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Military plans to open more combat jobs to women by 2016

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - Jun. 19 (News Report) - By 2016, women could be permitted to train for most combat roles, including infantry and artillery positions, under detailed plans released by the Pentagon on Tuesday describing how to integrate female troops throughout the armed forces. ...

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When America Stops Importing Energy

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By IAN BREMMER - May. 22 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: When America Stops Importing Energy

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Deadly Iraq violence spills into fourth day

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - May. 18 (News Report) - Deadly violence in Iraq has spilled into a fourth day, with reports that seven more people have been killed and three more injured, amid fears over a new round of sectarian bloodshed. Two police officers were killed on Saturday after an improvised device

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Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Corn - May. 15 (Opinion) - Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to Sean Hannity (who else?) that President Barack Obama and his aides "lied" about the attack in Benghazi last September that left four Americans dead. "I think it's one of the worst incidents frankly that I can recall in my career," Cheney huffed—as if 9/11 had never happened. The former veep went the full Monty and echoed (discredited) right-wing charges that the Obama administration refused to deploy military forces to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans when they were assaulted in Benghazi.

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How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By SARAH LEAH WHITSON - May. 15 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

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Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

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Iraq PM: Regional strife stoking sectarianism

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 27 (News Report) - More than 215 people have been killed in five days of bloody violence that began with clashes between security forces and protesters in the north on Tuesday and have sent tensions soaring. Speaking on Saturday, Maliki said: "Sectarianism is evil, and the wind of sectarianism does not need a licence to cross from a country to another, because if it begins in a place, it will move to another place. "Strife is knocking on the doors of everyone, and no one will survive if it enters, because there is a wind behind it, and money, and plans."

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These Soldiers Did the Boston Marathon Wearing 40-Pound Packs. Then They Saved Lives.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Tasneem Raja - Apr. 17 (Comment) - Tough Ruck soldiers clearing a path to victims Military Friends Foundation More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings At 5:20 a.m. on Monday, four hours before the Boston Marathon's elite runners took off, a group of 15 active-duty soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard gathered at the starting line in Hopkinson. Each soldier was in full combat uniform and carried a "ruck," a military backpack weighing about 40 pounds. The rucks were filled with Camelbacks of water, extra uniforms, Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and trauma kits. It was all just supposed to be symbolic. "Forced marches" or "humps" are a regular part of military training, brisk walking over tough terrain while carrying gear that could help a soldier survive if stranded alone. These soldiers, participating in " Tough Ruck 2013 ," were doing the 26 miles of the Boston Marathon to honor comrades killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, or lost to suicide and PTSD-related accidents after ...

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Award for SA anti-fracking activist

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 15 (News Report) - South African anti-fracking campaigner Jonathan Deal is one of six winners of this year's Goldman Prize, a prestigious environmentalist award.

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Grappling with Iraq's electricity problems

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - Is Iraq on its way to solving its electricity problems?

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The President's Priorities

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Debt in 2014 will hit 78.2% of the economy. President Obama is pitching his new budget proposal as a fiscal peace offering to Republicans, but the details suggest everyone should expect more conflict. The fiscal 2014 plan he released Wednesday is a very slightly modified version of his previous budgets that reduces the deficit by raising taxes and trading defense cuts for more domestic spending. The real news is that his budget ratifies much of the spending increase of the first term and tries to lock it in. He wants the feds to spend $3.78 trillion next year ($11,944 per American), which would still be 22.2% of national output nearly four years into an economic recovery. Before the financial panic in 2008, the government was spending about $1 trillion less, or closer to $2.7 trillion a year and an average of 20% of GDP—and President Bush was no slouch as a spender himself.

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Nouri al-Maliki: The U.S. has a foreign-policy partner in Iraq

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Nouri al-Maliki - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - Today, on the 10th anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the debate about whether it was worth it to topple the regime and the direction of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship is influenced by a pessimistic view that the United States has lost Iraq. Not true. Despite all the problems of the past decade, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis agree that we’re better off today than under Hussein’s brutal dictatorship. Read full article >>

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Editorial: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Apr. 08 (Editorial) - A leader who transformed Britain by pushing the nation in new directions.

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BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Maggie O'Kane - Mar. 22 (Investigative Report) - A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to the imprisoned Army whistleblower Bradley Manning.

