, Samuel Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War Captain Byron (U.S. Navy retired) in his review of this book said that Moyn presents with considerable evidence that “This country likes war. It relies overwhelmingly on war. Forever War.”

1285-Whitlock, Craig The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Captain Byron (U.S. Navy retired) in his review of this book correctly describes “an Army and three presidential administrations more interested in happy talk than honest appraisal.” The United States failed badly in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and we should take a hard look at what happened before we get involved again.

1286-Afghanistan is on the brink of famine. How can Biden just forget about us?

1287-Climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: A nexus? Climate change, and climate change policy, surely don’t operate in isolation from other important goings-on in the world.

1288-Russia has become an overnight pariah. Banks should take rapid action to divest.

1289-Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive - The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.

1290-The Lie of American Innocence - Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible. by Chris Hedges

1291-American Commissars by Chris Hedges

1292-The Age of Self-Delusion - The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power. by Chris Hedges

1293-The Pimps of War - The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia. by Chris Hedges

1294-Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation

1295-The Israeli Execution of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh - Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. by Chris hedges

1296-No Way Out but War - Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana. by Chris Hedges

1297-Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War by Chris Hedges

1298-My War Never Ends by Chris hedges

1299-The Democrats are Now the War Party (Chris Hedges Report) The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with with nuclear war.

1300-Defense sector contributed heavily to 45 senators who secured $1.8 billion in military construction earmarks

1301-Chris Hedges talk in Washington, D.C. at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.

1302-Ukraine’s Death by Proxy - Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The end of this war, like most proxy wars, will be ugly. by Chris Hedges

1303-20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame

1304-Twenty Years Ago, the Iraq War Changed Everything — and Taught Elites Nothing

1305-US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential. It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.

1306-How mainstream media sold Bush's Iraq War disaster and got away with it

1307-The Enemy From Within by Chris Hedges The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

1308-The War on Terror led to over 4.5 million deaths The new estimate highlights the deadly and ongoing impact of America’s post-9/11 wars.

1309-Black Alliance for Peace

1310-The Chris Hedges Report Pocast with Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani on his documentary Coup 53 about the CIA coup that overthrew the democratic government in Iran seventy years ago

1311-For NYT, Cluster Munitions Are Completely Wrong—When Russians Use Them

1312-Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare

1313-The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges (YouTube)

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This is almost unbelievable until one realizes that this country is no longer a government of and by and for the people! Government services have decreased drastically: homelessness has increased, salaries of so many don’t cover basic needs, free food programs have increased for so many that don’t have the money to buy sufficient food for their families, the price of everything for the 99% has increased tremendously! Making a profit for the top 1% plus huge corporations have become a priority. The 99% have become “slaves” to such a system. Military bases around the world are more important than the 99%!

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Foreign investment in Israel drops by almost half in 2014

Foreign investment in Israel drops by almost half in 2014

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