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  • REFLECTIONS ON THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    6 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    REFLECTIONS ON THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    Submitted by Mike Endres on Wed, 4 Aug 2010
    How Big is Huge? A little different subject for this article - still economics - but one that will probably have sufficient material in it to irritate almost everyone. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Navy veteran, served in destroyers of the Atlantic Fleet as an Electronic and Fire Control Technician working out of Norfolk, VA., to the Med, N. Europe, Caribbean and the Middle East during (…)

  • Dangerous Illusions
    5 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dangerous Illusions
    by James Zogby (Monday, August 2, 2010)
    "That another war will create peace; that more arms that only provoke your dangerous better-armed and unrestrained neighbor will make you secure; that bad policy made under the duress of domestic politics will produce anything other than bad results - these are the dangerous illusions under which all have been laboring for decades, and apparently still are."
    After a century in which tragedy has been heaped upon tragedy across (…)

  • Noble, Criminal Western Democracies
    2 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Noble, Criminal Western Democracies
    by Rami G. Khouri
    Global Research, August 2, 2010 Daily Star (Lebanon) - 2010-07-28
    One of the paradoxes of leading Western democracies is how they can be at once so noble and so criminal. A particularly impressive aspect of countries like the United States and the United Kingdom is their political openness, particularly their insistence in many cases on publicly analyzing and evaluating their government’s policies, to learn if mistakes were made, (…)

  • Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran
    2 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran Part I: Global Warfare
    by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 1, 2010
    Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed.
    This military adventure has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document.
    Escalation is (…)

  • Iran: A Bridge too Far? The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
    30 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran: A Bridge too Far?
    The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
    A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally deciding to go with the article. I believe that a serious writer must (…)

  • The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
    29 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
    By Andrew Bacevich
    July 24, 2010 "TomDispatch" — "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history." This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective.
    Developments during the 1980s, above all the winding down of the Cold (…)

  • Afghan Genocide, WikiLeaks, Denial & Western media censorship of 4.5 million post-invasion Afghan deaths
    29 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western genocide denial and holocaust denial: despite WikiLeaks, there is massive Western media censorship of 4.5 million post-invasion Afghan deaths from Australia-complicit US-imposed war and deprivation.
    WikiLeaks is celebrated for breaking through the Anglo-American, Zionist and neocon Wall of Silence and exposing US Alliance atrocities in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. However as the example below demonstrates, Western Mainstream Media (MSM) such as leading Australian (…)

  • Legal Authority: Hold US leaders Accountable for War Crimes
    27 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Legal Authority: Hold US leaders Accountable for War Crimes
    by Sherwood Ross Global Research, July 27, 2010
    Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns.
    “Unless and until this starts being done, and I stress the need for the gallows when the crime warrants it, we will never be without major crooks, without causers of major disasters, in big (…)

  • Israel’s Insane War on Iran Must Be Prevented
    27 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s Insane War on Iran Must Be Prevented
    by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
    Global Research, July 26, 2010
    Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid ship headed for Gaza may prove to be the greatest strategic error the government has ever made. Like the Soweto riots in South Africa in 1976, or Bloody Sunday – the American civil rights march on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, where police opened fire and killed civilians – the Mavi Marmora affair crossed a red line. It has triggered an (…)

  • Key new book: “The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by William A. Cook
    25 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by Professor William A. Cook (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010) is a collection of articles by variously eminent humanitarian writers from around the world.
    The book begins with an Acknowledgment of collaborators, writers, journals and of writers whose works were offered but could not be included in this collection. The editor then provides a series of succinct Biographies of the various authors (that are provided (…)