militarism

‘Anti-China’ Military Pact ‘Threatens Peace and Stability’ in Pacific, Groups Warn
"The world needs global cooperation to tackle shared threats of the pandemic and climate change, not a new Cold War." ...[Read more]
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Video: ‘Imminent Threat’ or Aid Worker: Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong Person?
The New York Times obtained exclusive security camera footage and witness accounts to show how the military launched a drone strike that killed 10 people in Kabul on Aug. 29 without knowing whom it was hitting. ...[Read more]
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Investigations of US Drone Attack That Killed 10 Afghans Find No Evidence of Explosives in Vehicle
"The Pentagon has some serious explaining to do," said one reporter. "Now consider how many strikes go unexamined by Western media." ...[Read more]
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Noam Chomsky: The US-Led War on Terror Has Devastated Much of the World
The outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, as Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview, which also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that be ...[Read more]
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US Airstrikes Have Killed Up to 48,000 Civilians Since 9/11: Analysis
"On average, U.S.-led airstrikes have killed more than 1,000 civilians a year since 2001." ...[Read more]
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Chris Hedges: How the American empire dug its own grave
The current American empire, damaged and humiliated by the troves of internal documents published by WikiLeaks, will, for this reason, persecute Julian Assange for the rest of his life. It does not matter who is president or which political party is in po ...[Read more]
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Sweden Wanted to Bomb Afghanistan to Advertise its Fighter Jets
Wikileaks cables revealed that Sweden wanted to bomb Afghanistan to increase the 'marketability' of its fighter jets. ...[Read more]
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US Public Clear: War in Afghanistan Wasn’t Worth It
As corporate media amplify pro-war voices to cover developing events in Afghanistan, two polls out Sunday showed the U.S. public has little appetite for continuing the 20-year war. A new CBS News/YouGov survey, conducted August 18-20, found that 63% appro ...[Read more]
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Cable News Military Experts Are on the Defense Industry Dole
JACK KEANE HAS had a busy week. The retired four-star general has been making the cable news rounds, offering scathing criticism of the White House in wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, he appeared on Fox News, where he told host H ...[Read more]
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US Peace Groups Call for Biden and Congress to Adopt ‘No First Use of Nuclear Weapons’ Policy
The U.S. "has nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, ready to strike first and begin a nuclear war that could result in the deaths of billions of people around the globe," warned one coalition member. ...[Read more]
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Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes
On July 27, a federal district court judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale to 45 months in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. In 2015, Hale, whose job involved identifying targets f ...[Read more]
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