Forever Wars

Created
Tue, 26/09/2023 - 22:59

America is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like "surgical strikes" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world.

The post How America Hides the Human Toll of its Forever Wars, with Norman Solomon appeared first on MintPress News.

Created
Mon, 17/04/2023 - 20:23

ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev — and Hollywood.

The post How NATO States Sponsored ICC Prosecutor’s Putin Arrest Warrant appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Created
Wed, 12/04/2023 - 20:03

By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George Orwell summed up why narratives about history can be crucial. And so, ever since the final helicopter liftoff from the U.S. Embassy’s roof in Saigon […]

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Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 21:01

By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Not too long ago, senator Marco “Bring Back Aerial Dogfights” Rubio took to the airwaves to inform the American people that their military must send fighter jets to escort drones near Russia’s border. About the same time as Rubio’s idiotic recipe for global nuclear annihilation, senator Tom “Invade Mexico!” Cotton […]

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Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 07:36

Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the American military personnel dispatched to fight it and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror have suffered until this very day, while this country largely turned its back, leaving them in the lurch.

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