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Progress Toward a Ban on Cluster Munitions
Cbu97 Cluster BombMovement to Ban Cluster Bombs Gains MomentumBy Lisa Schlein / November 3, 2008 Activists are urging governments to sign an international treaty to ban the use, production and stockpiling of cluster bombs one month from now in Oslo. … Continue reading
Would John McCain Re-establish the Draft?
The Coming McCain Military DraftBy Juan Cole / November 3, 2008 There has been almost no discussion in the press about the broader implications of John McCain’s military policies. McCain wants to keep a large military contingent in Iraq for … Continue reading
Guantanamo Irregularities Yield Military Probe
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, in a June 4, 2008 file photo. Photo: Brennan Linsley/Reuters.U.S. general target of Guantanamo probeBy Danica Coto / October 26, 2008 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – … Continue reading
Iraqi Cabinet Rejects Revised SOFA*
Well, this will make things interesting insofar as the Bush administration is not especially willing to concede any further points in the agreement. As Juan Cole points out, By the time a draft agreement was circulated last week (text courtesy … Continue reading
Darrell Vandeveld Speaks About Guantanamo
Although we posted about this previously, this article adds more detail to the debacle that Guantanamo has become. We call on the Bush administration to own up to this failure, dismantle the mechanism of military tribunals, release the illegally held … Continue reading
The Problem with Projecting Power
Blowback from AfghanistanBy Rick Salutin / October 10, 2008 In the U.S. “debates,” it was the bleakest moment for me so far when Barack Obama said he lamented the war in Iraq because it “weakened our capacity to project power … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Not a ‘Good Fight’ Against Terrorism
Time To Face The Facts On AfghanistanBy Eric S. Margolis / October 6, 2008 TORONTO — For those who savor historical irony, the Soviet Empire collapsed in the years 1989-1991 because of an implosion of its economy brought on by … Continue reading
The Guantanamo Military Commissions: A Parody of Justice
Who’s Pulling the Strings? The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo TrialsBy Andy Worthington / October 3, 2008 On September 24, Col. Lawrence Morris, the chief prosecutor of Guantánamo’s Military Commission trial system, announced that Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the prosecutor … Continue reading
When Fear Exceeds Our Government’s Capability to Emotionally Deal With It
U.S. Army North hosted a commanders’ conference and rehearsal of concept (ROC) drill Mar. 18 through Mar. 20, where senior leaders from Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive Consequence Management Response Force (CCMRF) discussed mission requirements and finalized preparations for … Continue reading
British Ambassador : Afghanistan Situation Is Bad
Memo Leak Says Mission In Afghanistan DoomedBy Cernig / October 1, 2008 I’d recently begun to think there was no way back from seven years of Bush administration mismanagement in Afghanistan – but it’s still shocking to hear it from … Continue reading
This Is About Building a More Secure World
I want to know what sort of cynic can possibly tell us that “This is not about being gunrunners. This is about building a more secure world.” We have watched as the evidence accumulated over the past 8 years (actually, … Continue reading
