US Militarism
July casualties highest of Afghan war
By James Cogan, July 22, 2009
The number of US/NATO deaths in July has already reached 58—the highest monthly toll since the invasion in October 2001.
Afghan insurgents hold US soldier
By David Walsh, July 22, 2009
Within the wider tragedy of the brutal US occupation of Afghanistan, the fate of Private Bowe Bergdahl has its own tragic dimension.
Obama task force backs indefinite detention without trial
By Tom Eley, July 22, 2009
A task force on US detention policies has released an “interim report” indicating that the Obama White House—like the Bush administration before it—claims the right to indefinitely detain “t...
As Zelaya accepts amnesty for coup leaders
Human Rights report reveals brutal repression in Honduras
By Rafael Azul, July 20, 2009
A preliminary report issued by the Committee of the Families of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras (COFADEH) provides a devastating exposure of the actions carried out by the coup’s organizers...
US air strikes kill Afghan civilians
By Bill Van Auken, July 18, 2009
An attack by US warplanes left Afghan civilians dead and wounded, underscoring the grim human cost of the military escalation ordered by the Obama administration.
Obama’s war
By Bill Van Auken, July 17, 2009
With Obama approaching the end of his sixth month in office, there are growing indications that Washington is in only the first stages of a major escalation of the Afghanistan war.
US commander in Afghanistan lobbies for more troops
By James Cogan, July 14, 2009
Less than six months after Barack Obama ordered 21,000 additional American soldiers to Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed US commander, has launched a lobbying drive for more...
A sharp exposé of US “humanitarian intervention” in the former Yugoslavia—but some false conclusions
By Charles Bogle and Paul Mitchell, July 13, 2009
Professor David N. Gibbs is to be commended for writing the first full-length academic exposé of the “widely accepted consensus” that the Western powers intervened reluctantly in the Yugoslav con...
New reports of massive spying, criminality by US government
By Patrick Martin, July 13, 2009
According to media reports, the CIA kept the House and Senate intelligence committees in the dark for eight years about a “secret counterterrorism program,” on the instructions of then Vice Presid...
Two days of US drone attacks kill nearly 80 in Pakistan
By Barry Grey, July 9, 2009
The United States fired multiple missiles from pilotless drones on Wednesday in two separate attacks on insurgents in Pakistan’s South Waziristan district, killing up to 60 people.
Robert S. McNamara, 1916-2009
Pentagon chief during Vietnam War escalation dead at 93
By Patrick Martin, July 8, 2009
Robert S. McNamara, one of the principal architects of the US war in Vietnam, died Monday morning at the age of 93.
The Honduran coup: A warning to the working class
By Bill Van Auken, July 8, 2009
With nationwide strikes and protests, workers have waged an implacable struggle against the coup in Honduras. The success of this movement depends upon its political independence from all sections of ...
