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Israeli media and Zionist apologists everywhere are busy whitewashing Israel’s globally-tattered image using the rare indictment of an Israeli terrorist, Amiram Ben Uliel, who was recently convicted for murdering the Palestinian Dawabsheh family, including an 18-month-old toddler in the town of...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Consider it strange. The U.S. has been fighting in Somalia on and off (mostly on) since the early 1990s. (Who, of a certain age, doesn’t remember the "Black Hawk Down" fiasco?) Almost 30 years later, at a time when the U.N. secretary-general, supported by dozens...
After nearly 30 years without nuclear test explosions by the United States, the Trump administration is flirting, in 2020, with resuming explosive tests. This follows on the heels of China’s new security bill on Hong Kong and the flurry of Congressional and executive attempts to accelerate our...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Frederic Manning: The Trenches
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Frederic Manning
Wind
Blow, wind! Strip the great trees
That are like ebony against a sky of jade,
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One of the more dangerous symptoms of the Covid-19 pandemic is the ever-increasing tensions between Washington and Beijing. The relationship could be the worst it’s been since President Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972. This new Cold War is being played out in many theaters, including Hong...
Another Memorial Day, another holiday filled with politicians rhapsodizing about the valiant sacrifices of courageous military men and women. Freedom isn’t free, we are told, as high officials extol the armed services for protecting Americans’ liberties. It sounds so glorious. Especially...
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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
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Nancy Byrd Turner
Let Us Have Peace
The earth is weary of our foolish wars.
Her hills and shores...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Wilfred Wilson Gibson
The Bayonet
This bloody steel
Has killed a man.
I heard him squeal
As on I ran.
He watched me come
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“A ‘Neocon’ is neither new or conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.” – Edward Abbey Being an unrepentant Neocon, such as William (Bill) Kristol, means never having to say you’re sorry. To qualify, you need to be an ideologue, who also has paid no price for recklessly cheerleading 4,...
Militants continue their attacks in northern Iraq.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 11 Killed; Attack on Refinery appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Russian writers on war
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Sergei Mstislavsky
From Rook, Herald of Spring
Translated by David Skvirsky
“In Conrad Vallenrod Mickiewicz has an introductory ballad about a Moorish...
Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is best known for his connection to the Russiagate investigation. Lost in that hubbub, however, was Flynn’s slimy role as a lobbyist for Turkey. A Turkish businessman paid Flynn $530,000 in 2016 to push pro-Turkey, anti-Kurd policies in hopes of...
When a Wall Street Journal editorial warned this week against any precipitous U.S. withdrawal that might imperil our gains in Afghanistan, an exasperated President Trump shot back: "Could someone please explain to them that we have been there for 19 years. … and except at the beginning, we never...
The terrorist attack carried out on December 6, 2019 by a Saudi national who was in the US for pilot training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station is back in the news. Three Americans were killed and eight injured in this second surreptitious terrorist attack carried out on US soil by Saudi...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Frederic Manning: Blow, wind! Drown the senseless thunder of the guns.
Frederic Manning: The Trenches
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Frederic Manning
Leaves
A frail and...
Turkish warplanes made anothe rpass at Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Five Killed; Turkish Jets Bomb PKK Targets appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the "shatat", or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their political differences or backgrounds. For years, social media has added a whole new...
Americans treasure their veterans; or so it seems. Every solitary soldier’s life matters, or is at least accounted for. Here the exactitude of the military’s casualty statistics tells the story. Such catalogues reflect more than a simple Pentagon penchant for lists – they are imbued with meaning...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
William Faulkner: There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
William Faulkner: To militarists, all civilians, even their own, are alien intruders
...Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission. The U.S. assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani in January touched off a new wave of disinformation about Soleimani, with Trump administration allies branding him a global terrorist while painting Iran as the world’s...
Seldom mentioned among the motives behind the persistent drumming on alleged Russian interference was an overarching need to help the Security State hide their tracks. The need for a scapegoat to blame for Hillary Clinton’s snatching defeat out of the jaws victory also played a role; as did the...
