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Wednesday August 07, 2013 18:33 by Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship. The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and the Korean war. We seem to be in a state of permanent warfare, and – we have recently learned – massive government spying and surveillance of our own citizens. This is despite an ever-receding threat to the actual physical security of Americans. Only 19 people have been killed by acts of terrorism in the US since 11 September 2001, and none or almost none of these was connected to foreign terrorists. Also, there are no "enemy states" that pose a significant military threat to the US – if any governments can be called "enemy states" at all. |
HauptseiteSupport Sudanese anarchists in exile Joint Statement of European Anarchist Organizations International anarchist call for solidarity: Earthquake in Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan Elements of Anarchist Theory and Strategy 19 de Julio: Cuando el pueblo se levanta, escribe la historia International anarchist solidarity against Turkish state repression Declaración Anarquista Internacional por el Primero de Mayo, 2022 Le vieux monde opprime les femmes et les minorités de genre. Leur force le détruira ! Against Militarism and War: For self-organised struggle and social revolution Declaração anarquista internacional sobre a pandemia da Covid-19 Anarchist Theory and History in Global Perspective Capitalism, Anti-Capitalism and Popular Organisation [Booklet] Reflexiones sobre la situación de Afganistán South Africa: Historic rupture or warring brothers again? Death or Renewal: Is the Climate Crisis the Final Crisis? Gleichheit und Freiheit stehen nicht zur Debatte! Contre la guerre au Kurdistan irakien, contre la traîtrise du PDK Meurtre de Clément Méric : l’enjeu politique du procès en appel North America / Mexico | Imperialism / War | en Fri 29 Mar, 07:45 Funeral Procession against state violence in Providence Rhode Island 02:39 Sun 11 Jan 0 comments
Report on Florida anti-war meetings featuring veterans of the invasion of Iraq 04:53 Thu 24 Apr 0 comments While in Florida, I attended a local 'Winter Soldier' hearing. These are public meetings where United States ex-soldiers of the Iraq testify against the war. Quebec city: anti-militarist demonstration 06:16 Mon 31 Mar 0 comments About 300 anti-militarists took the streets Friday, March 28 in Quebec city. In a rare showing of unity, the main anti-capitalists groups of the city marched together, along with delegations from other cities, such as Montreal and Sherbrooke. The marchers commemorated the 90th anniversary of the riots against conscription and took the occasion to again express their opposition to the war in Afghanistan. Quebec-city: Call for an anti-militarist demonstration 04:50 Mon 25 Feb 0 comments Resistance to war, past and present Québec : Campagne contre le recrutement militaire 22:00 Wed 13 Feb 0 comments La campagne contre le recrutement militaire dans les institutions d’enseignement de la province commence à porter fruit. Après quelques actions de perturbation à l’automne (cégeps de Ste-Foy, Maisonneuve et Ste-Hyacinthe, UQAC, etc.), l’armée commence à annuler des sorties. Common Cause against occupation of Afghanistan 02:07 Sat 27 Oct 0 comments The so-called “War on Terror” has been in full swing since 2001 and the scope of destruction and domination by Western powers has been steadily increasing. Resistance to the occupation has only intensified and shows no sign of slowing down since Harper’s decision to follow the US into Central Asia. Organizing against military recruiters in Seattle, USA 00:48 Tue 09 Aug 0 comments Why are we opposed to military recruiters on our campuses and in our communities? For the last five months, Seattle Central Community College Students Against War (SAW) has run a campaign against military recruiters on campus. We initiated the campaign after an action on January 20th, inauguration day, that resulted in a mob of 200 or more students surrounding military recruiters on campus. Ottawa: Under the Gun: Struggle & Resistance at home & abroad 04:21 Wed 13 Jul 0 comments a week of engaging events presented by Ottawa’s CATAPULT! collective. Palo Alto: A Communique From the Organizers of the J25 Anti-War March 08:36 Thu 23 Jun 0 comments On June 25th hundreds if not thousands of people will take to the streets of downtown Palo Alto to give voice to their collective outrage at the US occupation of Iraq. We will march against imperialist war, invasion, and occupation; against Bush and his corporate interests; against empire and against the systemic war machine. This is the new face of the anti-war movement. After a strong peak at the beginning of the invasion of Iraq and a two year