Press TV – June 7, 2014
The US Defense Department will send American military advisers to Ukraine in order to build “defense institutions” in the country.
Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said the two countries could strengthen “long-term defense cooperation to help Ukraine build highly effective armed forces and defense institutions.”
Press TV – June 7, 2014
The US Defense Department will send American military advisers to Ukraine in order to build “defense institutions” in the country.
Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said the two countries could strengthen “long-term defense cooperation to help Ukraine build highly effective armed forces and defense institutions.”
Voice of America News
June 6, 2014
NATO Commander: Alliance Must Reconsider Russia Relationship
NATO’s military commander says the alliance must reconsider its force positioning and readiness because of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove says that for more than a decade the United States and its allies have viewed Russia as a partner.
Voice of America News
June 6, 2014
NATO Commander: Alliance Must Reconsider Russia Relationship
NATO’s military commander says the alliance must reconsider its force positioning and readiness because of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove says that for more than a decade the United States and its allies have viewed Russia as a partner.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
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George Bernard Shaw
From Preface to Heartbreak House (1919)
War Delirium
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
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George Bernard Shaw
From Preface to Heartbreak House (1919)
War Delirium
Definitely in need of more info!I am finding the imagery in the YouTube video inconsistent with what is being reported and shown below. The video shows multiple cars destroyed and a building seriously damaged. The YouTube imagery makes me think of Syria......but I don't know?Car Blast Near Ukrainian President HQ
The Blood Never Dried was written very much as a response to British participation in the Iraq war and although British troops have been withdrawn from that country, at the time of writing they remain in Afghanistan. Only recently British aircraft have been employed to bomb Libya, the country that has the dubious honor of being the first country to ever experience aerial bombardment, at the hands of the Italians, in 1911. Indeed, the aerial bombardment of 2011, in which the Italians participated, was an unwitting marking of that anniversary.
All Across America States are saying NO to NSA Spying! Everybody is Getting Tired of being Bullied by the Feds! Wednesday, June 4, 2014, the New Hampshire House and Senate gave final approval to a bill that bans government officials from…Read more →
Bergdahl is a bust, Obama in a bind, and the VA scandal is gone from the news. Seattle joins the school shooting list, and tops the LGBT friendly list. Donald Sterling punked the entire US, …
Seventy years ago, on June 6 1944, the Western Allies launched the largest amphibious operation in history, landing hundreds of thousands of men and tanks onto the beaches of Normandy. American, British, Canadian, Australian and various "Free Forces" (Czech, French, Polish, etc.) took part in the operation, backed by the British and US naval and […]
Irrespective of how one feels about the direction taken by various Arab revolutions in the last three years, a few facts remain incontestable. Arab revolts began in the streets of poor, despairing Arab cities, and Arabs had every right to rebel considering the dismal state of affairs in which they live. Few disagree with these […]
Insurgents attempted to take over Mosul from the west, but the government was able to take back most of the city. At least 166 people were killed and 101 more were wounded there and across Iraq. There were foreign nationals among the dead insurgents.
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke today with Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes about the Bowe Bergdahl case.
Justin was at his best, check it out:
Justin Raimondo on Alan Colmes
Joe and Zim in the dugout -- where else?"Our universal affection for Zim is complicated, beginning as it does with our childlike joy in his bald cannonball head and stumpy bod and jack-o'-lantern grin, but encompassing as well, I think, a deep trust in and respect for his decades of exemplary competitive service, without stardom or contemporary distraction."-- The New Yorker's Roger Angell, in "
TweetMoriartys speak with James Corbett about Libya, Faraj Muftah of the Libyan tribes joins the conversation.
Tags: CorbettMoriaryLibyan tribes
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. INN World Report with Tom Kiely June 6, 2014 [download INN audio]
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 5, 2014
Aviano’s Fighting Falcons sharpen CAS skills in Exercise Adriatic Strike
By Senior Airman Matthew Lotz
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy: F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 31st Fighter Wing are conducting close air support training missions this week during Exercise Adriatic Strike in Postojna, Slovenia.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
June 5, 2014
Aviano’s Fighting Falcons sharpen CAS skills in Exercise Adriatic Strike
By Senior Airman Matthew Lotz
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy: F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 31st Fighter Wing are conducting close air support training missions this week during Exercise Adriatic Strike in Postojna, Slovenia.
