White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths.
Looser and looser
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Good News for Vietnam Vets
This is the right thing, especially when many of this “less-than-honorable” behavior was the result of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Help Kickstart WWIII!
Blood Swept Lands
Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red, installation by Paul Cummins in commemoration of WWI
Fighting to Protect America’s Freedom?
We are often told that America is fighting the “war” on “terror” to protect our freedom. It is clear, I think, at this point: war does the exact opposite. War leads to the expansion of state power abroad and the diminishing of liberties at home. Read this enumeration of the Bill of Rights and their evisceration since 9/11…and weep.
How The West Created ISIS
“How the West Created ISIS,” by Nafeez Ahmed, September, 13, 2014
“Missing from the [media] chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, that went on to break away from al-Qaeda and form ‘ISIS’, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or now simply, the Islamic State (IS).”
No Court Marshall for C.O.
“No Court Marshal for Nurse Who Refused to Give Force-Feeding at Guantanamo,” Miami Herald, September 15, 2014
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A Navy commander has chosen not to court-martial a nurse who refused to conduct forced-feedings of hunger strikers this summer and has instead asked a board to determine whether the nurse should be allowed to stay in the U.S. Navy.
Andy Stapp, R.I.P.
Andy Stapp, 70; Tried to Unionize Military, The New York Times, September 14, 2014
“Andy Stapp, who expressed his opposition to the Vietnam War by joining the Army and proceeding to do a very unmilitary thing — form a union among soldiers that demanded, among other things, the right to elect officers and reject what they viewed as illegal orders — died on Sept. 3 in Manhattan. He was 70.”
The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence
This is a very quick, very interesting analysis of the myth of nuclear deterrence.
Fears, Polls, Wars, Mistakes, Regrets
These polls seem hard to believe. Great article by Glenn Greenwald. Do people really feel this way or are these polls just as manufactured as the fear they purport to reflect? I don’t know anymore.
Americans Now Fear ISIS Sleeper Cells Are Living In the U.S., Overwhelmingly Support Military Action, by Glenn Greenwald
“…(8) Here’s how you know you live in an empire devoted to endless militarism: when a new 3-year war is announced and very few people seem to think the president needs anyone’s permission to start it (including Congress) and, more so, when the announcement – of a new multiple-year war – seems quite run-of-the-mill and normal.
(9) How long will we have to wait for the poll finding that most Americans ‘regret’ having supported this new war in Iraq and Syria and view it as a “mistake”, as they prepare, in a frenzy of manufactured fear, to support the next proposed war?…”
Hard to tell what to believe anymore. More important than ever to stay grounded in Truth.
