USA and the War on Terror

Bob Dylan and other peaceniks serenade war criminal Barack Obama

If Bob Dylan accepts the Freedom Award from the President, he will drape war criminal Barack Obama in another layer of cool and glamorize him further.

Barack Obama is the most militarily aggressive president in decades

Most Democrats are perfectly aware of Obama's military aggression. They don't support him despite that, but rather, that's one of the things they love about him.

Sacrificing Bradley Manning on the altar of Obama's re-election

It is the Obama administration that is imprisoning him and it is Barack Obama who pronounced him guilty before he so much as had a trial.

Who are the real terrorists in America: Tarek Mehanna or those who jailed him for 17 years?

History will be quite clear about who the criminals are in this case: not Tarek Mehanna, but those who conspired to consign him to a cage for two decades.

Stop it with the Kony 2012, already: look at far worse human rights' abusers Obama supports

The Obama administration's supposed selflessness in the promotion of human rights in Uganda contrasts with its support for Arab tyrannies guilty of abuses on a vastly larger scale.

Are you a terrorist? Hard to tell who isn't these days

Every student agitator is a terrorist, every internet hacker, cafeteria dissident, freedom fighter and insurgent leader: the war on terror is corrupting all it touches.

So you want to be a drone pilot on the front line of war

You shoot a missile, you kill a handful of people, you go home. Your shift is over. You get in your car and drive home, mow the lawn, talk to your kids, you go to church.

Now any American can face forced nudity and sexual intrusion by the US state

Forcing people to undress is the first step in breaking down their sense of individuality and dignity and reinforcing their powerlessness.

What The Hunger Games tells us about the modern warfare state

To not see The Hunger Games as anything but a warning of the evils of war would be tragic and turn it into just a spectacle of violence.

Obama's drones have no history, just bodies of dead people

The pilots are faceless young people who sit in Nevada or upstate New York, drink a Coke, and play with their computers which send kill messages to their drones.

War porn: The new global safe sex for couch and digital potatoes

This is what the world is coming to; a worldwide audience, jaded, dazed and distracted, helplessly hooked on the shabby atrocity exhibition of war porn.

How Obama could trigger the end of humanity in just 12 minutes

Anyone who cares about humankind having a future should protest these tests and call for the elimination of all nuclear-armed inter-continental ballistic missiles as an initial step toward the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

"Land of the Free" U.S. jails more of its citizens than any other nation, more than Stalin

The U.S. has declared war on its own people, with 760 prisoners per 100,000, seven to 10 times more than any other country, and more than Stalin's Soviet Union.

War crimes and the myth of the 'bad apple'

The media’s assumption is that the atrocity is the work of an individual nut, ignoring the possibility that there’s something wrong with the military system and culture that produced him.

Toulouse killings cannot be explained as an isolated hate crime or the deed of one fanatic

No one can justify such attacks, but the shootings in south west France are the terrible and disastrous outcome of the West's war policies and anti-Muslim racism.

Why the United States is never held to account for its atrocities

What is most revealed by the removal of the US Marine who killed 16 civilians from Afghanistan is the American belief that no other country can ever impose accountability on Americans.