US Militarism
Afghanistan election debacle deepens as Abdullah pulls out of runoff
By Bill Van Auken, November 2, 2009
The Obama administration’s crisis over its planned escalation of the war in Afghanistan deepened over the weekend with the decision by President Hamid Karzai’s challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, to pu...
Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spending
By Patrick Martin, October 30, 2009
President Obama signed legislation Wednesday authorizing $680 billion for the Pentagon, the largest military budget ever. On Thursday, he signed a bill giving another $44 billion to the Department of ...
What are US troops dying for in Afghanistan?
By Bill Van Auken, October 29, 2009
After several days in which US troops suffered their worst casualties in the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan, it was revealed Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai’s brother, reputedly a key figur...
October the bloodiest month for US troops since Afghan war began
By Bill Van Auken, October 28, 2009
The deaths of eight more soldiers in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan Tuesday made October the bloodiest month for US occupation forces since the war began in 2001.
The reality behind the US “success” in Iraq
By James Cogan, October 27, 2009
The massive explosions in central Baghdad on Sunday are a particularly bloody reminder of the sectarian, ethnic and political conflicts that have been generated in Iraq by six-and-a-half years of US o...
Washington pushes Pakistan to the brink
By Keith Jones, October 23, 2009
Under heavy pressure from the Obama administration, Pakistan is now waging all-out war in South Waziristan.
Morale crumbling among US and British troops in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 17, 2009
Several reports from the frontlines of Afghanistan this month provide an insight into the growing demoralisation among US and British soldiers.
Pakistan descends deeper into civil war
By Peter Symonds, October 16, 2009
As the Pakistani military is poised to launch a major offensive into the tribal agency of South Waziristan, Islamist militants carried out coordinated, high-profile attacks yesterday on police facilit...
US pressure builds ahead of talks with Iran in Vienna
By Peter Symonds, October 14, 2009
In the lead-up to international talks next Monday on Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, the Obama administration has been intensifying pressure on Tehran.
Obama tops Bush in troop buildup
By Bill Van Auken, October 14, 2009
The report Tuesday that the combined troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are now larger than under Bush marks a grim milestone in the Obama administration’s military escalation.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman glorifies American militarism
By Patrick Martin, October 13, 2009
In the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the newspaper’s chief commentator on foreign affairs, Thomas L. Friedman, devotes his entire column to celebrating the role of the American military, par...
Another costly week in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 13, 2009
The 100,000-strong US and NATO occupation force in Afghanistan is continuing to suffer casualties at an unprecedented rate.
