“Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/19/iraq-15-accumulated-evil-of-the-whole/
“No crime, however horrific, can justify wars on countries and people who were not responsible for the crime committed, as former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz patiently explained to NPR at the time.”
“The U.S. is officially fighting wars in seven countries, including Libya and Niger, according to an unclassified White House report sent to Congress this week and obtained by the New York Times.”
“George W. Bush should have permanently taught Americans that presidents are most dangerous when seeking to con the nation into unnecessary wars — for democracy or any other pretext. Unfortunately, the recent media consecration of Bush may be expunging that bitter lesson.”
“However inadvertently, Trump has thereby bestowed on the American people a singular gift, putting a presidential imprimatur on a point that critics have been making for years, to no avail. Pointing out that our post-9/11 wars have resulted in a multitrillion-dollar waste of lives and treasure represents easily the greatest achievement of his young administration.”
“You are supposed to think either that Rep. Nunes is a hero or that the Republicans are trying to destroy everything that is holy and good about the FBI and intelligence community. But what about those of us on ‘Team Liberty’? We look at the FISA memo and see another in a long line of abuses of our liberties by the National Security State. Author and journalist Jim Bovard joins today’s Liberty Report to give us the real historical context for recent revelations.”
“The FISA court has been a fount of outrages because it is an American Star Chamber: the court meets in secret, only hears the government’s side, and approves 99 percent+ of all the search warrants requested.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/372324-will-fisa-secrecy-doom-democracy
“The FISA court has always done a dismal job of overseeing the vast surveillance regime it helped spawn. FISA provided a stamp of legitimacy for perpetual deceit and perhaps the worst trampling of constitutional rights in American history. Regardless of the outcome of the current brawl, Washington must radically decrease secret surveillance of the American people.”
“The U.S. invaded Afghanistan, killed, tortured, and incarcerated hundreds of thousands of people, and bombed the country to smithereens because the Taliban refused to comply with Bush’s unconditional extradition demand. It’s also why the invasion was not limited to simply capturing or killing bin Laden but also extended to a regime-change operation against the Taliban itself. That’s why there has been a civil war in Afghanistan ever since.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/30/u-s-destruction-afghanistan/
“More than 73% of the world’s dictators are currently being sponsored through the military assistance provided by US taxpayers.”