Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com; Huffington Post 20.12.13: "...the article by Andy Soltis accompanying the [Murdoch owned New York] Post headline last week began quite inaccurately. “A U.S. drone strike targeting al-Qaeda militants in Yemen,” went the first line, “took out an unlikely target on Thursday -- a wedding party heading to the festivities.” Soltis can, however, be forgiven his ignorance. In this country, no one bothers to count up wedding parties wiped out by U.S. air power. If they did, Soltis would have known that the accurate line, given the history of U.S. war-making since December 2001 when the first party of Afghan wedding revelers was wiped out (only two women surviving), would have been: “A U.S. drone... took out a likely target.”
"Madhusree Mukerjee geht dokumentarisch und analytisch vor. Sie zeigt, wie Churchill die eigenwillige »britische Kronkolonie« bekämpfte: indem er Indien währungspolitisch systematisch pauperisierte (britische Kriegskosten inflationär auf Indien abwälzte),
The conference stressed that in going forward, there is the need for unity in what is global strife and an international struggle; the need for networking, both at the conference and beyond; and education about U.S. military bases and militarism. The slide show, prepared by Sue Ann Martinson, is an overview of the conference.
Over 800 U.S./NATO Military Bases: the Resistance Builds
On January 20, Sarah Martin, Carol Walker, and Sue Ann Martinson from Women Against Military Madness delivered a report on the First International Conference Against U.S./NATO Foreign Military Bases that they attended this past November in Ireland. Approximately 300 participants from 35 countries participated in the conference, with speakers representing peace and justice movements from throughout the world, a first step in building a global network to oppose U.S./NATO bases.
Sonali Kolhatkar is a founding Director of the US-based solidarity organization, Afghan Women's Mission, which raises funds for social and political women-led projects in Afghanistan. She is co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. She is also the host and Executive Producer of Uprising, heard on KPFK Pacifica Radio.
DN 29.10.2010 Recension av Alf Hornborgs bok "Myten om maskinen". Ren miljö och grön teknik förblir ett privilegium för några få i det globala nollsummespelet om begränsade resurser. Sverker Lenas blir omtumlad av Alf Hornborgs analys av maskinen som fetisch.
If US intelligence is to be believed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ultimate bad guy.- Background article from 2004. (via archive.org) "In the run-up to the Iraq war in February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that al-Zarq
analysis of the concept of terrorism after the murder in Woolwich 25.5. " Labeling the violent acts of those Muslim Others as "terrorism" - but never our own - is a key weapon used to propagate this worldview. The same is true of the tactic that depicts their violence against us as senseless, primitive, savage and without rational cause, while glorifying our own violence against them as noble, high-minded, benevolent and civilized (we slaughter them with shiny, high-tech drones, cluster bombs, jet fighters and cruise missiles, while they use meat cleavers and razor blades). These are the core propagandistic premises used to sustain the central narrative on which the War on Terror has depended from the start (and, by the way, have been the core premises of imperialism for centuries).." "The defining tribalistic belief [...is...] a potent drive - something humans instinctively want to believe - and is therefore one that is easily manipulated by skillful propagandists."