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2014 Year in Review
Top articles from the second half of 2014 - new to this website!
The War Abroad and the War At Home
Selling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars Since the anti-war protests on Vietnam, the U.S. government has made “perception management” of the American people a high priority, feeding them a steady diet of propaganda about foreign crises, even getting “peace groups” to buy into “pro-democracy” wars, write Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley.
The War at Home Meets the Wars Abroad But now, we were marching down 4th Ave. because similar armored vehicles were being brought back from Iraq to be deployed in the “homeland.”
Imperialists for “Human Rights” “Human rights” has become the language of Western aggression.
by Noam Chomsky "It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it."
U.S. kept ties with terrorist group for its own purposes:
US reviewing democracy work in hostile countries "WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Monday it was reviewing some of its secretive democracy-promotion programs in hostile countries after The Associated Press reported that the nation's global development agency may effectively end risky undercover work in those environments. The proposed changes follow an AP investigation this year into work by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which established a Twitter-like service in Cuba and secretly sought to recruit a new generation of dissidents there while hiding ties to the U.S. government. The agency's proposed changes could move some of that work under America's diplomatic apparatus."
Drone-Strike Feminism "Of all the justificationsthe Obama administration has employed to sanctify yet another war on Iraq, none have been more disingenuous than the portrayal of the latest US bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, aka ISIL) as a feminist rescue mission."
Syria and ISIS
UN reveals Israeli links with Syrian rebels Reports by UN observers in the Golan submitted to 15 members of Security Council detail regular contact between IDF officers and armed Syrian opposition figures at the border.
Canada hails 'banner year' selling arms to Saudi Arabian dictatorship
Al-Mayadeen reveals Turkey aware of militants crossing border to Syria "A video published on Al-Mayadeen’s website on Tuesday revealed that up to 100 civilians and militants cross the Syrian-Turkish border daily under the surveillance of the Turkish army, which never interferes." Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels
Syrian opposition fighters obtain U.S.-made TOW antitank missiles
Obama's "Moderates" - US-Backed Hazzm Movement is Touted as a Secular and Model Rebel Group by Washington: See video of pro-ISIS group that Washington calls "moderate"
Sources: Qatar Runs Covert Training Camp for Syrian Rebels
General Dempsey: I know of Arab allies who fund ISIS
'IS' supply channels through Turkey
How the Islamic State evolved in an American prison
The Endgame of the US ‘Islamic State’ Strategy By Nicola Nasser "Dismantling what the former US President George W. Bush once described as the Syria – Iran component of the “axis of evil,” or interrupting in Iraq the geographical contiguity of what King Abdullah II of Jordan once described as the “Shiite crescent,” was and remains the strategic goal of the US – Israeli allies in the Middle East unless they succeed first in “changing the regime” in either Damascus or Tehran. The US, Israel and their regional allies have been on the record that the final target of their “regime change” campaign in the Middle East was to dismantle the Syria – Iran alliance."
The Gloating of the Neocons By Gary Leupp "They have successfully avoided prison. They have left behind in positions of power and influence fellow neocons (most notably, Victoria Nuland, architect of the Ukraine disaster) and neocon allies, “liberal internationalists” like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as an assortment of dear friends who simply love war, such as Sen. John McCain." The Islamic State’s Ideology Is Grounded in Saudi Education
U.S. admits training Syria rebels in:
Flashback: "How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen" "Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? Brzezinski: Yes."
Flashback: The Redirection From the Mouth of Biden: Veep Admits US Allies Fund/Arm Al Qaeda/ Al Nusra
Attack of the Five Monarchies
'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret plans A massive war operation is being waged to track and kill ISIS -- and it's a lot more than cruise missiles "A massive, $7.2 billion Army intelligence contract signed just 10 days ago underscores the central role to be played by the National Security Agency and its army of private contractors in the unfolding air war being carried out by the United States and its Gulf States allies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria."
How the West Created the Islamic State
The terrorism we support in Syria
Turkish government co-operated with al-Qaeda in Syria, says former US ambassador By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, and Raf Sanchez in Washington
Neocons Revive Syria 'Regime Change' Plan By Robert Parry, Consortium News 12 September 14
To really combat terror, end support for Saudi Arabia Owen Jones
Tearing Syria Apart by Jeremy Salt A war is being waged in and on Syria. Protecting the people from the dictator is no more than the usual pretext for attacks on Middle Eastern countries.
Ukraine
Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking by Dennis Kucinich
Blaming Russia for Everything? by Brian Cloughley
The American Conquest of Europe
Red Meat for an Anemic NATO Alliance By Medea Benjamin "While NATO insists that is has no plans for new permanent bases in Eastern Europe, it announced that troops will be rotated to the region every four months, creating what it calls a “persistent” presence. The force will be supported with logistics and equipment, including weapons and fuel pre-positioned in Eastern European countries closer to Russia. This will be enhanced by more military exercises and air patrols, as well as exercises in Ukraine. And the US government has already have committed some $60 million to provide the Ukraine military with items like night vision goggles, body armor, and communications equipment."
The IMF and World Bank plan for Ukraine
They’re lying about Ukraine, again: Primitive prejudice, stupidity and the reflexive compliance of the New York Times Patrick L. Smith
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda by John Pilger
Harper's War on Canada's Vets
Vets disability branch budget slashed 2009-2013, records show
Bill C-27 to prioritize hiring vets 'a hollow promise,' says advocate Canadian soldiers may be hiding health problems to protect pensions Veterans groups say Ottawa spending too much remembering old wars
More on the home front
Federal government monitoring protests in Hamilton
Stopping Harper's long-awaited Iraq War "Iraq slaughter + intervention in Syria = ISIS"
U.S. Veterans
Remembering Tomas Young and his fight for peace
1960s protestors didn't spit on Veterans - Veterans joined the anti-war movement: Tami's Torment: 'Suicides are a problem in the Guard'
Suicide Rate Among Vets and Active Duty Military Jumps - Now 22 A Day
“Chaptered Out”: US Military Seeks to Balance Budget on Backs of Disabled Veterans
'We lost our jobs for reporting being raped': Haunting photo essay depicts the suffering of women who were victims of sexual violence in the U.S. military
The Apartheid State in the Middle East
Israeli teenagers: Racist and proud of it Desmond Tutu: My plea to the people of Israel – Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine
Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare "The Palestinians use tunnels? So did my heroes, the poorly armed fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto."
Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: The U.S. Is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 04 August 14
Afghanistan
SIGAR: Pentagon's economic development in Afghanistan 'accomplished nothing'
Fighting simultaneously in Iraq and Afghanistan created "perfect storm" for British Armed Forces Former British Army heads have admitted that the British military was not prepared or equipped to fight in two countries at the same time
Africa The imperial agenda of the US's 'Africa Command' marches on Dan Glazebrook NATO-liberated Libya is breeding ground for ISIS
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