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For the past three years, several dozen New Yorkers have gathered each Saturday at Union Square, at 11:00 a.m. to vigil for peace in Yemen. Now, however, due to the coronavirus, the vigil for peace is radically altered. Last week, in recognition of the city’s coming shelter in place program,...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, March 26, 2020 US Reports Record 3.28 Million New Claims for Unemployment Benefits; Figure Underestimates Real Total Because Many State Jobless Reporting Sites Crashed and Many Calls Were Never Answered; Self-...
Victor Charlie debuted in 1954 as the Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee. Mid-1950s Vietnamese revolutionaries, inside US-occupied zones, morphed into: "the Front" – joining patriotic, Buddhist and peace societies en masse. By 1962, 250,000 activists enlivened myriad societies whilst gathering info...
While the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic, tensions between the US and Iran are heating up. The two countries are engaging in tit-for-tat military attacks that threaten a wider war. In mid-March, Washington officials accused an Iran-allied militia of launching rockets at a US military...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has often declared that he considers himself to be a devout evangelical Christian, and in November 2019 told the New York Times Magazine that the Bible “informs everything I do.” Given that his religious convictions are based on the Bible, he is doubtless...
The level of panic and misdirection are off the bloody charts. Here in New York we’re being warned about makeshift morgues that will be overflowing. Followed by a shortage. Of morgues. How’s that for sobering, Sparky? The Javits Center is now a 1000+ bed MASH unit ready to receive...
by James Bovard
March 26, 2020
“Thank God for the Deep State,” declared former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin while appearing on a panel at the National Press Club last October. In...
Exceptionalism, triumphalism, chauvinism. These characteristics define most empires, including, like it or not, these United States. The sequence matters. A people and national government that fancies itself exceptional – an example for the rest of the world – is apt to assert itself militarily...
A P.K.K. attack left two Turkish Soldiers dead.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Turkish Soldiers Among 16 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
By Nic Lewis
Introduction
There has been much media coverage about the danger to life posed by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. While it is clearly a serious threat, one should consider whether the best evidence supports the current degree of panic and hence government policy....
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Who said this? It’s so profound and...
The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now...
I was one of the panelists tossing questions at Libertarian Party presidential candidates at the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania‘s convention on March 7. Kudos to 3L Productions for making a superb video of the debate. Larry Sharpe did a great job of moderating the panel. I asked Sharpe...
March 24, 2020 2:32 PM ET
Last week, President Donald Trump proclaimed that “we are at war with an invisible enemy,” and on Sunday he said, “I’m a wartime...
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The bill had already been rushed through...
COVID is changing everything, including foreign policy. Just a few weeks ago, the United States thought it was a swell idea to station troops in more than 150 countries, five of them war zones. Even in Afghanistan, a hopeless quagmire if ever there was one, it found it easier to throw good money...
Three dumped bodies were found together.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 10 Killed; Dumped Bodies Found appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Jon Utley, one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom activists in the nation, passed away yesterday. For 30 years, Jon was in the forefront of the antiwar movement since he spearheaded a group to oppose President George H.W. Bush’s war against Iraq. Jon was a rare voice of reason and...
With the shutdown of many sectors of the economy in response to coronavirus, US news outlets are expected to take a big hit. Major outlets that rely on advertising money and print newspapers will hurt the most. The Stranger, a free weekly newspaper based in Seattle, has asked its readers for...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Though my father served in World War II (an experience he would seldom talk about), I was never in a war myself, nor has the rest of my family been. Nothing strange there. It’s typical, in fact, of American life since the draft was abolished in 1973 and the all-...
"Red" (Morgan Freeman): "Hope is a dangerous thing my friend, it can kill a man…" Andy (Tim Robbins): "Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." ~ The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Two futures lie before us. Like the classic visions of late-Old...
Airstrikes killed ISIS members in northern Iraq.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 16 Killed; Airstrikes on ISIS Sites appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
I’d like to thank everyone whose followed me on here. Trying to make a blog popular in the Youtube age certainly isn’t easy.
I’ve finally decided to register my own website https://www.angryforeigner.net/
after my YouTube channel almost got deleted by mistake in the fall of 2019:...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Clinton Scollard: Selections on war and peace
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Clinton Scollard
In The Night
Sometimes grim horror grips me in the night
When I am...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Women writers on peace and war
Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and peace
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Katharine Lee Bates
Mother
“Mother! Mother!” he...
The administration of President Donald Trump may escape the most recent conflict with Iran without war, however, a dangerous escalation is just over the horizon. And as before, the key factors driving the belligerence are not outraged Iraqi militia leaders or their allies in Iran, but Trump’s...
