Selected Articles: “America’s Permanent War State”. 239 Years of Military Conflict.
The 239 Year Timeline Of America’s Involvement in Military Conflict
By Isaac Davis, December 20, 2015
Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.
2015: Reviewing the Most Important and the Most Censored Stories of the Year
By Michael Welch, Prof. James Petras, Andy Lee Roth, and John Schertow, December 20, 2015
On this week’s Global Research News Hour, the last regular program of 2015, we go over some of the major under-reported stories of the year.
Neocons Object to Syrian Democracy
By Robert Parry, December 20 2015
President Obama has infuriated Official Washington’s neocons by accepting the Russian stance that the Syrian people should select their own future leaders through free elections, rather than the neocon insistence on a foreign-imposed “regime change,” reports Robert Parry.
America’s Permanent War State: Money is Raining Down on the US Military Complex
By Binoy Kampmark, December 20 2015
The funding to continue the war against ISIL is an authorization of force against ISIL, albeit a quiet one, designed not to attract public attention.
By Peter Symonds, December 20, 2015
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe yesterday in Tokyo expressed their “strong opposition” to China’s actions in the South China Sea and their “strong support” for the US military build-up or “rebalance” throughout the Indo-Pacific region.