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NYT (4): Foreign Affairs
Egypt's PM defiant re prosecuting Americans; Greek austerity deal reached; Chaos grows in Libya as interim gov't tries to curb militias; Israel's main labor union starts general strike.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 9, 2012
Army Officer Turned Whistleblower: How Many More Must Die?
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, February 8, 2012Cost of War to the United States | COSTOFWAR.COM
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 6, 2012US Plans for Perpetual War
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 6, 2012NYT (6): Foreign Affairs
U.S. closes embassy in Syria; Obama/Clinton fail to get Egypt to rescind legal action against Americans; U.S. drones out of control in Pakistan?; European activists fight their own "SOPA"; Failing French economy leads to gains for far right; Wicked cold snap kills hundreds in Europe.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 6, 2012
Why the “Liberal” Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 5, 2012Return of Cheney’s One Percent Doctrine | Consortiumnews
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 5, 2012Crossing 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
