The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and [...]

Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6 The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls to the stand a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, the unit that assassinated Osama bin Laden.  The SEAL (in partial disguise, as his identity [...]

Como personajes de “El Gran Gatsby”, Gran Bretaña y Estados han vuelto arrogantemente sus espaldas y abandonado un país en ruinas. El polvo se va arrastrando por las largas carreteras que semejan dedos del desierto. Se te mete por los ojos, por la nariz y la garganta; se arremolina en los mercados y en [...]

Aunque el informante Bradley Manning se declaró culpable de 10 delitos que le pondrían por 20 años bajo custodia, los fiscales militares están demandando por otros cargos: ayuda al enemigo y violación de la Ley de Espionaje, que aumentan la pena de prisión de por vida.

Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country in ruins The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert’s fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; [...]

Gigantismo imperial y decadencia del planeta Tierra Se extendía desde el Caspio al Mar Báltico, desde el centro de Europa a las Islas Kuriles en el Pacífico, de Siberia a Asia Central. Su arsenal nuclear incluía 45.000 ojivas y sus fuerzas armadas tenían cinco millones de soldados bajo las armas. No había existido nada parecido en [...]

Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia.  Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under arms.  There had been nothing like it in Eurasia since [...]

Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.”  In his [...]

Cómo convertir un mundo sin enemigos en el sitio más amenazador del universo El enemigo comunista, con “el cuarto ejército del mundo”, ha estado agitando misiles y amenazando a EE.UU. con el aniquilamiento nuclear. Guam, Hawái, Washington: todos, afirma, son posibles objetivos. La cobertura en los medios ha sido horripilante. EE.UU. está enviando apresuradamente un sistema [...]

“She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots.” She was “a dream daughter.” I have a daughter, so maybe that’s why these words cut so deep.