So you want to join up? - Walthamstow Anarchist Group
Text of an anti-army recruitment leaflet produced by the now-defunct Walthamstow Anarchist Group in 2005, during the Iraq war.
Top 15 messages in Clint Eastwood's anti-war masterpiece "American Sniper"
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Feb 1 2015 04:13
I just watched "American Sniper. " I learned so much about manliness, honor, and love…
The jihadis return: ISIS and the new Sunni uprising - Patrick Cockburn
Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al Qa’ida at the turn of century.
New report details widespread torture of female Iraqi prisoners
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 7 2014 18:10
A look at the extent of widespread torture of men and women in the Iraqi prison system. Trigger warning for torture and sexual violence.
Hopes and prospects - Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century.
Blackwater: The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army - Jeremy Scahill
Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil.
Washington rules: America's path to permanent war - Andrew Bacevich
For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged.
Making the future: Occupations, interventions, empire and resistance - Noam Chomsky
Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years.
The great war for civilisation: The conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism - Greg Grandin
The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy.
