Category Archives: Iraq/Military
We are a country of amnesiacs
By Jack Neworth America’s foremost humorist, Mark Twain, considered the Spanish-American War rather ironic. (Actually he considered it rather criminal.) Our forefathers had come to America to escape tyranny, and yet we became imperialists. George Washington warned the country against … Continue reading
Filed under History, Iraq/Military
Questions Persist As To US Arms Treaty Compliance
By Janet Phelan Geneva, Switzerland — Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention, which is being held now … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military, Science/Technology
Bioweapons Are US
By Janet C. Phelan The Center for Disease Control has declined to confirm or deny allegations that the United States government is stockpiling biological and/or chemical weapons at Sierra Army Depot, a military base in Northern California. According to a … Continue reading
Filed under Iraq/Military, Politics
Depleted Uranium strikes friends and foes alike in Libya
By Karl Abrams High in the skies of Libya, NATO jets, equipped with uranium bullets and uranium-tipped missiles, are probably being used to assist Libyan rebels in toppling the regime of Muammar Gaddafy. France, Great Britain and the US regularly … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, International, Iraq/Military, Karl Abrams
A Tale of Two Wars: Vietnam/Afghanistan
By Clay Claiborne In the spirit of Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I offer the following combined brief history of the Vietnam and Afghan Wars: Although the War in [Vietnam|Afghanistan] was started by the previous occupant … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military
Dumping Sidebar: US Military Dumping of Carbon
In 2006 the Department of Defense was the largest consumer of energy in the world – using 1 quadrillion BTU. A standard military M-1 Abrams tank will only go 20 miles on 100 gallons of fuel. Lets not forget the … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Homeless/RVs, Iraq/Military
New “Pentagon Papers” Describe the Insanity of the Afghan War
EDITORIAL: Time To Pull Out About 75,000 documents describing a war without a purpose in Afghanistan have been “liberated” from military computers with another 15,000 to come. The documents describe, among other things, U.S. soldiers randomly shooting Afghan civilians and … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military
Military-Industrial Complex Now Official
Forty-eight years after the term was coined by a retiring President Dwight Eisenhower, the military and industry have tied the knot in El Segundo. According to the Torrance Daily Breeze, The Aerospace Corp., a private company, and the Los Angeles … Continue reading
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It Did Happen Here: When our Japanese neighbors were sent to concentration camps
By Scott Yuda, Jr. During World War II, under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi organization’s “rule,” so to speak, ordered for any person 1/8 Jewish or more to be relocated to concentration camps, where they were decimated. Ultimately, approximately six … Continue reading
Filed under Civil Rights, Human Rights/Constitution, Iraq/Military, Politics, Venice
Film Review: Vietnam: American Holocaust
By Karl Abrams This incredible historical-political documentary by Venice filmmaker Clay Claiborne is an eye-opening account of the horrors and atrocities of the Vietnam War. It depicts, scene-by-scene, how misguided, ignorant and xenophobic racist U.S. war policies were mercilessly carried … Continue reading
Filed under Film Review, International, Iraq/Military
