Hell Hath No Fury Like an Empire Scorned by William Blum

by William Blum
Featured Writer
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www.killinghope.org
1 January, 2011

The Anti-Empire Report

Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil’s Island

December 16 … I’m standing in the snow in front of the White House … Standing with Veterans for Peace … I’m only a veteran of standing in front of the White House; the first time was February 1965, handing out flyers against the war in Vietnam. I was working for the State Department at the time and my biggest fear was that someone from that noble institution would pass by and recognize me.

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New Year’s Concert 2011: Vienna Philharmonic – Radetzky March + Equestrian March

Franz Welser-Möst #1

Image by MITO SettembreMusica via Flickr

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Happy New Year! Love, Lo

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New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In Afghanistan And Pakistan by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
January 1, 2011

No stranger to armed conflicts over the past 70 years, the United States has completed its first decade of continuous warfare: 2001-2010.

On January 1 the U.S. and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will enter not only a new year but a second decade of war in Afghanistan.

The air and cruise missile attacks that commenced on October 7, 2001 and the insertion of U.S. and British ground troops that followed have been succeeded by a 48-nation, 152,000-troop occupation and counterinsurgency campaign that is also conducting almost daily deadly drone missile strikes and helicopter gunship raids into neighboring Pakistan.

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