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U.S. Military
  • Ghali Hassan , Axis of Logic exclusive

    “The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer”. - U.S. President Barack Obama, Cairo, June 04, 2009. According to US leaders and their Zionist handlers, the term “extremist” is any nation or movement resisting US-Israel domination. They are accused of... » read this article
  • News Bulletin , Common Dreams

    Delegates from over 80 countries pledging to destroy their cluster bombs started a two-day conference in Berlin to assess progress since a 2008 agreement banning the weapons. Absent however were the United States, Israel, Russia and Georgia -- countries which have used cluster bombs in recent years and which refuse... » read this article
  • News Bulletin , Al Jazeera

    The United States and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to a tentative deal that would allow the American military the continued use of a key air base in the central Asian nation. A Kyrgyz parliamentary committee on Tuesday approved the deal to allow the US to use the Manas air base as... » read this article
  • Geoff Brumfield , Nature

    The US military has abruptly ended an informal arrangement that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from  classified surveillance satellites. The change is a blow to the astronomers and planetary scientists who used the information to track space rocks, especially  those that burn up over the oceans or... » read this article
  • Steve Carlson , Common Dreams

    " And no one dared disturb the sound of silence. " Paul Simon While I suppose one could argue that it's too early to start identifying the most under-reported story of the 21st century to date, I should think that the actual death and human suffering toll in Iraq might... » read this article
  • Les Blough, Editor. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    CNN reports on the prosecution of Steven Green in their article, A day in the trial of ex-soldier convicted of murder in Iraq. Steven Green is the US soldier who raped a nameless 14 year old Iraqi girl, then killed her, her parents and her 6 year old sister, then... » read this article
  • Bill Van Auken , WSWS

    Also see, Obama reverses decision to release prisoner abuse photos 15 May 2009 President Obama’s repudiation of his promise to comply with a court order and release Pentagon torture photos marks a qualitative deepening of the cover-up of the crimes carried out under Bush as well as their continuation under... » read this article
  • Dahr Jamail , Dahr Jamail Website

    One of the definitions of the word “occupation” is: the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force. Throughout history, areas or countries occupied by military force have always resisted, and this resistance has caused the occupier to devise more suitable methods of subduing the population... » read this article
  • Jim Miles , Axis of Logic

    "The real certainty is that “terrorism” will not be beaten.  The U.S. is the occupying force and the natives will remain restless until they are all dead or the occupiers leave.  As with Iraq and Afghanistan, any move to increase military activity within Pakistan will only increase the reaction of... » read this article
  • James Petras , Axis of Logic

    The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the US-sponsored Ethiopian occupation of Somali, the coup attempts in Venezuela (2002) and Bolivia (2008),... » read this article
  • Beverly Darling* , Axis of Logic

    Other than suffering hearing loss and having occasional nightmares, the young U.S. Army Ranger across the table appeared somewhat grateful for his two tours in Afghanistan and one stint in Iraq. He mentioned how he and other Rangers would be “dropped” into an area in Afghanistan at night and attack... » read this article
  • Dee Knight , Workers World

    Iraq war resisters Cliff Cornell and Chris Teske were deported from Canada last week. Teske crossed the British Columbia-Washington state border unassisted on Jan. 22 at an undisclosed location. Cornell planned to do the same on Jan. 23. The two resisters now join thousands of their fellow resisters in the... » read this article
  • Remi Kanazi , Axis of Logic

    In the United States, a growing number of leftists are voicing their opposition to the Israeli occupation. They condemn the demolition of homes, the jailing of Palestinians without charge, and the confiscation of Palestinian land for settlements. They don't support the Israeli troops or their mission, nor do they give... » read this article
  • Dee Knight , Workers World Newspaper

    "If successful, Shepherd’s application will create a precedent for the U.S. military in Germany. After Iraq, the second-largest Pentagon presence overseas is housed there: 66,000 active-duty personnel. As an asylum seeker, Shepherd is now under the protection of the German federal government." Signs of a surge in GI resistance have... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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