By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Jan. 10, 2011 Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary…
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Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec. 20, 2010 The speeches were over. There was a mournful harmonica rendition of taps. The 500 protesters in Lafayette Park in front of the White House fell silent. One hundred and thirty-one men and women,…
Chinese leader denies any aim to replace the US as world hegemon
By John Chan, WSWS, Dec. 17, 2010 In a major 9,000-word essay published on the Chinese foreign ministry’s web site on December 6, State Councilor Dai Bingguo (whose rank is equal to vice premier) declared that Beijing would never seek…
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, Dec. 15, 2010 Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at…
Richard Holbrooke’s Deathbed Conversion
By David Swanson, Dec. 15, 2010 For all the talk of strategic counterinsurgency that oozes out of Washington, and all the manuals explaining that 80% of our investment in a nation-building operation should be civilian, we’ve been investing about 3%…
The Russians did better … so why did they lose?
US Now in Afghanistan Longer Than Soviets By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 8, 2010 US forces have now stayed longer in Afghanistan than the Soviet army during Moscow’s ill-fated intervention. The US military late last month exceeded the nine years…
Happy as a hangman
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec. 6, 2010 Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to…
The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK
The CIA, the Pentagon, and the ‘Peace President’ by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Nov. 23, 2010 Just 47 years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This marked the turning of the…
Canada enlists in America’s permanent war for peace
By Gerald Caplan, Globe and Mail, Nov. 26, 2010 American and NATO troops, including Canadians, will pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 at the latest, unless they don’t. It depends on something but no one knows what that something might…
Chomsky: Threat of war with Iran is real
Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky on the expansion of post-WW 2 power and the recent signs of it’s decline: America can no longer force countries to do its bidding, as evidenced by growing independence in South America, and Turkish-Brazilian initiatives…