By David Walsh, wsws.org
The unrepentant duo, Boal & Bigelow. Both proud CIA “collabos.”
We have written extensively on the WSWS, as recently as one month ago, about Zero Dark Thirty and the politically depraved conduct of its creators, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal.
By Thomas Gaist, wsws.org
Hezbollah fighters on parade.
Fighting raged in Lebanon on Sunday between Hezbollah militants and US-backed Syrian rebels, with at least 12 killed. According to a Lebanese security official, the clashes broke out as Syrian opposition elements prepared to launch rocket attacks against the city of Baalbek, in north-east Lebanon. These clashes near Baalbek come as another indication that the war is spreading beyond Syria’s borders. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Israel’s a rogue terror state. It’s been so from inception. It’s history is blood-drenched. It’s a global menace. Its current government is its worst ever. It prioritizes state terrorism. Palestinians live in the eye of the storm. Children are indoctrinated to be warriors. They’re taught to hate. They’re brainwashed to view Arabs and Iranians as existential threats. With some exceptions, conscription is mandatory at age 18. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Arizona’s John McCain: an egomaniac interloper and warmongering chauvinist that has been petulantly fouling American politics for decades. The kind of politician that makes the world hell for everyone, and the inevitable offshoot of a reactionary state, media support, and brute plutocratic power.
Israel gives chutzpah new meaning. War on humanity defines its agenda. It’s partnered with Washington’s war on Syria. It’s heading perhaps toward greater intervention. It warned Russia about supplying Syria with sophisticated defensive anti-aircraft missiles. It said Israel will react in response. More on that below.
A previous article discussed Russian S-300 launch systems and other defensive missile sales to Syria. Vladimir Putin said existing contracts will be honored. Netanyahu tried to dissuade him. They met face-to-face. Perhaps Israel’s early May aggression convinced him they’re urgently needed. Continue reading »
By Gaither Stewart
An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear, and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path.
The world goes round and round and human beings say and do the same things again and again. So that it seems there is truly nothing new under the sun. Man’s perplexing unchanging behavior and the ways of the world have again led me back to the ancient Greeks, just to take a look. And what do I find there? I find the same warmongers and pacifists of today, identical war parties and peace parties, arms industries and anti-war writers, the generals who predictably “just love war”, and, as one might expect, the same identical massacre of women and children as everyday in America’s wars, now conveniently called “collateral damages”. Continue reading »
SIlence Gives Consent
by ROBERT FISK
Debris from recent Israeli strikes. A casus belli under any standard, but Syria can’t afford to retaliate or properly defend herself and commit suicide. The villainy of these cowardly attacks is undeniable.
Lights in the sky over Damascus. Another Israeli raid – “daring” of course, in the words of Israel’s supporters, and the second in two days – on Bashar al-Assad’s weaponry and military facilities and weapons stores. The story is already familiar: the Israelis wanted to prevent a shipment of Iranian-made Fateh-110 missiles reaching Hezbollah in Lebanon; they were being sent by the Syrian government. According, at least, to a ‘Western intelligence source’. Anonymous, of course. And it opens the old question: why when the Syrian regime is fighting for its life would it send advanced missiles out of Syria? Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Obama and Netanyahu: Partners in horrendous crimes…and that’s no figure of speech.
In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon’s airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck. Around the same time, Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Jamraya. It’s about 10 miles from the Lebanese border. Early Sunday morning, Israel struck it again. Continue reading »
America the Blind
Besides the homegrown terrorists, the American government keeps sowing a huge storm of “blowback” through its nonstop criminal actions around the globe, while most Americans continue to act as passive accomplices through their deeply-embedded chauvinism and over-valuation of American life.—Eds
by BARRY LANDO
Paris.
As I write this, we still don’t know who was responsible for the horrific bombing attack in Boston. Perhaps it will turn out to be the work of homegrown rightwing nuts; perhaps it’s the act of foreign terrorists. But, whatever the source, what strikes me is the number of times the barbaric assault is being denounced as “cowardly” Continue reading »
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