Security forces launched several operations against ISIS militants after attacks.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 14 Killed; Security Forces Attack ISIS appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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There's a passage in Teddy Roosevelt's famous 1910 “Citizenship in a Republic” speech I want to share with you today:
If a man’s efficiency is not guided and regulated by a moral sense, then the more efficient he is the worse he is, the more dangerous to the body...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Edmund Blunden
IIth R.S.R.
How bright a dove’s wing shows against the sky
When thunder’s blackening up in monstrous cloud,
How silver clear...
How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus? You think this is an absolutely insane question? However, before you dismiss it, think...
Supports of the Shi'ite militias attacked a television station.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 14 Killed; TV Station Stormed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Frederic Manning: Blow, wind! Drown the senseless thunder of the guns.
Frederic Manning: Shells hounding through air athirst for blood
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Frederic Manning...
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Public opinion polls soliciting the views of American voting age adults on timely policy matters impacting Israel and its US lobby are scarce. Americans are only rarely asked about whether they approve of the U.S. having given the lion’s share of the foreign aid budget to Israel over the last...
Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. On April 30, Bensouda released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases...
Many observers have been mystified by the Saudi regime’s hold over President Donald Trump. For years he had criticized the gaggle of corrupt, dissolute royals. He also asked why Americans were paying to defend the wealthy, licentious al-Saud family, as it practiced totalitarianism at home and...
The surge in ISIS attacks continues.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 15 Killed; Fresh ISIS Attacks appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
There are huge differences in Covid-19 deaths per million of population (Covid-19 deaths/ M) in the nations of the Anglosphere 5-Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, to whit 4/M (New Zealand), 4/M (Australia), 151/M (Canada), 272 (US) and 508 (UK). These huge differences in national Covid-19...
ISIS attacks continue in the Diyala province area and nearby.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 10 Killed; Ongoing ISIS Attacks appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
By Stephen Gowans
May 16, 2020
It’s no accident that one of the world’s great morons—he who thinks injecting disinfectants and shining bright lights into bodily cavities will save the world from COVID-19—should be cheering on one the world’s most moronic public health policy...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Ukrainian writers on war
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Oles Honchar
Translated by V. Scheerson
I heard of the outbreak of war at the Korolenko Public Library in Kharkov.
Buried in books and notes, I was...
Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, President Trump manufactured a crisis with Iran by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposing brutal sanctions. This interview with Sussan Tahmasebi, director of FEMENA, an organization that supports women human rights defenders, reveals how the Trump...
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” ~ Albert Camus, “The Plague” Camus’ novel of a lethal contagion in the North African city of Oran is filled with characters all too recognizable today: indifferent or incompetent officials...
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing – and covert raiding – campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media...
A surge in ISIS attacks continued.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 16 Killed in ISIS Attacks appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Russian writers on war
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Vsevolod Kochetov
From The Zhurbins
Translated by R. Daglish
“There’s a fierce struggle going on in the world. The forces of peace are growing and getting...
It is time for the United States to end its bipartisan blanket support for Israeli policies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. At this critical moment, where Israel has announced its intention to annex Israeli settlements on the West Bank with the support of the Trump administration...
My first run in with Israeli politician Gilad Erdan took place on July 1, 2018, when I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, passport and visa in hand. After seven hours of interrogation, I was told that Erdan had had my visa revoked and was sending me directly back to the U.S. "We …...
This originally appeared on May 15, 2015 Many of us have heard the song, most of those probably know its famous backstory: “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming/We’re finally on our own/This summer I hear the drumming/Four dead in Ohio” sang Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young in 1971. The Kent State...
On two days in May fifty years ago, American police and National Guard troops fired their weapons into crowds of anti-Vietnam-War protesters, killing six American students at two American state universities. On May 4, 1970 Ohio National Guard troops fatally wounded Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller...
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