US Foreign Policy

The $5 Trillion Wars

October 20, 2016 Linda Bilmes, www.bostonglobe.com Educate! US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By Linda Bilmes for The Boston Globe - THIS OCTOBER MARKS 15 years since American troops entered Afghanistan. It was a precursor to the occupation of Iraq and is the longest military conflict in US history. Yet the trillions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in these wars have rated barely a mention in the presidential campaign. The most recent estimates suggest that war costs will run to nearly $5 trillion — a staggering sum that exceeds even the $3 trillion that Joseph Stiglitz and I predicted back in 2008.

The United States As Destroyer Of Nations

October 17, 2016 Daniel Kovalik, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Imperialism, US Foreign Policy

By Daniel Kovalik for Counter Punch - In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 – an invasion which many Iraqis believe left their country in the worst condition it has been since the Mongol invasion of 1258 — there was much discussion in the media about the Bush Administration’s goal for “nation-building” in that country. Of course, if there ever were such a goal, it was quickly abandoned, and one hardly ever hears the term “nation-building” discussed as a U.S. foreign policy objective anymore.

State Department’s Alternate Reality On Palestine

October 17, 2016 Maureen Clare Murphy, www.electronicintifada.net Educate! Palestine, State Department, US Foreign Policy

By Maureen Clare Murphy for The Electronic Antifada - The Obama administration just handed Israel the largest military aid deal in US history. Now it is feigning outrage that Israel keeps colonizing the occupied West Bank, as it has done for decades, in defiance of the White House’s wishes. “We strongly condemn the Israeli government’s recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank,” State Department spokesperson Mark Toner saidon Wednesday.

40 Million Russians Set To Drill For World War III

October 11, 2016 Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com Educate! Nuclear War, Russia, US Foreign Policy

By Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge - I’ve been searching for ways to wake up America to the immediate danger of a Nuclear War, given the situation in the Middle East. Little to nothing has been said about WWIII in American mainstream media. If I bring the subject up in conversation with educated, intelligent Americans they look at me as though I’ve gone crazy, yet all indictors are that the Syrian situation is quickly going in this direction. If nothing else, this “preparedness event” of hopefully 40,000,000 Russians will put this discussion on the front burner here with American citizens, also European and other citizens across the world.

Western-Backed Coalition Under Pressure Over Yemen Raid

October 11, 2016 William Maclean, www.reuters.com Resist! United Kingdom (UK), US Foreign Policy, Yemen

By William Maclean for Reuters - An air strike on a funeral gathering, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old military push after planes hit mourners at a community hall in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing 140 people, according to one U.N. estimate and 82 according to the Houthis.

U.S. Admits Israel Is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime

October 11, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Organize! Apartheid, Israel, US Foreign Policy

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - IN 2010, ISRAEL’S then-defense minister, Ehud Barak, explicitly warned that Israel would become a permanent “apartheid” state if it failed to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians that creates their own sovereign nation and vests them with full political rights. “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic,” Barak said. “If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”

US Prepares For Nuclear War, Air Force Drops Two Faux Nukes

October 8, 2016 Marcus Weisgerber, www.defenseone.com Educate! Nuclear War, Russia, US Foreign Policy

By Marcus Weisgerber for Defense One - The tests in the Nevada desert come as tensions rise with Russia and the Pentagon seeks to replace its aging nuclear arsenal. A pair of U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers dropped two 700-pound faux nuclear bombs in the middle of the Nevada desert within the past few days. Now the Pentagon wants to tell you about it. Conducted “earlier this month,” according to an Oct. 6 press release, the test involved two dummy variants of the B61, a nuclear bomb that has been in the U.S. arsenal since the 1960s.

US Hypocrisy: Urges Inclusive Debates Around The World But Not In US

October 7, 2016 Lee Fang, www.theintercept.com Educate! Debates, Democracy, Elections, US Foreign Policy

By Lee Fang for The Intercept - When it comes to presidential debates, the United States does not practice what it preaches: When advising debate organizers in foreign countries, government officials advise them to include minor party candidates. USAID, the government agency charged with promoting foreign development, funded a guide for “organizers around the globe seeking to hold candidate debates for elected offices.” The guide, published in 2014, recommends that debates be as inclusive as possible.

New ‘Group Think’ For War With Syria/Russia

October 7, 2016 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Russia, Syria, US Foreign Policy

By Robert Parry for Consortium News - Not since the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq has Official Washington’s political/punditry class clamored more single-mindedly – and openly – for the U.S. government to commit a gross violation of international law, now urging a major military assault on the government of Syria while also escalating tensions with nuclear-armed Russia.

Look Back At What Snowden Told World About U.S.-Israel Relationship

October 6, 2016 Alex Kane, www.transcend.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Israel, US Foreign Policy

By Alex Kane for Mondoweiss and Transcend Media Service - 29 Sep 2016 – Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia. But the former intelligence contractor and National Security Agency-whistleblower has captured headlines in recent weeks, thanks to a confluence of events. Snowden is the focus of Oliver Stone’s new biopic, aptly called “Snowden,” which focuses on how Snowden went from a right-leaning CIA employee and NSA contractor to an internationally renowned leaker and whistleblower who blew the lid off mass surveillance in the digital age.

How Pentagon Paid PR Firm +$500 Million For Top Secret Iraq Propaganda

October 4, 2016 Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith, www.labs.thebureauinvestigates.com Educate! Iraq, Pentagon, Propaganda, US Foreign Policy

By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism -The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee.

America’s Deceptive Model For Aggression

September 28, 2016 Nicolas J S Davies, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! NATO, US Foreign Policy

By Nicolas J S Davies for Consortium News - Since NATO’s 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums “diplomacy,” lying about “war as a last resort” and selling aggression as humanitarianism, says Nicolas J S Davies. Across the political spectrum, U.S. leaders insist that they will only go to war “as a last resort.” They want us to believe that they will try every peaceful means to resolve differences with other countries before resorting to war.

Was It Mutiny? U.S. Rulers Split Over Syria

September 27, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - The decades-long U.S. policy of deploying Islamic jihadists as foot soldiers in U.S. imperial wars -- the world’s most unholy alliance -- has led to a catastrophic split at the highest civilian and military levels of the U.S. State. Last weekend’s American air attack on Syrian Army positions at Deir al-Zor that killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers and resulted in a temporary victory for ISIS forces was a blatant bid by the Pentagon and the CIA to sabotage any prospect of cooperation between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria.

‘If US Can’t Stop War, It Can At Least Stop Selling Weapons To Saudis’

September 26, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Saudi Arabia, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Staff of RT - The conflict in Yara’s homeland has been raging for over a year and a half and has been worsened by often indiscriminate airstrikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebel forces. The Saudis and their allies are trying to restore the Riyadh-backed government of the exiled Yemen president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Why Does The United States Give So Much Money To Israel?

September 17, 2016 Emma Green, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Aid, Israel, United States, US Foreign Policy

By Emma Green for The Atlantic - The United States and Israel have made it official: The two countries signed a new 10-year military-assistance deal on Wednesday, representing the single largest pledge of its kind in American history. The pact, laid out in a Memorandum of Understanding, will be worth $38 billion over the course of a decade, an increase of roughly 27 percent on the money pledged in the last agreement, which was signed in 2007.

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