By Bob Avakian From Revolution | Original Arrticle There is an old saying that one of the first casualties of war is truth. This is being sharply demonstrated with the war in…
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4/13/22 Why Not Joint War Crimes Trials?
By Jacob Hornberger From Counterpunch | Original Article The U.S. mainstream media is calling for the criminal prosecution of Russian president Vladimir Putin, as well as Russian military personnel, for war crimes…
4/7/22 Will the U.S. Send Reaper Drones Into the Ukraine Whirlwind?
By Nick Mottern From Common Dreams | Original Article These drone operations, which would almost certainly be reliant on U.S. military personnel, could lead to a nuclear response from Russia. Two retired…
4/2/22 Man Imprisoned at Guantánamo Since 2002 Sent Home
From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Sufyian Barhoumi Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016 The U.S. government made public today that Sufyian Barhoumi was sent…
3/30/22 Afghanistan Facing ‘Total Collapse’ as Biden Refuses to Release Central Bank Assets
By Jake Johnson From CommonDreams | Original Article “If the Afghan economy is not resuscitated, the severity of the current humanitarian crisis will only deepen, with dire consequences for life and limb…
3/18/22 How does the U.S. identify war crimes?
By Debra Sweet Answer: to the rulers of the United States, war crimes are only committed by governments they oppose. While the victims of U.S. wars are nameless, U.S. media is 24/7…
3/18/22 How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
By Julie Hollar From FAIR | Original Article A lot less, particularly when they’re victims of the US As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of…
3/11/22 The Plank in Uncle Sam’s Eye: A Plea for Humility as War Pigs Move to “Close the Sky”
By Paul Street From Counterpunch | Original Article Is it inherently wrong to ask, “what about” X’s crimes and evil when confronted with Y’s crimes and evil? Is that “what about-ist” rationalization…
3/4/22 Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off the Hook
By Bryce Greene From Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting | Original Article Many governments and media figures are rightly condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an act of…
3/3/22 Justices dismiss Gitmo detainee’s pursuit of evidence on post-9/11 torture
By John Kruzel From The Hill | Original Article © Greg Nash The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a Guantánamo Bay detainee’s request for information about his alleged torture at the hands…
3/3/22 War Torn: Continental Drifters and the Nationless Nation
By Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — Gondwana, Rodinia, Pangea….
2/28/22 How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From CodePink | Original Article The defenders of Ukraine are bravely resisting Russian aggression, shaming the rest of the world and the UN Security Council…
2/25/22 “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” for Supporting U.S. Imperialism
By Bob Avakian From RevCom.us | Original Article “Go search where you may, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse,…
2/25/22 Russia’s Ukraine War Heightens Urgency Around Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy
By Sara Sirota From The Intercept | Original Article With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prospects for U.S. nuclear disarmament look bleak. The Biden administration was already cutting corners on its policy….
2/9/22 CIA Bad Boy John K. Singlaub, Virtual Director of Contra War, Dies at 100
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article [Source: wikipedia.org] A decorated hero in WW II, he ran death squad operations in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the…