The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World By Mike Whitney July 04, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" - On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its 2015 National Military Strategy, a 24-page blueprint for ruling the world through military force. While the language in the report is subtler and less incendiary than similar documents in the past, the determination to unilaterally pursue US interests through extreme violence remains the cornerstone of the new strategy. Readers will not find even a hint of remorse in the NMS for the vast destruction and loss of life the US caused in countries that posed not the slightest threat to US national security.
Instead, the report reflects the steely resolve of its authors and elite constituents to continue the carnage and bloodletting until all potential rivals have been killed or eliminated and until such time that Washington feels confident that its control over the levers of global power cannot be challenged. Memorial Day: Praying for Peace While Waging Permanent War? : Information Clearing House. Memorial Day: Praying for Peace While Waging Permanent War? By Bill Quigley May 25, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - Memorial Day is, by federal law, a day of prayer for permanent peace.
But is it possible to honestly pray for peace while our country is far and away number one in the world in waging war, military presence, military spending and the sale of weapons around the world? Permanent War Since 1980 the U.S. has engaged in aggressive military action in 14 countries in the Islamic world alone, according to research published in the Washington Post: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-present), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-present), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-present), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-prsent), Pakistan (2004-present) and now Syria.
U.S. The U.S. has 1.3 million people in the military, and another 1 million serve in the military reserves. War! Who is it good for? The Blindness of the European Union in the Face of US Military Strategy : Information Clearing House. The Blindness of the European Union in the Face of US Milita ry Strategy EU officials are completely wrong regarding Islamist attacks in Europe and the migration to the Union of people fleeing wars. Thierry Meyssan shows here that all this is not the accidental consequence of conflict in the broader Middle East and Africa, but a strategic objective of the United States.
By Thierry Meyssan May 12, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Voltaire"- The leaders of the European Union are suddenly faced with unexpected situations. On the one hand there are attacks or attempted attacks perpetrated or prepared by individuals not belonging to identified political groups; on the other there is an influx of migrants via the Mediterranean, with several thousands dying at their doorsteps. In the absence of strategic analysis, these two events are considered a priori as not related and are treated by different administrations. The European Union is deprived of the means to understand "Chaos Theory" Notes. Paris Is A Warning: There Is No Insulation From Our Wars : Information Clearing House. The attacks in France are a blowback from intervention in the Arab and Muslim world.
What happens there happens here too By Seumas Milne January 16, 2015 "ICH" - "The Guardian" - The official response to every jihadist-inspired terrorist attack in the west since 2001 has been to pour petrol on the flames. That was true after 9/11 when George Bush launched his war on terror, laying waste to countries and spreading terror on a global scale. It was true in Britain after the 2005 London bombings, when Tony Blair ripped up civil liberties and sent thousands of British troops on a disastrous mission to Afghanistan.
And it’s been true in the aftermath of last week’s horrific killings at Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. In an echo of Bush’s rhetoric, the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy declared a “war of civilisations” in response to attacks on “our freedoms”. The absurdity was there for all to see at the “Je suis Charlie” demonstration in Paris on Sunday. “Civilization” of the Neocons -: Information Clearing House. By Peter Koenig “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” ~Albert Einstein January 23, 2015 "ICH" - Imagine – a bunch of French, CIA and Mossad special forces, one of them or a combination of the three, attack a racist, Moslem-insulting publisher in Paris and a kosher supermarket at another end of town – killing altogether 17 people, notwithstanding the ‘suicide’ of the French police chief in charge of investigating the atrocity.
A million and a half people in Paris take to the streets – about 6 million throughout Europe – all screaming or carrying posters with a maddening, inexplicable “Je Suis Charlie” – depicting an utterly brainwashed mindset, brainwashed for decades with Washington directed mind control. They do not know, do not want to know, that the Charlie massacre was yet another staged event, another false flag that will eventually give their masters green light to intensify their ‘wars on terror’ around the globe.
Wars must go on. The Troops Are Destroying Our Country : Information Clearing House. By Jacob G. Hornberger January 28, 2015 "ICH" - "fff" - The mindset that is common to U.S. troops serving overseas is that they are all doing it for America, for us, for our rights and freedoms, for our safety and security. They’ll all tell you that they are doing it because they love their country. There’s one big problem with that mindset, however.
