Category Archives: US military

Petraeus: Israel is putting American lives at risk (updated)

Posted on 15 March, 2010 by

Update I: All this is interesting given that General Petraeus has been named as the 2010 recipient of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)’s Kristol Award — is this a neocon attempt to politically co-opt a key military figure involved in … Continue reading →

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Terrorists R US

Posted on 7 January, 2010 by

An excellent short testimony from Mike Prysner, an Iraq war veteran connecting the dots between corporatism and militarism. To learn more about Michael Prysner and the organization he helped co-found, see March Forward!

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On PTSD, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq and Empire – Dahr Jamail

Posted on 16 November, 2009 by

An excellent and wide-ranging  interview with Dahr Jamail on US foreign policy, conducted by Cindy Piester. (The only quibble with the interview would be the claim that the occupation of Iraq is all about oil and the absence of the … Continue reading →

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Robot wars: a 'killer' application

Posted on 6 November, 2009 by

With unmanned, remote-controlled drones increasingly in use from Pakistan to Palestine, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, we are grimly reminded about the latest lethal machines from the high-tech military-industry complex and the putative robotics revolution in warfare. From Hungry … Continue reading →

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