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Posts Tagged ‘Cold War’
Ameri-Paki-Talistan (Video)
Posted: 1 August 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, India-Pakistan; 26/11, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghanistan motherlode, Afghanistan War Logs, Ahmed Shah Massoud, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Asif Ali Zardari, Babrak Kamul, China, CIA, COIN, Cold War, counterinsurgency, democracy, drones, Durand Line, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hafizullah Amin, Hamid Gul, Hamid Karzani, Haqqani Network, history, Husain Haqqani, India, ISI, Islamic terrorism, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Kashmir, Leonid Brezhnev, Mullah Omar, North Waziristan, NY Times, Obama Administration, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Predator drones, Quetta Shura, realpolitik, Robert Gates, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Sistan-Baluchistan, Soviets, Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Wikileaks, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, the husband-wife couple behind Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (2009) and Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2010), recently discussed the C.I.A connections with Afghan militant networks through Pakistani intelligence agencies with Paul Jay at The Real News Network.
Part One – WikiLeaks—The Pakistan Connection (13:15):
WikiLeaked ‘Afghanistan War Logs’ Include U.S. Military Whitewashing War Crimes
Posted: 27 July 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Abu Laith al-Libi, AEF, Afghan mujahideen, Afghan War Diary, Afghanistan Eradication Forces, Afghanistan War Logs, al-Qaeda, Amnesty International, Andrew Exum, Bradley Manning, Bush Administration, Carl Hulse, CIA, civilian casualties, COIN, COINdinistas, Cold War, counterinsurgency, Dana Milibank, Daniel Ellsburg, David Kilcullen, David Leigh, Declan Walsh, Dennis Kucinich, Der Spiegel, Gareth Porter, Germany, Greg Jaffe, Guardian, Gus Lubin, Haqqani Network, human rights, international law, IRGC, Isabelle Schafer, ISAF, Jackie Calmes, Julian Assange, Kevin Poulsen, Kim Zetter, Michael Hastings, NATO, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Pentagon Papers, Peter Finn, Quetta Shura, Rahmat Gul, Reaper drones, Richard Norton-Taylor, Rick Rowley, Rob Evans, Robert Gibbs, Ron Paul, Shum Khan, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Task Force 373, TF 373, US, US military, War, war crimes, War on Terror, war spending, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
The massive dump of U.S. military records relating to the war in Afghanistan confirms prior knowledge in some areas and shines light to other grim realities of aggressive war and occupation.
Manufacturing Consent for the National Security Surveillance State
Posted: 22 July 2010 by Sayyid in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, Bush Administration, civil liberties, Cold War, corporatism, Dana Priest, David Ignatius, fascism, Justin Raimondo, libertarian, liberty, military industrial complex, National Surveillance State, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, privacy rights, Top Secret America, US, War on Terror, Washington Post, William Arkin
WaPo’s “Top Secret America” investigation is crafted to form Orwellian conclusions. The political and intellectual classes are biting the bait to reel us in.
How ‘Progressives’ Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the F.B.I.
Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in National News, Political ScienceTags: ACLU, Albert Einstein, Anthony Gregory, anti-Statism, antiwar movement, Big Brother, Branch Davidians, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, Cold War, conspiracy, fascism, FBI, FDR, government surveillance, human rights, Hutaree, law, libertarian, liberty, Martin Luther King, media, MLK, MSNBC, Newspeak, privacy rights, propaganda, Rachel Maddow, sedition, terrorism, The Modern Militia Movement, US, Waco, WWI, WWII
Anthony Gregory at The Independent Institute blog, The Beacon, on the ‘progressive’ media’s embrace of government thugs at war with people.
The Cold War is Over and We Lost
Posted: 15 March 2010 by Brad Spangler in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: agorism, anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, anti-Statism, Benjamin Tucker, capitalism, Cold War, corporatism, counter-economics, economy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, law, libertarian, libertarian socialism, liberty, market-anarchism, Marxism, Murray Rothbard, Newspeak, philosohy, revolution, Rothbardian, socialism, state capitalism, USSR
Brad Spangler disscusses “the case for understanding free market anarchism as ‘socialism‘ and the status quo we oppose as ‘capitalism‘”.
