The military machine commits fiascos abroad. At home, by diverting funds and resources to endless war, it disembowels and impoverishes the nation.
Chris Hedges: The Impending Collapse of US Empire
Category: Afghanistan
WATCH: WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo Files
CNLive! speaks to Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files and WikiLeaks research collaborator on the ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, about the history of the U.S. torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.
US Presidents Who Gamble With Nuclear Armageddon
Talk of nuclear war is currently everywhere, writes Jeffrey Sachs. We desperately need leaders who can steer the nation, and the world, toward a more secure future.
ICC Takes on Israel & US Congressional Mafia
Medea Benjamin on the pro-Israel forces in Washington trying to derail Karim Khan’s request for Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants.
US MEMORIAL DAY: The Pentagon’s Ongoing Impunity
On the day the U.S. remembers its war dead, a look at how compensating for civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military — in ground, air and nuclear massacres — has never been a priority, writes Nick Turse.
Chris Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Heroism of David McBride
By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked and other soldiers wrongly accused. On Tuesday he was sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
Whistleblower McBride Sentenced to 5 Yrs., 8 Mos.
BREAKING: A vindictive judge in Canberra has thrown the book at a man who revealed war crimes by the Australian military in Afghanistan.
WATCH: CN Live! — Whistleblower David McBride ‘Followed the Law’ But Will Be Sentenced Tuesday
CN Live!‘s Cathy Vogan discusses the case of Australian whistleblower David McBride, who will be sentenced tomorrow in Canberra, with lawyer Eddie Lloyd.
Whistleblower David McBride to Be Sentenced
Australian whistleblower David McBride was back in court Monday for his sentencing hearing in a case in which his disclosures revealed Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.