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by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 21, 2023
When I was a teenager, I knew global warming was caused by fossil fuels. So did Exxon.
Exxon Got Rich. We Got Played, by Rivera Sun
Pakistan
Vijay Prashad and Lee Camp: The United States Is Opening The Jaws Of Hell As Wide As Possible
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MintPress News on Dec 14, 2022
We’ll be talking about Ukraine, Peru, China, and how to gain power in the struggle for a better world.
After the Deluge, by Derek Royden
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by Derek Royden
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
PeaceVoice, Oct. 3, 2022
October 9, 2022
In 1988 climatologist James Hansen announced, “Global warming has arrived.”
Now, 34 years later, it is painfully obvious that climate catastrophe has arrived.
John Pilger: The Coming War On China Has Now Arrived
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with John Pilger
goingundergroundRT on Aug 21, 2019
On this season finale special episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger on a round-up of all the latest issues.
Netanyahu Indicted on Corruption Charges, UN Accuses Israel of War Crimes + Wilkerson: Has the US Not Learned the Lessons of Regime Change?
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briefly featuring Caleb Maupin
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March 4, 2019
goingundergroundRT on Mar 4, 2019
Afshin Rattansi goes over the indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges and the UN accusing Israel of committing war crimes.
Mark Mason: Pakistan Is a Fractured Client State of the US Empire, Afghanistan a US Colony
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Interview with Mark Mason
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Mark Mason, PhD (his website)
The Citizen, Jan. 15, 2018
January 17, 2018
NEW DELHI/SAN FRANCISCO: Editors Note: US Domestic and Foreign Policy Analyst Mark Mason speaks to The Citizen on the current Trump administration and its world view, with specific focus on West (Iran) and South (India,Pakistan) Asia. Mark Mason offers analyses of United States domestic and foreign policies for the international news media. He was trained as a biological anthropologist educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and recently engaged in the Occupy and bioregional green and peace social movements. His recent publications include Demystifying US and Israeli Power. This interview is the first of an irregular series of conversations between The Citizen and scholars in different parts of the world. Feedback is very welcome at editor@thecitizen.in. [DS added the link.]
Drone Strike Served CIA Revenge, Blocked Pakistan’s Strategy by Gareth Porter
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
November 7, 2013
After a drone strike had reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud Nov. 1, the spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council declared that, if true, it would be “a serious loss” for the terrorist organisation.
That reaction accurately reflected the Central Intelligence Agency’s argument for the strike. But the back story of the episode is how President Barack Obama supported the parochial interests of the CIA in the drone war over the Pakistani government’s effort to try a new political approach to that country’s terrorism crisis.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Delivering Polio in Syria by Felicity Arbuthnot
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by Felicity Arbuthnot
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
November 1, 2013
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832.)
In Syria, now, apart from funding weapons to a reported thousand different factions of foreign terrorists from perhaps eighty plus countries, NATO, the US, UK and their Middle East cohorts have seemingly delivered polio.
New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War + Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
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democracynow on Oct 31, 2013
democracynow.org – A U.S. drone strike killed three people in northwest Pakistan earlier today, marking the first such attack since Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif publicly called for President Obama to end the strikes. Just last week, Amnesty International said the United States may be committing war crimes by killing innocent Pakistani civilians in drone strikes. Today we air extended clips from the new documentary, “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars,” and speak to filmmaker Robert Greenwald. The film looks at the impact of U.S. drone strikes through more than 70 interviews with attack survivors in Pakistan, a former U.S. drone operator, military officials, and more. The film opens with the story of a 16-year-old Tariq Aziz who was killed by drone. just days after attending an anti-drone conference in Islamabad. We are also joined by human rights attorney Jennifer Gibson of Reprieve, co-author of the report, “Living Under Drones.”
Empire Under Obama, Part 4: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target by Andrew Gavin Marshall
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by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Writer, Dandelion Salad
andrewgavinmarshall.com
Originally published on The Hampton Institute
October 30, 2013
While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awareness about the nature of empire to those who may have – or continue – to support Barack Obama and who may believe in the empty promises of “hope” and “change.” Empire is institutional, not individual. My focus on the imperial structure during the Obama administration is not to suggest that it does not predate Obama, but rather, that Obama represents ‘continuity’ in imperialism, not “change.” This part examines the concept of ‘counterinsurgency’ as a war against the populations of Iraq, Afghanistan and spreading into Pakistan.
Pakistan Drone Story Ignored Military Opposition to Strikes by Gareth Porter
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by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
October 25, 2013
The Washington Post on Thursday reported what it presented as new evidence of a secret agreement under which Pakistani officials have long been privately supporting the U.S. drone war in the country even as they publicly criticised it.
Empire Under Obama, Part 3: America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries Around the World by Andrew Gavin Marshall
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by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Writer, Dandelion Salad
andrewgavinmarshall.com
Originally published on The Hampton Institute
October 23, 2013
Obama’s global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any one time. As Obama has sought to draw down the large-scale ground invasions of countries (as Bush pursued in Afghanistan and Iraq), he has escalated the world of ‘covert warfare,’ largely outside the oversight of Congress and the public. Continue reading
A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized by David Swanson
by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
warisacrime.org
October 22, 2013
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There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate international law. On the contrary, what these human rights groups mean is that some drone strikes violate the law and some do not, and they want to oppose the ones that do.
Bloody Weekend Explodes Washington’s Contradictions over Al Qaeda and War on Terror by Finian Cunningham
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation
September 23, 2013
It was a busier and bloodier weekend than usual for Islamic extremists linked to the Al Qaeda franchise, with hundreds killed in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and Kenya, as well as the ongoing war in Syria, where the same brand of jihadists form the dominant fighting groups trying to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Fred Branfman: Excesses of Executive Branch Eroding Democratic Institutions
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with Fred Branfman
Writer, Dandelion Salad
July 20, 2013
TheRealNews on Jun 22, 2013
Fred Branfman: Excesses of Executive Branch Eroding Democratic Institutions. Continue reading
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