Failed wars and thousands of lives lost are good for (some) business, writes William Hartung.
How Corporations Won the War on Terror
Tag: Barack Obama
Biden at the UN Forgets What War Is
Contrary to the evidence, the president said the U.S. was not at war, writes Joe Lauria.
9/11: Why Americans Were Never Told Why They Were Attacked
When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria.
9/11: America’s Moby Dick
The psychic wound of 9/11 is what grieves America; it inflames its collective passion for vengeance, writes Michael Brenner.
Biden Threatens More Illegal War in Afghanistan
The bombing of Afghanistan was not legitimate self-defense under the UN Charter because Afghanistan did not attack the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, writes Marjorie Cohn.
The Leak That ‘Exposed the True Afghan War’
The Afghan Diaries set off a firestorm when it revealed the suppression of civilian casualty figures, the existence of an elite U.S.-led death squad, and the covert role of Pakistan in the conflict, as Elizabeth Vos reports.
Hidden Hand of US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years, write Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores.
Chris Hedges: Bless the Traitors
Daniel Hale exposed widespread, indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global U.S. drone war. He faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
Senator Mike Gravel Dies at 91
Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, who twice ran for president as an anti-war candidate and released the Pentagon Papers in Congress in June 1971, has died at age 91.