US Militarism
Australia lines up with US for war with China
By Peter Symonds, February 11, 2012
The Australian defence posture report is the latest sign of the Obama administration’s aggressive push against China on all fronts.
Pentagon plans US-backed war against Syria
By Chris Marsden, February 10, 2012
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for military intervention in Syria.
Syria and the seeds of world war
By Bill Van Auken, February 8, 2012
The Russian-Chinese veto of a UN resolution paving the way for intervention in Syria has provoked a furious reaction from the United States and its imperialist allies.
US and Israel in “lockstep” against Iran
By Peter Symonds, February 8, 2012
While publicly calling for a “diplomatic solution,” the White House is coordinating closely with Israel as it prepares military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
By Patrick Martin, February 7, 2012
An investigation by British and Pakistani journalists found that the CIA followed up drone missile strikes with further attacks that targeted rescue workers and funerals.
US shuts Syrian embassy, threatens war
By Alex Lantier, February 7, 2012
The US shut its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Syria yesterday, amid rising US and European war threats against Syria and tensions with Russia and China.
Obama publicly embraces drone killings
By Bill Van Auken, February 2, 2012
President Obama is deliberately embracing and thereby seeking to justify and normalize the criminal actions of the US military-intelligence apparatus.
American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran
By Alex Lantier, February 2, 2012
Provocative testimony by US intelligence agencies has become the focus of a hysterical media campaign accusing Iran of posing a terrorist threat to the US.
US, Russia clash over Washington’s war drive against Syria
By Chris Marsden, February 2, 2012
The United States, France, Britain and the Arab League are lying when they claim that the resolution they are pushing in the United Nations Security Council is not intended to pave the way for military intervention in Syria.
The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran
By Barry Grey, January 31, 2012
The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year.
Washington to expand military presence in the Philippines
By Joseph Santolan, January 27, 2012
The deployment of US vessels in the Philippines would be a further ratcheting up of the Obama administration’s confrontation with China.
US militarism and Obama’s State of the Union address
By Alex Lantier, January 27, 2012
US President Barack Obama made a calculated gesture to the US military in Wednesday’s State of the Union Address, opening and closing his speech with fawning references to the armed forces.
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