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Crossing the Rubicon: Obama’s Endless Global Warfare
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012Truthdig – Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Panetta calls for earlier end to U.S. combat presence in Afghanistan; Chinese village that took on gov't gets independent elections; Was Egyptian military complicit in post-soccer game violence that left over 70 people dead?Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 2, 2012
UN intervention in Syria: What is Russia’s tipping point?
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, February 1, 2012Newt and the Neocons
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, February 1, 2012TomDispatch: Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 30, 2012FOCUS: The Demise of the Dollar
Warnings were posted here when Saddam Hussein started these moves. Of course the neocons had to go to war. Now for sure they will want another war. Are we going at it again, with the rest of the world? Cooperation not domination is the mantra.Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 27, 2012
Space: The next war zone? – U.S. Military – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 25, 2012TomDispatch: Tomgram: William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 25, 2012NYT Op-Eds (4)
"There is a case for modest optimism about the ecomony" (Krugman); "It’s an election year, and testosterone is in the air re Iran" (Keller); "Casinos might create jobs and generate state revenue, but supporters ignore or play down the costs" (Guest Op-Ed); "Leading conservative thinkers talk about what liberals are good for" (Edsall)Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, January 23, 2012
Cost of War to the United States | COSTOFWAR.COM
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 22, 2012NYT Editorial, Op-Eds, Letters (11)
"Americans spend more than patients in any other country, but with very mixed results" (Editorial); "Drones are blurring the civilian and military roles in war and circumventing the constitutional mandate for authorizing it" (Guest Op-Ed); "If only a presidential candidate would adopt this four-part agenda, he would surely be the winner on election night in November" (Friedman); "'Porgy and Bess' supplies a prism through which African-Americans have viewed their history" (Nocera); "No longer will only men be allowed to sell a bra to a woman clothed head-to-toe in an abaya" (Guest Op-Ed); "Could 2012 be a race between two powerful victims yearning to be lonely at the top?" (Dowd); "In both parties, there is a long tradition of underwhelming nominees" (Douthat); "If liberals care about middle-class salaries, public education and other state-funded services, they need to care about controlling health care costs as much as conservatives do" (Guest Op-Ed); "Lessons from Paula Deen on indulgence and its consequences" (Bruni); "It's 2012, and let's face it, the old way of sizing up candidates on the left-to-right spectrum just will not do" (Guest Op-Ed); "Sunday Dialogue: State Laws on Unions" (Letters)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, January 22, 2012
NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
In rarity, Haitian police officers get jail terms for massacre; Romanian protests ramp up; Myanmar gov't giving with one hand, taking with the other.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 20, 2012
TomDispatch – Nick Turse: Drone Disasters
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, January 15, 2012NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
In Syria, fears of civil war grow; In Egypt, ElBaradei pulls out of prez race; In Israel, women chafe at orthodox rule; In Italy, search for survivors of capsized cruise ship continue; In Amazon, a bizarre "upside" to deforestation.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, January 15, 2012
Piss on War: Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan : Information Clearing House
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 14, 2012The Atlantic (4)
"The sickening parallels between today’s interrogation tactics and those used by the Inquisition reveal the dangers of yoking moral certainty to the machinery of torture"; "The story of Standard Motor Products, a family- run manufacturer in Queens, illuminates what it takes to survive in today’s economy—and why the jobs crisis will be so hard to solve"; "John Mearsheimer's star has fallen in recent years, as critics have branded him an anti-Semite. But his doctrine of 'offensive realism' serves as an incisive theory for understanding how states behave in an anarchic world"; "Attending a business-school reunion in the Occupy age."Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 14, 2012
NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Marines in video identified, Corps looks for videographer; Pakistani gov't faces confidence vote; U.S. begins retasking European troops to the Asia-Pacific region.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 14, 2012
Smirking Chimp (2)
Is the alarmist rhetoric about Iran the drumbeat toward war?; "Pretty Boy Mitt, and ugly capitalism."Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 13, 2012
NYT (4): Foreign Affairs
As Gulf states back U.S. attempts to choke Iranian oil, U.S. warns Iran that closing Strait would be "red line"; Urination video goes viral, causing serious problems for U.S. in Afghanistan; U.S. restores full relations with Myanmar.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, January 13, 2012
Hamilton Nolan: Piss on War
Nolan in Gawker (of all places) ..Do you know what is worse than having your dead body urinated upon? Being killed. Being shot. Being bombed. Having your limbs blown off. Having your house incinerated by a drone-fired missile that you don't see until it explodes. Having your children blown up in their beds. Having your spouse killed. Having your hometown destroyed. Being displaced. Becoming a refugee. Having your entire life destroyed as a consequence of political forces far, far beyond your control... read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, January 13, 2012
Iran: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again : Information Clearing House
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 9, 2012The Lasting Damage of Iraq
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 9, 2012NYT (5): Foreign Affairs
Muslim Brotherhood tries to keep the peace by agreeing to military timetable for handover; Iran defiantly opens second uranium enrichment plant; Karzai demands turnover of Bagram earlier than expected; Did U.S. agents go over the line in helping Mexican drug lord?; Attempted smear of Russian opposition leader backfires badly.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, January 9, 2012
NYT Editorials, Op-Eds, Letters (12)
"Voters, unionized or not, should recognize the new “right to work” push for what it is: bad economics and cynical politics" (Editorial); "An important new study based on capital cases in Connecticut provides powerful evidence that death sentences are haphazardly meted out" (Editorial); "A lab-created bird flu virus needs to be destroyed, or better contained, and future research closely reviewed" (Editorial); "President Obama could cut the arsenal by two-thirds without diminishing its power. It would also save billions of dollars" (Guest Op-Ed); "Street lighting is at risk of being restricted once again to residences and neighborhoods able to afford it" (Guest Op-Ed); "I spent seven and a half years at Guantánamo, without explanation" (Guest Op-Ed); "I was arrested on a bus ride and wound up in prison at Guantánamo Bay" (Guest Op-Ed); "To hear the Republican candidates speak, you’d think Ronald Reagan was the last Republican president — and that he upheld the party’s current values" (Bruni); "When something extraordinary happens, like the uprising and subsequent truly free elections in Egypt, you just shut up and take notes" (Friedman); "The attacks on Rick Santorum and his wife are weird but inevitable" (Douthat); "In New Hampshire, Rick Santorum’s hot politics of aggrievement are competing with Mitt Romney’s cold politics of convenience" (Dowd); "Sunday Dialogue: Do We Live in a Less Deadly Time, or Not?" (Letters)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, January 8, 2012
