By Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli, Libya, May 24, 2011 While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at…
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Pentagon: Computer Sabotage = Act of War
Cyber Combat: Act of War Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force By Siobahn Gorman & Julian E. Barnes Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2011 WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from…
Stop the extension of the war in Libya
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, May 23, 2011 The Government of Canada is set to renew its support for the NATO led bombing of Libya, as the current three-month mandate expires on June 16. The Canadian Peace Alliance strongly condemns…
Breaking free from the hoax of nuclear deterrence
UK anti-nuclear weapons protesters. More photos . . . By Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy, Retired, Peace Magazine Five days after my first birthday the Enola Gay bombed Hiroshima. When I was 24, I was a bombardier-navigator in a nuclear…
The blindness of militarism
By Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Over the past weekend hundreds rallied in Gangjeong village in South Korea to protect the rocks and the plant and animal life on Jeju Island that will be…
NATO continues killing spree in Africa and Asia
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, May 15, 2011 On May 13 President Barack Obama welcomed North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen to the White House and the two pledged to continue the world’s two major wars, those…
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in perspective
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, May 12, 2011 First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the…
Last WW1 Vet Dies
By Al Jazeera English, May 5, 2011 A significant chapter in military history has ended with the death of the last combat veteran from World War I. Claude ‘Chuckles’ Choules, the last-known male survivor out of more than 70 million…
Can we bring the troops home now?
Robert Fisk: If this is a US victory, does that mean its forces should go home now? Iran spoke for many Arabs when it said Bin Laden’s death took away the West’s reason to have troops in the region By…
NATO ponders putting ground troops in Libya
Russia Today – Italy will host the next major international meeting on Libya. Leaders from NATO and the Arab league will gather this Thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or ousting of Libyan leader Mamuamar Gaddafi. And…