ebb, the movement is again building momentum. But the movement is also growing louder, angrier, and more radical. As the occupation drags on with more and more casualties each day, popular outrage is growing, and with it popular support for the movement through which it is expressed. Emboldened, the movement is charting new territory; testing new tactics, abandoning its restrictive authoritarian leadership, and discovering the new directions in which it can grow. FBI invoked privacy right protections for Osama bin Laden 18:22 Mon 25 Apr 2 comments Judicial Watch is an American conservative organisation which claims to fight government corruption. At the end of April it announced some staggering news. It obtained a document through the Freedom of Information Act which the FBI invoked privacy right protections on behalf of Osama bin Laden. more >>Toronto G20: Showtime again, or a Reality to Overthrow? Sep 29 0 comments A comrade from the Union Communiste Libertaire in Montreal analyses why the form of struggle against capitalist ritual (G20s) has become inefficient. [Nederlands] Obamania, the factory of illusions... Nov 16 0 comments The following is a translation of an article originally written in Spanish for the issue 35 of Pueblos magazine. The original version of the article -in Spanish- will be published in the next weeks in their website http://www.revistapueblos.org.This article deals with Obama and the hard task of restoration of the lost US hegemony and the false hopes his election has raised in many people, even from the left. Looking back on the Vietnam War: History and forgetting Oct 23 0 comments This article first appeared in the Summer 1985 Fifth Estate under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam. GI Resistance in the Vietnam Era: Oct 10 0 comments Thirty years ago, the most powerful military colossus ever assembled, its triumphant legions spread throughout the world, committed an expeditionary force of its best troops to the Asian mainland. "The American Army of 1965," wrote an admiring historian, "was headstrong with confidence, sharply honed to a lethal fighting edge ... [and] eager to test its newly acquired wings of airmobility." 1 In other words, it felt invincible. Battalions dispatched to Indochina were told that the local communist guerrilla-bandits were politically isolated and would quickly succumb to their superior might, but instead they found themselves locked in desperate battle with a determined adversary enjoying massive popular support. This expeditionary force gradually became a gigantic field army of over half a million men, and the lightning war turned into a meat-grinder. Looking back on the Vietnam War Oct 10 0 comments When this essay first appeared in Fifth Estate in the spring of 1985, the Vietnam War already seemed to be receding into ancient history. Central America was at that time being battered by the latest incarnation of "the best and the brightest," and it was being done more conveniently with money and proxies, rather than with "American boys," who tend to get themselves unceremoniously killed while smashing up other people's neighborhoods more >>Quebec-city: Call for an anti-militarist demonstration Feb 25 NEFAC 0 comments Resistance to war, past and present Common Cause against occupation of Afghanistan Oct 27 Common Cause (Hamilton Local) 0 comments The so-called “War on Terror” has been in full swing since 2001 and the scope of destruction and domination by Western powers has been steadily increasing. Resistance to the occupation has only intensified and shows no sign of slowing down since Harper’s decision to follow the US into Central Asia. Ottawa: Under the Gun: Struggle & Resistance at home & abroad Jul 13 0 comments a week of engaging events presented by Ottawa’s CATAPULT! collective. Palo Alto: A Communique From the Organizers of the J25 Anti-War March Jun 23 0 comments On June 25th hundreds if not thousands of people will take to the streets of downtown Palo Alto to give voice to their collective outrage at the US occupation of Iraq. We will march against imperialist war, invasion, and occupation; against Bush and his corporate interests; against empire and against the systemic war machine. This is the new face of the anti-war movement. After a strong peak at the beginning of the invasion of Iraq and a two year ebb, the movement is again building momentum. But the movement is also growing louder, angrier, and more radical. As the occupation drags on with more and more casualties each day, popular outrage is growing, and with it popular support for the movement through which it is expressed. Emboldened, the movement is charting new territory; testing new tactics, abandoning its restrictive authoritarian leadership, and discovering the new directions in which it can grow. |