Ever since 9/11 and even before, the troops have been killing and maiming people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East. All that killing, maiming, torture, humiliation, and destruction has made people in that part of the world angry at the United States. The hope of U.S. officials has always been that in the process of killing and maiming all those people, the troops would end up killing all those who wished to respond to the violence being inflicted on them with retaliatory violence. And that’s where the destruction of our rights and freedoms comes into play. I’ve got an idea. Jacob G. The Globalization of War. America’s “Long War” against Humanity. War And Peace: Arab Time Capsule And Its Butterfly Effect By Mahboob A. Khawaja. War And Peace: Arab Time Capsule And Its Butterfly Effect By Mahboob A. Khawaja 24 September, 2014Countercurrents.org President Obama’s War Agenda Devoid of knowledge, paranoid and vengeful, President Obama’s raging statements and policy outlines of “an inclusive government in Iraq and to defeat the ISIL” are obsessed with fear of the unknown threatening American global hegemony and futuristic vulnerability to remain a superpower.
President Obama is operating amid matrix of lies and political deceptions. The extension of aggressive war against ISIL in Iraq- Syria simply replaces the old rhetoric of anti-Al-Qaeda syndrome. Stephen Lendman (“Obama Threatens War on Humanity.” Permanent war is official US policy. Is the Arab World Coming to an End? Truth-telling and critical rational analysis of the prevalent political imperatives of global political affairs must penetrate to open-up the thinking of the closed Arab leadership mindset.
Dr. War & Peace. Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties. United States military casualties of war. This article lists the United States of America's military dead, wounded, and missing person totals for wars and major deployments. Overview[edit] Wars ranked by total number of U.S. military deaths[edit] "Deaths per day" is the total number of U.S. military killed, divided by the number of days between the dates of the commencement and end of hostilities. "Deaths per population" is the total number of U.S. military deaths, divided by the U.S. population of the year indicated.
Wars ranked by U.S. combat deaths[edit] Notes[edit] a. ^ Revolutionary War: All figures from the Revolutionary War are rounded estimates. B. ^ Other Actions Against Pirates: Includes actions fought in the West Indies, the Greek Isles, off of Louisiana, China and Vietnam. D. ^ World War I figures include expeditions in North Russia and Siberia. According to report of June 24, 2008 at [101] Number of remains total unaccounted for: 8,055Number of remains repatriated are: 489 of whom 100 are identified f. ^ Iraq War. US Interventionism Has Failed, But… May 31 2014 "ICH" - "China.org" - Yet in his commencement address at West Point delivered on May 28, Obama repeated the threadbare claim that "the United States is and remains the one indispensable nation," and that "America has rarely been stronger relative to the rest of the world.
" And he asserted that the question "is not whether America will lead but how we will lead. " He stressed that the military will be the backbone of that leadership, but, he acknowledged, military action cannot be the only -- or even primary -- component of U.S. leadership in every instance. Parents applauded when he said the first class to graduate from West Point since 9/11 may not be sent into combat in Iraq or Afghanistan. Obama said: "The landscape has changed:" The U.S. has removed its forces from Iraq and is winding down in Afghanistan. The lesson is obviously not to rush into military adventures. But he stood the empire's ground.
That is standing facts on their heads. U.S. Strategy to Fight Terrorism Increasingly Uses Proxies.
Why War Is Inevitable -- Paul Craig Roberts. Militarist Bunkum. Druhá světová válka. Is The Abolition Of War Possible? By Nazia Nazar. Is The Abolition Of War Possible? By Nazia Nazar 02 March, 2014Countercurrents.org The year 2014 is set to refresh the memories of the human folly of the First World War, which began one hundred years ago and created unimaginable horror. During these 100 years, we have seen innumerable other wars including the Second World War, which eventually compelled the world leaders to think about averting the future wars. This scenario has led to a growing realization that war is a folly, which needs to be abolished permanently. Anthropological research proves that warfare is not very old phenomenon but started some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, and this contradicts the popular misconceptions that war is part and parcel of human nature.
