Source: Democracy Now! April 12, 2010 We speak with a former member of Bravo Company 2-16, the military unit involved in the 2007 helicopter shooting of Iraqi civilians that killed twelve people, including two Reuters employees, as seen on the military video released by WikiLeaks. “The natural thing to do would be to instantly judge or criticize [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch What the Mayor of One Community Hard Hit by War Spending Is Doing by Jo Comerford Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch and the author Source: TomDispatch U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off by Tom Engelhardt In my 1950s childhood, Ripley’s Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: “If all the Chinese in the world [...]

Source: Salon by Glenn Greenwald On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded.  [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch and the author Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt He donned a leather bomber’s jacket with an Air Force One logo on it, got up in front of a boisterous crowd of about 2,000 military personnel in a hangar at Bagram Air Base, and gave a tub-thumping, “support the troops” campaign [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch Obama’s Peace Effort Is Doomed Because Israel Loses Nothing If It Fails by Tony Karon Uncomfortable at the spectacle of the Obama administration in an open confrontation with the Israeli government, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman — who represents the interests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party on Capitol [...]

Fuente: CounterPunch Traducción: LB, Rebelión por Uri Avnery 22 de marzo, 2010 Es ya un tópico decir que las personas que no aprenden de la historia están condenadas a repetir sus errores. Hace aproximadamente 1.942 años, los judíos de la provincia llamada Palestina desataron una rebelión contra el Imperio Romano. En retrospectiva, parece un acto de locura. Palestina era una [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch and the author Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt When was the last time you saw the headline, “Cost of [Pentagon-weapons-system-of-your-choice] halved”?  Probably never.  Still, the thought came to mind when this recent Associated Press headline caught my eye: “Pentagon: F-35 fighter jet cost doubles.” Here’s the story behind it:  Since 2001, [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch by Jo Comerford February 28, 2010 Send up a flare! The 2011 federal budget has sprung some leaks in the midst of a storm. Not sure there’s enough money for life rafts!  Forget women and children first! Buffeted by economic hard times, the 2,585-page, $3.8 trillion document is already taking [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch by Frida Berrigan February 16, 2010 On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” Let’s consider that label for a moment, [...]