By Michael T. Klare From Tomdispatch | Original Article Donald Trump got the headlines as usual — but don’t be fooled. It wasn’t Trumpism in action this August, but what we should all…
Author: Richie Marini
9/1/19US Sanctions Are Designed to Kill
By Kevin Cashman and Cavan Kharrazian From Jacobin | Original Article Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently visited the Group of Seven (G7) at the invitation of French president Emmanuel Macron,…
12/24/18 Bring the Troops Home, But Also Stop the Bombing
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies From Common Dreams | Original Article In this “war on terror,” the U.S. and its allies have dropped a staggering 291,880 bombs and missiles on…
12/16/18 “Alexa, Drop a Bomb”: Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
By Nick Mottern From Truthout | Original Article The acquisitive impulses of hundreds of millions of people could become the stuff of their imprisonment or death. Jared Rodriguez / Truthout Amazon is…
12/13/18 William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
By Jim Naureckas From Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting/FAIR | Original Article Photo: Debra Sweet You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in…
12/18/18 Alexa,Send Nukes
By Micheal T. Klare From The Nation | Original Article There could be no more consequential decision than launching atomic weapons and possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust. President John F. Kennedy faced…
12/11/18 From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb. When a bomb like this explodes, it doesn’t just kill people; it rearranges them.
By Jeffery E. Stern From The New York Times | Original Article This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center Just before midnight, a businessman named Rabee’a was on the…
12/11/2018 William Blum, U.S. Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden, Dies at 85
By Sam Roberts From The New York Times | Original Article William Blum, a longtime critic of United States foreign policy, with his book “Rogue State.” Sales of the book surged in…
12/10/2018 George H.W. Bush: War Criminal, CIA Spy, Oil Tycoon, Embodiment of US Elite
From The Real News Network | Original Article President George H. W. Bush was an elite custodian of capitalism and empire, with countless victims, from Iraq to Panama. The former oil tycoon…
12/6/2018 Victim’s Representative Urges International Criminal Court to Open Investigation into U.S. Crimes in Afghanistan, Citing Guantánamo Detainee’s Declining Health
From Center for Institutional Rights | Original Article The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the victims in the International Criminal Court (ICC) “Situation in Afghanistan” urged the Pre-Trial…
11/19/2018 It’s Time For America to Reckon With The Staggering Death Toll of The Post-9/11 Wars
By Murtaza Hussain From The Intercept | Original Article How many people have been killed in the post-9/11 war on terror? The question is a contentious one, as there has been no…
11/10/18 The University’s Complicity in the War in Yemen: One longtime University trustee is also a major shareholder of one of the world’s largest defense contractors. He should be removed from the Board of Trustees.
By Peter Malonis From The Chicago Maroon | Original Article The Saudi government’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has led to increased condemnation of the regime’s human rights abuses, including its devastating…
3-26-18 Expert Q&A: The International Criminal Court’s Afghanistan Probe and the US
By Laura Dickinson and Alex Whiting From Just Security | Original Article In November, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, sought authorization from a panel of ICC judges…
3-29-18 Trump’s Recycling Program
By Rebecca Gordon From Tom Dispatch | Original Article War Crimes and War Criminals, Old and (Potentially) New A barely noticed anniversary slid by on March 20th. It’s been 15 years since…
3-29-19 Stop Trump’s War Criminal Cabinet
From World Can’t Wait | Original Article People across the globe are rightly raising the alarm that Trump appointed well-known advocates of aggressive war on the world, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton,…