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16 Years After Iraq, the US Has Become a Nation of Passive Neocons

After Iraq, the neocons began waging another war, one for America’s soul.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
ANTI WAR PROTEST

WASHINGTON (Opinion) -- Sixteen years have passed and the memory of the Iraq War is distant for many, save for the millions of people -- Iraqi and American alike -- who saw their lives destroyed by one of the greatest lies ever sold to the American public. Yet, while plenty of Americans sleep easy thinking that such an atrocity as the invasion

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How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Military Industrial Complex

In contrast to the “pink-washing” of defense contractors, progressive voices that question militarism — e.g., Sanders, Omar, Gabbard — are hectored, harried and condemned.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Donald Trump | Pelosi

WASHINGTON -- With March 19 marking 16 years of continuous war in Iraq, there is a distinct feeling of deja vu in Washington, as neocon figures like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams beat the drum for war in Venezuela. Liberals and progressives have traditionally been more critical of war and militarism than their conservative counterparts. But in the

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Life in Yemen’s Hodeida Now Worse than Before “Ceasefire,” as Saudis Still Intent on City’s Capture

Saudi and UAE fighters have built new fortifications around Hodeida and are conducting fresh military drills amid a steady flow of Coalition military reinforcements rolling into the city, all indications that the Coalition still intends to capture Hodeida.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
بواسطة Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen | Hodeida

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Yemen’s armed forces, loyal to the Houthis, said that Saudi Arabia and the United Arabian Emirates will be targeted in retaliation for any major attack on the port city of Hodeida, warning that Yemen’s army has advanced aircraft as well as the coordinates of legitimate targets in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. This week, Yemeni army

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Tulsi Gabbard Challenges US Exceptionalism In San Francisco Speech

Tulsi Gabbard is challenging the core policy of US exceptionalism and identifying who benefits and “who pays the price” for those policies.

Rick Sterling
بواسطة Rick Sterling
Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard visited the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. The three term Congresswoman from Hawaii is 37 years old and ethnically diverse. Remarkably, she has 15 years of military experience in the US Army and National Guard as well as substantial political experience. She was elected to the Hawaii State Assembly at age 21. Tulsi Gabbard

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Uniting Fatah, Not Palestine: The Dubious Role of Palestine’s New Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh

Shtayyeh’s mission will ultimately fail, for his mandate is to reunite Fatah behind Abbas, not the Palestinian people behind a truly democratic and representative leadership aimed at ridding Palestine from its Israeli occupiers.

Ramzy Baroud
بواسطة Ramzy Baroud

Political commentators sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Fatah Movement, in particular, fanned out as soon as the news was announced of Mohammad Shtayyeh's appointment as the new Palestinian Prime Minister. It is no surprise to witness this gush of support and enthusiasm, for Shtayyeh is a Fatah man, par excellence. Gone are

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The Vienna School: Incubating the Racism Behind the New Zealand Attack

From Republicans to Eurosceptic parties, the ‘Vienna school’ ideology of terrorist Anders Breivik is spreading like terminal cancer.

Nafeez Ahmed
بواسطة Nafeez Ahmed
Germany refugees

The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this decade: the 2011 massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. Brenton Tarrant, who live-streamed his attack on the Christchurch

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