USA and the War on Terror

Whether it's North Korea or Iran, sanctions won't work

Economic sanctions -- the least-cost first resort of the laptop bombardiers of global intervention -- sound punitive and aggressive without inflicting any hardship on the imposer.

Obama the 'drone president' says he has legal right to murder anyone anywhere at will

The Obama administration wants the right to kill anyone (even a US citizen) anywhere (whether on or off the battlefield) anytime it deems it appropriate to do so.

Barack Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he's a killer abroad

Obama's credibility in challenging lawless violence in US cities is undermined by his personal kill list in violation of international law for enemies elsewhere.

How warrior-king Barack Obama redefined war to make it perpetual

The United States is in a state of perpetual war, spending $633 billion this year on defense, with over 200,000 US servicemembers deployed around the world.

Confronting war 10 years on from the largest protest in human history

Anyone who was on the huge, million-plus march through London that day will never forget it, says Jeremy Corbyn MP. It emboldened a whole generation to oppose Western intervention.

Noam Chomsky: The United States still thinks it rules the world but it is losing control

The principle on which the international system is based is that the US is entitled to use force at will and talk of it violating international law is completely silly.

Women in US army more likely to be raped by a colleague than killed by enemy action

Twenty per cent of US female service members have been sexually assaulted and of cases brought to court martial only a tiny fraction of these result in a conviction.

President Obama, drone warrior: How many kids did you kill today?

The result of this policy of state terrorism has been a wretched, criminal slaughter of children — a slaughter that has been hidden from view.

The Martin Luther King that Obama does not want you to remember

"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy." -- Martin Luther King 1967

Why Zero Dark Thirty can't redefine the war on terror as a feminist epic

This film is not to be made seemingly progressive or feminist because it presents a female CIA agent as central to the demise of Osama bin Laden.

David Cameron declares the 'war on terror' endless with decades of slaughter to come

The world's leaders have been gripped by a long term and deepening insanity, defined by Einstein as doing the same thing over and over when it's obvious it doesn't work.

The Oscar film rebranding the 'war on terror' for the age of Obama

The film teaches us that brown men can and should be targeted and killed with impunity, in violation of international law, and that we should trust the CIA to act diligently.

Who killed Adnan Latif in the US concentration camp at Guantanamo?

"I will close Guantanamo prison no later than one year from now," said Barack Obama on 22 January 2009. So how did Adnan Latif die there in 2012?

It is hard to imagine a greater danger to world peace than Obama's drones

Each week Obama goes through a "kill list" of Muslims he intends to eliminate, with no judicial process and no more identification than the word of a dodgy spy on the ground.

Michael Moore: I don't support our troops and, America, neither do you

Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support peace, and I beg any young person reading this who's thinking of joining the armed forces to please reconsider.

Obama picks sociopathic liar directly responsible for mass murder to lead the CIA

The main architect of the drone policy that has killed hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents, including 176 children in Pakistan alone, is Obama's pick for CIA director: John Brennan.