By Andrew Buncombe From The Independent | Original Article ‘Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait years after the bombs have started falling’ Veteran whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has claimed Donald Trump may…
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1/2/21 Lead FBI investigator in Blackwater case likens Iraq massacre to My Lai
From The Guardian | Original Article John M Patarini says in letter to New York Times he is ‘disgusted with the president’s actions’ after Trump pardons An Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a…
12/30/20 Grading Trump on Foreign Policy
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Donald Trump visits a tank production facility in…
Trump Pardons Nisour Square Killers
By Debra Sweet The remains of a car at the site where Blackwater guards opened fire on Iraqi civilians in 2007. Credit:Ali Yussef/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. December 23 Trump pardoned –…
12/22/20 UN Human Rights Commissioner Probing Racist Violence in US as Part of Worldwide Study After Trump Administration Blocked UN Human Rights Council US Inquiry
By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article Portland police disperse a crowd of protesters past a mural of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor on September 26, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Nathan…
12/18/20 The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
By Andrew Quilty From The Intercept | Original Article A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War The buzz of a drone at night was…
12/6/20 Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy
By Michael Klare From TomDispatch | Original Article From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending…
12/5/20 The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People
By David Vine From The Transnational | Original Article Here’s why we used the numbers we did — and what they can and can’t tell us. Over the last week, considerable debate…
11/30/20 International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction
By Owen Bowcott From The Guardian | Original Article Plan to draw up legal definition of ‘ecocide’ attracts support from European countries and small island nations Smoke rises from an illegally lit…
11/28/20 Wars R Us: A Review of Christian Sorensen’s New Book “Understanding the War Industry”
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Source: outsidethebeltway.com Pay no attention to all those nasty left-wing allegations about how military contractors collude and conspire with the Pentagon to…
11/25/20 Like a Rocket in the Garden: The Unending War in Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly From The Progressive | Original Article People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault. Late last week, I learned…
11/19/20 The NYT’s Trump Iran ‘attack’ story and the failures of foreign policy reporting
By Ben Armbruster From Responsible Statecraft | Original Article The New York Times published a major story this week, reporting that President Trump recently sought options for a military strike on Iran’s…
11/18/20 Military Judge in U.S. Held Court by Video Link to Guantánamo Bay
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The Pentagon staged its first “Zoom Court” linking the courtroom at Guantánamo Bay to a secret location in the United States…
11/17/20 Trump Bruited Strike on Iran Civilian Nuclear Facilities, which may kill as many as did Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima
By Juan Cole From JuanCole.com | Original Article Screenshot from Indusdotnews at YouTube. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the…
10/23/20 Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib Lead Call for UN Probe Into Alleged DHS Human Rights Abuses
By Jessica Corbett From Common Dreams | Original Article “Our government cannot be allowed to commit human rights atrocities or escape investigation, oversight, or criticism based on its powerful geopolitical position, as…