The Dalai Lama is right when he says that if we want global disarmament, we need to start from internal disarmament of an individual. Changing the mindset is imperative to move towards a future without war. There is no greater power on earth than people’s power. The Punishment Does Not Fit the Crime. When Bryan Stow was nearly beaten to death at a Dodgers' baseball game in 2011, he may have wished he had been killed. The 45-year-old former paramedic was leaving the stadium on March 31st and was attacked from behind by two men, Louis Sanchez and Marvin Norwood. The father of two is now brain damaged and is permanently disabled.
His life, as he knew it, is over. Yesterday, 2/20/2014, the attackers were convicted in a Los Angeles court. Is this a fair sentence? These animals took away another man's life. The United States has become one of the most violent countries in the history of the world. Eight years of an illegal and destructive presidency divided the nation more than at any other time with the exception of the Vietnam War. I do not want men like Norwood and Sanchez in my country and definitely not in my life. We must cease to have empathy for violent criminals. James Turnage Op-ed. Good advice, wrong address: Russia responds to Susan Rice ‘no tanks to Ukraine’ warning. By RT February 25, 2014 "Information Clearing House - "RT" - Russia sees merit in the advice against use of force in Ukraine which US National Security Adviser Susan Rice voiced, but believes it was wrongly directed towards Moscow. Washington would be a more appropriate recipient of the piece of wisdom.
“We have noted the expert assessment of Susan Rice based on multiple cases when American troops were sent to various places of the word, especially those where the US administration believed the norms of Western democracy were in danger, or where the local regimes were getting out of hand,” a Russian Foreign Ministry source told news agencies on Monday. The source added that, “We expect that national security adviser would be giving to the US leadership the same advice on the mistaken path of the use of force if it decides to conduct a new intervention.” Rice did not elaborate on why she believed Moscow would even consider using military force to help Yanukovich. See also.
Humanitární intervence. Třetí svetová válka. Building a Global Movement to End All War. I've been involved in starting enough activist campaigns and coalitions to know when one has more potential than any other I've seen. I've been involved in starting enough activist campaigns and coalitions to know when one has more potential than any other I've seen.
In this case I'm talking about a movement to end, not this war or that war, but the institution of war as an acceptable enterprise for the human species. The declaration of peace that people and groups are signing reads, in its entirety: "I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe rather than protect us, that they kill, injure and traumatize adults, children and infants, severely damage the natural environment, erode civil liberties, and drain our economies, siphoning resources from life-affirming activities. I commit to engage in and support nonviolent efforts to end all war and preparations for war and to create a sustainable and just peace. " War is immoral. War endangers us. War threatens our environment. Untitled. Biggest Threat To World Peace: The United States By Sarah Lazare. Biggest Threat To World Peace: The United States By Sarah Lazare 01 January, 2014CommonDreams.org Over 12 years into the so-called "Global War on Terror," the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world.
In their annual End of Year survey, Win/Gallup International found that the United States is considered the number one "greatest threat to peace in the world today" by people across the globe. The poll of 67,806 respondents from 65 countries found that the U.S. won this dubious distinction by a landslide, as revealed in the chart below. The BBC explains that the U.S. was deemed a threat by geopolitical allies as well as foes, including a significant portion of U.S. society. Predictable in some areas (the Middle East and North Africa) but less so in others. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Comments are moderated. Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb. Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel. Source: Future of Freedom Foundation (image by American Free Press) The American people should know that pending right now in Congress is a bipartisan bill that would virtually commit the United States to go to war against Iran if Israel attacks the Islamic Republic.
"The bill outsources any decision about resort to military action to the government of Israel," Columbia University Iran expert Gary Sick wrote to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in protest, one of the bill's principal sponsors. The mind boggles at the thought that Congress would let a foreign government decide when America goes to war, so here is the language (PDF): This section is legally nonbinding, but given the clout of the bill's chief supporter outside of Congress -- the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC [PDF]), leader of the pro-Israel lobby -- that is a mere formality.
The bill, whose other principal sponsors are Sen.