By Debra Sweet As of today, the U.S. military has ended its formal presence on the ground in Afghanistan, not before killing a family of 10, including children, in Kabul in a…
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8/30/21 What Is Owed
By Kaleem Hawa From New York Magazine | Original Article The case for Iraqi reparations. America illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, occupied and destabilized and flattened it, and then never left. Hundreds…
8/23/21 Major Midwest University Hires Former Under-Secretary of Defense and Under-Secretary of the Army as President
By Nick Alexandrov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Exemplifies Growth of Military-Industrial-Academic Complex That Is Destroying U.S. Democracy The University of Tulsa (TU) is one of Oklahoma’s premier schools. It…
8/18/21 The Taliban Surrendered in 2001
By Richard W. Behan From Common Dreams | Original Article But George Bush was fighting a war for oil and empire, and victory would pose a huge tactical difficulty: with no enemy…
8/12/21 John Rizzo, CIA lawyer who approved torture program, dies at 73
By Harrison Smith From The Washington Post | Original Article John Rizzo, a self-described “company man” who worked as a CIA lawyer for more than three decades, laying the legal groundwork for…
8/5/21 He is one of only 39 detainees left at Guantanamo. Once tortured, prisoner’s case is a test of larger political realities at play.
By Daniel A. Medina From CNN | Original Article Illustrations are artist’s renderings based on military and court records. (CNN)Nearly two decades ago, in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, a…
8/1/21 Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence
By John Dower From TomDispatch | Original Article How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars Some years ago, a newspaper article credited a European visitor with the wry observation that Americans are…
7/28/21 Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes
By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article Contract workers push a U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle after it flew a mission from an air base in the Persian…
7/23/21 Daniel Hale, Whistle Blower Who Exposed US Drone Program, Will Be Sentenced Tuesday
By Debra Sweet >> More about Daniel’s case & what you can do to support him.Military.com reports on a letter from Daniel on why he chose to leak details of the secret drone…
7/15/21 Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly From The Progressive | Original Article The U.S. government owes reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past twenty years of war and brutal impoverishment. In Kabul,…
7/12/21 To fight ecocide, we have to criminalize it
By Tanya Sanerib From The Hill | Original Article As we face the urgent crises of climate and extinction, we need every tool available — including the law — to fight for…
7/7/21 Documents Reveal Erik Prince’s $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine
By Simon Shuster From Time | Original Article Kyiv/On the second night of his visit to Kyiv, Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda. A few of his Ukrainian associates…
7/6/21 Biden Betrays Another Campaign Pledge—Admits that U.S. Will Continue to Bomb Afghanistan
By Nick Mottern From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article U.S. jets bombing Afghanistan. These attacks will not end despite the formal U.S. withdrawal by September 11th. [Source: wired.com] After 20 Years,…
7/2/21 Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq
By Anthony DiMaggio From Counterpunch | Original Article Former Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s death was accompanied by many of the apologies for state crimes that we’ve come to expect…
7/2/21 Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War
By T. Beal & G. Elich From Liberated Texts | Original Article Read the entire book here. When the American journalist, I.F. Stone, published The Hidden History of the Korean War at…