Archive for the 'US Foreign Policy' Category
25 Aug
Afghanistan War Year 38: Trump Wants More
Afghanistan War Year 38: Trump Wants More By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed The O’Leary: The Truth. A paratrooper walks past an Afghan graveyard during a US-Afghan patrol April 30, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. (Photo: Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod / The US Army) When I dropped my daughter off at pre-school on Monday morning, […]
05 Apr
Donald Trump’s War Crimes
Donald Trump’s War Crimes By Marjorie Cohn The O’Leary: And it is just beginning. A family who fled their home in Mamun, a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, March 9, 2017. A US airstrike in Mosul last month killed more than 200 people, causing the largest loss of civilian life since the United States began bombing […]
21 Feb
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Mission Unaccomplished, 15 Years Later
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Mission Unaccomplished, 15 Years Later Posted by Danny Sjursen If you’re going to surround yourself with generals in the Oval Office, as Donald Trump has done, that means one thing in these years: you’re going to appoint men whose careers were made (or unmade) by what was once known as the Global […]
17 Dec
Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt
The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt By ARIEL DORFMANDEC. ************************ The United States opposition to Allende started several years before he was elected President of Chile. Declassified documents show that from 1962 through 1964, the CIA spent $3 million in anti-Allende propaganda “to scare voters away from Allende’s […]
