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The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:55 — Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many lives. “Why this steady stream of government-invented terror, if the real thing is so abundant?” And, isn’t the U.S. arming and funding the same jihadists they are supposed to be listening for on our telephones?

Freedom Rider: Obama’s Syrian Press Pass

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 23:52 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The corporate media are the megaphones of humanitarian death, as dispensed by the U.S. and its allies. If Obama says “Assad must go,” the high-paid press do all in their power to make the public crave his blood. “The media are loyal to the system, not to their profession, their readers, or their listeners.”

The Naked Imperialism of Humanitarian Intervention

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:11 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

The U.S. imperial juggernaut attempts to bamboozle its home audience with the fiction that its war against Syria is a “humanitarian” venture. “The immediate priority for anti-war, anti-imperialist, human rights activists in the U.S. is to strip away the moral pretext of humanitarian intervention and expose its ugly, imperialist reality.”

Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 10:16 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

The doctrine of “humanitarian” military intervention “has developed into the most effective ideological weapon the liberal human rights community provided Western imperialism since the fall of the Soviet State.” In truth, it is simply an updated form of the “white man’s burden” – and a license to wage war against all who stand in the way of U.S. domination of the globe.

Throwing BRICS at the U.S. Empire

Wed, 03/27/2013 - 14:05 — Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

History has placed the BRICS nations on the path of confrontation with a superpower in decline. Washington is prepared to strangle the world into submission, or drown it in chaos. “Objectively, the United States has positioned itself as the great and implacable impediment to global development.”

Obama’s Mideast Policy Burns

Wed, 11/21/2012 - 13:41 — Glen Ford

 

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The U.S. believes it can manipulate jihadi fighters in a holy war against the West’s enemies in the Muslim world. However, “Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza threatens to unravel the Salafist-Qatari-Saudi-NATO axis, for one simple and irreducible reason: there is no place for the racist settler state in this post-Arab Spring equation.”

Is AFRICOM Preparing for Another “Humanitarian” Military Intervention?

Wed, 11/07/2012 - 00:55 — Abdi Ali Diriye

 

by Abdi Ali Diriye

The U.S. Africa Command bills itself as a force for “humanitarian” intervention in Africa – but the only humans it serves are outside the continent. “The US has recently pushed itself into Libya, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere, and now has its eyes set on Mali.”

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