Last week the US District Judge Anthony Trenga released Chelsea Manning from detainment after concluding that the grand jury that she had been subpoenaed to testify before no longer needed her, since it was being disbanded. Manning was incarcerated because of her principled stance against the...
A man was killed by an old landmine, while mortars fell elsewhere.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: One Killed; Rocket Attacks Continue appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
In Xinjiang, China has started a massive crackdown on Uighur Muslims and is using high-tech tools developed in Silicon Valley to assist its efforts. China claims that this crackdown has a legitimate basis, to stop terrorism and Islamic extremism. However, human rights organizations say it is the...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Clinton Scollard: Selections on war and peace
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Clinton Scollard
The Night Sowers
(France)
Lo, these are they that toil by night...
The Hill-Burton Act (The Act hereinafter) signed into law by President Harry S (N.B. No period after S) Truman on August 13, 1946, was nothing short of monumental in every sense of the word. It was game changing, historically critical and more relevant now and today than at any time. It...
I was delighted with the wide distribution given to my last essay on the ‘Tereshkova Amendment’ to the Russian Constitution which, when the reform of the Basic Law is approved by nationwide referendum, as widely anticipated, will set the presidential terms served up to now by Vladimir Putin back...
Big news Monday night: Buried amid the panic over the corona virus. Robert Mueller's prosecutors got the green light to flush down the toilet one of their major cases alleging that Russia hacked the 2016 U.S. Presidential election – US District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich on Monday evening...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Nick Turse began covering what might be thought of as the secret history of American war in this century – the rise and spread of American Special Operations forces – for TomDispatch in 2011. That was the year when he first revealed that special-ops deployments...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
German writers on peace and war
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Georg Ebers
From Uarda
A Romance Of Ancient Egypt
Translated by Clara Bell
Here men were lamenting and casting dust upon their heads, there...
by Judith Curry
A thread devoted to technical topics, e.g. epidemiology, immunology, treatments. A more general thread will be coming shortly.
On the one hand, many Americans have nothing but time on their hands. With folks out of work, working from home, and socially quarantined, there’s never been a better time to make a sizable dent in their book queues and catch up on the sort of analytical articles found here at Antiwar.com. At...
For the past three years the new narrative of Russian interference in U.S. elections has bound corporate news media more tightly than ever to the interests of the national security state. And no outlet has pushed that narrative more aggressively – and with more violence to the relevant facts –...
U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the US"maximum pressure" policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while...
It was an inside job
By the well-connected
Your little protest
Summarily rejected — Don Henley/Michael W. Campbell
Friends and patriots, I greet you with the holy word peace, quoth the Prophet Omega.
Please allow me this. Please...
by James Bovard
Screengrab from Cryptocurrency Market Making With Duncan Lemp | You Tube Jim BovardFive days after shooting 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a predawn raid,...
Macron ordered a strict 15-day lockdown across the entire country, requiring people to stay at home to stop the spread of the virus. He said that police will patrol the streets and issuing fines for people without a written declaration justifying their reasons for being out.
While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there. After an Iran-aligned militia allegedly struck a US base near Baghdad on March 11, the US...
As Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman arrests his nearest relatives on treason charges, Saudi Arabia is bracing itself for a new reign of terror. But rest assured, it’s only temporary. At the end of the line lies something even worse: full-scale collapse. Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before from...
“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he was chosen to be Barack Obama’s running mate in the 2008 elections. Biden is, of course, correct, because Zionism is a political movement that...
Mortars wounded several in northern Iraq.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Two Killed; Mortar Attacks in the North appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
I bid you the holy word of peace. And hello. And calm. And sangfroid and equanimity and equipoise.
You must relax and focus. Be frightened but don’t panic. Listen and learn. Stock up on data. Fill your larder with facts and information and throw out expired fear. Lose the...I may have been a rube, but I knew enough not to startle the gargantuan glowering prison guard with that double-barreled shotgun propped...
As Americans are gripped with fear over the coronavirus, the cholera epidemic quietly continues in Yemen. The disease spreading in Yemen is not some new untreatable virus, but a well-known illness that can be easily prevented with access to clean water, or with a cheap oral vaccine. The outbreak...
The US and EU sanctions on Syria have taken a toll on the health and welfare of the Syrian people for many years. They were designed to “hurt” the Syrian government, but have only hurt the innocent unarmed Syrian civilians caught in the middle of a US-NATO-EU attack on the Syrian population for...
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