Showing posts with label al Qaeda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label al Qaeda. Show all posts
Friday, October 19, 2018

TGIF: The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence: Trump, Bin Salman, and Netanyahu

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Even if the Saudi monarchy or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in particular did not murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi, that regime is an e...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Cable Noise Network: Mouthpiece for the War State

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CNN and its Pentagon stenographer, Barbara Starr, are shameless mouthpieces for the war state. In an article touting the Pentagon's unv...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bush, 9/11, and Iraq: Trump Gets It Right

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Donald Trump, for all his obnoxious demagoguery, is adding value to the presidential campaign by calling former President George W. Bush to ...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

A Conspiracy of Fear-Mongers

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Over the weekend CNN breathlessly reported as "Breaking News" -- it breathlessly reports everything as "Breaking News" -...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

How the U.S. Inspires Anti-American Terrorism

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From Stephen M. Walt : Our reluctance to consider whether certain aspects of U.S. foreign and defense policy inspire anti-American extremi...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Foreign Policy Comes Back to Haunt Us

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From the start, opponents of the American empire warned that the government could not violate the rights of foreigners without eventually vi...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

How to Respond to the Paris Attacks

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Look, even authoritarian and totalitarian states can't prevent domestic terrorism. What hope do relatively open societies have? Open so...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

TGIF: The Wickedness of Foreign Policy

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If you want to see how inhumane people can be, just watch those who make and execute foreign policy. We could spend all day discussing the c...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Drone War Delusions

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We are constantly told that US drones are surgically precise. But any weapon – especially a remote-controlled one – is only as accurate as ...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Obama Wades Further into Yemen

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“The U.S. Navy … has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt toward the waters off Yemen to join other American ships prepar...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

What the Hell Are We Doing in Yemen?

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The U.S. government has charged into another civil war in the Middle East. When you find yourself repeatedly asking, “Will they ever learn?...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

News Coverage Misleads American on the Bergdahl Swap

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In national-security matters, the news media couldn’t do a better job misinforming the public if they tried. The latest example is their po...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Op-ed Terrorist Threat Has Roots in U.S. Policy

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Each act of the empire provokes a response that serves as a pretext for further imperial action. The battlefield is the world, and the “wa...
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