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The Iraq War Diaries

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - Mar. 18 (Special Report) - When the first tanks crossed over the Kuwait border headed to Baghdad in March 2003, Marine platoon commander Timothy McLaughlin was among those leading the charge. His battalion thundered across the desert taking fire, and returned a lot more. Days later, they reached the Iraqi capital, and after bloody fighting found themselves surrounded by a small crowd of cheering Iraqis in Firdos Square. There, in a moment watched on television by hundreds of millions of people around the world, his battalion toppled the towering statue of Saddam Hussein. In fact, it was McLaughlin's own American flag that was draped over the statue's face before it fell -- an iconic image of victory that belied the long war to come.

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Hugo Chávez: poor boy from the plains who became leftwing figurehead

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rory Carroll - Mar. 06 (Special Report) - No one imagined it would end like this. A ravaged body, a hospital bed, a shroud of silence, invisible. Hugo Chávez's life blazed drama, a command performance, and friend and foe alike always envisaged an operatic finale.

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The Hidden History of Waterboarding

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Turse - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - Try to remain calm—even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep some air in your lungs and fight that growing feeling of suffocation. Try not to think about dying, because there's nothing you can do about it, because you're tied down, because someone is pouring that water over your face, forcing it into you, drowning you slowly and deliberately. You're helpless. You're in agony . In short, you're a victim of "water torture." Or the "water cure." Or the "water rag." Or the "water treatment." Or " tormenta de toca ." Or any of the other nicknames given to the particular form of brutality that today goes by the relatively innocuous term "waterboarding." The practice only became widely known in the United States after it was disclosed that the CIA had been subjecting ...

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David Bromwich: Torture and Zero Dark Thirty

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:42:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By David Bromwich - Jan. 20 - Zero Dark Thirty is a spy thriller about the tracking and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Good police work did it, the film says, and it aims to show what (in the extraordinary circumstances) good police work amounts to. Action movies have been the director

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: The Soul of America

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:15:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sen. Bernie Sanders - Jan. 09 - Despite such terminology as "fiscal cliff" and "debt ceiling," the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about economic winners and losers in American society. I

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Egypt’s Morsi Backs down Slightly, but Opposition to Campaign against his Referendum

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi late on Saturday abruptly announced that his controversial November 22 constitutional decree had been abrogated. He no longer holds himself above the law or above judicial review. The announcement came after he met with some of his critics, including liberal Ayman Nur of the Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, who had been jailed [...]

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Bradley Manning Tells His Story

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Ed Pilkington, - Dec. 02 (News Report) - In his first publicly spoken words since his arrest in May 2010, delivered at a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland, the soldier painted a picture of a Kafkaesque world into which he was sucked and in which he would languish for almost one excruciating year.

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Bradley Manning deserves Americans' support for military whistleblowing

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - Thanks to WikiLeaks, US citizens are better informed about wars prosecuted in their name. We owe Manning honour, not jail time Last week, PFC Bradley Manning offered to accept responsibility for releasing classified documents as an act of conscience – not as charged by the US military. As people who have worked for decades against the increased militarization of societies and for international cooperation to end war, we have been deeply dismayed by his treatment. The military under the Obama administration has displayed a desire to over-prosecute whistleblowing with life-in-prison charges including espionage and "aiding the enemy", a disturbing decision which is no doubt intended to set an example. We have dedicated our lives to working for peace because we have seen many faces of armed conflict and violence, and we understand that no matter the cause of war, civilians always bear the brunt of the cost. With today's advanced military technology and the continued ability of business and ...

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Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Peter Sleeth, Hal Bernton - Nov. 09 (Investigative Report) - A strange thing happened when Christopher DeLara filed for disability benefits after his tour in Iraq: The U.S. Army said it had no records showing he had ever been overseas.

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Powell endorses Obama again

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Oct. 25 (News) - (CNN) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday he's endorsing President Barack Obama for a second time. "I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012," Powell said on CBS' "This Morning." "And I'll be voting for he and for

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Robert Bork? John Bolton?? 9 Advisers Who Have Romney's Ear

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson, Adam Serwer - Oct. 24 (Research) - One way to understand what a presidential candidate might do if elected is to look at his advisers. Here are nine advisers who are shaping Mitt Romney's views—and could end up shaping his presidency. You may not have heard of them, but you should know about them

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