As we mark the start of Snowden Year 2, world’s second biggest phone carrier reveals direct taps by unnamed government….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Vodaphone, world’s #2 carrier, reveals permanent, hard-wired “back doors” for surveillance
–Germany’s Deutche Telekom set to report on government surveillance next
–Senate Intel committee badly split over House’s weak and insidious “NSA reform bill”
Last night, writing about the need to cope with China's role in Climate Change, Paul Krugman pointed out that "any attempt to make sense of current American politics must take into account this particular indicator of the Republican Party’s descent into madness." Krugman's analysis stands up across a dozen "issues," but it doesn't take into account the bitter and primitive racism and white outrage at the heart of the deranged and persistent drive to delegitimize the presidency of Barack Obama, a der
This is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. It is a great blessing that western Europe is now at peace – regardless of how much political leaders squabble at the commemoration ceremony. D-Day back in the news reminds me of my first visit to World War Two venues.
In 1977, after dropping out of college, I hustled up the money to take off for a two-month hitchhiking tour of Europe. After landing and spending five days in Paris, I headed to the city’s western suburbs to catch a ride to Normandy.
By Shamus Cooke | Workers Action | June 6, 2014
“Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012
By Shamus Cooke | Workers Action | June 6, 2014
“Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012
Authorities shot and killed a sovereign citizen Friday morning outside a Georgia courthouse after he brought weapons and explosives in an attempt to take over the building.
Raw Story
Investigators said Dennis Marx arrived at the Forsyth County Administration Building with an assault rifle, bulletproof vest, smoke grenades, and a gas mask.
After five years of captivity in Afghanistan, has Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl been released only to spend the rest of his life in an American prison? Ron Paul wonders what it would be like if we had non-interventionist foreign policy. We haven’t had a Constitutional declaration of war since World War II. What if we had had no wars since then? Not only would it have saved countless lives in this war and those before it, but Americans prosperity would be intact. We wouldn’t have a VA health care crisis, since there would be so few veterans in need of attention.
Conventional wisdom is so weird. Right now, it's telling us that November will see the Republicans will increase their margin in the House and probably take over the Senate as well. Tools of conventional wisdom, Steve Israel and Guy Cecil-- respectively-- are fulfilling destiny for the House and Senate.
National Radio Company of Ukraine
June 6, 2014
Extra UAH 10.5 bln spent on army in last three months – Yatseniuk
The Ukrainian authorities have allocated an extra UAH 10.5 billion (about $1bln) over the last three months to improve the combat capacity of the army, Ukrainian Premier Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.
National Radio Company of Ukraine
June 6, 2014
Extra UAH 10.5 bln spent on army in last three months – Yatseniuk
The Ukrainian authorities have allocated an extra UAH 10.5 billion (about $1bln) over the last three months to improve the combat capacity of the army, Ukrainian Premier Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.
“Assad’s days are numbered” – President Obama, February 2012
Living in denial is the easiest way to avoid hard truths, but it’s a horrible way for a government to conduct foreign policy. Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry recently scoffed at the elections in Syria, calling them “meaningless.” The U.S. media obediently agreed, while the rest of the world drew a much more realistic opinion. It’s true that an election during an ongoing conflict isn’t ideal for democracy, but the deeper truths exposed by the election were completely ignored by the US government and media.
ht to John for bringing this to mindFollowing up on the thought-line of psychological operations that manipulate you into believing or participating in activities that are not really beneficial to you as an individual.
Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing creates a moral frequency that vast numbers of people are eager to hear. We don’t want our lives, communities, country and world continually damaged by the deadening silences of fear and conformity.
By Chris Anders | ACLU | June 6, 2014
Top senators thought you wouldn’t notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file the bill.
By Chris Anders | ACLU | June 6, 2014
Top senators thought you wouldn’t notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file the bill.
by Judith Curry
The impact of climate change looms large as a deep uncertainty with global consequences. – Khalra et al.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 6, 2014
Reshaping Transatlantic Defense and Security for a post-Crimean world
Panel remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Wrocław Global Forum (Poland)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 6, 2014
Reshaping Transatlantic Defense and Security for a post-Crimean world
Panel remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Wrocław Global Forum (Poland)
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war
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Siegfried Sassoon
Enemies
He stood alone in some queer sunless place
Where Armageddon ends. Perhaps he longed
