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Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America’s longest war. U.S. troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, in a war that has...
Remember The Hunt for Red October? Tom Clancy’s first novel (1985), it was also the first novel ever published by, of all things, The United States Naval Institute Press, a 19th century spin-off of the US Naval Academy previously known exclusively for naval professional reference books, such as...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, August 19, 2019 Rumors Fly That Don Will Back Down on Huawei Sanctions, but He Denies Appeasement Plan; British Bureaucracy Leaks “Operation Yellowhammer” Contingency Plan for No-Deal Brexit; Even Moderate...
An uptick in Turkish strikes against the PKK wounded and terrified various civilians.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Turkish Strikes Wound Civilians; Eight Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Is a murder committed more heinous than a suicide allowed? In its act, sure. In this context? NO.
An “unlucky accident” like this is the ONE THING that a non-corrupt State must prevent. It’s the non-corrupt State’s ONE JOB to keep Epstein alive for trial, and everyone knows that...
President Trump is considering designating Antifa as a terrorist group. Journalist Andy Ngo documented the violence by Antifa in Portland over the weekend, including this account of an assault: "A middle-age man was maced and beaten by an antifa mob. He was knocked unconscious to the ground."...
In both Yemen and Syria, the War Party has found an ally that they can get behind, you know, one that really supports our values: al-Qaeda. From time to time they have even managed to get President Trump to go along with this nonsense – presumably due to the baleful influence of John Bolton. (...
Since when does a (mostly) respected press pundit sound just like an army general? Well, for a while now, in fact. Politicians and reporters will argue viciously about all kinds of issues: immigration, healthcare, race, et al. There’s only one sacred cow that mainstream insiders – both "left"...
Nowadays it is hard for anyone much under the age of 50 to imagine, but once upon a time the threat of nuclear war and the prospect of planetary extinction were things people actually worried about. Backyard bomb shelters, duck and cover in the classroom, LBJ’s 1964 “Daisy” ad, apocalyptic books...
Iraqi forces launched a new operation south of Mosul.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: New Anti-ISIS Operation in Nineveh; 14 Killed or Found Dead in Iraq 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
Tobias Smollett: War contractors fattened on the blood of the nation
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Tobias Smollett
From The History and Adventures of an Atom
Success of any...
"His shameless talk of dialogue between the North and South [at a time like this] raises questions about his mental faculties… We have nothing to say to South Korean authorities and have no intention of sitting down with them again."* These are just some of the highlights of a North Korean...
Attacks on militiamen occurred.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Random Attacks on Militia; Four Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Hill has an extensive criminal history, and has been convicted six times on charges that involved illegal possession of guns, drug dealing, and aggravated assault. He has been in and out of prison and was able to beat criminal charges on everything from kidnapping to attempted murder.
Former Blackwater USA guard Nicholas Slatten was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison nearly eight months after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for his role in the September 2007 massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians at Nisour Square in Baghdad. "The jury got it exactly right, this...
The number of casualties from an ammo depot fire and explosion was revised.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Ammo Depot Casualties Rise; 15 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
This article originally appeared at TruthDig. In once, and to some extent still, relatively cosmopolitan Baghdad, Iraq, I once saw three young female college students from Mustansiriyah University walking home from class. They couldn’t have been more differently clothed. One wore a full burqa...
Seventy members of the U.S. Congress (16% of the total membership) are visiting Israel during recess. Most of the private funding for the junket arrives through an entity called the American Israel Education Foundation. AIEF officially formed as a "supporting organization of the American Israel...
The Islands are being flooded with pregnant women to gain US citizenship for their children through automatic birthright citizenship if they are born on US soil. Relatives also can obtain citizenship through chain migration.
Social media users directed vitriol not only at the president’s demeanor in the photo, but also the families of victims for daring to pose with him.
The curriculum claims that people of color are are exploited, and teaches children to join movements to oppose the system. It teaches that the entire economic system is benighted, violent change is needed, and America is evil. Parents pay for all this.
As if it weren’t enough of a downer for Russiagate true believers that no Trump-Russia collusion was found, federal judges are now demanding proof that Russia hacked into the DNC in the first place. It is shaping up to be a significant challenge to the main premise of the shaky syllogism that...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. After almost 18 years of the war (or rather wars) on (or perhaps of) terror, there’s some good news! The Washington Post reports that American troops are finally coming home from Afghanistan! Actually, let me amend that slightly. They will only come home if...
Just nu går det en våg av 80-talsnostalgi genom populärkulturen. Det är därför jag vill titta närmare på tonårsfilmer från perioden i den här artikelserien. Nostalgivågor är inget nytt för vår tid. På 80-talet, som man nu längtansfullt blickar tillbaka på, så var 50-talet inne. Då hade nämligen...
With the indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, we are seeing the US government’s blatant attack on the First Amendment. This assault now is officially acknowledged by a US federal court, where the judge dismissed a Democratic...
