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The U.S. Seeks The Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons In The Middle East

January 12, 2015 By Matt Peppe 2 Comments

When Condoleeza Rice argued for a U.S. invasion of Iraq by claiming that “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” she touched on a real threat of nuclear war that could wipe out entire countries and destroy civilization as we know it.

Rice and the rest of the Bush administration knew that Iraq didn’t have nuclear weapons and never presented such a threat. They also knew that there was one country in the Middle East who did: a nuclear-armed rogue nation who has proven throughout its history to be possibly the most lawless and bellicose country of modern times.

That country, of course, is Israel.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Africa, Ali Abunimah, American imperialism, Angola, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Canada, chemical weapons, Condoleeza Rice, Cuba, Electronic Intifada, endless war, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, history, imperialism, India, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, MENA, Micronesia, Middle East, Netanyahu, Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear, Pakistan, Robert Wood, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, South Africa, South African Defense Force, South Sudan, Soviet Union, Sudan, The Guardian, United Nations, uranium, US imperialism, USS Liberty, War, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, yellow cake Uranium, yellowcake uranium

The Rise And Fall Of Egypt’s Democracy

January 12, 2015 By Adam El Nakhal 1 Comment

Nearly four years ago in January of 2011 the Egyptian Revolution began. Citizens began an uprising to over throw Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.

It was part of the greater Arab Spring that engulfed the region at that time. The revolution saw many give their life for freedom with many more injured. In the end, it was a success as it led to the ousting of Mubarak. Parliamentary and presidential elections were held and in June of 2012, Egypt’s first-ever democratically elected president was announced: Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi’s background was from the Muslim Brotherhood, a group which also won parliamentary seats in the new Egyptian Parliament. During Morsi’s brief tenure, Egypt experienced freedoms it had never seen, from freedom of press and the ability to criticize the government, to allowing any peaceful protests to occur against the government or president.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Africa, agriculture, American imperialism, Barack Obama, democracy, displacement, economy, Egypt, Egyptian Revolution, foreign aid, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, Gaza, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, Human Rights, imperialism, Israel, journalism, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Press Freedom, Rabaa, Rabaa massacre, Rafah, Tahrir, US imperialism

Above The Law: The Invasion Of Panama & The World’s Lone Superpower

December 22, 2014 By Matt Peppe 8 Comments

Twenty five years ago, before dawn on December 20, 1989, U.S. forces descended on Panama City and unleashed one of the most violent, destructive terror attacks of the century. U.S. soldiers killed more people than were killed on 9/11. They systematically burned apartment buildings and shot people indiscriminately in the streets. Dead bodies were piled on top of each other; many were burned before identification. The aggression was condemned internationally, but the message was clear: the United States military was free to do whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, and they would not be bound by ethics or laws.

The invasion and ensuing occupation produced gruesome scenes: “People burning to death in the incinerated dwellings, leaping from windows, running in panic through the streets, cut down in cross fire, crushed by tanks, human fragments everywhere,” writes William Blum.

Years later the New York Times interviewed a survivor of the invasion, Sayira Marín, whose “hands still tremble” when she remembers the destruction of her neighborhood.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Berlin Wall, blowback, Central American Human Rights Commission, CIA, COEDHUCA, Contra, corporate media, El País, France, George H.W. Bush, history, Human Rights, imperialism, international law, Iran, James Peck, journalism, Juantxu Rodríguez, labor, Los Angeles Times, Manuel Noriega, Maruja Torres, Military-industrial complex, New York Times, Nicaragua, Noam Chomsky, Operation Just Cause, Organization of American States, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama City, Pentagon, propaganda, Russia, Sabrina Virgo, Sayira Marín, School of the Americas, Soviet Union, The Cold War, The Panama Deception, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, US imperialism, US Invasion of Panama, War, war crimes, William Blum

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