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Valor, Remembrance and Complicity
November 11th in the United States is marked and marred by a holiday that relatively recently had its name changed to “Veterans Day” and its purpose converted and perverted …
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Camillo Mac Bica | On This 11th Day
On this 11th day, of the 11th month, at the 11th hour, I will display no poppy, nor will I parade.
Islamic State, Kurdistan, and the New US War in Iraq
More than a decade after the start of the second Gulf War, the United States has embarked on a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State forces.
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The National Security State Has Filled Us With Fear but Not Improved Our Well-Being
An excerpt from Tom Engelhardt's new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World.
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Protesters Call for Justice for Transgender Filipina Allegedly Killed by Marine
A candlelight vigil for Jennifer Laude, the 26-year-old transgender Filipina woman who was allegedly murdered by a US Marine, was held in San Francisco.
After Ignoring ISIS Assault on Kobani, US Launches Major Strikes and Arms Turkey’s Kurdish Foes
As news cameras on the Turkish-Syrian border showed Islamic State fighters assaulting a town in plain sight, the US-led coalition responded with the most airstrikes of its Syria campaign.
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Stop the Killing
We in the US must give up our notions of exceptionalism, recognize the economic and societal misery our country caused in Iraq, recognize that we are a perpetually war-crazed …
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Company That Sues Soldiers Pledges Reform, Changes Name
USA Discounters, promising to change how it pursues military debtors, will now be known as USA Living.
From Pol Pot to ISIS: US Bombing Puts “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves“
Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS is the mutation of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken …
Canadian MPs Vote to Expand Support to Fight IS
The Canadian Parliament devoted most of the day Monday and Tuesday to discussing the government's plan to deploy F-18 fighter jets and 600 troops in a six-month air combat …