By Douglas Valentine | Dissident Voice | September 19, 2015 The outlawing of narcotic drugs at the start of the Twentieth Century, the turning of the matter from public health to social control, coincided with American’s imperial Open Door policy and the belief that the government had an obligation to American industrialists to create markets […]
By José Raúl Guzmán | NACLA | September 17, 2015 Forgotten / Olvidados is one of the most important Bolivian films to emerge recently, marking a high point of technical achievement for the country’s film industry. The film serves as powerful indictment of the military personnel who were responsible for thousands of deaths and disappearances […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | September 15, 2015 The neoconservatives arguably have damaged American national interests more than any group in modern history. They have done more harm than the marginal Communists pursued by Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, more than the Yippies of the 1960s, more than Richard Nixon’s Watergate burglars […]
Nil NIKANDROV – Strategic Culture Foundation – 14.09.2015 “Airtec Inc. has been awarded a contract for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services in support of the U.S. Southern Command. The deal is expected to be completed in September 2018. The contractor will provide ISR services utilizing a Bombardier DHC-8/200. According to José Vicente Rangel, a Venezuelan […]
By Todd E. Pierce | Consortium News | September 12, 2015 When the U.S. Department of Defense published a new Law of War Manual (LOW) this past summer, editorialists at the New York Times sat up and took notice. Their concern was that the manual stated that journalists could be deemed “unprivileged belligerents.” The editorial […]
Reprieve | September 13, 2015 The UK Government has refused to confirm whether UK pilots have been involved in flying covert US drone strikes over Pakistan, withholding the information requested by legal charity Reprieve on grounds of ‘international relations.’ Reprieve had made Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Ministry of Defence asking two questions: […]
By Louis Allday | CounterPunch | September 11, 2015 “Wars are complex. They come out of nowhere and all of a sudden, people you’ve never heard of are killing each other on the evening news.” So begins this rather patronising piece on Upworthy that attempts to explain in a digestible format what is happening in […]
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | September 10, 2015 Federal agencies trying to determine if Israel’s nuclear program received uranium from the U.S. during the Cold War were kept in the dark by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Grant Smith, who runs the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, has long contended that Israel was […]
By Robert Sandels and Nelson P. Valdés | CounterPunch | September 8, 2015 As the United States moves toward some kind of normal relations with Cuba, it faces a problem: normal is currently illegal. In 1996, Congress, with help from President Bill Clinton, created the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Helms-Burton) Act, which makes it illegal to […]
By Eliza Relman | ACLU |August 14, 2015 The executive summary of the Senate torture report, released last December, exposed a system of abuse that was far more brutal than the CIA ever admitted to the White House, Congress, the courts, or the American public. But for all its revelatory, gruesome details, it also revealed […]