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Scott Horton: Antiwar Because ‘Killing People is Wrong’ (Video)
Posted: 10 November 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, anti-Statism, blowback, Bush Administration, Cold War, fascism, George Bush, human rights, imperialism, inflation, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Islamic Revolution, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, mujahideen, Newspeak, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Ron Paul, Saddam Hussein, Shah of Iran, Somalia, Soviet Union, terrorism, US, USSR, Vietnam War, War, War on Terror, World War I, World War II, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Scott Horton, anarchist host of AntiWar Radio, spoke to the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the University of New Hampshire on why libertarians should be antiwar, the history of oligarchs lying the U.S. into wars, the becoming of the Empire, blowback, how Osama bin Laden baited the U.S. into Afghanistan to end the Empire as the U.S. did to the Soviets, and irrational American exceptionalism—introducing Thomas Woods – 6 November 09 – (27:36):
Chomsky’s Lectern: Coups, UNASUR and the U.S.
Posted: 5 October 2009 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: American Empire, Bolivarian Socialism, Bolivia, capitalism, Central America, civil rights, Civil War, climate change, Cold War, Colombia, corporatism, coup d'état, democracy, drug war, Ecuador, energy industry, Evo Morales, Gaza Massacre, global warming, Haiti, healthcare, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, human rights, imperialism, international law, Israel, Latin American, Latin American Commission on Drugs, Manuel Zelaya, militarization, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, OAS, oil industry, Palmerola, Phillipines, reconstruction, slavery, Soto Cano, South America, SOUTHCOM, Southeast Asia, terrorism, tobacco industry, UN, UNASUR, US, Venezuela, War, World War II
A lecture given by Professor Noam Chomsky in Caracas, Venezuela 29 August 2009 (updated September 9) on the U.S. plundering of Latin America and the corporate State.
Reagan’s Torture Regime in Latin America (mp3)
Posted: 18 September 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, AntiWar radio, AntiWar.com, blowback, Bush I Administration, Charlie Wilson's War, CIA, Cold War, Cuba, Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, ISI, Islam, Islamic Bomb, Israel, Israel lobby, James Baker, JFK, Jimmy Carter, Kuwait, Latin America, LBJ, Middle East, mujahideen, neoconservatism, Nicaragua, NPT, nuclear weapons, OBL, oil, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Reagan Administration, realpolitik, Robert Gates, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Sandinistas, Taliban, torture, USSR, Vietnam War, William Casey
Consortium News founder Robert Parry discusses Latin America as the political training ground for Neo-Con torture regimes, bashing moral relativism to ‘manufacture consent’ for moral relativism, statist journalism, blowback in the Middle East, the lie of Charlie Wilson’s War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ role in the Former President Reagan’s C.I.A., and media scare tactics used to lie the U.S. into war with Iran with AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton (63:13):
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The Neglected Costs of the Warfare State
Posted: 13 July 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: American Empire, AntiWar radio, Cold War, corporatism, fascism, imperialism, military, military industrial complex, Scott Horton, Thomas Woods, Tom Woods, US, War
Tom Woods discusses his Seymour Melman’s research on the socio-economic harms of the military industrial complex’s partnership with the U.S. government. (more…)
Analysis: Zbigniew Brzezinski Interview with Press TV (Video)
Posted: 6 May 2009 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, Afghanistan, AIPAC, al-Qaida, anarchism, Brzezinski, Chas Freeman, Clinton, Cold War, George Bush, international law, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel lobby, Karzai, Middle East, mujahideen, Newspeak, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, Soviets, Taliban, terrorism, two-state solution, US, USSR, War, Zionism
Brzezinski on Afghanistan, diplomacy with Iran, Palestine-Israel, Chas Freeman, the Israel Lobby, and the current state of international disorder. (more…)
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