It has long been called the most dangerous place in the world. Still, few Americans know anything about the place; nor could they point out the troubled region of Kashmir on a map. Yet for 62 years India and Pakistan have contested for control of the province. In fact, a long-running insurgency...
A fire at an ammunition storage facility set off a number of rockets.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Fire Engulfs Baghdad Ammo Depot; 19 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Did you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't...
Call it a summer whim or something about this grim moment of ours, but I had an urge to post at TomDispatch my very first piece of published writing. It appeared 48 years ago in what was, at the time, one of the more obscure journals on the face of the Earth, one I helped … Continue reading "...
NBC news ran a story titled, "Russia-linked Twitter accounts promoted ‘doxxing’ over racial tension videos." The article claims some videos that went viral on twitter featuring confrontations between white people and minorities would not have been so popular if it wasn’t for some "Russia-linked...
Sinophobia is certainly on the rise again. We hear the usual drumbeat of warnings about tiny islands in the South China Sea and the supposedly dangerous Chinese Navy, a threat used to justify spending even more on the US Navy (which is already larger than the next 13 navies combined – and 11 of...
by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
‘modern climate sensitivity is relatively low in the context of the geological record, as a result of relatively weak feedbacks due to a relatively low CO2 baseline, and the presence of ice and relatively small ocean...
Latest Nadler Subpoena to White House Lawyer McGahn States “Formal Impeachment Proceeding” Is Already Underway; House Judiciary Committee to Reconvene in August, with Vote on Articles Before End of Year Likely; Pelosi Leadership on Board; Northern Virginia Moderate Dem Connolly Is Addition to...
A longtime friend and stalwart of the libertarian movement, J. Neil Schulman, has passed (born April 16, 1953, died Aug. 10, 2019), according to libertarian Tom Knapp. I’ve been writing too many of these obituaries of libertarian luminary friends lately.1 I read Neil’s libertarian sci-fi novels...
One U.S. Service Member was killed during an operation in northern Iraq.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
George Gissing: Selections on war
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George Gissing
From The Crown of Life
He had tired himself; his mind slipped from the beautiful things around...
Back in December 2018, President Trump announced he would be withdrawing US troops from Syria. The establishment came out in full force to squash this idea. Trump was attacked by Democrats, Republicans and just about all the talking heads and pundits of the mainstream media. The most common...
For the second consecutive Democratic debate, Joe Biden has failed to come to terms about his critical role in supporting the illegal, unnecessary, and predictably disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. There is nothing new about this. Biden has a long history of inaccurate claims...
Mortars were launched at several villages in Diyala province.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Mortar Fire in Diyala province; Seven Killed in Iraq 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
George Gissing: Selections on war
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George Gissing
From The Crown of Life
With a boldness natural to the hour, he drew nearer, nearer, watching his...
Terror grips the most militarized zone in the world after India’s Central Government terminated Jammu and Kashmir’s 70-year-old “special status” as the first step towards stripping the disputed region of statehood entirely. Internationally infamous as the world’s hottest potential nuclear...
Justin Trudeau presents himself as "progressive" on foreign affairs. The Liberals claim to have brought Canada "back" after the disastrous Harper Conservatives. But their nuclear weapons policy demonstrates the emptiness of this rhetoric. Reducing the chance nuclear weapons are used again should...
To say that Clifford May, founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, loves war would be an understatement. He loves almost everything about war and he thinks the US should be in a lot more of them. He thinks that the US should never go home, should never withdraw troops, should...
The Trump administration, with John Bolton on the only battlements he’ll ever man, is at it again. This time, enacting sweeping financial punishments on businesses who would dare transact with Venezuela’s Maduro government. "The Maduro regime now joins that exclusive club of rogue states [Cuba,...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 8, 2019 Biden Issues Realistic Call to Prove Trump Is an Aberration by Denying Him a Second Term – on Pain of Permanent Grievous Damage to American Life; Correctly Identifies American Creed as Universal...
Nu har vi kommit till den andra artikeln i min serie om tonårsfilmer från 80-talet. Men är E.T. verkligen en tonårsfilm? Nja, den är nog mest en familjefilm, men passar även ungdomar i de yngre tonåren. Jag minns inte hur gammal jag själv var när jag såg den första gången – jag såg den...
Seventy-four years ago today the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This nuclear weapon resulted in the deaths of an estimated 140,000 individuals. Three days later on August 9, a similar attack was carried out on the city of Nagasaki, Japan killing an...
Terror grips the most militarized zone in the world after India’s Central Government terminated Jammu and Kashmir’s 70-year-old "special status" as the first step towards stripping the disputed region of statehood entirely. Internationally infamous as the world’s hottest potential nuclear...
On July 29, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), was later denied by the Israeli police, likely to lessen the impact of the PR disaster that...
Also, Turkish strikes in northern Iraq continued.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Clashes Against ISIS in Diyala; Nine Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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