By GILBERT MERCIER Counterpunch.org Police violence in the United States should not surprise anyone. In Ferguson, Missouri, we have witnessed the use against US citizens of Iraq-tested war technologies. On August 17, 2014, a police force using armored vehicles and military tactics fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at peaceful protesters who had been…
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The price of being an underling of the US
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com Here are bits of related, albeit diametrically opposite news. Local dailies reported that Philippine Undersecretary for Defense Affairs Honorio Azcueta said, after meeting with US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, that the US could use their former naval and air facilities in Subic, Zambales and in Clark Field in…
Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
By Chris Hedges Published March 19, 2012 TruthDig.com The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that you are losing despite the vast industrial killing machine at your disposal—feeds the culture…
Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture
Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse • 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war by Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com A grim picture of the US and Britain’s legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and…
Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
It’s All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011.…
US ‘War on Terror,’ Intervention in Philippines to Intensify amid Global Economic Crisis – Analysts
Analysts of global economic developments deemed that the US-led ‘war on terror’ will intensify and escalate as a result of the US financial and economic crisis.